Words can not explain my love for these four men. The influence that four people can have on music history is astonishing. I just wish I would have had a chance to see them play once in my life.
According to Bob Geldof, he called Dave Gilmour on the phone and the conversation went like this: Bob: Hello David, will you paticipate in the Pink Floyd reunion for Live 8? Dave: No, not really Bob: come on the others are in, let me come to see you... Dave: NO, no don't even come, it's not worth wasting your trip, I am not doing it Bob: But I am already on the train!! Dave: oh, alright, come and we'll talk
Well I think Roger was being tactful, the conversation happened before Roger did the call, it was after Bob couldn't convince David that Roger called and his version is still how it unfolded. I also heard Roger felt David had a right to reservations, so he made it clear hey this is just a better way for the old Floyd to give back and give their fans what they would clearly want to see one last time. It must have went well because David reprised his role on Comfortably numb at one of Rogers Wall shows, O2 Arena 2011 I believe, it has been on youtube but it gets pulled and then reappears.
These guys have spent their lives being consumed by this music and they can't possibly realize the emotions their music brings out in us fans. Such complete and effortless musicians. I'm thankful for having heard it.
Fantastic and moving. "Show some of my children what I used to do " . Great to see the old guys playing the classic stuff live. It can never happen again 😢
Hearing this, man. As if "Live in Pompeii" had a second part, but decades later. I love this band. Always will be playing on my mind. I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. :)
Greatest band of all time . Man it's going to be so hard when Roger or Dave go, I love them all ofcourse but those two guys wow they just mean so much to me.
I was lucky to see the Wall @ Nassau Colloseum in 1980 ,and at least two shows from every other tour after that . Both Floyd and Waters . Every show from either was second to none
In 2008 I was working on a commercial at Black Island Studios in Acton, I guess that would still be considered part of London, though it looked like a suburb to this yank. Anyway, on the door of one of the stalls of the restroom of the soundstage I was at was written "Pigs fly, the Floyd lives!"...I'm assuming written by one of the exited crew who worked the rehearsal for the Live8 reunion, which happened on that soundstage. That's how I learned where the reheasal took place 3 years prior...and it always struck me as funny, because right next door is a Staples office supply store. And so at some point in 2005 a whole bunch of people were buying toner cartridges and, well, staples and pens...having NO IDEA that not just a few hundred feet away, Pink Floyd was performing together for what amounted to the final few hours of their existence as the classic foursome, with Rick's passing not that long afterwords. To have been a fly on those walls. Interestingly enough, while I was there Paul Weller was rehearsing for his tour, and I had his exact haircut. Very awkward glances exchanged in the loading dock.
Gives me chills when Roger comes in to sing the verse with Dave ...." We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year." Ironically ..it seems fitting for these two old bandmates to come together to do this.
This is amazing. Love this behind the scenes footage thank goodness we have this. One can imagine them discussing the making of previous albums 30 years earlier or talking before going on stage on tour
I'm a Beatle fan. Wish they would have had a chance like this to do a gig together again... despite the animosity. You only live once. PF.. great band too.
I get that, but I always thought of the beatles as kind of kids music compared to PF. They were the originators of course, of so many things,but their music always seemed a little middle eigth. I kind of lost all respect for them when Paul said about some song "we literally sat down to write a new swimming pool". One thing about Roger is that he's a son of a bitch but he's up front about it. I hear all kinds of creepy stories about the beatles, Lennon used to hit his first wife and neglect his kid, George nailed Ringo's wife, and all kinds of soap opera stuff, whereas Pink Floyd is more like an actual opera. Almost Shakespearean when you look at the band AND the music. Oh right, my point was that I heard John Lennon was trying to reform the Beatles just prior his death, but maybe that was hearsay. Had he lived, can you imagine them at Live Aid?? I always found it odd Pink Floyd wasn't there, but back then the Beatles reforming would have been huge.
What a treasure You Tube is to be able to watch this .. 'God is in the details' as the saying goes .. wonderful .. thanks for uploading! :-))))))))) ...
In the interviews they all seem to be walking on egg shells - obviously really nervous about the reunion after so many years of fighting and animosity (especially between David and Roger). It's like the awkwardness of running into an old girlfriend.
I could watch this type of behind-the-scenes rehearsal all day. And I got to say that it’s a weird dynamic that probably every Pink Floyd fan who has any aptitude musically would probably be able to walk in and play those songs more readily than these guys who actually wrote them Considering they haven’t played them together for decades. It’s weird to think about.
How appropriate the lyrics feel for wish you were here with regards to Roger and Dave. We're just 2 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year, running over the ground, what have we found, the same old fears, wish you were here.
Pink Floyd reunion IS THE ONLY THING people remembers from Live 8. A week later, Extreme Islamic Terrorists bombed the tube and stations in London. Wiping this concert off the pages. Alot of INNOCENT PEOPLE died or was hurt a week later. That's alway's in the back of my mind when I see this concert. Cause, it happened.
Haha if anything Gilmour seems 'controlling' but he's got that piano player kind of composer multi-instrumentalist edge to him I think.. I wonder if he's really the perfectionist and Waters isn't..? Not that they both may not be, but regardless it's cool to see a band really practicing the ending like that to a song, I always just assumed bands who did that well put like no thought into it.. timing timing timing, very important!
LOL, I think 'friends' is a bit much. But 35 years ago is a pretty fucking long time ago. Not in this video was that I think Roger had to say "do you HAVE Dave's phone number, because I sure as hell don't have it".
Somehow I get the feeling that Mr. Waters was on his best behavior. Probably left his dictator boots in the closet for this one. The concert footage looks as if he's a little "too happy". Gilmour looks a little apprehensive and distant at the end. Understandably so. So glad they did reunite for that show. A success.
the biggest loss in music was david and rogers fall out. love if the 3 got back together with additional musicians and kept floyd going, but it wont happen,
2:04 Seems like Richard trying to suggest something to Roger and look at the way Waters responds... like "no, no ,no... here we go again!". I mean, I love all of the band members, but just look at Waters' face after Richard says something to him.... 😢 Like: "piss off"
Miracles do happen. Roger is a piece of work. In the mid-80s, after he quit Pink Floyd, he sued David and Nick to enjoin them from using the name "Pink Floyd." He lost. And FF to 2020, he is in a spat with Polly Samson -- David's wife.
For me it was Roger, his voice was totally floyd for me, he had the best ideas, the best decisions, the best choices, the best lyrics, the best voice texture and expression. Gilmour provided the perfect guitar sound but ive never liked his voice except on the studio albums, it sounded different somehow. When Roger left I totally lost interest in floyd they lost their sound and direction, and Gilmours wife writing lyrics, give me a break, they should have changed their name to the dave gilmour show.
I agree with you on Polly writing lyrics. That's just lame. But Gilmour was and is the far superior singer. Roger can't sing his way out of a wet paper bag. But I do love Roger.
Just to air a contrary point of view. I loved the post-Roger Floyd, including Polly's lyrics. Not as much as I loved the middle era Floyd, but a lot more than I loved the Wall and Final Cut. Roger's solo stuff was, for me, mostly meh until recently.
I don't even think Polly Samson's lyrics are that great. I liked the Floyd's albums after Waters left, but they were nothing special, they were merely nice middle of the road rock albums. Waters gave them the edge, musically, lyrically and politically. As for who's a better singer, I think it all depends on what you like in a singer. Technically speaking, Gilmour is better, he has a more melodic and musical voice, however Waters has passion and character in his voice so I guess it all depends on what song it is. Personally I love it when they share vocals, such as Comfortably numb, Dogs and even Not now John.
@@PABLOPARDO1 But he was not on Stage with them. Only Dave, Roger Rick and Nick, with Tim Renwick (filling the gaps on Guitar and Bass) and Dick Perry playing Saxophone on Money and a female backup singer for the Encore "Comfortably Numb".
There is nothing to forgive anymore, it's the past. They can't anymore work together well. Though when I think about what Amused To Death could have been with Mr. Gilmour ... sigh!
Nice to hear it without the damned audience screaming their heads off... Live is great I just don't want bloody audience sound. If you agree maybe check out Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Live at the BBC double album.
It's about time Gilmour and Waters buried the hatchet before its too late and one of them will have to live on regretting their actions. Its time to forget egos both of them are what they are are because of each other. Without each other they wouldn't be great
So glad they got to do this before Rick died.
Words can not explain my love for these four men. The influence that four people can have on music history is astonishing. I just wish I would have had a chance to see them play once in my life.
Me too. I was ten when they split up for good :/
Same here
same here :(
me too..so sad ((
Saw them in '93 for the Division Bell tour of course no Roger Waters but still unforgettable!!!
Its pretty amazing when you realize how great of a band they really are.
Sold to the gentleman in the blue shirt. One tasteful drum ending.
Bless you Nick Mason. That made me crack up laughing. Glad he was able to break some of the tension.
ahhaha love Nick
Ever the diplomat. Both David and Roger were in blue shirts.
Well said Nick
hahahahhahhaha. great
Even Rick got more camera time than in the one in the actual Live 8 concert
I never grow tired of the cool accent. Almost as cool as the music! R.I.P. Richard Wright and Syd Barrett.
According to Bob Geldof, he called Dave Gilmour on the phone and the conversation went like this:
Bob: Hello David, will you paticipate in the Pink Floyd reunion for Live 8?
Dave: No, not really
Bob: come on the others are in, let me come to see you...
Dave: NO, no don't even come, it's not worth wasting your trip, I am not doing it
Bob: But I am already on the train!!
Dave: oh, alright, come and we'll talk
Well I think Roger was being tactful, the conversation happened before Roger did the call, it was after Bob couldn't convince David that Roger called and his version is still how it unfolded. I also heard Roger felt David had a right to reservations, so he made it clear hey this is just a better way for the old Floyd to give back and give their fans what they would clearly want to see one last time. It must have went well because David reprised his role on Comfortably numb at one of Rogers Wall shows, O2 Arena 2011 I believe, it has been on youtube but it gets pulled and then reappears.
@@BeeBumper That's why I do searches then DL what I think might get pulled.
He probably said hey I was Pink in the movie!
Nick say it the best: even if we had arguments we shared experiences in the way you can only tell other people about it
These guys have spent their lives being consumed by this music and they can't possibly realize the emotions their music brings out in us fans. Such complete and effortless musicians. I'm thankful for having heard it.
Fantastic and moving. "Show some of my children what I used to do " . Great to see the old guys playing the classic stuff live. It can never happen again 😢
when im saw rick wright in this video bring eyes into tears
Muhammad Sallehuddin So'eb , same for me mate
Hearing this, man. As if "Live in Pompeii" had a second part, but decades later. I love this band. Always will be playing on my mind. I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. :)
It's amazing to see that both Roger and David noticed the same thing about Nick's drum ending at the same time, so it was fixed happily :)
ahahahah... yeh
Yeah, it was actually Waters who played not in tempo. A musician like that should not blame it on the drummer.
Greatest band of all time . Man it's going to be so hard when Roger or Dave go, I love them all ofcourse but those two guys wow they just mean so much to me.
So fucking great to watch them together doing what they do...
Nick surely knows how to make the best out of the situation, love his jokes!
Glad it happened, RIP the great Richard Wright
Thanks for posting!!!
lifelong fan here. love this! R. I.P. Rick Wright. such an innovative musician. created an atmosphere like no one else
I was lucky to see the Wall @ Nassau Colloseum in 1980 ,and at least two shows from every other tour after that . Both Floyd and Waters . Every show from either was second to none
Dean Bagdasarian wow seriously how did you see so many of their shows? Any other great bands you’ve seen?
In 2008 I was working on a commercial at Black Island Studios in Acton, I guess that would still be considered part of London, though it looked like a suburb to this yank. Anyway, on the door of one of the stalls of the restroom of the soundstage I was at was written "Pigs fly, the Floyd lives!"...I'm assuming written by one of the exited crew who worked the rehearsal for the Live8 reunion, which happened on that soundstage. That's how I learned where the reheasal took place 3 years prior...and it always struck me as funny, because right next door is a Staples office supply store. And so at some point in 2005 a whole bunch of people were buying toner cartridges and, well, staples and pens...having NO IDEA that not just a few hundred feet away, Pink Floyd was performing together for what amounted to the final few hours of their existence as the classic foursome, with Rick's passing not that long afterwords. To have been a fly on those walls.
Interestingly enough, while I was there Paul Weller was rehearsing for his tour, and I had his exact haircut. Very awkward glances exchanged in the loading dock.
I liked Nick Mason's comment about friends being witnesses to your life!
The most accurate band in the world.
Live on Floyd.
Gives me chills when Roger comes in to sing the verse with Dave ...." We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year." Ironically ..it seems fitting for these two old bandmates to come together to do this.
This is amazing. Love this behind the scenes footage thank goodness we have this. One can imagine them discussing the making of previous albums 30 years earlier or talking before going on stage on tour
The way David kind of slams his guitar down at the end like "get me the hell away from Roger" 😂
I've seen so many Pink Floyd video's and this is the first and only time I've seen Waters and Wright converse.
What a pleasure to watch this. Would love to see more of the rehearsals if the footage exists.
Nick has exceptional sense of humor.
I'm a Beatle fan. Wish they would have had a chance like this to do a gig together again... despite the animosity. You only live once. PF.. great band too.
I get that, but I always thought of the beatles as kind of kids music compared to PF. They were the originators of course, of so many things,but their music always seemed a little middle eigth. I kind of lost all respect for them when Paul said about some song "we literally sat down to write a new swimming pool". One thing about Roger is that he's a son of a bitch but he's up front about it. I hear all kinds of creepy stories about the beatles, Lennon used to hit his first wife and neglect his kid, George nailed Ringo's wife, and all kinds of soap opera stuff, whereas Pink Floyd is more like an actual opera. Almost Shakespearean when you look at the band AND the music.
Oh right, my point was that I heard John Lennon was trying to reform the Beatles just prior his death, but maybe that was hearsay. Had he lived, can you imagine them at Live Aid?? I always found it odd Pink Floyd wasn't there, but back then the Beatles reforming would have been huge.
Great musicians. We have nothing now to compare with such giants.
Gilmore : Was there always a pause there?
All others: laugh....
great to see this guys having fun
Bad that Roger and David still can't get along with one another. WHY??????????????????????
What a treasure You Tube is to be able to watch this .. 'God is in the details' as the saying goes .. wonderful .. thanks for uploading! :-))))))))) ...
In the interviews they all seem to be walking on egg shells - obviously really nervous about the reunion after so many years of fighting and animosity (especially between David and Roger). It's like the awkwardness of running into an old girlfriend.
Funny you mentioned that, because David described the experience as: sleeping with your ex girlfriend and remembering why you broke up.
HiTopProd Dave looks a little ornery as he sets his guitar on the stand at the end
Dave said: this confirmed me why we're not playing together with Roger anymore.
Dave says a lot of things. Dave performed with Roger again in 2010 and 2011.
I just love the drum fill at 4:00
Que alegria y gusto mirarlos unidos
Pink floyd such a great band❤❤❤❤❤
Just glad I can hear this.... thanks to all
when roger water sang his first verse i thought he was going to let go "yiiiha!" or something..
I could watch this type of behind-the-scenes rehearsal all day. And I got to say that it’s a weird dynamic that probably every Pink Floyd fan who has any aptitude musically would probably be able to walk in and play those songs more readily than these guys who actually wrote them Considering they haven’t played them together for decades. It’s weird to think about.
How appropriate the lyrics feel for wish you were here with regards to Roger and Dave. We're just 2 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year, running over the ground, what have we found, the same old fears, wish you were here.
Can´t believe that happened ten years ago. Who else came to watch the ending part?
WOW, never seen this footage before. Thanks for the upload man! :D
Nick Mason is such a nice guy. And one of the luckiest bastards alive.
Yep, exactly.
And a great drummer on top of that:)
He was a bit of a beast back in the day. He earned that luck.
Che bello vederli insieme..... La musica della mia vita
Grown up men looking like kiddies - for Christ sake you were/are the greatest rock musicians of your era!
like this acoustic rehearsal version very much
Takes me back to Live in Pompeii!
Bravo Pink Floyd sounds great.
Pink Floyd reunion IS THE ONLY THING people remembers from Live 8. A week later, Extreme Islamic Terrorists bombed the tube and stations in London. Wiping this concert off the pages. Alot of INNOCENT PEOPLE died or was hurt a week later. That's alway's in the back of my mind when I see this concert. Cause, it happened.
que bueno verlos como ensayan hermoso video ..maestros idolos
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing
07:40 Now, THAT'S THE ONE
"wasn't always there a pause there?" ahahaha
there is something indescribable about these 4 playing together, it has a certain magic to it that can't be explained
great document
That’s the thing with Roger, he don’t miss out and David comes back to finish it off.
Beautiful
They are very decent, very intelligent, galactically talented people.
Pink Floyd Forever! R.ip Rick Wright and Syd Barret!
Gold.
I have water in my eyes.
Mis idolos
So weird to see the red strat there. Props to phil taylor for getting dave to get the black strat out for that one
all bow down to the Genius
7:42 David flips Nick the middle finger lol
Amazing
Haha if anything Gilmour seems 'controlling' but he's got that piano player kind of composer multi-instrumentalist edge to him I think.. I wonder if he's really the perfectionist and Waters isn't..? Not that they both may not be, but regardless it's cool to see a band really practicing the ending like that to a song, I always just assumed bands who did that well put like no thought into it.. timing timing timing, very important!
Sold to the gentleman in a blue shirt!
Ya see, they were friends all along. And I was thinking they'd be shouting seven bells at each other.
One word: Dam Brilliant.
LOL, I think 'friends' is a bit much. But 35 years ago is a pretty fucking long time ago. Not in this video was that I think Roger had to say "do you HAVE Dave's phone number, because I sure as hell don't have it".
Somehow I get the feeling that Mr. Waters was on his best behavior. Probably left his dictator boots in the closet for this one. The concert footage looks as if he's a little "too happy". Gilmour looks a little apprehensive and distant at the end. Understandably so. So glad they did reunite for that show. A success.
Top footage!
Look at David bending those notes.
The red strat meets Roger...
Sold to the gentlemen in the blue shirt
I was listening this live on the radio and they cut to a fucking commercial half way through it.
Too powerful...
Let's make a petition for make these dudes back together again
No. Ricks dead. There is no more pink floyd
the biggest loss in music was david and rogers fall out. love if the 3 got back together with additional musicians and kept floyd going, but it wont happen,
It's really too bad they didn't have an interest to keep it going after this one off show.
They coudn't work with Roger anymore. Dave said it after the show,
Dave performed with Roger again in 2010 and 2011. It was Rick who liked Roger the least, and Rick died in 2008.
that red strat, gimmie.
The same red one thats used by "Mark Knopfler" and "Hank Marvin".
I love hearing Gilmour make mistakes on the guitar like the beginning of wish you were here... you realise they are human and you are just as good...
2:04 Seems like Richard trying to suggest something to Roger and look at the way Waters responds... like "no, no ,no... here we go again!". I mean, I love all of the band members, but just look at Waters' face after Richard says something to him.... 😢 Like: "piss off"
2:07 Waters: "what are you talking about?!" :(
Miracles do happen. Roger is a piece of work. In the mid-80s, after he quit Pink Floyd, he sued David and Nick to enjoin them from using the name "Pink Floyd." He lost. And FF to 2020, he is in a spat with Polly Samson -- David's wife.
so by the way, which one's pink?
For me it was Roger, his voice was totally floyd for me, he had the best ideas, the best decisions, the best choices, the best lyrics, the best voice texture and expression. Gilmour provided the perfect guitar sound but ive never liked his voice except on the studio albums, it sounded different somehow. When Roger left I totally lost interest in floyd they lost their sound and direction, and Gilmours wife writing lyrics, give me a break, they should have changed their name to the dave gilmour show.
I agree with you on Polly writing lyrics. That's just lame. But Gilmour was and is the far superior singer. Roger can't sing his way out of a wet paper bag. But I do love Roger.
GibsonLesPaul2273 agree with Polly writing lyrics. It's just fucked. But the instrumental tracks like cluster one and marooned make up for it a bit.
Just to air a contrary point of view. I loved the post-Roger Floyd, including Polly's lyrics. Not as much as I loved the middle era Floyd, but a lot more than I loved the Wall and Final Cut. Roger's solo stuff was, for me, mostly meh until recently.
I don't even think Polly Samson's lyrics are that great. I liked the Floyd's albums after Waters left, but they were nothing special, they were merely nice middle of the road rock albums. Waters gave them the edge, musically, lyrically and politically. As for who's a better singer, I think it all depends on what you like in a singer. Technically speaking, Gilmour is better, he has a more melodic and musical voice, however Waters has passion and character in his voice so I guess it all depends on what song it is. Personally I love it when they share vocals, such as Comfortably numb, Dogs and even Not now John.
2 minutes into Live 8 rehersal, Roger started firing fellow members of Pink Floyd claiming he was the real Pink.
4:18 sounds a pedal steel... does anyone know if it's been sampled or someone playing?
Jon Carin played keyboards and pedal steel on that show.
@@PABLOPARDO1 But he was not on Stage with them. Only Dave, Roger Rick and Nick, with Tim Renwick (filling the gaps on Guitar and Bass) and Dick Perry playing Saxophone on Money and a female backup singer for the Encore "Comfortably Numb".
Jon Carin played both here and in the actual concert.
@@tieukhavu8832 you can see Jon Carin walking off stage here: ua-cam.com/video/xVQTKSWULu8/v-deo.html
I could still see some unforgivness between roger and dave.
There is nothing to forgive anymore, it's the past. They can't anymore work together well.
Though when I think about what Amused To Death could have been with Mr. Gilmour ... sigh!
Haha, was there always a pause there?
I always tend to hear the beginning of "fat old sun" at around 7:39
No it wish you were here
Nice to hear it without the damned audience screaming their heads off...
Live is great I just don't want bloody audience sound. If you agree maybe check out Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Live at the BBC double album.
It's about time Gilmour and Waters buried the hatchet before its too late and one of them will have to live on regretting their actions.
Its time to forget egos both of them are what they are are because of each other. Without each other they wouldn't be great
Not likely after Roger called Israel the new Nazis and sucked up to Putin. What a tosser.
very reunion? Rog and Rick...
Where in the blue blazes is Floyd the barber when you need him?
Roger linked up ...............but he fired Oxfam
I wish I had some of their money.
Roger Waters wants to know your location.
Roger! Jesus. Why sing on this beautiful song. We know you wrote - thank you for that...let David sing it.
huh the contrast is what makes it beautiful, the duet, then when they sing together and the female backgrounds come in, wow.
Bravo Bravo
Kind of wince when I hear Roger sing now. don't mean any disrespect....
Thundergod129-7307 - Sing..? I think it's always been tortured, disgruntled out of tune speech...
I love Roger's voice. Never a great vocalist but it fits with his lyrics and music.
There's an emotional connection there when he sings the lyrics that he himself wrote that you don't get with Gilmour.
Nick must think "Here we fucking go"
Not bad for 4 old geezers.
DAVE NICK RICK 💋💋💋