>>>>>>>At the risk of starting a twit-filtered whiney flame war with Roger Waters fans, I just picked up a copy of David Gilmour's Remember That Night at Royal Albert Hall DVD and it is fantastic. The best concert DVD i have seen. Recorded in HD, with 5.1 surround sound, documentaries. He draws from his new album and some Pink Floyd classics. That chap can play. Highly recommended.
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>>>>>>Well I don't know why you addressed this to me, Chris, cos I ain't gonna flame you over this, and I'm not particularly a Floyd fan, well not since Dark Side.
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>>>>>Was joking about flame wars. Just continuing the music / thievery theme. I cant say i was a big floyd fan myself, but this dvd is quite good.
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>>>>I turned my back on Floyd after Brick. They used a kids' school to record the kids' voices and, despite being millionaires, and that song's huge sales around the world, the kids didn't even get a copy, or a lolipop for their troubles. And I reckon they went crap at that time anyway.
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>>>>Mind you, I don't know if you've heard of the folk/rock group "the Oyster Band", but I, with several members of our choir, did backing singing on that, and I got diddly-squat for it :-(
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>>>>But then again, they're not 1/10 as big as Floyd.
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>>>>BTW my fave tracks of Floyd are Dragonfly (drop-dead gorgeous, esp. the guitar playing), from back in days of yore, and Albatross.
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>>>I had read that after the floyd reunion show for Live 8, PF records sales for 2 of their more recent albums jumped 1300+ percent. Gilmour stated that he donated his proceeds from those increased sales to the charity and called on others to do the same. So he's not all bad.
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>>But don't you think he would have been pilloried if he'd slotted the cash? It would have been like Elton John cashing in on sales of the special "Candle in the Wind" track he performed at Di's funeral.
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>>Besides, Gilmour's probably mega rich now to his very rich back in Brick times.
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>Thats true. Much easier to do those things when you're mega rich. But he was very outfront on the subject. Sounds like you're ragging on him for doing the right thing ;)
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>I'd be curious to know what the other acts did.
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>According to HMV, some of the artists who played Live 8 experienced sales increases as follows:
>1. Pink Floyd - Echoes: Best Of Pink Floyd - 1343%
>2. The Who Then & Now - 863%
>3. Annie Lennox Eurythmics Greatest Hits - 500%
>4. Dido Life for Rent - 412%
>5. Razorlight Up all Night - 335%
>6. Robbie Williams Greatest Hits - 320%
>7. Joss Stone Mind, Body & Soul - 309%
>8. Sting Greatest Hitslike this - 300%
>9. Travis Singles - 268%
>10. Madonna Immaculate Collection - 200%
>11. Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters - 174%
>12. Mariah Carey Greatest Hits - 170%
>13. Snoop Dogg Rhythm & Gangsta - 166%
>14. The Killers Hot Fuss - 131%
>15. U2 Best Of: 1990 - 2000 - 116%
>16. Elton John 1970 - 2002 Greatest Hits - 111%
>17. Keane Hopes & Fears - 101%
>18. The Beatles Number 1's - 71%
>19. Snow Patrol Final Straw - 69%
>20. REM Reveal - 50%

Interesting. It's as if their altruism was akin to big companies' and their charitable donations as tax write-offs.
Like method in their madness.