Gilmour gets it
Q: What, you don't have George Lucas Syndrome?
A: Nope. We worked on it until we thought it was pretty well perfect. If one were to go change it, whatever you might add would be something you take away as well.
George doesn't.
That seemed to be the point of this thread. Nobody read their own opinion into anything. He gets it because when asked if he would change his album he says that there is no point in changing something that is near perfect.
Quote by Gillean
"Hehehe, now I'm just going to be a jerk! JediFlyer06, if Gilmour was talking about art in general then can you find some of his complaints about the continual changes to a very culturally important piece of art, the DSotM cover artwork (voted fourth greatest of all time)?"
I have never heard the Dark Side of the Moon album art to be a very important piece of art. It is an album cover. You don't see us rallying to preserve our old VHS covers for the Star Wars Trilogy. You don't see an "www.theoriginalindianajonestrilogy.com" trying to petition Lucas to release his Indiana Jones films with their original covers. Covers change on everything. Every album of DSoTM I have ever seen still has the triangle with the rainbow, even if it has a different border or background color. Not to mention the original album art of DSotM is availible in great quality from numerous sources. I am sure if you search google for it you can view the original art with no problem. It is an entirely different concept to change the cover of something instead of changing the actual thing itself. And it is honestly laughable to call the DSotM album an important piece of art. You act like the bloody thing is hanging next to the Mona Lisa in Rome.
Quote by Gillean
I think I better start a website dedicated to the preservation of this important classic!
That seemed like more of a slam towards the whole idea of the originaltrilogy.com to me. Perhaps I took it wrong. However if you think it is silly for people to try to perserve something "the great Master Lucas" doesn't believe to be a worthy representation of his now crappy sci-fi films, why do you come here?
Anyway I have wasted enough time with this. I was just annoyed at Gillean's limited focus and his odd sense of duty at proving Gilmour doesn't really get it, and that he is no better than Lucas.
Just a little recap as to the relevance of this thread.
Gilmour gets it: "Oh, there's nothing I would change about it." "Nope. We worked on it until we thought it was pretty well perfect. If one were to go change it, whatever you might add would be something you take away as well."
Lucas doesn't get it: "The other movie, it’s on VHS, if anybody wants it"