Roger Waters or David Gilmour ?

[nvmbrsdoom5]

It's kinda like who was more Queen...Freddie Mercury or Brian May?

Mercury with his distinct Queen voice or May with his unique signature Queen guitar riff?

They both wrote about the same number of songs between them.

Both were equal in Queen...like I said, it takes two to tango.

Excellent point. I agree completely.

I consider myself more of a Gilmour fan, if I have to choose. I play guitar and he's one of my biggest influences so naturally I lean in his favor.

But I think all four members of Pink Floyd were greatly important to that band. Rick Wright's playing was hugely important to the overall sound of that band, I don't think he gets enough credit.

I enjoy the latter day PF albums like "Division Bell" and so forth.....but there's just something not quite there when measuring them up against their 1970s output, and surely that's the lack of Roger's presence.

[Mikey]

I always thought Rick Wright made some cool songs too.

My fav's were/are

Remember a Day
Summer '68
See Saw

and of course... my all time fav ......
Paintbox
YouTube - pink floyd paint box

and check out this video
Have you ever seen a worst case of the camera-men ignoring the lead singer ?
YouTube - (Zee) Pink Floyd - Remember a Day - on French TV

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[Zemo]

Without Waters there would be No Darkside of the moon, which he wrote every song and there would be no wall which he wrote all but one, which he had help on. Waters was Floyd. He was there from the start and Gilmour was a replacement.

[Hector]

Excellent point. I agree completely.

I consider myself more of a Gilmour fan, if I have to choose. I play guitar and he's one of my biggest influences so naturally I lean in his favor.

But I think all four members of Pink Floyd were greatly important to that band. Rick Wright's playing was hugely important to the overall sound of that band, I don't think he gets enough credit.

I enjoy the latter day PF albums like "Division Bell" and so forth.....but there's just something not quite there when measuring them up against their 1970s output, and surely that's the lack of Roger's presence.

Agreed.

[Hotfoot]

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict. My all time favorite Hallucinogenic song!

"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" is a track written and performed by Roger Waters from the two-part 1969 Pink Floyd album, Ummagumma.

The track consists of several minutes of noises resembling rodents and birds simulated by Waters' voice and other techniques, such as tapping the microphone played at different speeds, followed by Waters providing a few stanzas of quasi-lyrics in an exaggerated Scottish brogue[1].

The Picts were the indigenous people of what is now Scotland that merged with the Scots.

There is a "hidden message" in the song at approximately 4:34. If played at a slower speed, Waters [1] can be heard to say, "That was pretty avant-garde, wasn't it?" Also, at the very end of the rant, Waters is heard to say "and the wind cried Mary", followed by "Thank you."

[EmergencyIan]

Gilmour, hands down.


- Ian

[EMCE Hammer]

Without Waters there would be No Darkside of the moon, which he wrote every song and there would be no wall which he wrote all but one, which he had help on. Waters was Floyd. He was there from the start and Gilmour was a replacement.

I totally get where you're coming from here, but I'm with everybody who says it wouldn't have been the same without Gilmour either. Substitute in your favorite all-time great for DG, and whoever you pick I don't think it would have been nearly as good. I gotta have 'em both.