all pink floyd fans know that waters is the bass player. gilmours propaganda that he was the musical force behind floyd is sucks .rick wright was very musical and fantastic . gilmour was allways good for p.r. and.he is a good guitarist,but roger is an artist,musician,composer,writer.
haha foolish thoughtsby,david gilmour fans.i m bass player since 1990.if you have old pink floyd bootlegg stuff is easy to understand that Roger WATERS is a very clever bass PLAYER . of course he s not ,jaco pastorius,. but he wrote some very good bass lines.i like gilmour as a guitarist but he couldnt be a good songwrighter .roger is a fantastic songwrighters
Every good Floyd fan knows David was a better bassist than Roger, He played the bass solo in Pigs (Three Different Ones) and roger was never great at it...but he was a GREAT songwriter, until he got crazy...during and after the wall I mean
ähh hähä this sucks! change it!... btw Waters was also quite often using picks, e.g. at "live at pompei" he almost exclusively used them, so whats this discussion for?
And certainly Gilmour is a much better musician than Waters.
They are ALL playing basses; it's part of the joke, the humor of Spinal Tap. The song they are playing is "Big Bottom" and they want to emphasize the bottom by adding more and more bass. Part of the joke is that similar bass tones will tend to cancel one another out, so this would never fly in a real band, it would be muddy or mush. Lots of people wouldn't get the joke, and you are way ahead of all those who don't even recognize a bass as different from a guitar, so don't feel too bad!
No surprises here, all the Pink Floyd songs with fretless bass solos are done by Gilmour (Pigs, Hey You, etc.) Roger was quite good at bass but never saw himself as a bassist.
And yes, most bassists use picks and fingerstyle, I prefer using fingerstyle, but since Gilmour is a guitarist, he'd be more experienced with a pick.
No surprises here, all the Pink Floyd songs with fretless bass solos are done by Gilmour (Pigs, Hey You, etc.) Roger was quite good at bass but never saw himself as a bassist.
And yes, most bassists use picks and fingerstyle, I prefer using fingerstyle, but since Gilmour is a guitarist, he'd be more experienced with a pick.
You have to hand it to the man, he's performed with Pink Floyd, The Who, The Beatles and now Spinal Tap.
Fato que o Roger Waters não seja um grande baixista, coisa que o próprio já disse não ser. Porém o que importa é que ele é um grande compositor, com estilo diferente do de Gilmour, complementares na banda. Daí o sucesso do Pink Floyd, os elementos pariculares de cada membro somados, desnecessárias as comprações. O que um tem, o outro jamais vai possuir...
Waters was never terribly interested in the playing of music, rather the making of it, if that makes sense. He has admitted on several occasions that Gilmour was the only one of the group with any real musical talent (which I suppose is true, depending on how you look at it). In his solo concerts, he rarely plays bass (except for the big Floyd numbers). He usually plays acoustic guitar or just sings. He doesn't really worry about guitars and basses and he hasn't since the early 70s.
@seemeel Well, the late 70's, but yes, true enough. Roger was always more concerned with the lyrics as soon as he came to power in Pink Floyd. Though I think he would admit that Richard Wright was also obscenely musicaly talented, aswell as David.
@MrConeman Yep, Wright was brilliant too, but the first time Waters said this, it was just after David joined (and his mother lent the band a rather large amount of cash for new gear). Waters has repeated it since. Gilmour was great from the start, while you can hear how Wright improved as a player from 1967 to about 1973.
Wanted to add: Roger Waters has stated playing the bass is less important to him. At lot of Pink Floyd music was played live before it was pieced together in a studio, and the finished product that we hear is from tons of studio work and people like Alan Parsons, Brian Humphries, James Guthrie and Bob Ezrin.
They all didn't sit around and bicker about who was the better player at what instrument, I think they all knew their strong and weak points. Composing music is a lot more than just playing.
I agree David was better playing the guitar and some bass riffs. Gilmour said himself he played some bass riffs on the studio albums because he could play them quicker than Roger. Doesn't mean he invented all the riffs. It was Roger's riff in One of these Days, They both played it together on the album. "I love them both,"
lets not forget though, that Waters also played some electric and acoustic guitar rhythm on many albums and some awesome tape effects, VCS 3 and Synthi A synthesiser stuff.
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gilmour plays bass better than waters? you are an idiot !!! waters= best writer ever. any questions? animals dark side of the moon wish you were here the wall gilmour? on an island on an island?= lonely and bored. lonely and bored s the music from gilmour waters made floyd end od my point.
@kazam2091 He does play better, even if waters is or not a better song writer, gilmour plays better bass, he even played the bass on some of the pink floyd songs in the studio, making fun that water couldn't play fretless bass.
@kazam2091 when it comes to being a musician, david is 10000x better than roger. Roger even recognized that in a an interview. thats why PF was so good when they all four came together, roger would write the lyrics, david,rick, and nick would write the music. this is why everything from the wall-the division bells sucks ass because it was never the 4 of them going in equally.
wow I'm a pro bass player and I've been playing for like 9 years but David kicks my ass at freless bass maybe it is because I've touched a fretless like once
@yougoddamnprick Why wouldn't he play it? From Wikipedia "art VI (Wright, Waters, Gilmour; from 0:00 – 4:55) begins with a howling wind from the preceding song "Wish You Were Here". As the wind fades away, David Gilmour comes in on the bass guitar. Roger Waters adds another bass guitar with a continuing riff pattern. Then Richard Wright comes in playing an ARP String Ensemble Synthesizer and after a few measures..."
@yougoddamnprick read "Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd" by Mark Blake (which I think has now been re-released "Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd"). Roger Waters did little studio bass work. He also played the bass on the studio version One of These Days and Echoes. Floyd used a lot of dubbing techniques pioneered by the late Les Paul. Effects such as multi-tracking and vocal over-dubbing (used to great effect by the late Karen Carpenter amongst other artists).
@yougoddamnprick David Gilmour played the bass leading in from Wish You Were Here (the song) on part VI of Shine On. So obviously I DO know Pink Floyd!
@yougoddamnprick What ideas? All he ever wrote and sang about was his father being killed in the war. And entire album, The Final Cut, was dedicated to the subject! With the exception of The Fletcher Memorial Home, it was Floyd's worst album. In fact, according to Dave Gilmour himself, The Final Cut was more like a Roger Water solo album because he and Nick Mason had little or no input in it whatsoever (Waters had already sacked Rick Wright by this time).
@MrBasementJams Closer to the truth is that David played bass on much of Pink Floyd's studio releases -- including fretless bass on "Hey You". Because Roger's bass-playing ability was minimal at best he could not manage more complex bass lines. David is by far the more accomplished musician and plays a broad range of instruments, including more recently, the saxophone ... and David has the better, cleaner, clearer singing voice -- then and now.
@MrBasementJams LOL! I'm sorry if I shattered your illusion, but shocking as it is, it's the sad truth ... Waters knowingly accepted bass-playing credit where is was undeserved.
@KarmicOmen He also played drums on Syd Barrett's album "The Madcap Laughs" he played keyboards and drums on his album "On an Island". David also played the Cumbus, a Turkish banjo-like instrument.
David Gilmour played Bass parts on a few Pink Floyd Records, including Pigs (three different ones) on the Animals Album. Great bass solo in the beginning
In my mind there has never been any doubt that Gilmour is a much better bass player than Waters. There's no argument there. Gilmour played the fretless bass on Sheep and Pigs which incidentally contains the best bass work on any Floyd song. As for the picks-fingers debate, Gilmour most definitely plays Pigs with his fingers on a fretless bass
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why does he use a pick 2 play bass? is that a rock technique because i have never seen that in other music styles (for instance in jazz) i am not sayin that it is a bad thing because Gilmour is amazing and unique in style
@SHOJMPR42 Picking on a bass isn't uncommon. Roger Waters even uses a pick It'd just one of a number of techniques: picking, fingering, thumbing, slapping...
claro que no toca mejor que waters, david es el mejor en la guitarra no hay duda, pero en el bajo es mejor waters, y creo que los dos tienen buenas ideas
David played many of the 'cool' bass lines in Floyd's music. Noteable are the bass lines from "Hey You" and he and Roger double tracked eachother on "One of these days"
Unless I'm very much mistaken, there are two bass players, so no way can we know who plays what.
Roger never played some complicated bass, but that doesn't mean he can't (it's like John Frusciante and the Red Hot Chili Peppers his guitar in RHCP is pretty simple, he's way better than that)
No shit Gilmour plays better than Waters. Waters does not have much musical talent, I say he is a great poet, philosopher, political speaker. That man knows shit and is very intelligent, but his musical side tends to lack "music" if you know what I mean
Eerily ironic & appropriate, given that Dave's girlfriend/wife/partner assumed (some of) Pink Floyd's song writing duties with no Roger in the band.... LOL. Very Spinal Tap.
No irenalfailure - Polly Samson, Dave's wife is on the lyric credits of post-Waters PF albums; and what did RW say that I said? And,silly, there's no apostrophe in "Roger Water's". Duh!
OK, pedantic bastard. It's David, not Dave. If you knew anything about Gilmour, you'd know that he hates to be called Dave. The thing is, Bondage, you know you're a sucker for plagiarism, but you're too ashamed to admit that you're a fucking retarded forger who can't think of anything original to say and relies on other people's concepts to sound highbrowed. Duh isn't a word, you fake intellect.
Ha-ha irenal; you can't even spell and now you are spell-checking your sorry sad life in a pathetic effort to appear educated. I have met Dave and he is awesome; so cool & chilled; unlike your neurotic fat fanny. Oh & btw, here's a clue... grammar rules dictate that no person can be a 'fake intellect' (duh x 2!) but they can be a 'pseudo intellectual'... sounds better, hey dumbo? Bwahahahahahaha!
And in your futile attempt to 'appear' educated, you say 'neurotic fat fanny' in a sorry effort at insulting me! That's a contradiction in itself given that neurosis is of the brain, you complete fuck-up. And obviously, 'Dave' is so 'cool' and 'chilled' alike yourself, which 'Bwahahahahahaha' amusingly indicates . Oh, and clearly you were hard-pressed finding superlatives for 'Dave' as 'cool' and 'chilled' mean pretty much the same thing! Well done, Bondage!
Ha-ha-... Your brain is IN your fanny - that's the point. And how quickly did you answer?!?!? ... Tragic... get a life away from the computer. You are like a pathetic bag lady hermit who eats cat food. Fact is, YOU CAN"T SPELL. Hee-hee. You lose, loser. Fat, too.
My reply was a week ago you weeping anus! Which means that you're retort was long over-due. This suggests that you're minutiae brain needs prolonged thinking time to come up with anything worthwhile to say, which in your case doesn't happen anyway, so give up the ghost you complete dimwit. I would have added to the previous sentence 'before you embarrass yourself', but that's a bit late, seeing that you've already done that. And in what grammar is the word 'Can"t'? Too bad, you erroneous fud!
Are you still having your period? You are still babbling: "This suggests that YOU'RE minutiae brain needs..etc" - makes no sense. FYI "you're" means "you are" . Lesson over. Take the tampon out of your mouth. You make no sense. 'Can't' means CAN NOT - it is also what you are; a fat smelly "can't"! Ha!
'FYI'! What a ponce! Only pretencious bastards use acronyms such as that. Do you also do lectures in bondage? By the way, your grammatical lectures are far from inspiring, which is perhaps contrary to what you believe. That 'Ha!' at the end of your nonsensical jibberish was pretty deperate for you are the only person who'd laugh at such a weak attempt at wit. I'll give you a hint on how to climb out of the rut of despair you seem to have found yourself in; stop trying so hard to impress.
Oh, hello, fat psychotic hermit scrag (who can't spell). By your manic response it seems your Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow disease) medication has obviously run out, again. Ha!
Yeah, Bondage, I know what the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is, you pompous bastard. You're retorts are becoming increasingly lame, I chance to say it is your feeble mind that needs the medication, not mine. And there's the obligatory 'Ha!' again, you self-congratratulatory prick. If 'scrag' is the best insult you can come up with, I'd quit whilst you're behind because that smacks of desperation. I think you've scraped the bottom of your shallow barrel of infantile abuse.
Do you mean "your" or "you're"?!?!? (Spelling & grammar can be confusing for the easily confused, you have my sympathy...) Your gums are flappin' on your keyboard, but no sense is coming out! Ha!
Well, I had to give you something to react to, giving that your arguments are so weak and repetative. And, yet again, the self-praise. Get the message you absolute malcontent. ?!?!? isn't exactly the work of a literary intellect, so practise what you preach you hideous primate.
Don't you mean 'GIVEN that your ..etc" - You STILL CAN"T SPELL! And when you write about 'literary intellect' you may want to use a capital letter to begin the sentence! Otherwise, you appear very stupid. Hahahahaha - and you are!
No - hahahahahaha - YOU ARE! And that wasn't even the beginning of my sentence, butt rapist! I wait a week for a mere three sentence retort and, as ever, it is weak and lame. Is your first point really about spelling, Bondage? Are you as dense as I suspect? Well, obviously you are but I expect your reply will reach me after your customarily slow brain registers my riposte. Have to wait a while for that. Later, Herpes!
How do you keep a moron in suspense? Call it irenalfailure and feed it your nourishing shit once a week. You can even train it to respond like an idiotic salivating dog; (that can't spell) woof!
Yet another pile of verbal excrement from Bondage. Barely 3 sentences long, your mundane and inarticulate replies are becoming so increasingly feeble, I actually feel pity for you. Woof!
I have trained you well. Woof! Imitation is the highest form of flattery and your use of "Woof" attests to that. And other users have rated your comments in the minus and mine in the plus! You lose again, loser! It's official! You are stupid! If it says so on YouTube it must be true!
Well thanks for letting me know that it's intentional. I was starting to get worried that the need to rock out overcame his neck constraint. But 80s rock is still pretty out there! Glam rock?!
There's one thing people don't admit: Waters coudn't make the music alone; there are a lot of credits to be given for Gimour, and, specially on The Wall, for Bob Erzin.
But there's one thing people forget or just don't know: Waters, along Wright and Mason, but specially Waters, is the man of the great stage effects. He was a great inventor, a very creative person.
good comment..the music world lost out when roger and david split..They all had something special and they complimented each other musically.Roger i think lost out more cause when i listen to his music (post floyd)it seemed that spark had dimmed.Davids voice & guitar is amazing to this day-saying that i have missed roger's brilliance since the final cut.I really wish david played berlin wall with roger.Like i said the music world lost out.
Yeah I would actually say, from my own experiences, it can be boring to play the bass when you are use to the guitar. you job is kinda... Creating a ground melody, and most things sound crappy with no bass. :p
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Gilmour is a mad guitarist. As for being a better bass player than Waters, I don't think so. That's my opinion, and probably the opinion of most educated people.
I'm an educated person and I disagree with you. One of the reasons why Gilmour played bass on Hey You, Pigs and countless others was because Roger Waters couldn't manage them properly. Doesn't denigrate Waters as a songwriter, just nowhere near as competent a musician as Gilmour.
Gilmour also played the main bass on One of these days and so many others. Waters never considered himself a great musician and he almost got the drums by lack of skill. But he's a great lyricwriter, very awesome.
in the movie spinal tab the bass player plays a double neck bass and the lead and rythem guitar players play bass too...lol.......talkin about mud flaps my girls got'em .......lol
have you ever listened to the bass on pigs (three different ones)? apparently not cause maybe if u opened the ears of your fat head you would hear waters skill as a bassist
i never said roger can't play bass. i like how attacking and unforgiving people get to a bit of sarcasm. and then i'm the one with the fat head :D good job :)
Actually, Gilmour played bass on most records, especially the later ones. I count vouch for that particular piece of music, but I'm just laying it out. At the same time, I am not denying his skill on bass, because it was his style that influenced any Pink Floyd bass part.
LMFAO Floyd hadn't been Floyd for 28 years by 2005, the last Floyd album (iow not a sarcastic joke on the later lack of value of doing such a thing) was _Animals_
Music is not a sport, it's an art. And it has _much_ more to do with the mind than one's ability or dexterity as an instrumentalist. That's useful, but secondary.
Floyd produced profound landscapes and holographic imagery with music, as well as some of the most emotionally intense stuff ever.
I love Gilmour as a guitarist, but i think his bass skills within this video are over-rated. He plays the bass like a guitar. He just doesn't have the same feel for the rhythm section as Waters.
He's a really good bass player, if you listen to fat old sun, you can see that he's REALLY good. That bass fits perfectly to that song (he played the bass on that song). Nice performance here too, but i don't find him playing with spinal tap xD
all pink floyd fans know that waters is the bass player. gilmours propaganda that he was the musical force behind floyd is sucks .rick wright was very musical and fantastic . gilmour was allways good for p.r. and.he is a good guitarist,but roger is an artist,musician,composer,writer.
bouboubass1 8 months ago
haha foolish thoughtsby,david gilmour fans.i m bass player since 1990.if you have old pink floyd bootlegg stuff is easy to understand that Roger WATERS is a very clever bass PLAYER . of course he s not ,jaco pastorius,. but he wrote some very good bass lines.i like gilmour as a guitarist but he couldnt be a good songwrighter .roger is a fantastic songwrighters
bouboubass1 8 months ago
SPINAL TAP!! :D
lol this is awesome!
GCMPJLRMYLIFE 11 months ago
lmao spinal tap, of course.
rickyjullianbubbles1 11 months ago
Every good Floyd fan knows David was a better bassist than Roger, He played the bass solo in Pigs (Three Different Ones) and roger was never great at it...but he was a GREAT songwriter, until he got crazy...during and after the wall I mean
Noseheros 11 months ago
ähh hähä this sucks! change it!... btw Waters was also quite often using picks, e.g. at "live at pompei" he almost exclusively used them, so whats this discussion for?
And certainly Gilmour is a much better musician than Waters.
McTatzi 11 months ago
@McTatzi No doubt about that, but Roger sure could write good songs! I dunno wut happened but those days are long gone
Noseheros 11 months ago
wheres Nigel? And its wierd to see David St Hubbins our from behind a guitar.
PastaCheifFilms 1 year ago
They are ALL playing basses; it's part of the joke, the humor of Spinal Tap. The song they are playing is "Big Bottom" and they want to emphasize the bottom by adding more and more bass. Part of the joke is that similar bass tones will tend to cancel one another out, so this would never fly in a real band, it would be muddy or mush. Lots of people wouldn't get the joke, and you are way ahead of all those who don't even recognize a bass as different from a guitar, so don't feel too bad!
bwj8 1 year ago 2
why is there two basses?
BigMuf3zPi 1 year ago
eh. y two basses. really?!
kantuflas 1 year ago
No surprises here, all the Pink Floyd songs with fretless bass solos are done by Gilmour (Pigs, Hey You, etc.) Roger was quite good at bass but never saw himself as a bassist.
And yes, most bassists use picks and fingerstyle, I prefer using fingerstyle, but since Gilmour is a guitarist, he'd be more experienced with a pick.
aaaaaaaaaajgvgjyc 1 year ago
No surprises here, all the Pink Floyd songs with fretless bass solos are done by Gilmour (Pigs, Hey You, etc.) Roger was quite good at bass but never saw himself as a bassist.
And yes, most bassists use picks and fingerstyle, I prefer using fingerstyle, but since Gilmour is a guitarist, he'd be more experienced with a pick.
You have to hand it to the man, he's performed with Pink Floyd, The Who, The Beatles and now Spinal Tap.
aaaaaaaaaajgvgjyc 1 year ago
Some Bass players use picks. I use a pick when I play bass. Interestingly enough I am mostly fingerpick woth guitar.
mike3571 1 year ago
che bella voce Enzo Paolo Turchi...
akanodeo 1 year ago
is this spinal tap?
HappyInsaneBicho 1 year ago
@HappyInsaneBicho Duh...wake up, idiot!
dwemmy 1 year ago
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@HappyInsaneBicho Duh...wake up, idiot!
dwemmy 1 year ago
@HappyInsaneBicho This is Spinal Tap.
sandykopi 1 year ago
Fato que o Roger Waters não seja um grande baixista, coisa que o próprio já disse não ser. Porém o que importa é que ele é um grande compositor, com estilo diferente do de Gilmour, complementares na banda. Daí o sucesso do Pink Floyd, os elementos pariculares de cada membro somados, desnecessárias as comprações. O que um tem, o outro jamais vai possuir...
Mr15051979 1 year ago
Spinal Tap FTW?
sathanocracy 1 year ago
Waters was never terribly interested in the playing of music, rather the making of it, if that makes sense. He has admitted on several occasions that Gilmour was the only one of the group with any real musical talent (which I suppose is true, depending on how you look at it). In his solo concerts, he rarely plays bass (except for the big Floyd numbers). He usually plays acoustic guitar or just sings. He doesn't really worry about guitars and basses and he hasn't since the early 70s.
seemeel 1 year ago
@seemeel Well, the late 70's, but yes, true enough. Roger was always more concerned with the lyrics as soon as he came to power in Pink Floyd. Though I think he would admit that Richard Wright was also obscenely musicaly talented, aswell as David.
MrConeman 1 year ago
@MrConeman Yep, Wright was brilliant too, but the first time Waters said this, it was just after David joined (and his mother lent the band a rather large amount of cash for new gear). Waters has repeated it since. Gilmour was great from the start, while you can hear how Wright improved as a player from 1967 to about 1973.
seemeel 1 year ago
@MrConeman Yes, Rick used to tune Rogers Bass
fmradioguy101 1 year ago
Wanted to add: Roger Waters has stated playing the bass is less important to him. At lot of Pink Floyd music was played live before it was pieced together in a studio, and the finished product that we hear is from tons of studio work and people like Alan Parsons, Brian Humphries, James Guthrie and Bob Ezrin.
They all didn't sit around and bicker about who was the better player at what instrument, I think they all knew their strong and weak points. Composing music is a lot more than just playing.
blue2high 1 year ago
I agree David was better playing the guitar and some bass riffs. Gilmour said himself he played some bass riffs on the studio albums because he could play them quicker than Roger. Doesn't mean he invented all the riffs. It was Roger's riff in One of these Days, They both played it together on the album. "I love them both,"
lets not forget though, that Waters also played some electric and acoustic guitar rhythm on many albums and some awesome tape effects, VCS 3 and Synthi A synthesiser stuff.
blue2high 1 year ago
I see at least 3 bass players on this stage including Gilmour and I do not see what it is so great about this bass line.......it is simple line
markuz6971 1 year ago
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kazam2091 1 year ago
@kazam2091 He does play better, even if waters is or not a better song writer, gilmour plays better bass, he even played the bass on some of the pink floyd songs in the studio, making fun that water couldn't play fretless bass.
Famo8610 1 year ago
@kazam2091 on a island = lonely and bored..'????
is a very good album bro....obviosly...you can't compare with the lirycs write by Waters....thats my opinion.....best wishes from Mexico bro..
larva310193 1 year ago
@kazam2091 when it comes to being a musician, david is 10000x better than roger. Roger even recognized that in a an interview. thats why PF was so good when they all four came together, roger would write the lyrics, david,rick, and nick would write the music. this is why everything from the wall-the division bells sucks ass because it was never the 4 of them going in equally.
tokeification 1 year ago
wow I'm a pro bass player and I've been playing for like 9 years but David kicks my ass at freless bass maybe it is because I've touched a fretless like once
nemakur 1 year ago
@yougoddamnprick Why wouldn't he play it? From Wikipedia "art VI (Wright, Waters, Gilmour; from 0:00 – 4:55) begins with a howling wind from the preceding song "Wish You Were Here". As the wind fades away, David Gilmour comes in on the bass guitar. Roger Waters adds another bass guitar with a continuing riff pattern. Then Richard Wright comes in playing an ARP String Ensemble Synthesizer and after a few measures..."
DannyNewman 1 year ago
@yougoddamnprick read "Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd" by Mark Blake (which I think has now been re-released "Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd"). Roger Waters did little studio bass work. He also played the bass on the studio version One of These Days and Echoes. Floyd used a lot of dubbing techniques pioneered by the late Les Paul. Effects such as multi-tracking and vocal over-dubbing (used to great effect by the late Karen Carpenter amongst other artists).
DannyNewman 1 year ago
@yougoddamnprick David Gilmour played the bass leading in from Wish You Were Here (the song) on part VI of Shine On. So obviously I DO know Pink Floyd!
DannyNewman 1 year ago
@yougoddamnprick What ideas? All he ever wrote and sang about was his father being killed in the war. And entire album, The Final Cut, was dedicated to the subject! With the exception of The Fletcher Memorial Home, it was Floyd's worst album. In fact, according to Dave Gilmour himself, The Final Cut was more like a Roger Water solo album because he and Nick Mason had little or no input in it whatsoever (Waters had already sacked Rick Wright by this time).
DannyNewman 1 year ago
LOL! The singer, Michael McKean, is Lenny from the 70's TV sitcom Laverne and Shirley! I forgot about that.
KarmicOmen 1 year ago
im pretty sure he's not better than roger waters
MrBasementJams 1 year ago
@MrBasementJams Closer to the truth is that David played bass on much of Pink Floyd's studio releases -- including fretless bass on "Hey You". Because Roger's bass-playing ability was minimal at best he could not manage more complex bass lines. David is by far the more accomplished musician and plays a broad range of instruments, including more recently, the saxophone ... and David has the better, cleaner, clearer singing voice -- then and now.
KarmicOmen 1 year ago 2
@KarmicOmen i feel destroyed. haha but no dip about the vocals. david is way better!
MrBasementJams 1 year ago
@MrBasementJams LOL! I'm sorry if I shattered your illusion, but shocking as it is, it's the sad truth ... Waters knowingly accepted bass-playing credit where is was undeserved.
KarmicOmen 1 year ago
@KarmicOmen He also played drums on Syd Barrett's album "The Madcap Laughs" he played keyboards and drums on his album "On an Island". David also played the Cumbus, a Turkish banjo-like instrument.
DannyNewman 1 year ago
@DannyNewman Hmm, I know ... David is very accomplished musically on a wide range of instruments -- and vocally he's just amazing.
KarmicOmen 1 year ago
Surprisingly Roger Waters did very little studio work, preferring the live performances.
DannyNewman 1 year ago
Why is Gimour playing with Spinal Tap? Totally different rock genres...
FriedChickenofDeath6 1 year ago
What the fuck?!! This is spinal tap. lol. They should have had Gilmour be the drummer
GSSchaefer 1 year ago
David Gilmour on bass -LOL
sivaddivad 1 year ago
David Gilmour played Bass parts on a few Pink Floyd Records, including Pigs (three different ones) on the Animals Album. Great bass solo in the beginning
Noseheros 1 year ago
@Noseheros He also played the bass lines on One of These Days and Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
DannyNewman 1 year ago
@DannyNewman thanks I didnt know
Noseheros 1 year ago
The real bassist has the neck cast. Stonehenge and Big Bottom lol!
ThePaulT23 1 year ago
the song with 2 bassists
filipo71470 1 year ago
3 bassists!!
TWOTOSrecords 1 year ago
spinal tap , what a shit band ! But it is funny :)
filipo71470 1 year ago
In my mind there has never been any doubt that Gilmour is a much better bass player than Waters. There's no argument there. Gilmour played the fretless bass on Sheep and Pigs which incidentally contains the best bass work on any Floyd song. As for the picks-fingers debate, Gilmour most definitely plays Pigs with his fingers on a fretless bass
rahooligan 1 year ago
@rahooligan Didn't know that. Gilmour really played Pigs on the bass? He's good...
FriedChickenofDeath6 1 year ago
@FriedChickenofDeath6 David played bass on SHEEP too
KarmicOmen 1 year ago
@KarmicOmen WOW! That's awesome!
FriedChickenofDeath6 1 year ago
@rahooligan He also played bass on One ofThese Days and Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
DannyNewman 1 year ago
@DannyNewman not on "shine on you crazy diamond", Roger did it.
rippersk8er 1 year ago
@rippersk8er Actually he did. David played the bass leading in from the song Wish You Were Here.
DannyNewman 1 year ago
David gilmour's the worlds best ever bassist !!!
yellow2000fluff 1 year ago
yep! the fucking spinal tap! jajajaj
SAMURAISAMURA 1 year ago
The guitarist is with broken neck, or this is part of the 80's fashion? :)
tortaloni 1 year ago 2
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why does he use a pick 2 play bass? is that a rock technique because i have never seen that in other music styles (for instance in jazz) i am not sayin that it is a bad thing because Gilmour is amazing and unique in style
SHOJMPR42 2 years ago
It's cuz he's a guitarist. Picks are what he's used to.
LeftyCenter 2 years ago 7
@LeftyCenter exactly, I mean even Roger used picks
Noseheros 1 year ago
@LeftyCenter No, just Gilmour is better musican than Waters. That's all.
PiotrekChrobot 1 year ago
You should look for Anthony Jackson, he uses pick in jazz playing
Gorgalisin 2 years ago 6
many use picks... chris squire is one of the best bass players to use a pick... john entwislte used pick and fingers...
profjohnfrinks 2 years ago
@SHOJMPR42 Picking on a bass isn't uncommon. Roger Waters even uses a pick It'd just one of a number of techniques: picking, fingering, thumbing, slapping...
DannyNewman 1 year ago
I love this one and you know what he plays Ernie Ball Music Man bass you can't beat it
cloutierhaker 2 years ago
hahahaha...dave gilmour with spinal tap!
imissmysong 2 years ago 2
one guys got a neck brace 0:55
Trapper2159 2 years ago
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IT'S NOT DAVID GILMOUR!!!!!!!!!
nandho5 2 years ago
fuck yes spinal tap hahaha
DayHopper 2 years ago
gilmour you play anything with anybody
bigals1000 2 years ago
who is better? stupid question. It's different not better. Who is better Lennon or Macca? same answer. I prefer all of them.
MardearribaStudio 2 years ago 3
wow its so surprizing to see david gilmour on bass but he is progressive rock. he shouldnt be with some hard rock metal heads.
vazkilzan 2 years ago
claro que no toca mejor que waters, david es el mejor en la guitarra no hay duda, pero en el bajo es mejor waters, y creo que los dos tienen buenas ideas
RAMWESS 2 years ago
Nobody play bass like mr. waters
lionhasalreadybe 2 years ago 2
Yeah.. everybody is better (on bass btw :p)
tottoda 2 years ago
David played many of the 'cool' bass lines in Floyd's music. Noteable are the bass lines from "Hey You" and he and Roger double tracked eachother on "One of these days"
jtsnowman66 2 years ago
NOT! Nice try to get people to view this crap.
kali17 2 years ago
that acctually is David Gilmour
hendrixqwe 2 years ago
That's not Dave Gilmour, obviously!!!
nandho5 2 years ago
yes it is?
hendrixqwe 2 years ago
As a gutarist of note I can say that it's not difficult to switch between Lead/Rythm/Bass and does make Gilmour God like in mymind!
kirim99 2 years ago
Hahaha Spinal Tap
CraterAE 2 years ago
david is a god sent from heaven refreshing our lives and souls long live david gilmour
hogwarts09 2 years ago
Funny,when/where was this?
Defcom96 2 years ago
is there anything this man cant do
hogwarts09 2 years ago 2
if i am correct, Dave played bass nad drums on Syd's first solo album. ;)
vesocsm 2 years ago
He started the prentiousness, not me. I was only being like that cos he was 'talking' down to me. I'm here for the music, baby!
irena7777777 2 years ago
Me to.Just reading your arguments reminded of me when i was married..sorry bad joke.Just walk away from it.Nobody will think less of you.
unmensunshne 2 years ago
Good advice, you're obviously a David gilmour fan!
irena7777777 2 years ago
Irena and bondi-think were over it.
unmensunshne 2 years ago
They're pricks obviously.
irena7777777 2 years ago
is that gilmour's bass which he gave to guy pratt as a gift?
mikemcnellyf 2 years ago
No, hes playing a stingray. He gave Guy his stacked knob Jazz
tsup77 2 years ago
pink floyd members are not talented.
pink floyd members are genious.
Playing0The0Angel 2 years ago 3
whys dave playing with Spinal Tap
Gamefighter66 2 years ago
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Unless I'm very much mistaken, there are two bass players, so no way can we know who plays what.
Roger never played some complicated bass, but that doesn't mean he can't (it's like John Frusciante and the Red Hot Chili Peppers his guitar in RHCP is pretty simple, he's way better than that)
Other than that, Gilmour is a God for me =)
Happy Birthday David! (63 years old today!)
:)
leroideschoux 2 years ago
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leroideschoux 2 years ago
No shit Gilmour plays better than Waters. Waters does not have much musical talent, I say he is a great poet, philosopher, political speaker. That man knows shit and is very intelligent, but his musical side tends to lack "music" if you know what I mean
Kando0615 2 years ago 3
Yup. Roger admitted that David and Rick were the real musicians in Pink Floyd.
AngusShanks 2 years ago
Awesome video!
RDL1984 2 years ago
Eerily ironic & appropriate, given that Dave's girlfriend/wife/partner assumed (some of) Pink Floyd's song writing duties with no Roger in the band.... LOL. Very Spinal Tap.
marcusbondi 3 years ago
That was what Roger Water's said about Gilmour's songwriting so, marcusbondage, stop trying to be smart and find some originality!
irena7777777 2 years ago
No irenalfailure - Polly Samson, Dave's wife is on the lyric credits of post-Waters PF albums; and what did RW say that I said? And,silly, there's no apostrophe in "Roger Water's". Duh!
marcusbondi 2 years ago
OK, pedantic bastard. It's David, not Dave. If you knew anything about Gilmour, you'd know that he hates to be called Dave. The thing is, Bondage, you know you're a sucker for plagiarism, but you're too ashamed to admit that you're a fucking retarded forger who can't think of anything original to say and relies on other people's concepts to sound highbrowed. Duh isn't a word, you fake intellect.
irena7777777 2 years ago
Ha-ha irenal; you can't even spell and now you are spell-checking your sorry sad life in a pathetic effort to appear educated. I have met Dave and he is awesome; so cool & chilled; unlike your neurotic fat fanny. Oh & btw, here's a clue... grammar rules dictate that no person can be a 'fake intellect' (duh x 2!) but they can be a 'pseudo intellectual'... sounds better, hey dumbo? Bwahahahahahaha!
marcusbondi 2 years ago
And in your futile attempt to 'appear' educated, you say 'neurotic fat fanny' in a sorry effort at insulting me! That's a contradiction in itself given that neurosis is of the brain, you complete fuck-up. And obviously, 'Dave' is so 'cool' and 'chilled' alike yourself, which 'Bwahahahahahaha' amusingly indicates . Oh, and clearly you were hard-pressed finding superlatives for 'Dave' as 'cool' and 'chilled' mean pretty much the same thing! Well done, Bondage!
irena7777777 2 years ago
Ha-ha-... Your brain is IN your fanny - that's the point. And how quickly did you answer?!?!? ... Tragic... get a life away from the computer. You are like a pathetic bag lady hermit who eats cat food. Fact is, YOU CAN"T SPELL. Hee-hee. You lose, loser. Fat, too.
marcusbondi 2 years ago
My reply was a week ago you weeping anus! Which means that you're retort was long over-due. This suggests that you're minutiae brain needs prolonged thinking time to come up with anything worthwhile to say, which in your case doesn't happen anyway, so give up the ghost you complete dimwit. I would have added to the previous sentence 'before you embarrass yourself', but that's a bit late, seeing that you've already done that. And in what grammar is the word 'Can"t'? Too bad, you erroneous fud!
irena7777777 2 years ago
Are you still having your period? You are still babbling: "This suggests that YOU'RE minutiae brain needs..etc" - makes no sense. FYI "you're" means "you are" . Lesson over. Take the tampon out of your mouth. You make no sense. 'Can't' means CAN NOT - it is also what you are; a fat smelly "can't"! Ha!
marcusbondi 2 years ago
'FYI'! What a ponce! Only pretencious bastards use acronyms such as that. Do you also do lectures in bondage? By the way, your grammatical lectures are far from inspiring, which is perhaps contrary to what you believe. That 'Ha!' at the end of your nonsensical jibberish was pretty deperate for you are the only person who'd laugh at such a weak attempt at wit. I'll give you a hint on how to climb out of the rut of despair you seem to have found yourself in; stop trying so hard to impress.
irena7777777 2 years ago
Oh, hello, fat psychotic hermit scrag (who can't spell). By your manic response it seems your Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow disease) medication has obviously run out, again. Ha!
marcusbondi 2 years ago
Yeah, Bondage, I know what the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is, you pompous bastard. You're retorts are becoming increasingly lame, I chance to say it is your feeble mind that needs the medication, not mine. And there's the obligatory 'Ha!' again, you self-congratratulatory prick. If 'scrag' is the best insult you can come up with, I'd quit whilst you're behind because that smacks of desperation. I think you've scraped the bottom of your shallow barrel of infantile abuse.
irena7777777 2 years ago
Do you mean "your" or "you're"?!?!? (Spelling & grammar can be confusing for the easily confused, you have my sympathy...) Your gums are flappin' on your keyboard, but no sense is coming out! Ha!
marcusbondi 2 years ago 2
Well, I had to give you something to react to, giving that your arguments are so weak and repetative. And, yet again, the self-praise. Get the message you absolute malcontent. ?!?!? isn't exactly the work of a literary intellect, so practise what you preach you hideous primate.
irena7777777 2 years ago
Don't you mean 'GIVEN that your ..etc" - You STILL CAN"T SPELL! And when you write about 'literary intellect' you may want to use a capital letter to begin the sentence! Otherwise, you appear very stupid. Hahahahaha - and you are!
marcusbondi 2 years ago
No - hahahahahaha - YOU ARE! And that wasn't even the beginning of my sentence, butt rapist! I wait a week for a mere three sentence retort and, as ever, it is weak and lame. Is your first point really about spelling, Bondage? Are you as dense as I suspect? Well, obviously you are but I expect your reply will reach me after your customarily slow brain registers my riposte. Have to wait a while for that. Later, Herpes!
irena7777777 2 years ago
How do you keep a moron in suspense? Call it irenalfailure and feed it your nourishing shit once a week. You can even train it to respond like an idiotic salivating dog; (that can't spell) woof!
marcusbondi 2 years ago
Yet another pile of verbal excrement from Bondage. Barely 3 sentences long, your mundane and inarticulate replies are becoming so increasingly feeble, I actually feel pity for you. Woof!
irena7777777 2 years ago
I have trained you well. Woof! Imitation is the highest form of flattery and your use of "Woof" attests to that. And other users have rated your comments in the minus and mine in the plus! You lose again, loser! It's official! You are stupid! If it says so on YouTube it must be true!
marcusbondi 2 years ago
If you use the word 'pretentious' but can't spell it... you are pretentious
slapshot191919 2 years ago 2
That's a pretty Music Man he's got there..
tylerwylie 3 years ago
Surely you realise that this is Spinal Tap?
f8735 3 years ago
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speSHO 3 years ago
he's so cute <3
NewgroundsOwnSBB 3 years ago
Dude, how clueless can you be? The band is Spinal Tap, and the guy with the neck brace is Harry Shearer. It's called comedy -- look into it.
OttoWorthington 3 years ago
Well thanks for letting me know that it's intentional. I was starting to get worried that the need to rock out overcame his neck constraint. But 80s rock is still pretty out there! Glam rock?!
speSHO 3 years ago
Lemme See three Bass guitars. I suggest you out their Movie, This is Spinal Tap. Too bad their guitarrist isn't here.
einarabelc5 3 years ago
's spinal tap you moron
ALAlexMurphyEX 3 years ago
There's one thing people don't admit: Waters coudn't make the music alone; there are a lot of credits to be given for Gimour, and, specially on The Wall, for Bob Erzin.
But there's one thing people forget or just don't know: Waters, along Wright and Mason, but specially Waters, is the man of the great stage effects. He was a great inventor, a very creative person.
getulioprates 3 years ago
good comment..the music world lost out when roger and david split..They all had something special and they complimented each other musically.Roger i think lost out more cause when i listen to his music (post floyd)it seemed that spark had dimmed.Davids voice & guitar is amazing to this day-saying that i have missed roger's brilliance since the final cut.I really wish david played berlin wall with roger.Like i said the music world lost out.
unmensunshne 2 years ago
Yeah I would actually say, from my own experiences, it can be boring to play the bass when you are use to the guitar. you job is kinda... Creating a ground melody, and most things sound crappy with no bass. :p
Joyster2212 3 years ago
Unless you play like Cliff Burton or John Myung or Billy Sheenan.
einarabelc5 3 years ago
Pink Floyd wrote "Dogs".
BrokenChair88 3 years ago
david gilmour played bass on sheep and pigs(3different ones).
Ritchie1504 3 years ago
Gilmour plays the bassguitar in Animals.
For example..
In Sheep waters sings only.
And isn't difficult for a guitarist play the bass
Morettoto 3 years ago
the only good thing in that video is gilmour, i dont really like the song...
anibalnikov47 3 years ago
definitely spinal tap...
tderuvo 3 years ago
what band is that?
stevenismename 3 years ago
I don´t care about who is better! It has no meaning if you really understand and fell what Pink Floyd wants to tell us!
gabrielc89 3 years ago
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Gilmour is a mad guitarist. As for being a better bass player than Waters, I don't think so. That's my opinion, and probably the opinion of most educated people.
melayzie 3 years ago
Smartass.
Thekilldevilhill 3 years ago
I'm an educated person and I disagree with you. One of the reasons why Gilmour played bass on Hey You, Pigs and countless others was because Roger Waters couldn't manage them properly. Doesn't denigrate Waters as a songwriter, just nowhere near as competent a musician as Gilmour.
NannyWhip 3 years ago
Gilmour also played the main bass on One of these days and so many others. Waters never considered himself a great musician and he almost got the drums by lack of skill. But he's a great lyricwriter, very awesome.
getulioprates 3 years ago
How many lays are u getting with that kind of square closings?
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chemofloyd 2 years ago
waters? gilmour play freetless bass on hey you. so that means gilmour better than waters.
lestat047 3 years ago
spinal tap?
goatsheadsoup20 3 years ago
wow SPINAL TAP!
Mustachhe 3 years ago
the neck brace ..lol
mrsoundwave 3 years ago
No way gilmour can play bass like the master i. e. R Waters.
rockaires 3 years ago
guy pratt owns waters at bass
drodenbar 3 years ago 3
jus listen to money, time, breathe, and dogs basslines.. Guy Pratt will never come up with smthg like that..
francisco444 3 years ago
ya must be why Gilmour played most of his bass parts during recordings.
jkonts 3 years ago 4
in the movie spinal tab the bass player plays a double neck bass and the lead and rythem guitar players play bass too...lol.......talkin about mud flaps my girls got'em .......lol
mrsoundwave 3 years ago
that's because Dave is the master :) 'cause Roger can't play guitar like Dave :D
vesocsm 3 years ago 3
bullshit.
rockaires 3 years ago
have you ever listened to the bass on pigs (three different ones)? apparently not cause maybe if u opened the ears of your fat head you would hear waters skill as a bassist
canadadry78 3 years ago
i never said roger can't play bass. i like how attacking and unforgiving people get to a bit of sarcasm. and then i'm the one with the fat head :D good job :)
vesocsm 3 years ago
Actually, Gilmour played bass on most records, especially the later ones. I count vouch for that particular piece of music, but I'm just laying it out. At the same time, I am not denying his skill on bass, because it was his style that influenced any Pink Floyd bass part.
jcforco 3 years ago
I'd like to know who created the riff in One of These Days?
Thank You.
einarabelc5 3 years ago
Actually, Gilmour played the bass on that song.
boboneill12 2 years ago
spinal tap rofl
Fluffmcduff 3 years ago
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letargic4 3 years ago
LMFAO Floyd hadn't been Floyd for 28 years by 2005, the last Floyd album (iow not a sarcastic joke on the later lack of value of doing such a thing) was _Animals_
Music is not a sport, it's an art. And it has _much_ more to do with the mind than one's ability or dexterity as an instrumentalist. That's useful, but secondary.
Floyd produced profound landscapes and holographic imagery with music, as well as some of the most emotionally intense stuff ever.
Who cares how, you'll never be them.
fatchants 3 years ago
When is this from and where???
aserratelli12 3 years ago
xD Gilmour playing with Spinal Tap
HawkeyeWho 3 years ago
Dude, I'm sitting cracking up... but it's so great it's not even funny!
HAAAA!
McMunchy 3 years ago
Gilmour = Great Bassist
Just as Keith Richards did the cool Stones lines a lot of the time, DG played a lot of bass that you thank Waters for!
Check DG playing with Kate Bush too! Excellent fretless vibe...
PorchBass 3 years ago 2
I love Gilmour as a guitarist, but i think his bass skills within this video are over-rated. He plays the bass like a guitar. He just doesn't have the same feel for the rhythm section as Waters.
Teenagefreedomfightr 3 years ago 6
He's a really good bass player, if you listen to fat old sun, you can see that he's REALLY good. That bass fits perfectly to that song (he played the bass on that song). Nice performance here too, but i don't find him playing with spinal tap xD
Porras94 3 years ago