Everyone these days seems to overlook the fact that Roger was/is also a GREAT bassist, so much, that his sound is a trad
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playtendo64 — 18 years ago(June 20, 2007 08:26 PM)
Roger for sure. he is the genius of Floyd. Ive seen The other members live on video(pulse) and roger live in person. and roger was better. and also Roger kind of directed pik floyd in more of the way syd would have liked it. When Syd was in the band he wanted to add female singers and a saxophonist. and then look a DSOTM female singers and a saxophonist and Roger Wrote mosts of it (if not all i always forget).
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aoa8212 — 13 years ago(January 05, 2013 12:35 AM)
David was a better singer and probably instrumentalist as well (although Roger was a good bassist and acoustic/rhythm guitar player), but Roger was a better songwriter and composer, and that's really what made their music stand out and what allowed them to sell so many albums and so many big concert tours and make so much money (even Syd was a millionaire when he died). The Wall was basically all Roger, and it was their most successful album. Yes, David had the great guitar solos on Comfortably Numb that have been rightfully lauded, and his singing of the chorus was sensational as well, but the songwriting itself was what made the song a classic and a work of art, and that was all Roger. So I tend to favor Roger.
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antialiasis — 18 years ago(July 01, 2007 02:45 PM)
As it happens my favorite Pink Floyd album is The Wall, which was mostly Roger's own composition (although it indeed wouldn't be the same without David), so I have always had a personal bias towards him on the musical side. However, it could never cease to bother me after I got into Pink Floyd that from all I had heard of him he was a very unpleasant person. I don't like egomaniacs, no matter how genius their music is, and every time I saw him quoted lashing out at David or somebody who didn't like his album or somebody who didn't think he was the greatest lyricist since the war, I would feel truly pained by the knowledge I loved that guy's music.
However, from what I've heard more recently he's pretty much realized how much of an idiot he was and become a much more agreeable guy, and now he actually seems to be the one of the two who is much more willing to patch up their relationship. Roger has talked about how much he enjoyed the Live 8 appearance and would want to do it again, but they still appeared separately at the Syd Barrett memorial concert, so that's more likely to be David's fault. I don't know what he's smoking, personally; surely, no matter how much he hates Roger's guts, it can't be such a torturous experience to play a couple of songs on stage with him, can it? Especially knowing how much every Pink Floyd fan is dying to have it happen again, it really seems stupid they don't even do it at the
Syd Barrett memorial
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They're both talented musicians in their own ways, but their individual contributions to Pink Floyd aside, I want them together, darn it, and as David currently appears to be the one getting more in the way of that, I feel inclined to like Roger more for the moment. -
davemx — 18 years ago(July 06, 2007 11:43 AM)
Dave is holding back the reunion, who's the egomaniacal idiot now?
Roger may have been selfish back on Floyd's heyday, being a young control-freak rock star, but nowadays he seems to be more content, and accesible, unlike Dave, at his advanced age still has lots of resentment towards Waters, you would expect him to be wiser than that by now, but sadly, he isn't, and i really 5b4hate his excuses, saying he's more interested in creating new "art", than playing Floyd's (Waters') music, yeah, right, who needs another "Division Bell", or anotehr "On An Island"??? (YAWN). -
grampashab — 18 years ago(July 09, 2007 10:53 PM)
Roger's violent, intense bass playing and screaming like a strangled pterodactyl in Live at Pompeii display a genius that David, for all his conventionally attractive talents as a tasteful guitarist and vocalist, simply doesn't possess. Guys like Roger don't come along every day.
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alch-1 — 15 years ago(May 06, 2010 10:12 AM)
Roger for those haunting "Wall" vocals, and David for those sublime guitar riffs.
On a side note, doea anyome know of any tour dates in Australia yet, i wanna get in there quick!!
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what-tomorrow-knows — 15 years ago(August 17, 2010 03:50 PM)
All I will say is: Syd was the inspiration, Roger had the vision, Rick brought it into reality, David took it a step beyond and Nick kept it all from falling apart many years too soon.
They were all Pink, and they were all Floyd.