LITTLE OL’ WINE DRINKER ME
The 2011 ‘Immersion’ box set of Wish You Were Here includes a two-and-a-quarterminute recording of the tuned wine glasses used on Shine On You Crazy Diamond. In 2006, David Gilmour revisited the idea on his On An Island solo tour. In July that year, keyboard player Richard Wright began ‘playing’ a wine glass during his birthday meal in a hotel restaurant in Munich. This was Gilmour’s cue to use wine glasses during the following night’s performance of Shine On at the Königsplatz in the city.
Sax player Dick Parry, drummer Steve DiStanislao, bassist Guy Pratt and guitarist Phil Manzanera were tasked with the job. In Gilmour’s subsequent DVD, he can be seen explaining the sequence of