Crimean solo for bass gitars

Roger Waters did everything so as not to like either the West or Russia

On the eve of the concert at the Olympic, Waters, a star of the world, distinguished himself, in the past, the Pink Floyd bass player: he called Crimea to the Russians and immediately thundered to the site “Peacemaker”, he now has no entrance to Ukraine. However, he was not going there.

It's not only in the Crimea. If you ask the average Western star whose Crimea, the star will most likely ask: “Crimea? Is it somewhere in Poland? " - And he will also be at the “peacekeeper” for attempted attempt on the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Now this is simple. But even without Crimea, an interview with Izvestia with Waters is Prochrevskoye in all directions. The attack on the Skripals is nonsense, the Maidan happened due to the fact that Nuland distributed cookies, and finally, Sevastopol Russian city, and most importantly, world evil is America. I want to say: "You are Surkovsky propaganda."

Not Surkovskaya. Waters, convinced socialist, anti -globalist, pacifist. And where he is engaged in social criticism, it is quite possible to agree with him. Indeed, that the good in the war in Iraq, in the oppression of the third world countries, in the destruction of ecology.

And then he falls into the classic trap of the western left: if on the one hand there is evil, on the other hand, most likely, good. It is difficult to come to terms that evil on both sides of the barricades.

If the Vietnamese war is bad, then why is the Afghan time of the time of Brezhnev? Iraq and Syria are an imperialist massacre, but isn't Donbass's boyfriend the same massacre? On the one hand, the empire, which imposes its will to the whole world, but on the other hand, the empire is no better than the American one.

The tour of Waters, in which he drove into Russia, is called US + Them, "we and they." He has been traveling with this program since April. He was in Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland. Ahead of South America and Australia. The program of the song from the classic albums “Pink Floyd”: The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Gere, Animals, The Wall. Plus a show, and it is still sophisticated from the Pinkflay times of Waters. Flying pigs, giant brick walls. All this is impressive. But in the 2018 tour there is a new element, it was not there before.

A huge scoreboard with a list of politicians of different countries that Waters does not approve of nationalism and aggression. In the States, this, of course, is Trump. In France Le Pen. In Poland Kachinsky. And at the very end of the list, may Roskomnadzor forgive me, the last name of our president.

He did not take the name of Le Pen from this list in France, did not take Kachinsky in Poland, and at a concert in St. Petersburg, as if nothing had happened, he left Putin. I think that he will remain in the Olympic. What to do? Do not cancel the performance. Although they will frown.

How does this combine with the notorious interview? Badly. I read the comments of Ukrainian friends and see that the same people who wing Waters with the last words for saying about the Crimea are extolled for Putin’s criticism. Cognitive dissonance. A similar reaction of our patriots (if we assume that the patriots listen to Waters, and not just leaf through the news). And pouring, pouring flows of dirt.

This is fine. Whatever views Waters professed, and he has been playing rock and roll for half a century, this has been imprinting his imprint on a person. He is 75, he is a millionaire, but continues to behave like Anfan Territable, does everything to annoy, cause a sharp reaction. A bad guy collecting stadiums. Someone takes drugs, someone changes women three times a day, you can have fun in different ways.

And Waters is engaged in radical policies and makes unspoken statements. It may be liked, maybe not, but what to do, such a genre.

Otherwise, this is not rock and roll, but pops, “another brick in the wall”, as in a famous song. So he is probably satisfied with the reaction of the “peacekeeper”. And if in Russia it is banned, it will be doubly happy.