post-Waters Floyd - mediocre vehicle for Gilmours ego or empty husk of once-great prog-rock band?

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discuss! :hi:

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1. neither

I think the real PF split happened when Syd Barrett left. He was a genius who taught the others almost everything they knew. Good things happened after that, but it was a very different band. The non-waters floyd is a lot more like the waters-fronted floyd than either are like the original. I think that some of the post-waters stuff is better than the waters stuff anyway.... (also, they were never a prog-rock band).

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2. The concert that was shown on PBS last year made it look like

they were just going through the motions to collect their checks. Nobody in the band seemed into it at all... basically relied on the light show ...