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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
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Subject: Re: The Wall (really David Gilmour)
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Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 00:56:50 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  3 00:56:50 1985
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> From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)

>> [Me:] ....and David Gilmour only does good work when he's
>> collaborating with geniuses (like Roger Waters or Roy Harper, and
>> then he can be amazingly good) -- his solo stuff is pretty medicore.
>> (Roy Harper has said that David Gilmour was the musical heart of the
>> band, but I don't believe it.)

> I beg to differ with you, Doug. But I feel that listening to Gilmour's
> first solo album (especially "There's No Way Out of Here" and "Short
> and Sweet") in comparison with Waters' "The Pros and Cons of
> Hitchhiking" will show which of them is the better musician.

Like I said, David Gilmour can do great work when working with other
people.  By himself, he isn't so hot.  Your choices for his best work
just go to prove my point.  Gilmour didn't write "There's No Way Out Of
Here" and "Short and Sweet" was cowritten with Roy Harper.  Also
Gilmour's version of "Short and Sweet" pales completely next to Roy
Harper's version on his album "The Unknown Soldier".  Gilmour's version
is okay.  Harper's version is *great*.  I can't even stand to listen to
Gilmour's version anymore.  The rest of Gilmour's first solo album is
pretty nondescript, and I like Waters's "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking"
much better than either of Gilmour's solo albums, even if most of the
music is just variations on one song.  "Pros and Cons", I would agree,
is not as good as any Pink Floyd album, though.

The best solo album by a Pink Floyd member is "Wet Dream" by Richard
Wright.  But apparently he burned out and stopped doing anything useful
after "Wish You Were Here".  "Music from 'The Body'" by Roger Waters and
Ron Geesin is probably better than "Wet Dream", but I guess it doesn't
count as a solo album.

> As far as the continuing "The Wall" debate goes, I'll throw in my vote on
> the "whiny" side.

Gee, well, I guess you wouldn't think much of "The Final Cut" then?

			"Hold on to the dream"     [ing]

			 Doug Alan
			  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)