Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
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Song Name: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. VI-IX)
Artist: Pink Floyd
Album: Wish You Were Here, Shine On
Run Time: 12:31
Year: 1975
Track Number: 5
Sung By: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright
Written By: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright
Info:
- Part VI (Wright, Waters, Gilmour; from :00 – 5:00) begins with a howling wind from the preceding song "Wish You Were Here". As the wind fades away, David Gilmour comes in on the bass guitar. Roger Waters adds another bass guitar with a continuing riff pattern. Then Rick Wright comes in playing an ARP String Ensemble Synthesizer and after a few measures, several rhythm guitar parts (Gilmour would play the power chord rhythm part using his black Fender Stratocaster before switching to lap steel guitar for the solo in live performances in 1974 to 1977. Snowy White did the rhythm guitar parts on this track on the band's 1977 "In the Flesh" tour) and drums come in, a Minimoog Synthesizer comes in to play the opening solo. At the two minute mark, Wright's Minimoog and Gilmour's lap steel guitar play notes in unison before Gilmour does a lap steel guitar solo (the lap steel had open E minor tuning) with some counterpointing from Wright's synthesizers. It lasts for about 3 minutes (4 minutes when played on the band's "In the Flesh" tour) and Gilmour in each section would play an octave higher than the previous. The highest note he hit on the lap steel/slide solo was a B flat almost three octaves above middle C (one show in Cleveland on the tour he hit a G that was three octaves above middle C) followed by a reprise of the guitar solo from part IV (which was played by Snowy White in live performances on Pink Floyd's 1977 tour so David Gilmour could switch from lap steel guitar back to his Fender Stratocaster). The song then switches from common time (4/4) back to a 6/8 time signature found in parts I-V, giving the appearance of a slowed tempo and the vocals return.
- Part VII (Waters, Gilmour, Wright; from 5:01 – 6:05) contains the vocal sections, almost identical to part IV through half the length before beginning the segue into part VIII.
- Part VIII (Gilmour, Wright, Waters; from 6:05 – 9:05) brings in Roger Waters to play a second electric guitar for a high noted sound riff while Gilmour plays the arpeggio riff that bridges parts 7 to 8. A neat progression of beats play for about 2 minutes before very slowly fading into the background as a continuous single keyboard note fades in around the 9 minute mark. When this section was played live on the band's 1977 "In The Flesh" tour, David Gilmour and Snowy White would be trading guitar solos in a duet (or known as the battle between Gilmour's black with white pick-ups Strat and Snowy's Goldtop Gibson Les Paul) which would extend this section upwards to between 5 and 10 minutes.
- Part IX (Wright, from 9:05 – 12:31) is played in four-four time. David Gilmour in an interview described Part IX as "a slow 4/4 funeral march... the parting musical eulogy to Syd". The drums play for half of this part, and the keyboard plays for the final minute of the song before fading out. On the fade out, you can hear a short part of the melody of "See Emily Play" (at 12:07), one of Syd Barrett's signature Pink Floyd songs. When played live on the 1977 tour, the piano plays the chords on its own before the synth solo was slowly changed from a synth solo (early part of European leg) into half synth and harmony guitar solo by Gilmour (higher notes) and White (lower notes) (on the end of the European leg and April and May, 1977 US performances) and then first a bluesy Gilmour solo followed by a harmony guitar solo by Gilmour (higher notes) and White (lower notes) (on the June and July, 1977 US performances) finally before ending with the synth solo as on record. Part IX ends on a Picardy third.
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