“I even forget that it’s not the same one”: David Gilmour on the guitar that makes him not miss his legendary Black Strat
David Gilmour is a big fan of his current Stratocaster, to the point where he doesn’t miss the iconic Black Strat he first used in 1970.
Speaking to Guitar Player, the Pink Floyd legend discusses the guitars he sold off in 2019, the Black Strat among them – it went to guitar collector Jim Irsay, the owner of American football team the Indianapolis Colts. Selling for almost four million dollars, it became the most expensive guitar ever sold at the time.
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“I have my old beat-up Tele that I’m very fond of,” he explains. “I have a Gretsch Duo Jet that I love and wouldn’t sell. I have a Martin D-18 from 1945 I wouldn’t sell. But most things, you know, they’re the tools of my trade. You can change them if you need to.”
When asked if having fewer guitars impacted on the choices he made for his latest solo album Luck and Strange, released on 6 September, he says, “Not consciously, no, I don’t think so.”
He goes on, “The black Strat that I now use – the Black Cat Strat, as we call it – I even forget that it’s not the same one I used before on all those albums.”
The Black Cat Strat, referred to as such because of the cat sticker on the body, was used on the album’s instrumental opener, also titled Black Cat, and Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson shared a photo of her husband with the axe on Instagram in February.
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Gilmour, meanwhile, has also been discussing his relationship with his former bandmate Roger Waters, this time in an interview with Mojo. While neither Gilmour nor Waters have spoken much about their contentious relationship, the former hints in the interview that he still has more to say, sharing, “One day there are things I will talk about, but this isn’t that day.”
And, Gilmour has been slamming Oasis’ promoters amid the controversy over pricing for the Britpop band’s reunion tour next year, saying, “Oasis should put a price on tickets and stick to it.”
Curiously, the Black Cat Strat isn’t the only feline-themed Strat we’ve been talking about over the past couple of years, either. Searches for Hello Kitty Strats were trending on gear-selling website Reverb in November 2022, with the model seeing a resurgence in popularity thanks to social media.
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