# Pink Floyd **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 21, 2009, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581 "2009-04-21T08:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44
**Author:** ![fah\_quad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac91a4/32.png) [@fah\_quad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fah_quad)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581/44 "2009-04-22T15:02:00Z")
> [@brakeline help](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/brakeline-help/40168/4): > > but the incessant shredding gets really boring to anyone other than a purist. Gilmour on the other hand, can make a simple 6-note blues minor scale sounds like it was drenched in feeling. Like BB King, his style was minimalistic but seething with emotion. THAT is what makes a guitarist stand out. Agreed on everything but the “purist” standpoint. Quite the contrary. True purists repsect rest values and how one note can be played with tone and feeling, as much if not more than speed and dexterity. Having all of it is awesome (someone like Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits comes to mind), but being able to shape and feel one note means so much more to me. Well placed rests are every bit as important as the notes. Comfortably Numb is still one of the all time great solos. Not a ton of notes, but feels perfect. But, when I was talking about sonic structure, I meant more from an entire production standpoint. Not just guiter. In fact I wasn’t even thinking guitarother than comparing to Hendrix. I meant they were doing things at the time that with the technology available, weren’t supposed to be able to be done. Like Hendrix. And as for album sales, look at the album that’s been in the top billboard charts forever. Dark Side of the Moon. Talk to me in almost 40 years and see if Brit-brit is on that list still. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581)._