Pink Floyd reunion

Whilst you can never discount this one off sparking something I would think in all probability it'll remain just that a one off.

Gilmour has been fantastically generous to charities in recent years by giving away tens of millions, he's had several digs at people like McCartney to match his donations.
Waters is too very interested in human rights etc. and probably remains friendly with Bob Geldof (they worked together on The Wall movie and got on well).

This cause and these factors have probably been the main catalyst and not a desire to make music again.

Basically the band slowly fragmented-they all openly admit that WYWH was the last album they actually worked together in a band sense.
Waters by becoming the main writer and leader became the very reason why Floyd continued and split.By the time of Final Cut Waters had obtained total control and the relationships that were strained had all but ended.
The band relied on Waters coming up with the concepts/songs and he assumed total control as much out of neccesity as ego.

Waters made the fatal mistake of underestimating the bands name and went to great lengths to try and stop them continuing using it-he effectively quit after The Final Cut thinking it would finish the band.

If you listen to the music it's all in there-The Wall has some very obvious Waters only moments but is balanced by quite Floyd sounding moments.
The Final Cut sounds like a Waters solo piece and by and large is.

Faults on all sides but the bitterness runs deep between Gilmour and Waters.

Matchstikman-I slightly disagree but don't doubt that in many ways Roger Waters was the key man in Floyd.
In my mind where they worked best is where they married Waters superb lyrics,music and visions with the great musicianship within the band.
To me this worked best on Moon and WYWH-after that there are some superb moments but the diminishing relationships are reflected in the music.
There is a collective strength that for me doesn't work when the balance is altered (parts of The Wall and The Final Cut).

I have never been a fan of either Waters solo stuff to any great extent nor Watersless Floyd.

Wright's contribution since Animals was close to zero (a fact he freely admits)and as such played a major part in the dissolving of the band and imho the decline in their music.

He is a fantastic songwriter, no doubt.

I think it's worth repeating at a stretch they might get 30 mins and 20 mins is more likely at this show so a DVD?

Barrett was Floyd at the start but I see Gilmour/Waters Floyd as basically a different band.

Theo what efforts are these Gilmour made?-this is a statement without substance sure DG can seem like a much more polite individual than Waters in interviews but to the best of my recollection he has never did anything to negotiate Waters back into the band.He has run post-Waters Floyd just as autocratically as Waters did in the later years.
Check the other'Gon Floyd thread there's a direct quote from Gilmour where he calls Waters "a Prick".

Whilst Waters paid the price of imagining Floyd were nothing without him any analysis of the Waters/Gilmour relationship will show there was always underlying problems and at times real antipathy.

It's also been written in this months Word magazine (UK) that intially Gilmour flatly refused to do the gig.

Waters phoned him direct after Geldof failed to convince him.
Apparently Gilmour has been working on a solo record which is due out and had serious doubts about the motivation of the other Floyd members keeness to do the gig.

The real irony seems to be that Gilmour has been left in the role that Waters used to inhabit-the band leader who has to oversee everything, control everything or it won't work.

I think we've seen the last of Floyd.

So was the Live8 gig a mirage?