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David Gilmour or Rogers Water

leesonic said:
David Gilmour easily. If you've heard the Live 8 performance, you'll know Roger Waters voice is all croaky and strained, even on the speaking parts of "Comfortably Numb", whereas David's voice seems to be holding up well. Anyone can play the bass as good or if not better than Waters, but try finding someone to play guitar as good as Gilmour.

When "The Wall" came out, I couldn't listen to it, too political for me. It still is, but I managed to make a single CD out of the double CD that I call "The Short Wall". The courtroom track is just crap.

Lee.
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His voice must have gotten better than, as he sounded better than ever during the Dark Side and Wall tours in the past 3 years. I'd read that he'd gone through a lot of vocal training to prepare for those tours.

Gilmour still sounds good as well, and if anything his guitar playing is even better or at least more effortless (always a trademark of his).
 
JohnVF said:
I listen to "When the Tigers Broke Free" and I think "Holy crap, this guy's life was torn apart by some meaningless order in some long forgotten battle the result of mankind being mankind's own worst enemy". I listen to anything Gilmour did and I think "Holy crap, that guy can play a mean guitar". The musician vs the writer. The really need each other, but I'll take the idea guy.
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I can't put any better than this. thanks John!
 
Gilmour. Love Pink Floyd and solo Gilmour work. Indeed, might have to spin a little Gilmour and have a listen right now.
 
puffy09 said:
Ok, I just got done watching the 121212 concert and Roger Waters and my wife and I got into the discussion of who is the better part of what was Pink Floyd. Roger Waters or David Gilmour. I personally am more of a David Gilmour fan.
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You mean to say that Roger Waters, your wife and you were in the same room chatting? You lucky guy!

They may not seem like much but it's amazing what a period (.) or comma (,) can accomplish.

In any event, I take it that you just finished watching "The 121212 Concert with Roger Waters". And, your wife and you got into a discussion as to who is the better part of Pink Floyd. Roger Waters or David Gilmour?

There is no better part. The sum of the parts equals the whole. They each had their own input. This is what made the band great. A great lyricist and song-writer in Waters and an extremely talented and kick-ass guitarist in Gilmour. These two individuals I have a real hard time breaking up. They compliment each other so much.

But if I must give an answer, post Syd Barrett, ....Roger Waters is Pink Floyd.

No question.
 
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I really couldn't imagine Pink Floyd without either one so I guess I will stay undecided on this question. Talk about a yin and yang scenario, you just can't have one without the other.
 
Polarbear said:
I really couldn't imagine Pink Floyd without either one so I guess I will stay undecided on this question. Talk about a yin and yang scenario, you just can't have one without the other.
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I have the same opinion. I saw Pink Floyd on both the 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' and 'The Division Bell' tours, and I really, really enjoyed them. However, I still was playing the game of 'where's Roger?'

My one regret is that they didn't put their differences aside for one last blowout album and one last concert swing before Richard Wright passed away.
 
I know , better punctuation is in order here. But at least the conversation is fun.
This was on the first page.
 
Pink Floyd is not Pink Floyd without either one. However, Waters was the primary creative force after Sid's departure and a lyrical genius.
 
Unquestionably Gilmour. I will agree that the combination was what made Pink Floyd great, but I much prefer DG's non-PF material to RW's, and by a HUGE margin. I also massively prefer the two Waters-less PF albums over The Final Cut by a huge margin. And even on the classic PF records, it's the tunes sung by Gilmour that I much, much prefer.
 
Aww man don't make me decide!

OK I guess Gilmore is the cooler guy but Waters contributes more to their overall sound. Hows that?
 
As a person, Roger Waters was indifferent at best to Syd Barret drifting off into drugged lalaland, and did not like or enjoy being with Richard Wright, who was quite a pleasant gentleman. Waters appears to basically not give a flying f about anyone other than himself, and seemingly is bitter towards the world in the various documentaries I have seen.

Gilmour loved Richard Wright as a close personal friend, and did everything he could to help out Syd, and is a very very nice bloke.

As a musician Gilmour far tops Waters. However, Waters wallowed in the bitter extremes of anger, despair, and relative hate that generated so many great song lyrics - and by being the sand in the vaseline gave Floyd the needed acerbic bite to counter so many of their sonic dreamscapes.

In the end, Gilmour.
 
Without question, Gilmour. I love Roger, and caught The Wall live last year in Detroit but Gilmour's playing is what gave Floyd beauty and warmth. I also love Dave's laid back and smooth vocals. Everything about Roger is cold and cynical, which is a big part of Floyd and I love the writing of those themes but I think Gilmour made it much more interesting by adding feel and soul. This negative and positive between these two is what made Floyd great but at the end of the day I think Gilmour is far superior.
 
I find genius in all their works. Some better than others. They were more than the sum of themselves individually. Yet, I collect all I can find in vinyl.

Amused to Death is really great. Not his best work. I was lucky to get a sealed version and it's magic. Apparently, like anything expensive, counterfeits pop up and reports say they are flat sounding.

Radio KAOS is perhaps close to my favorite. So I suppose I lean towards Waters. But I would not pick him as a favorite over Gilmour.
 
I agree that there would never be PF without Waters creation , but Nobody would have heard it without Gilmours expression of Waters creation .
 
As I said earlier, IMHO the best music that either of them have done was the stuff they did together in Floyd.

Someone commented that they'd rather listen Gilmour perform than Waters write. I'd counter that by reminding that both Gilmour and Waters could contact virtually anyone in the business and say; "How would you feel about performing on my next album?", and that person no matter how high-up they were in the industry would be boasting that they were going to perform with Gilmour or Waters.

The all star cast those two fellows could muster up would be one heck of a concert to attend. They've done it before and they will do it for years to come.
 
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