If you want to see the full video of the semi-reunion of Pink Floyd, click on the following links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWh8fPKTr3k (part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo0eiBHh4JM (part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP07Wy2xlfs (part 3) Pink Floyd legends Roger Waters and David Gilmour performed together at a Hoping Foundation benefit in England on July 10th, 2010 in front of 200 people. The two Pink Floyd members were accompanied by Pink Floyd backing musicians Guy Pratt and Andy Newmark with Chester Kamen and Roger Waters' son Harry on keyboards. The event raised over $500,000 for the charity organization which aids Palestinian kids. Setlist: 4 songs - To Know Him Is To Love Him (Phil Spector) - Wish You Were Here - Comfortably Numb - Another Brick in the Wall ROGER WATERS - THE WALL 2010-2011 - THE GIG WITH DAVID (from Rolling Stone, July 15, 2010 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/181370 ) 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! ( http://www.facebook.com/notes/roger-waters-the-wall/the-gig-with-david/144577855556673 ; fake or not?) Original clip uploaded on July 13, 2010, 02:40 PM Pictures by Polly Samson.
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