Official 'hell freezes over' moment of the year, maybe the decade?













Jump back Eagles, Pink Floyd have trumped your reunion card five fold. Yes, this is David Gilmour and Roger Waters on stage together in today's Live 8 concert stage, the London version. These guys had not been on stage since 1981 and here they are in a shoulder hug? I don't know what was up with Water's high-waisted pants and strange southwestern woman's belt -- high Waters? (you can click on the photo for a high res version). This proves the guy is still a bit strange, but at least he was willing to put that nasty law suit over the copyright of Pink Floyd's name behind him to get together and do what these guys do best -- play excellent and timeless music. Don't lump them in with the other Jurassic Rock elders who try to appeal to MTV kids with hip videos featuring Alicia Silverstone, because those bands, they are not.

Is this a kindler gentler Roger Waters that might have discovered the benefits of antidepressant drugs ? (shut your ass face Tom Cruise!) The set was short, but sweet and covered the hits "Money", "Breathe", "Wish you were here" and "Comfortably Numb".

Original members Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright were also on stage. Can we get Syd Barrett out of his mother's house, undo his labotomy and get the true original lineup? Billboard.com says this is a one-time reunion, but think of the success these guys could have with a world tour. It could put The Who's car commercial loving asses to shame.
(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Comments

Blake said…
Wow, they must've buried the hatchet. I love it when old acts get together and decide to turn the other cheek after years (decades?) of squabbles.

And I also love David Sedaris.

Blake
2:09 AM
Brooks Brown said…
hey, i was your site earlier. i liked the rant about the "cause" bracelets and all that about uniball armstrong. that one ball is more famous than any set of balls in history. i know that is a really crass thing to say, but its the truth.check out the pink floyd performance online sometime. they were great and not in a cheesy classic rock "reelin' in the years" kinda way.
if you like david sedaris you should check out augusten burroughs. he is incredible and just as offbeat funny.
3:09 AM
mojoala said…
Hello, I have added you to my favorites. Sorry, never got into the hard rock music. my teenage music was the seventies and I adapted througout the years to todays current pop music. No generation gap here with my own kids.

Have a great fourth!
7:56 AM
Brooks Brown said…
I wouldn't call Pink Floyd hard rock music, but some might disagree. So what was your teenage music of the 70s? I am just curious since I was just learning to differentiate Sesame Street from Captain and Tenille during the later part of that decade.
12:44 PM
Brooks Brown said…
thanks cheebs, you are right. Pink Floyd did tour in '94 on "The Division Bell", but without Roger Waters. The feud that he and Gilmour got in started during and after"The Final Cut" was released (that name is telling) in 1983 and they hated each other for years. Waters is a notorious eccentric egomaniac and control freak who wanted the band to cater more to his creativity tahn to Gilmour's. Waters tried to sue Gilmour over the name Pink Floyd and lost. The band, without Waters of course, did tour under that name and released other albums including 1987's "Momentary Lapse of Reason", with the excellebt single "Learning to Fly."
Without Waters they also did that great live album in '88 "Delicate Sound of Thunder". I don't know if you remember Laurie having that tape and she made me a copy of it and I listened to it a lot. All music guide (www.allmusic.com) has a good brief bio of the band and all their weird history. When they first started with Syd Barrett, they sounded nothing like the space arena band they turned into. Don't know if you remember the album I had on LP called "Relics" that is a complilation of their early songs. They had a really psychedelic sound that The Dukes of Stratosphere totally capilitized on (although those guys were XTCs little pet project anyway). That is probably more than you wanted to know, but they are such an interesting band. Keep posting. Did you see the Let's Active review? I thought you might be the only one out there who would appreciate it. Also, I hope you saw your shaaaa picture with the easter basket -- a great photo! i heart cheebers! beezlers
1:08 AM
Brooks Brown said…
Oh yeah, those laser light shows. Was the idea that people would be so high and or tripping so hard that they would hallucinate Pink Floyd up on stage?
1:10 AM
Anonymous said…
shine on you crazy beebers. i didn't know you were such the pf aficianado--i'm impressed. did u see the rolling stone "flashback" interview (appropriate, huh) w/ syd barrett a couple of weeks ago? it was originally published in '71 and left me feeling sorry for s.b. yet grateful for the strides that have been made in mental health treatment (put that in your closeted pipe and smoke it, tom cruise). love the easter pic--i left u a comment and various others along the way. thanks for the shout out! i love beebers.
6:55 AM
Brooks Brown said…
I have always been interested in their strange sordid history. I was friends with a guy at Auburn High named Steven Pierce, class of '88, and he was the biggest Pink Floyd fan ever, He had every album on LP in mint condition and was a walking encyclopedia of Pink Floyd trivia. Remember when Dad made you replace my "The Wall" tape -- $15 at the time. I wish I still had that! I heart Cheebers!
12:55 PM
mojoala said…
Dance music baby.....

but I did like all the classics

Eagles, Kansas, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Harry Chapin(great story teller).

I loved all the 70's and most of the 80's.

Rap and hardrock can go take a long walk on a short peer, of course after country does it first.....
11:53 AM
Brooks Brown said…
Good stuff ... Eagles, Kansas and especially Fleetwood Mac and Elton John. I hope you have seen the movie "Almost Famous" about the director Cameron Crowe growing up in the 1970s and becomming a rock reporter for Rolling Stone at age 14 -- a true story. It is excellent and has a great soundtrack and an equally great scene featuring Elton's "Tiny Dancer." I bet your kids would get into it too if they haven't seen it. The movie came out in 2000.
9:30 PM
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