Comments on: Pink Floyd @ Live 8

By: Harry Rackers

Harry Rackers — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:25:41 +0000

Hi, I have been a Pink Floyd fan for many, many years now. I have seen them live 6 times (long time ago) I made a webpage in tribute to Syd Barrett feel free to visit and watch a few movies. Greetings Harry Rackers

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:14:51 +0000

I was playing Floyd when I was 15 I am 49 now. Do the amth. I ahve most of their albums. I was a weed smoking, acid dropping co;ege boy and I tought life was what they said it would be.
Now at 6 figures a year they were right dead on! I loved the live 8 bootleg I have and I will wear it out. I have played it more then dark side of the mooon and thats saying something!

By: metooplez

metooplez — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:20:20 +0000

I have to say I wasn’t all that impressed with the video pf Floyd. To the above poster who talked about ‘class’ I really don’t think you’ve read too many interviews of Floyd members. No doubt they are talented musicians, but class? I don’t think so.

Roger seemed to be having the best time, David never cracked a smile until he was walking off stage. At the end of the set Roger had to corral them all together to put arms around one another for the audience’s benefit. From what I little I know of Roger I’d have thought he had a mini stroke or smoked some of the gangja! More power to them though, far better than the days when Roger would spit on the audience.

By: the_painfull

the_painfull — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:06:15 +0000

To me was ‘well, i saw Pink Floyd playing live together, I’m done’. Now i just need to plant a tree, write a book and have a couple of kids.

What most shocked me was the fact they played as if they were back in 1972 playing Breathe for the first time, enjoying themselves and with what they were listening, like and old good shoe, it fits.

They played heavenly well, as the good old days, and i read some people saying that David was not comfortable at all, the hell, listen again the solo from Comfortably Numb! That’s passion. That’s being in it. On it. I’m only 26 years old and listened to Pink Floyd for the last 5 years.. have thousands of bootlegs, and i still need to crash my head against the wall to understand that, what i’m listening, is THAT good.

Reunion tour now, please.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:58:15 +0000

I was thrilled to see Pink Floyd play live at live 8 by far the best band altogether – they played supurbly i only watched it on tv on – dissapointed i could not have been there. I was a big Floyd fan in the 80′s loved them but didn’t really listen properly, and have not listened to my tapes for ages.All my Floyd cassete tapes are knackered now so today i treated myself to Dark side of the moon and Echoes on CD and a pair of sennheiser head phones so i can really listen now.
So glad they are back in the charts – they deserve every penny they are fantastic artists.

I was sad i missed Richard Ascroft with Coldplay, I had to go out and missed it on the radio too – anyone know where i can get a recording of that performance video/dvd or cd whatever? I was sat on a beach in Croatia 2 weeks ago and heard a recording of it played on a serbian radio station that the Serb family next to us on the beach were listening to – but would love to hear it again – Ashcroft my hero and into coldplay.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 19:20:04 +0000

Well maybe those folks who don’t know the Floyd might have actually got a big taste of them, watching masters take control of a massive show. Maybe when they decide to go to the reunion tour dates, these kids will actually anticipate the music and not just the gettin’-wasted scene some would like the events to become (Dead, Phish, etc.). Live8 swhow being replayed on Sat. on VH1, BTW.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:01:52 +0000

It’s a shame so many people have no idea who Floyd is.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 21:05:53 +0000

I would not be surprised if the fast majority of the audience, raised on top-40 radio, had never heard a note of Pink Floyd’s music before.

It think it was very much a pop audience rather an a rock one; you could tell that by how bewildered they were by the superbly OTT Velvet Revolver.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:48:01 +0000

Surely Mariah Carey was on to let you take a pee-break, make a ‘Nice Cup Of Tea’, put the dogs out (should they be predisposed towards Saturday night combustion) and generally stretch you legs.

You weren’t supposed to sit and watch!

By: mick W

mick W — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:40:22 +0000

Floyd were terrific and showed what a worldwide class act they were and still are. The problem for me was it was the wrong platform for them to showcase. Following Robbie Williams and The Who I think the crowd wanted to party and Floyd are not a ‘get up and dance’ band. I also thought the finale led by Sir Paul which followed was poor and lacked direction. Nonetheless Floyd were terrific for an old geezer like me who first saw them with Syd Barrett all those years ago and it was a nice touch when Waters dedicated Wish You Were Here’ to ‘Everone who can’t be here tonight and to Syd of course’. Alan Parsons must have been mixing the sound for them because it was the best sound mix all day.