Quote Originally Posted by GHoSToKeR
This might be blasphemy, but I can't stand Waters.. Yeah, occasionally he has good melodies and he might be a good song writer, but he's a second rate Bass player and a third-rate performer. When he performs his own stuff he sounds stupid and when he performs Pink Floyd stuff it's even worse, and he actually changes the melodies of some of Floyd's most well-known songs!! Give me Gilmour any day!
I think Waters' strongest point was his song writing skill. Especially his ability to make a seemingly continuous, concept type, album. From Dark Side on, Floyd albums were more like symphonies than just collections of random songs. The same with Waters' post Floyd stuff. Contrast that to the post Waters Floyd stuff, Division Bell, etc, which try as they might, still turned out as just a collection of songs. I still like the music but I'm much less likely to put on the disc and listen all the way through like I would with something like Wish You Were Here.

As far as performances are concerned, I've seen Floyd(post Waters) once, Gilmour once, and Waters twice. The Floyd show was the best concert I have ever seen, simply incredible. But Waters was much better than Gilmour. Then again, when I saw Gilmour it was back in '84 or '85 and he seemed to be trying to intentionally distance himself from Pink Floyd. It would be interesting to hear a comparison from somebody who saw both Waters and Glimour on their last tours.
Fengzi Reviewed by Fengzi on . If you're a Pink Floyd fan Here is a cool video of them rehearsing for a gig...shot a long time ago Some of the music rehearsed was used for the album Ummagumma Online Video: Pink Floyd - The Man and The Journey rehearsals 1969 | Veoh Video Network Rating: 5