Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song) the "Why Pink Floyd...?" campaign, the "Experience" and "Immersion" versions of the "Wish You Were Here" album include an alternative version of the song where Grappelli's part is heard in the instrumental break after the second verse and throughout the third verse before a considerably extended outro. Other less obvious differences are audible, for example at the section leading into the second verse. The master tape of the original recording includes an entire performance of pedal steel guitar and electric guitar solos, played by Gilmour, that were not used in the final mix. "Wish You Were Here" made its stage
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) echo. The entire piece had to be re-recorded. The sessions for "Wish You Were Here" at Abbey Road's Studio Three lasted from January until July 1975, recording on four days each week from 2:30 P.M. until very late in the evening. The group found it difficult at first to devise any new material, especially as the success of "The Dark Side of the Moon" had left all four physically and emotionally drained. Keyboardist Richard Wright later described these sessions as "falling within a difficult period", and Waters recalled them as "torturous". Mason found the process of multi-track recording drawn out