theaussiefloydian wrote:Good for Gilmour. It would be utterly wrong for him to play 'Echoes' without Rick.
Or "Money" without Roger.
kjek1 wrote:Yeah because Rogers role in playing Money is huge
raisemyrent wrote:Well duh! He wrote it!
In performing 'Money', Waters's role is not in the least as big as Wright's role in 'Echoes'.
Listen to compilation 'A Collection of Great Dance Songs' (1981), for a version performed almost entirely by Gilmour.
In writing 'Money', Waters's role is huge.
Not in performing.
Flathead wrote:He wrote the bass line, the lyrics, and the melody.
Kind of lame to play it without him. It simply wouldn't exist.
It may even be the question if Waters is performing the bass on the 'Dark Side' version.
I guess a lot people wouldn't notice that the 'Great Dance' version is different and almost entirely performed by Gilmour.
It seems to me, you're basically saying that Gilmour shouldn't perform Waters songs.
In that case, Waters shouldn't perform 'Young Lust', 'Comfortably Numb' or anything else co-written by Gilmour.
There's only a few songs Roger shouldn't sing, one being WYWH, he absolutely butchers it, it was actually painful at Live 8 when it transitioned from Gilmour to Waters
By the way. I hope you guys know Rog bumped money from Led Zeppelin, so I'd use the term "wrote it" very loosely
kjek1 wrote:There's only a few songs Roger shouldn't sing, one being WYWH, he absolutely butchers it, it was actually painful at Live 8 when it transitioned from Gilmour to Waters
I saw Live8 on TV with a friend who also loved the band. When that transition happened, we laughed.
It's so bad that if I try to follow that version of the song on the guitar I get all messed in my chords and strumming when Roger start singing. Everything goes out of whack!
kjek1 wrote:There's only a few songs Roger shouldn't sing, one being WYWH, he absolutely butchers it, it was actually painful at Live 8 when it transitioned from Gilmour to Waters
I saw Live8 on TV with a friend who also loved the band. When that transition happened, we laughed.
Waters had lost his voice, that performance. What is so laughable about that?
To me, it's like laughing about Gilmour not being able to properly play guitar.
Maybe I was the only one enjoying this reunion as being a beautiful moment for having all four "classic" Pink Floyd members peacefully together, including a greeting to the lost fifth member.
I didn't know it was a comedy show for some people.
Wolfpack wrote:
Waters had lost his voice, that performance. What is so laughable about that?
To me, it's like laughing about Gilmour not being able to properly play guitar.
In that particular case Roger could have let David sing the whole thing or at least just do the last part at 2 but off course he wanted to sing a whole verse. It's funny because it went from so good to so bad.
Follix wrote:In that particular case Roger could have let David sing the whole thing or at least just do the last part at 2 but off course he wanted to sing a whole verse.
What? Waters wanted to sing a whole verse?
A whole verse that could have been sung by the Holy Gilmour?!
Yeah, let Gilmour do all the singing and make a reunion rather pointless...
Did you also laugh when Gilmour forgot the words of 'Comfortably Numb', during his O2 reunion with Waters?
He has sung that song maybe a hundred times and still he gets lost in it?
Follix wrote:In that particular case Roger could have let David sing the whole thing or at least just do the last part at 2 but off course he wanted to sing a whole verse.
What? Waters wanted to sing a whole verse?
A whole verse that could have been sung by the Holy Gilmour?!
Yeah, let Gilmour do all the singing and make a reunion rather pointless...
Did you also laugh when Gilmour forgot the words of 'Comfortably Numb', during his O2 reunion with Waters?
He has sung that song maybe a hundred times and still he gets lost in it?
Look he's back with another comparison only a simpleton could dream up
Forgetting words through nerves and being shit at singing, heck of a comparison there.
kjek1 wrote:Forgetting words through nerves and being shit at singing, heck of a comparison there.
And once again, the Holy Gilmour is right!
Even though he's a veteran professional, he can still let the nerves get the better of him?
Maybe you can make something up to blame Waters for making him oh so nervous?
Otherwise it might look like Gilmour didn't rehearse good enough for this show...
Forgetting words isn't being bad at singing?
Only if your name is David Gilmour!
