How Gilmour, Mason, and Wright Responded to Waters’ ‘The Wall Live’ Tour

By the time Roger Waters launched his massive ‘The Wall Live’ tour in 2010, Richard Wright had already died in 2008. David Gilmour and Nick Mason both declined invitations to participate, and Gilmour publicly made it clear he did not consider it a Pink Floyd event. In a 2011 interview, he said, “I’m not aware of any Pink Floyd activity in the pipeline — Roger’s done his thing, and we’ve done ours.” Mason was more diplomatic but equally firm, noting that the band had effectively ended after their 2005 Live 8 reunion.

The tour itself was a commercial and critical triumph, playing to over four million people and becoming the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist at the time. Yet the other members viewed it as a definitive closing of the chapter — not because they resented Waters, but because they felt Pink Floyd’s story had already concluded on their own terms. Gilmour later admitted he didn’t even watch the show.