When people talk about the best guitar players of all time, names like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, B.B. King, Brian May, and Eric Clapton often come up. But another monster of rock ...
“When I joined Pink Floyd I was trying to play some of Syd Barrett's parts, yet adapt them to my own style and taste,” David Gilmour told Guitar Player in 2003. “The framework I was working in was ...
Recording studios are meant to be spaces for creativity, but with one wrong push of a button they can become tools of destruction. David Gilmour discovered this the hard way when his second guitar ...
As the September 6 release date of David Gilmour’s latest solo album, Luck and Strange, approaches, the Pink Floyd guitarist has debuted a third advance track from the record, “Dark and Velvet Nights.
If you had to guess what David Gilmour’s favorite Pink Floyd solo would be, we wouldn’t fault you for suggesting titles like “Comfortably Numb,” “Another Brick in the Wall, pt. 2,” or “Money.” These ...
All it takes is one guitar note piercing through a pitch-black arena — one note dramatically reaching heavenward, as if it’s waking up — to recognize the guitarist. As soon as David Gilmour struck the ...
As David Gilmour talked about his new solo album “Luck and Strange” recently, the Pink Floyd singer-guitarist described the work as his best since he and his Pink Floyd bandmates recorded “Dark Side ...
While there are plenty of exceptions, the average rock song has one big guitar solo...or two at the most. But then again, the typical rocker isn't more than a few minutes long. The longer the song, ...