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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #30 on: July 04, 2025, 10:15:16 PM »
Grudge, they knew there were scheduling conflicts, or they just didn't think about it. I mean, it's not like every band that broke up would think about reuniting for Live 8, no?

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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #31 on: July 05, 2025, 01:06:45 AM »
Eh, I'm pretty sure MK was already on tour at that point. In fact, I saw him at Radio City on 29th June 2005 and was still there when Live 8 was on. We had been on a Sopranos location tour and saw the Pink Floyd reunion on big screens in Times Square on our return.
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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #32 on: July 05, 2025, 01:22:38 AM »
I never believed in Glastonbury but there was a chance for Live 8 in 2005. I remember Mark said in one of the interviews that they didn't play at that concert for unexplained reasons.

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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #33 on: July 05, 2025, 03:13:20 PM »
My opinion is that anytime Mark would have wanted it, it would have happened.

Albeit nont promoted as it, 2002 was it.


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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #34 on: July 05, 2025, 06:35:38 PM »
Somewhere between the 1996 Tour and the 2001 Tour MK grew definitively too old and too boring to make me even WISH to see him again with DS anytime. The freshness, energy and drive was totally missing. And it got worse over the next couple of tours with the exception of 2013 where he seemed to have a (last) outburst of energy and motivation. To be honest, from 2000 on I HOPED he would never come up with a DS reunion. It would have destroyed the legend, totally.

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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #35 on: July 05, 2025, 11:19:57 PM »
I’m sorry to completely agree..

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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #36 on: July 06, 2025, 09:23:51 AM »
I recall this being a question to Dr Fletch who said the reason they didn’t play was simply they were not asked.

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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #37 on: July 06, 2025, 03:18:42 PM »
My opinion is that anytime Mark would have wanted it, it would have happened.


Other band members might have declined. Maybe Danny C would play drums, John on bass. Rhythm guitar, Alan Clarke?
So many different members over the last three tours (1980's to 1992).

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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #38 on: July 06, 2025, 06:30:59 PM »
If they had asked you, would have said yes, Chris? (I know, what if and so on). Just for one gig?

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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #39 on: July 06, 2025, 08:11:24 PM »
My opinion is that anytime Mark would have wanted it, it would have happened.


Other band members might have declined. Maybe Danny C would play drums, John on bass. Rhythm guitar, Alan Clarke?
So many different members over the last three tours (1980's to 1992).

Mark and Alan? I doubt it  :)
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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #40 on: July 07, 2025, 09:43:01 AM »
If they had asked you, would have said yes, Chris? (I know, what if and so on). Just for one gig?

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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #41 on: July 07, 2025, 01:42:12 PM »
If they had asked you, would have said yes, Chris? (I know, what if and so on). Just for one gig?

LE

Probably not. In the end, everyone has moved on.

I think that if Mk reforms the band, he would take his nowadays drummer, Ian Thomas, with the band. Actually the only important members of the band would be MK and John, plus Alan and Guy as veterans in the band.
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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #42 on: July 07, 2025, 01:58:44 PM »
I think Alan has burned bridges.

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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #43 on: July 07, 2025, 02:31:53 PM »
i think Alan IS a burned bridge
much like Jon Carin in the Gilmour camp.
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Re: DS Reunion at Glastonbury?
« Reply #44 on: July 07, 2025, 07:26:01 PM »
I think Alan has burned bridges.

Maybe Alan lied, but he said that before start recording his solo piano record he talked with MK about it and kind of gets his thumbs up, as long as most of the songs he recorded where MK songs.

 

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