In a new interview with Mojo magazine, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour chatted about reuniting the band. Although it is publicly known that Gilmour isn’t keen on reuniting with Roger Waters, the reason is different this time.
“I put the whole Pink Floyd thing to bed many, many years ago,” the rocker said. “I mean, it’s impossible to go back there without Rick [Wright, Floyd’s late keyboardist], and I wouldn’t want to. It’s all done.”
“I’m very happy and satisfied with the little team I’ve got around me these days. We had a lot of offers to go and tour and so on and so forth, but I’m in this selfishly lucky position of having more than enough money and having had more than enough fame. I just don’t need that stuff these days. It [Pink Floyd] has run its course, we are done, and it would be fakery to go back and do it again. And to do it without Rick would just be wrong,” Gilmour added.
Waters left Pink Floyd back in 1985 and hasn’t reunited with the band ever since. Both Gilmour and Waters rejected the idea of reuniting several times in different interviews.
“I mean, it’s not going to happen,” Gilmour said in a separate interview. “There’s only three people left and we’re not talking and unlikely to. So it’s not going to happen.”
“Doing a tour without making a record would just be doing it for the money. And thinking about making a new record with all of us, including Roger, I just don’t think that would work,” the rocker added in another interview months before the release of his recent solo album, ‘Luck And Strange.’ “Roger and I have had too long being horrid little despots. I just don’t think it would make me a happier human being. Sorry, I’ll pass on it.”
Though Gilmour’s reunion with Waters is unlikely, Gilmour is currently on a tour to support his new album.
The tour started on September 27th at Circo Massimo in Rome. He will then head back to the UK for six shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London throughout October. He is also set for four dates in Los Angeles, including three shows at the Hollywood Bowl. The tour wraps up with five performances at Madison Square Garden in New York.
‘Luck and Strange’ is his first album in almost a decade.