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has a lovely, refreshing guitar style. In the
late ‘70s, he brought back something to guitar
playing that seemed to have gone astray.”

STYLE
If you surf online and watch Gilmour’s guitar
videos, you have to be impressed by the
concentration he dials into any given note or
passage. David has never been a technical flash
and readily admits to that. Again, the emphasis
is on keeping it simple: “I can’t play like Eddie
Van Halen. I wish I could, but I sat down to try
some of those ideas and I can’t do it. Sometimes
I think I should work on the guitar more. I play
every day but I don’t consciously practice scales
or anything in particular. Looking back, both
solos on ‘Comfortably Numb’ are pretty good. I
kept the solos on ‘Dogs’ from the Animals album
because they’re different and slightly outside my
usual scope. I like what I did on the instrumental
‘Raise My Rent’ from my first solo album. That
was sort of an excuse to go on a 12–bar blues.”

David Gilmour – Raise My Rent

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