Our news feed heated up this morning following a report by UK’s Daily Express newspaper hinting that Pink Floyd would reform to play at this summer’s Olympics in London. The news spread like wildfire but if you read the actual article, you’ll see there’s not much to the report but conjecture.

David Gilmour – The Blog, an unofficial website for the Pink Floyd guitarist that has a strong track record when it comes to debunking or verifying rumors tweeted that fans should ignore the Olympics stories as Gilmour won’t be there. The surviving members of the band have made it clear it would take an incredible cause to bring Pink Floyd back together and reuniting for a sporting event, even the grandest sporting event, doesn’t seem in tune with those past statements.

Elsewhere, Bill Clifford and Stu Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revival shot down the possibility of a reunion with John Fogerty. Fogerty made headlines last summer when he told Rolling Stone that he was open to a reunion. According to WENN.com, Cook told Uncut Magazine, “Leopards don’t change their spots. This is just an image-polishing exercise by John. My phone certainly hasn’t rung.” Clifford added, ”It might have been a nice idea 20 years ago, but it’s too late.”

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon finished Pink Floyd Week on Friday by welcoming Pearl Jam for their version of Mother. When Eddie Vedder covers other artists, he generally doesn’t try to imitate their tone or phrasing as much as the PJ lead singer tries to add his own spin. For Mother, Vedder does seem to go for the Roger Waters vibe by singing in the same octave and style as Rog through the first few verses. Yet, as the tune went along, Eddie put his signature on The Wall classic. Instrumentally, Vedder is backed by just Stone Gossard on acoustic guitar Boom Gaspar on keys at first before the whole band comes in for a majestic climax featuring Mike McCready tearing through the guitar solo David Gilmour made famous. Take a look…

Pearl Jam – Mother

I’ll be the first to admit it – I never gave Jimmy Fallon’s talk show career much of a chance. Boy was I wrong, Fallon puts out the best late night show on a nightly basis and his master stroke was hiring former Billboard writer Jonathan Cohen to book musical acts. This week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has been Pink Floyd Week. On Monday, Jimmy welcomed Nick Mason and The Shins for Breathe, on Tuesday Roger Waters performed In The Flesh with the Foo Fighters and last night MGMT were augmented by Bradford Cox for the early Floyd track Lucifer Sam.

MGMT w/ Bradford Cox – Lucifer Sam

READ ON for the other Pink Floyd Week videos…

Last July Roger Waters made big news when he announced that his former Pink Floyd band mate David Gilmour would join him on stage at a The Wall gig to play and sing Comfortably Numb. Apparently tonight’s the night as Gilmour’s blog includes an entry stating that David will join Rog at the 02 Arena in London this evening.

Those hoping for future Gilmour guest spots will be disappointed to know that this is a one-off appearance…

I should also remind you that tonight is most definitely a one-off; David is not repeating his special guest performance at a later occasion, I’m sorry to disappoint those of you with fingers crossed and tickets for later shows.

We’ll be sure to share some videos and photos as they surface.

[via CoS]

UPDATE: As expected Gilmour did join Waters for Comfortably Numb. The other surviving Pink Floyd member, Nick Mason, joined Gilmour and Waters for the Outside The Wall finale. Mason joined his old mates on tambourine. READ ON for a photo and a video of Dave tearing shit up…

If you’re like us you wore out your copies of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall and other Pink Floyd albums in high school. On September 26 there will finally be a reason to pick up new copies of Floyd’s 14 original studio LPs as a feature-loaded set of remasters will come out that day on CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, an array of digital formats, viral marketing and iPhone Apps.

The new remasters come in four different varieties - Discovery, Experience, Immersion and Vinyl. The Discovery series are for newcomers to the music of Pink Floyd as they will feature all 14 albums  ”painstakingly digitally remastered” by The Wall co-producer James Guthrie in “newly crafted packaging and booklets created by the band’s long-time artwork collaborator Storm Thorgerson.” You can buy all 14 albums together in the Discovery Box Set or individually.

Unreleased material starts flying in the Experience series which features the remastered versions of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall, each with a bonus disc of additional material and expanded liner notes. The Dark Side set includes a previously unreleased recording of the album performed at Wembley Stadium in 1974, Wish You Were Here features outtakes and live material from that era, while The Wall’s bonus material is still to be determined.

READ ON for more on the new Pink Floyd remasters…

If it seems like a long time since Roger Waters took to his Facebook page to break the news that his old Pink Floyd band mate David Gilmour would perform at one of Waters’ The Wall Tour performances that’s because it was. Way back on July 15 Rog wrote a note mentioning that Gilmour told him ““If you do ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’ for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I’ll come and do ‘C. Numb’ on one of your Wall shows,” which led to a guessing game about which concert the guitarist would appear at.

Gilmour never wound up sitting in with Waters last year during the North American leg of the tour, but according to a new Waters’ interview with Sky News, the sit-in we’ve all been waiting for is still on the table. ”I hear the rumours – I think it’s beginning to look now as if he’ll do one gig, he’ll do Comfortably Numb at one gig,” Waters told Sky. Funny that Rog refers to them as “rumours” considering he’s the one spreading the news. Waters is still coy as to which particular concert Gilmour will join him at.

The European leg of The Wall Tour kicks off tonight at the Mediolanium Forum in Milan and does a big circle of the continent before ending at the same venue on July 7.

[via NME, h/t @TheWeightOnline]

When Roger Waters and David Gilmour reunited for a one-off charity gig, thoughts of hopeful music fans turned to the possibility of a more substantial Pink Floyd reunion since the famously feuding pair were able to put their conflict behind them for an evening. Floyd drummer Nick Mason recently told UK’s BBC6 that the door isn’t completely shut on a Pink Floyd reunion, but that we shouldn’t be expecting a tour anytime soon.

“No one has said we will never work (together) again.”

However, that does not mean we should expect a full Pink Floyd tour anytime soon:

“I think it is very unlikely we are going to go out on tour however I live in hope we would absolutely do another Live 8 or play together for the right reasons,” the drummer told 6 Music.

[via BBC6]

Waters is just about to kick off the European leg off his The Wall tour tonight in Lisbon and we’re still waiting for the Gilmour sit-in that Rog promised on Facebook. Sadly, keyboardist Richard Wright passed away in 2008 making a full reunion of the ’70s era Floyd lineup impossible.

At a performance at Congress Theatre in Chicago on New Year’s Day, influential Rock & Roll legend Chuck Berry collapsed on stage. According to an official statement on Berry’s website, the incident was attributed to exhaustion. The 84 year-old guitar player was coming off playing two shows the night before at B.B. King’s Blues Club in New York City, and is now back home in St. Louis and resting. We here at HT want to wish Mr. Berry a speedy recovery and quick return back to the stage, which is currently scheduled for January 19 at the Blueberry Hill.

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Finally, several months back we told you about Pink Floyd’s legal battle with their longtime record label EMI over the digital distribution of their albums. The seminal psych-rock act contended that the deal they had in place, which was signed in the pre-digital age, applied to downloads and stated that their “seamless” albums couldn’t be unbundled, and songs weren’t allowed to be sold as individual tracks. A UK court ruling sided with the band back in March, and now has rejected the appeal of EMI, who was claiming “the word ‘record’ in the band’s contract applied ‘to the physical thing – there is nothing to suggest it applies to online distribution’.

Roger Waters – The Wall @ MSG, November 6

All in All, You Were All Just Bricks in My Wall

We all build walls. Everybody has their bricks. The question is, just how high do we let them go? And what is the difference between having a robust set of personal defenses and being alienated, alone, and generally mad?

The bricks that built Roger Waters’ wall are things that many people can relate to: a father he lost to war and never ultimately knew, an overprotective mother who didn’t let him grow, abusive educators and a lover who seized on his vulnerabilities. But for Waters, the last straw, or rather the final set of bricks, was being adored by people he did not respect.

It was this final trigger that caused him to create his magnum opus, released in 1979, Pink Floyd’s The Wall. And 31 years on, it is safe to say that this piece of music stands shoulder to shoulder to the beloved operas of Venice and the sophisticated chamber music of Vienna.

So Ya, Thought Ya, Might Like to Go To the Show

A late-career revival of an album/tour of such epic proportions reeks of cashing in, and given the sheer number of shows, and particularly the endless add-ons to the tour, even the most dedicated Roger Waters fans had their reservations. READ ON for more on Roger Waters’ The Wall…

Roger Waters – The Wall tour kicked off last night at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto and the first reviews of the 150-minute show are positively glowing. Most of the videos on YouTube thus far are unwatchable.

Here are a few decent clips that have surfaced…

Roger Waters – Comfortably Numb

Roger Waters – One of My Turns

Roger Waters – Run Like Hell

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READ ON to be spoiled with last night’s setlist from Toronto…

The highly anticipated Roger Waters – The Wall kicks off tonight in Toronto after years of preparation and months of build up. Released in 1979, Pink Floyd’s The Wall contains some of the band’s best known material including Comfortably Numb, Mother, Another Brick In The Wall (Pts 1&2) and Young Lust. Waters and the rest of Pink Floyd took The Wall on the road for 31 shows between 1980 and 1981 for a tour that lost lots of money due in part to its innovative production values.

Waters is on the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone and some of Brian Hiatt’s cover story as well as photos from the tour rehearsals are available now at the magazine’s website.  Ticket prices for the tour are extremely high but you’ll get plenty of arena theatrics for your money. Plus, maybe you’ll go to the show where David Gilmour joins his old band mate.

Rog has done a great job of keeping many of the details of the tour under wraps, yet a few details have emerged in both the RS article and elsewhere. For instance, we know that tonight Waters will bring the 25-student-strong Regent Park School of Music choir up to sing backup on Another Brick In The Wall. Hopefully the Toronto crowd will take some good videos of the show that we can share tomorrow.

Visit Roger-Waters.com for a complete list of tour dates.

There are a few legendary classic rock acts that it seems every jamband must cover and Pink Floyd is one of those groups along with The Beatles, The Who and the Rolling Stones. For this week’s Friday Mix Tape we take a look at the biggest bands in the genre’s versions of Pink Floyd tunes.

moe. kicks things off with their intense cover of Interstellar Overdrive. We look to String Cheese Incident for an otherworldy version of Fearless and the Disco Biscuits for the dark and droning Astronomy Domine. Next, Primus gives us a funky Have a Cigar and Widespread Panic delivers a beautiful Wish You Were Here. Mule did a whole set of Floyd covers on Halloween in 1998 and from that concert we’ve got Warren and his band mates along with Ron Holloway on Money. Finally, Page McConnell sings Us and Them from Phish’s November 2, 1998 performance and Umphrey’s McGee shows off their cover skills during an In The Flesh > Another Brick in the Wall sequence from All Good ’05.

With their distribution deal with EMI ending at the end of June, fans of the seminal psychedelic rock act Pink Floyd may have a harder time getting their hands of the band’s post Dark Side Of The Moon output as albums like Animals, Wish You Where Here and The Wall have been pulled from all digital distribution outlets like iTunes and Amazon. Fear not as physical copies of those albums have not been pulled from shelves, but no new ones will be manufactured until a new deal is signed. The band has been shopping their entire catalog for over a year a half, looking for a new deal.

In other Pink Floyd news former guitarist David Gilmour has teamed up with ambient-rockers The Orb for a new album called Metallic Spheres which will hit shelves on October 4 with all royalties going to the legal campaign of Gary McKinnon—the Scottish computer hacker who is fighting extradition to the U.S. after he breached military and NASA computer systems.

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Video has finally surfaced of July’s surprise performance by Roger Waters and David Gilmour at a charity benefit for the Hoping Foundation in Oxfordshire. As you might recall, the former Pink Floyd band mates played a four song set that featured To Know Him Is To Love Him, Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb and Another Brick In The Wall (Part One).

As you see in the video above the pair’s set seemed well-rehearsed and the backing band of Guy Pratt on bass, Chester Kamen on guitar, Harry Waters and Jonjo Grisdale on keyboards, and Andy Newmark on drums turned in a solid performance allowing the spotlight to shine on Dave and Rog. We hope Gilmour sticks to his word and joins Waters at a gig on the upcoming The Wall tour because the two really sound great together. [via CoS]

We’re happy to see that David Gilmour and Roger Waters seem to have buried the very large hatchet that kept the two at each other’s throats for decades. This past weekend the former Pink Floyd band mates teamed up to perform four songs – Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here, Another Brick In The Wall (Pt. 2) and Phil Spector’s To Know Him Is To Love Him – at a benefit in England and according to Waters that won’t be all for the duo.

Waters took to his Facebook page to give the inside scoop of what led to the charity appearance and dropped the news that Gilmour will sit in at a show on the upcoming The Wall tour to sing Comfortably Numb…

I quote “If you do ‘To Know Him Is To Love 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 down with a feather. How fucking cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn’t, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so explaining that I would probably be shite, but if he didn’t mind I didn’t, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was fucking great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.

Unsurprisingly, Ol’ Rog isn’t telling us what show Gilmour will join him at. Regardless, we always hated seeing two guys that created so many magical moments together have such animosity towards each other. We’re hoping this frost in relations will lead to more magical moments in the future.