We’re trying to ignore it and just get on with things, actually.” He hasn’t done anything which stops us from working, so we don’t have any problems in that sense. “The state of play is that Roger has brought two or three actions against us which will probably go to court in about late ’88 or early ’89, maybe even later. That’s where the rounded vowels and quiet reasonable approach of David Gilmour comes in. After all, he argues, he wrote all that stuff. The short of it is that Waters doesn’t think the other guys should be using the name Pink Floyd. Waters walked and the hard words between him and the rest of the band have been carried by the media in a very public slanging match. Simmering disputes within the band had surfaced during the recording of The Wall and after The Final Cut main-man Waters called the whole thing off.
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The title of that last album is full of ironies for it saw the end of Pink Floyd As We Know It. With Gilmore on guitar, Waters handling the bass and the bulk of the song writing, Nick Mason (drums) and Rick Wright (keyboards) the band went on to become the mega-monsters of the ‘70s who gave us The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, The Wall and a few years ago The Final Cut. His mentality instability, combined with pharmaceutical ingestion, put him over the edge and David Gilmour was brought into the band. The first single, Arnold Layne, was about a chap who pinched ladies underwear off clothes lines.īut Barrett was more seriously troubled than his unusual songs hinted at. Way back in the early ‘60s art student Syd Barrett founded Pink Floyd with Rogers Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright, architecture students in London.Īfter the usual shuffling of line-ups to include a few other friends, the group settled down as The Pink Floyd, a name picked up by Barrett from an old blues album he had by Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.Īt the time the bulk of Pink Floyd’s material came from Barrett who, as lead guitarist and vocalist, shaped the sound around his own idiosyncratic ideas. Then again, there actually is a bit to talk about on the Pink Floyd front these days and it all comes down to exactly what, or who, Pink Floyd is.Ī little history here first, then we get to the bit about lawyers and dirt-slinging and litigation over the use of the name Pink Floyd.Ĭan you image carol singing at Phil Manzanera’s house? He’s just come back from carol singing at the home of Phil Manzanera, the guitarist from Roxy Music who co-wrote One Slip on the album, and very comfortable with the idea of an interview before the band’s Auckland concert at Western Springs on January 22. Here is the band which presents astonishingly visual concerts, every couple of years unleashes a monster of an album and then disappears into silence for long periods.īut on this day just before Christmas 1988, David Gilmour, lead guitarist and mastermind behind the new Floyd album A Momentary Lapse of Reason, is keen to talk. But then, this is David Gilmour from Pink Floyd – and as rock bands go Pink Floyd are no ordinary band at all. With (with, with, with, with, with, with), without.Rock stars shouldn’t talk this way, not in these well-rounded vowels and carefully constructed, oh-so English sentences.
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[I mean, they're not gunna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick (sh)short, sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Up (up, up, up, up, up, up) and down (down, down, down, down, down, down, down).īut in the end it's only round and round (and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round). God only knows it's noz what we would choose (would choose, would choose) to do (to do, to do, to do).Īnd_the_general sat and the lines on the_mapīlack (black, black, black, black, black, black) and blue (blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue)Īnd who knows which is which and who is who (is who, is who, is who, is who, is). Me (me, me, me, me, me, me), and you (you, you, you, you, you, you, you). Us (us, us, us, us, us, us), and them (them, them, them, them, them, them, them)
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