David Gilmour: David Gilmour
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Topic: David Gilmour: David Gilmour
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: David Gilmour: David Gilmour
Date Posted: February 18 2015 at 16:37
| This may have been posted before, but what do think of Gilmour's first solo album? |
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 18 2015 at 16:43
I have always liked it (particularly "There's No Way Out of Here", "Deafinitely" and "I Can't Breathe Anymore"), but I think his second About Face is far more creative and bolder step away from Floyd. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
SteveG wrote:Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 18 2015 at 17:18
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Best Floyd solo album bar none. About Face does nothing for me, very dated sound. I do like On An Island a lot, a pipe & slippers album. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 18 2015 at 18:37
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I like this one a lot, but it deafinitely (ha ha) sounds like a solo album sideline from a major band (rather than the "I can stand on my own as a headliner" stance of About Face). My favorite is "Short and Sweet", which I think was co-written with Roy Harper. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 18 2015 at 21:34
| Very nice, but nothing I would pick over Pink Floyd themselves. |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: February 18 2015 at 22:52
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The interesting thing about the sessions for this album is he recorded instrumental versions of "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell" before Waters gave them lyrics; I don't think these have ever surfaced, even on bootlegs. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 18 2015 at 22:58
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Raise My Rent............ The album is pretty enjoyable end-to-end, but this particular instrumental........ |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: February 18 2015 at 23:30
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^ One of my favorites as well.
 "So Far Away" - my most favorite track on the album.
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Posted By: King Only
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 10:53
Gilmour's original versions of "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell" were finally officially released on the 'Immersion' edition of The Wall in 2012.
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 11:16
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^Didn't know that, cool. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 11:25
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 20 2015 at 02:31
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Didn't this album feature his 'Jokers Wild' band-mates for his pre-Floyd days ?? Being a (try-hard) bass player, I can get into Wills' playing - not complex, but tasteful and busy. I know he played with live Roxy, and he found himself in Foreigner. Anything else anybody knows of ? |
Posted By: aliano
Date Posted: February 20 2015 at 03:27
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Raise My Rent is one of those tearjerkers by Gilmour. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 20 2015 at 10:58
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Hi,
The album was nice ... but the video that came up around it of a tour in France, or something like it, is FARRRRRRR BETTER than any of the album! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: February 20 2015 at 11:37
| I love it! |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 20 2015 at 20:44
I did know about live recordings from About Face, which are far better than the versions on the album. I wish I knew this ones too. He should release this concerts!!! Very often, his live performances are much better than the studio ones. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 21 2015 at 12:05
I think the band with him was Manfred Mann's folks ... I'm not sure, and will have to look. He does almost all of the album and there are some nice bits and pieces of interviews, the better one being him talking about "getting it" and tripping on a certain groove ... and being able to extend it, and he does that on one piece. it was, for me, a really big suggestion that he could no longer do so with Pink Floyd as a band, specially with the technical shows that were already computerized and that on his own, he could just trip out with the guitar whenever he felt like it. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 22 2015 at 13:32
Yeah, that's what's so great about the early live Pink Floyd performances. There would be a lot of jamming and extending songs without much time constraints. And most of the times the songs came out so much better than the studio ones. I guess that experience came out handy on their first Wall show, when some technical problems prevented them from building the Wall on time and the band had to extend the "Last few Brick" part to give the crew time to finish the Wall. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: February 22 2015 at 16:53
| My fav solo album by some of PF members. |