[Slowhand] RE: Slowhand Digest, Vol 1, Issue 22

[Robert]

You guys don't get it. Roger Waters was not looking for a David Gilmour
clone. That is why he chose
Doyle in the first place. I thought Doyle did a fabulous job adding his own
Texas tone to the guitar
solos and also singing on some of the songs. Doyle has a fatter tone than
Gilmour and Chester.
Chester sounded very thin from the few clips I've heard of those shows.
Clapton sounded thin too
when he played with Roger a few years ago. Doyle's meatier tone made the
difference in those
shows with Roger in 99 and 01.


Message: 8
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:25:32 +0200
From: " weedweed at tiscali.fr " <weedweed at tiscali.fr>
Subject: [Slowhand] Re :DoyleII

>Agree totally.....I saw Doyle play on the Roger Waters IN THE >FLESH
tour,...he tried to re-produce David Gilmour's brilliant >guitar work, but I
did not think it worked.....volume control >again.

I attended 3 EC show in 2001, one at the RAH and 2 in Paris Bercy. All with
desastrous sound from the opening night (I was in circle section on RAH that
didn't help...). In fact I think that on the second night I miss the first
half of his set, and the third night I came later to the venue and attended
final song only.

I got the DVD from the In the flesh tour but I saw his remplacent on the
world tour leg. Doyle is a gifted guitarist but simply it fit not Gilmour's
style whereas Chester Kamen does. It was a great show minus the (to my ear)
the first solo on SOYCD(1-5) by Snowy White. And to come back on a more EC
related subject, I very appreciated the short but efficient (and too rare)
solo by Andy Fairweather Low on Money.