Posted on 12/09/2018 8:05:38 AM PST by Eddie01
The worms ate into his brain.
Gilmour is the same as Waters politically.
They are all progressive socialists, however Waters obviously wears it on his sleeve all the time. Gilmour has more class, but they are all leftists, even the drummer.
Well actually, Pink Floyd doesn’t exist anymore, do they? Really not sure. David Gilmore was the brains and his sound is what defined PF in my mind. Waters was just the bassist.
From the album “Obscured by Clouds” which was the soundtrack to a French film “La Vallee”. The album came out just before the breakout “Dark Side of the Moon”. I was in tenth grade at the time and our high school French class went to Quebec on a field trip, where I saw the movie. So many great albums all released about the same time; Houses of the Holy, Brain Salad Surgery, Dark Side, brings back a lot of memories.
Gilmour has stated in interviews that he does not believe in an afterlife and that he is an atheist.[106][107] When it comes to Gilmour's political views, he has stated that he is left-wing, and that his beliefs spring from those of his parents; he stated that his parents were "Proper Manchester Guardian readers", and went on to say that "Some of their friends went on the Aldermaston Marches. Mine never did to my knowledge, but they were both committed to voting for the Labour Party"; Gilmour inherited his parents' socialism, stating "I still consider myself to be more a socialist than anything else, even if I can't quite stick with party politics".[108] In August 2014, Gilmour was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.[109] In May 2017, Gilmour endorsed Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election.[110][111] He tweeted: "I'm voting Labour because I believe in social equality."[112][113]So he's another bloke who endorses socialism, but doesn't practice it personally. Disappointing but predictable.Gilmour's net worth is £100 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2016.[114]
The Bleeding Hearts and artists.
I think artists, in general, tend to be idealists, which is why they gravitate towards socialism. Of course they also tend to be very naïve about such things.
Here are some comments FWIW. You may know all this stuff ...
I have followed that band since 1969 when they were a largely unknown underground psychedelic band. When I saw them in 1970 I had no problem getting a spot leaning against the stage about 10 feet from David Gilmour. In 1977 I was way back in an arena.
I can see why one might think David was the brains of the outfit since he became the defacto band leader and face of PF after the split from Roger in 1985. But David wasn't even an original member. There wouldn't have been a PF without original guitarist and pioneer Syd Barrett. Of course David took the PF guitar work to a higher and more accessible level. The early Floyd sound was defined by all of the group members. It was one of the original jam bands.
Roger was hardly just a bass player. Waters wrote most of Dark Side of the Moon, Animals and almost all of the Wall. He gave the band a demo album of the Wall to play. He was a main writer even in the early days - Set the Controls, Careful with that Axe, etc. Waters was a huge factor in that band becoming famous and mainstream. Waters also took less drugs than the rest of the them according to Gilmour.
So while Waters is certainly an obnoxious leftist he was the main guy in that band up til 1985. Waters was the guy in the drivers seat in the studio control room when they recorded their big albums of mostly his songs. He ran Pink Floyd in the late 1970s and up til 1985.
PF didn't release anything of substance after Roger left and David's solo albums are hardly stellar. David essentially became the PF caretaker/leader after 1985. Of course (as you say) -- Gilmour's solos defined a lot of the "sound". I agree with that although the other band members also help defined the sound. But Gilmour's impact on the sound was huge. I followed him more than the other guys.
Having said all that -- Waters didn't produce much of anything of substance after he left PF either. So there was this synergy between Waters, Gilmour and Wright that made that band in the 1970s/1980s. The individual parts never equalled the sum of the parts.
“The Final Cut” was pretty much a Waters solo album, with Gilmour essentially a studio musician.
Gilmour after that toured with Pete Townshend for a bit, contributing to Townshend’s “White City” album.
Didn’t know about the Townsend / Gilmour tour. Interesting.
Oh yeah.
The band members were definitely ideologically very similar.
I’m not a fan of Pink Floyd for their politics though. Most or even all of the bands I like are leftist idiots.
It just seems to be something that runs through them and other creative types.
If I was to stop listening to anyone I disagreed with politically, I’d have no music mostly, except probably for the 2 cellos dudes. Not sure what their politics are, and that is pretty rare to not know these days.
I’ve been playing in house bands and bar bands on and off since high school. I’ve actually been fired when they have learned that I’m conservative. I’m a firm believer is “Shut up and sing” - why should I bore anyone with my beliefs?
Waters wears his politics on his sleeve and even uses them as a bludgeon. Gilmour (to his credit) is quiet about his.
BTW: here’s my story: “Shut up and sing”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3279798/posts?page=4#4
Thanks for that...
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