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Gilmour to join Waters on Wall tour?

Dave Bryce

By Dave Bryce
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allan_evett

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Wow... If so, that will be an amazing concert !

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Sven Golly

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Hmmm... I haven't seen anything on RW's FB page about this. Not that I'm not hopeful, but there've been lots of these rumours bandied about very since Live 8 (and even earlier). Back in May, Roger stated that David wasn't interested in joining him for this tour. :(

 

I've got 9th row floors for Toronto, so I'll be joining the wishful thinkers of the world! ;):thu:

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Sven Golly

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Okay, so here's the deal from Roger's FB page, Wednesday July 14th:

 

So here's what happened. Last year, 'The Hoping Foundation' a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids, (www.hopingfoundation.org) put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, the idea of which was to raise money by auctioning karaoke performances by various celebrities. David was there as a supporter and was moved to perform an impromptu rendition of George Gershwin's 'Summertime?' which he performed aided and abetted by supermodel Kate Moss.

 

In the wake of that evening, someone, I think it was David himself, came up with this 'Wouldn't it be funny', idea. What if he (David that is) were to sing the old Teddy Bears song 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' with me (Roger that is), what with us having been so famously at each other's throats for years and years. Get it!!!! Anyway he E-mailed me with this suggestion and I loved it, so then it was just a question of juggling dates and deciding to do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Comfortably Numb' to round out our little set. Or so I thought, until he sent me a number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in two-part harmony. I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David, with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then struggle through hours and hours of routining a performance that lay way outside my vocal comfort zone. To my eternal shame I bottled out and told Dave I would happily do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'C. Numb', but that 'To Know him is to Love him' was beyond me.

 

Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. I quote "If you do 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I'll come and do 'C. Numb' on one of your Wall shows". Well! You could have knocked me down with a feather. How fucking cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn't, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so explaining that I would probably be shite, but if he didn't mind I didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was fucking great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.

 

Roger

 

PS. Just heard from David, he will decide in due course which gig he wants to do, it will be a surprise!

 

(Emphasis mine)

 

Here's me hoping that David remembers exactly how much he loves Toronto... ;)

 

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Tonysounds

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Isn't Toronto where Roger spit on the fan and The Wall was born? Here's hoping that Gilmour remembers how great Mondays in September in Chicago are!

 

Too bad it's not for the whole tour. I took seats at the end of the venue for a straight on view of the stage; the Wall is built across the width of the venue and becomes the "screen" for projections...at least that's how it was all those years ago. Hopefully I didn't shoot myself in the foot!

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Sven Golly

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Isn't Toronto where Roger spit on the fan and The Wall was born?

 

Nope, that was Montreal, July 6, 1977. ;)

 

Here's hoping that Gilmour remembers how great Mondays in September in Chicago are!

 

Yes, but it's too windy there, and the pig might break free. ;)

 

Sorry, that's the only thing I could think of as an objection to Chicago... ;)

 

Too bad it's not for the whole tour. I took seats at the end of the venue for a straight on view of the stage; the Wall is built across the width of the venue and becomes the "screen" for projections...at least that's how it was all those years ago. Hopefully I didn't shoot myself in the foot!

 

I'm sure the show will be stunning from any seat... I just want to see the boys & girls (and the surrogate band :thu:) from up close. :D

 

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Sven Golly

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As long as they're not behind the wall for the whole concert. ;):D

 

Not sure if you're being facetious, or if you're unfamiliar with the concert, but yes, the band is gradually obscured by The Wall as it gets built, with the final brick being put in place on the final "goodbye" in "Goodbye Cruel World".

 

It'll be interesting to see how they stage this show, compared to the original shows in '80, and the Berlin show in '90. :thu:

 

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