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NEWS: Roger Waters performed four songs with David Gilmour at Kidlington in Oxfordshire, England on Saturday 10 July at a charity event for the Hoping Foundation (Hope and Optimism for Palestinians in the Next Generation).

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Did not think I'd see another time post-Live 8, pretty crazy...

Us And Them - The Pink Floyd Experience
http://www.usandthemband.com

Pretty cool!

And I got my Houston ticket assignment this morning for The Wall tour.

So they were the two that couldn't get along right? So if they're getting along enough to perform together again, will IT happen?

Pink Floyd is the only band that I'd punch a baby in the face to see perform live... after Led Zeppelin of course.

Doubt "it" will happen, since Richard Wright passed away. But who knows.

They will do it for the MONEY. Let's just hope one of them gets divorced. Alimony payments help bury past professional misunderstandings and ultimatums (Case in point: John Cleese)

Can't wait for November...Section A Row 20. Sucks David Gilmore won't be there, but Doyle Bramhall II does not disappoint.

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They will do it for the MONEY.

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The money's been on the table for years and they've turned it down. They've both gone on record saying that they'll perform together if its for a what they both agree is a good cause (i.e. Live 8).

Someone posted an article not too long ago about the two. It seems that it was more of David Gilmour being against a reuniting in the latter years of Rick Wright's life than Roger Waters. Its actually a really frustrating read.

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...but Doyle Bramhall II does not disappoint.

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While I completely agree with this statement, and love Doyle, he hasn't played with Roger in a while. Roger's current lead player is Dave Kilminster, who is also awesome. I saw them in Vegas a year or two ago and he was great.

Us And Them - The Pink Floyd Experience
http://www.usandthemband.com

Oh, my bad, I went to the DSOTM Tour a couple of years ago and thought it was Bramhall playing with him the whole time! He was legit in the In the Flesh DVD.

I really enjoyed Doyle Bramhall II when I saw him with Clapton. Not so much on the live recording I have of him with Waters. I don't remember the name of the CD, but I just remember thinking that he is no Gilmour.

HOLY ****! Roger posted this a short time ago on Facebook.

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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 ****ing 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 ****e, but if he didn't mind I didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was ****ing 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!

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Aren't one of them/both coming to Houston or DFW soon?

Would love to go see them.

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I do believe in God, except I spell it Led Zeppelin.

He's definitely gonna pick Houston...

/sarcasm

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End of story. Or possibly beginning.

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WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COULD IT POSSIBLY BE!!!!!!!!!!

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I could die a happy man immediately if they both played in Houston. Holy effing s###! Not gonna happen, but it makes for some awesome daydreaming.