Former Pink Floyd bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour don’t agree on a lot as of late, however Physique Depend frontman Ice-T says he acquired the pair to agree on one thing due to his band’s cowl of Floyd’s basic 1979 monitor Comfortably Numb – and even acquired Gilmour to play on the monitor.
Talking within the model new end-of-year problem of Traditional Rock, the rapper revealed that he approached the 2 warring ex-colleagues’ camps to get approval Physique Depend’s model, which options new lyrics from Ice addressing the present state of the world.
“With the brand new album [2024’s Merciless], I assumed why don’t we simply do it,” he tells Traditional Rock. “My lyrics are saying we fucked up – if God is taking a look at us we ain’t trying good. We’ve acquired all this struggle and stress, and we simply scroll by way of, change the channel. We’re comfortably numb till the ache involves our entrance door.”
However altering the music’s lyrics meant the band wanted to get permission from each Waters and Gilmour.
“I approached the publishing firm, however they mentioned that Floyd don’t clear samples or settle for remakes,” explains Ice. “We had been defeated. Then our supervisor acquired maintain of David’s supervisor, who acquired it to David, and he liked it. However we needed to speak to Roger Waters – and I didn’t know concerning the scenario with Roger and David. We had been fucked once more. However Roger requested: “Who’s singing it?” “Ice-T.” “Accepted!
“The subsequent factor was that David requested to be on it – and be within the video! He gave us greater than we may think about, and it’s acquired a thumbs up from the listeners. To attach with a bit band referred to as Physique Depend says quite a bit about David Gilmour, greater than the music. God bless him.”
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