Latest about David Gilmour
“This is like Santana’s Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock or Hendrix’s Machine Gun”: The best guitar solos of 2024
From a supernova of tapping and pitch-shifted metal guitar anarchy to all-star team-ups, here is your year in lead guitar – featuring Mdou Moctar, Diamond Rowe and some dudes named Satriani and Vai…
Why one of David Gilmour’s most iconic Strats disappointed Fender’s CEO – who tried to buy it at auction
Andy Mooney had already attempted to convince the Pink Floyd legend to let Fender reissue his legendary 0001 Strat, not long after he joined the company
Get your own Gilmour-style Black Strat with a $150 saving on this limited edition Fender Player Stratocaster at Guitar Center
The Mexican-made Strat has a maple fingerboard and a black scratchplate that is highly evocative of the Pink Floyd man’s most iconic Fender
David Gilmour explains the origins of his lauded ‘feel’ playing technique
In a new interview with Rick Beato, the Pink Floyd legend discusses the “David Gilmour effect” and picks apart his playing style, which has captured the hearts and minds of generations of guitarists
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“The former Beatle seemed to have him on speed-dial”: David Gilmour's 10 greatest guest appearances
There are occasions when your track needs something. It could be more cowbell. Or it could be the services of David Gilmour. Over the years, the former Pink Floyd man has dropped magic on a number of guest spots, but these are his finest
“I love driving people crazy”: The untapped guitar playing of David Gilmour’s solo albums
From his 1978 debut to the record he deemed his best since Dark Side of the Moon, we present a complete guide to the Pink Floyd icon’s solo material
David Gilmour on why the guitar is still a vehicle for giving “birth to new tunes” – decades deep into his career
Gilmour talks about how limitations and “getting discomfited” are crucial to his songwriting process – and to keeping things sounding fresh
A guide to everything David Gilmour used on his new solo album, Luck & Strange
Gilmour's tech, Phil Taylor, provides GW with an exhaustive list of the guitar gear used to record the prog icon's first solo album in nine years – and there are some surprising pieces of kit
David Gilmour on his mindset for epic guitar solos and why one Black Strat is as good as another
Luck and Strange, Gilmour’s first solo album in nine years, came together in a barn, features late Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, a rotating cast of vintage guitars, and a producer who challenged him to take his sound to new places
From unexpected ES-335 solos to jams in a barn: your guitar guide to David Gilmour’s Luck and Strange
Gilmour says it’s his best since 1973. It’s a solo work but was borne of collaboration. But it might just be the guitar album of the year, and we go track-by-track to parse its brilliance
