DAVID GILMOUR Q-INTERVIEW.

14.11.2006: Mit einer Sonderausgabe feiert, das Q Magazin ihr 20jähriges Bestehen. Erhältlich ist die Sonderausgabe mit 20 verschiedenen Coverporträts. 

Die folgende Stars zieren die 20 verschiedenen Q-Covers: U2, Madonna, Noel Gallagher, Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Micheal Stipe, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Richard Ashcroft, Dave Crohl, Dido, Ian Brown, Britney Spears, Pete Townshend, Paul Weller, Beyone, Damon Alburn und David Gilmour. Das Gilmour Foto stammt von Ross Halfin. Es entstand im Mai bei einer Fotosession. 

Jedem der Musiker wurden 20 Fragen gestellt. Gilmour gibt einige sehr ehrliche Antworten von sich. Er spricht über seine Kokain Probleme und die wilden Jahre nach seiner Scheidung von Ginger.

David Gilmour Mr. Pink.

How Are You?

DAVID GILMOUR: I´m extremley well, thank you. Just back from the States.

Where are you right now?

DAVID GILMOUR: Where I want to be.

What were you doing 20 years ago?

DAVID GILMOUR: Moving from a house where I´d had a studio to one where I didn`t have a studio, and preparing to start work on Pink Floyds A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Album. It was a bit  daunting at the time.

What car were you driving? And did you own a mobile phone?

DAVID GILMOUR: At a guess, probably a BMW. I dabbled in motor cars a bit in the periode after that, but I´ve grown out of it since then. I first had a car phone in the late 70´s. You could take them about three feet away from the car before they stopped working. They were appalling.

What´s your highpoint of the last 20 years?

DAVID GILMOUR: Meeting Polly and marrying her.

And the low point?

DAVID GILMOUR: There were a lots in the middle and late ´80s, allied with some high points. Nothing that I´d weep about now.

Would any of those low points have involved ex-Floyd bassist Roger Waters?

DAVID GILMOUR: Yes, that would be the obvious answer, though. About 20 years ago there were an awful lot of legal meetings and legal phone calls just as we were trying to make a new record, which were all verry distracting and debilitating.

Did you ever regret starting Pink Floyd up again?

DAVID GILMOUR: No, I never regretted starting up Pink Floyd again. My own confidence was always there. It was just building up the confidence of the people around me that was harder. I´m a bushy sort of person and the other two (fellow members Rick Wright and Nick Mason) are not.

You have reputation for being very protective of your privacy ....

DAVID GILMOUR; Yes. I´m not rude to fans, but I´m quite short with people I dont want to strike up conversations with. If I´m in a good mood I´ll sign autographs, but usually I wont even do that. The majority of Pink Floyd Fans are wonderful, non instrusive people, but i think the mad edge of our fans is worse than those of any other band.

What was the first album you bought on CD? 

DAVID GILMOUR: I bought a CD player as soon as they came out, but I imagine the first CD would be something I used to have on vinyl. I was always very bad at vinyl. Mine were always lying on the floor with cat hairs and footprints and scratches all over them. So i loved the idea of CDs.

And the first track you downloaded?

DAVID GILMOUR: I dont think I have. Polly has, but not me.

Which songs do you wish you´d written?

DAVID GILMOUR: My Drug Buddy by the Lemonheads... But probably shouldnt say that...

Why?

DAVID GILMOUR: No, I cant say. I really liked Evan Dando and the Lemonheads. Its A Shame About Ray is a great Album.

Your biggest fashion disaster?

DAVID GILMOUR: The middle `80s were pretty disastrous fashion and hairwise for me. I dont think anything was suiting me particularly. I didnt quite have a mullet, hough.

What´s the single biggest thing that´s changed for you?

DAVID GILMOUR: My marriage and children, and the growing feeling of acceptance of the way the life is. I dont know whether I had my midlife crisis in the middle of my life, and this was brought by very real situations. I certainly had a few wild weekends.

What made you stop?

DAVID GILMOUR: My wife, Polly, told me to stop.

If you could talk to yourself 20 years ago, what advice would you give?

DAVID GILMOUR: Stop taking cocaine. I havent touched it for 13, 14 years. But looking back I can`t think of a single redeeming feature that it has, whereas I can with everything else. I got divorced and went on the razzle and it all coincided with the Floyd coming back.

What´s the best thing you bought in the last 20 years?

DAVID GILMOUR: The farm that we life now on. We´ve been there for 12 years now.

Where will you be in 20 minutes?

DAVID GILMOUR: Down the road a piece.

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