Who wants to see Pink Floyd?

After the whole Live 8 concert, haven’t there been enough people who have gone crazy with the speculation of a possible comeback and get together tour? It’s good that the members have bothered to deny the possibility of a tour after all. All the bait about how they “just might” or “want to do it, but can’t right now” talk was just too much to take after you knew they didn’t really want to play together anymore. Whatever happened to the love of music? Their part of the concert was rated the highest. I wish they’d see that a LOT of people would like to see them. If they don’t care about the money it’ll generate, they could at least do it for a “special cause”. It was obvious they were totally enjoying themselves.

I went to a Floyd cover band concert in Saratoga two years ago. They called themselves “Aussie Floyd”. The band was rather good and played a nice mix of songs. I thought it would be hard to hear an Australian accent crooning out my British songs, but all the songs were beautifully rendered. We all had good fun there, nodding along to the music, watching people dancing to Floyd (actually dancing) and trying to sniff out the source of dope. Now let me go on record to say I still can’t figure out the difference between the smell of grass and cigarettes. I don’t think it’s ‘cos of my acute lack of smell, but most probably due to the total lack of real-time experience sniffing around lawns.

Anyways, it was in the restroom there that I met a few people who had actually seen the real Floyd play live. After the initial, “I can’t believe someone so young is into Floyd” and “the last time I saw them, you weren’t even born” yada yada talk, they told me how wonderful the whole concert had been. Eyes lit up and nostalgic smiles showed up. Everyone agreed that the current band was not bad at all, but was nothing compared to the real deal.

I saw Roger Waters play in Bangalore (India) 4 years ago (I’ll reserve talk about that concert for another post), and though the concert was good, it wasn’t all I had personally hoped for. Blame it on bad location (read cheap seats), or the rather screwed up sound. It wasn’t one of my best concerts. I’d rather see Gilmore and Mason play any day. I probably differ from the usual Floyd fan here, ‘cos I’m leaving any nice words for Roger behind. I wish that they would just chuck Rogers from the equation, and play. I’ll travel anywhere and camp outside forever for that one.