This take also showcases some lyrical howlers (“I am a physician / who can handle your condition / like a magician”) that, thankfully, didn’t make the final cut. Dave on one side Roger and I on the other.” After much wrangling, “the deal was struck,” Blake explains: “The body of the song would comprise the orchestral arrangement the outro, including that final, incendiary guitar solo, would be taken from the Gilmour-favoured, harder version.”Īs the song was integrated into Waters’ conceptual scheme (which Gilmour later admitted he found “a bit whingeing”), early versions like “The Doctor,” above, show the grittier sound Gilmour wanted. “But at least this time there were only two sides to the argument. “That turned into a real arm-wrestle,” Ezrin recalled. Writer Mark Blake, citing co-producer Bob Ezrin, describes the argument in much more detail, as between a “stripped-down and harder” take and what Ezrin calls “the grander Technicolor, orchestral version” Waters liked. As Waters remembers it in an interview with Absolute Radio at the top, the disagreement boiled down to a rhythm track, and the negotiation involved taking pieces of the verse and chorus from two different versions and piecing them together. Waters, on the other hand, wanted a big, theatrical sound.
Despite the delicate acoustic strumming of the demo, Gilmour wanted the Floyd version of the song to have a harder edge.
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