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The Bob Dylan song David Gilmour said is one of his favorites
David Gilmour joined Pink Floyd in 1967 and over the next years became a fundamental part of the band’s sound because of his vocals but especially for his incredible guitar playing. Without him, albums like “Dark Side of The Moon” (1973), “Wish You Were Here” (1975) and “The Wall” (1979) certainly wouldn’t sound the same. He is one of the greatest guitarists of his generation and was influenced by many different artists when he was young.
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One of them was the legendary Bob Dylan, who really inspired Gilmour when he was still a young teenager. Once the Progressive Rock musician revealed which was one of his favorite songs by the American artist.
The Bob Dylan song David Gilmour said is one of his favorites
During the past six decades of his career, Bob Dylan released simply 40 studio albums and more than 100 singles. So it’s not easy to pick a favorite song among all the important and successful ones he wrote. But Gilmour revealed in an interview with BBC Radio 4 that “Ballad In Plain D” from the 1964 album “Another Side Of Bob Dylan” was one of his favorite ones. It was on the list he picked of songs he would like to take to a desert island. “I’ve lived through a lot of his heavy protest stuff. But this was another side I’m very keen on. This sort of love song approach. He is wonderful.”
“Ballad In Plain D” has 8 minutes and 18 seconds, making it the longest track of the album “Another Side of Bob Dylan” (1964). That was Dylan’s fourth studio album and had other famous songs like “All I Really Want To Do”, “My Back Pages” and “It Ain’t Me Babe”.
It was Bob himself who recorded everything on that album. He sang, played acoustic guitar, piano and harmonica.
David Gilmour liked when Dylan started to play the electric guitar
After that album, Dylan started to experiment more with the electric guitar and David Gilmour was quite happy with that. There were many fans at the time who didn’t like to see Dylan leave the acoustic guitar away in some songs but as David told The Guardian back in 2006, it was good.
“To me, I was never one of the people who thought Dylan was a monster for going electric. I liked the change. But I must say the power of the young Dylan as the acoustic-playing protest singer- which he’s always denied. But sorry Bob, you were a protest singer.”
“Just to get his guitar and play to a crowd of people and it’s like an arrow. His words come out and the music. People underestimate his actual musical abilities. And the melodies and the words just shoot out like an arrow. I think he was unbelievable. And is,” David Gilmour said.
The Pink Floyd guitarist and singer first discovered Dylan when he got the musician’s debut album for his 16th birthday. His parents gave them that record and it was a huge inspiration for him.
Pink Floyd once talked about Pink Floyd with Gilmour
Bob Dylan rarely gives interviews so unlike many other famous musicians we don’t know that much about his opinion other bands. However, as Gilmour once revealed to Record Collector, the Folk Rock artist once told him he loved the song “The Dogs”, which actually is “Dogs”.
“The second time we met was around the time of ‘The Delicate Sound Of Thunder’. He said (adopts perfect Dylan accent) hey, I love your record, The Dogs, man. I was so thrilled. Not many Pink Floyd fans like this track. But Bob does. So it was OK with me.”
The album mentioned by Dylan according to Gilmour is “Animals” released in 1977 which has famous tracks like “Dogs” and “Pigs”.
