The living members of Pink Floyd reunited onstage tonight at London's 02 Arena during a point on Roger Waters' Wall tour - marking only the 2nd sentence that Nick Mason, David Gilmour and Waters had played together in the final 30 years. Waters and Gilmour performed "Comfortably Numb" as the gang at the bowl went absolutely insane, and during the conclusion of "Outside the Wall," Gilmour returned to the present alongside Mason, who played a tambourine.
As he did on the original 1980/81 tour, Gilmour played his epic solo on the top of the Wall. Last July, Waters promised that Gilmour would turn the call during one appearance on the tour, but drummer Nick Mason's involvement was kept a secret. They last performed together at Live 8 in 2005. Original keyboardist Richard Wright died in 2008.
Confirmation of Gilmour's appearance hit the web hours earlier the reunification on Gilmour's official fan blog. "I should also remind you that tonight is most definitely a one-off," the blog notes. "David is not repeating his special guest performance at a late occasion, I`m sorry to disappoint those of you with fingers crossed and tickets for later shows."
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Last July - shortly before Waters began his Wall tour - he played a brief set with Gilmour at a profit for the Hoping Foundation. They shut the set with a hide of Phil Spector's "To Know Him Is To Love Him." Waters initially told Gilmour that he wouldn't sing the call with him because of Gilmour's "superior vocal skills." (Watch a fan-shot video of "Comfortably Numb" with Waters and Gilmour below.)
"I clung resolutely to my reverence of failure until one day he made one final entreaty," Waters wrote on Facebook. "I quote 'If you do 'To Recognise Him Is To Know Him' for the Hoping Foundation Gig, I'll come and do 'C. Numb' on one of your Wall shows". Well! You could have knocked me blue with a feather. How fucking cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn't, there was no way."
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The news sent Floyd fans into a land of hysteria, especially because they didn't recognize what point on the extremely long tour would be the extra one - though the six-show run at London's 02 Arena always seemed like a good bet because Gilmour lives in near propinquity to the venue. Earlier this week Floyd announced a massive reissue campaign (read about it here), which was almost certainly timed to concur with this event. Press outlets, much like this one, were certain to compensate the story - and also note the details of their reissue campaign.
This will be the 3rd time the erstwhile ringmates have reunited since Waters left the band after the original Wall tour in 1981. The foremost was at Live 8 in 2005, and the back was at the Hoping Foundation benefit last year. Waters says he's interested in a brief Pink Floyd reunion tour, but Gilmour refuses to still see it. Just this past week Rolling Stone asked Mason about the theory of a reunion. "There are absolutely no plans," he said. "But Live 8 was fantastic. We did something for other people, but we also proven that we could all work together again. I'm very pleased that my children saw that. I would take thinking that could be regenerated at about time. So I be in hope - but that's no cause to put it out on Twitter that 'Nick Says Band to Re-form!'" (Watch a fan-shot video of "Outside the Wall" performed by Mason, Waters and Gilmour below.)
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