Chords for David Gilmour - Interview - 7/6/1981 - unknown (Official)

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_ 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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