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(07-04-2023, 04:17 PM)Whatever Wrote: Definitely, but Edge as least has chord/position changes in his parts.  Most of Gilmour's performance in "Give Blood" is sitting in a single position and repeating the same simple pattern ad nauseam with no deviation.  And his solo is just a slow walk up of a major scale.  I mean, that's just a classic example of a guy using effects as a crutch instead of a tool.  

I like most of Pink Floyd's catalogue and I have a lot of respect for Gilmour as an artist, but it's ridiculous to me that some have to take things a step further and try to categorize him as some kind of guitar god.  He's by no means Kurt Cobain bad on the instrument, but his playing certainly doesn't deserve placement on a pedestal, either.

As a string plucker myself, i'm gonna have to disagree with you there. The brilliance of some players is how they take something simple and make it sound more complex and/or different than your average joe guitar player. 

Shine on you crazy diamond is not complex by any standard. I could teach it to a moderate-level guitar player in pretty short order. But the atmoshpere and emotion that Gilmour creates is magical (in pretty much everything he does). Take any standard 1,4,5 chord progression with a couple minor scales and two people are going to make it sound completely different. Gilmour has always been about mood and he does it spectacularly. 

I've never been a huge Who or Townshend fan but i like a good number of their songs. I don't necessarily agree with Truck that he's on another level, per se--but i give him tons of credit for deviating from the boring norm and composing things in a unique way and for reaching out for something different and i don't fret (pun intended) someone for liking a particular player, for whatever the reason is. Music is meant to move and it moves different people different ways.

Since we're talking about effects, don't even get me started on Kirk Hammett and his wah pedal...