George Roger Waters-Marriages and children

Marriages and children

Waters married his childhood sweetheart, Judy Trim, in 1969. The marriage was dissolved in 1976. Waters had a son, Harry, and a daughter, India, with his second wife, Lady Carolyne Christie, the niece of the Marquess of Zetland. They married in 1976 and divorced in 1992. Waters married American actress Pricilla Phillips in 1993. They had a son, Jack Fletcher, in 1997. The marriage ended in 2001. As of 2005, Waters is engaged to filmmaker Laurie Durning.

Views and advocacy

Waters is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance and has played concerts to raise funds for the organisation. Waters claimed he left Britain due to the Hunting Act 2004:

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I've become disenchanted with the political and philosophical atmosphere in England. The anti-hunting bill was enough for me to leave England. I did what I could, I did a concert and one or two articles, but it made me feel ashamed to be English. I was in Hyde Park for both the Countryside Alliance marches. There were hundreds of thousands of us there. Good, honest English people. That's one of the most divisive pieces of legislation we've ever had in Great Britain. It's not a case of whether or not I agree with fox hunting, but I will defend to the hilt their right to take part in it."

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Waters opposes the separation barrier being built by Israel, calling it an "obscenity" that "should be torn down".In December 2009, he pledged his support to the Gaza Freedom March. Waters has voiced his opposition to Operation Iraqi Freedom and the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)::

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The loss of a father is the central prop upon which (The Wall) stands. As the years go by, children lose their fathers again and again, for nothing. You see it now with all of these fathers, good men and true, who lost their lives and limbs in Iraq for no reason at all. I've done 'Bring the Boys Back Home' in my encores on recent tours. It feels more relevant and poignant to be singing that song now than it did in 1979."

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Prior to Tony Blair's Labour Party government, Waters had been a lifelong Labour supporter. His lyrics to the Pink Floyd album The Final Cut were critical of the then Conservative Party government and mention Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by name.

Equipment and instruments

Waters primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the electric bass guitar.^{[175][176][177]} He briefly played a Höfner bass that was replaced with a Rickenbacker RM-1999/4001S, Fireglo with rosewood fretboard, used from 1966–1969, then lost in a 1970 equipment van heist in New Orleans. Circa 1970, he switched to a Fender Precision Bass. Black with white pickguard, maple fretboard. First seen at a concert in Hyde park July 1970, this guitar was rarely used prior to April 1972 when it became his de facto stage guitar. Circa 1976, Gilmour's guitar tech Phil Taylor replaced the white pickguard with a black one, this is visible on The Wall tours, In the Flesh and The Dark Side of the Moon Live Tour. During the Wall sessions and tour Waters had three of them. Waters uses Samson wireless systems with his basses. He often plays with a pick but is also known to play fingerstyle. Waters uses RotoSound Jazz Bass 77 bass guitar strings. Throughout his career he has used WEM, Hiwatt and Ashdown amplifiers. He uses delay, tremolo, chorus, panning and phaser effects in his music.

Not only a bassist and vocalist,Waters experimented with the EMS Synthi A and the EMS VCS 3 synthesisers on Pink Floyd tracks such as On the Run.^[181] Waters also plays electric rhythm guitar, using Fender and Washburn guitars, as on Wish You Were Here and Animals, tracks "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" part 9 and "Sheep".He played Martin, Ovation, and Washburn, acoustic guitars on several Pink Floyd tracks from The Final Cut and on the track "Mother" from The Wall. He used synthesiser and tape effects, on tracks such as "Welcome to the Machine". Waters used a Binson Echorec 2 echo effect on his bass guitar for the Pink Floyd track One Of These Days. According to Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour, many of the bass guitar tracks on Pink Floyd albums were played by him, not Waters.

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