How good were Pink Floyd?

Interesting - and I'm a massive Rush fan btw, and I enjoyed Bruford with Genesis and Yes - but I do think your last sentence is confusing who is the best/most virtuoso player, with who produced the best music - not necessarily the same thing. Clearly Geddy Lee is a better bass player, but Waters playing was more than adequate for what was needed in Floyd - - because the the quality of their songwriting was so great. I wont compare them as lyricists as obvs Peart wrote the lyrics, but Waters wins on that count too imho
Here is a virtuoso bass player
This is incredibly hard to play

 
Interesting - and I'm a massive Rush fan btw, and I enjoyed Bruford with Genesis and Yes - but I do think your last sentence is confusing who is the best/most virtuoso player, with who produced the best music - not necessarily the same thing. Clearly Geddy Lee is a better bass player, but Waters playing was more than adequate for what was needed in Floyd - - because the the quality of their songwriting was so great. I wont compare them as lyricists as obvs Peart wrote the lyrics, but Waters wins on that count too imho

I agree as a conceptualist/lyrics writer Waters is a genius but I was talking about music chops. Obviously there is a difference.... David Gilmour's solo albums are hardly masterpieces. In fact several are absolute crapola.
 
Picked up a couple of tickets for the new Roger Waters tour today. Fook me it's bread and water till payday !!!:-(
 

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