Pink Floyd to Reunite
 

Where do I pay?

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...on=6.0.12.1040

Please tell me this event will be televised. Even if only on pay per view.

At long last!
I'd love to be there, especially if they do lots of their earlier music. Not Meddle old but like Dark side or Wish you were here old. Makes me wanna break out the bong. I guess I'll just have to "wish I was there".
It would be nice if it were to be televised................Saw them in the 70's. Great show.

Wheew Hooo!

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine

Here's to a bloated, corporate-sponsored, obscenely expensive reunion tour sometime soon. I'll be there.

Now, someone go kick Gabriel, Phillips, Hackett and Collins in the ass and let's get on with the Genesis reunion tour as well.

i didn't get it then. i don't get it now.

Genesis! That'd be awesome. I'm not huge huge into Floyd, but I'd buy a ticket.

sidebar: watched the Peter Gabriel DVD the other night at a friends house after getting a preview on PBS. "Growing Up" I think it's called? At any rate, Peter Gabriel is amazing.

"did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
hot ashes for trees? hot air for the cool breeze?
cold comfort for chains?
did you exchange a walk on part in a war
for a lead roll in a cage?" (pink floyd).........

Damn, lookout123,
thats simple! ;)

When I was in school, my best friend, Peter, got us tickets to see The Wall. It was in a big arena, and even though we were poor students, we actually had floor seats. Well, actually, on the floor, but at about midcourt.

So there we were, sitting in these uncomfortable metal folding chairs, looking straight forward and up, actually, over the heads of the fifty rows ahead of us (all on the same floor level), at the stage. They come on, play the tunes, rock out, what a show.

Then intermission. Beer, and a smoke break for 40,000 of my closest friends (ack, choke...). The lights flashed for "curtain!" and as we reassembled, it became clear that the Wall, of the title was being built up as the show progressed, and now at the start of the second half, there was an enormous white brick wall practically at the front of the stage, and maybe, 50 feet high (I guess).

Now all those heads that were in the way during the first half of the show were craned back to the max to see the band on the top of the wall (imagine the front row at the drive in...).

Our seats were PERFECT. Thanks Peter.

saw them in St. Louis and Kc in the 80's damn fine show, then again I was one of those doped up kids who only listened to pink floyd.. a more grim deadhead I suppose. although they didn't have Waters with them, the show still kicked some serious ass.. although.. I really wish they (as in old rock stars) would just stop.. just stop.. how many freakin' 'last show ever' tours am I going to have to put up with and get suckered into seeing.. YEAH! I damn well paid the 60$ to see the original line up of Black Sabbath!.. and all told it was a little disapionting.. then again it could have just been the blistering heat and the 5$ glasses of water that had me a little in the way of surly.

ps. can aerosmith all just fucking stop! I mean DAMN! how many times can you crank out a formulaic album and expect people to buy it?!?! (oh wait, this is amurikuh isn't it?)

I must respectfully disagree with Cowhead regarding old rockers just quitting. As long as they can still bash the strings and pummel the drums and press the keys and shriek off key, I say "do it!".

No one thought Horowitz should kick back and take it easy when he played Moscow at 90. No one told Jessica Tandy to get off the screen when she was pushing 80 and doing the best work of her career.

There will always be young punks out there to be relevant, smash hotel rooms and die from drug overdoses. The guys who have survived have something to sing about, and I think they need to do it until they either keel over or just decide that no one's listening anymore.

Let's see who ends up with the biggest grossing tours the next couple of years. I'm betting The Stones and Aerosmith will be in the top five. If Floyd goes on to tour, I'm betting it will be the most profitable in history.

EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Saw these guys in 94 with the Division Bell tour. I will see them again. I was too young to go to a Pink Floyd concert for any of their earlier tours.

Who is being re-assembled within the group? Is Roger Waters (doubtful) coming back?

I think you are the only person in the world who agrees with me on this one. I don't like any of their stuff, though, so that would be why.

Yes the bassman/singer will play, they say...... ;)

okay allow me to re-phrase.. if you can still fucking rock? okay then! if you are a lay-about-has-been-wanting-to make-money-on past -fame-band waiting to make money on a ' comeback tour' then fuck you no, Bob Dylans last album was actually really good...

ps. case that's why we talk.
here's the other thing! as a pink floyd looser ass bastard! David Gilmour wrote most of their songs AND sung most of them.. from obscured by clouds until the fucking wall!!!!! waters just sung them until the fucking Wall and the Final Cut. pftfth! screw that son of a beeyotch! waters can suck a fucking fart of my ass! Nick Mason, David Gilmour and fucking Syd Barrett and richard wright! put more into that band than waters (yeah! in lower case!) ever fucking put into that.. FUCK HIM! uh. yeah right sorry.. done with that.. you now know my point

this is one I'l fight about. I have owned all 18 pink floud albums.. sure i hae sold them off as the years have gone by, but... here is one venue I'll fuck you up.. please don't pay for it, just for the 'paying into a banbd that has long since left it's prime, and any sort.. oh never mind we are all old, no, go enjoy the show,,,it will be worth some of the money you paid for it) I saw them twice, I was lucky (and/or desperate that way) like I said it's a really good show, just don't trip (other than say mushrooms) when you do it :))

Yes... heaven forbid we exclude mushrooms from our tripping. They don't really count, right? :eyebrow:

well.. yes and no, there is an antidote to mushrooms.. Lsd/Lsa there isn't one. (trust me on that one).. you know I've been suprised that there isn't a recreational drug thread on this BBS, although.. I suppose most of you are 'proffesional' types and that sort of thing could have unpleasant side effects.

A lot of those geezer bands are just pathetic. The Stones are coming to a town about two hrs away from me and people look at me like they want to lynch me when I say that they are one step above "suck" and that I wouldn't go if you gave me a ticket. They haven't done anything original since about 1977. If you start me up, I can't get no satisfaction!!!! I hear the same 4 songs on the radio and I want to pound Mick with a stick. Unfortunately, I suspect their early stuff had merit, but I can't take his singing.

Pink Floyd was my all-time fav band until I discovered Phish. Phish are the greatest band ever. I saw Gilmour and friends at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal on the Division Bell tour soon after seeing Phish 4 times and the show was awesome, but I got the feeling that the spark had gone. It seemed kinda scripted. That being said, Gilmour is one of the smoothest guitarists going (On the Turning Away live- that solo is a fine example why he is a god) and a bad day with PF is better than a good day with almost any other band. Their stuff since The Wall has seemed spottier than before it.

David Gilmour is one of my favorite guitar player (as well as J Mascis (dinosaur Jr) and Robert Smith (the cure) yeah I know, but he writes some damn good tunes!) but yeah, on the oh what the hell tour way that.. delicate sound of thunder.. I'd actually have to look at my ticket stubs... and I don't feel that energetic :) ) really it did feel scripted and lame, on a side note I saw Steppenwolf (sp?) about 12 years ago... damn good show, the guitar player broke a string (high E) and just played it anyway, never missing a note.. I was impressed..then again playing the same song for 30 years.. one ought to be able to play it any way shape or form... I mean hell! there are some of our songs i can play 12 different ways.. and I'm an amatuer! (well... technically I have been payed to play music.. but you know what I mean)

You can't reheat a souflee - Paul McCartney

In the last Rolling Stones tour with opening act No Doubt, ticket brokers were selling tickets at hot venues like the Staples Center for up to $3,500 a seat! I'm not surprised the Stones are coming back for more.

If a nuclear holocaust happens, the only living creatures left will be cockaroaches and Keith Richards. He'll be saying, hey you over there, I smoked your grandfather..." - Robin Williams

Did y'all ever see Josie and the Pussycats? What a flashback!

I just found it strange that for a man with such varied recordings behind him that he would play the same setlist over and over. I found out the next day in the review by the local paper that they were playing almost identical sets all throughout the tour, and that is just plain lazy. Pink Floyd was so non-commercial before; David can make that Fender sing like no other, but now I feel no compulsion to go see them live ever; on the other hand, I will live the rest of my days yearning for the freedom of Phish live. Maybe Trey should tour with David G. and get him a new lease on life!

Hopefully Roger Waters will at least be decent enough not to be a complete wanker like he has been the last 20 years and at least let the fans get something they deserve...

Yeah well in order to have a bigger song list to choose from, they'd have to rehearse more, which means they'd have to spend more time together, and from the sounds of how things have gone so far, that just doesn't seem likely.

Another consideration is that Pink Floyd is something rather more than a stripped down jam band ala The Dead or Phish. Phish doesn't take about a million lasers, projection screens, VariLights and inflatable pigs out with them on tour, and they aren't midi-locked into the production swirling around them. This probably prevents a whole lot of set variety from show to show for Floyd.

Prog rock bands invented theatrical excess in music. I love it.

like I said I saw them twice.. it's something to see. although I can see why they do the same set list over and over, just coordinating the 'show' with the music would be a monumental tassk in and of itself, and trying to do all of that with a varied setlist.. yowch ( I mean after a bazillion years doing it one would think it would be old hat.. and damn! I can't imagine playing the same songs for 30 years... man.. I got tired of playing some of the same songs after only 2 years)

The complexity level of doing a mostly live (I say "mostly live", because there's a ton of stuff which is sequenced/recorded going on while the band members are playing...that's why modern concerts can sound so much like the recordings) production ala Pink Floyd is staggering, no matter how many times you do it. Imagine working against a click track for a two hour show, and that's just for starters. I'm amazed people can do it *at all*.

Yeah, I saw them back in '88. I remember they mis-cued one of the pre-recorded bits. It was too bad. The concert was really great up until that point. The kids' chorus from the Wall came in at the wrong time and sounded horrible. Most fans were too stoned to notice.

Otherwise, it was a good show though.

I sat through a lot of consciousness-raising talk and a pile of commercials today (in fact, for a music event, Live 8 had a proportion of, I'd guess, 1 minute of music to five minutes of talk and advertising), but the much-heralded reunion of Pink Floyd was all a real fan could have hoped for given the narrow scope of the event.

I must say that I did, in fact, get a bit emotional as they played "Wish You Were Here", and reminded us that there was still one member missing, the one for whom the song was written, Syd Barrett. David Gilmore looked rather stern, even pissed, through much of their set up until the point where Roger Waters finished his portion of the WYWH lyric, at which point he beamed a broad smile at him. Priceless body language shared with millions, that.

In summation, the Floyd sounded incredibly tight and together, especially considering that they had but a couple of weeks to rehearse. There was an overall sense of "this is so *right*", watching the four old bandmates on the same stage once again. Opening with "Breathe" and pairing it up with "Money" reminded us once again that "Dark Side of the Moon" is certainly one of the greatest albums ever recorded. The aforementioned "Wish You Were Here" was capped off with "Comfortably Numb", with its built-in vocal sharing between Waters and Gilmore...it was glorious.

As with virtually all performances today, the VJ's cut in before the song ended to remind us why this was all happening, and that's okay I guess. Without Live 8, perhaps Pink Floyd never stands on a stage together again, even if for a brief time.

Me...I'm hoping for a reunion tour and a new album. I'll settle for a tour, though.

Yes sir!! The flashbacks alone were worth tuning in.
Oh...not theirs....mine. :biggrin:

Tune in where??? I've been round the dial with no luck. Is this a PPV event?

VH1 and MTV carried it from 12:00 EDT to 7:30 EDT today. ABC was to run a two hour highlight show from 8:00 to 10:00 EDT.