SPOILER: The intro of certain song being played in this tour

[ds1984]

[quote author=Jean-Fran

[Pottel]

prolyl why he performed Water of love without a bottleneck during the 1996 tour...
but he does use it on ...what was it again, ....donegan, right?

[superval99]

I thought he made a good job playing slide on "Seeing in the Dark" and I really enjoyed "Right Now" on the Emmylou tour.  The intro to DG sounds fine to me too. 

[Tally]

Mark's slide playing was better back in the day, wasn't it? Think Water of Love, Man's Too Strong...

I always like slide because it gives the songs a different feel, but agreed, Mark's recent slide playing is average. And I'm not convinced that it's a good choice to play all the slide tunes on the Henderson guitar.

[JF]

Gilmour on slide? Don't you mean lap steel do you?

Gilmour is well known for playing on lap steel or on pedal steel guitar.

But during PF early years (68-71) he played slide on strat (and maybe on tele)
check live at pompei

all slide parts on saucerful of secret (on remember a day, it's Syd Barett), more, ummagumma, and Atom heart mother are NOT lap steel or pedal steel, it is all bottleneck on a normal guitar

the first lap steel on a PF record is One of these days on Meddle, 1971, and of course later you have Breathe, great gig, Shine on parts 6-9, etc...

http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=69

prolyl why he performed Water of love without a bottleneck during the 1996 tour...

it wasn't the first time he played this song without bottleneck, he first did in 90 with the NHB, on the black Pensa (e.g. Snape 15.05.90)

[Jackal]

The slide playing on Donegan's Gone itself is terrible. And I also think that the Dark Was the Night intro doesn't match. It would fit much better to a more bluesy song, Marbletown for instance.

Here's a thing with Mark though - for me he is a MASTER of tasteful lines. And the tone, oh, man ... But sometimes he just surprises me with some really corny choices of notes. I don't have any examples off of my head, but it's usually during a longer solo phrase where he sounds like he doesn't quite know where to go, and he chooses the easiest way out. And sometimes he just gets himself into a big mess haha As was particularly evident on Sultans during the Crimson tour.

[superval99]

... But sometimes he just surprises me with some really corny choices of notes. I don't have any examples off of my head, but it's usually during a longer solo phrase where he sounds like he doesn't quite know where to go, and he chooses the easiest way out.

Yes, I know what you mean about those corny notes!    I have heard them in lots of songs, mainly at the end of a longish solo.  For example, I was listening to "Why Aye Man" from Oberhausen yesterday and almost at the end of the outro, there were those six or seven notes again, as though he has lost his way.  It was a really nice outtro, but it could have sounded even better!