The Man and The Legend of Pink Floyd is slated to release a solo album!

[Floydfan2410]

I also attented the croatianshow, after an 10hour busride there was a magical show in the colosseum waiting for me, ah for many many others as well. F..k, I even shed a tear or so.

That was truly a beautifully starlit night! I was there with my then girlfriend (now wife) and we both really loved it! It was my first time seeing Gilmour live and it moved me to tears for the first 20 minutes. The atmosphere that night just couldn't be any better. That's one of my best memories, it even beats seeing him in Pompeii the following year.

[Anredeon]

Indeed! Was a perfect moment for choosing a first Gilmourshow.

[Jose_Floydian]

waiting for this!!!

[rontoon]

All I want for Christmas is for a mod to change the title of this thread.

[MrFender]

All I want for Christmas is for a mod to change the title of this thread.

Done. Corrected capitalization and punctuation.

You're welcome. Have a Merry Christmas Ron!

[JerryIsBored]

The roster of musicians seems interesting... maybe we could be getting some jazz fusion from David?

I have a theory that he recorded a Steely Dan-esque record (that is, a record without a consistent band lineup) with a roster of top-tier session musicians. Or maybe he just put together a supergroup for one song of the record.

I guess we'll have to wait until release!

[lennyif]

Great news! I remember being surprised by On an Island, and figured it would be his last record. I saw the tour with that in mind. Everything since has been a pleasant surprise. Rattle That Lock has a lot of highlights for me. I think In Any Tongue is one of the most moving things he has ever done, including with Floyd. The Endless River works for me as well... the live stuff has been good, the little EP from 2020 was nice. Bring it on!

[Alan]

Very agreed! I also like Faces of Stone a lot.

[keleven]

I love the music to In Any Tongue but I can't even listen to it because the lyrics and the "war is bad, mm'kay" concept are so cringe bad. Highlight of the album for me is And Then... - perhaps wisely kept an instrumental.

[Grilo do Demo]

I'm tremendously excited by the prospect of an album, but especially because I assume a tour will follow, and I think right now there isn't any artist I want to see more than David Gilmour. I never have, but I've seen his DVDs several times, and every time, my wish to "be there" increases. Rattle is also my favorite record from his solo career, so I'm optimistic about the coming one. But even if I don't like it, I will like the concert for sure.

[ILuvHoney]

"The Man and the Legend of Pink Floyd" LOL.
If I recall correctly, Gilmour only wrote 5 songs for Pink Floyd from 1968 to 1983. And when Roger was gone he had to hire external songwriters to do the job for him. On his solo records he has his wife to write his lyrics (lyrics that get widely ridiculed by many, but I am not going to say exactly what I think about them in order to prevent a ban).
This "Man and Legend of Pink Floyd" can thank Roger for his success.

[rontoon]

Feel better now?

[gorilla1973]

"The Man and the Legend of Pink Floyd" LOL.
If I recall correctly, Gilmour only wrote 5 songs for Pink Floyd from 1968 to 1983. And when Roger was gone he had to hire external songwriters to do the job for him. On his solo records he has his wife to write his lyrics (lyrics that get widely ridiculed by many, but I am not going to say exactly what I think about them in order to prevent a ban).
This "Man and Legend of Pink Floyd" can thank Roger for his success.

To be fair, people remember and talk more about David's guitar solos than Rogers writing.

[Simond]

I disagree. Roger only found his feet once Syd had gone. Had he left with Syd, the band could have continued with a new bass player. There's no reason why 1968, 1969 into 1970 wouldn't have continued pretty much as they actually did, playing songs from earlier such as Astronomy Domine, Interstellar Overdrive, etc as well as adding in new material, maybe some form of A Saucerful of Secrets, Sysiphus, The Narrow Way, etc. Rick, Dave and possibly the new member might have grown in confidence with their songwriting (as Roger himself did once Syd had gone) - they were still young then and it can't be easy to suddenly turn your hand to serious songwriting when you're already in middle age. Versions of Atom Heart Mother and Echoes could have happened, in some form or another, without Roger.

There would have been no DSOTM or Wall. Admittedly, it was DSOTM's success that was a quantum leap for them in terms of popularity, but there's no reason why the band couldn't have had continued success, albeit in a different direction from what actually happened. Maybe they'd have been a more instrumental band?

It certainly wasn't Roger Waters alone who made them successful - it was most definitely a group effort that built their popularity in the years leading up to DSOTM.

[ILuvHoney]

I think you are underestimating Roger's importance to the pre-1973 period. Yeah they could certainly have carried on performing Syd-era tracks like Astronomy Domine and Insterstellar Overdrive, but without Roger, lot of their best stuff from the 1968-1970 period would not have seen the light of day either. Without Roger, A Saucerful of Secrets would have been reduced to an EP of Remember a Day, See-Saw, and Jugband Blues. The title track was largely of Roger's creation with some help from the others, so without him it would never have seen the light of day. More would have been left with only Up the Khyber and A Spanish Piece. Due to the unique way they worked with that particular record, Ummagumma could probably have seen the light of day - but as a single LP with only the live version of Astronomy Domine, Sysyphus, The Narrow Way and The Grand Vizier's Garden Party. Atom Heart Mother would certainly lose If, and probably the title track as well; Summer 68 and Fat Old Sun would remain, and Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast could probably have seen the light of day in a different version (I am not sure what Roger contributed to that one but he is credited as co-songwriter). On Meddle, Roger has at least a co-credit on everything so that record would have been impossible without him. Considering that Echoes is based on Rick's chord progression, it is indeed possible that "some version" of it might have seen the light of day, but without the lyrics, without the main riff, and maybe they wouldn't have got the idea to assemble together the pieces that eventually became Echoes, so Echoes as we know it would not be possible. From Dark Side to The Final Cut, Roger was the undisputed creative genius; considering that both Rick and Gilmour essentially ceased contributing creatively after 1974, I would assume that the band would either have broken up or retreated to becoming a nostalgia act sometime around the mid-70s had they not had been saved by Roger's creative genius.
I am not saying that the other members were of no importance. But Pink Floyd as we know it was dependent on Roger's genius. They could easily have become very successful and released the vast majority of the same music that they actually did if they instead went with another guitarist, but without Roger we would just need to forego every record from A Saucerful of Secrets to The Final Cut.

[Simond]

You miss my point. I'm not saying take every subsequent album and work out Roger's contribution and see what's left. What I'm saying is that they could have continued as a successful band for at least 3 years, more or less doing what they did. Not necessarily, churning out reduced versions of More, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, etc.but having enough musical ideas within the four of them to start putting out records that MAY (or may not) have contained elements of those albums, along with other new ideas that the four of them came up with. So, a 1971 album might have had some musical elements that ended up in Echoes but maybe as parts of completely different songs. DSOTM and subsequent would never have been made but who's to say what the evolving new Pink Floyd would have been capable of producing? Prior to DSOTM, there was nothing to suggest that Waters was the genius of the band - they all contributed in one way or another. Yes, things changed from DSOTM onwards but, by 1972, the new Pink Floyd would have had 4 years to forge their own identity and musical direction without Roger. Yes, they would have been different from the Pink Floyd we know but could have been equally as successful in their own way. The' with/without Roger line' has to be drawn in 1972 not 1968.

[sb33334]

"The Man and the Legend of Pink Floyd" LOL.
If I recall correctly, Gilmour only wrote 5 songs for Pink Floyd from 1968 to 1983. And when Roger was gone he had to hire external songwriters to do the job for him. On his solo records he has his wife to write his lyrics (lyrics that get widely ridiculed by many, but I am not going to say exactly what I think about them in order to prevent a ban).
This "Man and Legend of Pink Floyd" can thank Roger for his success.

Two great tastes that taste great together.

[YASHA]

The search for an alternative present is only the sum of theoretical assumptions abstracted from reality.

[YASHA]

The search for an alternative present is only the sum of theoretical assumptions abstracted from reality.

No one helped me create this formula. It would seem that there is nothing to argue with. But this is the point of view of Artificial Intelligence, which operates exclusively with opposite concepts: black or white, electron or hole, zero or one (binary computer code), etc.

This is how the joy of a dream perishes, the possible joy of unfulfilled hope, this is how the person in every Person perishes.

I have no desire to argue with myself, and I do not argue. This is the perception of the world, which is personal for everyone.

Personally, I would be very interested in Pink Floyd as a quintet and with two female saxophonists =)

[rontoon]

Fudd's First Law of Opposition:“If you push something hard enough, it will fall over” which spurned Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: “It comes in, it must go out.”

[YASHA]

Fudd's First Law of Opposition:“If you push something hard enough, it will fall over” which spurned Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: “It comes in, it must go out.”

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