Dave Gilmour: Rock Stars Are Paid Too Much

[method77]

Dave Gilmour believes that the gap between key workers and rock musicians is unfairly high.

Gilmour said: "I do feel uncomfortable with the degree of wealth that comes with the territory I occupy.

"We live in a capitalist society, I suppose, and it's only a matter of supply and demand. "And I do look at other bands and think, well, we are a fuck of a sight better than them.”

As contact music quotes, he finished: "But it is extraordinarily perverse that I as a musician am paid so much more than, say, a doctor, or a nurse, or a teacher."

[Shawn]

I can't disagree.

You could look at it like this though. The majority of musicians aren't super rich and a doctor or lawyers career typically lasts longer.

[KiwiCoromandel]

i saw david gilmour live a few years ago...he was very disappointing with a weak voice and his guitar playing wasn`t that shit-hot either....so i`d have to say, on the basis of what i saw.....that i think he (gilmour) is being paid too much for what he does..... :)

[method77]

the same can be said for popular sport athletes. They get a quadrillion gazillion to move from one team to another

[Shawn]

I'm hoping to get drafted to the Saskatoon Couchpotatoes.

[DudeAsInCool]

I agree with him - he can give me some of that extra money :)

[method77]

I could be a rock star. I can't write but I could do the rest

[Umma]

Have to agree with Kiwibank... I watched a set he did on the Jools Holland show the other night and if it were not for the other class musicians holding him up he wouldnt be that great at all.

He's right... far too much money for twanging a guitar.

[moonglow]

Have to agree with Kiwibank... I watched a set he did on the Jools Holland show the other night and if it were not for the other class musicians holding him up he wouldnt be that great at all.

He's right... far too much money for twanging a guitar.

I love Pink Floyd so much, those CD's got me thru so much but yes it is really ironic and strange that musicans, athletes, entertainers, CEO's and all the rest of the biggest of th big can command and get what amounts to a a simple person's whole entire lifespan and and not question why.