On the status of Rick, who leaves the group but gets paid as tour musician:
Wright:«I liked playing live. I was quite prepared to swallow my pride to go out and play with Dave and Nick. And, strangely enough, there wasn't any animosity onstage »
«The 30 year technicolour dream», July 1995.
Waters:«It was a fait accompli, Rick was being paid a wage, he seemed happy with that, we were happy with that, and that was the end of it - or maybe he wasn't happy with it but it's not something we discussed.
Backstage it was all pretty separatist - separate trailers, none facing each other - ha-ha - with all our little camps. The atmosphere was awful, but the job, the show, was so important that certainly on-stage I don't think that affected me at all ».
« Danger band imploding », Mojo, December 1999.
Wright:«It just seemed to me another example of why I'm not sad to leave, because the band had lost any feeling of communication and camaraderie by this time. But bands can go on-stage and perform music even if they hate each other. It was a band that I felt was falling to pieces - which of course it did (...) ».
« Danger band imploding », Mojo, December
1999.Mason:« When Roger wanted to fire Rick after « The Wall » even the rest of us thought: « Now our band is better ». With our next album that turned out not to be the case. It took us forever to admit that ».
«A band is like a marriage, with multiple husbands » by Martin Stolz, Die Welt, November 2014.
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