David Gilmour Talks About Wish You Were Here 

+Bsharporbflat If they were still enemies, one could imagine Roger using that "Roger was right and I was wrong, not the first time" as his ringtone.

The best do, anyway

Bsharporbflat do u think he was being sarcastic?

Well....maybe after all...but I like to think not

I've heard him say that about Roger on another occasion about something else. I remember the documentary but can't remember the point in question. Seems like Dave is always first to admit when he is wrong about something.

+Ivan Nunes They are meant to be appreciated in albums. They're still songs bro XD

I completely agree with you, even you can't play a Pink Floyd album in shuffle too, that's kind of sacrilege. The Dark Side Of The Moon showed me how to listen an album, without skipping songs or playing a few songs, just let it grow in my head.

if what you say is real, why would the creators of this songs would play setlist on their concerts?

+Aronath Cordova They used to play the entire album live…

Sasha Withers not all the time depended on the tour

And being in a position to say "Yeah... let's just park these two songs". Which would later become amazing songs on their own... I don't think there has ever been a group of people that creative besides them :)

Not single session, single rehearsal booking. Probably a couple of weeks.

They are geniuses after all

@@forformgamer Cough , Cough The Beatles 😂

@@smashrunner8954 I don't think they reached those heights. They were definitely creative though

About time Gilmore admits he was wrong and Roger was right!

@@PRHILL9696 yo that division is what tore floyd apart

@Kim Wallace Waters did not have to

@@fathaar I know.. Gilmore fucked it all up

@@PRHILL9696 Gilmour*

I hear you there

I was sitting in someone's college dorm room the first time I heard it, and when the needle was dropped on "Wish You Were Here", the tears suddenly streamed from my eyes. Just the depth of feeling through his fingers was enough to move me. It was like a soundtrack to all I was feeling at that point in my life ..

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@@makwabid69 Nice story, tell it to Reader's digest

@@DushyantsCHANNEL Omg, you are so witty and funny..... MORON

or you can call antithesis of "too many notes" guitarist of 70s like Robert Fripps.

AGREEEE!!!

Ofc, because he is a TRUE musician...

Which is the mark of a great musician: knowing how to play the silent spaces between the notes.

tim a I'd say his signature is more of a 2 step bend

Who

"No, Mr Waters. I expect you to die!"

joekidd1992 I think Roger fits a villain much more nicely. Dr. Loogie

I would sooner see David as Mr Bond himself tbh .

@@jimgodofbiscuits roger is a plot twist villain

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I agree, on the last interviews for the Edginton series he's quite complimentary of Roger, while in Rogers interview he blatantly blurts out he doesn't care about the music. I mean the guys a brilliant songwriter but come on, a LITTLE decorum in an interview would be nice. The only time he ever seems to compliment the others is when some journalists mistakenly misquotes him of outrightly slagging them. And even mediocre poets will admit that when writing words, the words often just 'pop' into your mind, and its a hell of a lot harder with music, a song really is fifty fifty.

shine on you crazy diamond :)

For Notes who make History!

Inbal Ida Yes! Like something Alfred Hitchcock would have loved to have been able to use to create chills & eerie atmosphere Good ears!

Eugene Ward,Jr. exactly! 😊

I saw a guy with that as his ringtone.

SparkDalmatian the only musician I worry about this with every time I think about him. He's been my absolute favorite since I was a child. I finally got to see him play live early this year and it was the best musical experience of my life.

SparkDalmatian he is a happy man and will live much longer

Dip khadka I sure hope so, 2016 has totally sucked for the music world: We already lost David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Frank Sinatra Jr, Glenn Frey and George Michael

SparkDalmatian what did Frank Sinatra jr ever do?

His voice is so beautiful. I could hear him reading a phone book and it would be an ASMR heaven.

@@veselinstrasni I would pay great money for this, a very relaxing soothing voice

Hagfan789 How well said, I remember doing the exact same thing. I'm a 60's 70's guy but it was a ritual. You were absorbed in the total artistry of the album. Thanks for reminding me!

Hagfan789 i do the same even today. but it isnt like what you mightve experienced back then..

Hagfan789 I think that's not completely true. I mean, if you're talking about the majority of popular music, you might have some ground. But if you're just talking about music today in general, I'd say you're mistaken. One of the best and most prevalent examples right now would be Kendrick Lamar's album To Pimp A Butterfly. It's an album that has overarching themes and concepts of social injustices and dealing with sudden fame. It's definitely got concepts to it. One of the coolest things about it is that it has a poem read between tracks that is slowly read to points until the end of the album, where it's read in full. Each time a song ends, the part of the poem you do hear has a hint about the track that proceeds it. It's meant to be listened to in full, in one sitting. There's only been a couple singles for it, and they're different than the takes on the album for the most part. A lot of artists now are starting to realize that there are people looking for albums, not singles. So they're not just churning out filler. Frankly, there have always been artists that have gone for singles instead of a whole Long-Play listening experience. Hell, The Beatles didn't really get to making albums you're meant to listen to in full until almost 7 years in to their career as a band (4 years after the release of Please Please Me). And even then, after Sgt. Peppers they released a whole lot of singles; some of their best songs in fact. Songs like Strawberry Fields and I Am The Walrus were freakin' B-Sides and didn't even get a release on a full album except on the Magical Mystery Tour album in the US (the release was different for the UK and it was only an EP instead of a full length LP), which was more of a compilation album than anything else. Sorry that this might be a little lengthy, but I sometimes just ramble on for miles ahead of my self.

Amen I agree

adorable deep The music may have changed, but it sounds like your love of music is just as deep.

jessed hepler Not to defend Gilmour in the least, since I think he is a limited-talent putz... but... He who smelt it, dealt it usually applies in cases like these, I find. Come out of the closet, Jessed. Seriously. We won't mock you.

jessed hepler We = all others who might read this thread and be HUMAN. That would not include you or other inbreds that might have roots in your family stump.

Two best feelings ever: Smelling bacon when you wake up and those four notes from Shine On

Guitar deity.

+6 String Fan And a few tokes with good headphones made them that much better.

6 String Fan oh please you had to be stoned to listen to Floyd or you wouldnt understand the meaning if the song.

That's like if you needed drugs to understand Led Zeppelin or The Beatles, or even Black Sabbath. A huge stoner would only listen to all the trippy sounds and not the lyrics.

@@shaitet no, Id argue that a NEW stoner would. A huge stoner would understand the lyrics.

couldnt agree more

Yes sir they are and will always be the greatest of all time.

sydIRISH idk if hey were “decades” ahead of their time. I think their music fits the time period in which it was made. That time period being full of other great musicians and artists who put a lot of feel and emotion into their songs. One of the greatest??????? Ummmm yeah. Definitely

@sidIRISH I have to disagree with part of your response. They weren’t decades ahead of there time. They were so perfectly existing in that time and place. With absolute focus on there awareness of what was happening in that time and space. With those elements echoing into the future in different forms. So in my opinion their music works for in planes of time. Because there lyrics are about real-time problems in society.

Yeah, I think they were the greatest band ever. I'm not a fan of their early music. But from Dark Side and beyond they're beyond compare. True geniuses.

"Those four notes" was what I was saying to friends two evenings back. I was referring to "those four (particular) notes" yet also mentioned many memorable pieces of music have "those four notes". To quote from DSOTM "I was a little bit drunk at the time" so at the time only mentioned Beethoven's fifth but no doubt you can come back with others......

the Beatles were much more influential for music

James Heitmann .. Love the Beatles but still, the floyd are untouchable

***** Yeah but in terms of what they did with music the Beatles beat them by a landslide (even though I pref pink floyd) The Beatles spurred an entire generation of the country and music (and artists like pink floyd and led zep would not have existed today)

James Heitmann... I don't think for one minute that barret mason and waters listened to the Beatles and said lets make a band? No chance. The Beatles did have a major influence no doubt about that, but not with pink floyd.

***** It heavily inspired what Pink Floyd was, I remember reading about it at the rock n roll hall of fame in Cleveland, waters felt hugely inspired by the beatles work

AMEN!

Yes. They have the traits of geniuses, clearly..

10 hours would be better

hahaha. that made crack up

Como ele vai tocar errado se a música é dele

I think the same way

Hahaha this made me laugh ;-)

Are you for real??..lol

Lol 😆

passion about music and its meaning

The problem is there's nothing to look for in music anymore. Even bands that are considered good today like Muse and Coldplay have no passion in the meaning they sing about.... they just sing them for the sake of being relatable or edgy....

I know this might not be a popular opinion, but I honestly think a lot of modern hip-hop has a more interesting conceptuality to it than most modern rock. I had little to no interest in rap for a long time, but there's some really technically and emotionally engaging stuff that's coming out.

Thomas Martin There is always meaningful music if you know where to listen

vinbuscusC only if you listen to bad music

Are you able to transcribe the whole answer from min. 6:49 to 7:50? Could you do this please? I'm italian, David speaks a very good english, but it is a little bit too fast for me. And the subject of the question is extremely interesting to me.

@@andreascano8533 Dave: I bought a twelve string guitar off a guy I knew, I think I had recently bought it off him. I was strumming it in the control room, number 3 at Abby Road and that just sort of started coming out, that riff. And a bit like the beginning of "Shine on" with those 4 notes, I started mildly obsessing with this riff that was slowly developing. Roger's ears pricked up, he said "Hm, what's that, where does that come from?" And I had a terrible habit of playing bits of songs by other people that were good, and Roger would say "Yeah, that's great! Let's use that!" "Can't, it belongs to someone else.." So he got a little nervous about asking sometimes and I think he was a bit nervous asking in case it came from someone else from somewhere else. You're welcome :) Edit: Wow! Thanks for the 1 likes guys !

Martins Thank you!!!!!!❤️

Play it backwards, then. Duh. Lol

@@andreascano8533 You can slow it down with the 3 dots icon top right. Use .75 ought to do it. :) They also offer subtitles that leave some to be desired, but worth a try.

I'm a drummer, so I've got it timed into the half-second for the big build...lol. We drummers love nothing more than bein' noisy. :)

His greatest playing

Brian Cabral This is very true. And its depressing that BB king passed yesterday. RIP

Your 100 right!

Brian Cabral My 16 year old son has picked up my guitar and is quite talented, as only a teenage mind can be. But it just hasn't clicked for him yet that making music that people will pay money to hear is what it is all about. He thinks because he can play a scale faster than hell and can pick at 200 bpm that he's a guitar hero. I make him watch the King Brothers (Albert, BB and Freddie) along with Gilmour, Brain May and other great musicians. Even a guy like Angus Young or his brother Malcolm. Very few notes, but arranged perfectly and it get's your toe tapping, your head bobbing, and the finished product has only three chords! Perhaps he will get it as he gets older.

Such a shame what happened to malcolm young.

pink floyd Yes, it is. I just hope he is able to function at a level that will enable him to enjoy life after ACDC. If he's bed ridden or worse, that would really be a shame.

I'm not sure he was ever cynical in terms of character. There are periods of time where he said cynical things, and from what I can tell it was mostly when Roger tried to prevent Gilmour et al from going on under the name Pink Floyd. That mostly came from Roger because starting with Animals he turned into a really cynical person. Gilmour seems quite balanced most of the time.

@@MaddinW1993 lol

i agree and while i like waters OCD cannot run a band imho. gilmour truly is the soul......the heart and soul of pink floyd.

David has never been cynical. Roger was and is. Even snappy with people who are merely giving him praise. Maybe mellowed a bit, but not a lot.

In 1971, I was 20 feet away from David Gilmore and 15 feet away from Rick Wright at Randwick Racecourse (Sydney, Australia). David was wearing a pink wide brim floppy hat and lounging on a bar stool, unlike any other guitarist I had ever seen. Complete lack of pretense and so damn COOL.

Mine too!

Me too.

No need to complain. It's no help. There are still some producers who create not music, but amazing art this day today - but it's just not mainstream.

1975+41 = 2016. What will 2057 be like?

Bro music is better now than it's ever been you just have to look. Btw "work" is a fire song

Tom Will Get your fucking head out of your ass and stop bitching about popular music. There's so much good music out there, there are amazing artists making awesome jazz, Hip-hop, pop, metal, rock, electronic music, folk and whatever mixtures there are. Just open your fucking mind, stop thinking about how your generation sucks and start looking for good music. Geez.

Tame Impala has released three great albums, this year Stonerider released album called Hologram and it's really Pink Floydish. And I could also mention Black Mountains album IV. There has always been popular music there will always be.

TRULY it would be David. I wouldn’t even have to think about it!

Milo X I was lucky enough to see them in Lexington Ky during that tour on Nov 8 1987. I will never forget that feeling..... I don’t know if I appreciated at the time like I do now. Again, I feel so very lucky.

One of the few regrets I have from my youth in the late 70s and early 80's is never seeing Pink Floyd live

popcorns house you can’t compare Van Halen to Gilmour, they have totally different styles. You can say Van Halen is more technically skilled but in terms of the actual music, many people would say that Gilmour is superior. My preference is the melodic and emotional playing of Gilmour rather than IMO the rambling, nonsensical at times Van Halen. Yes, it is easier to play the stuff Gilmour plays, but it’s one thing to play compared to actually composing the music.

David Gilmour the simplicity can add to the beauty

He's being coy, going around the fact that riff *did* belong to someone else. Please listen to Van Morrison's "Almost Independence Day" which came out in 1972.

@@amosungar5248 I will check it out, thanks. Never knew.

@@carljohnson8732 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uz7fWE47N8Y.html riff comes in at around 0:45 (and throughout)

GILMOUR.

I always thought the one on fire is Syd

Samuli Hynninen Wow... This blew my mind.

i always thought of it as syd shaking hands with the devil or the music companys who wanted to him to be a shitty pop artist

Syd meets his coming un done

***** The cover always reminded me of Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man."

I choose Echoes.

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music Dude, nice. Fantastic song.

Earth is "Flat"(ish)...that is what the 'Light side of the Moon' reveals...pink floyd "knew"

He's cussed before. "Fuck all that we gotta get on with this".

He uses the phrase, "and he tells me to please go fuck myself", in the division bell album.

Definitely Comfortably Numb, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Time, Echoes, And something else…

@Nikolai Hermansen Wish You Were Here didn't make that list!!?? And you call yourself a fan 😏

@@rcampbell4967 well it’s a good song, but there’s others that are just as good, so therefore it’s hard to choose. Money is about as good imo, dogs is too, it’s just hard to choose.

@@NBrixHi would say high hopes, wish you were here, echoes, shine of your crazy diamond 1-5 and brain damage

thanks jessed hepler

Well, who can argue with Jesus Christ?

***** oh i can imagine! Its almost like every song that was on it respective album was meant to be there. they made everything fit so perfect.

on their upcoming album we will see footage from amazing songs and sessions from the division bell in 1994!! im very excited about it!

I love dogs. It makes mine nuts, but that's why it makes me laugh. Lol

But he also said "for the first time" He cant help himself 🤣

@@omarmahfouz5599 he said "not the first time"