Pink Floyd to reform for Live 8!! YES WITH ROGER WATERS!!!!
06-12-05, 12:10 PM
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Pink Floyd to reform for Live 8!! YES WITH ROGER WATERS!!!!
OMFG!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050612/...e_pinkfloyd_dc
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050612/...e_pinkfloyd_dc
Pink Floyd to reform for London Live 8 concert
LONDON (Reuters) - Four members of seminal British rock band Pink Floyd will play together for the first time in 24 years at London's Live 8 charity concert for Africa on July 2, publicists for the event said on Sunday.
Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Richard Wright will be on stage with bassist Roger Waters for their first public performance since they played at London's Earls Court in 1981.
The rock legends will join a star-studded line-up including Coldplay, Elton John and Paul McCartney at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, organized by activist rocker Bob Geldof to pressure rich nations to ease African poverty.
"Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world," said Gilmour.
"Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if reforming for this concert will help focus attention then it's got to be worthwhile."
The band released their first album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in 1967 and broke records with 1973's "The Dark Side Of The Moon," which remained in the American album charts for more than a decade.
In the 1980s relations between Waters and the rest of the group soured, with Waters suing over the rights to the Pink Floyd name.
Gilmore, Mason and Wright continued to record and tour as Pink Floyd, releasing their last studio album "The Division Bell" in 1994.
LONDON (Reuters) - Four members of seminal British rock band Pink Floyd will play together for the first time in 24 years at London's Live 8 charity concert for Africa on July 2, publicists for the event said on Sunday.
Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Richard Wright will be on stage with bassist Roger Waters for their first public performance since they played at London's Earls Court in 1981.
The rock legends will join a star-studded line-up including Coldplay, Elton John and Paul McCartney at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, organized by activist rocker Bob Geldof to pressure rich nations to ease African poverty.
"Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world," said Gilmour.
"Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if reforming for this concert will help focus attention then it's got to be worthwhile."
The band released their first album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in 1967 and broke records with 1973's "The Dark Side Of The Moon," which remained in the American album charts for more than a decade.
In the 1980s relations between Waters and the rest of the group soured, with Waters suing over the rights to the Pink Floyd name.
Gilmore, Mason and Wright continued to record and tour as Pink Floyd, releasing their last studio album "The Division Bell" in 1994.
06-12-05, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by slateef
is this concert gonna be broadcast here in the states? pay-per-view?
anyone know??
anyone know??
Live 8 at AOL
06-12-05, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Jack Straw
I still think this is B.S. Believe it when I see it (or hear it).
06-12-05, 07:51 PM
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I never thought Waters and Gilmour would ever talk to each other, much less play together. Oh well Brian Wilson released Smile so there are still miracles in the music world, so we'll see.
06-12-05, 09:58 PM
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Just imagine if McCartney continued the Beatles without Lennon and started making albums that sounded less and less like the Beatles and more and more like McCartney solo albums.
06-12-05, 10:15 PM
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I think it would have been Lennon and the Beatles, not McCartney. As far as I can tell, McCartney is full of himself and probably the primary reason behind their breakup. Just watch him on the George Harrison tribute concert. Totally puts the spotlight on himself when other artists, including the likes of Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, and Ringo Starr, had stood back and let Harrison's music speak for itself, even though they were performing it.
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06-12-05, 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by shaun3000
I think it would have been Lennon and the Beatles, not McCartney. As far as I can tell, McCartney is full of himself and probably the primary reason behind their breakup. Just watch him on the George Harrison tribute concert. Totally puts the spotlight on himself when other artists, including the likes of Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, and Ringo Starr, had stood back and let Harrison's music speak for itself, even though they were performing it.
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06-12-05, 10:53 PM
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Could just be me. But it just seemed like he was like, "Look what a great guy I am to come here and play George Harrison's songs." blah blah. It didn't help that part of his performance (the bit about the ukulele) was verbatim from his Back in the US tour.
06-13-05, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by cungar
Just imagine if McCartney continued the Beatles without Lennon and started making albums that sounded less and less like the Beatles and more and more like McCartney solo albums.
06-13-05, 01:50 AM
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Pink Floyd's website is saying the same thing.
http://www.pinkfloyd.com/home/3.html
Oh, how I wish that will become a US/Worldwide tour.
http://www.pinkfloyd.com/home/3.html
Oh, how I wish that will become a US/Worldwide tour.
06-13-05, 05:25 PM
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i wonder one thing, will for the concert play with just the 4 members or will they have backup musicions as well? since seeing a cover band (and the roger watters "in the flesh" dvd), each have well more then 4 players at a time.
06-13-05, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by cungar
Just imagine if McCartney continued the Beatles without Lennon and started making albums that sounded less and less like the Beatles and more and more like McCartney solo albums.
06-13-05, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by DodgingCars
Kinda like how the Final Cut was more of a Waters' album than a Floyd album?
06-13-05, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisKnudsen
Too bad Syd Barrett was in the reunion because that was the only time Pink Floyd was good.
p.s. I know Syd Barrett is dead.
p.s. I know Syd Barrett is dead.
And Syd is alive and sort of well.