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There\u2019s no way that David Gilmour <\/a>could have predicted that Pink Floyd would be going on and on in the way that they are today. <\/p>\n The thought of them continuing at all without Syd Barrett was slim to none by the time they got started making music in the early 1970s, but when they decided to fully break from the psychedelic tradition, records like Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here pointed the way forward for what rock and roll could be. Bands could be a lot more ambitious if they wanted to, but there also came a point where Gilmour felt like bands needed to bow out gracefully.<\/p>\n Granted, it\u2019s not like Floyd ever had a proper goodbye like they were supposed to. The Division Bell was intended to be the last album that they ever made, but the fact that The Endless River<\/a> exists does taint the gravity of those songs just a little bit. And while the closest that the band ever came to a final wave goodbye was the Live 8 concert, it\u2019s safe to say that Gilmour wasn\u2019t exactly on glowing terms with Waters in the same way that he was when they were making their masterpieces.<\/p>\n But rock and roll has never been about drama. It\u2019s about the music at the end of the day, and as long as everyone keeps playing to the best of their abilities, that should be enough, right? Well, yes, but even if a band keeps pushing themselves doesn\u2019t mean that they can\u2019t still run into a few hiccups along the way as well.<\/p>\n Gilmour might still have a lot of chops as a frontman, and Waters\u2019 lyricism was as sharp as ever on some of their newer material, but the guitarist also understood that he wasn\u2019t 25 anymore. A lot of the tunes in his later years have been about reflecting on the life that he has at home, and while that suits his music fine, it\u2019s a little bit tougher to talk about domestic life when you\u2019re someone like Mick Jagger from The Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n After all, the Stones were the epitome of excess back in the day, and half of their appeal was about the energy and the sense of danger they created whenever they made a new record. And while they can try all they want to translate that kind of music to a new generation, Gilmour felt that the band needed to pack it in a few decades ago before things started getting too stale.<\/p>\n