Pink Floyd were one of those bands that just made music seem easy. Quite apart from David Gilmour’s outlandishly good guitar playing, the bass and drums (Rogers Waters and Nick Mason respectively) were so well played that you didn’t realise you were hearing them. It’s hard to describe but as an example, there were times when I would catch myself listening to just the drums or just the bass and thinking “shit, that’s just a normal bass or drum sound” and being really surprised that they weren’t something more amazing or unattainable. It dawned on me then of course that the quality of Pink Floyd’s music was due to musicianship and not the quality of their instruments or recording equipment. I’m sure it’s for this reason that great recordings remain a great mystery to me to this day…