Here is a very good Rick track as Syd had gone round the bend at this time. Syd wrote all the songs and was the main singer. Rick did not want to be the front man. I like the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVqtHXHt9Y
Gilmour was the one who would stand up to Waters. I think post Dark Side or Wish You Were Here it was miserable to be in the band.
Watch The Live 8 videos on YouTube. Geldof got Roger to agree and they finally got Gilmour to say yes.
If you watch it, it is kind of sad. Waters is very happy with an almost “why did I break up the band.” Dave could not get off the stage fast enough. Rog talked about maybe doing more gigs (reunion) and Gilmour said no. At this point, Rick Wright’s health was going down. Sad. I think Waters regretted what he did breaking up the band but after The Wall - how could they top that?
Yeah, I remember when the Wall came out..It was very good (not my personal favorite but good) and thought that it was their last collaboration as a band. Did not know these details though. It seems that when bands are huge and are with each other long enough, it always ends on a bad note (no pun intended) and the members end up despising each other. Then they get old and well...can’t bring it back
I’ll take a gander. Thanks for the details. Very interesting.
I always considered both post-Waters Floyd and post-Floyd Waters to be inferior to what the band did while Waters was still on board. And I still remember a Rolling Stone review of Momentary Lapse and Radio KAOS alongside one another that concluded with “together these would have made a nice Dark Side of the Moon.”