Favourite Gilmour solo

Gilmour has done many outstanding solos throughout his career, but his solo on The Fletcher Memorial Home just floors me, it has so much feeling and power. Love it

Dellinger wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Jeez, has everyone forgotten about "on the turning away" or is just viewed as a poor man's "comfortably numb." Not sure why it wasn't included unless it's because the OP doesn't know this album or maybe AMLOR is so poorly thought of that no one even considers anything on it to be worthy.  I do love On the Turning Away. Actually, I don't know why Gilmour's era Floyd is so disliked if, actually, it's taken the blueprint of the so loved Comfortably Numb in many of his songs... and I woudln't even say CN is better than many of those songs (On the Turnin Away included).

I think you just said the reason. In the seventies WYWH is the only Floyd album nothing really much new happening, in Animals and the Wall Roger put Floyd into new direction, also I think even the Final Cut is more innovative album than Momentary or Division, although it has a lots of echoes from the Wall. Of course band is not always have to go forward when making interesting music, but I haven´t found those two albums ever really interesting. Just ok, Pink Floyd sounding albums with a quite a lot of touch of dad rock.

I voted for "money" since it had relatively few votes compared to the others. I really like the drumming on "money" too.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Jeez, has everyone forgotten about "on the turning away" or is just viewed as a poor man's "comfortably numb." Not sure why it wasn't included unless it's because the OP doesn't know this album or maybe AMLOR is so poorly thought of that no one even considers anything on it to be worthy.

I do love On the Turning Away. Actually, I don't know why Gilmour's era Floyd is so disliked if, actually, it's taken the blueprint of the so loved Comfortably Numb in many of his songs... and I woudln't even say CN is better than many of those songs (On the Turnin Away included).

I'll forego the temptation to vote Comfortably Numb again, and give a vote to Time - superb, concise guitar work from Mr Gilmour

Comfortably Numb

Time

Shine on You Crazy Diamond

His solo on The Fletcher Memorial Home is pure bliss

I was just listening to Atom Heart Mother earlier today, and I came to apreciate just how great his guitar solos are on that song. I think this is the song in which he first showed his trademark emotive guitar soloing that would be so important in Floyd's music later on. And his interaction with the strings of the orchestra is just wonderful.