David Gilmour: “We Were Never the Most Proficient Musicians”
August 29th, 2008
David Gilmour is much too modest as he claims that Pink Floyd developed their “spacey, atmospheric” music in the 1960s because they weren’t talented enough to play the blues. Gilmour tries to explain:
“We were never the most proficient musicians. When the band started, Pink Floyd were unique in that they weren’t great blues players. In fact, we never did become that musically accomplished. And that’s what pushes you to try other things.”
No one’s buying that they weren’t great musicians - they were just more creative and experimental than many others.
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Reported at: 9:15 am | By: Green Meanie |
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August 29th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
i’m buying it. they’re not great musicians. their music just made sense.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
as a lifelong pink floyd fan who has listened to many ROIOs and early BBC radio shows, i can attest to the fact that pink floyd really weren’t great musicians, to begin with. you can hear it in shows they played while they were writing dark side of the moon, for instance.
actually, rick wright has always been a good piano player, but gilmour had to develop his skill by gigging.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:33 am
Its their creativity which made Pink Floyd great. Sometimes having amazing technical can get in the way of creating a piece of music by making it over complicated.
There wouldn’t be hundreds of Pink Floyd tribute bands if the music was too hard to play!