Over their many years and incarnations, Pink Floyd turned out masterpiece after masterpiece, each of which deserves an article all its own.
When bassist and co-lead singer Roger Waters left the band to pursue his own solo career, Gilmour, along with drummer Nick Mason and fired (but still present) keyboardist Richard Wright continued to record and play live even in the face of Roger’s lawsuits and publicly poured derision.
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The band carried on, ironically benefitting from the fact that no other members really knew how to write songs and continued to push the boundaries of experimental music. When Pink Floyd’s founder and sole (to date) songwriter, Syd Barrett became unstable, the band brought in his friend David Gilmour to back him up and ultimately replace him before Syd’s brief solo career. Somewhere in the limbo where these twain meet is the 1980 – 1981 tour in support of Pink Floyd’s 1979 LP The Wall, in which both the band and audience were present, but were literally isolated from each other by the growing, opaque, white brick divider that gave the album and tour its name. That’s right, a live concert with the band, but without any “live” audience. If that sounds unprecedented, then bury yourself into Pink Floyd’s 1972 theatrically released film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, in which the band performed a rousing and incredible live concert in the Roman amphitheater at Pompeii whose ancient, now uncovered seats remained completely empty.
That’s right, a live concert without the band, completely Floyd devoid. Their live stage show is so peerlessly eye-popping that it has been touring without the band (as the “Laser Spectacular featuring the music of Pink Floyd”) for years now. While this certainly applies to their music (“progressive” and “psychedelic rock” are hardly complete descriptions), Pink Floyd’s versatility goes far beyond the excellent music they’ve played over the decades. Aside from being one of the greatest bands of all time, Pink Floyd is easily one of the most versatile bands ever to rock the face of the Earth.
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