During a conversation with Guitar Player Magazine, guitar icon David Gilmour talked about Pink Floyd, saying the group will never reunite.
For the new “50 Years of Prog” issue, Guitar Player sat down with – among others – the legendary David Gilmour.
Between an appearance at last year’s Peter Green tribute concert, a new piece of music called “Yes, I Have Ghosts,” and a new Martin signature acoustic guitar, Gilmour has kept quite busy in recent times, and had plenty to talk about. However, we couldn’t resist asking him: “Pink Floyd so far is a three-act play. Will there ever be a fourth act?”
To that, he replied: “No. I’m done with it. I’ve had a life in Pink Floyd for quite a lot of years, and quite a few of those years at the beginning, with Roger. And those years in what is now considered to be our heyday were 95 percent musically fulfilling and joyous and full of fun and laughter. And I certainly don’t want to let the other five percent color my view of what was a long and fantastic time together. But it has run its course, we are done, and it would be fakery to go back and do it again.”
Gilmour went on to invoke the band’s co-founder and keyboardist, Richard Wright, who died of lung cancer in 2008.
“To do it without Rick would just be wrong,” he said. “I’m all for Roger doing whatever he wants to do and enjoying himself and getting the joy he must have had out of those Wall shows. I’m at peace with all of these things. But I absolutely don’t want to go back. I don’t want to go and play stadiums. I’m free to do exactly what I want to do and how I want to do it.”
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In early January 
Bhaskar Menon, the esteemed record label boss whom Pink Floyd credited with helping make their name, has died at age 86.
Please join us in wishing David Gilmour best wishes on his 75th birthday!
More often than not, when the name ‘Pink Floyd’ is mentioned, many fans immediately think of The Dark Side Of The Moon or The Wall. Or for early Floyd devotees, thoughts might turn to Syd Barrett. But what about that fertile period post-Syd and pre-Dark Side?
The tape contained within this box was exclusively manufactured by EMI. Between the mid ‘50s and 1981, EMI produced both blank and pre-recorded magnetic tapes in many formats, including type H60 and type H65. In the late ‘60s, EMI redesigned both the EMITAPE boxes and reels. The new boxes were aqua blue with an ‘atomic’ image made up of three superimposed images of tape reels, which is the cover you see in this folio. Many of these tape boxes, including The Dark Side of the Moon, are now stored at the EMI Archives, in Hayes, London. The Archives hold artefacts including rare and unheard recordings from the first years of the recorded music industry, along with photographs, letters, diaries, sales catalogues and EMI company records.
A very happy birthday to Snowy White, who began his association with Pink Floyd in 1977 for the In The Flesh tour.