Posted by John H. Wellington on May 19, 2006 at 23:41:00:
In Reply to: Gilmour's sound on Pigs (Three Different Ones) posted by R.Gordon on February 23, 2006 at 07:20:57:
Gilmour's tone on that song is extremely extravagant. I love the rich soft sustain and the lush overtones that his guitar makes. He uses a Fender Les Paul with a Vox British Bloke Amp with Roger Water's ego-maniac distortion and Symphonic pedal. A really popular effect is when he sticks a tube up his butt and he farts into his Fender single coil pickups. The sound is super fabulous. I also like it when Nick and Rick play patty cake and drink LSD tea with each other. It's fun to watch them finger paint psychedelic renditions of Rembrandt paintings and learn how to master the hungarian minor scale on a kazoo. I also like it when Roger sticks his fat chin in cheddar cheese and dances around in womens' clothes on Saturday morning at the Macy's parking lot while wearing leather go-go boots. Overall I like it when Syd rubs his palms on Nick's cymbals and gives all of his drum pieces names and calls them his "pet children." The movie version of the wall is about his arranged meeting with a cross-dressing Australian named Gina. It's not about his deteriorating mental health or anything like that, it was his adventures with "her" one night after drinking Abstence and a little Jagermeister.