David Gilmour - His guitars and his music - The official .

Gibson Les Pauls Davids always been associated with the Stratocaster but terminated the years many of his guitar parts are recorded with different guitars like Telecasters, slides and Les Pauls. In this article well look at Davids Gibson Les Paul guitars. In an audience with Guitarist Magazine (June 1986) David reveals that I still cant get used to a Gibson [Les Paul].

A Strat was always what I wanted, and Ive used the tremolo arm since I saw Hank Marvin using it. Still, David has done some classic solos on Les Pauls among them Another Brick in the Wall (part 2). A Les Paul was also featured on This Heaven from Davids 2006 solo album On An Island.Gibson Les Paul TV Special David began collection guitars around 1970 when he bought two guitars at a pawn shop in Seattle, USA in early October that year. One of them was the Fender 1000 twin neck pedal steel used on Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon. The former was a Gibson Les Paul TV. David used it on some of the remaining shows on the US tour but never since. Davids first collectable, a Gibson Les Paul TV. Based on the few pictures available of David and the TV it seems like an late 50s/early 60s double cutaway version with a beige/blonde finish. The trunk and neck is a square part of mahogany and the cervix has a rosewood fretboard. The guitar feature two Gibson P-90 pickups with black covering and a roll around tailpiece.Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty Over the years Davids been seen with a Les Paul Custom or Black Beauty on a pair of occasions. 1986 David told Guitarist Magazine how he started collecting guitars Ive ever had one or two pieces, but I started with a Gibson TV model [described above - Bjorn] and so a 3 pickup Black Beauty Les Paul (). The Dark Beauty is first seen on a figure of David in his studio around 1972. Its once again spotted hanging on a fence in his family around 1986 (Guitarist Magazine photo shoot).David pictured in his home studio around 1972-73. A Les Paul Custom Black Beauty can be seen lying to the good in the picture. Note too the sunburst Strat now with the original maple neck from the Black Strat. (right) The Custom Black Beauty pictured in Davids home in 1986 with many of his collectables. Note the Pete Cornish board on the floor (Wall studio board). David is also seen playing a similar looking Les Paul during Pink Floyds impromptu jam session at the Annabels Night Club in Copenhagen, Denmark, 31 July 1988 but its unlikely that this is the same guitar as David probably borrowed a guitar from the family band. The Dark Beauty is the nick name of an all black Custom model with a mahogany body (with binding) and neck and ebony fretboard. Davids model featured three humbucker pickups and a tune-o-matic bridge. Its not known when the guitar was made but since all Les Paul were discontinued between 1963-68 its likely a late 50s model (also given that it has 3 pickups, which were first introduced in the late 50s).Gibson 1955 Les Paul Goldtop Davids perhaps most famous Les Paul is his 1955 Goldtop. This was exploited to read several guitar parts on The Wall and most notably the solo on Another Brick in the Wall (part 2). David would also use the guitar on the The Wall tour in 1980-81 while performing Happiest Days of Our Lives, occasionally the Another Brick 2 solo switching from the Black Strat used on the rhythm parts, One of My Turns and Last Few Bricks. David pictured during the latter portion of the Wall tour with the 1955 Goldtop. The 55 Goldtop was likewise used throughout the 80s and 90son a pair of tracks on Momentary Lapse of Reason, among these Round and Round and Poles Apart and A Great Day For Freedom from Division Bell. The guitar was displayed at the 2003-04 Interstellar Exhibition in its original case among Davids Wall pedal boards and other guitars. It was finally seen used on the Island Blues jam that were filmed in Davids barn and released as a puzzle for On An Island December 23 2005. The Les Paul Goldtop has a bronze metallic finish mahogany body with a maple top and binding. The neck is mahogany with an ebony fretboard and binding. Davids 1955 model feature a wrapper around tailpiece and two P-90 pickups with white covers.Gibson 1956 Les Paul Goldtop Davids second Les Paul Goldtop is more or less identical to the 1955 model with the exclusion of a Bigsby bridge with tremolo. Originally the guitar came with a tune-o-matic bridge, which Gibson introduced with the 1956 models. Its not known when Gilmour got this guitar and whether the Bigsby was custom fitted before or later he got it. David and his 1956 Goldtop featuring the Bigsby tremolo bridge in Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, 30 May 2006. The 56 was used on various songs on On An Islandnotably the first part of the first solo on the title tag and This Heaven. David also exploited the guitar on the 2006 tour while performing This Heaven. It was finally seen at the extra operation of Island Jam at the Odeon cinema theatre in London, UK, in September 2007 for the premier of the Remember That Night DVD release.