Pink Floyd Performance at Live 8

No More Excuses

Yeah, right!

Come on, if there wasn't any charity concert, Sir Gilmour would never accepted to be on the same stage with Mr Waters. It was so evident to me, that Rog was the most glad man on that reunion, while Dave only made some forced smiles of facade. That's why I'm a lot sceptic about a final tour. I always hope, but know that is almost impossible.

Did PF play Echoes after the live 8 finale? I've just been flicking through that Youtube list of Floyd videos and on about page 13 there's a bootleg video of the live 8 Pink Floyd with Echoes barely audible and the crowd going nuts over it. I guess it's just an overdub from another concert with the live 8 visuals, right?

Fake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGzNupzMlKA

David plays a snippet from "On The Turning Away" in front of Roger

Don't forget 'confortable numb'

Whoever posted that title possibly does need education.

From an interview with Tim Renwich at www.gilmourish.com:

You were once again playing with the band at Live 8. It must have been a treat to participate in both such an event and the reunion of Pink Floyd!
- I was very surprised to be asked to take part in the Hyde Park concert because I had met David a few weeks earlier and he told me that he had been asked to perform but had categorically turned it down! Two weeks before the event, it seems, he had a change of heart, and called me up to play, saying that it would be a laugh to play once more with Roger in the band. It didn’t turn out to be much of a laugh! Roger appeared to want to be “group leader” from the start of rehearsals and it made for an uncomfortable atmosphere all round. He did not seem to credit the fact that most of the musicians and crew had worked together on and off for 17 years without him being there! It was, however, a great honour to have been involved - especially as I had been playing in Eric Clapton’s band on the original Live Aid concert from Philadelphia twenty years before!

How did you feel being in the middle of the whole Gilmour VS Waters thing?
- I remember a distinct sense of everyone involved keeping their heads down and attending to their own departments! I had, in fact gone to same school as Roger and played in his band on his Pros and Cons of Hitch-hiking world tour, so I had some previous experience of his band-leading style. David is generally much more fun to work for than Roger, who likes everything to be exactly the same night after night! I trusted that David knew what he was doing when he agreed to the reunion!

Just finished watching the entire Live 8 performance on YouTube...maybe it was just YouTube, but am I the only one who was disappointed by Rick's keyboards being completely buried in the sound? The only place I can prominently hear them is on WYWH. Any thoughts?