I'll stick my neck out and say I'm not sure if Gilmour really is an emotional player.

Don't get me wrong, I love his stuff, but I'd say his playing – like Floyd's music as a whole – was powerful, intellectual, beautifully constructed and perfectly phrased, but I'm not sure about 'emotional'.

Maybe it's semantics, maybe it's because Floyd's music is haunting and the lyrics sometimes chilling. Maybe it's because I don't know what the **** I'm on about.

It seems as though artists of this calibre have a certain special "hard-wired" connection with the instrument. What do you think?... some intense focus, a burning passion for the music and/or the instrument, a ton of talent or a pile of practice or perhaps a good measure of all.

I think that the majority of notable blues guitar players (cos lets face the fact that its all anyone has cited) started their journey in a very different time. The instrument was new, people less sceptical/more helpfull. They approached the instrument differently, it was still a very new thing. I bet even the jazzers were prepared to help the upstarts a bit.
Something in that lot led to the magic that generation of players posses (or most of em).
As a bit of an example theres a guy lives at the back of me. Old fella from that era, hadnt played for years. I got him round mine put the kettle on and put a guitar in his hands. His hands were quite awkward and he couldnt get round the board too well. Every note he played had a certain singing quality, a je ne ses qua that i just cant reproduce. I even had to remind him of a couple of chord sequences. He didnt know it all, but what came out was superb.
Just an old guy who used to play the local pub for beer on the odd weekend. Magical non the less though.

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No no and no

Martin you hit the nail on the head. At lest that's what Emo music is in my neck of the woods. It's a bunch of depressing talentless BS. Just my opinion of course. Just a bunch of whining....... Okay, I'm done before I step on somebody's toes and hurt some feelings and creat another Emo song.

You need a silly haircut, black nail varnish, self harming scars and lots of black eyeliner before you can do that mate.

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No no and no

This is an emotional player....although he might need to add more 'expressiveness' to his playing : (wait til he gets to the solo)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4WNO4tchUk

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Still say that guy is amazing. Mike

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The blues ain't nothin but a good man feelin bad.

No, that's called a talented showman. Not an Emo band.

Have to agree with you.

please listen zakk wylde - farewell ballad and think again..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYMupc564zE

Not much of a Zakk Wylde fan. His vibrato technique really bothers me. He kind of reminds me of a pro wrestler LOL. I'm not saying he's a bad player, his music's just not my thing. He's interesting to watch though.