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    Posted: July 11 2006 at 15:33
Will the saddest news of today make the greatest protagonists, Waters and Gilmour bury the axe and reunite for the very last time in order to celebrate the memory of the band's founder and inventor of the name??
 
They should finally realize that Live 8 gig was not real comeback and it is the last time to do it, since they meet only at the funerals (I know I am copying the reasons that brought VDGG back together)
 
That should be one album only, without bombastic tours. And an album completely different from what they were doing recently, either as Pink Floyd and solo. Coming back to psychedelia, I am sure their creative geniuses could really impress contemporary music.
 
After that they should go their own way.
 
Maybe I am daydreaming, but what's your opinion about it?
yet you still have time!
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2006 at 15:36
I expected such a question. Dunno what to say,really. 
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    Perhaps maybe just a tribute show, playing only Syd's music. I think that would be nice.
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Forget it.
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Maybe if Syd croaked that sentiment from his deathbed, then maybe a snowball's chance.  Otherwise, I would have to say, "No Dice."
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Points: 13032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2006 at 15:41
It would be so nice....
 
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The members Pink Floyd right now, and for a long time now, are probably more focused with their own endeavours, and not Pink Floyd's. These endeavours most likely include sailing, flying, and NASCAR, and not music. Consider being lucky for the Live 8 reunion, it is unlikely to ever see Pink Floyd do anything ever together again. Besides, the last thing Syd would have wanted, I presume, was to have a tribute show for him.
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No it won't happen.

Did you know Waters was going to offer Andy Latimer the Gilmour guitar/vocal position on his current Wall tour? That would have been awesome, but it didn't work out.
    

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Originally posted by Heptade Heptade wrote:

No it won't happen.

Did you know Waters was going to offer Andy Latimer the Gilmour guitar/vocal position on his current Wall tour? That would have been awesome, but it didn't work out.
    


I heard he couldn't hit the notes.
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Yeah, his voice is shot...too bad, since not only does his playing resemble Gilmour's, but his voice isn't dissimilar also.

How 'bout a reunion tour with Robyn Hitchcock as Syd? He looks and sounds just like him!

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Originally posted by Heptade Heptade wrote:

Yeah, his voice is shot...too bad, since not only does his playing resemble Gilmour's, but his voice isn't dissimilar also.

How 'bout a reunion tour with Robyn Hitchcock as Syd? He looks and sounds just like him!

 
That would be a disgrace to Syd and everything his music stood for, imagination and soul.
 
 
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Points: 3928 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2006 at 16:06
A look/soundalike??? Good grief...Rust has it absolutely right when he says the word 'disgrace'. Pink Floyd would never even consider that- and I'm certain of that as the band have constantly paid tributes to him ever since he left and continue to do so to this day- Dave Gilmour played 'Arnold Layne' on his tour this year.
 
What I think will happen though is a rip off compilation that finally liberates 'Scream Thy Last Scream' and 'Vegetable Man', whilst his work will be sold to a new generation who will seemingly see him as a forefather to some talentless, publicity seeking oik such as Pete Doherty, neglecting the fact that Syd was none of those things but was one of few genuinely unique musicians the rock world has ever created.
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I doubt Pink Floyd will ever get back together under any circumstances. 
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Originally posted by johnobvious johnobvious wrote:

Originally posted by Heptade Heptade wrote:

No it won't happen.

Did you know Waters was going to offer Andy Latimer the Gilmour guitar/vocal position on his current Wall tour? That would have been awesome, but it didn't work out.
    


I heard he couldn't hit the notes.


Waters should have let Latimer play guitar and got a specialist in for vocals. Latimer's guitar playing is too brilliant to be missing from the live scene. Shame his voice is gone.

Dave Gilmour played Arnold Layne on Jools Holland's show a few weeks ago with Rick Wright on keys and vocals. Bloody awful it was too, compared to his recent stuff; I've never liked early Floyd. But Gilmour and Wright were the heart of Floyd so getting them back together is a great start. I doubt if Waters will ever get back with those two, since he is alleged to have driven Wright to the edge of a breakdown.
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2006 at 16:41
This is sad news indeed..



I've only just seen the story on the BBC website.

Syd Barret RIP

Floyd Re-union? No I dont think so. Would be good though.
    

Edited by Blacksword - July 11 2006 at 16:42
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2006 at 16:55
"Shine on you crazy diamond" already stands as a fitting tribute by Pink Floyd.
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Points: 7659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2006 at 16:57
It sounds cynical or too idealistic but Pink Floyd could organise a Syd Barrett Tribute Concert in order to collect money for several diabetes organisations? I am sure this will give an extra dimension to Money...Wink ...!

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Points: 1453 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2006 at 17:52
charity show would be a nice idea, and really would give a new meaning to "Money" or "Have a Cigar". But I doubt Gilmour would accept it, since he is against great Pink Floyd shows.
 
Shine On is a great tribute to Syd, but it was recorded in different circumstances - yet Crazy Diamond will never shine again - and I think that Pink Floyd could really cope with final matters, even eschatological - frankly, they never did it, they were always one step before that frontier, even on their saddest and most serious albums.
 
But maybe you are right, maybe now they are only concerned with their solo careers and are not going to notice that this death closes some epoque of Pink Floyd. Nothing can ever be the same...
yet you still have time!
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Points: 7374 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2006 at 18:59
I hope it will spur them to do at least something....Ermm
 
 
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Points: 3118 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2006 at 21:32
I supose they gonna make something in tribute to him.


They HAD to.
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