October 12th 1992 - MTV Europe |
MTV Europe - News At NightMTV voice-over, with What God Wants in the background... Presenter: Roger Waters is back with Amused To Death, an album of intense emotion... Roger Waters: This record is, as you know, about our relationship with television, and I see it very much as a two-edged sword; it's a very, very powerful medium as we all know, and it can either, you know, it can... it can destroy us... save us. I see it as powerful a medium as that really. Presenter: The recurring Waters theme of war is again top of the agenda here as is that, dare we say it, classic Pink Floyd sound.
Roger Waters: What brought
us together, you know, was a desire to be pop stars, and after Dark
Side Of The Moon we were. We had fulfilled our function. Presenter: Waters is however aware that in commercial terms at least, the mantle of Pink Floyd means automatic sales. Roger Waters: If it said Pink Floyd on it, you know, I'd sell ten million albums, and because it says Roger Waters, who knows, I have no idea what I may sell but it is extraordinary how difficult it is to cross that line, you know, for people to understand who I am and what my work is, and what it was in the past. Presenter: Waters is now focussed and even happy, though not at ease with the media. Roger Waters: We can see when we watch our MTV, we can see the lie that all that is. It's there in front of us, and successive generations of people who like to buy records to listen to music, or at least a percentage of them, will be unable to NOT understand 'em... uh... the dilemma, the dichotomy that exists in the conflicting messages we get from it. |