This March marks the 40th anniversary for Dark Side of the Moon. The album took Pink Floyd into super stardom over night and they soon had to learn how to cope with the very issues they were dealing with in the album’s lyrics. More importantly, Dark Side of the Moon also sees David Gilmour growing [...]

Pink Floyd is synonymous with epic classics like Echoes, Comfortably Numb and Shine On You Crazy Diamond but I’ve always loved their ability to make even a basic rock song stand out as masterpiece. Time has it all and not least one of David’s finest guitar solos. In this article we’ll examine David’s playing and [...]

One of the very first “eureka!” moments I had when I started doing research on David’s gear was when I learned how he did the seagull screams during the mid section in Echoes. I’d been using slides, overkill fuzz and just about anything that could nail the effect but nothing came close to David’s unique [...]

In past articles we’ve looked at classic Floyd songs like Echoes and Comfortably Numb, which both are favourites to many and the essence of David’s tone from two eras. Still, the song that brings out the enthusiastic grin on most of us is of course Dogs. For me it was what got me into this [...]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is for many what Pink Floyd is all about. It’s the perfect combination of the instrumental Floyd and Roger’s lyrics and it’s one of David’s finest performances both in terms of his playing and tone. In this article we’ll examine the history of the song, David’s setups throughout the years [...]

Although David had already established himself as a vital force in Pink Floyd it was on Echoes that he would really shine and create some of his most memorable moments. In this article we’ll look at the signatures and some of the many variations. Echoes was written during a period when Pink Floyd were constantly [...]