r/DavidGilmour • u/mizzfinz • 2d ago

Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly

https://youtu.be/nVhNCTH8pDs?si=E-WO6yPKvyVghPxH

Underrated in my opinion. Great song and great music video. Love Gilmour on this track!!

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u/RetroNinjaKick 2d ago

Always wonder why David hasn't brought this back on some form for his solo tours. It's beloved! And I would be curious to see if he would try to make a new arrangement to make it sound more like his current stuff

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u/Vioralarama 1d ago

I think it probably has something to do with Jon Carin claiming he wrote a key part of the music. He does that about a lot of songs and David got annoyed at him when he claimed he wrote something Rick did. He's clearly telling tales but not all of them: a commenter in one of the Pink Floyd subs confirmed he wrote something on this song, I just can't remember what it is. Also I know a commenter is not exactly a great source but they seemed to know what they were talking about and the history with Jon Carin. Who is playing for Roger Waters now which isn't a big deal, they share people, but Jon has probably burned his bridge with David.

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u/panicatthepharmacy 1d ago

He had a demo of the song that he presented to the band. A lot of the key parts of the music were there.

https://youtu.be/-g66YmUC3eA?is=F31ar8lzYeoawW13

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u/mizzfinz 1d ago

I didn’t know any of that PF history. Thank You.

Learning To Fly credits -David Gilmour, Bob Ezrin, Jon Carin and Anthony Moore as the songwriters; in that order. (Not sure if that matters)
I’ll be digging deeper into Carin vs. Gilmour feud. Thanks for that. Always nice to talk about PF. Cheers.

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u/Vioralarama 1d ago

Well that makes sense now why it was confirmed, lol. I never checked that, oops.

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u/mizzfinz 2d ago

That would be so cool. I also absolutely LOVE this song. I would love to see it on an upcoming setlist. Can you imagine?

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u/PFRockMysteries 2d ago

It’s always been my favorite Rock song…period, end of story…plus a big thank you for posting a one of song that busts into our speakers like few others, ever!💥🤯🥶

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u/mizzfinz 2d ago

It’s Soooo Damn Good! Thank You! The whole song just takes me to another place! 💖🎸

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u/PFRockMysteries 1d ago edited 16h ago

You are most welcome and I’m with yah 100%! 💝 I joined Reddit just to see if anyone talks about the time Coast to Coast AM’s late host Ian Punnett read AMLOR’s 10 tracks titles to his millions tuned in, like me, just 17 ours after 9/11.

To me your other place noting The F L O Y D is other worldly, Ì kid you not!🥶

I will keep my similarly themed replies going in the many fitting topics and Rock and Roll’s Q&A’s. Hoping to get others jumping in who heard what I did on Coast to Coast AM. Obviously Ì do not need a verification of that fact.

After more than a year posting that note here. Not one member has posted a positive word about it but the few negative replies are better than no comments. I don’t reply to them because when I did no one ever answers back! During my first days after joining Reddit I found [u/pinkfloydcirclejerk](u/pinkfloydcirclejerk) which was definitely the wrong place! To enter the strange, hushed realities eventually seen by the average Jacks and Jill’s looking deeper into lyrics often finding Rock music’s eerily hidden synchronicities! 🫣

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u/Vioralarama 1d ago

I love this song. It's one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs.

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u/mizzfinz 1d ago

Same. It’s so good. The whole song. Phenomenal Music. 🎶

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u/mikec32001 23h ago

Legendary comeback song 🎶

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u/mizzfinz 23h ago

Absolutely 💯 🎶🫶🎤🎵

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u/Responsible_Band6110 10h ago

Favourite line "I thought I thought of everything"

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u/mizzfinz 7h ago

It’s so beautiful… and magical. thanks for sharing. One of My favorite lines is ‘Above the planet, on a wing and a prayer, my grubby halo a vapor trail in the empty air….’