I just now saw on foxnews that roger waters stated that he and dave gilmour have incredible differences as far as philosophical, ethical, and musical, amoung others...... and those differences will prevent them from ever jamming again..... so to all of you that thought the live 8 concert was the start of a possibility of a reunion tour...... I hate to say it , but youd see pigs flying before pink floyd ever tours again.
so nothing has changed between those two then. Oh well. All good things have to end sometime. Pink Floyd died. it wasn't meant to come back. We got everything from them that was ever meant to exist.
Shame, but that rendition of Comfortbly Numb was a good way to bow out. I wasn't expecting a tour at all, but there was always a slight chance. Oh well, I guess we'll have to be content with the ten or so great albums they left us, hehe.
this is actually good news, if you think about it. would you rather have them break up, or have them keep dragging themselves on forever like the rolling stones (who havent released a good album in my lifetime)?
I think that's very selfish on their part. Considering the amount of people that love this band and want nothing more than to see them live once more, the fact that these two can't settle afew squables between themselves is a fucking shame.
It was still pretty cool when I turned on the T.V. when my Dad said that Pink Floyd was about to play and I was like "Holy Shit, is that Roger Waters?" It made my day and it was cool as hell.
It might be good that Roger Waters and David Gilmour arn't working together anymore. Remember what happened right before Roger quit the band? Roger was the band. He wrote almost all of The Wall on his own with very little imput from the band, as well as "The Final Cut." While they are both, in my opinion, good albums, they arn't quite in the style of Pink Floyd. Half of the Wall and all of The Final Cut seem to be just sad, depressing, and slow. I rarely ever listen to those albums if I'm not bummed out about something. I think that this was mostly due to Roger's anger and sorrow about losing his father in World War II. Roger's father was a pilot, and was shot down. There are tons of allusions to this- just about every song on the Final Cut, and many parts of the Wall. In The Wall movie, "The Thin Ice" ends with a plane crash. In case you didn't figure it out, that whole movie and album was about Roger- The first half being what he had been through, and the second half about what he feared becoming. I think Roger was just too emotionally heavy and demanding to ever do anything to Pink Floyd at that point except bring them down. We have never again seen the kind of jams that Floyd used to do at the beginning of their career. Roger just wasn't fitting the band. I can see why he and Gilmour don't ever want to play together again.
Well, the thing with Pink Floyd is this- It's not about the members. It's about the music itself, and the symbolism itself. As one of the members (Wright, I think) said, Pink Floyd could be around a hundred years from now, just with different members. And about the Rolling Stones- Floyd actually manages to kick ass even now. The Stones are just getting annoying- and the reason for that is because they focus on the members too much. Almost anyone could recognize Mick Jagger in a mall, but almost no one could recognize, say, Nick Mason. It's all about the imagery and the symbolism.
agree...deeply agree, though I love Waters dearly, he's kinda lost @that point..he has that ever goin' growin' pain so to speak~ does it sound like the similar story of Lennon and McCartney~ yet John Lennon wasn't so depressin'..
