Gilmour the Floyd Bassist???

I was reading some guys review for meddle on pinkfloyd.net and he mentioned briefly that Dave Gilmour played bass for Roger on the Floyd Albums because he was more of a proficient bassist.......he claimed that roughly 90% of Floyd's bass playing was done by Gilmour on their albums......is there any truth to this??

Yes, it is true - maybe not 90%, but he played quite a bit of the bass on records, so I hear.

Hmm, wow never knew that. I heard somewhere that Dave does not get credit for a lot of the songs he helps in writing.

'He's not a brilliant bassist, is our Roger'

Q interview, 94

Haha, well he is after all half-crazy, gotta love him though.

interesting, what are some examples of dave's bass work on any of the albums? if you know

a bunch of the boardies listed off example in another part of the forum...can't rememeber where...but anyway, the one that sticks out in my mind was One of These Days. I think someone said parts of Shine On, as well.

Actually, through the same journalist I have mentioned elswhere on this site, I know that David Played Bass on the following:

First Bass on 'One of these Days' (there are actually two double-tracked) Rogers comes in second

"Sheep"
"Hey You"
By all accounts there are many more as well...

I'll try and find out and update.....

what about on Any Color You Like.....cus the bass riff really carried that song

:o News to me! :o

I've only heard about OOTD and Hey You.

I heard nothing!

Many more, actually. Have A Cigar comes to mind. There's a couple of threads somewhere discussing the subject, anyway.

Essentially, although it is something of a generalisation, any playing that isn't just keeping rhythm is probably David, as opposed to Roger.

Regards,

The Chancellor

Yeah, there's no way Roger played the funky bass in Pigs (Three Different Ones).