Is it just me, or is no-one else really excited to see Mark and David Gilmour together? This is a rare event, a meeting in a studio of two of the true greatest guitar players ever!! The contribution these two have made to music over the last 50 plus years is immense. It must have been something to hear Gilmour playing at British Grove, and lucky for Guy to have recorded him. Assuming the song is written by Mark, that is amazing to finally have Gilmour playing on one of Mark's songs. The photo is rare too, I know they must have run into each other over the years, but a photo together is not something you see. They both played at Knebworth 1990 and the famous French and Saunders sketch. David has been to watch Mark in concert I believe, and has commented how much he like Mark as a player, I don't think I have heard Mark say anything about David though, clearly he must think he is a great player, but I have not heard him mention David or Pink Floyd. It's funny, you don't think they have much in common as players, but they do, they are both heavily in the Blues, and both have recorded with BB King. Mark and Eric Clapton compliment each others playing, so, I could imagine these two doing the same thing, they are both highly melodic players, and each of them play with an exquisite touch and feel.
I think MK once mentioned he listened a lot to DSOTM prior to the LOG or BIA sessions (can’t remember).
I find this interesting as I've long thought that Love Over Gold as an album has a lot of similarities with Wish You Were Here. The most obvious similarity is that both albums have five tracks, but the tracklists start with an epic extended piece (Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5/Telegraph Road) followed by a moody atmospheric track (Welcome To The Machine/Private Investigations). The second side opens with a more conventional rock song with satirical lyrics (Have A Cigar/Industrial Disease) followed by the title track, an acoustic song with personal lyrics (Wish You Were Here/Love Over Gold). I'll admit that It Never Rains and Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 6-9 don't have as much in common as the other pairings, although both end their respective albums with long instrumental passages after the lyrics end and mark a return to the sound of the opening track. I can see how Dark Side might have influenced Mark as well, but Wish You Were Here definitely seems the most obvious reference point in the Pink Floyd catalogue for this era of Dire Straits.
