Roger Waters said he regrets the legal battle he started with his former Pink Floyd bandmates in 1986.
Waters, the singer and bass guitarist, sued former bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason, trying to prevent them from using the name Pink Floyd.
Waters had left the band a year earlier.
The legal battle was settled out of court two years later in a Christmas Eve meeting on Gilmour’s houseboat, reported BBC.
“I was wrong! Of course I was. Who cares?” Waters told BBC.
“It’s one of the few times that the legal profession has taught me something,” Waters said of the matter.
“Because when I went to these chaps and said, ‘Listen we’re broke, this isn’t Pink Floyd anymore,’ they went, ‘What do you mean? That’s irrelevant, it is a label and it has commercial value. You can’t say it’s going to cease to exist... you obviously don’t understand English jurisprudence.’”
Gilmour and Mason recorded an album as Pink Floyd in 1987 without Waters.
The three also later made up. They reunited for a 2005 performance at Live 8, and Gilmour and Mason made cameos onstage at one of Water’s performances in London in 2011, reported the Rolling Stone.
Waters says he did make the right choice leaving Pink Floyd, so he could express his ideas “unfettered.”
Waters has been working on his first new album since 2005. He said that he’s had a few breakthroughs recently.
He told Rolling Stone in November 2012 that he’s going to make another album, after he had recorded the first song for it. The album is tentatively titled “Heartland.”
“I’m absolutely determined to make another album,” he said. “And I think this new song may give me the chance to do that. It provides a cornerstone and a core idea for me to write a new album about. You know, it’s just one of my obsessions, which is, I’m sort of obsessed with the idea that religious extremism is a maligned factor in most of our lives.”
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