Chords for David Gilmour - Interview - 7/6/1981 - unknown (Official)
Tempo:
102.95 bpm
Chords used:
Bb
A
E
Gb
Ab
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Rolling.
Ready to sleep.
Can we ask everybody behind this droid to [Db] shut up?
Yeah.
Shut the fuck up!
[E] We have speed.
You can stop whenever you're ready.
Alright.
David, why guitar?
Of all the instruments [Ab] in the world?
Um, it's [C] uh
It's easier [Bbm] than piano.
Keyboards.
[Ab] And to me, piano and guitar are the two main instruments.
It's the way you can be everything.
You can be a rhythm instrument, a [G] bass instrument,
a rhythmic instrument, or a rhythm instrument,
a backing rhythm instrument, and a lead instrument all at once.
[Bb] And everything else seems to be a part [A] of something.
It seems to be not enough [G] on its own.
I love the drums, the bass, and all sorts of other [Gb] [B] instruments,
but they [A] need to be with someone else.
You can't do it all on your own.
You can't be a [Gb] complete [A] sound making music
just playing the drums [Bb] or just playing the bass.
You can do it with a guitar.
Did you start off
Were you initially playing an acoustic instrument
and then went to an electric guitar?
Yeah.
[C] Who did you first listen to that made you want to play electric
instead of acoustic?
Um, [Gb] I always wanted to play [A] everything, I think.
I [Cm] had
I started off [Bb] listening,
when I was very young, to all sorts of blues and different things
when I [Ebm] was, like, [E] you [Bb] know, pre-teen.
And when I was 10, Rock Around the Clock came out.
Bill Haley, that was a major push forward
[G] for me wanting to do it myself.
[Eb] And shortly afterwards, Heartbreak Hotel.
[Db] Another, you know, rock around the clock was the first.
Heartbreak Hotel was a better one,
but it didn't have quite as much impact [A] at the time.
It's a far better record.
I love it [Bb] far more.
But it was the [F] first one that kicked me into that sort of rock [A] and roll.
I was heavily into [Bbm] folk music as well,
Pete Seeger and all that stuff before then.
[Bb] Well, with Bill Haley [E] and that [A] time,
were you more influenced by [Db] seeing these instruments [Ab] on film?
No, I never saw any of them.
I mean, it was the sound, you know.
It was the sound of rock and roll
was [A] probably the thing that made me want to actually do it myself
rather [Eb] than just enjoying listening to [Bb] other people do it.
Who were the first, would you say, six guitar players, you think,
in those early days that influenced you the most?
Um, let me think.
Who were the first six?
God, I should think Pete Seeger, Lead [E] Belly, Hank Marvin.
Who else?
[Gb] Was Hank Marvin the first major British guitar player over there?
He was the first major electric [E] sort of guitar hero.
The first major electric, yeah.
For us Brits, yes.
[Gb] Did you get a chance to go see him in concert?
Yeah, yeah, several times, yeah.
Brilliant.
[E] Your current set-up now is [Ab] very electronic.
You have all sorts of effects devices on the floor and rack-mounted devices.
How important is the electronic side of rock and roll to your [Bb] playing?
[E] Um, I mean, I can play stuff without them quite happily.
I can play acoustic guitar.
I like to have a lot of things available to me.
I like to have a lot of sounds.
I see no point in [Gm] limiting myself to any one [A] particular thing or any one particular style.
So whenever I find something new and exciting, I just add it into the general stuff
and I try to get it [Bb] on the push of a button that I can use it.
But as you said, I think in Guitar Player Magazine,
that you [Abm] don't really see yourself in the forefront of [Gb] the electronic movement,
the high-tech movement.
I don't sit around investigating stuff like that terribly much, looking for it.
But [E]
[Bb] every once in a while I [E] potter out and look through the adverts
and ask someone to [Eb] go and borrow some of these devices for me to try [Bb] out
and just see what [N] happens.
What do you think it is, could you say, about your own style that makes it uniquely David Gilmour?
[A] Wish I knew.
I'm glad that it is fairly unmistakably me.
For better or worse, [Ab] it's hard to
Not many people think it's someone else.
And I'm glad I've got that, because that's definitely a plus to [Bb] have.
Did you [E] consciously develop a unique style?
No, no, no.
If I [Gb] try to sound like anyone else,
if I can try very hard to sound like Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton or Hendrix or whoever,
it never works.
It sounds like me trying to sound like them.
[Bb] The guitar, to most people, I think, throughout the world,
is probably the preeminent symbol of rock and roll.
When you were beginning your playing the electric guitar,
did you find yourself as a young child standing in front of mirrors
[G] emulating the physicality of it [N] before the music?
No, I never got into that at all, really.
[B]
I'm trying to learn now, but I can't afford a big mirror.
Is, [Bb] in your mind, the guitar the symbol of rock and roll?
[Gb]
It goes back to the same thing.
It's the most complete [G] instrument
[F] for [Eb] playing any [Gb] type of music on, really.
[Bb]
You can't [A] sit and be a whole [Ab] thing playing a violin,
and you can't be a whole thing playing a bass guitar or just a drum kit.
The piano or the keyboard, where you've got two hands
which can play bass [G] parts, rhythm parts, [Ab] moving parts, lead [G] parts,
and the guitar, the two instruments, [Gm] which for me,
and I prefer the guitar, I mean, I love to.
I play a tiny bit of piano and [A] keyboard myself, but pretty badly.
[E] When Elvis Presley first started [C] appearing on television,
[Bb] even with the guitar just sort of being generally strummed,
all of a sudden Elvis and the instrument were locked in together
as representing a whole lot of what music rebellion
and all of that meant to many people growing up at that time.
Were you influenced by Elvis as a player as well as as a symbol?
I didn't actually have television until at least five years after Elvis started.
So I think, I mean, I can only [A] remember listening to the records
and [Eb] listening to the radio Luxembourg,
[Ab] a late sort of an evening radio station beamed in from Europe
that we could get in England.
I can't remember ever really ever seeing very much of it in its very early years
or in my first few years of [G] exposure to rock and [Gb] roll.
[Ab] I may be deluding myself, but [Bb] I suspect I'm less concerned with the image
than what it actually sounded like.
Do you recall what those first [Abm] feelings were when you heard
like Bill Haley and Heartbreak Hotel?
Yes, it was just wonderful.
I [Gb] wanted to be a part of it.
Because it was loud?
Because it was a sound that you hadn't heard?
What was it about it?
I don't know.
[D] I mean, ask ten million other people who feel the same.
You must know as well as I do.
It's not something you can describe or explain, really, is [Bb] it?
[Bb] Well, one thing I remember
I never really felt that rebellious about it or anything.
I just liked it.
It was good fun, you know.
Frank [A] Zappa wrote in Life magazine [Eb] many years ago
that one of the great important things to him was to see
[C] Rock Around the Clock [N] in the movie theater
and for the first time hear his own music, rock and roll,
on giant speakers and hear it so loud.
What was going on in those days [E] in England in the British music scene?
Was it skiffle music [Bb] and then all of a sudden it was rock and roll?
It all gradually changed.
It was awful.
[F] Most of the stuff on the English charts when I was about 10, 12, 13
[Cm] was dreadful old ballads, but real awful [Ab] stuff.
And every once in a while there'd be this jam
and all the [F] young people I know would be raving about it
and plugging it into [Db] Radio Luxembourg.
[B] What's in the future for David Gilmour?
[Bbm] More of the same, I guess.
Carry on.
Till I drop.
[Gb] Will there be any videos next year?
[N] I really haven't got any definite plans fixed up.
I'm only contemplating starting to put a new album together
considering doing another tour next year.
I'd like to get an album and a tour together for next year over here.
But nothing's particularly definite yet.
I'm just meandering on doing occasional bits here for myself
and bits for other people.
[Bb]
Thank you.
[C]
Ready to sleep.
Can we ask everybody behind this droid to [Db] shut up?
Yeah.
Shut the fuck up!
[E] We have speed.
You can stop whenever you're ready.
Alright.
David, why guitar?
Of all the instruments [Ab] in the world?
Um, it's [C] uh
It's easier [Bbm] than piano.
Keyboards.
[Ab] And to me, piano and guitar are the two main instruments.
It's the way you can be everything.
You can be a rhythm instrument, a [G] bass instrument,
a rhythmic instrument, or a rhythm instrument,
a backing rhythm instrument, and a lead instrument all at once.
[Bb] And everything else seems to be a part [A] of something.
It seems to be not enough [G] on its own.
I love the drums, the bass, and all sorts of other [Gb] [B] instruments,
but they [A] need to be with someone else.
You can't do it all on your own.
You can't be a [Gb] complete [A] sound making music
just playing the drums [Bb] or just playing the bass.
You can do it with a guitar.
Did you start off
Were you initially playing an acoustic instrument
and then went to an electric guitar?
Yeah.
[C] Who did you first listen to that made you want to play electric
instead of acoustic?
Um, [Gb] I always wanted to play [A] everything, I think.
I [Cm] had
I started off [Bb] listening,
when I was very young, to all sorts of blues and different things
when I [Ebm] was, like, [E] you [Bb] know, pre-teen.
And when I was 10, Rock Around the Clock came out.
Bill Haley, that was a major push forward
[G] for me wanting to do it myself.
[Eb] And shortly afterwards, Heartbreak Hotel.
[Db] Another, you know, rock around the clock was the first.
Heartbreak Hotel was a better one,
but it didn't have quite as much impact [A] at the time.
It's a far better record.
I love it [Bb] far more.
But it was the [F] first one that kicked me into that sort of rock [A] and roll.
I was heavily into [Bbm] folk music as well,
Pete Seeger and all that stuff before then.
[Bb] Well, with Bill Haley [E] and that [A] time,
were you more influenced by [Db] seeing these instruments [Ab] on film?
No, I never saw any of them.
I mean, it was the sound, you know.
It was the sound of rock and roll
was [A] probably the thing that made me want to actually do it myself
rather [Eb] than just enjoying listening to [Bb] other people do it.
Who were the first, would you say, six guitar players, you think,
in those early days that influenced you the most?
Um, let me think.
Who were the first six?
God, I should think Pete Seeger, Lead [E] Belly, Hank Marvin.
Who else?
[Gb] Was Hank Marvin the first major British guitar player over there?
He was the first major electric [E] sort of guitar hero.
The first major electric, yeah.
For us Brits, yes.
[Gb] Did you get a chance to go see him in concert?
Yeah, yeah, several times, yeah.
Brilliant.
[E] Your current set-up now is [Ab] very electronic.
You have all sorts of effects devices on the floor and rack-mounted devices.
How important is the electronic side of rock and roll to your [Bb] playing?
[E] Um, I mean, I can play stuff without them quite happily.
I can play acoustic guitar.
I like to have a lot of things available to me.
I like to have a lot of sounds.
I see no point in [Gm] limiting myself to any one [A] particular thing or any one particular style.
So whenever I find something new and exciting, I just add it into the general stuff
and I try to get it [Bb] on the push of a button that I can use it.
But as you said, I think in Guitar Player Magazine,
that you [Abm] don't really see yourself in the forefront of [Gb] the electronic movement,
the high-tech movement.
I don't sit around investigating stuff like that terribly much, looking for it.
But [E]
[Bb] every once in a while I [E] potter out and look through the adverts
and ask someone to [Eb] go and borrow some of these devices for me to try [Bb] out
and just see what [N] happens.
What do you think it is, could you say, about your own style that makes it uniquely David Gilmour?
[A] Wish I knew.
I'm glad that it is fairly unmistakably me.
For better or worse, [Ab] it's hard to
Not many people think it's someone else.
And I'm glad I've got that, because that's definitely a plus to [Bb] have.
Did you [E] consciously develop a unique style?
No, no, no.
If I [Gb] try to sound like anyone else,
if I can try very hard to sound like Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton or Hendrix or whoever,
it never works.
It sounds like me trying to sound like them.
[Bb] The guitar, to most people, I think, throughout the world,
is probably the preeminent symbol of rock and roll.
When you were beginning your playing the electric guitar,
did you find yourself as a young child standing in front of mirrors
[G] emulating the physicality of it [N] before the music?
No, I never got into that at all, really.
[B]
I'm trying to learn now, but I can't afford a big mirror.
Is, [Bb] in your mind, the guitar the symbol of rock and roll?
[Gb]
It goes back to the same thing.
It's the most complete [G] instrument
[F] for [Eb] playing any [Gb] type of music on, really.
[Bb]
You can't [A] sit and be a whole [Ab] thing playing a violin,
and you can't be a whole thing playing a bass guitar or just a drum kit.
The piano or the keyboard, where you've got two hands
which can play bass [G] parts, rhythm parts, [Ab] moving parts, lead [G] parts,
and the guitar, the two instruments, [Gm] which for me,
and I prefer the guitar, I mean, I love to.
I play a tiny bit of piano and [A] keyboard myself, but pretty badly.
[E] When Elvis Presley first started [C] appearing on television,
[Bb] even with the guitar just sort of being generally strummed,
all of a sudden Elvis and the instrument were locked in together
as representing a whole lot of what music rebellion
and all of that meant to many people growing up at that time.
Were you influenced by Elvis as a player as well as as a symbol?
I didn't actually have television until at least five years after Elvis started.
So I think, I mean, I can only [A] remember listening to the records
and [Eb] listening to the radio Luxembourg,
[Ab] a late sort of an evening radio station beamed in from Europe
that we could get in England.
I can't remember ever really ever seeing very much of it in its very early years
or in my first few years of [G] exposure to rock and [Gb] roll.
[Ab] I may be deluding myself, but [Bb] I suspect I'm less concerned with the image
than what it actually sounded like.
Do you recall what those first [Abm] feelings were when you heard
like Bill Haley and Heartbreak Hotel?
Yes, it was just wonderful.
I [Gb] wanted to be a part of it.
Because it was loud?
Because it was a sound that you hadn't heard?
What was it about it?
I don't know.
[D] I mean, ask ten million other people who feel the same.
You must know as well as I do.
It's not something you can describe or explain, really, is [Bb] it?
[Bb] Well, one thing I remember
I never really felt that rebellious about it or anything.
I just liked it.
It was good fun, you know.
Frank [A] Zappa wrote in Life magazine [Eb] many years ago
that one of the great important things to him was to see
[C] Rock Around the Clock [N] in the movie theater
and for the first time hear his own music, rock and roll,
on giant speakers and hear it so loud.
What was going on in those days [E] in England in the British music scene?
Was it skiffle music [Bb] and then all of a sudden it was rock and roll?
It all gradually changed.
It was awful.
[F] Most of the stuff on the English charts when I was about 10, 12, 13
[Cm] was dreadful old ballads, but real awful [Ab] stuff.
And every once in a while there'd be this jam
and all the [F] young people I know would be raving about it
and plugging it into [Db] Radio Luxembourg.
[B] What's in the future for David Gilmour?
[Bbm] More of the same, I guess.
Carry on.
Till I drop.
[Gb] Will there be any videos next year?
[N] I really haven't got any definite plans fixed up.
I'm only contemplating starting to put a new album together
considering doing another tour next year.
I'd like to get an album and a tour together for next year over here.
But nothing's particularly definite yet.
I'm just meandering on doing occasional bits here for myself
and bits for other people.
[Bb]
Thank you.
[C]
Key:
Bb
A
E
Gb
Ab
Bb
A
E
Rolling.
_ Ready to sleep.
Can we ask everybody behind this droid to [Db] shut up?
Yeah.
Shut the fuck up! _
[E] _ _ We have speed.
You can stop whenever you're ready.
Alright.
_ David, why guitar?
Of all the instruments [Ab] in the world?
_ _ Um, it's [C] uh_
It's easier [Bbm] than piano.
_ Keyboards.
[Ab] And to me, piano and guitar are the two main instruments.
It's the way you can be everything.
You can _ be a rhythm instrument, a [G] bass instrument, _
a rhythmic instrument, or a rhythm instrument,
a backing rhythm instrument, and a lead instrument all at once.
[Bb] And _ everything else seems to be a part [A] of something.
It seems to be not enough [G] on its own.
I love the drums, the bass, and all sorts of other [Gb] _ [B] instruments,
but they [A] need to be with someone else.
You can't do it all on your own.
You can't be a [Gb] complete [A] sound making music
just playing the drums [Bb] or just playing the bass.
You can do it with a guitar.
Did you start off_
Were you initially playing an acoustic instrument
and then went to an electric guitar?
Yeah. _
[C] Who did you first listen to that made you want to play electric
instead of acoustic?
Um, _ [Gb] I always wanted to play [A] everything, I think.
I [Cm] had_
I started off [Bb] listening,
when I was very young, to all sorts of blues and different things
when I [Ebm] was, like, _ [E] you [Bb] know, pre-teen.
And when I was 10, Rock Around the Clock came out.
Bill Haley, that was a major _ push forward
[G] for me wanting to do it myself.
[Eb] And shortly afterwards, Heartbreak Hotel.
[Db] _ Another, you know, rock around the clock was the first.
Heartbreak Hotel was a better one,
but it didn't have quite as much impact [A] at the time.
It's a far better record.
I love it [Bb] far more.
But it was the [F] first one that kicked me into that sort of rock [A] and roll.
I was heavily into _ [Bbm] folk music as well,
Pete Seeger and all that stuff before then.
[Bb] Well, with Bill Haley [E] and that [A] time,
were you more influenced by [Db] seeing these instruments [Ab] on film?
No, I never saw any of them.
I mean, it was the sound, you know.
It was the sound of rock and roll
was [A] probably the thing that made me want to actually do it myself
rather [Eb] than just enjoying listening to [Bb] other people do it.
Who were the first, would you say, six guitar players, you think,
in those early days that influenced you the most?
Um, _ _ _ _ _ _ let me think.
Who were the first six?
God, I should think Pete Seeger, Lead [E] Belly, Hank Marvin. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Who else?
[Gb] Was Hank Marvin the first major British guitar player over there?
He was the first major electric [E] sort of guitar hero.
The first major electric, yeah.
For us Brits, yes.
[Gb] Did you get a chance to go see him in concert?
Yeah, yeah, several times, yeah.
Brilliant.
_ [E] Your current set-up now is [Ab] very electronic.
You have all sorts of effects devices on the floor and rack-mounted devices.
How important is the electronic side of rock and roll to your [Bb] playing? _
[E] Um, I mean, I can play stuff without them quite happily.
I can play acoustic guitar.
I like to have a lot of things available to me.
I like to have a lot of sounds.
I see no point in [Gm] limiting myself to any one [A] particular thing or any one particular style.
So whenever I find something new and exciting, I just add it into the general stuff
and I try to get it [Bb] on the push of a button that I can use it.
But as you said, I think in Guitar Player Magazine,
that you [Abm] don't really see yourself in the forefront of [Gb] the electronic movement,
the high-tech movement. _
I don't sit around investigating stuff like that terribly much, looking for it.
But _ _ [E] _
[Bb] every once in a while I _ [E] potter out and look through the adverts
and ask _ someone to [Eb] go and borrow some of these devices for me to try [Bb] out
and just see what [N] happens.
What do you think it is, could you say, about your own style that makes it uniquely David Gilmour?
[A] Wish I knew.
I'm glad that it is fairly unmistakably me.
For better or worse, [Ab] it's hard to_
Not many people think it's someone else.
And I'm glad I've got that, because that's definitely a plus to [Bb] have.
Did you [E] consciously develop a unique style?
No, no, no.
If I [Gb] try to sound like anyone else,
if I can try very hard to sound like Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton or Hendrix or whoever,
it never works.
It sounds like me trying to sound like them.
[Bb] _ The guitar, to most people, I think, throughout the world,
is probably the preeminent symbol of rock and roll.
When you were beginning your playing the electric guitar,
did you find yourself as a young child standing in front of mirrors
[G] emulating the physicality of it [N] before the music?
No, I never got into that at all, really.
[B] _
I'm trying to learn now, but I can't afford a big mirror.
Is, [Bb] in your mind, the guitar the symbol of rock and roll?
_ [Gb] _
It goes back to the same thing.
It's the most complete [G] instrument _
[F] for [Eb] playing _ _ _ any [Gb] type of music on, really.
_ [Bb] _ _
You can't [A] sit and be a whole [Ab] thing playing a violin,
and you can't be a whole thing playing a bass guitar or just a drum kit.
_ The piano or the keyboard, where you've got two hands
which can play bass [G] parts, rhythm parts, [Ab] moving parts, lead [G] parts,
and the guitar, the two instruments, [Gm] which for me,
_ and I prefer the guitar, I mean, I love to.
I play a tiny bit of piano and [A] keyboard myself, but pretty badly.
_ [E] _ When Elvis Presley first started [C] appearing on television,
[Bb] _ even with the guitar just sort of being generally strummed,
all of a sudden Elvis and the instrument were locked in together
as representing a whole lot of what music rebellion
and all of that meant to many people growing up at that time.
Were you influenced by Elvis as a player as well as as a symbol?
_ _ I didn't actually have television until at least five years after Elvis started.
_ So I think, I mean, I can only [A] remember listening to the records
and [Eb] listening to the radio Luxembourg,
[Ab] a late sort of an evening radio station beamed in from Europe
that we could get in England.
_ I can't remember ever really ever seeing very much of it in its very early years
or in my first few years of [G] exposure to rock and [Gb] roll. _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] I may be deluding myself, but [Bb] I suspect I'm less concerned with the image
than what it actually sounded like.
Do you recall what those first [Abm] feelings were when you heard
like Bill Haley and Heartbreak Hotel?
Yes, it was just wonderful.
I [Gb] wanted to be a part of it.
_ Because it was loud?
Because it was a sound that you hadn't heard?
What was it about it?
_ I don't know.
[D] I mean, ask ten million other people who feel the same.
You must know as well as I do.
It's not something you can describe or explain, really, is [Bb] it?
[Bb] Well, one thing I remember_
I never really felt that rebellious about it or anything.
I just liked it.
It was good fun, you know.
Frank [A] Zappa wrote in Life magazine [Eb] many years ago
that one of the great important things to him was to see
[C] Rock Around the Clock [N] in the movie theater
and for the first time hear his own music, rock and roll,
on giant speakers and hear it so loud.
_ What was going on in those days [E] in England in the British music scene?
Was it skiffle music [Bb] and then all of a sudden it was rock and roll?
It all gradually changed.
It was awful.
[F] Most of the stuff on the English charts when I was about 10, 12, 13
[Cm] _ _ was dreadful old ballads, but real _ awful [Ab] stuff.
And every once in a while there'd be this jam
and all the [F] young people I know would be raving about it
and plugging it into [Db] Radio Luxembourg. _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ What's in the future for David Gilmour? _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ More of the same, I guess.
Carry on.
Till I drop.
[Gb] Will there be any videos next year?
[N] _ I really haven't got any definite plans fixed up.
I'm only contemplating _ starting to put a new album together
considering doing another tour next year.
I'd like to get an album and a tour together for next year over here.
_ But nothing's particularly definite yet.
I'm just meandering on doing occasional bits here for myself
and bits for other people.
[Bb] _ _
Thank you.
_ _ _ _ [C] _
_ Ready to sleep.
Can we ask everybody behind this droid to [Db] shut up?
Yeah.
Shut the fuck up! _
[E] _ _ We have speed.
You can stop whenever you're ready.
Alright.
_ David, why guitar?
Of all the instruments [Ab] in the world?
_ _ Um, it's [C] uh_
It's easier [Bbm] than piano.
_ Keyboards.
[Ab] And to me, piano and guitar are the two main instruments.
It's the way you can be everything.
You can _ be a rhythm instrument, a [G] bass instrument, _
a rhythmic instrument, or a rhythm instrument,
a backing rhythm instrument, and a lead instrument all at once.
[Bb] And _ everything else seems to be a part [A] of something.
It seems to be not enough [G] on its own.
I love the drums, the bass, and all sorts of other [Gb] _ [B] instruments,
but they [A] need to be with someone else.
You can't do it all on your own.
You can't be a [Gb] complete [A] sound making music
just playing the drums [Bb] or just playing the bass.
You can do it with a guitar.
Did you start off_
Were you initially playing an acoustic instrument
and then went to an electric guitar?
Yeah. _
[C] Who did you first listen to that made you want to play electric
instead of acoustic?
Um, _ [Gb] I always wanted to play [A] everything, I think.
I [Cm] had_
I started off [Bb] listening,
when I was very young, to all sorts of blues and different things
when I [Ebm] was, like, _ [E] you [Bb] know, pre-teen.
And when I was 10, Rock Around the Clock came out.
Bill Haley, that was a major _ push forward
[G] for me wanting to do it myself.
[Eb] And shortly afterwards, Heartbreak Hotel.
[Db] _ Another, you know, rock around the clock was the first.
Heartbreak Hotel was a better one,
but it didn't have quite as much impact [A] at the time.
It's a far better record.
I love it [Bb] far more.
But it was the [F] first one that kicked me into that sort of rock [A] and roll.
I was heavily into _ [Bbm] folk music as well,
Pete Seeger and all that stuff before then.
[Bb] Well, with Bill Haley [E] and that [A] time,
were you more influenced by [Db] seeing these instruments [Ab] on film?
No, I never saw any of them.
I mean, it was the sound, you know.
It was the sound of rock and roll
was [A] probably the thing that made me want to actually do it myself
rather [Eb] than just enjoying listening to [Bb] other people do it.
Who were the first, would you say, six guitar players, you think,
in those early days that influenced you the most?
Um, _ _ _ _ _ _ let me think.
Who were the first six?
God, I should think Pete Seeger, Lead [E] Belly, Hank Marvin. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Who else?
[Gb] Was Hank Marvin the first major British guitar player over there?
He was the first major electric [E] sort of guitar hero.
The first major electric, yeah.
For us Brits, yes.
[Gb] Did you get a chance to go see him in concert?
Yeah, yeah, several times, yeah.
Brilliant.
_ [E] Your current set-up now is [Ab] very electronic.
You have all sorts of effects devices on the floor and rack-mounted devices.
How important is the electronic side of rock and roll to your [Bb] playing? _
[E] Um, I mean, I can play stuff without them quite happily.
I can play acoustic guitar.
I like to have a lot of things available to me.
I like to have a lot of sounds.
I see no point in [Gm] limiting myself to any one [A] particular thing or any one particular style.
So whenever I find something new and exciting, I just add it into the general stuff
and I try to get it [Bb] on the push of a button that I can use it.
But as you said, I think in Guitar Player Magazine,
that you [Abm] don't really see yourself in the forefront of [Gb] the electronic movement,
the high-tech movement. _
I don't sit around investigating stuff like that terribly much, looking for it.
But _ _ [E] _
[Bb] every once in a while I _ [E] potter out and look through the adverts
and ask _ someone to [Eb] go and borrow some of these devices for me to try [Bb] out
and just see what [N] happens.
What do you think it is, could you say, about your own style that makes it uniquely David Gilmour?
[A] Wish I knew.
I'm glad that it is fairly unmistakably me.
For better or worse, [Ab] it's hard to_
Not many people think it's someone else.
And I'm glad I've got that, because that's definitely a plus to [Bb] have.
Did you [E] consciously develop a unique style?
No, no, no.
If I [Gb] try to sound like anyone else,
if I can try very hard to sound like Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton or Hendrix or whoever,
it never works.
It sounds like me trying to sound like them.
[Bb] _ The guitar, to most people, I think, throughout the world,
is probably the preeminent symbol of rock and roll.
When you were beginning your playing the electric guitar,
did you find yourself as a young child standing in front of mirrors
[G] emulating the physicality of it [N] before the music?
No, I never got into that at all, really.
[B] _
I'm trying to learn now, but I can't afford a big mirror.
Is, [Bb] in your mind, the guitar the symbol of rock and roll?
_ [Gb] _
It goes back to the same thing.
It's the most complete [G] instrument _
[F] for [Eb] playing _ _ _ any [Gb] type of music on, really.
_ [Bb] _ _
You can't [A] sit and be a whole [Ab] thing playing a violin,
and you can't be a whole thing playing a bass guitar or just a drum kit.
_ The piano or the keyboard, where you've got two hands
which can play bass [G] parts, rhythm parts, [Ab] moving parts, lead [G] parts,
and the guitar, the two instruments, [Gm] which for me,
_ and I prefer the guitar, I mean, I love to.
I play a tiny bit of piano and [A] keyboard myself, but pretty badly.
_ [E] _ When Elvis Presley first started [C] appearing on television,
[Bb] _ even with the guitar just sort of being generally strummed,
all of a sudden Elvis and the instrument were locked in together
as representing a whole lot of what music rebellion
and all of that meant to many people growing up at that time.
Were you influenced by Elvis as a player as well as as a symbol?
_ _ I didn't actually have television until at least five years after Elvis started.
_ So I think, I mean, I can only [A] remember listening to the records
and [Eb] listening to the radio Luxembourg,
[Ab] a late sort of an evening radio station beamed in from Europe
that we could get in England.
_ I can't remember ever really ever seeing very much of it in its very early years
or in my first few years of [G] exposure to rock and [Gb] roll. _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] I may be deluding myself, but [Bb] I suspect I'm less concerned with the image
than what it actually sounded like.
Do you recall what those first [Abm] feelings were when you heard
like Bill Haley and Heartbreak Hotel?
Yes, it was just wonderful.
I [Gb] wanted to be a part of it.
_ Because it was loud?
Because it was a sound that you hadn't heard?
What was it about it?
_ I don't know.
[D] I mean, ask ten million other people who feel the same.
You must know as well as I do.
It's not something you can describe or explain, really, is [Bb] it?
[Bb] Well, one thing I remember_
I never really felt that rebellious about it or anything.
I just liked it.
It was good fun, you know.
Frank [A] Zappa wrote in Life magazine [Eb] many years ago
that one of the great important things to him was to see
[C] Rock Around the Clock [N] in the movie theater
and for the first time hear his own music, rock and roll,
on giant speakers and hear it so loud.
_ What was going on in those days [E] in England in the British music scene?
Was it skiffle music [Bb] and then all of a sudden it was rock and roll?
It all gradually changed.
It was awful.
[F] Most of the stuff on the English charts when I was about 10, 12, 13
[Cm] _ _ was dreadful old ballads, but real _ awful [Ab] stuff.
And every once in a while there'd be this jam
and all the [F] young people I know would be raving about it
and plugging it into [Db] Radio Luxembourg. _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ What's in the future for David Gilmour? _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ More of the same, I guess.
Carry on.
Till I drop.
[Gb] Will there be any videos next year?
[N] _ I really haven't got any definite plans fixed up.
I'm only contemplating _ starting to put a new album together
considering doing another tour next year.
I'd like to get an album and a tour together for next year over here.
_ But nothing's particularly definite yet.
I'm just meandering on doing occasional bits here for myself
and bits for other people.
[Bb] _ _
Thank you.
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