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Yeah, I guess he's cheaper elsewhere. I said kind of because admittedly I paid $175 in 2006 or 7 to see Roger do Dark Side Of The Moon (Stones was 2 weeks later and I paid $150) and then $120 when I saw him do The Wall. So I'm not proud but as a young fan I thought they were as close to Floyd as I could get.Quote
Milan
"I guess Waters kind of charges that much too"
- I dunno, I paid 50 euros for the FOS ticket in 2013 (5500 dinars = approx. 50 euros).
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RollingFreakYeah, I guess he's cheaper elsewhere. I said kind of because admittedly I paid $175 in 2006 or 7 to see Roger do Dark Side Of The Moon (Stones was 2 weeks later and I paid $150) and then $120 when I saw him do The Wall. So I'm not proud but as a young fan I thought they were as close to Floyd as I could get.Quote
Milan
"I guess Waters kind of charges that much too"
- I dunno, I paid 50 euros for the FOS ticket in 2013 (5500 dinars = approx. 50 euros).
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VoodooLounge13
Floyd was a band that I never had any use for other than The Wall, but lately, I've been listening to them a bit more. And I might actually have a greater appreciation and even possibly an understanding of them than I've ever been able to realize before. I would love to see them reform, but with 2 now gone, I highly doubt it. I might consider this. Not sure. NYC doesn't seem to be too expensive.
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jamesfdouglas
He's now playing 10 NA dates, each show is doubled plus he added two Oakland dates.
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leteyer
I have tix for the French gig and I can't go...Very dissapointed
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StonesCat
I'm a fan, but certainly not hardcore at all, so I chose option C, seeing Brit Floyd next month.
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HMS
Brit Floyd has better singers and guitar players than the original.
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RollingFreak
They were definitely a band that worked best together. Personally I'm not a fan of the Syd Barrett stuff, so to me, Pink Floyd IS Roger, David, Rick and Nick. Dark Side is their obvious peak and album where they clearly most gelled. Everytime I hear it I think it couldn't sound more naturally Pink Floyd. Wish You Were Here is my personal favorite of theirs, and I also LOVE Animals, Meddle, and Atom Heart Mother, but I hear Dark Side and it couldn't be more of a masterpiece. I equate it to Psycho being the best Hitchcock movie. I'm a huge Hitchcock fan, and I feel cliched saying Psycho is my favorite but to me, like Dark Side, its just the project where everything clicked personally.
After Animals, the band splinters out for me. It becomes the Roger Waters show, which as much as he wrote the material before that, it wasn't. I have gained newfound appreciation for The Wall, but for years I hated it and I still consider it a Waters album as opposed to a Floyd one. Same with The Final Cut, which actually I've always loved, but its Roger and not Floyd.
Solo, both leave me unimpressed. Roger's albums are fine, Floyd without Roger was amazingly boring to me, and Gilmour's latest solo album (which I listened to yesterday after the tour announcement) was as "OK" as I remember. Its sad, because Gilmour's Island album is literally THE Pink Floyd guitar sound. Like, thats it! But everything surrounding it is so mediocre. It doesn't have the Floyd feel and it doesn't have the Floyd lyrics. Like Lennon and McCartney and so many others, Roger and David were at their BEST when it was both of them. Separately, they lose something and the music suffers because of it. Roger is too talky and political and musicless, while Gilmour is filled with great guitar licks and nothing to add them to.
Floyd can't reunite. Thats over and I'm happy we got Live 8 for that reason. They were great and they needed a last chapter. But since the breakup its been sad for a Floyd fan IMO. Waters tours Floyd stuff, which is as close as you can get even though its not, but we never get anything new of substance from him. Gilmour is more of the same, in that he also hardly releases music, and on top of it he doesn't even tour. His new single did nothing for me. I don't really know what my point was. More that I'm sad at how things turned out cause I feel we missed a lot of great stuff, and more importantly their little output was hampered by being separate. I'd like to see Gilmour cause I never have, but being such a great guitarist and the fact that he isn't Roger (meaning that Roger can kind of get away touring Floyd and the others can't) has made me sad there's so little other than Floyd where he shines.