David Gilmour follows in the steps of old bandmate Roger Waters for new solo album

Pink Floyd fans are getting a real treat as of late with the recent news that Roger Waters will be releasing his first solo album after 20 years, and now the same news comes from David Gilmour.

Graham Nash talked with Needle Time, a vintage.tv program, about working with Waters and David Crosby:

"What the hell would it cost you to have David Crosby and Graham Nash getting on a bloody train to Brighton to sing with you?" Nash said. "We're musicians. We love good songs. We'll sing them until we are dead."

Nash and Crosby have both worked with Gilmour before on his 2006 record On an Island. They went out tour with him for that album. After that, Gilmour and Nash worked on The Orb's 2010 album, Metallic Spheres.

We reported about Waters' upcoming album and some thoughts he had about the project.

"I finished a demo of it last night," he said. "It's 55 minutes long. It's songs and theater as well. I don't want to give too much away, but it's couched as a radio play. It has characters who speak to each other, and it's a quest. It's about an old man and a young child trying to figure out why they are killing the children."

We'll see if Gilmour can keep up with Waters' solo performance. He's got a run for his money. Waters' tours for Pink Floyd's The Wall over the past three years have taken in more than $458 million, the highest grossing solo tour ever.

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