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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
David Gilmour explains why he still uses a 30-year-old Zoom multi-FX for his home demos
He may have once had a guitar worth $4 million, and you'll still see physical heads and cabinets at his live shows, but when laying tracks down at home, the Pink Floyd legend's tastes are far from expensive
David Gilmour says he can't tell the difference between his signature Fender and his original Black Strat
Unbothered by letting go of his most famous – not to mention valuable – six-string tool, Gilmour tells GW that his signature Fender Black Strat does the job of the original perfectly well
Body Count and David Gilmour release radical reimagining of Comfortably Numb in 2024’s most surprising crossover
The Pink Floyd legend revisits one of his greatest guitar tracks in a completely new light with the help of the heavy metal institution
David Gilmour on how he won over Luck and Strange’s solo-sceptic producer
Gilmour has also addressed whether he feels pressured to deliver solos on the fly – and how he writes them
David Gilmour surprises pub-goers with acoustic rendition of Pink Floyd classic accompanied by Romany
Gilmour wielded his Martin D-35 signature acoustic for a special Wish You Were Here duet at a tiny pub in the UK
“The best album I’ve made since The Dark Side of the Moon”: David Gilmour says his first solo record in 9 years is good enough to rival his best Pink Floyd work
Gilmour will release Luck and Strange later this year, and if his own words are to be believed, it could shape up to be a classic
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