Today was the North American release of David Gilmour’s solo CD On An Island.
I picked up my CD at Best Buy because, well, I’m impatient, but also because the Best Buy CD has an extra track bundled in with it.
The extra track (all instrumental) is on its own separate promotional CD and is 6 minutes and 37 seconds long. For the sale price of $9.99, it’s worth a trip to Best Buy.
Well, I’m not sure that it’s actually David writing in it, but David Gilmour’s site has a blog on it.
Most of the content on the blog site deals with recording sessions of his new album On An Island which is scheduled to drop on March 6th of 2006. This will be his first solo album since the 1984 release of About Face.
Honestly, I’m a bit apprehensive about this album. According to a news source, the title track teams Gilmour with David Crosby and Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills and Nash).
I’m not sure if they play on other songs but I’ve never been a fan of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Let’s hope that this album is not a stinker.
Just got done watching Pink Floyd reunited (Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright) on MTV (also shown on VH1) as they took the stage in Hyde Park in London.
I can say that I’m a bit irritated about the whole thing. Not with Pink Floyd’s performance. As a fan, I found their performance excellent, powerful and emotionally moving. These guys haven’t been together on stage since 1981. What I am irritated with is not knowing when Pink Floyd was going to play. I scoured the ‘net looking for this information and couldn’t find anything. You would think that out of the 3,000 people plus blogging Live 8 one of them would have a general estimate on when the bands would be playing. Because of this lack of information, I missed the first song of their set, Breathe, but managed to catch the others (Money, Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb).
As Pink Floyd’s last song was winding down, MTV and VH1 made a terrible, egregious mistake. While Pink Floyd was still playing, they cut to two fucking yahoos that were covering the event. Then as a final insult, they cut away to commercial while the band members were wrapping up and leaving the stage!
Morons! These guys haven’t been seen together for 20+ years. Why not let them play their damn songs and then talk about it? Apparently, I’m not the only one who that thought this was a horrible mistake by MTV and VH1.
Luckily, AOL is rebroadcasting the London and Philly shows on their website and they promise that they will have the entire show on there song by song, on demand. Or you can simply grab the Torrent. This is good news, considering the bumbling of MTV and VH1.
Regardless of all my bitching, that’s not what Live 8 is all about. If you don’t know what Live 8 is about, go educate yourselves and if you are so inclined, add your name to the list. It would be great if our wants for Live 8 were fulfilled but I think that they missed a few vital elements. No matter how much economic burden we pull off their shoulders or how much economic aid we give them, the men and women of Africa will never be able to emerge out of the desperate hole that they are in if the corrupt elements in their government don’t stop betraying their citizens. In addition to this, the roaming bands of thugs that rape, murder and terrorize must be eliminated.
Looks like the original members of Pink Floyd (David Gilmour, Nick
Mason, Richard Wright, and most notably Roger Waters) are reuniting for
the Live 8 concert. The last time that this quartet was on stage
together was approximately 24 years ago. Does this mean that we’ll see
a new studio album out of the band (their last studio album was The Division Bell (1994)) out of Pink Floyd? As much as I would like it, it’s probably going to be a one time thing.
