A What If Pink Floyd Question...

toolis wrote: Atavachron wrote:     ^ rare coming together of people who share a musical vision and are able to add to that vision in a way irreplacable by another. this is where we disagree... it was Roger's vision and only his... concepts such as Animals and The Wall were 99% his.. i'll admit though that PF's sound wouldn't be the same if it hadn't been the rest musicians, they wouldn't have sounded the same but i don't think it would have made that much of a difference...

Ohh... big difference. One person's presence, contributions, their very being, makes a huge (though oft unnoticed) difference. If all three of the other members had been different individuals, we might not even be having this discussion.

Finnforest wrote: I can't let this go on any further.  Waters was Pink Floyd.  Gilmour admitted as much in the Mason book when he said that Roger was the one who stayed all night, did the writing on the fly, got the job done, while he (Dave) and the others went home nice and early for a hot dinner and foot massage.  David is a talented guitarist and vocalist who gave great gifts to the sound, but make no mistake, Roger is the reason that the 70s Floyd albums are great, while the Gilmour "Floyd" albums are nice pop music schlock.  There is NO debate here.  Ole Rog was the man, while the boys played their parts as rock stars.  You take Waters out of the 70s albums and you'd have another 5 or so "Momentary Lapses" on your hands.  What a nightmare that would be.

well said... its just that musical genius comes with the price of gigantic ego and possible insanity (fear not the word, i do believe that Roger from 1977 till 1983 was walking on thin ice, mentally..) and that resulted to the breaking of the band which prompted the fans to accuse Roger of this.. quite reasonably actually but noone can deny the fact that he was indeed Pink Floyd...


Edited by toolis - March 29 2007 at 06:20

I can't let this go on any further.  Waters was Pink Floyd.  Gilmour admitted as much in the Mason book when he said that Roger was the one who stayed all night, did the writing on the fly, got the job done, while he (Dave) and the others went home nice and early for a hot dinner and foot massage.  David is a talented guitarist and vocalist who gave great gifts to the sound, but make no mistake, Roger is the reason that the 70s Floyd albums are great, while the Gilmour "Floyd" albums are nice pop music schlock.  There is NO debate here.  Ole Rog was the man, while the boys played their parts as rock stars.  You take Waters out of the 70s albums and you'd have another 5 or so "Momentary Lapses" on your hands.  What a nightmare that would be.