Roger Waters and David Gilmour Reconcile For “Wall” Tour

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour have agreed to unite for one stop on Water’s tour. This reunion couldn’t come soon enough for each musician’s fans and has been far too long in the making for many. The two men played with the idea of performing with each other after playing a brief set at the Hoping Foundation in Oxfordshire, England.   Floyd and Gilmour plan to treat their fans to “Comfortably Numb” sometime during Water’s tour.   Roger Waters explained via Facebook why the two men finally agreed to reunite and perform together again.

According to Waters, Gilmore, after performing “Summertime” by George Gershwin, asked Waters via email if he would like to collaborate on a cheeky version of the song, “To Know Him Is To Love Him,” a Teddy Bears tune.

Waters initially turned him down, claiming that Gilmore’s outstanding vocal ability would make it easy for him to contribute to the tune while it would be more difficult for Waters to do the song justice. Waters stated, “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.”

Gilmour, however, would not give up. Not easily deterred, he instead, presented a proposition to Waters. If Waters would sing the song “To Know Him Is To Love Him’ for the Hoping Foundation with him, Gilmore would sing “Comfortably Numb”  during his Wall tour.  Waters agreed and the rest as they say is history.