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Did you know that Gilmour was a male model before he joined Floyd? I've got a book somewhere with a French ad featuring DG.

As far as Waters being more partisan -- have you ever seen the Pompeii concert? Waters keeps going on about the great economic collapse during the "candid" scenes.

Then again, we're talking about the guy who's still fussing about Margaret Thatcher and World War II.

MD

Didn't know that about Gilmour. I didn't like how Waters attacked Thatcher in 'The Final Cut', and made most of it into a political album. His partisan sniping was of a different tack than the more general anti-authoritarian themes in The Wall. Luckily the band never toured in support of TFC. I don't think those songs were ever played live, except maybe by Waters solo (?). I've heard cuts from Pompeii but haven't seen the whole video yet.

His dad was killed in WWII was he not?

I think the rest of them were all the kids of Cambridge area academia were they not and had "public" schooling?

That sort of explains the fairly gentry sounding accents.

As for Gilmour, he has been giving away money for a long time to a variety of folks but he seems to be most concerned with housing....not just for the homeless but poorer working class folks who can't afford to live in areas they once did on their salaries. I'm not sure that would be my goal were I him but it's his money and at least he's not giving it to ANSWER or something like that...I hope.

I'm not sure about his family life....I think he's married with children.

Funny....he always sort of looked like the classroom hooligan to me. A model?....I'll have to tell my wife.

I remember another story where he had to drive an old Land Rover (like me) from Cambridge to Morroco to rescue Syd after Syd was tripped out somewhere in the early days.

I think all these fellows knew each other from like preteens more or less and having lived some lifelong friendships myself, I can tell you that it can be up and down. My lifelong best friend whom I have known since 12 and who traveled the world with me thru thick and thin for all those years hasn't spoken to me in nearly 2 years...and I don'teven know why. Our lives diverged seriously and I guess he just got pissed....it's hard to chase after folks over deep rooted issues. I'm not sure which one of us would be Waters...lol...and I'm not as folksy as Gilmour.