Lockdown Lick no. 291. ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’.
“Accidental” 4-note chord intro, then into Gilmour melody response solo. Played on a Fender Stratocaster into a NUX M8 amp set to ‘superlead’ with analog delay set to the tempo. The solo came quite late in the song and provides the perfect counter-melody to the vocal lyric before soaring into two bends and returning to the ‘melancholic’ G minor chord.
Gilmour claimed the four-note picked chord a cornerstone riff for the song was an accident, he meant to fret the G and E but miss fingered resulting in the two open, slightly discordant notes ringing out. A legendary riff was “happy accident”!
In an earlier Lick, I covered the ‘clean’ solo from the beginning of the song.https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1146823965652825&id=100009756978323
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” is a nine-part Pink Floyd composition written by David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright. It appeared on Pink Floyd’s 1975 concept album Wish You Were Here. The song is written about and dedicated to Syd Barrett, who left the band in 1968 because of deteriorating mental health.
Wish You Were Here has attained huge status as a rock classic the equal of “Dark Side of the Moon.”