They didn’t say no so that means…yes?!

I love Pink Floyd.

Love them.

I distinctly recall first listening to their seminal album, The Dark Side of the Moon, while in High School (I wasn’t in the U.S. for most of the 1970’s and therefore didn’t catch the latest/not so latest music of the times until I started High School).  The album, to say the least, blew me away.  It was lyrical, haunting, emotional, beautiful, and, above all else, a musical work of art.

Those there are those who love the bands earlier works -and I certainly won’t argue with them!- it is my opinion the band’s “golden years” started with the underappreciated album Meddle and continued through the next four albums, The Dark Side of the MoonWish You Were HereAnimals, and, finally The Wall.

An incredible run which, unfortunately, came to an end because of internal divisions within the band.

The fact of the matter is that Roger Waters, one of the band’s founders, and David Gilmour, the man who stepped in when Syd Barrett left the band for mental issues, had a falling out.  The Final Cut, the album that followed The Wall, was essentially a Roger Waters solo album and the last to feature Mr. Waters in the band.  The following “Pink Floyd” albums were, conversely, more like David Gilmour solo albums.

Anyway, the years passed and attitudes and old hurts appear to have faded with time and, while the old band could never be again (keyboardist/vocalist Richard Wright passed away in 2008), the remaining three members of the band, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and drummer Nick Mason could, in theory, reunite one last time…

And according to this article by Ed Mazza on Huffington Post, there just might be a possibility of that happening…

Great Gig in Glastonbury: Is a Pink Floyd Reunion in the Works?

I must admit, the article’s headline certainly got me excited but reading the article itself…I dunno.

According to the article, David Gilmour considers himself “retired”.  Roger Waters is about to release a new solo album and I suspect promoting it will take up a good deal of his current time and therefore maybe doing a Pink Floyd reunion may not be on his mind.

Then again, what better way to promote your new stuff by reminding everyone where you’ve come from and what you’re best known for?

Regardless of whether this will indeed happen, what is most startling, at least to me, is the passage of time.

When I was young and just getting into Pink Floyd, it was as if I was listening to the music of the Gods themselves.  This stuff was timeless and, in my young mind, would be listened to for generations.

And then time passed and, while not forgotten, let’s face it, Pink Floyd is a band that appeals to a certain audience and I suspect there are many young folk out there who don’t appreciate it anywhere near the way my generation did/does.

I saw Pink Floyd in concert in the late 1980’s, after Roger Waters left the band, and must admit the concert was one of the best I’ve ever seen (I was never a big concert goer, but did manage in those years to see David Bowie and Fleetwood Mac as well as heavy metal acts Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer among others).

If Pink Floyd were to reunite, I suspect they’d do so on a very limited basis, perhaps a group of concerts (if that!) limited to some very big venues.

I might try to catch it, if I could.

I just might!