“Though every note has been learned and rehearsed and played, you need to think, ‘Oh, there’s something about the feel that had before that it’s gone forever’”: David Gilmour sets the record straight on the Pink Floyd solo that accidentally got erased

David Gilmour performs in concert at Circo Massimo on july 02, 2016 in Rome, Italy.

Have you ever written an awesome guitar part that, for one reason or another, disappeared into the ether? Well, in David Gilmour's case, it was one of his solos on Dogs, from 1977's Animals. Of course, keen-eared Pink Floyd fans would know that this song has a number, of solos – one of which was mistakenly deleted during those sessions.

“On Dogs, the original solo did get erased,” Gilmour confirms in his latest interview with Rick Beato. “We had the whole first half of the song. Then we had a middle breakdown bit, which became all that weird stuff, and that was filled with white two-inch leader tape [used to separate cues on tape].