I was sick in bed for a couple of days last week. Watched hottest 100 like a version on ABC iview. I wasn’t initially very excited but it was surprisingly good viewing.
I was just listening to a podcast interview with Dave Rowntree, talking his music and life all through the 80s, really interesting guy.
Yeah, I read a lengthy interview with him a few months ago (around the time he released his solo album)… definitely has some stories to tell. Seems his recollections are reasonably clear compared to Graham and Damon whose may/may not have been dulled by… um… lifestyle choices…
Didn’t he have a spell as an MP or local mayor (or somesuch) at one point?
Not sure if he mentioned the MP stuff, but talked about his early computer work, squatting, busking around France, among other things. The podcast was “Turned Out A Punk”, so the focus was early days of getting into music.
I thought it was the 95 show that were broadcast on Triple J?
PJ weren’t cool enough for Triple J by 98.
They broadcast both a 1995 and a 1998 show on Triple J. I remember by the 2003 tour TripleM did a few. But 98 was definitely a JJJ broadcast. Had it on tape and Richard Kingsmill? hosted it.
Just going to put this here.
Roger Waters is doing a re-imagining of Dark Side of the Moon.
This is his new version of Money.
Personally, I don’t think much of it…the middle part where David Gilmour’s solo was is replaced by a useless spoken word part.
Waters has never gotten over the rest of the band moving on from him…and leaving him in their wake.
Embarrassing artistic decision from a bloke who often acts embarrassingly.
I’ve heard it.
Don’t like it.
Think it’s B Grade Leonard Cohen.
But I do respect the right of the writer to do whatever the hell he wants with it 50 years later.
He released an EP a little while ago… some of the Dark Side… tracks, some other “reimaginings”. All of it an absolute snoozefest.
Stop Roger… just farking stop. Go ahead and noodle away in your studio on your old songs. Just please don’t release them…
You haven’t released a decent album in years and your constant sniping at David Gilmour and Nick Mason is utterly tiresome.
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This is brilliant.
I’ve thought about this, and no.
Really, no.
Go see David Gilmour if you like.
I know who’s been putting on amaaaaaazing concerts for the last twenty years.
And if you haven’t been, then go.
I’m tired of people whinging about a band that broke up forty years ago.
And people are still whinging about it.
Even though Richard Wright is dead.
Gilmour took the band name, even though Waters wrote virtually all the songs.
Waters DID actually go back for a gig and they treated him like crap. So obviously That was never happening again.
And Gilmour has played live at Waters gigs.
Let it go!
Stop with the forty year old drama that is entirely fan-based and pretending it’s artist based.
They’re his songs.
He can do what he wants with them.
Money is no different than Layla.
I prefer the original to both, but they’re their songs.
Haha…I was just looking back through this thread earlier and found our last unresolved discussion on this topic.
The fact remains…Waters is a tool 
Fact remains he’s allowed to be.
Imagine people thinking the guy that did the solo on a song you wrote has any say on what you did with it.
Seriously.
That’s just part of the commentary…he took a great song and farked it up.
Well done Roger 
And I’m not sure that Gilmour has made any comment about it.
The song is fifty years old.
I think you could maybe let it go.
Edit: I don’t even like it!
That’s not the point.
Why should I like it?
The dude is friggin’…nearly dead!
But it’s his song. Not mine. And not Gilmour’s.
Is that what irks? That it’s actually his to do what he wants with?
Edit: edit: maybe that was the point.
And good on him, if so.
lol.
Fair.
I follow Waters on FB, and I don’t follow many, so…imagine the ‘I liked Floyd/Waters before they got political’ posts.
And the ‘why won’t Waters bury the hatchet and reform Pink Floyd’ posts.
Easily triggered.
But again, I would…maybe cross the road for Gilmour, but I don’t think I’d hang around long.
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