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Joined: April 11 2006
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Posted: June 20 2010 at 00:41
As David Gilmour said in public after Richard died, there are many songs he won't be able to perform again without him... So, we need to enjoy their great legacy of recordings, and accept the past as is. NO ONE could, or should replace Richard Wright... He is greatly missed by his bandmates and all loyal Floyd fans.
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Posted: June 20 2010 at 04:45
Gilmour didn't really want to do Live 8, so now that Rick Wright is dead, I can't imagine Gilmour wanting to do Floyd again, ever? He certainly looked uncomfortable at Waters attempt to hug him onstage, if my failing memory serves me correctly
As David Gilmour said in public after Richard died, there are many songs he won't be able to perform again without him... So, we need to enjoy their great legacy of recordings, and accept the past as is. NO ONE could, or should replace Richard Wright... He is greatly missed by his bandmates and all loyal Floyd fans.
Now we're back to the 1979 - 1983 line up they could perform all of The Wall and especially The Final Cut. I'm sure DG would be up for that.
Seriously Floyd managed considerably well without their first inspiration, their second inspiration (the Rogers Barrett and Waters); technically they could continue. But the disparity and conflict of personalities between RW and DG has gone on too long.
They have since had their tax situation sorted out along time ago. (This was the problem that caused them to hit the Wall and Run Like Hell and almost certainly the real basis of the heated debate for two decades.) I know everyone ;likes to think of PF's problems being creative ones but while that is so it was probably about half of the problem.
Anyway could / would Waters be performing On An Island material? The idea of either of them singing What God Wantsas a PF tune is ever so slightly amusing (if not to death...)
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Posted: June 27 2010 at 21:10
ALL Right then I must chime in via a rare post reply for me.
I have toured with Pink Floyd twice, round the world, also done numerous Roger Waters shows. Employed by them. Not following shows around like some deadhead claiming to be on tour! I can say without a doubt that PF will not tour/record again, all deaths aside. David does not want to do it regardless of whether Roger does or not. 'What is done is done' AS for my background and legitimacy it's yours to believe me or not. But really, I gain nothing by this 'cept to put an end to the back + forth of mis-information.
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Posted: July 11 2010 at 21:43
I had just read about that in the Brain Damage website today. David Gilmour and Roger Waters playing together again, no extra information given yet, only the band (it included Guy Pratt and Harry Waters) and the songs played. It was a charity fund raising concert for a pro-Palestine organization. I hope we'll soon know the opinions of both Gilmour and Waters about this reunion, and however it came to happen. And if they may appear together again in any other concert.
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Posted: July 11 2010 at 23:07
This is welcome news. I am really proud of Rog and Dave for burying the hatchet. Life is too short and goes by too quickly to remain bitter forever. I would really love(!!!) to see a Waters/Gilmour unplugged tour, and together perform some of their beautiful acoustic numbers: "Grantchester Meadows", "Fat Old Sun", "If", "Sea, Shell and Stone", "San Tropez", "Pillow of Winds", "Cymbaline", etc... and perhaps write some great new material... It wouldn't be Pink Floyd anymore, but, that doesn't matter. Try something new. After all, music is the opposite of war, and it should bring people together for the common good.
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Posted: July 11 2010 at 23:51
oddiyo wrote:
As David Gilmour said in public after Richard died, there are many songs he won't be able to perform again without him... So, we need to enjoy their great legacy of recordings, and accept the past as is. NO ONE could, or should replace Richard Wright... He is greatly missed by his bandmates and all loyal Floyd fans.
What are you talking about? Wright could be replaced easily, from a technical standpoint. He never played anything too complex, and while his songwriting abilities would obviously be absent, I would contest that the best Floyd musical moments came from Waters and Gilmour, by far.
Now, whether or not they would want to, well that's another matter, entirely. I personally would not be completely upset either way. Wright was absolutely brilliant, and there will never another quite like him, but to act as if he's literally irreplaceable as a musician is going a little far, I would say. As a human being and a songwriter, you are correct. As Pink Floyd's keyboardist, well, it's not ideal, but if another album WOULD ever get made, it would be necessary.
I would feel completely different about this, by the way, if Mr. Wright were still alive.
Joined: February 09 2010
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Posted: July 12 2010 at 12:18
JLocke wrote:
oddiyo wrote:
As David Gilmour said in public after Richard died, there are many songs he won't be able to perform again without him... So, we need to enjoy their great legacy of recordings, and accept the past as is. NO ONE could, or should replace Richard Wright... He is greatly missed by his bandmates and all loyal Floyd fans.
What are you talking about? Wright could be replaced easily, from a technical standpoint. He never played anything too complex, and while his songwriting abilities would obviously be absent, I would contest that the best Floyd musical moments came from Waters and Gilmour, by far.
Now, whether or not they would want to, well that's another matter, entirely. I personally would not be completely upset either way. Wright was absolutely brilliant, and there will never another quite like him, but to act as if he's literally irreplaceable as a musician is going a little far, I would say. As a human being and a songwriter, you are correct. As Pink Floyd's keyboardist, well, it's not ideal, but if another album WOULD ever get made, it would be necessary.
I would feel completely different about this, by the way, if Mr. Wright were still alive.
David Gilmore is still alive, and he can and will be easily replaced during Waters' 2010 Wall Tour. Any better than average guitar player can fill in for GIlmore, and I look forward to the show this November. So there.
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Posted: July 12 2010 at 12:41
guitar alternate could not sing like David, thats for sure. But, after thinking about it, A stand -in could fill the bill and Watersgate could pull it off
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