THIS JUST IN! PINK FLOYD TO REFORM FOR LIVE AID!

[dave9199]

Pink Floyd to reform for London Live 8 concert

Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:01 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Four members of seminal British rock band Pink Floyd will play together for the first time in 24 years at London's Live 8 charity concert for Africa on July 2, publicists for the event said on Sunday.

Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Richard Wright will be on stage with bassist Roger Waters for their first public performance since they played at London's Earls Court in 1981.

The rock legends will join a star-studded line-up including Coldplay, Elton John and Paul McCartney at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, organized by activist rocker Bob Geldof to pressure rich nations to ease African poverty.

"Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world," said Gilmour.

"Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if reforming for this concert will help focus attention then it's got to be worthwhile."

The band released their first album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in 1967 and broke records with 1973's "The Dark Side Of The Moon," which remained in the American album charts for more than a decade.

In the 1980s relations between Waters and the rest of the group soured, with Waters suing over the rights to the Pink Floyd name.

Gilmore, Mason and Wright continued to record and tour as Pink Floyd, releasing their last studio album "The Division Bell" in 1994

[Guy Berger]

Crazy. Are they going to play a full concert, or just a 30 minute set of "Wish You Were Here", "Money", "Another Brick in the Wall", and "Comfortably Numb"?

[Guy Berger]

Songs Pink Floyd won't play at this reunion:

Atom Heart Mother Suite

The Grand Vizier's Garden Party Parts I-IV

Dogs of War

Amused to Death

Seamus

Twist and shout

On Green Dolphin Street

Edited June 12, 2005 by Guy Berger

[7/4]

Thiswas already posted in the Viva Prog Rock thread.

My guess is they play Money.

[ghost of miles]

I vote for "Scream Thy Last Scream."

[Rooster_Ties]

So, is MTV carrying this concert live?? Or any other cable channels??

I've got a VCR that'll record up to 10 hours of material on one 6-hour tape, and it'd be fun to tape the whole thing -- and fast forward through to the parts that are at least worth a glance.

Somewhere, buried in a box, I've got all of the original Live Aid concerts on videotape too --- about 10 hours worth of material, edited down from lard knows how much source material (probably close to 15 or 20 hours). A buddy of mine back in college had the whole day's event spread across four video tapes, so one weekend back in college, I dubbed the whole thing for myself, editing everything out except the music.

[Guy Berger]

So, is MTV carrying this concert live??  Or any other cable channels??

I've got a VCR that'll record up to 10 hours of material on one 6-hour tape, and it'd be fun to tape the whole thing -- and fast forward through to the parts that are at least worth a glance.

That brings to mind a funny story. A prof here was telling me that he was in the hospital a few years ago and was somewhat surprised when a friend of his brought him a box full of Tour de France tapes.

Guy

[Guy Berger]

I thought this article was pretty funny:

And pigs might fly (again)

Toby Moore

AS PINK FLOYD re-form for Live 8, we witness a testy rehearsal.

“My client has instructed me to ask you to play F sharp,” the lawyer says. “Please tell Mr Waters that there isn’t an F sharp in this piece of music,” Dave Gilmour replies, testily plucking his guitar.

Lawyer and client confer. “There is in his version,” the lawyer insists evenly, picking a fleck of cotton off his dark, pinstriped suit. Dave looks at the rest of the band and, sitting in a row at the back of the rehearsal room, their lawyers.

All the old rivalries with Roger are resurfacing, he thinks. F sharps. Just like 20 years ago, and still provocative. What a note. “OK then, with an F sharp. Anywhere in particular?” “My client expects a prominent position and not one overlooked by any other note.”

“Or leylandii?” Nick Mason adds from behind the drums, beating out a short, distracted, tattoo that echoes around the room. It rattles the refreshments, bottles of 1963 Chateau Lafite.

“Quite so,” the lawyer says. “I am grateful for your intervention, Mr Mason.”

“Cheers,” the drummer says, agreeably. “Let me know when we’re starting.”

“When Mr Waters says so,” the lawyer snaps back, adding that it’s all laid out in section three of their agreement, Be Nice For A Day. “The clause that begins: ‘My band and I’.”

“OK, got it,” Nick interrupts as he sees Dave’s face darken. “How long have we got on stage, anyway?”

“Not sure,” says Dave. “Let’s trim the guitar solos to no more than a weekend.”

“Yeah? This Live 8 gig, it’s no kind of length, then?” Rick Wright says. “I mean, there’ll be 75,000 people in Hyde Park.”

“I know, small crowd,” Dave agrees. “It’ll be an experience for us to play somewhere intimate. We need a playlist. Sting’s updating Every Breath You Take so he can sing ‘We’ll be watching you’ in the chorus.”

“How about Another Brick in the Wall being given a contemporary polish?”

“Great idea, Nick. What you thinking?”

“Another Cash Dispenser in the Wall?”

They looked at each other.

“Money?” Nick perseveres.

“God, plenty,” Dave says. “And Ferraris, houses. Dozens.”

“No, I was thinking about our song, Money.”

“Oh that. Yeah. But before we go any further, I think we should just reflect. Here we are, together again, just the band.” There is a chorus of coughs from around the room. “And our lawyers, obviously. But here we are, doing what we do best.”

“Argue?” Rick wonders.

“And play music,” Dave says.

“That’s it,” Nick breaks in. “I mean, what rock’n’roll’s all about: rows, recriminations and lawyers. We should never have split up. That pig had years left in it.”

They all nod. “We can make beautiful, groovy sounds again,” Dave says. “Fly the pig over Battersea Power Station.”

The others exchange glan-ces. “Sure,” Wright says, but sounding doubtful. “But not too much, except the pig. Otherwise we get rows, recriminations and lawyers. That’d be crazy.”

“Shhhh,” Dave hisses. “Not the c-word.” The band all redden as a shambling, unkempt figure wearing a battered straw hat walks in, carrying a garden fork.

“Hello, Syd, you crazy diamond,” Roger says, smiling thinly. “You remember Dave. Took your place in the band after that LSD business. Until today, that is.”

[Jazz Kat]

What's with all these concerts in London!!!