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David Gilmour: Beginning A Second Decade As Lead Guitarist For Pink Floyd

Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, May 1979

DAVID GILMOUR has been playing guitar with Pink Floyd for 11 years now – about one-third of his life. And for more than a decade, his style has been undergoing a constant refining process that parallels the band's evolution from a spearhead of the psychedelic movement of the l960s to a mainstay of the outer-space rock of the 1970s.

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