“When I joined Pink Floyd I was trying to play some of Syd Barrett's parts, yet adapt them to my own style and taste,” David Gilmour told Guitar Player in 2003. “The framework I was working in was ...

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Roger Waters has defended David Gilmour's guitar solos, taking to Twitter to express his frustration over a recent article that implied his distaste for his former Pink Floyd bandmate's work. "It's ...

If you had to guess what David Gilmour’s favorite Pink Floyd solo would be, we wouldn’t fault you for suggesting titles like “Comfortably Numb,” “Another Brick in the Wall, pt. 2,” or “Money.” These ...

As David Gilmour talked about his new solo album “Luck and Strange” recently, the Pink Floyd singer-guitarist described the work as his best since he and his Pink Floyd bandmates recorded “Dark Side ...

The 1970s were the decade of guitar solos. Building on the precedent, the musicians of the decade didn’t just use guitar solos as a colorful fill; they made them into an isolated movement of music ...

For a guitarist who’s made his mark in the world of prog rock, David Gilmour is remarkably rooted in the blues. An old-school progger like Steve Howe shows fluency in a range of styles — from ...

According to a classic Pink Floyd song, “Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today.” But the band’s legendary guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour is turning that sentiment on its head by ...

Only the most contrarian music fans would maintain that Paul McCartney didn’t significantly impact pop music. His songs — with The Beatles, Wings, and solo under his own name — remain some of the ...