David Gilmour arrived at his unmistakable guitar style quite simply. “I realized my fingers were just never going to go much faster,” the Pink Floyd legend told UCR in an interview this past summer.”
“You’ve got to find your own path in this thing,” he explained. But later, he concluded his thought, “I do wish I could do it a bit better sometimes,” punctuating those last words with a wry chuckle.
The capacity crowd in attendance at the first gig (Nov. 4) of Gilmour’s five-night run at Madison Square Garden likely would collectively find no room for improvement when it comes to the two and a half hour show they witnessed.
You can see exclusive photos from the MSG show below.
The guitarist is touring in support of Luck and Strange, his first solo album in nearly a decade and is performing the whole record, with a variety of Pink Floyd songs interspersed with the new tracks, alongside a few selections from his previous solo outing, 2015’s Rattle That Lock.
That ended up being a wise move from a pacing and sequencing standpoint. After one particular stretch featuring Luck and Strange’s “The Piper’s Call,” “A Great Day for Freedom” from Pink Floyd’s 1994 album The Division Bell, Rattle That Lock’s “In Any Tongue” and the Dark Side of the Moon classic ,”The Great Gig in the Sky,” an audience member shared his feedback with the person next to him. “If all of those songs are from his new album, that new album is pretty good.”
