Pink Floyd offered $150m for US tour

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and singer-guitarist David Gilmour have differing opinions on whether the band will work together again. The British newspaper The Sun quoted Gilmour as claiming there won't be any more Pink Floyd shows, no matter how much money gets thrown at them. Gilmour said, "We've been offered $150 million to do gigs in the States. It's completely mad - and we won't do it. The idea was for Live 8 as a one-off."

Mason told the Israeli news service ynetnews.com that Floyd would back a show dedicated to Middle East peace, and he said, "If a concert like that was organized, I would be there tomorrow morning." While there are no plans for any sort of Pink Floyd work again, Mason did say, "If you would have asked me 20 years ago whether we'd ever reunite in the future, I would tell you with certainty 'No,' and today I'm not saying that."

While Mason is willing to go to Israel, some people there might not be too happy to have singer-bassist Roger Waters around. Ynetnews.com noted that last summer, Waters sided with a pro-Palestinian group that wants to remove the security barrier between the Palestinian territories and Israel.
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