David Gilmour emotes like no one else. He stands alone. He's sublime. Don't think I'm going to be able to do anything more than gush about him, so I'll stop.

I did have a funny thought though, reading through this thread. Every electric guitar player I've ever known "cut their teeth" with Stairway to Heaven. Made me wonder if Dave ever played it himself. I imagine him preferring to be alone for that, sneaking out to the barn in the middle of the night.

I don't know. I do have a bootleg of a performance PF did in Austria in 1988, where during soundcheck the band launched into a bit of the Heartbreaker riff, so he's at least familiar with something in Page's oeuvre at the least. It wasn't bad. Not better than the way Page plays it, because I think a guitarist's signature style can only really be done by them, but hardly the work of an amateur.

I imagine he would play it for the sheer appreciation of the tune and the fun of playing it. So many people have been inspired to pick up the guitar because they want to play his solos. Why should guitar greats be any different, I suppose. It was just a funny thought, perhaps only to me. I've no doubt he would do it justice, no matter who it was he'd be playing. He's so disciplined, he'd practice until he got it right. That discipline, combined with his extraordinary musicality are what set him apart. He's the best, and the others, extraordinary in their own right as they are, are the rest. In my opinion, of coarse.

It is possible to copy someones style but most of the time when people do covers, they want to perform the song with their own style replacing the original style. right?

I think I would love to hear a cover of Stairway To Heaven by Pink Floyd. Ive heard Jimmi Hendrix's cover of it and I was on a music downloading website (sorry Itunes! :P) and I saw a track: 'Stairway To Heaven - Pink Floyd' and this was before I knew anything about Pink Floyd so I got it and it actually sound like Pink Floyd doing STH. I need to relisten to that when I'm back home...

I'm on vacation :D I listened through The Division Bell this morning and I finished reading Inside Out haha Nick is so funny!

I love PF to death, and I always will.....but if they ever did STH, it would sound like a big 'ol mess. Forget the fact I hate that song for a moment, it's still LZ's most iconic song, even if it's not necessarily their best, IMO. When you start messing around with another band's signature song.....ehh, I can't dig that. I'm not even remotely curious as to what it would sound like, the same as I wouldn't want to hear LZ doing Money or Echoes or any of PF's signature songs.

I guess I'm weird like that.

Whatever Davis plays, I'm sure if he has his mind set on it he will no doubt do it justice. Nick Mason said in his book that a lot of the confrontation ebwteen roger and him was because David was determined when he was set on something and wouldn't let anyone get in his way

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lol LZ doing echoes.... haha that would be interesting!

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also if they tried to do STH, Rick wouldn't be there :( and even if he theoretically was, roger and david would probably try to make it sound like something of their own and would have more onfrontations

Jimmy Page didn't write Stairway to Heaven until he was 21, I could play it when I was 12. I think that says allot really.

You do know that Led Zep stole the riff from Spirit I suppose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhKUfiohxEY

Anyway, I think Gilmour prefers Hendrix to Page.

you think? why?

(08-18-2011 09:40 PM)Floydy Wrote:  Jimmy Page didn't write Stairway to Heaven until he was 21, I could play it when I was 12. I think that says allot really.

That really isn't quite relevant...

Besides, one could say the same thing about David. I myself played many Pink Floyd songs when I was twelve.