Posted on 02/09/2006 10:06:15 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Pink Floyd Are Dead, But David Gilmour Certainly Isn't
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
David Gilmour
Pink Floyd guitarist/singer David Gilmour has ended all the band reunion rumours once and for all and formally pronounced the group "over."
After Gilmour and bassist/singer Roger Waters played together at last summer’s Live 8 concert in the U.K., speculation spread that the band would reform to tour later this year. But the rumour mill can now officially close down due to statements made by Gilmour in an interview with Italian newspaper, La Repubblica.
"The band? It’s over. Reunited because of the good cause, to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.
"I think I’ve had enough. I am 60. I don’t want to work much anymore. It's an important part of my life, I have had enormous satisfactions, but now it's enough. It’s much more comfortable to work on my own."
Gilmour emphasized that the decision to not reunite had nothing to do with his stormy relationship with Waters, who left Pink Floyd in 1983. The guitarist simply believes that the band is too big of a "business" now and he didn’t want to deal with the pressure or expectations — with or without Waters.
Gilmour has, however, completed work on his third solo album. His first release since Pink Floyd’s multi-platinum Division Bell in 1994 was co-produced by Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera and Chris Thomas(Sex Pistols, The Pretenders, INXS). On An Island features David Crosby and Graham Nash on harmonies, Robert Wyatt on cornet, Floyd’s Richard Wright on organ and Gilmour taking his first stab at playing saxophone. It will be released on March 7.
Gilmour will play Toronto's Massey Hall on April 9 and 10 in support of the album.
Here are the songs you can hear On An Island:
"Castellorizon" "On An Island" "The Blue" "Take A Breath" "Red Sky At Night" "This Heaven" "Then I Close My Eyes" "Smile" "Pocket Full Of Stones" "Where We Start" —Phil Villeneuve
Pink Floyd has been way over for me for a very long time.
Why are you posting stories from 1982? ;)
I'll see them on the dark side of the moon.
COLD! LOL...I love the Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of Reason....I was able to see both tours..one in Giants Stadium and the other at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami...visually...the best shows I have and probably will ever see.
I think the gig was up when it was discovered that their "creative genius" came from watching re-runs of "The Wizard of Oz".
One of the most pretentious bands on the planet will plague me no longer.
"I'll see them on the dark side of the moon."
There is no dark side of the moon. In fact, it's all dark.
Is it the band that plagued you, or the pretensions of the sallow young men who listened to them?
Guess we'll have to settle for the Australian Pink Floyd tribute shows.
'Cause if they catch you in the back seat, Trying to pick her locks, They're gonna send you back to Mother, In a cardboard box. You better run!
Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earth-bound misfit, I
I caught both DSOTM concerts at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland, summer 1973. It's an inside/outside concert park, and PF placed 5 huge speaker banks around the audience. One at the very back, two L/R in the middle, and two L/R at front, a surround sound experience. For several of the instrumental pieces they "spun" the sound around the speaker banks. Pretty strange effect, especially since it was outside.
Unfortuately this also made some of the drug tripping hippies a bit crazy, and there ensued a mini-riot with Merriweather security (I recall the zonked-out folks ripping up the new sod and throwing it at the guards). It only stopped when Waters halted the concert and refused to continue until they stopped.
>>Pink Floyd "Officially Over"
Works for me. I quit smoking weed a looooong time ago.
Technically though, that was some great music, and some good high-times, but alas, everything Earthly comes to an end. The Sun is the same, in a relative way, but I'm older. Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death. :)
Ya, I like that one too.
I think the radio chatter is pretty cool:
Friction lock - set.
Mixture - rich
Propellers - fully forward
Flaps - set - 10 degrees
Engine gauges and suction - check
Mixture set to maximum percent - recheck
Flight instruments...
Altimeters - check both
Navigation lights - on
Strobes - on
(to tower): confirm 3-8-echo ready for departure
(tower): hello again, this is now 129.4
(to tower): 129.4. it’s to go.
(tower): you may commence your takeoff, winds over 10 knots.
(to tower): 3-8-echo
Another Brick in the Wall
Actually they don't do too bad of a job. I missed them when they came through here a few months. Gilmour gave them pretty high praise.
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