David Gilmour is a guitar player, but sadly not a composer. In this album, you may hear gorgeous guitar playing, but the songwriting is somewhat remarkable throughout the whole album, while a bit better than ths songs he wrote in "Momentary Lapse of Reason". The mood in this album is m...
A centerpiece of 'The Wall,' and a pivotal moment in the narrative when the rock-star lifestyle becomes one big blur, "Comfortably Numb" also marks one of David Gilmour's greatest triumphs, His stinging guitar solos elevate the action to a sympathetic place. Neil Young, Cortez the Killer ...
It was while writing new material at a studio in London’s King’s Cross the previous year that David Gilmour — who had replaced the talented but troubled Barrett on lead guitar — came up with the four–note sequence that, first appearing just before the song’s four–minute mark, inspi...
Still, RCA paired them with David Foster, an up-and-coming producer who occasionally cut against the sharp stylistic changes that were transforming Hall & Oates. (They'd been working with Christopher Bond since 1975's Daryl Hall & John Oates.) Foster brought along a clutch of sleek Los Ange...
By this point, Pink Floyd had essentially become Roger Waters' backing band – and David Gilmour said 'The Final Cut' was poorer for it. Waters resorted to completing the project with "cheap filler of the kind we hadn't put on a Pink Floyd album in years," Gilmour said. "It could ha...
I am a huge Pink Floyd and David Gilmour fan and am also currently auctioning David's Black Strat Relic, (Mint condition) with extras, at a huge saving. As you're probably aware that the Pink Flesh is an extremely sort after pedal. It is becoming difficult to come as it has been ...
Downset just never broke on through, they had a reputation for being an absolutely crushing live band, supported all manner of miscreants on arena tours and headlined an Ozzfest stage, but never quite pushed it further. There are a few similarities in sound and ‘tude with RATM but Downset...