Ugo
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Posted: Dec. 15 2010, 17:38 |
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@ Olivier: well, it depends on who's playing, and even the great electric guitarists aren't 100% consistent on acoustic. The acoustic playing of Gilmour himself sounds to me like it has a surprising ease to descend from sublime to scholastic, depending on the single performance. Listen to him on "High Hopes" on his latest solo tour, where he plays nylon-string:
here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1KJKRG4ZoY
... and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwht3dDPL_Q
I think you can easily hear that the whole of the Gdansk performance, from when he first starts picking (second verse) to the very last note, is consistent throughout, and it's soaring throughout. But the (much earlier) Royal Albert Hall performance is IMHO way more restrained, less sky-high, and comes down into pure scholasticness in the finale. I don't think it depends on the fact that the RAH show was one of the first in the tour and the Gdansk one was the last, and I don't think that it depends on the effects he used. It's simply a matter of a different amount of inspiration, of a different spirit if you want, in the two performances. Maybe he played it better at Gdansk because he knew it'd be the last time he played that song for a while...
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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