# David Gilmour to guest on Roger Waters' Wall tour! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-gilmour-to-guest-on-roger-waters-wall-tour/551616 "2010-08-27T02:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-gilmour-to-guest-on-roger-waters-wall-tour/551616/1 "2010-08-27T02:08:00Z")
I’m not sure if this has been noted here or not. Roger Waters and David Gilmour recently played together at a small charity gig. One of the songs they did as a duet was _To Know Him is to Love Him_, chosen as an ironic reference to their famous animosity. They also did _Comfy Numb_, _Wish You Were Here_, and _Another Brick Pt 2_, no surprises there. It seems that Gilmour was the driving force and really wanted Roger to do _To Know Him…_ but Roger felt the vocal arrangement Gilmour had come up with was far too taxing for Roger’s mediocre vocal skills. > [@Roger Waters](#): > > I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David, with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then struggle through hours and hours of routining a performance that lay way outside my vocal comfort zone. But Gilmour pestered and prodded with little success until he finally said that if Roger would sing on _To Know Him…_, he would play on Comfortably Numb at one of Roger’s _The Wall_ shows. Roger apparently leaped at the chance. > [@Roger Waters](#): > > Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. 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 [More info here.](http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/roger-waters-talks-about-gig-with-david-gilmour-including-future-appear.html) In other news, Cats Sleep with Dogs, Lion Breast Feeds Young Antelope, Dingo Drops Abandoned Baby off at Church Steps, New Labour / Liberal Government Formed in Australia. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-gilmour-to-guest-on-roger-waters-wall-tour/551616/2 "2010-08-27T02:51:50Z")
Perhaps both of them have come to realize that they are both geniuses and can enjoy doing a little, tiny bit of work together and that just because Roger is a world class wanker that shouldn’t get in the way of one itsy bitsy song. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-gilmour-to-guest-on-roger-waters-wall-tour/551616/3 "2010-08-27T05:41:53Z")
Wow, they almost sound like… _friends_. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-gilmour-to-guest-on-roger-waters-wall-tour/551616/4 "2010-08-27T05:59:06Z")
I am going to the 10/10/10 show in Washington DC. David, if you can hear me, PLEASE come to this show. You will make a girl who has been having a really shitty past two years REALLY happy! 😉