Ben Watt über David Gilmour´s Demos: "The first thing he played was absolute amazing!"

Ben Watt sprach in einem Interview, das er vor zwei Wochen BBC Moderator Simon Mayo in dessen Radiosendung Drivetime gab, über sein Buch und sein neues Album “Hendra”. Sie kamen auch auf David Gilmour und dessen Gastauftritt auf dem Album zu sprechen.

Watt erzählte vom zufälligen Kennenlernen bei einer Party und davon, als ihn Gilmour überraschend fragte, ob er sich seine Demos anhören würde! Das wussten wir bereits. Dann aber fragte der Moderator nach und wollte von Watt wissen ob die Gilmour´s Demos auch gut waren! Eine sehr gute Frage! Denn so erfahren wir erstmals von Watt Details über diese Demos. Von einer Demo-Aufnahmen, der ersten die ihm Gilmour vorspielte, schwärmte Watt ganz besonders!

Simon Mayo: How do you get David Gilmour to play on your record?

Ben Watt: That was a complete coincidence. I was at a party a week before I started the album. It was actually a publishers party, it had to do with the book. And he was in the room with his wife Polly Samson who his a writer. We were introduced as two musicians, got talking and he suddenly said to me, after about three minutes of chatting, `Do you want to here my demos?`”

David Gilmour says “Would you like to hear my demos?”!

Ben Watt: I was a bit stunned like you would be!

Did you say “No I´am a little bit busy”!

Ben Watt: Yeah I did! I said let me just check my phone!

Were they any good?

Ben Watt: The first thing he played me was absolute amazing! Amazing idea, this idea, he had a sort of field-recording mixed with some studio work which I not heard anyone doing anything like that before. And then he played me a lot of sketches and half-finished things and I think he´d been working in his studio on his own for quite a while and just wanted a sounding-board. And I just said what I felt, “well that´s really good”, “hmm I´am not really sure about that”, and we just keep on getting really well. And I was very open with him about what I thought. And a couple a weeks later I was doing my album, I was doing this track The Levels and I thought that was very blanched David Gilmour strung out kind a sound. Would be brilliant, so I texted him….

Das hören wir gerne! Es stellt sich die Frage, ob es sich bei den Demos ausschließlich um die von Gilmour handelte oder hat er ihm auch von The Endless River etwas anhören lassen!?

Ihr könnte euch das Interview mit Ben Watt noch online anhören, ab der Minute 12 erzählt er von Gilmour!