Gilmour and Can

MoreOrLess · Post by **MoreOrLess** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 3:37 pm

I dont know how many of you have heard of the german band Can, basicly they were a great experimental band much like a funkier version of the early floyd (fools gold by the stone roses is very can like if you want another refference). I'd heard a few times that Dave Co wrote there only hit single "I want more" in 76 but I was just looking on the all music site and Dave is down as co writter of every song on the album flowmotion(take a look http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... 1tk6hx9krf). Does anyone know anything about the story behind this as I can't find any info on it.

Anna-Roza · Post by **Anna-Roza** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:07 pm

Hmmm, that is really interesting. I do like Can very much, but I do not know all their records (there is plenty of them), and I have not heard anything about Dave's contribution yet!

rollinder · Post by **rollinder** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:12 pm

I'd heard before that it wans't true & found this (via google) from the Pink Floyd Interaction Database

"Rolling Stone's Rock Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of Rock Stars state that David Gilmour wrote the song, I Want More , Can's only hit-single in 1976 (the song can be found on Can's 1976 release Flowmotion ).
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This is NOT TRUE !!!

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In reality, the author of the lyrics to the song is Peter Gilmour a journalist and a friend of Can."

MoreOrLess · Post by **MoreOrLess** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:41 pm

Ah that would explain why I cant find any info on it

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Anna-Roza · Post by **Anna-Roza** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 6:25 pm

MoreOrLess wrote:Ah that would explain why I cant find any info on it .

Indeed.

madcap69 · Post by **madcap69** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 2:42 am

hmmmmmmmmm........