| Gilmour, David - Strat Pack |
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| Recorded at 'Strat Pack: The Fender 50th Birthday Celebration', Wembley Arena, London, England. Very good audience recording. From the info file: David Gilmour 2004-09-24 Wembley Arena London, England Strat Pack: The Fender 50th Birthday Celebration Quality: EX Source: AUD Lineage: AUD > ? > SHN > WAV > Audacity 1.2.4 > WAV > FLAC(8) Setlist: 01. Marooned (5:32) 02. Coming Back To Life (7:32) 03. Sorrow (9:09) Total length: 22:13 Notes: This event was a charity event in aid of Nordoff-Robbins, and celebrated 50 years of the Fender Stratocaster guitar. The concert alone raised £175,000 (around US$330,000) for the music therapy charity. MAROONED: This was amazing. He used the #001 Strat for this. All three of the songs played were the full, all-electric versions, and this was no exception. The entire track was performed, with Dave showing that he is still the master of the Digitech whammy pedal . I'm a guitarist so I noticed that #001 was giving him a bit of a problem around frets 18-20, on the high e and B strings: his full tone bends weren't quite reaching the correct pitch, but then again its not surprising that a 50 year old guitar would have a few deadspots here and there. David is such a genius that you have to be a neurotic guitarist like me to spot it anyway...he just carried on playing flawlessly, as usual. We heard the full 5/6 minute version of the song. Incredible. COMING BACK TO LIFE: Again, he used #001. When I heard that synth and he started playing the intro, it really got to me. At that point it hit me that David Gilmour is standing about 10 feet away from me (I was front row!), playing the full electric version of this song, for the first time in 10 years. His voice was perfect. Still that unmistakable high pitched soft tone. He played the solo at the end in a style very similar to that of the PULSE CD. SORROW: He switched to the Candy Apple '57 Reissue with the active EMG's for this. That intro was so powerful I could feel it in the floor and my shoes. We got the whole 10 minute version of the song, and the solo at the end was the best version I've heard. He didn't do the feedback-solo he did at the Division Bell concerts at the end of it though, the song just built up to a huge ending. Summary: - David has obviously lost a lot of weight since the Meltdown gig, and he's looking very good. - His singing and playing were unsurprisingly flawless. - Strat #001 is beginning to die: he definitely had a few problems with it and I think this was probably the last time we'll see him use it at a gig. I got this show off the Echoeshub as a single SHN file. I split out the tracks and removed some pops around 2 secs into Marooned. Aligned on sector boundaries, FLAC'd, added artwork, updated text file, and generated new fingerprints. [Spectre] |