New Live 8 addition

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Pink Floyd Re-Form

 

Pink Floyd re-form

 

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.

 

- Reuters

 

Yay.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

Well, I sure was wrong, wasn't I?

[nl5xsk1 0]

Their quotes should have continued on with something like,

 

"We al$o hope to tour after thi$ to make $ure that a$ many of our fan$ get to hear our mu$ic a$ po$$ible."

 

or something comparable.

 

This is, obviously, the first step towards the money-raking reunion tour.

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Fucking hell.

 

Almost makes me not want a well-timed terrorist attack at every leg of this shit-fest.

[Anorak 0]

Random fan quote......"Who are these boring old twats?"

[The Decemberists 0]

^^^

Exactly

 

Yay for Roger being back, but the number of kids at the event who'll either know or care who the old men on the stage are playing that 'weird shit', or whatever they'll think of it, hardly makes it worth it.

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HOLY SHIT

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^^^

Exactly

 

Yay for Roger being back, but the number of kids at the event who'll either know or care who the old men on the stage are playing that 'weird shit', or whatever they'll think of it, hardly makes it worth it.

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Damn, thats sad....most kids in my area, dumb as they may be, know who Floyd is. Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here, Another Brick in the Wall, Money, etc are are all pretty familiar songs to most everyone Ive ever encountered.

 

I really hope this reunion comes to America....Ill go anywhere in the states to see this. I wouldve flown to London if there was a lil more advance notice.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

Only interested if they bring the kind of over-the-top stage effects like they used to.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

As long as there are 15-year-old boys getting into music, there will be new people getting into Pink Floyd.

[The Czech Republic 0]

^ So true. Nobody gets through high school without The Wall.

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"Another Brick In The Wall (pt. 2)" is so incredibly angsty and anti-establishment, who couldn't resist listening to that during their teenage years?

 

Anyways, tell me Syd Barrett would come out of hiding to rejoin the band, THEN I'll be impressed.

 

(No seriously this is still pretty awesome)

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

When I was a teenager, I think every guy I knew either liked Green Day and Rancid, or Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. The only in-between was rap.

[The Czech Republic 0]

I was in the Led-Floyd camp myself most of high school.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I'm sure the Floyd/Zep faction exists in high schools still, but I don't know about Green Day/Rancid. I think it was only so prevelant at my school due to the mid-90s ushering punk's mainstream success. I've no clue what's since supplanted it.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

I'm seriously considering robbing my pizza place, getting a ticket, going to London and seeing The Floyd. I really think the jail time would be worth it.

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I'm sure the Floyd/Zep faction exists in high schools still, but I don't know about Green Day/Rancid. I think it was only so prevelant at my school due to the mid-90s ushering punk's mainstream success. I've no clue what's since supplanted it.

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Linkin Park.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Sadly once Pink Floyd starts playing "Another Brick in the Wall" some kid in the audience is going to say, "Why are they playing that Korn song?"

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I'm sure the Floyd/Zep faction exists in high schools still, but I don't know about Green Day/Rancid. I think it was only so prevelant at my school due to the mid-90s ushering punk's mainstream success. I've no clue what's since supplanted it.

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Linkin Park.

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Nu metal crossed my mind, but hasn't its time passed? I honestly have little clue what's "hip" with 16-year-olds these days, a fact in which I take great comfort, really.

[Ravenbomb 0]

hell, I just got out of high school and I don't know what's hip with the kids these days.

 

Any-dang-ways, I'd see this shit if I could.

[Red Baron 0]

No one knew who Pink Floyd was at my school until Echoes came out.

 

It's sad when you play Animals and they don't know who it is, but when you tell them its Pink Floyd they don't believe you.