Endless “Van Halen” wanking on the guitar and not a soulful moment from any of them. Of course it helps to have names like Phil Mazanera and Richard Wright too… So what have Waters done? It’s obvious that he is comfortable with the guys from the original Bleeding Hearts Band, because he keeps bringing them in and it sounds exactly the same as in 85. They have a vibe and feeling that surpasses everything one could have hoped for from farily young musicians. I don’t even think Gilmour had to tell them that. Not only that, but they want to make it sound authentic and good. Gilmour has put together a band consisting of some of the finest musicians the business has to offer. He is the one who travles around claiming to be the “Creative Genious of Pink Floyd”, but he sounds like a bad cover… Waters has been doing his own “thing” since the Pros and Cons tour in the mid 80’s and while I can understand that one gets caught up in the tacky 80’s way of doing things, I can’t understand why he doesn’t change things around now to sound as Floyd as possible. This is also why I think his live shows differs so much from Gilmour’s way of doing things. He has always been good at hearing what he wants and telling the band how to do it, but it takes a musician to make it happen… I think what Waters’ did best was to say “I like this” and “I don’t like this”. Could he write down the long instrumental parts? No. Sure, Waters was the man behind most of it, but could he play? No. Together with Wright and Mason, he made them into the classics we know today. From the very start (almost), he took charge in shaping Waters’ ideas into listenable pieces. To me, Gilmour has always been the true musicican in Floyd. Before you delete my site from your bookmarks and call me a jerk, let me explain my view. The man just can’t get it right… he never has… Hey, there wouldn’t have been a Floyd without him… or a Gilmour! But, I get embarassed when I listen to his own versions of the Floyd classics. I respect the man and I’m a huge fan of his work. Probably as much as you like Gilmour, but get me right. Now, I know a lot of you are Waters fans. I don’t know what we expected, but I was (and still is) very pissed that it sounded so bad… Yes, I was pissed. I was, or we all were, excited that he had pulled out rare classics like Sheep and Fletcher’s Memorial Home (we are all huge fans of Final Cut). Yesterday we got a bootleg from the Rio concert, – Waters’ opening night. Why? Both the songs and live experience was better in the 70’s. Still, very early on we decided that we were only to perform songs from the original era. We (well, most of us) always end up with Gilmour and judging by the way we perform the Floyd songs, we are on Gilmour’s side… If there is such a thing as taking sides in this matter. He does not dispute the veracity of the history described in Mark’s notes, but he wants that history to remain secret.Every now and then, we (my band) have these little fights or arguments over who is better Gilmour or Waters. “Gilmour has vetoed the release of the album unless these liner notes are removed. “These mixes have languished unreleased because of a dispute over some sleeve notes that Mark Blake has written for this new release,” he wrote. After noting that he’s “banned by Dave Gilmour from posting on Pink Floyd’s Facebook page with its 30,000,000 subscribers,” Waters accused his former bandmate of holding up the release of the reissue. In a new statement on his website posted on Monday, Waters blames the delay on an issue Gilmour has with the liner notes for the release written by UK journalist Mark Blake. (“Can we release the remastered vinyl of Animals without it turning into the third World War?” Waters asked Rolling Ston e that month.) But now, it appears some headway has been made - though, of course, not without some conflict. Roger Waters and David Gilmour have been caught in a battle over a planned remastered reissue of Pink Floyd’s Animals for several years now, and as recently as April 2020, it seemed as though a resolution would be impossible.
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