David Gilmour: “I love Radiohead”

Posted on November 8th, 2004.

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour was interviewed in The Guardian:

In keeping with their reputation for a very English kind of fustiness, Pink Floyd’s alumni seem only distantly aware of any of their supposed connections to the generations that followed in their wake. “I’ve never been very interested in modern music,” says Waters. “I’ll always listen to a new Bob Dylan album. But it takes an awful lot of something for anyone else to break into what I listen to.”

David Gilmour, the guitarist who stood with Waters at the group’s core until their ugly fall-out in the mid 1980s, seems more tuned in, though maybe only just. “I love Radiohead,” he told me last year. “I don’t like all of their stuff - tragically, I like some of their earlier things better. I’m 56, with hordes of children running round the place, so life is busy. I don’t get many chances to sit down and really absorb whole albums the way I should do, but they’ve done some very good things. I can see why some people make the comparison. But it’s hard to hear what he [Thom Yorke] says. He kind of mumbles, doesn’t he?” [thanks Hatori]

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