I just can't make up my mind

[TNJed]

Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock and roll band of all time, is my response.

 

[Will B]

VH1 (the only music channel that actually still shows music) ran David Gilmour: Live in Gdansk last night. Just finished watching him play Shine On You Crazy Diamond. What a haunting tribute to Syd Barrett. They went straight from that into Astronomy Domine. It's still every bit as F'd up as it was, but it was a lot more refined.

The guitar player for my band put it best one day. He said that Gilmour puts the exact right note in the exact right place in the exact right way....

 

[Lake View Too]

That's the feeling I get from the entire Floyd. Every note, every sound effect, every snippet of chatter, is precision perfect. There's isn't a wrong note on any of the Beatles's masterpieces either, but, the precision of Pink is something else.

As to Gilmour, while being possibly one the greatest living guitarist of all time, he comes across as an incredibly emotionless guy...what's up with that?

 

[Beach Runner]

Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock and roll band of all time, is my response.

Led was pretty awesome also. Loved me some Robert Plant.

Tangentially I think that's what first drew me to my colorist Rusty in Atlanta because he so resembled Robert Plant. Always wore black leather pants. He was a really great guy. Unfortunately he died in his thirties of pancreatic cancer. He had such a following in Atlanta that his obituary in the AJC was huge. I will never forget him.

 

[Lake View Too]

Led was pretty awesome also. Loved me some Robert Plant.

Tangentially I think that's what first drew me to my colorist Rusty in Atlanta because he so resembled Robert Plant. Always wore black leather pants. He was a really great guy. Unfortunately he died in his thirties of pancreatic cancer. He had such a following in Atlanta that his obituary in the AJC was huge. I will never forget him.

To continue your tangentry, did you know that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page did any album called "Traveling to Clarksdale" (or something like that) and that Robert (and all his hair) is going to be headlining the Sunflower Music Festival in Clarksdale, MS, the home of the delta blues, around August 10th this year.

But what does this have to do with Pink Floyd?

 

[LuciferSam]

VH1 (the only music channel that actually still shows music) ran David Gilmour: Live in Gdansk last night. Just finished watching him play Shine On You Crazy Diamond. What a haunting tribute to Syd Barrett. They went straight from that into Astronomy Domine. It's still every bit as F'd up as it was, but it was a lot more refined.

The guitar player for my band put it best one day. He said that Gilmour puts the exact right note in the exact right place in the exact right way....

Just a little disagreement. Gilmour doesn't know how to play that song (Astronomy). One reason I think is that Syd was a better rhythm player. He played some really unusual and interesting chords too. Also one thing that really struck me about the whole "Piper" album is the sound quality. I think it's a recording masterpiece. Astronomy domine it's like a 3 dimensional ocean of sheer beauty. I think Gilmour just goes through the motions on this one. Astronomy, has to be blasted, but you also have to like it too, so that could be a problem for, I don't know, maybe most of the human race?? Oh well, it's their loss. Astronomy is intended to be frightening and powerful. I don't find it the least bit F'd up though. Gilmour doesn't capture haunting and lovely dissonance of the original. I don't think he wants to, and that's the problem. If you can't tell by my screen name, Piper is one of my favorite albums.

 

[LuciferSam]

To continue your tangentry, did you know that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page did any album called "Traveling to Clarksdale" (or something like that) and that Robert (and all his hair) is going to be headlining the Sunflower Music Festival in Clarksdale, MS, the home of the delta blues, around August 10th this year.

But what does this have to do with Pink Floyd?

Gilmour is very professional, straightfoward, and conventional, yet he has made a career out of playing slow, drifty progressive space rock. I don't think when he first joined the band, he really wanted to play far out type music. The problem is that the group didn't have any other type of songs to work with. Another problem is he really didn't play those songs very well either. The original Floyd actually had a hard driving style when they wanted to. Gilmour does not. He's more into slow pensive exquisite single note stuff. He's not a rocker. He's great at what he does, but I often wonder is he really happy, because I sense he would rather have started his career playing more conventional rock.

I love his music, but it has never spoken to me on anything but an intellectual level. What, I like about the Syd lineup is that it seems to combine thinking and feeling in such a way that they are indistinguishable. To me that's the best form of art if it can be pulled off, and most seem to fail at it. The Beatles did it masterfully.

 

[Lake View Too]

What does this have to with Robert Plant's hair?

 

[Lake View Too]

Gilmour is very professional, straightfoward, and conventional, yet he has made a career out of playing slow, drifty progressive space rock. I don't think when he first joined the band, he really wanted to play far out type music. The problem is that the group didn't have any other type of songs to work with. Another problem is he really didn't play those songs very well either. The original Floyd actually had a hard driving style when they wanted to. Gilmour does not. He's more into slow pensive exquisite single note stuff. He's not a rocker. He's great at what he does, but I often wonder is he really happy, because I sense he would rather have started his career playing more conventional rock.

Hmm, then the rumor, that he has switched his medications, and is looking for a position as rhythm guitarist for the E. Street Band, could be true...

 

[LuciferSam]

What does this have to with Robert Plant's hair?

That's funny. I responded to the wrong post and wound up being inadvertently tangential. Tangentially tangential??? I was trying to answer this question of yours. Hopefully it makes a little more sense. It was a momentary lapse of reason I guess.

As to Gilmour, while being possibly one the greatest living guitarist of all time, he comes across as an incredibly emotionless guy...what's up with that?