Catherine Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Mike (aka PinkFloyd1973) I've been heavily into "Floyd" lately, and while Ive always loved them, I've never really read up on them much...until recently. Got a question: Who was the actual "lead" singer? :: I see Waters' name on The Wall (of course, given that it's "his baby"), but Gilmour is listed more often than Waters it seems on other albums. It depends on the "mood" of the song I suppose, in terms of who best suits the vocalist role, but IMO Gilmour is a bit smoother than Waters in most cases (well, except on Learning to Fly, which I thought was Waters at first). Also, Gilmour would have done a great job singing Brain Damage and Eclipse...he sang most of Dark Side of the Moon anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 I don't think they had an official lead singer, they just listed "Vocals" next to their names. I love both their voices and they sing really good songs but i think its funny when one guy tries to sing a song that the other guy used to sing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 I did some research, and it seems that David Gilmour was the vocalist on 80% of Pink Floyd's songs recorded, but Roger Water provide most of the lyrics that were sung! Upon listening more carefully, I discovered that they do actually sound quite a bit alike...with David being the better sounding of the two, but it is very hard to tell a great deal of the time! Comfortably numb, in which they take turns singing...David blows Roger right out of the water. Ha ha...that pun was purely unintended. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible_r Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 I never noticed that two people were singing! so which one is which in "confortably numb"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 in "comfortably numb" roger waters sings the "...hello, is there anybody in there, just nod if you can hear me, is there anyone at home?..." type of lyrics, i guess he's the doctor/manager in the song. david gilmour sings the "...i have become, comfortably numb..." type of lines, inside Pinks head i suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible_r Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 thanks! i just played it. i can't believe i never noticed before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindy17838 Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 David Gilmour has the less harsh sounding voice, "Us and Them" is a good example. What they lost when Waters left was his composing, which might explain why Momentary Lapse of Reason was the last CD I bought by them. It's a great CD even if Waters isn't on it. Like many of their albums the whole thing is good not just a song or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masoleumrent Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 upon reading this post it is my sincere wish that you go and buy 'the division bell' - have a look on ebay yer can get it now for two or three quid and its got a good few belters on there (all sung by gilmour bar one).... i think that waters and gilmour sound totally different, waters has a very harsh sounding vocal, whereas gilmour has a softer, easier on the ear tone to his voice.......when i first got into floyd i used to say 'waters can't sing' and he cant really but neither can Dylan! ha, ha, ha well, as we all know it aint the voice its what and how you put across what your saying......but if i had to choose gilmour is definately the better of the two vocally - having sai that my favourite floyd record is (waters real baby!) 'the final cut' and waters sings 11 of the 12 tracks there so......but when gilmour sings - its normally a gem....'time', 'us and them', 'young lust', 'not now john', 'dogs' etc, etc, etc....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt_Acid Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Yeah, Dave sang all the songs on DSoTM, and I think all of the songs on Obscured By Clouds too. He sang some stuff on UmmaGumma. Roger sang more on Animals and The Wall though. I was surprised to find out that Rick Wrighgt sang harmonies on DSoTM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Reading up on the band, the general consensus seems to be that Roger Waters is a "creative genius" but a "total a$$h*le" and "a big, gloomy cry baby"! Not much liked on a personal level, is he? David Gilmour, on the other hand, seems to be loved by all! I didnt even know what they looked like until recently, but David Gilmour actually looks just like my dad -- another great guy! My favorite David song is "On the Turning Away"...it sends chills up and down my spine -- his voice is so amazing it'll bring ya to tears! Dark Side of the Moon: I had a hard time telling the difference in vocals: Gilmour/Wright: Breathe, Us and Them, and Breathe Reprise Gilmour: Money (really? I thought this was Roger) Waters: Brain Damage and Eclipse (I thought this was Dave) :: HEY YOU, 1979 - from THE WALL Lyrics/Music: Waters; Vocals: Gilmour & Waters Waters Hey You! Out there in the cold getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me Hey you! Standing in the aisles with itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me Hey You! Don't help them to bury the light Don't give in without a fight Waters Hey you! Out there on your own sitting naked by the phone, would you touch me Hey you! With your ear against the wall waiting for someone to call out, would you touch me Gilmour and Waters Hey you! Would you help me to carry the stone Open your heart, I'm coming home Waters But it was only fantasy The wall was to high, as you can see No matter how he tried he could not break free And the worms ate into his brain Gilmour Hey you! Out there on the road doing what you're told, can you help me Hey you! Out there beyond the wall breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me Hey you! Don't tell me there's no hope at all Together we stand, divided we fall David also sings "Young Lust" and "Run Like Hell" is Waters AND Gilmours. Yeah, okay...can you tell the difference? :: Gilmour "Run Like Hell"...that is one cool tune:"You better paint your face up in your favorite disguise; with your button-down lips and your roller blind eyes"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 What a nice guy! January 2002 LONDON (AP) - David Gilmour is giving the proceeds from the sale of his London house to a charity. Gilmour sold the home to Earl Spencer - brother of the late Princess Diana - for $6.48 million, and gave the money to Crisis, which helps homeless people, The Sunday Telegraph reported. "I don't need the money and I just thought it would be a good thing to do,'' the paper quoted him as saying. ``I've had that house for nearly 20 years. It's made a fat profit and I've scarcely used it for the last six or seven years." Gilmour, 54, lives in a farmhouse in West Sussex and owns a house in Greece. The Independent newspaper reported that he'd originally bought the London home for $430,000. But Gilmour said he'd grown tired of having too many expensive possessions. "You collect Ferraris and then you've got to collect people to look after your Ferraris, and you've got to collect buildings to house the Ferraris," The Sunday Telegraph quoted him as saying. "Life gets very complicated. And eventually, at least in my case, you think 'I don't need this stuff.' And suddenly life gets simpler." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt_Acid Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Yeah, hearing Gilmour interviewed, he sounds very normal, and just cool about everything. Really nice. Like a big-hearted stoner. Roger Waters, on the other hand seems to me like a prick. I love him. I see a lot of myself in him. Like the way he said he wouldn't release The Wall unless Rick Wright left the band. Or had Dave Gilmour's face printed all over his toilet paper. It's f*cking hilarious. Sounds like something I would do. I bet though if I ever met Roger, we wouldn't get along at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Syd Barrett! Hi Catherine, I totally missed this thread, hope you've been well, I've been mostly hanging out at Rush message boards lately, like minds, y'know. Anyway, yeah I like the responses you've gotten here, glad to see you delving into Pink Floyds interviews, Roger's not a bad guy, I think he just let his vision take over and he thought since he formed Floyd, and David was the Syd sub, (if you will), that he was creator and master of Floyd, that's not true though, Never was. First of all, if any one band member ever personified Floyd it was Syd, he was a creative genius and best vocalist of any of them. Also Nick and Richard surely contributed equally as well. My favorite Pink Floyd song is Time, post Waters, it's Coming back to life. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible_r Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Gilmour, 54, lives in a farmhouse in West Sussex and owns a house in Greece. OMG! i didn't notice this when i read the post earlier! i have to find him! probably has a house in a tiny remote island though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Hey Mike! It was good to hear from you! I haven't been around much myself for a few months, as I've been busy -- at home and at the office. I hope all is well with you, too! Coming back to so many new people makes me feel like a the newbie! While, I've never heard Syd sing, I've read about how much of a creative genius he was. Recently I read a newspaper article featuring Syd from a few (or more) years back -- poor guy...too many Mandax / LSD induced breakdowns. What surprised me what that it was not David Gilmour's but Roy Harper's vocals "Have a Cigar". While it is a phenomenal song, for some reason, because I discovered it wasn't David singing, the song somehow now seems "foreign" -- for lack of a better term. Interestingly, when David Gilmour released his first solo album in 1978, one of the songs that he wrote but did not use at the time, became the Pink Floyd classic "Comfortably Numb". My apologies it's David Jon Gilmour,CBE. In November 2003, David was made Knights Commander in The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Upon receiving a CBE for services to music, David joked that the Queen had probably never even listened to Pink Floyd. "I suspect that if she listened to Pink Floyd, it was one of her children or grandchildren playing it, and she was more likely the one to say 'turn it off'"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt_Acid Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Yeah, from what I hear, Roger Waters had lost his voice, and Roy Harper happened to be recording that day, so they asked him to sing. Also, I feel really bad for Syd. I remember reading he got so bad they just stopped picking him up on the way to gigs. Rick Wright, his roomate at the time, would have to lie and saying he was going out to pick up a pack of cigarettes, then go out and play a gig. Then come back the next morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 Wow, looking above at that picture of Syd...you know that's going to happen to all of us someday: the aging; not a mental breakdown (well, depending of course on how many kids we have to drive us into that state of mind) At 36 w/ 1 child, I can't remember what I did 5 minutes ago half the time. The hammer of the Geritol God -- you can't duck its strike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt_Acid Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 Syd's not that old, but all those drugs really took his toll on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 "Old", regardless of a person's age, is a term that calls to mind those that are frail, helpless, haven't use of all their faculties, and is in poor health. - Syd, born January 6, 1946, is only 59 years old Due to Syd's mental status, he actually (and sadly) meets the criteria of "old" David, born March 6, 1946, just turned 59 this month - The youngest member of the band ~ and the most "Time"less Rick Wright, born July 28, 1945, will be 60 this year - Not quite close enough to being elderly yet "Elderly" implies a person whose age is 65 or older. - Nick Mason, born January 27, 1944, is 61 years old - Roger Waters, born September 6, 1943, turns 62 this year ...teetering just on the edge of elderly , as shocking as it is to think of them in those terms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 29, 2005 Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 I really like watching the Making of The Dark Side of the Moon, yeah they are older, but they really rocked, and i'll bet they still would. Syd doesn't look so old. I love Pink Floyd, they have a certain class and style I have not seen in any other band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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