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10.03.2006: Ein
Bericht anlässlich der "On An Island" Veröffentlichung und
Gilmours 60. Geburtstag erschien dieser Tage in der "USA Today".
Einige Gilmour Zitate darin erschienen mir interessant und es wert das
ich sie kurzfristig ins deutsche übersetzt habe. Der Original Bericht
folgt darunter.
Über
seinen Geburtstag
DAVID
GILMOUR: "Ich
hatte eine großartige Party zu meinem 50. Geburtstag und ich werde eine
kleine feine Feier diese mal haben. Aber es ist traurig wie viele
Menschen nicht dabei sein werden, weil sie in den letzten Jahren
gestorben sind. Um mich herum hat ein wahres Gemetzel stattgefunden,
wenn ich mir Liste ansehe."
Über
die Live 8 Reunion:
DAVID
GILMOUR: ""Ich
hatte eine fantastische Zeit. Wir hatten als Pink Floyd seit 10 Jahren und mit Roger seit 25
Jahren nicht mehr gemeinsam gespielt. Der Anlass war der Hauptgrund, aber ich bin auch sehr zufrieden
einige der
persönlichen und belanglosen Abneigungen die solange ein Teil unseres Lebens waren
aus dem Weg zu räumen. Für ein paar Tage - Roger und ich sind auch aus
gegangen. Ich bin sehr glücklich darüber, das wir an einem Punkt angelangt sind
an dem wir miteinander reden können."
Über
eine weitere Pink Floyd Zusammenarbeit:
DAVID
GILMOUR: ""Ich
wünsche Roger absolut das Beste. Aber zu diesem Zeitpunkt kann ich mir
mehr als dieses eine Mal mit Roger und den anderen nicht vorstellen. Es
war so eine freudvolle Erfahrung mit dem Team, das ich jetzt habe zu
arbeiten. Nichts könnte mich zufriedener machen, als die Situation in
der ich jetzt bin. Ich bin extrem glücklich darüber."
Posted 3/8/2006 8:28 PM Updated 3/9/2006 9:42 AM
Pink Floyd's Gilmour turns 60 'On an Island'
By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY
Like George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Cher and a host of other famous folks born at the crack of the baby boom, David Gilmour turns 60 this year. And the singer/songwriter and erstwhile Pink Floyd guitarist has mixed feelings about reaching this milestone.
"I had a great party for my 50th birthday, and I'm having a nice little one this time," says Gilmour, who hit the big 6-0 Monday. "But it's sad how many people aren't going to be there, because they've died in the intervening years. There's been a lot of carnage around me, and I'm sort of looking at that list."
Foto: David Gilmour records in his houseboat on the Thames, at his Middlesex home and at Abbey Road.
Gilmour admits he has grappled with his own "terrors, with that thing that one tends to be afraid of, dying. But that tends to have evaporated over the years, I think."
Thus the tone on Gilmour's new CD, On an Island, released Tuesday, is one of "contentment and resignation," he says. "It's tinged with little regrets and sadness and nostalgia, but there is a happiness at the core of it."
Part of Island was recorded, fittingly enough, on Gilmour's houseboat on the Thames River near London. "It's not really designed to go anywhere," he says of the floating studio, which also is rented by other artists. More work was done at the artist's home studio in Middlesex, "which is basically a room above a barn with modern digital equipment," and in London's Abbey Road studios, where The Beatles tinkered with less sophisticated gear some years ago.
Gilmour's first studio outing since Pink Floyd's The Division Bell in 1994 — and his "first proper solo album" since 1984's About Face— offers other nods to his '60s roots, including guest spots from David Crosby and Graham Nash. "I've known Graham since he was in The Hollies, and I went to one of (Crosby & Nash's) concerts in London. They were singing so beautifully that I went backstage to see them and tell them. Then I threw in a curveball, asking if they would sing on my record."
A more central collaborator on Island is Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson, who wrote lyrics to accompany her husband's melodies. The couple also worked together on Division Bell. "Sometimes, because she knows me so well, she writes something as if it's coming from me. It's what she thinks I would think."
Gilmour's relationship with his Pink Floyd bandmates hasn't always been quite so copacetic. His storied rivalry with fellow singer/songwriter and bassist Roger Waters remains part of rock 'n' roll legend more than two decades after Waters acrimoniously left the band. But the man whom Gilmour cheekily calls "my old nemesis" did join him, and the rest of the group, last July at Live 8, the megaconcert organized to promote debt relief and awareness of poverty in Africa.
"I had a fantastic time," Gilmour says. "We hadn't played as Pink Floyd in 10 years and hadn't played with Roger in 25. The main thing was obviously the cause, but I was also pleased to get some of that personal, trivial antipathy that's been part of our lives for so long and pack that away. For several days, Roger and I went out together. I'm very pleased that we're now at a point where we can talk."
Fans needn't hold their breath waiting for another reunion, though. This week, after blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, Gilmour is hitting the road with his current lineup of supporting musicians. They arrive in the USA for dates in April.
"I wish Roger absolutely well," Gilmour says. "But I can't imagine doing more than a one-off with him and the other guys at this point. It's been such a joyful experience working with the team I have now; nothing could make me happier than the situation I'm in. I'm extremely
lucky."
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USA
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