

“I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing," he said in a statement accompanying the song's release. Gilmour managed to get ahold of Khlyvnyuk from his hospital bed in Kyiv, where he was recovering from a mortar shrapnel injury. Hey Hey Rise Up is based around a video and audio recording of Khlyvnyuk singing the World War I-era Ukranian protest song, The Red Viburnum In The Meadow, in Kyiv’s then-empty Sofiyskaya Square.Īfter it was posted to Khlyvnyuk's Instagram (opens in new tab) page, the video went viral, and eventually reached Gilmour, who decided to set the vocal performance to an original instrumental. "We want to spread this message of peace, and we want to raise the morale of the people who are defending their homeland there in Ukraine.


"When I spoke to Nick, and he said he was willing to do it as Pink Floyd, it seemed like a no-brainer," he said. Dave Mustain of Megadeth said of David Gilmour that David Gilmour Could Do More With One Note Than Todays Shredders Can Do With a Dozen. David Gilmour is my favorite guitarist of all time belonging to my favorite band of all time Pink Floyd. He pictured himself on a bare stage, acoustic guitar in hand, unaccompanied by other instrumentalists.
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Gilmour used this guitar for one tour back in 1972. David Gilmour - Much of the same can be said of David Gilmour, minus the character aspect. When David was playing a series of acoustic concerts in 2001 he wanted to open the show with what many consider to be the quintessential Pink Floyd work, Shine On You Crazy Diamond. This guitar was made specifically for Gilmour by Dick Knight, and it featured two different Fender necks one rosewood and one maple. It was "the size of platform," Gilmour explained, that motivated him to release Hey Hey Rise Up as a Pink Floyd recording, rather than as a solo song. Among other interesting models in his collection, the Double-neck Stratocaster has got to be the most interesting one. Gilmour also clarified (opens in new tab) in the interview that the song was definitively a one-off for Pink Floyd, after saying as recently as last year – in an interview with Guitar Player (opens in new tab) – that the band had broken up for good. I’m going to let my mind be devoid of everything and just let it steer itself." "So you could say there’s a fairly direct and improvised influence of Ukraine and what I’m thinking of, but when I’m playing, I’m not thinking of anything.
