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Not sure this excites me much... Love his first two solos albums and then he went into extreme mellow mode... His last one was hard to get all the way through it was so mellow and calming
from Rolling Stone
Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour will put out his first solo album in nine years later this year. Although he revealed no other details about the as-yet-untitled LP on his website, he has scheduled a number of tour dates in the U.K. and Europe for this September that will coincide with the LP, suggesting a fall release. Gilmour will kick things off with a three-night engagement at London's Royal Albert Hall, beginning September 23rd.
Last October, Gilmour told Rolling Stone the record was, at that point, still coming together. "It's coming along very well," he said. "There are some sketches that aren't finished, and some of them will be started again. There's a few months' work in it yet. I'm hoping to get it out this following year. Then I'm hoping to do an old man's tour, not a 200-date sort of thing."
The new record follows up Gilmour's 2006 solo outing, On an Island, as well as Pink Floyd's farewell album, The Endless River, which came out last year. That record was mostly instrumental and contained songs that he and drummer Nick Mason had worked on from their Division Bell sessions so as to include the contributions of late keyboardist Rick Wright. "I think we have successfully commandeered the best of what there is [and] I suspect that it is," Gilmour said of that release in a BBC 6 interview at the time. "It's a shame, but this is the end."
Gilmour's most recent live appearance was at a Bombay Bicycle Club gig at Earls Court last December, where he played Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" with the group. He also played that band's "Rinse Me Down" with them.
Link: https://www.yahoo.com/music/s/david-gilmour-plans-solo-album-fall-1...
Oh, Mike. Join another band.
MIKE PORTNOY Says DAVID GILMOUR Releasing New PINK FLOYD Album Is 'Disrespectful' To ROGER WATERS
In a post on his Facebook page, veteran drummer, and self-proclaimed huge PINK FLOYD fan, Mike Portnoy (THE WINERY DOGS, TRANSATLANTIC, DREAM THEATER) weighed in on the idea of a new PINK FLOYD record, writing: "What's this about a new PINK FLOYD album? Last I checked, Waters is no longer in the band and Wright and [Syd] Barrett are dead. If these are leftovers from 'The Division Bell' sessions, then just put 'em on a 'The Division Bell' special-edition release! It's disrespectful to Roger and everything he built for all those years! Just do a solo album, Dave."
He added: "In my opinion, the PINK FLOYD heyday was 'Atom Heart Mother' through 'The Wall', and those were mainly driven by Roger (conceptually, musically, everything). 'A Momentary Lapse Of Reason' and 'The Division Bell' are essentially David Gilmour solo albums 'as' PINK FLOYD (granted, just as 'The Final Cut' was a Roger Waters solo album 'as' PINK FLOYD).
"If you really want, I'll meet you, Gilmour fans, halfway and at least concede with saying, okay, 'real' PINK FLOYD is really only when Waters and Gilmour work together."
I'm not the biggest Pink Floyd fan. I'm sure this is great for the die hard fans. It's something that I'll definitely check out, hopefully through NMC.
from the Washington Post:
Well, so much for a press release. It appears your favorite Pink Floyd cover band is going to have some new music to learn soon.
The legendary British rock band is releasing a new album in October called “The Endless River.” The news first trickled out via Twitter from Polly Samson, the novelist and “Division Bell” lyricist who is married to guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour. Samson tweeted Saturday, seemingly appropos of nothing: “Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called ‘The Endless River’. Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright’s swansong and very beautiful.”
This sent rabid Pink Floyd fans into a frenzy, as user Mike Cecchini characterized with this response to Samson:
“The Endless River” will be the first new Pink Floyd studio album since “The Division Bell” was released in 1994 and will feature music from keyboardist and co-founder Rick Wright, who died of cancer in 2008 at age 65. Samson is a lyricist on “Endless River” as well as Gilmour’s solo album, “On An Island.” One of Pink Floyd’s backup singers, Durga McBroom-Hudson, confirmed the news in a Facebook post as well. Of course, that meant she was quickly deluged with posts asking about/requesting a reconciliation between Gilmour and band co-founder Roger Waters. The Independent once called theirs the “Greatest Feud in Rock.”
It’s not clear whether Waters will be on the new album — but it seems unlikely, as “Endless River” is a continuation of sessions started during the recording of “Division Bell,” though the music is all unreleased, McBroom-Hudson said. Waters didn’t appear on “Division Bell,” either.
Initially, Mason called the project “The Big Spliff” — which seems prescient, given that listening to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” became something of a rite of passage for many a college freshman. Just like you figured out your peak blood alcohol threshold, how to ace a midterm while hungover and how to ditch your bad writing habits so you could actually do well in freshman English comp, you got stoned and watched “The Dark Side of Oz” — “The Wizard of Oz,” muted, while listening to “Dark Side of the Moon” and contemplating why the two sync up so well and what that has to do with the meaning of life. Years later you realize, yes, Pink Floyd is a great band, but mostly it was the weed talking.
The new music also doesn’t seem to signal any new developments in the feud between Waters and Gilmour, which McBroom-Hudson addressed in a Facebook post Sunday:
Hey folks – Please stop asking me to tell David to tour here or there, or to reconcile with Roger, or to perform your son’s bris, etc. I do not tell David what to do, or make suggestions, or anything. I am damned lucky to be working with him, and I do what HE says. Understand? Over and out. Thanks!!
Waters left the band in 1985; since then, fans have been treated to a smattering of surprise reunions, including a 2005 Live 8 concert, but nothing consistent. Recently, Waters and Mason stepped into a heated controversy when they asked the Rolling Stones to cancel a tour date in Tel Aviv in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) protest against Israel.
Pink Floyd has inspired a range of artists, but one of the most interesting takes on its music might be the Scissor Sisters’ uptempo re-imagining of “Comfortably Numb,” which you can check out below. It’s fitting the Scissor Sisters were able to take one of Pink Floyd’s marquee tracks and make it their own; they’re an American band so British in their sensibilities that they’re more popular in the United Kingdom than in the States.
Former Pink Floyd maestro Roger Waters may be riding high with a hugely successful touring version of ‘The Wall,’ but that doesn’t mean he would ever consider touring with his former band again. In a recent interview, the singer-songwriter and bass player spoke succinctly about the matter, saying, “It was over in 1985, and it’s still over.”
Waters spoke to Britain’s Sun newspaper about his preparations for staging his touring spectacular at Wembley Stadium in September, and when asked if he could ever see performing again with Floyd’s surviving members, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, he didn’t hesitate. “I can’t,” he replied. “I left Pink Floyd for very good reasons, and it was the right and proper thing to do.”
After Waters left, Floyd went on to record and tour without him, which exacerbated their already deep-seated differences. But against all odds, the band re-formed in 2005 for a one-off gig at Live 8. Keyboardist Richard Wright passed away in 2008, and though Waters says Mason would “jump back in a heartbeat,” he just doesn’t see it happening.
In fact, he was initially reluctant to even undertake ‘The Wall’ again. When his wife suggested the idea, Waters dismissed her outright. “I said, ‘Be quiet, you don’t understand,’” he laughingly admits. “Then I started figuring out whether it was possible. Eventually I told her, ‘You know what? You were right.’”
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