Dave Gilmour discusses the 'difficult' beginnings in recording 'Wish You Were Here'

In the interview, Gilmour responds with laughter when asked if the band had felt confident at the start of the recording sessions for 'Wish You Were Here' due to the success of its predecessor (The Dark Side of the Moon), he said:

"No, very much not like that! We were clueless for a long time, faffing about blindly trying to find a way forward."

According to Gilmour the album was recorded in what he described as 'a shitty little hole' but goes on to explain that 'things got better':

'It started quite painfully. It was difficult and we didn’t know what we were doing. But by the time we added songs like ‘Have a Cigar,’ we were firing on all cylinders."

Asides from the recoding conditions Gilmour reveals details of a spat which took place between himself & Roger Waters over the inclusion of songs 'Dogs' & 'Sheep', both of which ended up the follow up album, 1977's 'Animals.'

"Roger wanted to drop the one that became ‘Dogs’ and the one that was called ‘Sheep', explains Gilmour

"We had some arguing about that for a while. He was right, I was wrong, that’s not the first time that happened."

Gilmour closes the interview by jamming the albums opening guitar parts whist discussing the various sound effects used on the album.

The full interview, which is to promote the upcoming expanded two-disc reissue of the record, can be seen below.




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