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Poll Question: What's your favourite Gilmour solo?
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17 [20.48%]
5 [6.02%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [2.41%]
4 [4.82%]
6 [7.23%]
2 [2.41%]
2 [2.41%]
1 [1.20%]
0 [0.00%]
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I think it's a pity they didn't really use Wright with composing, summer '68 was very creative I thought and would be an excellent addition to Floyd to brighten it up, some more happiness and up-temponess.
Maybe it's a question of taste though.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Hmmm....I suppose Shine On...the guitar section is longer of course and a bit more varied.
But even though I like the tone, melody,  and phrasing by Gilmour in general over the years of his best work with Floyd, I have never thought of him as a 'virtuoso guitar player' and felt that he could have been a bit more 'flash' at times.
I'm sure I'll get more bricks thrown at me , but that's just the way I feel about his playing.
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Unfortunately You right. He can't escape from Floyd shadow! His only album that different to Pink Floyd is "About Face"!!! and this is NOT a "Virtuso Guitar Album" (IMO). He don't have his own "Charisma" apart of Floyd, like Eric Clapton or Ritchie Blackmore. I mean , there are many Clapton's fans that don't heard about "Cream" BUT most of Gilmour's fans Know Pink Floyd completely and many of them are Pink Floyd's fans and know Gilmour because of Pink Floyd.
He created "Post Final Cut" Pink Floyd and most part of "Post Final Cut" success were belong to Gilmour. I mean , "Post Final Cut" albums are Gilmoure solo albums ! All of us (as Floyd huge fans) know Wright (R.I.P) and Mason's musical abilities and listened to their solo albums. Honestly they have "Small part " of P.F success.(IMHO)
I respect to Gilmoure so much. He sacrificed himself for Pink Floyd , for the band that have a "Huge" contender (Roger Waters). For the band that many of people don't accept him as a former member of that band. I never forget what happened in early 80's between Waters and Gilmour. This is a war between Gilmour and Gilmour !!!
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Originally posted by aliano aliano wrote:

Sorrow is missed here. I think it's one of his best.


I agree with that, especially the live version of Sorrow, not too fond on the album version but when played live I really like the arrangement.

Also I forgot about the Live8 version of Comfortably Numb, relatively short version but there is a lick in there that is just magical.

I would also give a special mention to much more recent stuff, In Any Tongue solo, which imo is the best he did in the last 20 years.
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Some tough choices there, but I'll go for Time, which for me just shades it over Comfy Numb & SOYCD.
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.......and on................
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

I forgot to say that his soloing throughout Keep Talking (intro, main solo, last section) is delicious.
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I forgot to say that his soloing throughout Keep Talking (intro, main solo, last section) is delicious.
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Sorrow is missed here. I think it's one of his best.
About Comfortably Numb, I'm fond of the Remember That Night 2006 version. The most talking and crying version imo.
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Just thought I'd mention the start of The Embryo - but from the still unreleased BBC sessions, bluesy, dynamic, spacey and hitting the spot. Yeah, every time DG touches a fret board he navigates his way through the backing and makes everyone sound good and himself at the same time- which is why Numb and SOTYCD f'r instance work so well. His sound alone... Right notes, right place, right time. And it's not easy. Which is why he could not finish his solo for The Game - Roy Harper (HQ) due to some tour with the Screaming Abdabs at the time. Oddly Chris Spedding knocked out a superb solo of his own. Quickly.

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Money is number two.  Got to go with C Numb .  Gilmour really has a bunch of great solos.  Not a bad one in the bunch,  A couple of ones that didn't make the list, Fat Old Sun, Yet Another Movie, and I love Return to Tunkusa on the Alan Parsons album ' A Valid Path'.

Edited by tdfloyd - December 24 2015 at 01:41
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Echoes over Comfortably Numb.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I rather prefer the 'Delicate Sound Of Thunder' version over 'Pulse'. My fave live version (from before the echo box touch) is from 'Is there anybody out there?'.
Gilmour's solos are always better live. Echoes from Pompeii smokes every other option in this poll, but then again (as mentioned earlier) so does Pigs on my bootleg copy of 'Plays the Animals'.


I also prefer the Delicate Sound of Thunder version of Comfortably Numb over the PULSE one... actually, it's my favourite version of this song. I do prefer it over the Is There Anybody Out There one, for even if that one is a bit longer and more complete than the studio one, the Delicate one goes even further. And I also prefer Gilmour's solos live most of the time. As for Echoes, that's a very frustrating song for me... of course I love it, but there are things I like better from the studio version, and parts I like better from the live ones... though I would rather pit the original one with the Gilmour solo one he did on his last tour. His solos were really wonderful on the new version, much more powerful and mature, and the music in general sounded more complete, but the vocals did fit better on their younger years. But even more important is the section in which the music comes back after the atmospheric screeching guitars part... the drums (or percussions or whatever), don't get the same feel; and then the guitars, coming into the "heavier" guitars that are usually played lower on the live versions in favour of the U2 like guitars; but the part that really takes it for the original version is the keyboards during this part... it's got such a beautiful and melancholic melody, and it's totally absent from the live version... I would need to hear the Pompeii version again to see if Rick does play that right on that one, but that little "detail" is what makes me choose the studio over the live ones.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:


Hmmm....I suppose Shine On...the guitar section is longer of course and a bit more varied.
But even though I like the tone, melody,  and phrasing by Gilmour in general over the years of his best work with Floyd, I have never thought of him as a 'virtuoso guitar player' and felt that he could have been a bit more 'flash' at times.
I'm sure I'll get more bricks thrown at me , but that's just the way I feel about his playing.
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That's why I so often like Gilmour better live, because he sort of completes and puts more energy, making his solos longer... and in some ways he puts some flash to those extra minutes... of course he won't go into a John Petrucci mode, but those extra moments are nice, and often for me the songs sound incomplete in their studio versions (I guess the most notable examples of this are Comfortably Numb and Murder; on Murder the best definitley begins were the studio song would have ended).
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Originally posted by O666 O666 wrote:

Comfortably Numb. This still impressed me after 32 years. Perhaps he have more technical solos than CN but this is "The Most Emotional" Dave solo for me. AND one of 2-3 fade outs that I like, happened in this song. Normally I don't like Fade Out in the end of songs. 


But I prefer the live versions he did, without the fade-out (as I understand it), but rather continuing the solo with more energy.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I rather prefer the 'Delicate Sound Of Thunder' version over 'Pulse'. My fave live version (from before the echo box touch) is from 'Is there anybody out there?'.
Gilmour's solos are always better live. Echoes from Pompeii smokes every other option in this poll, but then again (as mentioned earlier) so does Pigs on my bootleg copy of 'Plays the Animals'.
 
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i voted for "Comfortably Numb".
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I can't choose, really. You also missed a few great ones:
 
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I rather prefer the 'Delicate Sound Of Thunder' version over 'Pulse'. My fave live version (from before the echo box touch) is from 'Is there anybody out there?'.
Gilmour's solos are always better live. Echoes from Pompeii smokes every other option in this poll, but then again (as mentioned earlier) so does Pigs on my bootleg copy of 'Plays the Animals'.
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Can't go wrong with the PULSE version of Comfortably Numb Wink
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Hmmm....I suppose Shine On...the guitar section is longer of course and a bit more varied.
But even though I like the tone, melody,  and phrasing by Gilmour in general over the years of his best work with Floyd, I have never thought of him as a 'virtuoso guitar player' and felt that he could have been a bit more 'flash' at times.
I'm sure I'll get more bricks thrown at me , but that's just the way I feel about his playing.
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Edited by dr wu23 - December 23 2015 at 12:16
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