Guitar sound on Live at Pompeii - Saucerful of secrets

[antshodan]

Have to say i LOVE that sound dave gilmour does as rick is playing the keyboards, as it all gets to a progressivly larger sound.

I just have no idea what exactly he does. I dont have a slide (yet) but i had tried a couple of things (such as bottlenecks) just to see if i can recreate the sound dave makes, and I am just not able to get the sound...

Does anyone have any idea how to recreate this sound?

[Shane G.]

Get a steel slide and rub it up-and-down over the fret you so desire. Works best on the high E string, in the upper register of frets.

[antshodan]

thanks!

what kind of effect, or gain or anything does he use, if anything?

[Shane G.]

Put a little echo on there. Also turn up your amp, put on a good distortion on, and turn the volume on your guitar to 2 or 3, where the sound just begins to come up. Gives it that eerie, slightly overdriven sound.

[antshodan]

Thanks man! thats great... All i gotta do now is get myself a steel slide.... Shouldnt be too difficult!

[Shane G.]

You're welcome.

[antshodan]

Having got hold of a steel slide, and followed your instructions, i still find im not able to get that sound. Or at least i am, but I have a feeling that Dave must use a weird tuning for it. As far as i know he didnt tend to do that, but does anyone know if he did for that song, and what it was. Cheers!

[Shane G.]

Well, it's a sound that only really comes out if the amp is turned up. He also used an odd kind of slide on Pompeii, a solid one used for pedal steel, as it looks. It might have a rougher finish, and would make it easier for those applications.

Ah well, good to be of service anyway.