Pink Floyd was at first a psychedelic rock band (Barett era), and then evolved to a progressive rock band.
the progressive rock concept was to write songs more in the classical idea with complex structures, movements, and not only chorus/verses. It was influence by "concrete" music (Stockausen, J. Cage, P. Boulez...) and tried to recreate sensations, ideas, concepts.
Of course, it sometimes became too pompos as Jackal said, but unlike most progressive bands (Genesis, Yes, King Crimson...) PF wrote songs with a more "rock" feeling, and mainly because DG brought his blues roots.
PF songs are "long", "epic", "complex", "strange" and "simple", "rock", "groovy" at the same time....well Bjorn explains this far better than me on his wonderful site
http://www.gilmourish.com/ It's obviously a guitarist site, but not only, many articles are about the music, the feeling brought by PF songs
More than "progressive rock", PF music was called "space rock" (by the way, watching the end of Kubrick's
2001 space odyssey, while listen to
Echoes is a worth experience), and of course many songs are full of "ambiant sounds".
That's why a long part of
Echoes is not very "musical" but more ambiant (like on
Dogs or many overs).
- 2,5 mins of "sounds", what in the world??
Why "music" should always be melody, chords and lyrics ? Why music could'nt be sometimes "just" sounds....
and believe me, if you listen to Stockausen, J. Cage, P. Boulez...or even some
ummagumma tracks, you will find that this part of
Echoes is a FM tune
And this is not about Whales.....sounds David create with his reverse wha are called "seagull effects" (note that the lyrics of the first verse are about "albatros")
That's a big difference between DG and MK : Gilmour has always experimented with sounds, he tried to create sounds that are not commun with a guitar, mainly beacuse he was influenced by Hendrix (did i say that he was my ex-aequo 2nd fav guitarist ?
)
But on the other hand, I agree that Gilmour is "just" a guitarist while Mark is a complete musician, a songwriter, and a fantastic guitarist too
I remember reading on MK news (yes old times...) a DG itw where he said that he was a MK fan, loved Marks' solos, and said he wouldn't be able to play it like him
I've never read such words from Mark about David
LOL!
I knew when I wrote it that I maybe should check it first. Disbelief But for me, this is so much the perfect STRAT sound that I thought, naah, never another guitar... But who am I, I have no idea about guitars, better ask all our other gear heads around... Laughing
LE
Yes LE, I agree it does sound like a strat
I was thinking the same when listening to the "little ditty" posted by Pottel : at first I thought it was a strat, until I saw the LP !
And with fingers...... David and Mark...not so different.....but very different too
