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EMARX

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Very nice tribute to Richard Wright. Wish Waters could have had some input, but that's another story. Very cool...............

Pink Floyd Reveal Details Of New Album - Yahoo News UK
I believe Gilmour and Waters are on friendly terms again, but it could be they have staked out their own sounds after all these years and maybe they just don't come together like they once did. The wall was begun as a solo effort by Waters, but his producer at the time, Bob Ezrin convinced him to bring the rest of the band in on it.
 

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I believe Gilmour and Waters are on friendly terms again, but it could be they have staked out their own sounds after all these years and maybe they just don't come together like they once did. The wall was begun as a solo effort by Waters, but his producer at the time, Bob Ezrin convinced him to bring the rest of the band in on it.

Have you seen the video of a recent Wall show where Waters shocked the audience with a special guest guitarist (;)) during Comfortably Numb?
 

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I did see that - on one of the Pink Floyd pieces on VH1. It was very cool.

I have hopes for the new album but am keeping expectations low. Nothing personal. I love Pink Floyd. I'm just generally not enchanted with the "previously unrelased" compilations I've heard from others. But if anyone can make magic with it, it would be the Floyd.
 

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David G. is bald! I had not seen a recent picture of him to know this!
From this..
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To this..

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He has such kind eyes.
 

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I believe Gilmour and Waters are on friendly terms again, but it could be they have staked out their own sounds after all these years and maybe they just don't come together like they once did. The wall was begun as a solo effort by Waters, but his producer at the time, Bob Ezrin convinced him to bring the rest of the band in on it.
Waters is hung up on singing his political stuff. Gilmour just wants to play music. The two are willing to collaborate, if only all that political crap could get settled between them. It was even that way with The Wall. It's been an ongoing thing for such a long time, and Gilmour's just tired of fighting about it. Life's too short.
 

EMARX

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Waters is hung up on singing his political stuff. Gilmour just wants to play music. The two are willing to collaborate, if only all that political crap could get settled between them. It was even that way with The Wall. It's been an ongoing thing for such a long time, and Gilmour's just tired of fighting about it. Life's too short.
Waters doesn't hide his leanings, but Gilmour does have causes he is passionate about, but as you so aptly said, he doesn't use his music as the platform.
 

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What made me glad about that performance, too, was (and this is even good for a thread) "Comfortably Numb" is possibly my favorite Pink Floyd song ever, and I really like Pink Floyd. It's got great imagery, great emotion, and the guitar solo is wrenching in its rage and sorrow, one of the best ever in rock.

I would say that Floyd's/Gilmour's "On the Turning Away," if not political, is certainly sociological. And he does a very good job with it.