damj Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! ... Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes ... The dead rising from the grave! ... Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, David Gilmour and Roger Waters playing together ... mass hysteria! They played a set together at a charity auction last weekend, and now this news from Waters ... So here's what happened. Last year, 'The Hoping Foundation' a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids, (www.hopingfoundation.org) put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, the idea of which was to raise money by auctioning karaoke performances by various celebrities. David was there as a supporter and was moved to perform an impromptu rendition of George Gershwin's 'Summertime?' which he performed aided and abetted by supermodel Kate Moss. In the wake of that evening, someone, I think it was David himself, came up with this 'Wouldn't it be funny', idea. What if he (David that is) were to sing the old Teddy Bears song 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' with me (Roger that is), what with us having been so famously at each other's throats for years and years. Get it!!!! Anyway he E-mailed me with this suggestion and I loved it, so then it was just a question of juggling dates and deciding to do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Comfortably Numb' to round out our little set. Or so I thought, until he sent me a number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in two-part harmony. I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David, with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then struggle through hours and hours of routining a performance that lay way outside my vocal comfort zone. To my eternal shame I bottled out and told Dave I would happily do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'C. Numb', but that 'To Know him is to Love him' was beyond me. Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. I quote "If you do 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I'll come and do 'C. Numb' on one of your Wall shows". Well! You could have knocked me down with a feather. How !@#$ing cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn't, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so explaining that I would probably be shite, but if he didn't mind I didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was !@#$ing great. End of story. Or possibly beginning. Roger PS. Just heard from David, he will decide in due course which gig he wants to do, it will be a surprise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 So is it Time or Money that is healing all wounds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damj Posted July 15, 2010 Author Share Posted July 15, 2010 So is it Time or Money that is healing all wounds? Tell me about it ... I always thought that one of these days David was going to cut him into little pieces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 It's Terrance and Phillip all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Roger Waters is one of the biggest egomaniacal pricks on this planet. Somehow I doubt that the true story was Gilmour groveling back in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damj Posted July 15, 2010 Author Share Posted July 15, 2010 Roger Waters is one of the biggest egomaniacal pricks on this planet. Somehow I doubt that the true story was Gilmour groveling back in. Well, however it happened, it's good to see these guys put the past behind them. I still doubt that they would record or tour together again, but maybe a concert or two is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 Pink Floyd with Waters/Gilmour 100% great! Gilmour on his own 50% and Waters on his own 50%. The two of them together make some of the best music ever and I hope they can both realize that soon enough to get a couple more albums out. JMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrFishfinder Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 Pink Floyd with Waters/Gilmour 100% great! Gilmour on his own 50% and Waters on his own 50%. The two of them together make some of the best music ever and I hope they can both realize that soon enough to get a couple more albums out. JMO Maybe they should set up a counseling session with Paul & Art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linksfiend Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 A Barbecue Festival combined with the BPO performing Pink Floyd Should be worth checking out tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damj Posted July 16, 2010 Author Share Posted July 16, 2010 Pink Floyd with Waters/Gilmour 100% great! Gilmour on his own 50% and Waters on his own 50%. The two of them together make some of the best music ever and I hope they can both realize that soon enough to get a couple more albums out. JMO +1 Wow ... something we agree on ... other than Beerball is a Jackass ... LOL A Barbecue Festival combined with the BPO performing Pink Floyd Should be worth checking out tomorrow Definitely ... I saw BPO do the Music of Floyd a couple years ago at Kleinhans ... it was a good show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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