The guitarist who makes David Gilmour feel envy

Despite being one of the big names of the instrument, Pink Floyd’s musician does not hesitate to pay homage to another genius of the British guitar

David Gilmour He has a great admiration for the blues, although he has not specialized as a style guitarist. The musician of Pink Floyd Finished to travel a wider path and is not exactly a purist like Eric ClaptonBut he has always made a point of paying homage to his colleague, one of his greatest influences.

In addition, Gilmour admits Clapton’s “envy”, since he admits he never can play like him. Sometimes the guitarist of Pink Floyd He has already said that he was not as fast and accurate as the great masters of the instrument. Therefore, he specialized in the melody and feeling of the songs.

In an interview since 1988 a Guitar world (Via Distant), Gilmour explained his charm for his passionate and full of knowledge with which Clapton touches the instrument, in particular being the blues.

He said:

“I have to confess that I have a little envy of Eric Clapton’s position. It has its rich material, but it is also a blues musician so consumed that he has a wealth of material from other older artists who can play, even if he is not so known. He can launch a new band in all the time and do his job and who would be a great position.”

Gilmour has already mentioned Eric Clapton as one of the artists who have changed his life. The guitarist was and is a great appropriate of Clapton’s work John Mayallespecially on the disc Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966).

In another declaration highlighted by DistantHe explained:

“All those guys were fantastic and I spent time trying to learn to play their licking perfectly. I would suggest that every young musician try to sit and do it. In the end you will touch their material very well, but in the end you will find your style from that.

David Gilmour and Blues

Subsequently, having developed his musical signature, Gilmour evaluates that he was able to incorporate blues elements, but without being hostage for the style. Currently, he does not listen to the genre so often and reflects on:

“Now I do not fully deepen in this area. The blue lines are quite specific. It is as if I had a series of things that you can put together in different combinations, but there are not many movements you can do. Instead, I try to get closer to things, give my limits and strengths, from a more melodic and simply functional point of view until it seems …” fresh “.

Eric Clapton and … Roger Waters

Despite the devotion for Eric Clapton, David Gilmour did not have guitarist in one of his solo albums. Who did it was Roger Watershis disaffection after the quarrelsome breakage of Pink Floyd.

In 1984, Clapton was guests of the Waters debut album in the solo career, The pros and cons of hooking excursions. At the time he also left the tour with Roger.

Subsequently, Clapton also revisited the songs from Pink Floyd Next to Waters, as in 2004, to the charity show for the victims of the tsunami who hit Indonesia and other Asian countries.

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Source: Terra

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