{"id":20486,"date":"2026-02-25T18:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=20486"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:09:15","slug":"paul-mccartney-on-van-halen-and-gilmour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=20486","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney on Van Halen and Gilmour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Besides being one of the greatest songwriters and singers of all time, Paul McCartney is also a multi-instrumentalist. Although he is primarily praised and known for his influential bass playing, he can play many other instruments and even recorded three albums on which he played everything himself. Many Beatles songs featured guitar parts and solos performed by him, such as in \u201cTaxman\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So he certainly knows how to recognize when someone is truly an incredible guitar player. Over the decades, he has spoken about many acclaimed guitarists, including\u00a0Eddie Van Halen\u00a0and David Gilmour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=20486\/#Paul_McCartney_on_Van_Halen_and_Gilmour\" >Paul McCartney on Van Halen and Gilmour<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=20486\/#He_continued\" >He continued:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=20486\/#For_Paul_McCartney_Jimi_Hendrix_was_better_than_Eddie_Van_Halen\" >For Paul McCartney Jimi Hendrix was better than Eddie Van Halen<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=20486\/#McCartney_almost_appeared_on_%E2%80%9CDark_Side_of_the_Moon%E2%80%9D_and_Gilmour_was_a_Beatle_for_a_day\" >McCartney almost appeared on \u201cDark Side of the Moon\u201d and Gilmour was a Beatle for a day<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=20486\/#Gilmour_played_live_with_McCartney_at_the_Cavern_Club\" >Gilmour played live with McCartney at the Cavern Club<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"paul-mccartney-on-van-halen-and-gilmour\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Paul_McCartney_on_Van_Halen_and_Gilmour\"><\/span>Paul McCartney on Van Halen and Gilmour<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI like guitar players. I\u2019m spoiled with guitar players. I knew Hendrix. I saw Jimi live a lot. Probably some of his first dates in London, back at Bag O\u2019 Nails, where Linda and I met, and at a place called Blazes. You were in a room this size, little stage down that end, and him with his Marshalls wounded up to 11. I\u2019m spoiled. I\u2019ve seen Eric when he was with Cream, I\u2019ve seen him develop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo you can\u2019t show me very many good guitarists. I think there\u2019s only about 20 in the world. I think Van Halen\u2019s real good,\u00a0Gilmour\u2019s real good. They have very different styles, but there\u2019s some people who can hold a guitar and just play it and it looks like it\u2019s part of them,\u201d Paul McCartney commented in an interview with\u00a0Musician\u00a0magazine in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has always been a big fan of both Eddie Van Halen and David Gilmour and has praised them on multiple occasions. He even invited the Pink Floyd guitarist to record and perform live with him several times, calling him a genius. \u201cDavid Gilmour plays the solo on the record (\u2018No More Lonely Nights\u2019). I\u2019ve known him since the early days of Pink Floyd.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"he-continued\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"He_continued\"><\/span>He continued:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDave is a genius of sorts, so I was pulling out all the stops. I admired his playing so much, I\u2019d seen him around; I think he\u2019d just done his solo \u2018About Face\u2019 album. So I rang him up and said, \u2018Would you play on this?\u2019 It sounded like his kind of thing,\u201d Paul McCartney said in his book \u201cThe Lyrics: 1956 to the Present\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first time Gilmour played with the Beatle was in 1979, being featured on the all-star song \u201cRockestra Theme\u201d by The Wings and then on the albums \u201cGive My Regard To Broad Street\u201d (1984), \u201cFlowers In The Dirt\u201d (1989) and \u201cRun Devil Run\u201d (1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"for-paul-mccartney-jimi-hendrix-was-better-than-eddie-van-halen\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"For_Paul_McCartney_Jimi_Hendrix_was_better_than_Eddie_Van_Halen\"><\/span>For Paul McCartney Jimi Hendrix was better than Eddie Van Halen<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Eddie has often been compared to Jimi Hendrix because of the impact his unique guitar style had on music. But when it comes to comparing the two, Paul believes Hendrix was better. \u201cI have very fond memories of Jimi. I mean, Van Halen\u2019s great, I love Eddie Van Halen. But I still think Jimi was the best,\u201d Paul McCartney said in an interview with\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0magazine in 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike Gilmour, Eddie Van Halen never played with Paul. But the Beatle was deeply admired by him and said his favorite thing in a Heavy Metal band was always the guitar player. \u201cI like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often. I like a lot of heavy metal guys because they wind it up. What I usually like in a heavy metal band is the guitar player. But when it\u2019s just miles of scales, I lose interest. I like some of the hot sounds,\u201d Paul McCartney told\u00a0Guitar Player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bands like The Beatles and The Dave Clark Five were an important influence on Eddie and his brother Alex while they were growing up. Their mother enrolled them in piano lessons so they could become classical pianists. But when they first heard the Fab Four and The Dave Clark Five, everything changed. Curiously, they were more into the DC5. Alex later said that at the time, if someone had asked which band would last longer, he would have bet on The Dave Clark Five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"mccartney-almost-appeared-on-dark-side-of-the-moon-and-gilmour-was-a-beatle-for-a-day\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"McCartney_almost_appeared_on_%E2%80%9CDark_Side_of_the_Moon%E2%80%9D_and_Gilmour_was_a_Beatle_for_a_day\"><\/span>McCartney almost appeared on \u201cDark Side of the Moon\u201d and Gilmour was a Beatle for a day<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>McCartney and\u00a0Pink Floyd\u00a0crossed paths a few times at Abbey Road Studios in London. The first time was in 1967, when The Beatles were recording \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u201d and Pink Floyd were making their debut album \u201cThe Piper at the Gates of Dawn.\u201d They had the opportunity to get to know each other better then, but their connection became stronger a few years later. Especially in 1973, when Paul was recording a new album with Wings at the same studio while the Progressive Rock band was working on their masterpiece, \u201cThe Dark Side of the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c(Pink) Floyd came in after us (at Abbey Road) and did a lot of cool experimental stuff. This was more Wings period, but they were next door making \u2018Dark Side of The Moon\u2019. That was pretty cool. (Yeah I listened to it at the time) the engineers were quite interchangeable. So the engineer that would work on their stuff would work on ours. He\u2019d play us some of the \u2018Dark Side of The Moon\u2019 stuff,\u201d he said in \u201cMcCartney 1, 2, 3\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Beatle was almost featured on the record, as Pink Floyd were asking random questions to people at the studio and including some of their answers on the album. However, they felt that Paul and Linda\u2019s responses did not fit what they were looking for, so they were ultimately left out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"gilmour-played-live-with-mccartney-at-the-cavern-club\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Gilmour_played_live_with_McCartney_at_the_Cavern_Club\"><\/span>Gilmour played live with McCartney at the Cavern Club<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Years later, Gilmour had the chance to be a Beatle for a day. In 1999, McCartney decided to play a special show at the Cavern Club in Liverpool and invited David to join the band, which also featured Deep Purple\u2019s Ian Paice on drums. They performed the Beatles classic \u201cI Saw Her Standing There\u201d along with several Rock and Roll standards from the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilmour was extremely happy about the opportunity, as he had been a massive Beatles fan since he was young. \u201cI\u2019ve completed all the stuff that Paul has so far asked me to do with him. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s doing anymore. But it was really good fun to get back to that kind of music for a change. Getting to be a Beatle for that night at the Cavern was unforgettable\u201d he told\u00a0MSN\u00a0that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hcZq7R_MRLk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hcZq7R_MRLk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once, when asked to choose some of his favorite songs, Gilmour picked \u201cYou\u2019ve Got to Hide Your Love Away.\u201d In his opinion, it was\u00a0John Lennon\u2019s first clear moment of being influenced by\u00a0Bob Dylan. Although he loves that song, he said he could have chosen almost any track from their discography because they were all great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Besides being one of the greatest songwriters and singers of all time, Paul McCartney is also a multi-instrumentalist.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-musician"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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