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It really was just a silly thought I had. Personally, I would not have wanted to hear Pink Floyd play Stairway to Heaven. I imagined Dave in his barn in the middle of the night very animated, just completely foaming at the mouth kind of rocking out. The way we have never seen Dave, who is so controlled on stage. It was a funny image, but again, perhaps only to me.

(08-19-2011 10:11 AM)blue_ember Wrote: [ -> ]you think? why?

Because David had a reputation, in the early days, of being a great Hendrix emmulator. He played Hendrix better than Hendrix himself.
He's also confessed to be huge fan.
I've never read anywhere that he's ever made a comment about Page though.

oh haha I never knew that. Good for him! maybe the great musicians now days will be foretold by emulating David himself ;)

He also uses Hendrix's guitar strap. I'm sure that's probably common knowledge to all here. It always suggested to me that Dave is indeed a fan.

is the strap you are talking about this one?

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at 0:25 in Purple Haze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFSaqFzSO8), does it sound oddly similar to Ibiza Bar? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJAt3NjGa-M). To me they sound similar. well ibiza bar has the guitar dominating more (its a heavier distortion and is louder) and in P. Haze the guitar is a little more complicated, but other then that they sound similar to me

Yes, that's the strap. Now if I could just remember where it was that he commented on it. I just checked the you tube video where I thought I saw it, but he only mentions his Gibson Kalamazoo. "David Gilmour - 'Here I Go' (Syd Barrett) (Live & Acoustic, December 9, 2008)" is the video.

He does Syd's Here I Go. I swear no less than a hundred of the view counts are mine.

awe man thats the strap? I saw him wearing it in one of his videos and thought, god I would LOVE that strap. Maybe one day I could buy it at an auction or something but now it must be worth so much more....

It would be worth quite the bundle, indeed. For Hendrix's "vibe", of coarse, and now for Gilmour's as well. He wore it at Live 8. It wasn't cheap for him, or whomever bought it for him. I'm sorry, I just can't remember. It might have been a gift from Polly.

It was indeed a gift from Polly. She bought it at an auction for his sixtieth birthday.

Here's a Gilmour/Seal cover of Hey Joe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPAjf2B3oR0

Thanks for the confirmation, and thanks for the video! Excellent cover.