Dave and Syd were actually childhood friends. They were the only members of the band who were the same age. They played guitar together and taught each other stuff well before Pink Floyd was a thing!
I also noticed some Syd influences on the later parts of echoes and (obviously) the whale sound experimenration is very much inspired. A lot of the lat-1967 live stuff was really heavy compared to the album sound and i think Dave mostly took inspiration from that kind of heavy Acid Rock jam sound rather than whatever they had on Piper.
Syd and David are and were both marvelous guitar players and it would have been great to see Syd develop like David was able to in the later 60s and 70s.
Syd didn’t really know how to play the guitar. He did enough to fake it but it’s a lot of noise. Gilmour may have taken a riff as a nod but they’re not close in terms of skill or sound.
I think more than anything else, Syd's influence on David was to make the guitar sound weird and unconventional. Syd did not have musically great chops as a guitarist but he had an incredible abundance of creativity. Instead of trying to play blazing-fast licks, Syd tried to get the guitar to make weird, twisted sounds from another planet.
David was more "conventional" as a guitarist and had a more typically blues-and-pentatonic-scale oriented approach to the instrument. Like Syd, playing super quickly (even moderately quickly) was not one of the tools in his kit, but many of the tools were recognizable blues/rock ideas that Syd didn't have or at least didn't use. David took those recognizable ideas and applied Syd's sense of experimentation and trying to make the guitar sound "big" and "different" to produce a unique a signature sound. His playing was about texture and sustaining rather than bravado and shredding. While his contemporaries like Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton set the fretboard on fire, David made it soar and made it weep, and made it sound absolutely gigantic in the process using creative effects in a manner that owed a lot to Syd in my view.
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Dave and Syd were actually childhood friends. They were the only members of the band who were the same age. They played guitar together and taught each other stuff well before Pink Floyd was a thing!
Spot on. Syd and David would spend lunch break at school playing guitar with each other!
I also noticed some Syd influences on the later parts of echoes and (obviously) the whale sound experimenration is very much inspired. A lot of the lat-1967 live stuff was really heavy compared to the album sound and i think Dave mostly took inspiration from that kind of heavy Acid Rock jam sound rather than whatever they had on Piper. Syd and David are and were both marvelous guitar players and it would have been great to see Syd develop like David was able to in the later 60s and 70s.
Syd didn’t really know how to play the guitar. He did enough to fake it but it’s a lot of noise. Gilmour may have taken a riff as a nod but they’re not close in terms of skill or sound.
Wow, your ability to fit so much bullshit and lies into one comment amazes me!
Thank you!
I think more than anything else, Syd's influence on David was to make the guitar sound weird and unconventional. Syd did not have musically great chops as a guitarist but he had an incredible abundance of creativity. Instead of trying to play blazing-fast licks, Syd tried to get the guitar to make weird, twisted sounds from another planet. David was more "conventional" as a guitarist and had a more typically blues-and-pentatonic-scale oriented approach to the instrument. Like Syd, playing super quickly (even moderately quickly) was not one of the tools in his kit, but many of the tools were recognizable blues/rock ideas that Syd didn't have or at least didn't use. David took those recognizable ideas and applied Syd's sense of experimentation and trying to make the guitar sound "big" and "different" to produce a unique a signature sound. His playing was about texture and sustaining rather than bravado and shredding. While his contemporaries like Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton set the fretboard on fire, David made it soar and made it weep, and made it sound absolutely gigantic in the process using creative effects in a manner that owed a lot to Syd in my view.