I have to agree, the ridiculous name-calling is uncalled for.

Yeah, we all get more corpulent with age, even the great David Gilmour!

I don't think David looks all that heavy, to be honest. He's 63, they can't all be as thin as Mick Jagger. As long as he's healthy, takes care of himself (which I've read he does) and is happy.....I don't give a flip what he looks like. He's still as handsome to me anyway, as he was in the 70s.

(05-06-2009 05:09 PM)Dave25 Wrote:  Just wonderin'

Long after you and I are both gone, history will always state this.
Out of all the Pink Floyd Lp's (That's PF MKI, II & III) the "Division Bell" was the only one to go No 1 in both the US and the UK. It is also the LP from which there one and only Grammy was lifted from.
Roger Water said in the documentary "Which ones Pink" that he preformed to 2000 people in a 6000 seat hall and the next night PF (MK III) were playing at a stadium next door to a sell out crowd of 45000. The vast majority of fans wanted more of Pink Floyd and there music, not necessarily more of the the rock theater and lyrics.

Holy cows are for Hindus!

I respect Roger so much for leaving Pink Floyd back in the 80's. Even if he didnt think they would continue he must have realized they would have been a collossus of a force to fight. In the Which ones Pink doc he says it was really discouraging but he had to keep going.

And I think for Dave was brave too for continuing.

One listen to Poles Apart reinforces the deserved number one chart status of the division bell in my view. Fantastic track on a very underrated (by many Floyd fans) album. I think the division bell ranks up there with almost anything from the floyd catalogue. Animals still speaks loudest to me though, listening to it now, genius........

I agree, Poles Apart is amazing. One of my favorite lines, from any PF song in any era, is in that song.


"And did you see, that it wasn't only me you were running from."

(03-14-2010 05:27 PM)Electrophile Wrote:  I agree, Poles Apart is amazing. One of my favorite lines, from any PF song in any era, is in that song.


"And did you see, that it wasn't only me you were running from."

I can agree with that. Its probably the best song on the album for me.

I don't hate the work of Post-Waters Floyd, but I only like a few songs. It's just kind of funny, after DG talked at the time about how weak he thought TFC was. And now we know why Roger left. If someone is putting your songs down all the time, you're not going to take the abuse. So although people always demonize Roger, I think they forget that DG, Rick, and NM probably did their share of putting Roger down as well - and they outnumbered him, so he must have felt the way TFC fans feel now, with everyone saying they're wrong to feel that way. "Showing feelings of an almost human nature - this will not do!"

Luckily, he still knew his ideas were good. But I'm sure it wasn't easy.

And despite what the sheep say, TFC is an emotional work of breathtaking genius, and after an astounding original vision like that, where do you go from there? Roger chose to end the band - and it was over. But no PF member solo album would ever sell a lot without the Pink Floyd brand name. So we know the rest - which is not to knock Dave as a person (although many personally attack Roger, which is wrong) but the music it not as powerful as the singing, lyrics, and melodies on TFC. But hey, nothing is.