09 THE WALL PINK FLOYD (1979)

By the time Floyd recorded this sprawling double album, David Gilmour’s Black Strat had a Charvel maple neck and a high output Dimarzio FS-1 bridge pickup, although other guitars delivered some of Thewall’s most famous moments. The Nile Rodgers-ish main riff on Another Brickinthewall(part2) was played on a 1954 Stratocaster, serial no 0001, and the solo came from a 1955 Les Paul Goldtop with P90 pickups and a wraparound tailpiece. But the Black Strat delivered the Comfortablynumb solo, through the Big Muff Pi pedal Gilmour first used on 1977 album Animals. Gilmour’s enormous live tone came from splitting his pedalboard signal and feeding each output through a separate Boss CE-2 chorus.