That Stupid Club

My friend kp told me about the los­ing final­ist Marty Casey of Rock Star: INXS, which is a trav­esty by the way, and his per­for­mance of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here and sent the audio clip too. I wanted to dis­like it but I have to say I was pleas­antly sur­prised. A good per­for­mance by Marty and only let down by the house band; espe­cially the gui­tarist, but try­ing to emu­late David Gilmour is a lost cause any­way. Also the arrange­ment was a lit­tle too rich towards the end which I thought was uncalled for.

So I told him, “Well, lis­ten to target=“_blank”>THIS.” THIS being the reunited Pink Floyd at Live 8.

A lit­tle back­ground:
Roger Waters has not been on speak­ing terms with the rest of the band for more than two decades, but the band agreed to put their dif­fer­ences aside for the event. Wish You Were Here and the album it came on was ded­i­cated to found­ing mem­ber Syd Bar­rett who suf­fered a men­tal break­down due to both drugs and pres­sure from life on the road. Roger men­tioned Syd dur­ing the intro­duc­tion, mak­ing it clear that this per­for­mance was for him, and it was an incred­i­ble per­for­mance. The first time I saw this clip I wanted to cry.

One could only hope that these men mel­lowed by the years could find the joy in cre­at­ing beau­ti­ful music together again.