Dark Side of the Moon

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 24 Mar 2006 6:24 am

On the radio this mornin' the DJ said it was on this date that Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" LP was released in 1973. It was on Billboard's top 200 LP chart for something like over 20 years.

Steinar Gregertsen · Post by **Steinar Gregertsen** » 24 Mar 2006 6:41 am

That's an all-time classic, I never get tired of it.. What a masterpiece.

Steinar

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Tucker Jackson · Post by **Tucker Jackson** » 24 Mar 2006 10:37 am

That album is a great example of how steel can be successfully incorporated into music other than country.

Actually, I'm enough of steel-a-holic to think... that the album was on the charts for 20 years solely because of the haunting steel sound

OK, maybe not.

P Gleespen · Post by **P Gleespen** » 24 Mar 2006 12:37 pm

Hope you guys don't think I'm an idiot, but how much steel is on that album? Is it all non pedal, or is some of it pedal steel? Who plays it?

I haven't listened to that record since...well since after "The Wall" came out, whenever that was...what was that 1979?

I guess I didn't have "steel detector ears" back then.

It might be good to "rediscover" them for a little steel action.[This message was edited by P Gleespen on 24 March 2006 at 12:42 PM.]

Webb Kline · Post by **Webb Kline** » 24 Mar 2006 4:05 pm

David Gilmore plays it. I have videos of him playing both lap and pedal guitars. I haven't seen them for a while, but it seems that his pedal guitar was a Fender, but I'm not sure.

Don Powalka · Post by **Don Powalka** » 24 Mar 2006 4:23 pm

I use that song as an example when I get the deer in the headlights look when I tell rock fans I play steel.That album will probably go down in history as one of the greatest rock projects of all time.

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 24 Mar 2006 6:10 pm

David Gilmore plays it.

I picked up David Gilmour's latest effort On an Island. In the booklet, there's a picture of him surrounded by guitars (not a tele in sight, though I know he's played a few)

One of the axes looks like a frypan!

Cliff Kane · Post by **Cliff Kane** » 24 Mar 2006 7:37 pm

If you're a DSOTM fan, you shouuld check out the DVD of them making the record. It has a lot of studio footage, plus the members of the band today and the engineer (a few years back) talking about making the record. It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think Gilmore even messes around with a steel guitar to show how he played the parts on the record. BTW, there's also a record out there somewhere called "Dub Side of the Moon" which is a reggea dub style cover of the album...very cool. Money....

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » 25 Mar 2006 4:43 pm

Gilmour also used steel for the into on The Wall's cut "Comfortably Numb."

Mike Winter · Post by **Mike Winter** » 25 Mar 2006 5:14 pm

If you liked "Dub Side of The Moon," check out "Rebuild The Wall," by Luther Wright and The Wrongs. It's The Wall done country/bluegrass and features Olesh Maximew on pedal steel. Pretty cool. http://www.lutherwright.com/thewall.php

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Rick McDuffie · Post by **Rick McDuffie** » 27 Mar 2006 5:31 am

I could've told you it was 1973! I was teaching guitar in a music store that also sold stereo gear (remember those days?) and "Money" played incessantly. Very creative stuff.[This message was edited by Rick McDuffie on 27 March 2006 at 05:31 AM.]

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 27 Mar 2006 2:25 pm

Coincidentally there's an interview with David Gilmour in Guitar World magazine. Although I don't have it here right now, he said he used a Fender lap steel, then a Jensen (English made) lap steel with a Fender pickup. He used E minor tuning (bass to treble E B E G B E) for "One of These Days" and a variation on G6 tuning (bass to treble D G D G B E) for other songs.

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