Will the last remaining classic rock-guitar-god frontman prove the lamp? After that, naturally, placed in a tender gift?
David Gilmour may not have sole claim to the title (Eric Clapton preceded him through LA just two weeks ago), but there may not be many contenders for the place he holds in rock lore. It’s safe to say that the 4 shows he did in SoCal could be a big draw even though he travels more than every eight years (that’s the interval since the last time he came here, if not as usual. )… and even though North America “road trips” time this is not limited to just two cities. Throw in the shortcomings created by these components and it is not surprising that there is a David Gilmour Tourism component in the Southland this week, with followers of Pink Floyd throughout the country and around the world and sending the message “Wish you were here” to the social from the stunning downtown Inglewood .
Gilmour’s first gift in the US since April 2016 happened on Friday at the Intuit Dome, the only one in the new venue that has been booked to precede the three dates that took place this week in a more familiar climate at the Hollywood Bowl, Tuesday by the way. from Thursday. From there, it will move to New York’s Madison Sq. Background for 5 nights, 4-10. november After that, Brigadoon recedes into the fog, and we get them again in … when? 2032? Perhaps in shorter intervals than that, as he revealed that recording his fifth solo album, “Luck and Unusual,” filled him as much as making music on a regular schedule. Or maybe not, because Gilmour seems like the human form that might actually love the English countryside more than he loves us.
Both ways Gilmour’s touring routine may not have been proven over the years, the Intuit Dome was a great place to live and live on the second Friday, under the spell of someone who can be very careful with the axe. As always, he looks like a rocker who has two sounds: the one that comes out of his mouth, which only has a rasp contact on the edge with age, and the one that comes out of his fingers, which feels like it. emotional expressiveness like literal vocalization. The eternal irony stands: Gilmour, completely nonchalant and affectless as a stage persona, managed to break down into tears several times per music, through the weepiest slow solos known to man.
Gilmour’s US opening-night setlist matches what audiences in Europe saw a few weeks ago in a smattering of dates in England and Rome. It lasts for about three hours with a break, along with a combination of selections from Roger Waters-era Pink Floyd (seven numbers), only-led by Gilmour, the post-Waters Floyd album (5 songs), Gilmour’s previous solo album, “Rattle That Lock” (three numbers) and “Luck and Unusual” (all 9 tracks).
The small question will be that there will be some followers who will enjoy hearing more basic Floyd pieces than some of the new ones – but it is higher to have a motivated and engaged artist than one who feels obliged to play. “Cash.” The songs are good, and usually not only good, but all the time, but what everyone likes here the most are the solos. And until it’s over, they can almost sing “Pink Pony Membership,” as long as they cut that cut as part of the deal. This is not to reduce the brand new songs – especially written together with his wife, Polly Samson, as ever, from 1994’s “The Division Bell” ahead – as the source techniques for these instrumentally regular payoffs. As the climactic level, the most important standing ovation of the evening, surprisingly, came here to the fireworks Gilmour sent to cover one of the many new songs, “Piper’s name,” early in the second half. A very efficient solo like that doesn’t just amplify the climax, and perhaps there is a warning written by Samson in the lyrics, that one or the other acts as a piper to pull out one of Gilmour’s best when he is. finally allowing it to rip.
But one of the best pieces of music from “Luck and Unusual” may not have been written or sung by Gilmour. It could be “Between Two Factors,” the Montgolfier Brothers’ cult-favorite musical canopy currently being sent on tour, as reported, by the artist’s daughter, Romany Gilmour. Mockingly, sad sarcastic, fatalistic lyrics study because the closest album comes in the form of cynical phrases that are turned out by Roger Waters, and Romany’s easy, affectless supply gives a form of poignancy to them that might not be there if the senior Gilmour just sent a blanket self. In fact, the model’s life performance led to one more burst of firepower from Dad, taking to the instrument to sound unhappy in his half daughter, or perhaps explosively protect, for a few fierce minutes.
As soon as Romany appeared for “Between Two Factors” at the end of the first half, she remained on stage until now, taking her place together with three different girls who formed the vocalist-instrumentalist chorale, the Webb Sisters and Louise Marshall. Romany sometimes took a portable harp, complementing Hattie Webb’s larger one; this is really one rock now in LA on Saturday evening to boast any twin-harp-attack moments.
To not appear to be diminishing the number of his vocal star, But arguably one of the best variety of the night was another one in which Gilmour ceded his place as the lead singer for feminine vocals. “The Nice Gig within the Sky,” the monitor that the legendary Clare Torry mourned to complete Facet 1 of “The Darkish Facet of the Moon,” could be the highlight of a live performance if the two frontmen of the Floyd tour find the option to pull it off. die … that they have. Waters did a demo where he bought Lucius’ vocal duo to impressively double up on Torry’s highly effective vocal half. It will seem difficult for Gilmour to reach the height and even find a completely different way … and at the end of his visit to the United States, he left the playlist. This time, they provide a beautiful association sung by all 4 girls on stage – Romany, Marshall and Hattie and Charlie Webb – sitting on top of the piano favored by Marshall, while the frontman performs his trademark half steel lap on the opposite side. finished. It’s a wordless vocal count that almost everyone tries to rip out their lungs from, a la Torry. But here, the 4 girls take the way of singing everything softly… really going to light up a good evening, and going gorgeously.
It is one way or another symbolic of the soft way that Gilmour takes in almost all regards. Waters’ approach to Pink Floyd emphasized the confusing, even dangerous, material. Some of them continue to be in songs that have always been part of Gilmour’s set, like the medley “Breathe” / “Time” from “Darkish Facet,” which has been a sign of information for several generations in a row. from a young man who will die sometime. (It’s a dirty job, but some music has to do it.) But the form of the material has not seemed more happy that it comes from exactly where Gilmour lives. The early Floyd music in the set that best reflects the atomic coronary heart of this artist is the classic solo composition “Fats Previous Solar,” which, if it is not the most exciting music in the band’s catalog, is certainly closed.
There’s a calmness to Gilmour’s general ethos that contrasts with the nervousness his former partner exudes. And when you go to one of all the concert events, you already know, for the higher or worse, that there is not going to message now… through the message that life is bitter. There should be inflatables, but not a huge pig, in a place where you’d worry about annoying icons being stamped on them. Rada, for “Extreme Hope,” the song that ends Act 1, a large balloon is released into the audience, sending everyone out into the foyer as they watch what happens in the second act.
David Gilmour at the Intuit Dome
Courtesy Intuit Dome
It’s not super-high-tech now, or not less than envelope-pushing clearly, by Floyd’s terms. The large display screen behind the band usually has visuals introduced in a large circle, similar to the 70s. In the divorce, Gilmour even bought (or no less than shared) the rights to the classic animation “Time” roving hours. There are monochrome animations, pencil sketches of the forces that threaten young people in wartime, showing that the artist will not be afraid to introduce something disturbing, in the middle of public silence. Less tense is the colorful new animation for “Darkish and Velvet Nights.” The lighting scheme has some new wrinkles – in particular, in the Act 2 opener “Like”, when the whole stage seems to be enveloped from the back to the height in a strobe-packed lightning storm. But to the tip, what really makes viewers ooh and aah some inexperienced lasers… they are because never.
Now it ends with the single, “Comfortably Numb,” which as a thematic phrase would never be a good way to end a live show, cautiously burning itself into oblivion. But Gilmour can’t help but think that he and Waters are writing tragic music with no extra upbeat music to follow. It includes not only one but two of the most guitar solos ever conceived that did not appear in the report of Steely Dan, and Gilmour, at 78, went to blow his mind again with the expansive variation of each of them.
He enjoyed all through all that bluesy – much bluesier than it is usually given credit for – But after all it is a peculiarly ethereal model of the blues, transmitted as much as and transmuted again from heaven. Gilmour might have been known as “Sluggish Hands” if the label hadn’t been applied to Clapton first; After listening to him enjoy this kind of gift, followers may feel like they can change the title “…What God”.
Setlist for David Gilmour at the Intuit Dome, Inglewood, California, October 25, 2024:
Set 1:
5 A.M
Black Cat
Luck and unusual – instr
Breathe (In the Air)
Time
Breathe (Reprise)
Fat Before Solar
Marooned
A Single Spark
Wish You Were Right Here
Vita Brevis
Between Two Factors
Expectations Are Too Much
Set 2:
Grieve
Her name is Piper
A Good Day for Freedom
In Any Language
Be quick to speak
The Nice Gig in the Sky
A Boat Lies Ready
Live again
Darkish and Velvet Nights
Singing
scattered
Comfortable Numb
