Pink Floyd – Animals

This has been David’s main guitar for many years now. He bought it at Manny’s guitar store in New York, in May 1970 during Pink Floyd’s North American tour, because he needed a new guitar after his old one was stolen along with the rest of Pink Floyd’s rig just couple of weeks earlier. This guitar has gone through many modifications. At this moment it is fitted with the Fender 1983 C shape maple neck, 1971 Fender pickups in the neck and middle, and a SSL-1C (SSL-5 Prototype) in the bridge. Original white pickguard has been replaced with a black one, and the body which is from 1969 has been repainted black (originally sunburst). The 3-way pickup switch has been replace with 5-way switch. Here’s a short interview with David Gilmour featuring his Black Strat (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVjFJFEQ_OU). In the mid '80s David replaced all his strats with Fender 1957 reissue models. He donated this particular guitar to Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas where it was on display until 1997 when David requested it back. It was refitted by his technician Charlie Chandler, and David used it ever since it has been played for the first time upon repair at Pink Floyd reunion in 2005. Pink Floyd’s technician Phil Taylor wrote a book about David’s iconic Black Stratocaster. You can check it here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423492706/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1423492706&linkCode=as2&tag=ground09-20).

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Pink Floyd premiered You Gotta Be Crazy on their British Winter Tour in November 1974. The was of course later reworked and released as Dogs on Animals in 1977. David performed the song in 1974 using a 59 Fender Custom Telecaster with a three colour brown sunburst alder body with binding, a white 3-ply pickguard and a D-shaped neck with rosewood fingerboard.

At this point the guitar featured a Gibson PAF neck humbucker pickup, making it look and sound like the Deluxe Telecasters introduced in the early 70’s.

David would also use the 59 Custom on 1977 live performances of Dogs. Now the humbucker was replaced by a Stratocaster pickup (David Gilmour, Guitar Player January 2009).

This early 70's Fender Precision Bass featuring a maple neck, was a band owned instrument and Roger Waters main bass from 1974-1978. It can be heard most notably on Wish You Were Here and Animals, and features a black pick guard (installed by Gilmour guitar tech Phil Taylor) to match the styling of David's Black Start. After Roger left the band it remained in the bands and eventually David's ownership. It can be heard most recently on Pink Floyd's final album, Endless River, played by David.

David Gilmour went back and forth between the Vox Wah Wah Pedal and the Dunlop CryBaby Wah Wah Pedal before finally sticking with the CryBaby by Animals

David Gilmour had two Dallas Arbiter Fuzzes (one blue with silicon transistors and one red with germanium transistors) shown in this photo from the Pompeii concert. As Gilmourish.com points out, these two fuzzes were used alternately on Pink Floyd's early albums, between 1968 and 1983 (https://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=9919).

The black Strat as it looked in 1976 following Gilmour’s substitution of the black DiMarzio FS-1 pickup. He added the neck with rosewood fretboard in June 1972, replacing the original maple neck.

Heard most famously on WYWH ('Have A Cigar') and the middle section of 'Dogs', from 'Animals'.