Pink Floyd at Live8 Was Amazing

Easy Livin wrote: Got to be the highlight of the year. Waters seemed genuinely happy to be playing with his old band mates again. They're all a bit older and  bit wiser now, so who knows, a tour perhaps? Did anyone else notice the banner in the crowd which read somehting like "Pink Floyd back together, look there's a flying pig!".

Yeah,how long have you been wearing wigs?

To me it is clear this was a one off momentum. They will never perform again in this line-up, I think. Waters tried to be friendly towards the others but Gilmour didn't even look at him. You could feel this wasn't a band anymore but three ex members and a stranger. But I hope I'm wrong off course...

I think Gilmour was just concentrating - the man has to play lead guitar and sing most of the time, plus playing again with Waters - I'm sure they didn't have much rehearsal time (not that they need it!).  If you ever see Gilmour perform, he rarely smiles.  He's just a different type of performer than Waters.

Sadly to say, I'll have to agree with you about them not performing together again.  I'm not getting my hopes up for a reunion tour but if there was one, I'll be first in line to get tickets!

AngelRat wrote: They ruled and the fact they only played 4 songs made me long for more, much more. Luckily I got to see it on the BBC so I could enjoy it without any interruption.

yea only mtv would interrupt it with some lame interlude...they should only do that when robbie williams and the killers perform. =)

I agree with most of you. I didn't expect them to be great but they were. It was moving to see they still could manage after all those years. The guitarlicks of Gilmour were sounding astonishing and Mason wasn't bad at all. Waters was enthousiastic but suffered from a bad voice, he usually sounds better (just listen to the "In the flesh" dvd), a pitty the people of the bbc didn't knew Wright was also a member of the band. I waited 20 years for this reunion but I never believed it actually would ever happen. But it did and it was brilliant which was quite unbelieveable knowing they only had a couple of weeks for rehearsals. I had a lump in my troat during "Wish you were here". To me it is clear this was a one off momentum. They will never perform again in this line-up, I think. Waters tried to be friendly towards the others but Gilmour didn't even look at him. You could feel this wasn't a band anymore but three ex members and a stranger. But I hope I'm wrong off course...

Also enjoyed The Who, Sting and the ex Beatle, a great day, the politicians should stop to use the south of the world for the profits of the north and let's hope they will after live 8 (great name anyway).

Check the P2P networks : They have it ...

I agree. Amazing show. I didn't expect a great performance (they haven't played together for 24 years!) but fortunately I was very wrong! Well, to be honest I think 'Breathe' (not a good song to play out of album context) was a bit disappointing but after this everything went really good. 'Comfortably Numb' (especially the second guitar solo) was my favourite moment.

glass house wrote: Have anybody seen them when they were on their hight ?   loved the performance though !

Saw them at BATH, 1970, (Old tw*t that I am)