Metal Anarchy

Last summer, Roger Waters (ex-Pink Floyd) caused controversy after blasting the late Ozzy Osbourne. According to him, the Black Sabbath frontman “was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense.” Despite the backlash, Waters has since confirmed that he has no regrets.

Waters said the following during an appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored“:

“Those comments, I’m not denying that I said them, came in the middle of a long interview… Do I have to like every rock group there ever was in the world or people who bite the heads off bats?”

He continued when asked if he had to express this opinion shortly after Osbourne’s death:

“Obviously I had no idea that Sharon Osbourne would be watching a podcast by a very well-known and respected cartoonist in-conversation.”

He also added the following when asked if he wants to apologize to Sharon Osbourne:

“Yeah of course I will, If I caused — not that I have any time for Sharon Osbourne. She’s a raging Zionist and in consequence… she’s constantly accused me of all kinds of things because she is part of the Israeli lobby.”

He then went on to say the following when asked if he wants to apologize to the other Osbournes:

“Not really. Well Jack. Jack Osbourne [laughs]. If he wants to have a chat, I’ll have a chat with him, I promise you, and I won’t be nasty to him. Well, I’m, you know, yeah, I’m sorry you lost your dad, Jack, but this is like, you have conversations about things and about people, ‘what do you think?’ Well, ‘not a lot.’ I was honest.

I said I didn’t like Black Sabbath… I’ve listened to some of it since. And the music is perfectly kind of acceptable. It was all the kind of histrionics of I don’t like people who bite the heads off bats. I just don’t. I think it’s disgusting, and I’ve said that again now. I know he’s dead, and he can’t come back and go, ‘Yeah, I’m sorry I bit the heads off bats,’ if he ever did. Who knows whether he did or not? I don’t want to talk about it.’”

Waters also expressed no regrets:

“I regret nothing in life, except that I haven’t been more successful in getting people to understand how important it is that we as a human race recognize and empathize with all of our brothers and sisters all over the world and make certain that they have equal human rights, one with another, under international law. The Osbourne family? No, I’m not that interested in them.”

[via The PRP]