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"Gilmour was doing more with one note than anyone else"

I could not agree more. Listen to Gilmour on Shine on You Crazy Diamond. He's on the Strat and the lap steel and he's genius on both. Just amazing. Jack White and his (i think) strident vocals and sloppy guitar work don't come close to Gilmour - not even in the same city, let alone ballpark.

My personal favorite Floyd album is "Animals", where Gilmour's solo on "Pigs" starts with one note held, bent, vibratoed, and bent some more for about 8-10 bars while the chord progression changes around it. He then launches into melodic, not complicated, but beautiful steps upward (I don't know the terminology, maybe arpeggios?). It's so simple, yet moving...I fell in love with that solo when I was a kid of 13 and still love it today at 45.

Jack White, what I've heard of him, sounds like a cheap imitation of Thurston Moore and Sonic Youth, which I never thought much of either. I hate that "art" rock sound...the whole "if I sound bad and dissonant enough, maybe everyone will think I'm doing it on purpose and think I'm brilliant". You find that a lot in post-MTV guitarists, those who saw videos first, then decided they wanted to play guitar.

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