What happened between Roger Waters and David Gilmour?

Polly Sampson is an idiot

David Gilmour and Rick Wright were the musical genius behind Pink Floyd and Nick Mason is HIGHLY underrated drummer! Water's was mediocre bassist at best and Gilmour either taught him how to play it ir played it himself! Waters wrote some words!

Ok, looks like Waters was not Mr. Nice Guy.
But Waters was the man who hold the project together.
A band is not only about music - there is a lot of Organisation stuff to do and Waters pushed it. He was the Alpha.
And the other band-members felt pushed by him.
No one to blame here.

Roger is 80 yrs old. David is 77 yrs old. I would think they are thinking of retirement, not touring. Sorry, but come to grips with life. They are never getting back together.

You are right no Richard Wright no pink Floyd absolutely right

All albums after Waters left suck. Also Waters is mind behind Pink Floyd, he is bad musician, while David is great musician, one of best ever. David does not like Rogers activism and politics, he and his wifr love money.

Insulting people who don't have the same opinion as you is straight from the cancel culture/ twitter playbook and it's childish to think that a conflict have a good and bad side, as it's more nuanced than that.

Gilmore kanske inte gillade att uppträda i nazistliknade uniform o dito kulspruta!

Waters can't sing anyways,david gilmore is pink floyd

David Gilmour joined the band years after it was formed, for me he should have had no say in what happened to Pink Floyd

In my opinion as soon as Roger Waters left Pink Floyd that was the end of Pink Floyd

I’m a childhood friend of David and Syd
And knew Roger briefly
It is believed that Roger is responsible for Syd’s untimely demise into madness.
Sparked on by Rogers emphatic feeding of the cause.
One day hopefully this truth will be known,
But I’m just an old man at the end of my life and I’ll take what I know with me.
As for the guys in that band they made some amazing music.
Just sad that it all fell apart.

David Gilmour wasn't there for their debut album you dunce!

I think as long as Richard Wright remains dead, a PF reunion is off the cards!

Two extremely rich men bickering, who cares!

Gilmores wife is just as insufferable as roger waters...maybe they should have married eachother instead.

Waters has become a real bore over the years with his opinions. Just stick to music after all that’s all he is.. And not even the best bass player in Floyd..

Egos!

All i know these 4 are the badesst Cats on the plant r.i.p. RW

I had listened to Pink Floyd, I had listened ( I still do ) to David Gilmour as an individual, I had listened to Roger Waters as an individual, I didn't know for a long time that they were/are in Pink Floyd, when I found out and that they have a beef found it a real shame

No fault.. can’t force grown ass men to like each other. My take is that Waters would be insufferable to work and tour with. I have listened to many of his interviews, his opinion is the only one that ever matters.

Amazing band one of my favorites, but at this point these guys are coming up on 80 years old and holding our breath for them to get together again and tour or put it out. Another album is pretty much a waste of energy.

As a commercial brand, Pink Floyd is Gilmore, Waters, Wright and Mason. Pink Floyd ceased being art when Syd Barrett took creativity with him.

Get over it Roger Waters, you are on the wrong side of history.

Waters is a difficult man but a brilliant visionary…their greatest music was produced with him at the helm. This is a “hit piece” from the very first sentence.

I think we need to stop hoping for another reunion and just appreciate what the Floyd has done over the years. I think we’ll maybe, just maybe have a reconciliation between Roger and David at best.

I don't care about the business/emotional/politico aftermath of Pink Floyd. There's enough blame to go around for all of them.
Was Waters a bit of a bully, control-freak, wanting everything perfect, ...,?, I dunno' but what great musician doesn't, and so what, did we not all like all the Pink Floyd albums from "The Wall" back ? ...-so there ya go.

To me, Waters and Gilmour remind me a bit of Lennon(Waters) and McCartney(Gilmour), with only some similarities, respectively, no ego's allowed. ;)
Both are accomplished musicians, inputing/creating melodies, harmonies, ..., but technically, (instrument-playing-wise) McCartney(Gilmour) was a bit better than Lennon(Waters).
However, Lyrically/Story/Theme/Writing-wise, Lennon(Waters) was far more gifted than McCartney(Gilmour).

But that said, those similarities begin to diverse, group-wise:
-From the "Pipers, ...,", and even before, ..., to "The Final Cut", it was mostly Roger Waters lyrically/sound-wise, and with Gilmour, (and Wright and Mason), technically providing the sound/gutar-work and musicianship that Waters wanted.
-From the "Please Please Me", and even before, ..., to "Let It Be", it was (more than not) shared with Lennon lyrically/sound-wise, and McCartney lyrically/sound-wise, and Harrison lyrically/sound-wise and Starr.
-Without Lennon there would've been NO Beatles, (well ya, that's a given), but there was a Band on the Run, -sry, bad joke.
-Without Waters there would've been NO Pink Floyd, and yet thankfully, there was. :)
However, without Gilmour would Waters have found that comradery/musical guitar work and sound to his lyrics, (before and after Syd Barrett), along with Wright and Mason, that he envisioned.?
The fact that Waters pays homage to Syd Barrett in some of Pink Floyd's most famous songs shows how much human compassion Waters has unbeknownst to many critics, then and now.

But the point is, without Roger Waters, (way back then) Pink Floyd would've fell apart with Syd Barrett, Gilmour would've gone on in some other groups, pop jingles, and some jazz/blues guitaring around, like his solo work.
Gilmour wanted to make "Momentary Lapse of Reason" his own solo work, but NOBODY, (in the music industry), would support it and he knew it. He was actually told in no uncertain business/music terms that you either make it a Pink Floyd sounding album or there will be NO (Pink Floyd)album and he knew it.! -so, make no mistake about that, and the same can be said for Division Bell, ...
In the end, both were great post Pink Floyd-ish sounding Albums, with Gilmours own signature.

When I think of Pink Floyd I think of "A Saucerful of Secrets"/"Set The Controls For the Heart of The Sun"/"Corporal Clegg", :), ..., or I think of DSOTM, or "Wish You Were Here", or "Animals", or "The Wall".
But when I think of post Pink Floyd, then Gilmour's Pink Floyd'ish sounding MLOR, and Division Bell come to mind.

I will say one thing more,
after everything the Beatles and other groups before them went through, legally and otherwise, you'd think Waters and Gilmour would've known to climb down from their egotesticle pedestals back then and sow those seeds before they went bad.!
But hey!, you know what they say about hindsight?, -it's always too late. lol.
If you like that song, the lyrics, the melodies, the harmonies, ..., whatever, then that's ALL that really matters, then, or now, or tomorrow.
Peace, and Power to the People babies.
☮

It's clear you can have pink floyd without roger waters, thank god.

In my opinion Dark Side of the Moon was a creative masterpiece to me it was the greatest Rock album of all time even against heavy hitters like Led Zeppelin lV, Jethro Tull Aqualung,The Who Tommy, Black Sabbath Paranoid and Deep Purple Machine Head and Montrose’s and Van Halen’s and. Boston’s first album to name a few along with Who’s next

They divorced, that's what happened.

In my opinion Waters is far more talented then gilmore who lerdonally I can do without .

well gilmour's bride seems a peice of work then, cough cough gold digger . i think roger can hold his head very high .

The final cut was the trash. Roger didn't let no one tell him anything and it was a very anticipated album. It fell short. That's when the beef between both of them hit the fan.

I'm an enormous Pink Floyd fan and I have no interest in them reuniting again.
Rick's dead. Enough said.

Jeezus! So, they were on the outs before anything else happened for Pink Floyd? Your entire addressing of the title took 3 seconds?

Shit script!

Waters is a psychotic morbid narcissist. He's a coward and a bully. Why the hell would anyone want anything to do with the trash heap!? Waters is the villain! F*** him!

Pink Floyd is and has always been David Gilmour. Pink Floyd is and has always been the Guitarist and keyboard player. Waters left in 1985, Goodbye Roger, your history and where never missed... See ya

You guys no squat. This video is nonsense.

Waters is complaining about not getting access to the social media of a band he quit almost 40 years ago.

Maybe this feud isn’t quite as it seems, remember Gilmour played as a guest on Waters ‘Wall tour’. In the end we have the music they did produce, and can still enjoy listening to it now. Same with a number of great bands from that period who either split up or sadly passed away! The music outlives everything!

debut albuns? you meant? gilmour is not a founding member of PF, gilmour was brought in just as a filler to replace Barret. waters is not anti-semitic, there are murderers from all races and all nations, why calling israel's fascist gov as murderers is anti-semitic? arent they afterall?

Simple... aunque son músicos geniales, aman el ego y el dinero... cumplen lo que dicen en money...

Gilmour's wife was way out of line. David is weak for just agreeing with her vitriol.

Roger seems kinda difficult lol. I'm glad they got together the few times they did. Maybe it'll happen again, but it seems like the Gilmour faction is done with Waters, and if Waters is a toxic drain on his life, so be it.

These are men in their 80s or thereabouts. I don’t think that the band will get back together. At least not for long. 🧑‍🦯👨‍🦯👩‍🦯

He maybe a great musician but Roger Waters is a complete asshole!!

The feud will soon end. Roger is 80 years old. Nuff said.

David Gilmour is Pink Floyd.
Syd Barrett and Roger Waters are sidekicks

The feud is fun and a gift that keeps on giving.