Did anybody else catch Pink Floyd’s appearance at Live 8? First of all, who knew that each band only had only 20 minutes to perform? That was kind of lame. Roger Waters looks like a withered up old hippie, while David Gilmour looks like an angry refined british country gentleman (he is Sir Gilmour after all). I was surprised by Waters’ singing. His voice was all strange and withered. The mood on stage seemed weird. It seemed like Waters was almost at the point of tears at being able to play with the band again, but the rest of the band was sort of annoyed by it. I guess I would be too since Pink Floyd released several albums after Waters left the band, and now that he joins up for one (four song) show they rename the band (in the press) “pink floyd REUNITED”..as if they had broken up when Waters left. The whole thing reminded me of that scene in Some Kind of Monster where Lars confronts Dave Mustane about his feelings about getting fired from Metallica twenty years ago.
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