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31.05.2007: Davy O´List Sänger, Gitarrist, Trompeter, Produzent, Arrangeur, und Techniker von Bands wie The Nice, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, John Cale und The Pink Floyd hat gemeinsam mit Andy Tillison (Keyboards) ein neues Album Coral Symphony produziert. Die beiden haben die Gruppe Second Thoughts gegründet. Davy O´List spielte 1967 einige Male mit Pink Floyd. Während der Jimi Hendrix Tournee sprang O`List als Floyd-Gitarrist ein, wenn Syd Barrett nicht konnte oder wollte. Die anderen waren mit ihm sehr zufrieden und erkannten das es auch ohne Syd eine Zukunft geben könnte. Ohne weiteres hätte Syd´s Nachfolger nicht David Gilmour sondern David O´List heißen können.
PULSE & SPIRIT: First of all I wanted to ask you to tell us about The Nice? When did they start to make music? What are your Favourite Album, Track and Moment of The Nice? DAVY O´LIST: Keith Emerson heard my latest record Anymore Than I Do on the John Peel show it featured a long guitar solo and asked me to come to a rehearsal for P.P. Arnold’s backing group to see if I would like to join. P.P. Arnold had a top twenty hit out with First Cut is The Deepest. I jammed with the boys over a twelve bar and they liked what I did very much. The twelve bar eventually became one of the numbers we would perform and later record for Immediate called War and Peace. P.P. Arnold asked me to join. It was a difficult decision as The Attack was doing quite well but I agreed. On the way to the first gig I told Pat that we needed a name for her backing group. She’d been talking about her gospel choir experiences in the USA. She said something about her preacher saying, “And The Nazz came down to all the people.” I thought about The Nazz and asked her what it meant. She said Nazz meant God but he was actually saying The Nice. I jumped on the idea and said we should be called P.P. Arnold and The Nice. The name stuck. Later after a very successful gig at the Windsor Jazz Festival with The Cream I went up to see Andrew Loog Oldham then the Rolling Stones manager about signing The Nice for a solo contract. He agreed. My favourite tracks are The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjak album and America.
P&S: When and why did The Nice break apart? DAVY O´LIST: The original group broke up end of 1968. The material began to change in a way I did not appreciate. A trio went on until 1970.
P&S: Are you still in contact with the Band members? Are they still making Music? DAVY O´LIST: Yes, they still make music.
P&S: As a lot of Floyd-Fans know you are the man who played a few times with Pink Floyd when Syd Barrett was unavailable. Do you still remember when you played with them the first time? Please tell us all that you know from this period of time!! DAVY O´LIST: Syd disappeared one night on the Jimi Hendrix/Pink Floyd/Move/The Nice tour and we did not know if he would come back. The Floyd liked my style of playing from seeing me with The Nice. I was the closest choice for the Floyd sound so they came and asked me to play. When Syd eventually returned very late that night he found out I had played and I think it dawned on him he might be expendable so he made an effort to turn up after that. But I was available on standby. That was the turning point. Having played with me the Floyd knew they could develop their sound further. If he had not returned that night it would have gone on for sure with me.
P&S: You were very close to come a member of Pink Floyd. It could have been David O List instead of david Gilmour. Your life would have gone very different maybe? DAVY O´LIST: Yes, my life would have been very different if I'd left The Nice for Pink Floyd. More "money", more work, more happiness. It would be nice to be the lead singer of the Pink Floyd again a thought I often relish. It is embedded in my music.
Von A Fleeting Glimpse stammt der nächste interessante Absatz der eine gute Ergänzung darstellt: AFG: Did the crowds take to you, or were they disappointed Syd wasn't playing those gigs? DAVY O´LIST: Back stage Nick, Roger and Rick said I should wear Syd Barrett’s big floppy black hat. We were kind of similar build and had similar length hair so the image fitted. We played the same colour cream Fender Telecaster so I matched the Floyd’s image. As you may know on this tour, the audiences were nearly all-teenage girls. When I came on the girls began screaming very loudly. I turned round and plugged my guitar in to Syd’s echo unit and amplifier, as I turned round they stopped screaming. At this point, I do not think they were sure if I was Syd but they settled down appreciatively. Then I think some of the girls spotted they had seen me earlier with The Nice and started screaming again as we went into the opening chords of Interstellar Overdrive. I had chosen to play this because I new it backwards. I would like to have played Set the Controls to the Heart of the Sun too but Interstellar Overdrive went over the time spot. We played a very long and enjoyable version. I played a very long guitar solo with lots of echo that I controlled from my volume knob. The Floyd wanted me to go on and on and I did not relent knowing Hendrix was coming on next. Using the only echoed guitar on the show was very inspiring for me, as Hendrix was next! (Shame it wasn’t recorded.) The crowd went wild at the end and they were still cheering and screaming when the curtain went down and when we came off stage for quite a long time until the compare came back on to announce Jimi Hendrix. I will always remember that. The Floyd was very pleased with me.
P&S: Did you knew David Gilmour and how he played? DAVY O´LIST: Yes I know David. I asked him to produce an album for me once.
P&S: When and which Album you wanted Gilmour to produce? DAVY O´LIST: The album I asked David Gilmore to produce was never recorded I went on tour with John Cale of the Velvet Underground instead. I got round to recording after that some tracks appear on Flight of The Eagle album available from my site.
P&S: Your favourite Pink Floyd Album, Track and Period? DAVY O´LIST: Shine on Crazy Diamond. I like all the periods.
P&S: Do you see any of the Floyds from time to time? DAVY O´LIST: I have seen them at studios and they came to some of my concerts.
P&S: What about your new Album and Band? DAVY O´LIST: Second Thoughts. It’s an album of epic proportions, a rock symphony in four movements full of fusions of jazz, rock, pop and classical, as I wrote before for The Nice. I am the lead singer, the guitarist and trumpet player. I have a keyboard star called Andy Tillison from The Tangent and we share the limelight. Second Thoughts music is large-scale and symphonic in form. The works are something like stage musicals too, for example Wall or Queen. The forth movement of the first symphony is over 25 minutes long, the longest work I have ever composed. My first symphony is called Coral Symphony. I am finishing off the second and third symphonies now, which will follow the release of the first symphony to be released I hope at the beginning of next year on Inside Out Music the same label as The Tangent but the deal has not been signed yet. I intend to finish ten symphonies, release them all one after the other and beat Beethoven’s record.
P&S: When and were will your new album Second Thoughts be available? DAVY O´LIST: Second Thoughts are currently mixing down the album but I want to add some more tracks so it won't be available yet. I'll keep you informed.
P&S: Are there any Plans to go on Tour with your new Album? DAVY O LIST: Second Thoughts will be doing festivals and hopefully TV’s as well. |
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