Which One's Pink?

DAVID GILMOUR(s) hangs in the Vindy.com broadcast office of Louie Free, March 2013.

"The band is just fantastic,
that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?" 

 -- PINK FLOYD "Have a Cigar"

David Gilmour, 65, is a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to music and philanthropy. In fact he is a Commander of the Order. He's also approaching 45 years as an amazing guitarist as well as "The Voice of Pink Floyd." He's  also an experienced pilot and aviation enthusiast.
Can you sing "Learning To Fly" ?

His main guitar, much modified over the years, is a 1969 Fender Stratocaster. He also owns the first to be given a serial number, Strat # 0001.

 

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I first met David Gilmour in 1973 in Dennis Brady's bedroom atop an apartment on the East Side of Warren, Ohio. Not Gilmour so much as Pink Floyd, though for a long time I thought he was a guy named Pink Floyd. Dennis' dad had the album "Dark Side of the Moon" and a very good stereo, and we played it very loud. Airplanes crashing, clocks ticking, hearts beating. Synthesisers! A cool prism pyramid on the label, pyramid stickers, a gatefold vinyl LP. How cool is that, even now?

 

I never really equated Roger Waters with the heart and soul of Pink Floyd, because it was Gilmour who sang the best songs, had the better voice, looked cooler (he once was a model) and played that guitar so well. Roger Waters just seemed like a crank who used big words and had strange dreams. David Gilmour by comparison seemed normal. From most accounts he is a gentleman and a scholar, too.

 

The idea with this drawing was to capture the David Gilmour I remember from seventh grade playing a duet with Gilmour 2011. Long hair long gone white, but still in good shape and even better now. Want proof? This is a beautiful song ("A Great Day For Freedom"), might make you cry -- and may be the best guitar solo ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HmC-RgTECE

So which one's pink? Both are, but the name's not Floyd. Got it now?

Lyric P.C. 1975 Pink Floyd Music Limited
"Which One's Pink?"
Pencil, 3' x 4' (approx.)
A Tom Wills Production, 2011.
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