David Gilmour mocks fans for liking ‘silly old rubbish’ released under Pink Floyd name

David Gilmour has not held back with his mockery of Pink Floyd fans who are seemingly happy with whatever the band is releasing. Frequent remasters of The Dark Side of the Moon have been released over the decades since its initial release, while other albums by the band have also received boxset packages and supplementary additions across the years.

This amused Gilmour to no end when he was asked about re-releases of The Dark Side of the Moon, a classic album frequently remastered around the time of its anniversary. Gilmour has no idea why fans were so keen to continually buy the same album and said as much when asked in an interview of what he made of these anniversary releases.

Speaking at the time of the album’s 30th anniversary, Gilmour was asked if it was a special moment. He did not think so. The guitarist said: “Dont be silly, records dont have birthdays! Its just a gramophone record. There’s so many bloody different versions of it out now.”

The Time and Breathe singer was then asked about what he made of the appetite listeners still had for The Dark Side of the Moon and its many versions. Gilmour replied: “I’m happier with the fans’ insatiable appetite for silly old rubbish than I am with the attitude of people closer to me foisting that stuff on people.”

Gilmour’s attitude to the state of Pink Floyd re-releases was reflected somewhat in his initial refusal to get the band back together when asked by Roger Waters to do so. The bassist would eventually convince Gilmour to rejoin the band for a twenty-minute, one-off performance in 2005. Waters and Gilmour were joined by Nick Mason and Richard Wright, with their show for the charity event being the last of the classic line-up.

Though Waters and Gilmour would tour separately following this show, sometimes with Mason in their line-up, the classic four-piece would not play together again. It very nearly didn’t happen, either, as Waters had to convince Gilmour to come back into the band after Bob Geldof failed to bring the veteran guitarist on board. Waters claimed he was the “only person” who could convince his ex-bandmate to get back on stage with him, and he did just that with a phone call to Gilmour.

Waters said: “No of course not. I’d do it in a heartbeat. I don’t think Dave wants to do it all. I think he sort of regretted Live 8 a bit, so who knows. Well because it was his band and suddenly it wasn’t any more.

“Suddenly this is what it was, this is the sort of thing it actually is – it’s Dave and Roger and Nick and Rick. And he said afterwards it would have been just the same if Roger hadn’t been there, but it’s not the same.”