David Gilmour
David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour, CBEis an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He joined the progressive rock band Pink Floyd as guitarist and co-lead vocalist in 1968, effectively as a replacement for founder Syd Barrett, who left the band shortly afterwards...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth6 March 1946
CityCambridge, England
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She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.
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I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.
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Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.
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I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.
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I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
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I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
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It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
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I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.
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I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
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I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.
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I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
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Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
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I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
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The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.