So I was going to look up an article in the archives of rollingstone.com, when i discovered that the new issue came out, and the cover story is on Pink Floyd.They discuss the band's constant disdain for one another and their knowledge of having to come together and play live 8 in july of 2005 in order to honor syd barrett - the estranged and slightly "off-color" guitarist and genius from the early days that gave pink floyd their style originally:"The long squabble resulted in the deepest, ugliest split in rock & roll's history, and almost certainly the most irreparable. On that warm London night in early July 2005 when the four men finally gathered again as Pink Floyd in London's Hyde Park at the historic Live 8 concert, it's unlikely that all the past anger and hurt was easily forgotten or healed, but that's partly what made the moment so moving. They played and sang despite their bitterness, in part because the evening's cause - to try to persuade the world's richest countries to forgive the debts of the poorest - was in keeping with belief systems they genuinely shared.But there was another reason for assembling that night that ran deeper in their history. They had a debt to pay that could never be paid, but it had to be admitted. Syd Barrett, a man who had been mysterious and lonely for decades, had been the heart of Pink Floyd in its earliest days - he wrote their songs, gave them their style, made them a force in the British music scene - but in 1968, Waters, Mason and Wright threw him out of the band after he slipped into mental disintegration. None of them had seen him since a surprise encounter in 1975 that left them stunned and in tears, but over the years he continued to define Pink Floyd, as they evolved the style he had left them, and as they began to think and write about the darkness that had eclipsed him. They owed Barrett something - in a way, everything - and if they failed to honor him that night at Live 8, before the world, they could never meaningfully attempt it again. That's because they knew Pink Floyd would not exist past this night, and perhaps they sensed that in the much-too-near future, neither would Barrett, the man who gave the band its name and original purpose."As the song on my player changes from Comfortably Numb to Wish you Were Here, I wish to take this time to refer you to the rest of the article and to the fact that rollingstone.com people put up the 4 most synched and creepiest parallel points from snyching darkside with the wizard of oz. i being who i am, everyone assumes i have done this many times and know all about and enjoy watching. but i am shamed to say that while i have seen, own, and love the wall; i havent been able to sit through the wizard of oz all the way through...and havent seen it synched, so the fact that people posted the highlights (dont worry, one of these days i will do it...but for now i just like blasting darkside when i am cruising or walking or just existing...) online for me to watch, so go to the article and click on that link as well if you want. TIGHT. i have always enjoyed pink floyd. and i was happy to see that rolling stone made a cover story about them.