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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.

 

 

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How awesome would it be if Gilmour showed up and played on a tour date for Waters' upcoming Wall tour? My head would explode. :blink

 

Yes, and let's hope it's in Denver! :cheers

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How awesome would it be if Gilmour showed up and played on a tour date for Waters' upcoming Wall tour? My head would explode. :blink

 

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!

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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.
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