Roger waters amused to death



David gilmour will always be pink floyd . Although waters was a founding member, DG made the band to what it is today.

Nonsense..Roger Waters was the driving force and the main lyricist through the bands most successful times..the weird and unique sound of Pink Floyd was Waters doing..Gilmour is a great guitarist no doubt but when Waters departed it was all too apparent where the creativity was..the Division Bell is just a mundane MOR record IMO..Waters was quoted at the time as saying 'it's a fair copy..they'd love to be able to recreate what's in my head'..to me Gilmours solo work is bland Radio 2 music whereas Waters work retains the weirdness that took Pink Floyd to the next level.
 
Nonsense..Roger Waters was the driving force and the main lyricist through the bands most successful times..the weird and unique sound of Pink Floyd was Waters doing..Gilmour is a great guitarist no doubt but when Waters departed it was all too apparent where the creativity was..the Division Bell is just a mundane MOR record IMO..Waters was quoted at the time as saying 'it's a fair copy..they'd love to be able to recreate what's in my head'..to me Gilmours solo work is bland Radio 2 music whereas Waters work retains the weirdness that took Pink Floyd to the next level.
He's definitely the better writer, I just never liked the way he left the band to go solo then sued Gilmour and Mason for using the Floyd name.
 
Waters all the way out of the two. The voice of Floyd and the much more interesting musician since Floyd split. I enjoyed MLoR but it became too samey even before the end of that. There was always an edge with Floyd's music despite the trippy sounds and the Gilmour version just had the Floyd patented sound but with no edge at all. Imo.

But as said, better together. Animals was always my favourite, shame that it was the one that pretty much split the band.
 
I’ve said this before and I’ll stand by it. There is no doubting Waters genius and that he effectively was the lyrical driving force of Pink Floyd at their peak. However, it is widely publicised the rifts and conflicts within the band during this time. I believe if Waters had been allowed to have full control of the music, then it would have been too weird and Floyd would never have produced the work they did. It is the stabilising influences of the other band members which reigned Waters in. A perfect case of yin and yang.
 
I’ve said this before and I’ll stand by it. There is no doubting Waters genius and that he effectively was the lyrical driving force of Pink Floyd at their peak. However, it is widely publicised the rifts and conflicts within the band during this time. I believe if Waters had been allowed to have full control of the music, then it would have been too weird and Floyd would never have produced the work they did. It is the stabilising influences of the other band members which reigned Waters in. A perfect case of yin and yang.
Excellent post .

The combination of Barrett being sectioned ,Gilmour being introduced into the band and Waters being a weirdo made for the greatest band in the world in the 70’s.


Bairns got me this for my birthday yesterday over the moon with it like .Going in the summer room
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