What's the best Gilmour album for extended soloing?

Can you guys recommend an album of his with alot of guitar playing? I enjoy his writing and singing but I'd like to find something with him really stretching out. Thanks!

Animals.

Can you guys recommend an album of his with alot of guitar playing? I enjoy his writing and singing but I'd like to find something with him really stretching out. Thanks!

Can you guys recommend an album of his with alot of guitar playing? I enjoy his writing and singing but I'd like to find something with him really stretching out. Thanks!

Huh, hard to answer this. His career has swung wildly back and forth between being a role player in the middle of complicated works to being the point of it all. Dark Side Of The Moon is a no-brainer guitar-centered album, and Meddle has a lot of different types of playing from him.

I always considered Animals as the best guitar-oriented PF album, with "Dogs" being, arguably, the most interesting song he's ever done, sonically speaking. Though he's not known as a strong song writer, On An Island is his best solo album with lots of satisfying guitar moments. His first solo album (1978?) is the next best. Not surprisingly, his playing on that record sounds a lot like the material from Animals and I suspect many of his unused ideas went into it. It was also during his Jeff Beck period, when he flirted with fusion but never did (couldn't?) break from his blues-rock base.

The big 4 Pink Floyd albums have quite a lot all added up (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall) but it is spread out a bit. "Animals" has the most extended work, and he is in a very particular and angry mode on that dark album

His most recent live material is really quite good - Live In Gdansk and Remember That Night (Royal Albert Hall) both have good material, much of it overlapping. His live shows ALWAYS cover a lot of predictable Floyd.

Can you guys recommend an album of his with alot of guitar playing? I enjoy his writing and singing but I'd like to find something with him really stretching out. Thanks!

Animals

His most recent live material is really quite good

+1. Gilmour is aging like a great wine...

I'd also recommend Live In Gdanska. You may or may not like his recent solo stuff (I do, lots of great playing) but his soloing on the Pink Floyd material is fabulous. You've probably heard the tunes a 1000 times already but they do sound particularly good on this CD; Echoes is superb.

I'd also recommend Live In Gdanska. You may or may not like his recent solo stuff (I do, lots of great playing) but his soloing on the Pink Floyd material is fabulous. You've probably heard the tunes a 1000 times already but they do sound particularly good on this CD; Echoes is superb.

D'oh, how could I have forgotten Live In Gdansk? I was just listening to it today on my iPod and was very impressed (again) by the solo on "Money". No matter how many times you've heard the original, his solo on the latest live album takes the listener to new places. And "Echoes" features a fantastic guitar-keyboards duel with Rick Wright that goes way beyond the original.

Yes, +1 on the Gdansk album.

His first solo record with No Way out of Here...and Animals

I like to play along with Raise my rent from his 1978 solo album

+1 Live In Gdansk and Remember That Night

+1 live at gdansk, but as far as floyd albums go i'd say animals or wish you were here (a very underrated album with a lot of great guitar work, especially shine on and have a cigar)

His first solo record with No Way out of Here...and Animals

I agree.

I also love "On An Island". Beautiful songs and guitar work.

Haven't seen the the Gdansk DVD but I have the Live at Royal Albert and its great, excellant soloing and some of the new material is pretty good to boot!!! Highly recommend!!!:grin:

Well guys, I picked up the Gdansk disc and it is just what I was looking for. Plenty of extended soloing. Out of curiousity, how long has he been using that much gain? The stuff of his from the Wall period has a lot less distortion. Thanks!

Well guys, I picked up the Gdansk disc and it is just what I was looking for. Plenty of extended soloing. Out of curiousity, how long has he been using that much gain? The stuff of his from the Wall period has a lot less distortion. Thanks!

Glad that Gdansk is working out for you!

A comparison of the same songs between On An Island and Gdansk show that he does indeed use more gain/distortion/OD on the Gdansk versions. I'm guessing it's part of the whole "going to 11" thing for live performances?

His '80's playing always struck me as an interesting and odd mish-mash of heavy distortion and somewhat excessive tremolo on the one hand (e.g., "Murder") and 80's-style chorusey clean playing on the other ("Run Like Hell"). I much prefer his playing now to what he displayed on his About Face solo effort.

Animals and his first solo album are the best as far as I'm concerned.

Dogs and Raise My Rent just blow me away.

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