Disturbed singer goes after Roger Waters
Disturbed frontman David Draiman took to Twitter/X on Thursday (October 9th) to come to the defense of Bono after Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters’ criticized the U2 singer.
“Hey Roger Waters, Bono of U2 has more honor, integrity, and decency in his heart than you will ever have in that entire hate filled body of yours,” Draiman said, adding: “Keep his name out of your filthy Jew hating mouth. 🖕🏻”
Draiman’s comments seem to be in response to a few remarks Waters made in a February 2024 interview with Al Jazeera. In the nearly two-year-old interview, Waters called Bono an “enormous sh*t” for supporting Israel and for paying tribute to the victims of the October 7th attack during U2’s October 2023 show at the Sphere in Las Vegas.
“Anybody who knows Bono should go and pick him up by his ankles and shake him until he stops being an enormous shit,” Waters said, referring to how U2 dedicated “Pride (In the Name of Love)” to those who lost their lives.
Roger Waters insulted Bono
Bono introduced the track during the 2023 performance by saying: “In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence. But our hearts and our anger, you know where that’s pointed. So, sing with us, and those beautiful kids at that music festival.”
He also changed the song’s lyrics, singing: “Early morning, October 7th / the sun is rising in the desert sky / Stars of David, they took your life / but they could not take your pride.”
During Waters’ 2024 interview, he responded specifically to Bono’s decision to change the lyrics to reflect the October 7th attacks.
“We have to start speaking to these people, to say: ‘Your opinion is so disgusting and degrading when you stand up for the Zionist entity,’” Waters said. “What he did in the Sphere in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, singing about the Stars of David, was one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
