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I can’t blame him and he is fortunate enought to make his own calls. It’s funny to see how the tables have turned… Now it is Gilmour who doesn’t want a band. The more the fans and press talks about the conflict, the bigger it seems to get. It seems to be a two way thing between the fans and the band too. Basically it’s all just stupid and ultimately it comes down to taste… which obviously one can’t argue. It’s like a nation voting for two persidents or “should we have this religion or this?”. So, if you’re still reading… This “war” that has been going on since “87” has probably done more to the fans than Floyd it self.
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After all, let’s face it… Roger Waters has a bigger name than David Gilmour. They want a good show and the old classics. The sad thing though (at last for me), is that I don’t think most people even care or hear the difference. I only think that he has prooven once and for all that he has the right tools to bring on the Floyd legacy. Unfortunately he hasn’t… This has nothing to do with the fact that I saw Gilmour last week performing Echoes (that I am blinded). I was hoping Waters was so “on” the Floyd thing again (as he claims) and that he had done everything to make it sound right. I know you can’t judge a band on the opening night and let alone on a bootleg, but that’s not really my point either. This was not the bass player I had vitnessed the last decades. Not even Waters sounds like him self… I was surprised how good he sounded on Live 8. Endless “Van Halen” wanking on the guitar and not a soulful moment from any of them. Of course it helps to have names like Phil Mazanera and Richard Wright too… So what have Waters done? It’s obvious that he is comfortable with the guys from the original Bleeding Hearts Band, because he keeps bringing them in and it sounds exactly the same as in 85. They have a vibe and feeling that surpasses everything one could have hoped for from farily young musicians.
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I don’t even think Gilmour had to tell them that. Not only that, but they want to make it sound authentic and good. Gilmour has put together a band consisting of some of the finest musicians the business has to offer. He is the one who travles around claiming to be the “Creative Genious of Pink Floyd”, but he sounds like a bad cover… Waters has been doing his own “thing” since the Pros and Cons tour in the mid 80’s and while I can understand that one gets caught up in the tacky 80’s way of doing things, I can’t understand why he doesn’t change things around now to sound as Floyd as possible. This is also why I think his live shows differs so much from Gilmour’s way of doing things.
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He has always been good at hearing what he wants and telling the band how to do it, but it takes a musician to make it happen… I think what Waters’ did best was to say “I like this” and “I don’t like this”. Could he write down the long instrumental parts? No. Sure, Waters was the man behind most of it, but could he play? No. Together with Wright and Mason, he made them into the classics we know today. From the very start (almost), he took charge in shaping Waters’ ideas into listenable pieces. To me, Gilmour has always been the true musicican in Floyd. Before you delete my site from your bookmarks and call me a jerk, let me explain my view. The man just can’t get it right… he never has… Hey, there wouldn’t have been a Floyd without him… or a Gilmour! But, I get embarassed when I listen to his own versions of the Floyd classics. I respect the man and I’m a huge fan of his work. Probably as much as you like Gilmour, but get me right. Now, I know a lot of you are Waters fans. I don’t know what we expected, but I was (and still is) very pissed that it sounded so bad… Yes, I was pissed. I was, or we all were, excited that he had pulled out rare classics like Sheep and Fletcher’s Memorial Home (we are all huge fans of Final Cut). Yesterday we got a bootleg from the Rio concert, – Waters’ opening night. Why? Both the songs and live experience was better in the 70’s. Still, very early on we decided that we were only to perform songs from the original era. We (well, most of us) always end up with Gilmour and judging by the way we perform the Floyd songs, we are on Gilmour’s side… If there is such a thing as taking sides in this matter. Every now and then, we (my band) have these little fights or arguments over who is better Gilmour or Waters.
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