suites Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=11312_Roger_Waters_and_David_Gilmour_Perform_Together_For_Charity Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=11312_Roger_Waters_and_David_Gilmour_Perform_Together_For_Charity cool. would love to see them do an album together. sad rick wright is no longer with us. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orkie Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Amazing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Geez, I guess anything is possible. Last I heard there was still a ton of animosity and they barely spoke at the Live 8 concert. I still don't see them getting together to record anything. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ViaBuffalo Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 How awesome would it be if Gilmour showed up and played on a tour date for Waters' upcoming Wall tour? My head would explode. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Now, was that SO f-ing difficult? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 How awesome would it be if Gilmour showed up and played on a tour date for Waters' upcoming Wall tour? My head would explode. Yes, and let's hope it's in Denver! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 How awesome would it be if Gilmour showed up and played on a tour date for Waters' upcoming Wall tour? My head would explode. Hidden Track also takes a look at the reunion. Pink Floyd's Gilmour To Join Waters On Lone 'Wall' Date David Gilmour to Join Roger Waters Again David Gilmour will join Roger Waters for a show this fall. The Pink Floyd members will reunite for one performance on Waters’ upcoming tour celebrating The Wall. The estranged musicians recently played four songs together a benefit for The Hoping Foundation.’ According to Waters’ Facebook page, Gilmour’s appearance will be a surprise. Pink Foyd drummer Nick Mason made a few appearances with Waters on his Dark Side of the Moon tour a few years back. Waters’ explains the unexpected reunion on his Facebook page. So here’s what happened. Last year, ‘The Hoping Foundation’ a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids, (www.hopingfoundation.org) put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott’s Club in London, the idea of which was to raise money by auctioning karaoke performances by various celebrities. David was there as a supporter and was moved to perform an impromptu rendition of George Gershwin’s ‘Summertime?’ which he performed aided and abetted by supermodel Kate Moss. In the wake of that evening, someone, I think it was David himself, came up with this ‘Wouldn’t it be funny’, idea. What if he (David that is) were to sing the old Teddy Bears song ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’ with me (Roger that is), what with us having been so famously at each other’s throats for years and years. Get it!!!! Anyway he E-mailed me with this suggestion and I loved it, so then it was just a question of juggling dates and deciding to do ‘Wish You Were Here’ and ‘Comfortably Numb’ to round out our little set. Or so I thought, until he sent me a number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in two-part harmony. I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David, with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then struggle through hours and hours of routining a performance that lay way outside my vocal comfort zone. To my eternal shame I bottled out and told Dave I would happily do ‘Wish You Were Here’ and ‘C. Numb’, but that ‘To Know him is to Love him’ was beyond me. Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. I quote “If you do ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’ for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I’ll come and do ‘C. Numb’ on one of your Wall shows”. Well! You could have knocked me down with a feather. How fucking cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn’t, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so explaining that I would probably be shite, but if he didn’t mind I didn’t, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was fucking great. End of story. Or possibly beginning. Roger PS. Just heard from David, he will decide in due course which gig he wants to do, it will be a surprise! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ViaBuffalo Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 My head has exploded. The only thing that makes me sad is the show in Buffalo I'm going to has practically no chance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 Tampa is a nice warm place to do it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 FINALLY some good news we can use! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted July 18, 2010 Share Posted July 18, 2010 i was at the show where the undercover.com.au article photo was taken Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Watch: Roger Waters and David Gilmour’s July reunion Earlier this evening, the Hoping Foundation posted a video recording of Waters and Gilmour’s complete 28-minute performance online and we now have the video embedded for you below (see link above). Albeit not the best of quality, we’ll remind you of the aforementioned fact that this is their first on-stage collaboration in five years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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