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David Gilmour
David Gilmour
(EMI Harvest, 1978)
Pink Floyd's beleaguered guitarist on early day release.
Relations within Pink Floyd hit a new low after 1977's Animals album, with a megalomaniacal Roger Waters ever more infuriatingly dismissive of his bandmates’ contributions. Yet David Gilmour's first solo album contradicts Waters's complaint that the guitarist never wrote any songs. Gilmour composed the lion's share of this (with one song a collaboration with Roy Harper and another written by Ken Baker of Gilmour's protégé folk-rockers Unicorn), and the pervading vibe seems to be "Dave, man, you can do this", with old Cambridge pals, Willie Wilson and Rick Wills playing drums and bass, and Gilmour's then-wife Ginger taking photos for the inner sleeve. There's No Way Out Of Here is the star turn; a curiously sleepy yet potent number with Gilmour delivering his posh-stoner vocals over a chorus of female backing singers, including Floyd's touring partner Carlena Williams. If, at times, the songs feel slight, there's always the guitar to fall back on, and Gilmour guitars to his heart's content on Cry From The Streets and It's Deafinitely. This, then, is Pink Floyd for people that like the solo in Comfortably Numb (an early version of which was cut for this album) but can live without Waters's existential angst. "I can't breathe anymore," declares Gilmour ominously on a song of the same title. That said, another track, Mihalis, was named after his new yacht, moored in the harbour near to a recently purchased villa on Lindos, so life clearly wasn't all bad.
Mark Blake
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 9:21 AM GMT 18/06/2008
Further Listening
Roy Harper – HQ (EMI Harvest, 1975)
Jeff Beck – Wired (Epic, 1976)
Richard Wright – Wet Dream (EMI Harvest, 1978)
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At last someone realises that Dave Gilmour's solo career did not begin with the rather boring 'On An Island'. I nominate Wet Dream by Rick Wright as being almost as good as this.
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