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Despite the Christmas break, one aspect of David Gilmour's website (DavidGilmour.com) has been updated throughout on a daily basis.
The fascinating "blog" (aka weblog)
has had news and information posted each day, along with an exclusive
picture from the sessions taken by David's wife Polly. Whilst some of
the pictures are of David, others are of the various musicians who are
involved with the project, and as each day passes, little bits of
information are appearing which are building a bigger picture of the
line-up!
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The latest bit of information has
come our way courtesy of Dolf van Stijgeren, who runs the Crosby Stills
Nash & Young fansite 4waysite.com.
He tells us that Stevie DiStanislao, the master drummer of CPR (David
Crosby's band), has been added to David's band for the 2006 World Tour.
David attended a Crosby, Stills
& Nash concert in London, and Crosby and Nash both contribute to
David's new album.
Rehearsals for the tour are reported to start around
now, in the UK.
In terms of other touring personnel, things are quite vague at present. You may recall that recently, we posted information on Guy Pratt's solo tour.
Guy plays bass guitar on David's new album, and we've had a couple of
emails from people who've also realised that Guy's dates cunningly
avoid David's dates, meaning that he could be in the touring band. Make
of that what you will!
From various entries on David's
blog (which is a fascinating glimpse inside the album recording
process) it is clear that the following are involved in the album
recordings:
- Richard Wright - keyboards
- Guy Pratt - bass guitar
- David Crosby - vocals
- Graham Nash - vocals
- Paul "Wix" Wickens - keyboards
- Phil Manzanera - guitar
- Ged Lynch - drums
- Lucy Wakeford - harp
- Caroline Dale - cello
- Robert Wyatt - trumpet
- Jools Holland - piano
- Leszek Mozdzer - piano
- Zbigniew Preisner - orchestration
- Chris Stainton - keyboards
- Rado (Bob) Klose - guitar
The very last of these names will be
familiar to a number of you - Rado was one of the very early members of
the band, who left the band before they became successful. Seen in the
fascinating Dark Side Of The Moon classic albums documentary,
it was a shock to read on David's site that he is involved in this new
project. An excellent guitarist, Rado should add a new element to the
album.
The other surprise element to
current knowledge about the album, is that David performs the saxophone
duties. He took up the instrument to assist Charlie, his son, in
Charlie's studies of the sax.
Obviously, more news (and
realistic rumours) as we get them! And bear in mind, that although
someone might be involved in the recordings, until the album is mixed
and the tracks selected, any performers or performances could be left
in the editing suite!
In other news, a reminder that David's guest appearance in the BBC comedy "Three Men In A Boat" airs tomorrow night. We understand that he appears in just the first
part of this two-part show, but cannot guarantee this - so tune in to
the second part just in case!
Finally, our friend Titus Jenning's DG Guest Spot Special radio show gets a timely repeat this week, on Pipeline Radio.
The Special is a two hour show of material on which David guests as
either a guitarist or vocalist, on other people's recordings.
Artists included in the line-up include Paul McCartney, BB King, Kate Bush, Dream Academy and Snowy White.
As this is a web-based station,
they don't have specific time slots at present - rather the programmes
"loop" across the server, so it airs on rotation up until January 5th
or 6th. However, listeners in Scandinavia and The Baltics can also pick
Pipeline up on 1386 AM every Wednesday night from 23:00 CET for two
hours.
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