It had been several years since The Division Bell, Pink Floyd’s last studio album. Along the way, I had picked up David Gilmour’s solo stuff. It was his solo work in combination that totally convinced me that when it came to the Pink Floyd split up, I was firmly with Team Gilmour. When they broke up in the early 1980’s I initially believed that I was with Team Waters. While I still appreciate Roger Waters and his contributions to popular music and Pink Floyd in particular, it really was what Gilmour added that made me love Pink Floyd so much.
Sure Waters has drive, ambition, imagination and a knack for putting pieces together but Gilmour has the ability to give music a soul and qualities that connect to me in ways that science can’t explain. It makes me want to conduct an experiment. I’d like to find a person who is just beginning to explore Pink Floyd music. Perhaps that have Dark Side Of The Moon but don’t know anything else about Pink Floyd. I’d play them samples of other Pink Floyd albums. Then I’d play some samples from both David Gilmour’s and Roger Waters’ solo stuff and see if they recognized either of them as being or not being Pink Floyd. I supposed the context could influence them. I think Roger’s solo stuff reminds me of The Final Cut and sections of The Wall. Gilmour’s solo stuff reminds me of Wish You Were Here and Momentary Lapse Of Reason. I don’t dislike Roger Waters, it is just that his music seems cold.
A couple years ago David Gilmour appeared on a New Age-ish album called Metallic Spheres. Basically a two track CD that is mostly ambient with Gilmour guitars popping up now and again.
Until We Sleep
Murder
Blue Light
Mihalis
Raise My Rent
Castellorizon
On An Island
Some Metallic Spheres Stuff