DAVID GILMOUR • 26 septembre 1969 RTBF Théâtre 140, Avenue Eugène Plasky 140 - Bruxelles (French transcription by Glennladen/English translation by Romain FOURAY).
Marc Moulin: « You're one of Pink Floyd, what's your name? »
David Gilmour: « David »
Marc Moulin: « What instrument do you play? »
David Gilmour: « Guitar »
Marc Moulin: « Guitar... I've noticed that you're always looking for... new sounds, it seems to me that you've found some new ones since the last time I heard you. How do you go about uh... Do you have an idea of a sound first, and then you try to reproduce it, or do you look for it on the instrument? »
David Gilmour: « I don't know, no it... it just happens... Usually it happens on stage when we're playing... not .... I... I don't work on that when we're not playing »
Marc Moulin: « Do you work a lot, I mean, do you rehearse a lot? Or do you prefer to find things in the show?
David Gilmour: « We don't rehearse a lot, we have the... the beginning and end of most of the songs are arranged, and the whole middle is improvised so there's a lot that's improvised, half or more than half, yes, much more than half. Three quarters of what we play is improvised »
Marc Moulin: « I think you were one of the first groups to improvise in pop music, well ... "
David Gilmour: « Well, we've always improvised a bit.... always improvised a bit, but.... it's... when you do it absolutely without "frameworks".... I don't know what that is.... without rules, without regulation you do exactly what you want so... I don't know, it's more.... it's freer »
Marc Moulin: « Are you interested in Jazz, I mean are you influenced by Jazz in... in your music? No? not at all? »
David Gilmour: « No, I don't think so. I don't think so myself... Classical music, more »
Marc Moulin: « More ... What, for example, in classical music? »
David Gilmour: « Oh I like a lot of stuff, I don't know what exactly... there's ... Ravel, aaaah Beethoven, you know, I don't know ... I listen to a lot of that and Indian music... and stuff like that »
Marc Moulin: « hmm hmm »
David Gilmour: « I’ve got hundreds of records at home. LPs, you know »
Marc Moulin: « There's a big difference between the record and the show. Because in a live show you first have the light show... er, and then er... in addition to that, there's also a question of volume, I think volume is a very important thing... Erm... do you feel that, despite everything, your records give a good idea of what you... you play? »
David Gilmour: « Noooo... not at all... because... we look at records.. and playing on stage, it's completely different. You see they're two different things, we like making records, recording, we like playing on stage, but they're not at all the same thing. When we record, we... we can put... 30, 40 people. Just the four of us playing, we can put in 10 times each, to add all the things we want, we do exactly what we want. And if we want to do this, we'll do that! But we can't, of course, do that on stage because there are only four of us. And we... with four people we can play with four people, that's all, but on a record we play with 40 people with four people. So it's very different, and we .... and it's ridiculous not to be able to do everything we can do in the recording studio »
Marc Moulin: « Couldn't you use pre-recorded magnetic tapes, recorded beforehand? I think you did at one point, didn't you? »
David Gilmour: « Yes, we've done it a few times. We're going to do it too, yes. But that's when we want »
Marc Moulin: « It's not the same thing, yes? »
David Gilmour: « Yes it's just... no it's not everything it's just a bit we... we put a tape on... tape recorder and then you play along... with it. It's not the same thing, it's just sounds »
Marc Moulin: « Does film music appeal to you? Have you ever done any, or for ... ? »
David Gilmour: « Yes, a few. Erm... we've already done three films, the music for three films »
Marc Moulin: « What were these films? »
David Gilmour: « One with singer Paul Jones, you know? »
Marc Moulin: « Ah, yes».
David Gilmour: « We did the music for a film of his called 'The Committee' and another film called ... What was the film called ? … (he turns to Nick) »
Nick Mason: « Let's make love in London » …
David Gilmour: « Let's make love in London tonight », (in french) Allons faire l'amour à Londres ce soir ….A film of course »
Marc Moulin: « It's a different thing again, you react differently to film music than you do to records, to ... »
David Gilmour: « Hmmmm, yes. We weren't that interested in the film music we were doing. When we did them, we did them very mechanically and not very well. The music for the films wasn't very good at all. »
Marc Moulin: « Why? Haven't you been given enough time to work, or... ? »
David Gilmour: « ...not enough time, not enough interest in what we were doing. The films were bad. You see? And we.... and when you don't like the film, you can't do the best you can. »
