So here's what happened. Last year, 'The Hoping Foundation'
a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids,
(www.hopingfoundation.org)
put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, the idea of which
was to raise money by auctioning karaoke performances by various
celebrities. David was there as a supporter and was moved to perform an
impromptu rendition of George Gershwin's 'Summertime?' which he
performed aided and abetted by supermodel Kate Moss.
In the wake of that evening, someone, I think it was David himself, came
up with this 'Wouldn't it be funny', idea. What if he (David that is)
were to sing the old Teddy Bears song 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' with
me (Roger that is), what with us having been so famously at each
other's throats for years and years. Get it!!!! Anyway he E-mailed me
with this suggestion and I loved it, so then it was just a question of
juggling dates and deciding to do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Comfortably
Numb' to round out our little set. Or so I thought, until he sent me a
number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in
two-part harmony. I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David,
with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his
head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then
struggle through hours and hours of routining a performance that lay way
outside my vocal comfort zone. To my eternal shame I bottled out and
told Dave I would happily do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'C. Numb', but
that 'To Know him is to Love him' was beyond me.
Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me
how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until
one day he made one final entreaty. I quote "If you do 'To Know Him Is
To Love Him' for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I'll come and do 'C. Numb'
on one of your Wall shows". Well! You could have knocked me down with a
feather. How fucking cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an
offer. I couldn't, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so
explaining that I would probably be shite, but if he didn't mind I
didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was fucking
great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.
Roger
PS. Just heard from David, he will decide in due course which gig he
wants to do, it will be a surprise!
--
I highligted the end of the post , not him. But it seems like that Waters would love to work with Gilmoure and the other guy just want one show.
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Well at least one gig on the wall tour - > Roger Waters post at his facebook page.
So here's what happened. Last year, 'The Hoping Foundation'
a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids,
(www.hopingfoundation.org)
put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, the idea of which
was to raise money by auctioning karaoke performances by various
celebrities. David was there as a supporter and was moved to perform an
impromptu rendition of George Gershwin's 'Summertime?' which he
performed aided and abetted by supermodel Kate Moss.
In the wake of that evening, someone, I think it was David himself, came
up with this 'Wouldn't it be funny', idea. What if he (David that is)
were to sing the old Teddy Bears song 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' with
me (Roger that is), what with us having been so famously at each
other's throats for years and years. Get it!!!! Anyway he E-mailed me
with this suggestion and I loved it, so then it was just a question of
juggling dates and deciding to do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Comfortably
Numb' to round out our little set. Or so I thought, until he sent me a
number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in
two-part harmony. I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David,
with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his
head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then
struggle through hours and hours of routining a performance that lay way
outside my vocal comfort zone. To my eternal shame I bottled out and
told Dave I would happily do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'C. Numb', but
that 'To Know him is to Love him' was beyond me.
Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me
how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until
one day he made one final entreaty. I quote "If you do 'To Know Him Is
To Love Him' for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I'll come and do 'C. Numb'
on one of your Wall shows". Well! You could have knocked me down with a
feather. How fucking cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an
offer. I couldn't, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so
explaining that I would probably be shite, but if he didn't mind I
didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was fucking
great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.
Roger
PS. Just heard from David, he will decide in due course which gig he
wants to do, it will be a surprise!
--
I highligted the end of the post , not him. But it seems like that Waters would love to work with Gilmoure and the other guy just want one show.
I read the same release. If I had to guess, I'd say David shows up at one of European shows in 2011. I can't see him coming to the U.S. for one show. But who knows? Maybe he will do more than one. Either way, this is encouraging. Perhaps they (Roger, David, & Nick) will decide to put all their differences aside & do a limited tour after this.
It's amazing how many shows Roger has added to this tour already (most already sold out)............could be the show of the decade.
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I read the same release. If I had to guess, I'd say David shows up at one of European shows in 2011. I can't see him coming to the U.S. for one show. But who knows? Maybe he will do more than one. Either way, this is encouraging. Perhaps they (Roger, David, & Nick) will decide to put all their differences aside & do a limited tour after this.
It's amazing how many shows Roger has added to this tour already (most already sold out)............could be the show of the decade.
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