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David Gilmour Talks About Wish You Were Here

May 31, 2021
You made Dark Side of the Moon, you realized all your wildest dreams, fame, fortune, one of the best-selling records of all time, one of the greatest albums of all time and then you'll

wish

you were

here

, what was the state of band mood? so they were all thinking oh, this is great, we're clear, we know exactly what we're doing, all engines firing on all cylinders, we know, isn't it, we had no idea for a long time, we were joking about trying to find blind a path forward and that kind of blindly wandering around not knowing what it was that we were doing that helped create what came, you know, with shining on your crazy diamond, making that whole "

wish

you were

here

" album and that started off pretty painfully, it was difficult and we didn't know what we were doing, but by the time we added those other songs we should welcome The Machine, have a cigar, we were firing on all cylinders I'd say by then, so how Did that album come about?
david gilmour talks about wish you were here
What were the songs that came first? We worked in this rehearsal room in Kings Cross in London, a little shithole like the black hole of Calcutta and in that room we came up with what became shining for you, you fucking madman, and animal dogs and sheep. three pieces or what we had worked on and what we are working on and Roger in particular and came to the studio wanted to leave the one that turned into dogs, so she called You have to be crazy at that moment and the one that turned into sheep and I didn't want that to happen and we were arguing about it for a while, that he was right and I was wrong, not the first time and we continued with Shine on You, a crazy diamond split to open and close the album.
david gilmour talks about wish you were here

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He worked on the famous cover of the two trembling businessmen and one of them is burning. Did the band give Storm any specific direction? A storm came in like it would on every album and spent time with us while we were recording and talked to us about what the album was about and what we were trying to get at and since the kind of theme of the album was absence, the storm left and I thought about absence, so you have a person swimming with an absence of water and a body in a suit with an absence. of the body and a person submerging in water without splashing, if you don't mind playing those four magic notes, so when I first heard Welcome to the Machine when I was young, I thought you were really singing for me and for all of us.
david gilmour talks about wish you were here
I was wondering maybe if you guys are also singing maybe a little bit to yourselves, did you feel like maybe you were trapped in your own machine? Yeah, I think I think they would still have to ask Rocha, but I would say yes and we were just. The year before, you know, two years before I hit the big time, if you like, with the dark side of the moon, that meant having a lot more contact with the machinery of the rock and roll business and knowing all the people involved in He, like your good self and some much less healthy people and we had become a much bigger business and his eyes were opening and you could see this desire to participate in our good fortune, look in people's eyes so much desire That you were here is the theater of the mind, you already know it and you smoke a cigarette, the music swallows, makes a whistle and suddenly becomes tiny, you know, maybe we are thinking that it comes out of a transistor radio in welcome to the Machine. music enters an elevator, what is the process of that type of theater of someone's mental effects?
david gilmour talks about wish you were here
Just say oh, I got it, let's have the music go into an elevator and just, yeah, that kind of thing, you know, and what comes out, how do we do it? I let you know with a recording table and a couple of little old synths and stuff how that sound is made and you have to use your imagination to create it because it doesn't sound like an elevator, it's actually making noises and you think it sounds like an elevator. elevator but it's not there's some kind of low tones in the synth again mmm and they just don't make that noise when going up it's an auditory trick but it's not even remotely accurate but precision wouldn't work how did it do it?
You encounter the music of the song. Wish you were here. It is such a beautiful piece. I had had it. You had that, but before this moment. I bought a 12-string guitar from a guy. I know. I think I bought it recently. from it and I was strumming it in control room number three at Abbey Road and that started coming out of that riff and kind of the beginning of the glow with those four notes, you know, I started to become slightly obsessed with this riff that was slowly developing. and again the people's ears, Rogers' ears perked up, all right, mm-hmm, what is that, where does that come from?
And he had a terrible habit of playing snippets of other people's songs that were good and for the love of Rodgers, yeah, that's cool, let's use it like I do. Can't it belong to something else? So sometimes he would get a little nervous asking and I think he was a little nervous asking in case he came from something else from someone else. Is it fair to say that your guitar skills improved a little more? There is no notch on the recording at the beginning of Wish You Was Here whenever I listen to the actual original recording.
I think God should have done a little better but I mean the idea was that it was like playing guitar on the radio and someone in their room but at home in their room or something listening to it and joining in so the other guitar was supposed to I was a kid at home joining in with the guitars listening to the radio and so I wasn't supposed to be too clever and I wasn't.

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