Mια ενδιαφέρουσα συνέντευξη του Gilmour που πιστεύω λύνει πολλές απορίες και ερωτηματικά σχετικά με το μέλλον των Pink Floyd...
"Σε μια άκρως ενδιαφέρουσα και αποκαλυπτική συνέντευξη
ο Gilmour μιλάει για
το καινούριο του album και για το μέλλον των Pink
Floyd. Η συνέντευξη έγινε
στην ιταλική εφημερίδα La Repubblica και ακολουθεί το
άρθρο αναδημοσιευμένο
από το brain-damage.co.uk:
David told them: "I think I've had enough. I am 60. I
donΆt want to work
much anymore. ItΆs an important part of my life, I
have had enormous
satisfactions, but now itΆs enough. ItΆs much more
comfortable to work on my
own". And we are not talking about the reunion with
Roger Waters, already
considered improbable ("Roger has worked in an
absolutely autocratic way in
the last 20 years; he would find difficulty in being
part of a democratic
band"), but about the Pink Floyd trademark itself,
belonging to Gilmour,
Richard Wright and Nick Mason after several legal
actions. They recorded two
albums and played live in incredible gigs all over the
world. "ItΆs over"
specifies Gilmour.
"The issue about Roger is irrelevant, because even
without him I donΆt want
to go on as Pink Floyd. IΆm happy with my life.
Playing as Pink Floyd is a
business too big for me now. When you move as a band,
all is gigantic, the
expectations are enormous, the pressures very high. We
have been asked to
play one hundred gigs! I am fine as I live now. It was
fantastic but now I
don't feel like any more."
The interview then turns more towards his forthcoming
solo album, On An
Island, released on March 6th.
Is it a coincidence that the album will be released
very close to your 60th
birthday?
No, it's not a coincidence. It's a choice.
Many people will find it difficult to distinguish from
a Pink Floyd album...
I can't understand the difference very much! It's not
important. In fact, I
am the voice and the guitar of Pink Floyd. It's
natural that part of my
album sounds like Pink Floyd's. The difference is
clear only in my head...
Anyway, although I always felt free within the band,
that was a group work.
This one is more intimate, personal. I recorded most
of it at home. I played
many instruments, including saxophone.
What does the album title refer to?
The island is not Lindos, where I own a house. It's a
Greek island called
Castellorizo, like the first track in the album, 3
miles from the Turkish
coast, where the Italian film Mediterraneo was shot.
There is a song called
On An Island too, it's about an evening spent with
friends on that island.
It's a strange island. Until the 1920s the coast
opposite belonged to
Greece. Now it's Turkish; the island is almost
deserted, many people have
left, it's like a ghost island. The track is about
leaving, abandonment, and
then the phrase born on an island, very important for
an Englishman...
There's a sensitive passion in this record. A simple
beauty..
I hope... I hope the music is simpler but it can mean
more. There are echoes
in this simplicity. After all, when you write you try
to compose just simple
songs, but then other, deeper meanings and
complications arrive. My wife
Polly wrote a lot of the lyrics in the album.
Isn't it complicated to work with your wife?
I find it very natural at this stage of my life. Of
course there are several
problems, but the advantages are much greater! She
wrote some songs by
herself, like The Blue - that is perfect, the music
and lyrics seem to be
born together. Sometimes she is inspired by my music,
sometimes she tries to
come into my head and see with my eyes in order to
understand what I was
trying to say.
Why have you waited 20 years for a new solo album?
Well, I have been very busy. Two albums with Pink
Floyd, and I felt free to
do what I wanted to do, without restrictions. Then I
got married again, new
babies, I don't want to work much now, I am not an
ambitious person anymore.
You played with Crosby & Nash. Was it the first time
you worked with them?
Were you friends?
I've known Graham Nash since he was in the Hollies,
and through him I met
Crosby. Two fantastic guys. They played in London in
June, I went to say
hello backstage and asked them to sing on my album.
They said yes
immediately, and I recorded their voices two days
later.
Talking again about Pink Floyd, why the reunion at
Live8?
For many reasons. Firstly because of the cause,
obviously. Secondly because
Roger and I had had a very bad relationship and this
was something very bad
to have in your heart. And finally because if I hadn't
done it, I would have
had regrets forever!
It was a good signal. How did you live that moment?
Actually I had very difficult guitar parts and then I
had to sing. I felt a
very big responsibility; I spent three weeks training
myself and I was very
concentrated on what I had to do. I felt the
incredible emotions only when
we finished playing.
And then Syd Barrett, the "crazy diamond", Pink Floyd
founder. When the band
was recording Wish You Were Here, he appeared at Abbey
Road. Mr Gilmour, is
that story true?
Yes, absolutely. I don't remember which song we were
recording, I don't
remember which one recognized him first, and I don't
remember what we talked
about. But it's absolutely true. Syd appeared in a
moment!
Have you ever seen him, after that day?
No, never.
How's is it possible? Haven't you ever wanted to go to
Cambridge to visit
him?
Yes, I would have, but his family think Syd has to
stay alone. But maybe in
the future...
How would you like people to react to your new album?
I'd like that everyone feels like being in a different
world where only the
music exists. I wouldn't like that people listen to
the surface only but
that they listen deeply. I'll be happy if my music
were important, at least
during the minutes you're listening to the album...
lol: :lol: :lol: ) Gilmour, παίζει με μια Les Paul (νομίζω με P90 μαγνήτες) αλλά τον αναγνωρίζεις από το χιλιόμετρο και πάλι!!!
8O
