Waters-Gilmour Collaboration NOT A One Off
Gilmour will play with Waters on his Wall tour
Roger Waters and David Gilmour will collaborate again in the future, it has been revealed.
Speaking to Billboard Roger Waters revealed that Gilmour had agreed to perform ‘Comfortably Numb’ with him on one of the dates of his Wall tour later this year.
Waters revealed that last weekend’s surprise collaboration came about after Gilmour emailed him with a tongue-in-cheek offer to perform a cover of 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' (in reference to their often tempestuous relationship) at the Hoping Foundation Benefit. Waters loved the idea and the two of them agreed to round out the performance with a couple of Pink Floyd numbers.
The only trouble: Gilmour began sending Waters "a number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in two-part harmony." Waters then got cold feet and told Gilmour performing the song in that fashion was "way outside my vocal comfort zone," to his "eternal shame."
According to Waters, Gilmour then made him a better offer. If Waters would agree to perform "To Know Him Is To Love Him" at the Hoping Foundation Benefit, Gilmour would guest on "Comfortably Numb" at a to-be-determined show on Waters' upcoming tour featuring Pink Floyd's "The Wall" being performed in its entirety.
"You could have knocked me down with a feather," Waters says. "How fcking 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 shte, but if he didn't mind I didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was f*cking great. End of story. Or possibly beginning."
Unfortunately there is absolutely no way to guess which date Gilmour and Waters will choose for the collaboration, so either you will need to be exceedingly lucky or you’ll need to buy tickets to every show on Waters’ mammoth Wall tour.