Sounds like you have a grudge against Dave. He's a perfectly capable songwriter, his solo efforts have done fantastically well for a guy who isn't a songwriter eh. For me personally High Hopes is better than anything Roger's written since 1979 (near 40 years ago).danielcaux wrote:That's the problem, Gilmour is a really really great musician that during the past 30 years has also been trying to pretend that he's an actual songwriter too. Problem is, he's just not. After Pink Floyd he should have teamed up with some talented songwriter and start to attach his great solos and guitar work and production skills to some actual good songs. Too bad his hurt ego and grudge against Roger Waters led him in another direction, that of trying to prove to the rest of the world that he, and not his ex-bandmate, was the creative force behind Pink Floyd. Truth is, as their solo albums has proved, that in order to make good music he needed Roger (or some other strong willed bandmate) as much as Roger needed him...
Oh well, that's old news I guess.
He might not be near Roger's level as a lyricist and he certainly isn't anywhere near as interesting as Roger in what he sings about, but he can still get by. Also don't let your grudge confuse you into thinking Dave was merely out to prove he was the creative force when in reality, it was more likely a case that Dave simply wanted to continue making music with his band regardless of Roger's departure. In the making of the Dark Side of the Moon DVD Dave says "Roger was our pushing driving force", so while you're suggesting Dave's some arrogant bastard looking for the glory, he's blatantly not and this is confirmed by what he's said on film, so let's not go down the flathead route of making shite up to suit our own individual agendas.
By the way, Dave' s tickets in 2006 read "The voice and guitar of Pink Floyd", Roger's tickets read "The creative genius of Pink Floyd", that doesn't really fit in with your agenda.
Only one man had a hurt ego, and that was the man who tried to destory the band altogether and the man who whinged about playing to half empty arena's while his ex band-mates filled football stadiums. Dave's a humble guy, claimed he isn't particularly good with his hands, jokingly says on his recently documentary that he "plays a lot of instruments very badly" when the presenter notes that he plays most of the instruments himself on his new album. Meantime Roger is telling us all how "Amused to death" is flawless.
Not trying to sound like a prick, it's just that I'm well aware a lot of people don't particularly like Gilmour for carrying on with Pink Floyd and I can see right through those people, but a lot of what's been said is nonsense and complete fantasy. Don't worry though I'll always be here to keep you right.
