Blame David Mallet - everything he touched looked cheap... Gilmour's pretty pissed off about it
The other thing that got me with this was the fact it had been so heavily re-edited, they cut out nearly an hour's worth of material from the original release
I'm firmly in Roger's camp in regards to the website issue. Does anyone go there to watch Gilmour's wife do poetry readings? Her lyrics aren't very good either. I watched Gilmour at Pompeii film & it was pretty dull. & Chuck Leavell singing Roger's part in Comfortably Numb actually offended me. On the other hand, the version of Mother Roger put out this week was stellar. I can listen to the women in Lucius sing all day. For me, Roger still has the creative fire while David seems to have basically retired. I have enjoyed Nick Mason's early Floyd shows too. Roger's last tour was totally amazing, both in production & music. He has a killer band. Can't wait for the show next year.
I'm firmly in Roger's camp in regards to the website issue. Does anyone go there to watch Gilmour's wife do poetry readings? Her lyrics aren't very good either. I watched Gilmour at Pompeii film & it was pretty dull. & Chuck Leavell singing Roger's part in Comfortably Numb actually offended me. On the other hand, the version of Mother Roger put out this week was stellar. I can listen to the women in Lucius sing all day. For me, Roger still has the creative fire while David seems to have basically retired. I have enjoyed Nick Mason's early Floyd shows too. Roger's last tour was totally amazing, both in production & music. He has a killer band. Can't wait for the show next year.
He left. 35 years ago, now. He really should get over it.
As much as I like Roger, he's prone to being an insufferable pain in the arse with no self-awareness.
I'm firmly in Roger's camp in regards to the website issue. Does anyone go there to watch Gilmour's wife do poetry readings? Her lyrics aren't very good either. I watched Gilmour at Pompeii film & it was pretty dull. & Chuck Leavell singing Roger's part in Comfortably Numb actually offended me. On the other hand, the version of Mother Roger put out this week was stellar. I can listen to the women in Lucius sing all day. For me, Roger still has the creative fire while David seems to have basically retired. I have enjoyed Nick Mason's early Floyd shows too. Roger's last tour was totally amazing, both in production & music. He has a killer band. Can't wait for the show next year.
He left. 35 years ago, now. He really should get over it.
As much as I like Roger, he's prone to being an insufferable pain in the arse with no self-awareness.
name me one post roger pink floyd song off the top of your head. no cheating! gilmour can't write a song to save his life. fine guitar player, shiat songwriter. i saw the first post roger floyd tour (& i saw the original wall) & roger's radio KAOS show the same week. it was night & day. pink floyd was in a horrible enormo dome & roger small arena. floyd were just boring at that point already.
He left. 35 years ago, now. He really should get over it.
As much as I like Roger, he's prone to being an insufferable pain in the arse with no self-awareness.
name me one post roger pink floyd song off the top of your head. no cheating! gilmour can't write a song to save his life. fine guitar player, shiat songwriter. i saw the first post roger floyd tour (& i saw the original wall) & roger's radio KAOS show the same week. it was night & day. pink floyd was in a horrible enormo dome & roger small arena. floyd were just boring at that point already.
It's not a competition, he's just not in the band anymore so he doesn't get to plug his stuff on their website. He gets more coverage moaning about it than he would if they stuck a link up and he knows that.
(Learning To Fly, I can remember some Roger titles - they're good but I couldn't actually hum the tunes )
To my ears, neither of them are great without the other. Roger is stuck on The Wall and David is stuck on Wish You Were Here. Obviously, Roger was the creative mastermind behind Pink Floyd. But he was never a great singer and his voice has deteriorated a lot. He also gets lost in endless cynical tirades which I find tiresome to listen to these days. Non of Roger's solo stuff comes close to anything he did with PF. Same for PF without him. David's stuff is mostly unremarkable. Lovely voice and guitar but few memorable tunes or lyrics. Shame that they couldn't put up with each other any more.
To my ears, neither of them are great without the other. Roger is stuck on The Wall and David is stuck on Wish You Were Here. Obviously, Roger was the creative mastermind behind Pink Floyd. But he was never a great singer and his voice has deteriorated a lot. He also gets lost in endless cynical tirades which I find tiresome to listen to these days. Non of Roger's solo stuff comes close to anything he did with PF. Same for PF without him. David's stuff is mostly unremarkable. Lovely voice and guitar but few memorable tunes or lyrics. Shame that they couldn't put up with each other any more.
Amused to Death is a brilliant record. Sounds better today than when it came out. & I would dispute being stuck on the Wall. If you saw the Us & Them tour you would see the fallacy of that statement. I'm told the movie is available to stream on Amazon. It was a fantastic show, totally different than the Wall show. I'm an unabashed fan of Roger's. As far as the tirades go, I find I agree with him most of the time (sorry Nick Cave). At least he has the guts to speak his mind which is a fairly rare quality these days. & he remains consistent.
Amused to Death is a brilliant record. Sounds better today than when it came out. & I would dispute being stuck on the Wall. If you saw the Us & Them tour you would see the fallacy of that statement. I'm told the movie is available to stream on Amazon. It was a fantastic show, totally different than the Wall show. I'm an unabashed fan of Roger's. As far as the tirades go, I find I agree with him most of the time (sorry Nick Cave). At least he has the guts to speak his mind which is a fairly rare quality these days. & he remains consistent.
Sorry, I meant that stylistically the two are stuck in those particular Pink Floyd periods. Amused to Death is good but to me it revisits The Wall. On an Island revisits Wish You Were Here. Roger Water's Us & Them tour included 22 songs, 18 of which were Pink Floyd songs. I actually like Roger's work (and David's), I just don't think that any of it is as good as the stuff they did when they were in PF together. Amused to Death is probably Roger's stand-out solo album but to me it's still not in the same league as The Wall or any other PF album before that. Having said all that, I would happily go and see Roger and David live. I never really took sides in that debate. They are both very talented musicians that made amazing music together and not quite as amazing music on their own. Just my opinion of course. Hope you're doing well.