Ice-T may be the one person on Earth capable of brokering a detente between David Gilmour and Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd bandmates who have been embroiled in a cold war for the better part of two decades. The cause for a brief cooling of tensions is Ice-T’s rewrite of “Comfortably Numb,” a revision that transforms the soaring arena-rock ballad into churning doom. Despairing the current state of “this spinning sphere,” Ice-T sings “We’re in perpetual war, and that’s the only law,” a lyric ambiguous enough to appeal to Waters — a vociferous critic of Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Gaza — and Gilmour, who is such a big supporter of Ukraine that he re-convened with Floyd drummer Nick Mason to record “ Hey Hey Rise Up ,” a charity single for Ukraine Humanitarian Relief Fund, in 2022.
Gilmour’s intentions were good but “Hey Hey Rise Up” ironically reignited the feud between him and Waters, when the latter dismissed the single as “content-less...
flag waving” , prompting Gilmour’s wife and lyricist Polly Samson to respond with a tweet calling the former Floyd bassist “antisemitic” and “a Putin apologist.” (Gilmour concurred , claiming “Every word demonstrably true.”) Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core.
Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching,misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense. None of this was likely on the mi.