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@@tomrobinson4765 Tony ts mcphee taught hendrex to get the best out of the wah wah pedal also randy california played a part in jimi progressing with his style, ain't taking nothing away from Hendrix he's still up there in the top three ever to have played a fender in my lifetime and I'm 68
@@Z4Zander Not only was it her 13th birthday, but it was her first concert. Roger Waters set the bar quite high. Black Sabbath must have been a good one.
@@9012505 Being in the mosh pit at 64yr old was a bit of a task but worth it.At least I was looking fresher than Ozzy.Thought they might have to bring a crash cart out for him.lol. p.s. I have seen Roger Waters twice with "In the Flesh" and "The Wall".And you are right.The Wall was OTT good.
Steve Foster Thanks for that comment. I turned my fifteen year old daughter on to Floyd and she is a huge fan. We went to see Britt Floyd and she was hypnotized. I wish she could have seen the real Floyd.
The best comment I saw on another channel describes Pink Floyd perfectly: “you don’t need drugs to appreciate Pink Floyd, you need Pink Floyd to appreciate drugs”.
I got bored once I become an adult. Except the geniously Piper at the Gate of Dawn I feel PF sooo boring since I discovered Caravan, Gong, King Crimson, Kevin Ayers.
I was at this concert! One of the most amazing experiences of my life. Was so loud and yet the sound was so perfect. The atmosphere, the performance, the..... everything! Unbeleivable!
I know, right!? Most concerts are too loud.. this one was louder, but so so so so clear and present. The bass guitar shook my bones and Gilmour lifted my soul. Out of body experience.
It's been a while, but depending where you were sat, you might have seen the sound set up. 3 banks of speakers across the back 3rd and one each down the sides, rather than at the stage pointing front. The flags in the ceiling weren't flags, but solid barriers designed to deflect the sound. I read somewhere it was a unique design due to the age and design of Earls Court. Was there myself, and always good to read others experience of this masterpiece.
@@kopman70 I was there myself, on the left of the control booth, as I understand it the stage and the giant arch were custom made for Earl's Court and only just fitted with about an inch to spare, unforgettable experience.
@@kennethcurtis6648 the mirror ball was, it's got a couple of pages in the programmer. I think you're right about the arch/set design too, it's what makes the concerts unique. I believe the 2 lasers used were also the first of their kind. We were indeed blessed.
@@kopman70 I was there, too! When the mirror ball bounced the light off it, the whole stadium looked like a newspaper...so lit up! I was on the floor on theright side about 25 rows deep.
Awesome buddy, I only wish I was there to see them in 1994... not London, but Winnipeg on Canada Day. A mere handful of hours to the 25th anniversary of that rock show, the Pulse video is still my absolute favourite live film. 👍
When I was a child, i caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look, but it was gone. I can not put my finger on it now. The child has grown, the dream is gone. So brilliant. I relate to this more now than I did when I was 16. So bittersweet.
Arguably two of the best guitar solos of all time, neatly packaged into one song. Never gets old. 40ish years listening to this track and it still blows me away.
They came through my area on this tour and, for some reason, I skipped it. It would have been my fourth Pink Floyd concert. I saw this video for the first time about three years ago. It was, by far, the most moving performance I've ever seen....and it fills me with regret to think that I could have seen it live.
every time i hear people say "i wish i would have been there to see them live" i realize how lucky i was to see them 3 times. That song LIVE was life changing.
Saw them the same week that Dark Side of The Moon was released. No one in the crowd knew the songs, yet they were blown away hearing the songs for the first time live. it was almost a religious experience. What a show.
Saw the in Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (5000 seater) the day after DSOTM was released. You are correct. We were all blown away. A four hr concert with intermission at the 2 hour mark. Incredible!
Yep, you tell when someone is getting into Floyd, the eyes go closed, the head begins to sway, then the blank stare of what the hell just happened to me.
"I can't image what the energy must have been like actually being there..." Well, let me tell you. I was in the audience for Pink Floyd The Wall on the 8th of February 1980 in Los Angeles. I was 14 at the time. I was not suppose to be there. This was when Pink Floyd was at the height of their Glory and showmanship. It was a stunning performance and to this day one of the greatest non-family related experiences in my life. The band was still together back then and Gilmour, Mason and Waters were hitting on all cylinders. They spent hours spinning a story web with their music with a set design like no other seen for a rock group until then. When they played "Comfortably Numb", David Gilmour stepped back into the shadows and the next time we saw him, he was standing on TOP of the Wall set on a little platform. The stadium went dark and there was a single spot light that lit him up. That's where he played his solo from. You see them pay homage to that bit of history in the video you guys reacted to. Toward the end of the second solo, at about 10:30 in your video, they go down to just he single spot light on David, just like in LA 40 years ago. At 14 years old, probably a little messed up from a contact high, and freaking out about what my mother would say if she knew where I was, that on moment cemented my love of Rock 'n' Roll. The power of all those people in one spot on the planet, all there doing ONE thing (watching a master ply his craft) was magical. I'm saddened that my son may never see the likes of it in his lifetime. There are some amazing bands out there, but (with the exception of Van Halen) I've never seen one live that can rival the energy that flowed out of Pink Floyd and their fans that night. It was life changing.
I caught them in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 31, 1981. My 18th birthday. I grew up 3 hours west and my mom knew that Floyd was one of my favorite bands. When she found out about the show she bought 2 tickets for me and the girl I was dating. (She got together with the girl's parents and they all knew everything.) She gave me a birthday card that morning and told me I needed to call the girl before I opened the card. So, I called the girl and she said she wanted us to take a weekend road trip to Little Rock to go shopping as a specific store the next morning. She also told me that I was not allowed to open the card until we got to the big new shopping mall in Little Rock. It just turns out that the new mall was directly across the street from the arena. Only then was I allowed to open the envelope. When I pulled those tickets out of that card..... And I saw the date and location..... OH MY GAWD!!!!! That has to be just about the best birthday present I've ever heard of, and it was MINE!!! I've seen a lot of good shows in my life, but I don't think any have, or will ever top that one.
I think I just peed my pants a little reading this. But I did see VH, 1980 Invasion tour, Ozzy, '80 and '82. Many others but those were the highlights. Damn, I missed Crue when they came through. I think they had to cancel or something.
I saw the Rogerless Floyd in 88 and 94 and I've seen Roger do his Wall show twice. All awesome concerts but I would love to have seen the original band performing it.
I was at that concert too...Your description is perfect, a truly magical unforgettable experience! Joints were being passed in every direction, and it felt like the entire venue, The Forum, was going to just float away, with all of us along for the ride...Never forgot that night...
Analysing Comfortably Numb without the context of the songs that came before is very difficult I'd think. Never mind doing it without seeing the film or reading Roger Waters comments on the album.
David Gilmour was asked to join the band as an extra bandmember. He was a friend of Syd and they hoped he would get Syd back on track as he would hardly show up for gigs any more or only do one chord the whole show. Too much LSD. But to no avail and David became the fulltime replacement.
Double treat, if you can take it: watch this song played at the Pompeii concert, live, 2016, here on TH-cam. Too much of a good thing? Glad music doesn't have calories!
Well, there is an old saying, and this performance perfectly shows why, and it goes "Leo Fender created the Stratocaster and God created David Gilmour to play it." (with all due respect to Jimi, Eric, Ritchie, Rory, SRV etc)
I’ve never heard that saying, but now that I have, I couldn’t agree more! Like so much of his guitar work gifted to us throughout his career, that legendary masterpiece of guitar composition in Comfortably Numb originated in and flowed thru David and exited thru that Strat like a living thing! David together with the Strat are ONE INSTRUMENT. Gilmour’s guitar is nothing without him, but with the touch of the master’s hand it produces colors and feelings seen and felt no where else in the world of art and music. David Gilmour and his guitar are indeed a gift of God to mankind. Long live the Master and King of the Stratocaster 🎸 Thank you David for all the years and all the emotion evoking masterpieces of melody and music that you’ve given us. There will never be another like you. -Randall
Truly. ..their creativity is beyond many if not all bands. .but with something more to it..Gilmour handling of the lead. .Mark knopfler is a bit behind. .not far..
A pink Floyd fans will surely appreciate dire straits. .but pink Floyd is ahead since dark side of the moon. .to this day..try dire straits shivannah..
I saw this tour when it came to my city. The video doesn't do justice to how insanely epic this was. When that giant disco ball comes out at the end the whole stadium is flooded in swimming lights and to this day is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
I´m 51 years old and one thing I regret in my life is that If never seen them live. Unfortunately I´m a "late fan". the video of the whole concert is amazing. I´m impressed only from the video. But I think I can imagine that the live experience is much much better. I must admit I´m reallly jaelous :-)
I saw that show as well. Was a religious experience. Still vividly remember it all these years later, especially this song when that big ball opened up and started spinning as the 2nd solo crescendo was happening...just awesome...
The second time I saw the Pink Floyd was at Oakland Coliseum for PULSE. Towards the end of the show was a very light misty rain - the visuals were spectacular. The first time I got to see them live was at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento - The Delicate Sound Of Thunder tour - Fan-Flippin'-Tastic!!!
Amen. I have seen reviwers criticizing the crowd for not standing and being rowdy...but that's not the way Floyd concerts are. You are mellow and sit back watching in awe.
I'm lucky enough to have seen the Wall live two years running 1980/81 at Earl's court, London and five other times from 89-94 in various locations including Paris and Germany and three other times in London. Greatest musical and visual experience of my life
One of the largest selling albums ever.... One of the most toured shows ever. One of the most famous songs from one of the most famous bands ever... Yet 100 million TH-camrs have never friggin' heard it. Right.
I actually have sleep on this song both times I visited Pink Floyd Discography, I do love stuff like On the Turning Way, some of their instrumentals, but this song always feelt subpar to me, probably really didnt have good enough equippment to experience it, but now with M50x I plan to revisit for a third time the whole discography.
You forget - they listen to streaming music based on their preferences - they never get to hear NEW stuff cosen by a radio DJ or something. It is totally possible to end up in a world where only 20 artists exist - its the problem with algorithms
I WAS THERE! 😎 The applause when the glitterball was lit up was a reaction to something that doesn’t even come close on video. Every member of the audience were suddenly bathed in little but bright light beams. The whole show was amazing, but that is the point that was the best for me. The music had reached up to a crescendo and then that happens! Emotional? I still cry with pleasure now.
it was a great night glad I was there I've seen then 7 times I was at Earles court for the Wall but I think Knebworth was one of the best my mate and I dropped their gong helping then pack up after a gig at Lancaster University
Michael Vigil their both so great, I don't like to compare this cause it's really nit picking cause both are epic. I'm gonna have to go over both again to try and understand why I like one better than the other. With Pulse the emotion just felt so strong to me. Why do you like the other more? Really curious, would appreciate it bruh🤘
Brilliant to see the magic being passed down through the generations. Your daughter will be forever thankful her old man was cool enough to be into Pink Floyd.
You have to listen to the whole album, The Wall. Pink Floyd was an album maker. Every album was written to be listened to in succession. Listen to their music. Every album tells a story. Great job guys!
I remember that the music of that time was our medium of communications just like the internet is today. We listened to the album. Read the lyrics on the jacket. And tried to make sense of an insane world. But we knew we didn't want anybody telling us what to do and how to think. It was magical. But really only for a very short time. This the current generation hasn't got a grip on thinking for themselves yet. Pink Floyd was too grown up for me. I was a stones, doors, and jimi fan.
Saw their last tour. The Division Bell tour. This song was amazing the pyrotechnics were amazing. Literally you could get a "second hand 'high', just from being in in an open air stadium. Take a hit... pass it down
It's so refreshing to see someone like her, being a "rap teen", close her eyes and actually feel the music. This is what music was meant to be, felt and heard at the same time.
That's right. Plus Roger Warters vocal is much higher than Gilmour's. A little research would be needed before recording reaction video with such a classic song!!!
@@maciejsnitkowski6685 I think he's referring to the fact that David's voice is more smooth and angelic. Something you would hear in a choir. Opposite of Roger.
Also, why don't you let your daughter respond to the song, rather than forcing it down her throat. Look at her reactions....she's bored sick with this schtick.
And yes, after 43 years this song still gets me, gives me chills. THAT’S the definition of classic rock. Syd Barrett was the heart and soul of Pink Floyd when they formed. There are different stories about why he left: mental health, addiction… I just recently watched a video where they claimed he simply just wasn’t interested in being a rock star and all the trappings of success. I think I’ll subscribe to that version :-) He certainly was a complex individual.
I have a doc re: PF--either Gilmour or Waters remembers Syd getting into drugs--ESP acid) and they claim that over ONE WEEKEND he used so much that he "never came back "--I've heard he had underling mental illness and drugs heaped on top of that is a sure ticket to oblivion, so I wouldn't doubt this is true
The lyrics were inspired by Waters's experience of being injected with tranquilizers for stomach cramps before a Pink Floyd show in Philadelphia on the 1977 In the Flesh Tour.[6][7] "That was the longest two hours of my life," Waters said, "trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm." The song had the working title "The Doctor"
@@mikewagner7041 Lots of articles and web pages out there about song meanings. Gilmour wrote the music for his solo album and brought it to Floyd when they were working on the wall. The first verse is Waters remembering a time in his childhood when he had the flu and the feeling of delirium he had. Then later before the show in Philadelphia, he was sick and what warren elkins says above is the 2nd verse, "Now I've got that feeling once again, I can't explain, you would not understand, this is not how I am." Reference to having that same feeling as a child when he was delirious with the flu. It transforms perfectly in the scene in the movie The Wall when pink is wacked out on drugs. The movie which came is why there is misinterpretation of the song being about drugs.
@@mrodg88 ive seen the wall multiple times love it. I guess I took a different interpretation of the movie and the lyrics. Sometimes can be difficult to find the real reason behind a song because people think different things. Thank you for the info though now more to think about.
If your daughter were not being recorded she would have had her eyes closed for 95% of this video. Love how ya both enjoyed this song. I introduced my children early on in their lives to Pink Floyd. Thanks for sharing folks.
Pink Floyd’s writing, arrangements, creativity, vocals, instrumental and technical capabilities combined to make this album, “Dark Side of the Moon” a masterpiece of rock music. Every song on the album is one continuous story about former band member, Sid Gilmore’s decent into madness. Sid was clinically diagnosed as being insane. The song Comfortably Numb is a master piece and David Gilmore’s solos in this song are regarded as being unequaled in the history of rock music. Pink Floyd was far ahead of their time. Their music is timeless and it is just as relevant today as it was in their early years. Back in the seventies it took fifteen semis to haul all of Pink Floyds gear to a concert. It got to the point that their show grew so much that they only played at a handful of venues. Pink Floyd was not a rock show. It was an experience.
P.S. - It IS about "drugs" whether literally or figuratively (any panacea- food, sex, medication, attention... insert what makes you feel good here ...) The "show" is literal or figurative as well. The show is your life. About the song & me... When I was 5 I was very sick. My lungs collapsed and, i don't think I've told anyone but, I swear I ran into God (or he ran into me). I saw a brilliant glow in a color that I can't describe. I felt knowledge was given to me. Like it was given to me for a purpose (I know, cuckoo!) As I grew up, ya know, it diminished. I reasoned, "Oh I was sick, it didn't really happen." Then, it became a like a slow theft. Like society, rules, school, traditional midwest church chipped away rather than nurture. "When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown The dream is gone I have become comfortably numb" This literally happened to me. Unfortunately, I feel comfortably numb today. Working to find that kid again. ✌
Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb - The meaning Verse 1: Roger Waters Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home? Pink is completely out of it- he is drugged, enclosed inside himself and unable to function. He is needed to play the show, and the doctors are trying to get some sort of response out of his blank state. ‘Nod’ is a reference to dozing off when high on opiates (morphine, heroin, oxycodone etc). Come on, now, I hear you’re feeling down. Well I can ease your pain Get you on your feet again. Even though in the movie, Pink is unconscious and doesn’t respond to them trying to wake him, Rogers Waters is trying to get more out of him in the song. He makes it seem more like a doctor fixing someone’s actual pain problem, not an overdose. Relax. I’ll need some information first. Just the basic facts. Can you show me where it hurts? This doctor’s patter has a dual meeting - Pink’s hurt goes a lot deeper, and is largely internal and emotional, not physical. Chorus: David Gilmour There is no pain you are receding As the doctor goes on and on about easing Pink’s pain, Pink finally explains to him that he is not in pain but the opposite - at a somewhat peace. This is due to the fact that he is heavily drugged, as he goes on to explain the floating numbness he feels. This is the result of the wall - that’s exactly the problem: there is NO pain. He can’t feel anything. That’s why when the doctor says he knows his pain, Pink knows deep down he doesn’t since his problem is that there is no such pain. We see that the doctor is giving him some physical medicine so this might also refer to explaining there is no physical pain. A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. The world is dulled for Pink. In his perspective, everything is like some ephemereal distant ship’s smoke on the horizon, an image that is as enigmatic as it is eloquent. Many take the line about the ship as a description of the outside world, assuming that theYou (the doctor / the world) of the previous line is still the subject here. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying. The world is dulled for Pink. In his perspective, everything is like some ephemereal distant ship’s smoke on the horizon, an image that is as enigmatic as it is eloquent. Many take the line about the ship as a description of the outside world, assuming that theYou (the doctor / the world) of the previous line is still the subject here. When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons. His hands are swollen from an unknown illness. In the video, you can see him playing with a rat, leading us to believe that is the source of the illness. Now I’ve got that feeling once again “That feeling” is inspired by an illness Roger Waters had when he was young. I can’t explain you would not understand It would be hard for Pink to explain an experience that not many people have came across and could relate to. This is not how I am. He claims he’s not usually like this, but in reality he’s lying/being ironic, for he IS usually like this. He’s been building the wall his whole life, distancing himself from the world around him, and so on. This line may also signify that he could be so much more, he IS so much more, if only he wasn’t crippled by his depression and antisocial attitude. He had an almost normal upbringing and was actually functional until he just broke down and ceased to exist basically. I have become comfortably numb. The comfortable numbness can refer to his emotional state at this point in the album- he has gone from feeling lonely and in pain to simply numb, with a hazy division between himself and the world. This whole song is actually based on a true story from when Roger got sick (from hepatitis which was undiagnosed prior to the concert) before his show in Philadelphia in 1977. The Doctor injected him with some form of tranquilizer to enable him to perform the show. These tranquilizers made him feel ‘comfortably numb.’ Guitar Solo 1 I have become comfortably numb Verse 2: Roger Waters O.K. Just a little pinprick. The injection. The needle being the pin. After this line is delivered in the song, you can faintly hear a very delicate chime in the background, which symbolizes the injection in action. There’ll be no more aaaaaaaaah! But you may feel a little sick. The injection mentioned in the line earlier (likely a stimulant) is going to wake him up, but it won’t come without some side effects (“you may feel a little sick”). Also, the injection will remove the agonizing pain that his illness causes him. The “AHHHH” is the intense pain he is feeling, and “There’ll be no more” is the promise that after the “pin prick” the pain will be gone. Can you stand up? I do believe it’s working, good. That’ll keep you going through the show Come on it’s time to go. Pink is being administered meds in order to allow him to adjust properly and get him through the show, or his life, society, and relationships. which have become all a show to him. Society does not worry about the effects their meds have on pink, so long as they workfor their purpose: come on it’s time to go, they say. Chorus: David Gilmour There is no pain you are receding As the doctor goes on and on about easing Pink’s pain, Pink finally explains to him that he is not in pain but the opposite - at a somewhat peace. This is due to the fact that he is heavily drugged, as he goes on to explain the floating numbness he feels. This is the result of the wall - that’s exactly the problem: there is NO pain. He can’t feel anything. That’s why when the doctor says he knows his pain, Pink knows deep down he doesn’t since his problem is that there is no such pain. We see that the doctor is giving him some physical medicine so this might also refer to explaining there is no physical pain. A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. The world is dulled for Pink. In his perspective, everything is like some ephemereal distant ship’s smoke on the horizon, an image that is as enigmatic as it is eloquent. Many take the line about the ship as a description of the outside world, assuming that theYou (the doctor / the world) of the previous line is still the subject here. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying. As he’s sitting there, he drifts in and out of his conscious mind, someone is trying to talk to him, he can see that he’s talking, but he can’t hear what they’re saying. When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, The dream is gone. In some ways, Pink possibly took a glimpse in the future. This is also subtly said in the movie adaption of the same name. These lines mean that the future Pink caught a glimpse on is not the future he will face (or is facing). Instead, he is living a life of pain, far from achieving his own dreams. “The child is grown / The dream is gone” confirms this idea, for the life he had imagined when he was young is gone. All the negative actions mentioned throught the album (criticism, humiliation, death and more important drug addiction) are not the future Pink wanted. However, it’s not too late to change: the future is no longer a distant dream, but the reality, and the narrator can’t simply put a finger on it and ignore it, but has to realise he is grown and has to change not his future but his present. And i… have become comfortably numb. Guitar solo 2
The story of Comfortably Numb Dave Gilmour wrote most of the music while he was working on a solo album in 1978. He brought it to The Wall sessions and Waters wrote lyrics for it. Gilmour believes this song can be divided into two sections: dark and light. The light are the parts that begin “When I was a child…,” which Gilmour sings. The dark are the “Hello, is there anybody in there” parts, which are sung by Waters. This was the last song Waters and Gilmour wrote together. In 1986 Waters left the band and felt there should be no Pink Floyd without him. Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality. He told Mojomagazine (December 2009) that the lines, “When I was a child I had a fever/My hands felt just like two balloons” were autobiographical. He explained: “I remember having the flu or something, an infection with a temperature of 105 and being delirious. It wasn’t like the hands looked like balloons, but they looked way too big, frightening. A lot of people think those lines are about masturbation. God knows why.” Mojo asked Waters about the line, “That’ll keep you going through the show,” referring to getting medicated before going on-stage. He explained: “That comes from a specific show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia (June 29, 1977). I had stomach cramps so bad that I thought I wasn’t able to go on. A doctor backstage gave me a shot of something that I swear to God would have killed a f-ing elephant. I did the whole show hardly able to raise my hand above my knee. He said it was a muscular relaxant. But it rendered me almost insensible. It was so bad that at the end of the show, the audience was baying for more. I couldn’t do it. They did the encore about me.” A confirmation about this was in a radio interview around 1980 with Jim Ladd from KLOS in Los Angeles, Waters said that part of the song is about the time he got hepatitis but didn’t know it. Pink Floyd had to do a show that night in Philadelphia, and the doctor Roger saw gave him a sedative to help the pain, thinking it was a stomach disorder. At the show, Roger’s hands were numb “like two toy balloons.” He was unable to focus, but also realized the fans didn’t care because they were so busy screaming, hence “comfortably” numb. He said most of The Wall is about alienation between the audience and band. Waters and Gilmour had an argument over which version of this to use on the album. They ended up editing two takes together as a compromise. Dave Gilmour said in Guitar World February 1993: “Well, there were two recordings of that, which me and Roger argued about. I’d written it when I was doing my first solo album [David Gilmour, 1978]. We changed the key of the song’s opening the E to B, I think. The verse stayed exactly the same. Then we had to add a little bit, because Roger wanted to do the line, ‘I have become comfortably numb.’ Other than that, it was very, very simple to write. But the arguments on it were about how it should be mixed and which track we should use. We’d done one track with Nick Mason an drums that I thought was too rough and sloppy. We had another go at it and I thought that the second take was better. Roger disagreed. It was more an ego thing than anything else. We really went head to head with each other over such a minor thing. I probably couldn’t tell the difference if you put both versions on a record today. But, anyway, it wound up with us taking a fill out of one version and putting it into another version.” "Comfortably Numb in the movie" In the movie The Wall, this plays in a scene where the main character, a rock star named “Pink,” loses his mind and enters a catatonic state before a show. A large group consisting of Pink’s manager (Bob Hoskins), the hotel manager (Michael Ensign), paramedics, and roadies burst into Pink’s trashed hotel room, to find an unconscious Pink sitting in a chair. As the paramedics try to revive Pink, his manager berates him, complaining about how he never liked him. The hotel manager does not take kindly to Pink’s destruction of the room, but Pink’s manager insists that “he’s an artist”, and eventually resorts to stuffing cash into the hotel manager’s pockets. After injecting a drug into Pink’s arm, the paramedics drag Pink out of the hotel and to his limousine. He is then transported to a concert where he was scheduled to play. Flashbacks of Pink’s childhood are inter-cut into the scene. In the flashback, a young Pink finds a wild rat and shows it to his overprotective mother. Her negative reaction towards the rodent causes Pink to hide the rat in a nearby shed. Pink later catches a fever that keeps him bed-ridden for some time. After he recovers, Pink returns to the shed only to find that the rat has died in his absence. Pink dumps its lifeless body in a nearby river. As he is dragged through the halls of the hotel towards a waiting limousine, the drug causes Pink to hallucinate that his body is developing into a hideous, bulbous pink shell. He dreams of injured (or perhaps dead) soldiers attempting to give him back his deceased rat. Upon being pushed into the limousine, Pink tears off his diseased shell to reveal himself in Nazi-like military attire, and now appears very clean, alert, and in control of his surroundings. The mix of “Comfortably Numb” in the film is very much the same as the album version, except that Richard Wright’s organ before David Gilmour’s final solo is removed, the bass guitar is more prominent, and Pink’s screams (as performed by Roger Waters) are mixed in, as he claws his way out of his shell. In a weird way it was similar to what Syd Barrett, an original member of the band, went through in 1968 when he became mentally ill and was kicked out of the band. The song is the final step in Pink’s (Roger Water’s) transformation into the Neo-Nazi, fascist character you see in the movie The Wall. Medics and the band manager come in and give Pink a shot to pull him out of his catatonic stupor, the manager pays protesting Meds some cash to shut up and let him take Pink to the concert in the state he’s in (obviously a threat to his health, but the Meds, who probably don’t make enough money, accept). In the movie Pink begins to melt on the way there, and underneath he finds that he is the cruel, fascist model of a Nazi party representative by the time he arrives at the concert. Supporting this, afterwards are the songs “The Show Must Go On” (Pink realizing as he gets to the show that there isn’t really any turning back, and he’s forced to go on-stage), “In the Flesh II” (the redone version of the first song on the album, now with Nazi-Pink singing, threatening random minorities), and “Run Like Hell” (after the crowd, loving nazi-Pink, has been whipped into a frenzy, now hunting minorities in the street, much like late 1930 Germany). While it does seem that this is a song about the “joy of heroin,” it has little, if any connection to heroin even if it’s condition resembles that of somebody who’s totally wasted.
Y’all wanna hear the craziest thing?? My family has a beautiful sweet english mastiff (we never had a mastiff before, had absolutely no idea how smart they are) So we brought her home from the breeder at 11 weeks old and she began hanging out with me when certain albums were on * (I have music playing in my room ~ 80% of the time.) * It took me awhile (duh) to notice she has a definitive preference: Whenever I play Pink Floyd, no matter where she is in the house, she comes to my room and rests on front of a speaker for the entirety of their albums 😆!!! Five years later nothing has changed she still loves Pink Floyd...( 😳!) Hilarious, beautiful and incredible to every one who sees this!!
Everyone (correctly) always marvels about the beautiful guitar solo, but almost nobody comments on the incredible light show that Pink Floyd is famous for. It wouldn't be the same without it.
Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality.
@@void4256 The chorus progression and guitar solos were written by guitarist David Gilmour, while the lyrics and verse progression were written by bassist Roger Waters. Sry dude... Do your PF homework..
When I was a child I had my tonsils out. They gave me ether. They put a cloth over your nose and mouth and drip the liquid onto it. Strangest experience ever. Saw ships with smoking stacks on the far horizon just like he describes. The atmosphere was full of static and there was a stench. Getting high on ether does NOT work. I was only 4, but I remember that perfectly.
Listening to Floyd on acid or shrooms is a completely different experience. But that's all in the past now. You really need to do a full album reaction to appreciate the true artistry. Just listening to One song from the middle of the album is like walking into the middle of a conversation, you miss so much of it.
I listened to Floyd for years before I actually understood that, and it wasn't until I watched The Wall whilst a little bit over the influence, that it really hit me, that everything they did flowed into everything else, then I went back and listened to every album again and had my mind blown and became a real fan.
@@geraldherrmann787 Indeed, the greatest melodic guitar soloist ever... Also I was surprised they found a version of this performance that wasn't edited ro shorten the solo, almost as good as Pompeii.
When THE guitar solo (the GOAT solo!!) starts, you can tell the Metal Dad knows what is coming. But I love the Rap Teen's comment during the first solo. This IS music you can feel in your bones. But it also moves your soul and makes your heart weep with joy.
Very important song for me, I had a similar experience when i was 21 getting diagnosed with Type 1 with a 970 glucose level. Comfortably Numb helped me during that time i give it 200 Tomatoes.
David Gilmour know when not to play a note. Less is more. And this is the ultimate version. The David Gilmour solo version with Crosby and Nash and David Bowie from the Remember That Night is great too.
The song comfortable numb is about Sid Barrett who was the original guitar player for pink Floyd who had a mental break down.The song is a dedicated to Sid and founder of Pink Floyd
Folks, listen to the lyrics again!! "The child is grown, the dream is gone and I've become comfortably numb." That deals with far more than only a drug-induced worldview. I can't tell you how many adults I've known who, when they were younger, had aspirations (dreams) about what they could accomplish in life. Then later, even years later, they had given up on those high hopes and settled, instead, for being another cog in the machine. So "Have a Cigar" and "Welcome to the Machine," that kind of thing. Metal Dad, I thought you would have known this!! Their commentary on this aspect of life was preceded by "Us and Them" along with "Time" on DARK SIDE OF THE MOON and by "High Hopes" on THE DIVISION BELL, among others. How fortunate us Pink Floyd fans are that they were not content with instrumentals only, which are extraordinary. They also made sure that some of their lyrics made us think... at least those willing to. As the poet Ian Anderson said in Thick as a Brick... "I may make you feel, but I cant't make you think." Feeling (using emotion only) is child's play. Thinking is another journey altogether. Thanks for posting!!!
“The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.” ― Thomas Sowell
I'm a blessed man. I was able to see them on this tour. Awesome show! Columbus Ohio, devision bell. No one bends strings on a strat quite like David Gillmor
"I cannot put my finger on it now, the child is gone, the dream is gone..." the BEST line in ALL of music in the history of the universe... maybe ever...
Gilmore's 2nd solos is epic, historical, maybe the best ever laid down. So, so much emotion! The entire song is a masterpiece. If you don't get a lump in your throat or misty eyed, if not outright crying by the end, you were born without a soul.
His daughter wld never admit it, but I think this song, live, had an impact on her.As she gains life experiences+ matures, it will mean more. She needs that cool personna now. She'll eventually reach a point where impressing others won't b as important.
David Gilmore RULES!!! *He just donated 120....120 of his guitars to be auctioned for his charity....including the original Fender Strat that he originally played for this song. You must do more Floyd!! Thank you!!!!
Well if he made a deal with the devil he got one Hell of a deal, because the devil is the second-most petty and powerless of all the fictional characters in the Bible (second only to the elohim), but Gilmore's guitar skills are both legendary and real. Gilmore is a real-life demigod and his miracles actually exist.
One band and performance that gets overlooked is Santana’s “Soul Sacrifice” from Woodstock. It’s an instrumental, but absolutely amazing. Please do a reaction to that song.
It was a mesmerizing experience being there, I was standing up and my legs began to wobble and I had to sit down, David Gilmour literally knocked me down
Hey dad! I am so impressed that you are exposing your child(ren) to music that is not in the main stream play list. I have done the same and the results have been richly rewarding. Keep it up. Thumbs up. So proud of you.
I wanted to say thank you, Juliette (hope I spelt that right) Your phrase "The kind of music you feel moving through your bones" Those are the words I've been looking for, to explain how I feel about music. At the start of lockdown, I did the 10 Album thing, the I went on and did 10 windband and orchestral peices and now im continuing with other music. I was tryingto explain how I feel when the music takes me over, that disconnected feel when its in yuour head and nothing else matters. Thank you
I, and I think everyone came for the Pink Floyd reaction. No one on this planet can resist goosebumps nor appreciate Pink Floyd enough. Not one person. Best guitar solo ever performed by Man. If God had to pass on his power and name, he'd give that place to David Gilmore.
Pink Floyd actually started in 1965, and their first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was released in 1967. This song is from their album The Wall released in 1979. David Gilmour’s 2 solo’s in this song are absolutely perfect. Not sure what it is about David Gilmour’s solo’s but they reach down inside to my soul. One of my top 3 favorite guitarists in rock.
The Wall was released in DECEMBER of 1979 and is the number one selling album for the entire decade of the 70s WOW 23,000,000 copies--beat out Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
@@Iced-Rockin-Man Luckily no. We were driving down to London to stay in a hotel and had tickets for 2nd night. On the way down we heard on the radio about the seating collapse on the opening night and were worried that our show would also be cancelled. Thankfully it wasn't!
I was at this actual gig! (even though it ran for 2 weeks at Earl's Court) As we walked up the stairs there was signs up telling us the show was being filmed by BBC. Two weeks later it was aired on BBC2. I took my wife to it and it's been the best gig of my life and I've been to many gigs.
Recommended? 💗ABSOLUTELY 💗 Pink Floyd has been my favorite band since I was 14 when "The Wall" came out. I'm 54 now & I still listen to them almost daily while working around the house. If you haven't yet reacted to "The Great Gig in the Sky" from "Dark Side of the Moon", I highly recommend it 💗
Such a sight, you two - You are so sweet together, and to see your impressions and opinions mingle, break and elevate, without battling for rank, is so fun and life confirming. I am smiling here - Thx!
Not even talking about the music, you have to understand how awesome looking the show was - it might look like a regular large gig now but in 1994 shows did NOT look like this, it was absolutely mind blowing. That amount of moving lights had never been put together before - they'd only recently been developed. Look at a vid of a 'normal' gig of that era and see how boring it is. Even today that would be a major gig to set up.
Thanks for checking out this video! Even as a metalhead, you can't not be affected by this performance! What did you think of our video? What would you like us to react to next?
Suicide silence no pity for a coward
Or thy art is murder holy war
Im thinking you guys should check out For the Love of God from Steve Vai. Its an instrumental thats crazy.
Dio - The Last In Line
Bloody Angel by Avatar would be an amazing reaction great song with a good video to add to it
The second solo of this song is one of mankind's greatest achievements .
I can't play guitar but if I could it'd be that one
Armando, hands down the best description of the solo I have ever heard. Some guitarist play the guitar with soul. Gilmour gave the Strat a soul.
Agreed
Omg the whole song is god's greatest creation
The 8th wonder of the world
You made the right decision, sir. Never, ever interrupt a David Gilmour solo!
That's right.
of all the reactions I've watched and listened to this masterpiece, everyone uses the word "emotion".
DW R finally someone in the comments who is intelligent
Never, ever interrupt a Pink Floyd song AT ALL!!
We remember all of the solos from our youths. Bet you remember the solo to Purple Rain..
“This is the kind of music you can feel moving through your bones”
OMG YES! She gets it. There is hope for the future.
Yes! It's music from the past that gives us hope for the future!!
Hopefully!!!!
It's the abundance and volume of the bass!
Man created Fender Guitars, God gave us David Gilmour to play them.
And God also gave us Jimi Hendrix to taunt all those that have come since and picked up a fender
SRV is the real fender bender
By "god" you of course means his mother and father.
And idiots keeps pretending that this is the first time they hear the song...for money. And here we are..
@@tomrobinson4765 Tony ts mcphee taught hendrex to get the best out of the wah wah pedal also randy california played a part in jimi progressing with his style, ain't taking nothing away from Hendrix he's still up there in the top three ever to have played a fender in my lifetime and I'm 68
Damned good parenting there dad! Introducing your kids to Floyd is what responsible parents should be doing.
I can beat that. I took my daughter to see The Wall for her 13th birthday in 2012. She sang every song.
@@9012505 Raised her right.My son took me to see Black Sabbath for my birthday.
@@Z4Zander Not only was it her 13th birthday, but it was her first concert. Roger Waters set the bar quite high.
Black Sabbath must have been a good one.
@@9012505 Being in the mosh pit at 64yr old was a bit of a task but worth it.At least I was looking fresher than Ozzy.Thought they might have to bring a crash cart out for him.lol.
p.s. I have seen Roger Waters twice with "In the Flesh" and "The Wall".And you are right.The Wall was OTT good.
Steve Foster Thanks for that comment. I turned my fifteen year old daughter on to Floyd and she is a huge fan. We went to see Britt Floyd and she was hypnotized. I wish she could have seen the real Floyd.
Gilmour's second solo is one of mankind's greatest achievements.
The best comment I saw on another channel describes Pink Floyd perfectly: “you don’t need drugs to appreciate Pink Floyd, you need Pink Floyd to appreciate drugs”.
yeah, I think the same
What a great fucking quote.
i say YES too both-cheers!!
Beautiful man
I always thought so.
If this song had been placed on the Voyager craft. We would have had Alien contact decades ago.
Brilliant!
They would come to learn of the musician genius and guitar virtuosity of David Gilmour....
I'm so going to plagiarize that comment. Love a line that so perfectly captures the awesomeness of this track.
Rodger Waters isn’t part of this lineup. David Gilmour has the rights to the Pink Floyd name.
Send more Pink Floyd!
One minor correction, this song doesn't just travel through your bones, it travels through your soul.
Chuck: "David Gilmour!"
Juliette: "I can't hear you (aka Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying)"
LOL!
Nice.. nice...😉
Ha I see what you did there
@@mikewagner7041 Out of the corner of your eye? A fleeting glimpse?
@@Lightningrod75 touche good sir lol
It's fun to watch the Floydification of our youth. She'll never be the same.
Indeed.
So freakin true!!!!!
Social services need to be alerted, this child's mind has now been exposed to Floyd🤩
"It's the kind of music you can feel moving through your bones." She gets it.
One of the greatest songs ever.... i never get bored of listening to the Floyd.
I got bored once I become an adult. Except the geniously Piper at the Gate of Dawn I feel PF sooo boring since I discovered Caravan, Gong, King Crimson, Kevin Ayers.
There he goes, that David Gilmour, always bouncing musical notes off of distant mountains😍
I read "mountains" as "musicians" ..
I was at this concert! One of the most amazing experiences of my life. Was so loud and yet the sound was so perfect. The atmosphere, the performance, the..... everything! Unbeleivable!
I know, right!? Most concerts are too loud.. this one was louder, but so so so so clear and present. The bass guitar shook my bones and Gilmour lifted my soul. Out of body experience.
It's been a while, but depending where you were sat, you might have seen the sound set up.
3 banks of speakers across the back 3rd and one each down the sides, rather than at the stage pointing front.
The flags in the ceiling weren't flags, but solid barriers designed to deflect the sound.
I read somewhere it was a unique design due to the age and design of Earls Court.
Was there myself, and always good to read others experience of this masterpiece.
@@kopman70 I was there myself, on the left of the control booth, as I understand it the stage and the giant arch were custom made for Earl's Court and only just fitted with about an inch to spare, unforgettable experience.
@@kennethcurtis6648 the mirror ball was, it's got a couple of pages in the programmer. I think you're right about the arch/set design too, it's what makes the concerts unique. I believe the 2 lasers used were also the first of their kind. We were indeed blessed.
@@kopman70 I was there, too! When the mirror ball bounced the light off it, the whole stadium looked like a newspaper...so lit up! I was on the floor on theright side about 25 rows deep.
I was there,in London,1994.Earls Court.
I'm STILL coming down.
2005 LIVE 8 Floyd reunion hyde park was brilliant,i got lost but i was in an amazing place in my head
Same here, I went to 6 out of the 10 Earls Court shows. Luckily one of those I missed was the one where the temporary seating grandstand collapsed.
oh god yea i remember that awfull
Awesome buddy, I only wish I was there to see them in 1994... not London, but Winnipeg on Canada Day. A mere handful of hours to the 25th anniversary of that rock show, the Pulse video is still my absolute favourite live film. 👍
Wow, it fucked you up so bad that you support Man Utd! Mind altering stuff!
When I was a child, i caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look, but it was gone. I can not put my finger on it now. The child has grown, the dream is gone. So brilliant. I relate to this more now than I did when I was 16. So bittersweet.
Poetry in motion then.
The most poignant line in any song I know. Saw them live in 88. The best!
@@johnlocke1037 the delicate sound of thunder tour was probably one of the greatest tours in the history of music, my parents met at that show
Arguably two of the best guitar solos of all time, neatly packaged into one song. Never gets old. 40ish years listening to this track and it still blows me away.
I was lucky to be there. Nothing in my life has been better.
how was it, tell me the experience pls 🤩
They came through my area on this tour and, for some reason, I skipped it. It would have been my fourth Pink Floyd concert. I saw this video for the first time about three years ago. It was, by far, the most moving performance I've ever seen....and it fills me with regret to think that I could have seen it live.
@@jjohnston7837 I honestly wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing i could have gone to see this live but chose to skip it. that must hurt baddddd.
I saw Floyd in '86 at the old Cleveland Stadium before they tore it down to build the new one...great show...great times.
Saw the same show in New Orleans in 94. So glad I grew up in a time that I was able to see the Floyd live in concert.
every time i hear people say "i wish i would have been there to see them live" i realize how lucky i was to see them 3 times. That song LIVE was life changing.
Saw them the same week that Dark Side of The Moon was released. No one in the crowd knew the songs, yet they were blown away hearing the songs for the first time live. it was almost a religious experience. What a show.
Am I envious? Hell yeah!
Saw the in Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (5000 seater) the day after DSOTM was released. You are correct. We were all blown away. A four hr concert with intermission at the 2 hour mark. Incredible!
Yep, you tell when someone is getting into Floyd, the eyes go closed, the head begins to sway, then the blank stare of what the hell just happened to me.
Lol True that
Definitely....don't know why anyone felt you needed to be tripping on anything to fully experience it. The song IS the trip
Yep. While watching her, when her eyes finally closed, I said out loud, "aaaaand she's there."
@@ricksgamemisc10 yes! Exactly 😀
"I can't image what the energy must have been like actually being there..."
Well, let me tell you. I was in the audience for Pink Floyd The Wall on the 8th of February 1980 in Los Angeles. I was 14 at the time. I was not suppose to be there. This was when Pink Floyd was at the height of their Glory and showmanship. It was a stunning performance and to this day one of the greatest non-family related experiences in my life. The band was still together back then and Gilmour, Mason and Waters were hitting on all cylinders. They spent hours spinning a story web with their music with a set design like no other seen for a rock group until then. When they played "Comfortably Numb", David Gilmour stepped back into the shadows and the next time we saw him, he was standing on TOP of the Wall set on a little platform. The stadium went dark and there was a single spot light that lit him up. That's where he played his solo from. You see them pay homage to that bit of history in the video you guys reacted to. Toward the end of the second solo, at about 10:30 in your video, they go down to just he single spot light on David, just like in LA 40 years ago. At 14 years old, probably a little messed up from a contact high, and freaking out about what my mother would say if she knew where I was, that on moment cemented my love of Rock 'n' Roll. The power of all those people in one spot on the planet, all there doing ONE thing (watching a master ply his craft) was magical. I'm saddened that my son may never see the likes of it in his lifetime. There are some amazing bands out there, but (with the exception of Van Halen) I've never seen one live that can rival the energy that flowed out of Pink Floyd and their fans that night. It was life changing.
I caught them in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 31, 1981. My 18th birthday.
I grew up 3 hours west and my mom knew that Floyd was one of my favorite bands. When she found out about the show she bought 2 tickets for me and the girl I was dating. (She got together with the girl's parents and they all knew everything.) She gave me a birthday card that morning and told me I needed to call the girl before I opened the card.
So, I called the girl and she said she wanted us to take a weekend road trip to Little Rock to go shopping as a specific store the next morning. She also told me that I was not allowed to open the card until we got to the big new shopping mall in Little Rock.
It just turns out that the new mall was directly across the street from the arena.
Only then was I allowed to open the envelope.
When I pulled those tickets out of that card..... And I saw the date and location.....
OH MY GAWD!!!!!
That has to be just about the best birthday present I've ever heard of, and it was MINE!!!
I've seen a lot of good shows in my life, but I don't think any have, or will ever top that one.
I think I just peed my pants a little reading this. But I did see VH, 1980 Invasion tour, Ozzy, '80 and '82. Many others but those were the highlights. Damn, I missed Crue when they came through. I think they had to cancel or something.
I saw the Rogerless Floyd in 88 and 94 and I've seen Roger do his Wall show twice. All awesome concerts but I would love to have seen the original band performing it.
I was at that concert too...Your description is perfect, a truly magical unforgettable experience! Joints were being passed in every direction, and it felt like the entire venue, The Forum, was going to just float away, with all of us along for the ride...Never forgot that night...
You should react to the whole albums. Pink Floyd didn't write songs they wrote Albums.
Analysing Comfortably Numb without the context of the songs that came before is very difficult I'd think. Never mind doing it without seeing the film or reading Roger Waters comments on the album.
Definitely! In my top 5 albums!
I think Saucerful of Secrets is an album of songs. No less brilliant, though.
Very true! Each song led into the next. The whole album told a story!
Pink Floyd wrote masterpieces.
They didn’t start in 1970. They actually started in 1965.
But...they were dropping so much acid...they didn't *realize* they were a band...until...1970...whoaaaaaa...
@@jarvisfamily3837 ha!
The psychedelic era with Syd Barrett is often forgotten.
David Gilmour was asked to join the band as an extra bandmember. He was a friend of Syd and they hoped he would get Syd back on track as he would hardly show up for gigs any more or only do one chord the whole show. Too much LSD.
But to no avail and David became the fulltime replacement.
Yupp!! I started listening to Pink Floyd in 1969 and knew that they had been around for a couple of years at the time.
If this song doesn't touch your soul, it's because you don't have one...
Double treat, if you can take it: watch this song played at the Pompeii concert, live, 2016, here on TH-cam. Too much of a good thing? Glad music doesn't have calories!
Well, there is an old saying, and this performance perfectly shows why, and it goes "Leo Fender created the Stratocaster and God created David Gilmour to play it." (with all due respect to Jimi, Eric, Ritchie, Rory, SRV etc)
Amen brother.
I’ve never heard that saying, but now that I have, I couldn’t agree more! Like so much of his guitar work gifted to us throughout his career, that legendary masterpiece of guitar composition in Comfortably Numb originated in and flowed thru David and exited thru that Strat like a living thing! David together with the Strat are ONE INSTRUMENT. Gilmour’s guitar is nothing without him, but with the touch of the master’s hand it produces colors and feelings seen and felt no where else in the world of art and music. David Gilmour and his guitar are indeed a gift of God to mankind. Long live the Master and King of the Stratocaster 🎸
Thank you David for all the years and all the emotion evoking masterpieces of melody and music that you’ve given us. There will never be another like you.
-Randall
More than any other player he knows how to just let notes ring rather than blister through them all too damn fast.
He does make it sound absolutely beautiful/strong and many other adjectives
@@DubLubb aka page...
One can`t be a lover of music and not appreciate Pink Floyd. Period.
Hi monica..truly. .I have been a pink Floyd's fan since the early 90s..animals. .dark side..wall..n all..
He: Have you heard Pink Floyd. Her: I don't think so. Oh this will be fun.
Truly. ..their creativity is beyond many if not all bands. .but with something more to it..Gilmour handling of the lead. .Mark knopfler is a bit behind. .not far..
A pink Floyd fans will surely appreciate dire straits. .but pink Floyd is ahead since dark side of the moon. .to this day..try dire straits shivannah..
@@azmiadamji5411 oh yeah Dire Straits is an awesome band! Music I grew up with😊😊
I saw this tour when it came to my city. The video doesn't do justice to how insanely epic this was. When that giant disco ball comes out at the end the whole stadium is flooded in swimming lights and to this day is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
I´m 51 years old and one thing I regret in my life is that If never seen them live. Unfortunately I´m a "late fan". the video of the whole concert is amazing. I´m impressed only from the video. But I think I can imagine that the live experience is much much better. I must admit I´m reallly jaelous :-)
I saw that show as well. Was a religious experience. Still vividly remember it all these years later, especially this song when that big ball opened up and started spinning as the 2nd solo crescendo was happening...just awesome...
I saw it in Clemson stadium 1994. Otherworldly is all I can say. Ive never seen another concert that could rival the Division Bell tour 94'
The second time I saw the Pink Floyd was at Oakland Coliseum for PULSE. Towards the end of the show was a very light misty rain - the visuals were spectacular.
The first time I got to see them live was at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento - The Delicate Sound Of Thunder tour - Fan-Flippin'-Tastic!!!
I saw them in London in 1994, absolutely amazing!!!!!!!
Floyd formed back in 1965. Been blowing minds ever since. And I have been to 2 of their concerts. It is a spiritual experience.
It's time to aboard the ship .
1986 they split or rather roger left.
Amen. I have seen reviwers criticizing the crowd for not standing and being rowdy...but that's not the way Floyd concerts are. You are mellow and sit back watching in awe.
Technically "Pink Floyd" came into existence in 1968. Before that that'd be Sigma 6.
I'm lucky enough to have seen the Wall live two years running 1980/81 at Earl's court, London and five other times from 89-94 in various locations including Paris and Germany and three other times in London. Greatest musical and visual experience of my life
"The David Gilmour Guitar Collection" - brought in a total of $21,490,750, with all proceeds benefiting Client Earth. Shine on you crazy diamond
Their emotion to this music is like mine and I’m 78. My emotions for Pink Floyd have never altered.
Ditto and I am 70
Oh god im 198
@@sahandnasiri3185 Must have attended Mozart's concert
One of the largest selling albums ever.... One of the most toured shows ever. One of the most famous songs from one of the most famous bands ever... Yet 100 million TH-camrs have never friggin' heard it. Right.
Lol Right?!
I actually have sleep on this song both times I visited Pink Floyd Discography, I do love stuff like On the Turning Way, some of their instrumentals, but this song always feelt subpar to me, probably really didnt have good enough equippment to experience it, but now with M50x I plan to revisit for a third time the whole discography.
I lot of them haven’t. Believe me.
You forget - they listen to streaming music based on their preferences - they never get to hear NEW stuff cosen by a radio DJ or something.
It is totally possible to end up in a world where only 20 artists exist - its the problem with algorithms
@@piccalillipit9211 Theguy on the left is old enough to remember albums and radio...but good point
That girl nailed it" moving through your bones"
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH THAT
I WAS THERE! 😎 The applause when the glitterball was lit up was a reaction to something that doesn’t even come close on video. Every member of the audience were suddenly bathed in little but bright light beams. The whole show was amazing, but that is the point that was the best for me. The music had reached up to a crescendo and then that happens! Emotional? I still cry with pleasure now.
I too was there and you are spot on. That moment is engraved on my memory.
1987 in Indianapolis. I was there too. An unforgettable experience
Me to m8,I rember saying to my m8"wer the f**K did that come from" wot a night 🎸
it was a great night glad I was there I've seen then 7 times I was at Earles court for the Wall but I think Knebworth was one of the best my mate and I dropped their gong helping then pack up after a gig at Lancaster University
There's a debate on which Comfortably Numb solo is better Pulse or Pompeii, imo I'm going with Pulse.
Comfortably Numb has by far one of the best guitar solos ever written
I'd say pulse, aslo.
Emma Heard I swear Gilmour has more emotion in one guitar note than most guitarists have with the entire fretboard.
Pompeii imo, although pulse is spectacular as well
Michael Vigil their both so great, I don't like to compare this cause it's really nit picking cause both are epic. I'm gonna have to go over both again to try and understand why I like one better than the other. With Pulse the emotion just felt so strong to me. Why do you like the other more? Really curious, would appreciate it bruh🤘
Brilliant to see the magic being passed down through the generations. Your daughter will be forever thankful her old man was cool enough to be into Pink Floyd.
You have to listen to the whole album, The Wall.
Pink Floyd was an album maker. Every album was written to be listened to in succession. Listen to their music. Every album tells a story. Great job guys!
Then watch the movie blew my mind hopefully finish my Wall tattoo eventually
Mike that's what I was gonna say.....watch the movie....awesome 👍
I remember that the music of that time was our medium of communications just like the internet is today. We listened to the album. Read the lyrics on the jacket. And tried to make sense of an insane world. But we knew we didn't want anybody telling us what to do and how to think. It was magical. But really only for a very short time. This the current generation hasn't got a grip on thinking for themselves yet. Pink Floyd was too grown up for me. I was a stones, doors, and jimi fan.
For those who don't smoke pot, this song is as close as you'll get to being stoned.
I didn't need any acid or whatever. I get high simply by listening to this.
Saw their last tour. The Division Bell tour. This song was amazing the pyrotechnics were amazing. Literally you could get a "second hand 'high', just from being in in an open air stadium.
Take a hit... pass it down
More like in xtc
You dont need pot to enjoy Pink Floyd you need pink Floyd to enjoy pot so I have been told either way is great experience
😂😂
I hear a lot of guitars making some good noise. Gilmour has the only guitar that can actually speak.
Never heard it described that way, but describes it perfectly 👌
What track is that on please?
Dime Bag (RIP) from Pantera, its all another type of music but trust me...that man makes the guitar speak.
Tom Morello its pretty awesome to
Is Peter Frampton a joke to you?
Don’t disrespect bucket head
It's so refreshing to see someone like her, being a "rap teen", close her eyes and actually feel the music. This is what music was meant to be, felt and heard at the same time.
Roger Waters was not part of this show the keyboard player was Richard Wright RIP
That's right. Plus Roger Warters vocal is much higher than Gilmour's. A little research would be needed before recording reaction video with such a classic song!!!
@@maciejsnitkowski6685 I think he's referring to the fact that David's voice is more smooth and angelic. Something you would hear in a choir. Opposite of Roger.
Waters never should have tried to FIRE Wright. Busted the GOOSE for all.
So right. Jeeze, Dad, you not only monopolize the convo, you haven't a clue as to who's playing. Sad commentary.
Also, why don't you let your daughter respond to the song, rather than forcing it down her throat. Look at her reactions....she's bored sick with this schtick.
One of the best rock guitar solos of all time. The theatrics at pink floyd concerts are amazing.
That's what real musical genius sounds like . Period .
" This is the kind of music that you can feel into your bones". You go girl!
A Pink Floyd concert is an experience, not just a show. These guys are in the upper echelon of the best of the best.
And yes, after 43 years this song still gets me, gives me chills. THAT’S the definition of classic rock.
Syd Barrett was the heart and soul of Pink Floyd when they formed. There are different stories about why he left: mental health, addiction… I just recently watched a video where they claimed he simply just wasn’t interested in being a rock star and all the trappings of success. I think I’ll subscribe to that version :-) He certainly was a complex individual.
I have a doc re: PF--either Gilmour or Waters remembers Syd getting into drugs--ESP acid) and they claim that over ONE WEEKEND he used so much that he "never came back "--I've heard he had underling mental illness and drugs heaped on top of that is a sure ticket to oblivion, so I wouldn't doubt this is true
rick wright was on keyboards and singing here, roger was gone.
While it may not be one of the top things I have gratitude for in my life, I must say that being alive to hear David Gilmour solos is on my list.
The lyrics were inspired by Waters's experience of being injected with tranquilizers for stomach cramps before a Pink Floyd show in Philadelphia on the 1977 In the Flesh Tour.[6][7] "That was the longest two hours of my life," Waters said, "trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm." The song had the working title "The Doctor"
Really? I can see that but I didn't know that. Is there proof?
@@mikewagner7041 Lots of articles and web pages out there about song meanings. Gilmour wrote the music for his solo album and brought it to Floyd when they were working on the wall. The first verse is Waters remembering a time in his childhood when he had the flu and the feeling of delirium he had. Then later before the show in Philadelphia, he was sick and what warren elkins says above is the 2nd verse, "Now I've got that feeling once again, I can't explain, you would not understand, this is not how I am." Reference to having that same feeling as a child when he was delirious with the flu. It transforms perfectly in the scene in the movie The Wall when pink is wacked out on drugs. The movie which came is why there is misinterpretation of the song being about drugs.
@@mrodg88 ive seen the wall multiple times love it. I guess I took a different interpretation of the movie and the lyrics. Sometimes can be difficult to find the real reason behind a song because people think different things. Thank you for the info though now more to think about.
Nothing better than seeing a good dad bring their child into the know of classic great music! Great job Dad and Daughter!!
If your daughter were not being recorded she would have had her eyes closed for 95% of this video. Love how ya both enjoyed this song. I introduced my children early on in their lives to Pink Floyd. Thanks for sharing folks.
Seeing father and daughter enjoying great music from all of eras together is great. Like my dad and I used to do when he was alive.
May he rest in peace. .
Reminds me of the times when I was listening to Jimi Hendrix with my Dad. I was 6 yo and loved it. 😊
Pink Floyd’s writing, arrangements, creativity, vocals, instrumental and technical capabilities combined to make this album, “Dark Side of the Moon” a masterpiece of rock music. Every song on the album is one continuous story about former band member, Sid Gilmore’s decent into madness. Sid was clinically diagnosed as being insane. The song Comfortably Numb is a master piece and David Gilmore’s solos in this song are regarded as being unequaled in the history of rock music. Pink Floyd was far ahead of their time. Their music is timeless and it is just as relevant today as it was in their early years.
Back in the seventies it took fifteen semis to haul all of Pink Floyds gear to a concert. It got to the point that their show grew so much that they only played at a handful of venues. Pink Floyd was not a rock show. It was an experience.
I was 13 when my dad took me to that show. Still the greatest show I’ve ever seen. Changed everything.
P.S. - It IS about "drugs" whether literally or figuratively (any panacea- food, sex, medication, attention... insert what makes you feel good here ...)
The "show" is literal or figurative as well. The show is your life.
About the song & me...
When I was 5 I was very sick. My lungs collapsed and, i don't think I've told anyone but, I swear I ran into God (or he ran into me). I saw a brilliant glow in a color that I can't describe. I felt knowledge was given to me. Like it was given to me for a purpose (I know, cuckoo!)
As I grew up, ya know, it diminished. I reasoned, "Oh I was sick, it didn't really happen." Then, it became a like a slow theft. Like society, rules, school, traditional midwest church chipped away rather than nurture.
"When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb"
This literally happened to me.
Unfortunately, I feel comfortably numb today. Working to find that kid again. ✌
Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb - The meaning
Verse 1: Roger Waters
Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home?
Pink is completely out of it- he is drugged, enclosed inside himself and unable to function. He is needed to play the show, and the doctors are trying to get some sort of response out of his blank state. ‘Nod’ is a reference to dozing off when high on opiates (morphine, heroin, oxycodone etc).
Come on, now, I hear you’re feeling down. Well I can ease your pain Get you on your feet again.
Even though in the movie, Pink is unconscious and doesn’t respond to them trying to wake him, Rogers Waters is trying to get more out of him in the song. He makes it seem more like a doctor fixing someone’s actual pain problem, not an overdose.
Relax. I’ll need some information first. Just the basic facts. Can you show me where it hurts?
This doctor’s patter has a dual meeting - Pink’s hurt goes a lot deeper, and is largely internal and emotional, not physical.
Chorus: David Gilmour
There is no pain you are receding
As the doctor goes on and on about easing Pink’s pain, Pink finally explains to him that he is not in pain but the opposite - at a somewhat peace. This is due to the fact that he is heavily drugged, as he goes on to explain the floating numbness he feels.
This is the result of the wall - that’s exactly the problem: there is NO pain. He can’t feel anything. That’s why when the doctor says he knows his pain, Pink knows deep down he doesn’t since his problem is that there is no such pain. We see that the doctor is giving him some physical medicine so this might also refer to explaining there is no physical pain.
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
The world is dulled for Pink. In his perspective, everything is like some ephemereal distant ship’s smoke on the horizon, an image that is as enigmatic as it is eloquent. Many take the line about the ship as a description of the outside world, assuming that theYou (the doctor / the world) of the previous line is still the subject here.
You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying.
The world is dulled for Pink. In his perspective, everything is like some ephemereal distant ship’s smoke on the horizon, an image that is as enigmatic as it is eloquent. Many take the line about the ship as a description of the outside world, assuming that theYou (the doctor / the world) of the previous line is still the subject here.
When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons.
His hands are swollen from an unknown illness. In the video, you can see him playing with a rat, leading us to believe that is the source of the illness.
Now I’ve got that feeling once again
“That feeling” is inspired by an illness Roger Waters had when he was young.
I can’t explain you would not understand
It would be hard for Pink to explain an experience that not many people have came across and could relate to.
This is not how I am.
He claims he’s not usually like this, but in reality he’s lying/being ironic, for he IS usually like this. He’s been building the wall his whole life, distancing himself from the world around him, and so on.
This line may also signify that he could be so much more, he IS so much more, if only he wasn’t crippled by his depression and antisocial attitude. He had an almost normal upbringing and was actually functional until he just broke down and ceased to exist basically.
I have become comfortably numb.
The comfortable numbness can refer to his emotional state at this point in the album- he has gone from feeling lonely and in pain to simply numb, with a hazy division between himself and the world.
This whole song is actually based on a true story from when Roger got sick (from hepatitis which was undiagnosed prior to the concert) before his show in Philadelphia in 1977. The Doctor injected him with some form of tranquilizer to enable him to perform the show. These tranquilizers made him feel ‘comfortably numb.’
Guitar Solo 1
I have become comfortably numb
Verse 2: Roger Waters
O.K. Just a little pinprick.
The injection. The needle being the pin. After this line is delivered in the song, you can faintly hear a very delicate chime in the background, which symbolizes the injection in action.
There’ll be no more aaaaaaaaah! But you may feel a little sick.
The injection mentioned in the line earlier (likely a stimulant) is going to wake him up, but it won’t come without some side effects (“you may feel a little sick”). Also, the injection will remove the agonizing pain that his illness causes him. The “AHHHH” is the intense pain he is feeling, and “There’ll be no more” is the promise that after the “pin prick” the pain will be gone.
Can you stand up? I do believe it’s working, good. That’ll keep you going through the show Come on it’s time to go.
Pink is being administered meds in order to allow him to adjust properly and get him through the show, or his life, society, and relationships. which have become all a show to him. Society does not worry about the effects their meds have on pink, so long as they workfor their purpose: come on it’s time to go, they say.
Chorus: David Gilmour
There is no pain you are receding
As the doctor goes on and on about easing Pink’s pain, Pink finally explains to him that he is not in pain but the opposite - at a somewhat peace. This is due to the fact that he is heavily drugged, as he goes on to explain the floating numbness he feels. This is the result of the wall - that’s exactly the problem: there is NO pain. He can’t feel anything. That’s why when the doctor says he knows his pain, Pink knows deep down he doesn’t since his problem is that there is no such pain. We see that the doctor is giving him some physical medicine so this might also refer to explaining there is no physical pain.
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
The world is dulled for Pink. In his perspective, everything is like some ephemereal distant ship’s smoke on the horizon, an image that is as enigmatic as it is eloquent. Many take the line about the ship as a description of the outside world, assuming that theYou (the doctor / the world) of the previous line is still the subject here.
You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying.
As he’s sitting there, he drifts in and out of his conscious mind, someone is trying to talk to him, he can see that he’s talking, but he can’t hear what they’re saying.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, The dream is gone.
In some ways, Pink possibly took a glimpse in the future. This is also subtly said in the movie adaption of the same name.
These lines mean that the future Pink caught a glimpse on is not the future he will face (or is facing). Instead, he is living a life of pain, far from achieving his own dreams.
“The child is grown / The dream is gone” confirms this idea, for the life he had imagined when he was young is gone. All the negative actions mentioned throught the album (criticism, humiliation, death and more important drug addiction) are not the future Pink wanted.
However, it’s not too late to change: the future is no longer a distant dream, but the reality, and the narrator can’t simply put a finger on it and ignore it, but has to realise he is grown and has to change not his future but his present.
And i… have become comfortably numb.
Guitar solo 2
The story of Comfortably Numb
Dave Gilmour wrote most of the music while he was working on a solo album in 1978. He brought it to The Wall sessions and Waters wrote lyrics for it. Gilmour believes this song can be divided into two sections: dark and light. The light are the parts that begin “When I was a child…,” which Gilmour sings. The dark are the “Hello, is there anybody in there” parts, which are sung by Waters.
This was the last song Waters and Gilmour wrote together. In 1986 Waters left the band and felt there should be no Pink Floyd without him.
Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality.
He told Mojomagazine (December 2009) that the lines, “When I was a child I had a fever/My hands felt just like two balloons” were autobiographical. He explained: “I remember having the flu or something, an infection with a temperature of 105 and being delirious. It wasn’t like the hands looked like balloons, but they looked way too big, frightening. A lot of people think those lines are about masturbation. God knows why.”
Mojo asked Waters about the line, “That’ll keep you going through the show,” referring to getting medicated before going on-stage. He explained: “That comes from a specific show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia (June 29, 1977). I had stomach cramps so bad that I thought I wasn’t able to go on. A doctor backstage gave me a shot of something that I swear to God would have killed a f-ing elephant. I did the whole show hardly able to raise my hand above my knee. He said it was a muscular relaxant. But it rendered me almost insensible. It was so bad that at the end of the show, the audience was baying for more. I couldn’t do it. They did the encore about me.”
A confirmation about this was in a radio interview around 1980 with Jim Ladd from KLOS in Los Angeles, Waters said that part of the song is about the time he got hepatitis but didn’t know it. Pink Floyd had to do a show that night in Philadelphia, and the doctor Roger saw gave him a sedative to help the pain, thinking it was a stomach disorder. At the show, Roger’s hands were numb “like two toy balloons.” He was unable to focus, but also realized the fans didn’t care because they were so busy screaming, hence “comfortably” numb.
He said most of The Wall is about alienation between the audience and band.
Waters and Gilmour had an argument over which version of this to use on the album. They ended up editing two takes together as a compromise.
Dave Gilmour said in Guitar World February 1993: “Well, there were two recordings of that, which me and Roger argued about. I’d written it when I was doing my first solo album [David Gilmour, 1978]. We changed the key of the song’s opening the E to B, I think. The verse stayed exactly the same. Then we had to add a little bit, because Roger wanted to do the line, ‘I have become comfortably numb.’ Other than that, it was very, very simple to write. But the arguments on it were about how it should be mixed and which track we should use. We’d done one track with Nick Mason an drums that I thought was too rough and sloppy. We had another go at it and I thought that the second take was better. Roger disagreed. It was more an ego thing than anything else. We really went head to head with each other over such a minor thing. I probably couldn’t tell the difference if you put both versions on a record today. But, anyway, it wound up with us taking a fill out of one version and putting it into another version.”
"Comfortably Numb in the movie"
In the movie The Wall, this plays in a scene where the main character, a rock star named “Pink,” loses his mind and enters a catatonic state before a show.
A large group consisting of Pink’s manager (Bob Hoskins), the hotel manager (Michael Ensign), paramedics, and roadies burst into Pink’s trashed hotel room, to find an unconscious Pink sitting in a chair. As the paramedics try to revive Pink, his manager berates him, complaining about how he never liked him. The hotel manager does not take kindly to Pink’s destruction of the room, but Pink’s manager insists that “he’s an artist”, and eventually resorts to stuffing cash into the hotel manager’s pockets. After injecting a drug into Pink’s arm, the paramedics drag Pink out of the hotel and to his limousine.
He is then transported to a concert where he was scheduled to play. Flashbacks of Pink’s childhood are inter-cut into the scene. In the flashback, a young Pink finds a wild rat and shows it to his overprotective mother. Her negative reaction towards the rodent causes Pink to hide the rat in a nearby shed. Pink later catches a fever that keeps him bed-ridden for some time. After he recovers, Pink returns to the shed only to find that the rat has died in his absence. Pink dumps its lifeless body in a nearby river.
As he is dragged through the halls of the hotel towards a waiting limousine, the drug causes Pink to hallucinate that his body is developing into a hideous, bulbous pink shell. He dreams of injured (or perhaps dead) soldiers attempting to give him back his deceased rat. Upon being pushed into the limousine, Pink tears off his diseased shell to reveal himself in Nazi-like military attire, and now appears very clean, alert, and in control of his surroundings.
The mix of “Comfortably Numb” in the film is very much the same as the album version, except that Richard Wright’s organ before David Gilmour’s final solo is removed, the bass guitar is more prominent, and Pink’s screams (as performed by Roger Waters) are mixed in, as he claws his way out of his shell.
In a weird way it was similar to what Syd Barrett, an original member of the band, went through in 1968 when he became mentally ill and was kicked out of the band.
The song is the final step in Pink’s (Roger Water’s) transformation into the Neo-Nazi, fascist character you see in the movie The Wall. Medics and the band manager come in and give Pink a shot to pull him out of his catatonic stupor, the manager pays protesting Meds some cash to shut up and let him take Pink to the concert in the state he’s in (obviously a threat to his health, but the Meds, who probably don’t make enough money, accept). In the movie Pink begins to melt on the way there, and underneath he finds that he is the cruel, fascist model of a Nazi party representative by the time he arrives at the concert. Supporting this, afterwards are the songs “The Show Must Go On” (Pink realizing as he gets to the show that there isn’t really any turning back, and he’s forced to go on-stage), “In the Flesh II” (the redone version of the first song on the album, now with Nazi-Pink singing, threatening random minorities), and “Run Like Hell” (after the crowd, loving nazi-Pink, has been whipped into a frenzy, now hunting minorities in the street, much like late 1930 Germany). While it does seem that this is a song about the “joy of heroin,” it has little, if any connection to heroin even if it’s condition resembles that of somebody who’s totally wasted.
Y’all wanna hear the craziest thing?? My family has a beautiful sweet english mastiff (we never had a mastiff before, had absolutely no idea how smart they are)
So we brought her home from the breeder at 11 weeks old and she began hanging out with me when certain albums were on * (I have music playing in my room ~ 80% of the time.)
* It took me awhile (duh) to notice she has a definitive preference: Whenever I play Pink Floyd, no matter where she is in the house, she comes to my room and rests on front of a speaker for the entirety of their albums 😆!!!
Five years later nothing has changed she still loves Pink Floyd...( 😳!)
Hilarious, beautiful and incredible to every one who sees this!!
film it and put it on youtube
Everyone (correctly) always marvels about the beautiful guitar solo, but almost nobody comments on the incredible light show that Pink Floyd is famous for. It wouldn't be the same without it.
She looked like she was being out into a trance. Which is totally understandable as David Gilmore's guitar playing is second to none.
sjgavenger37 lol that’s exactly what I was thinking
Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality.
Sorry Dude but Roger Waters did not write this song....David Gilmour wrote it about roger...do your Floyd Homework.
@@void4256 The chorus progression and guitar solos were written by guitarist David Gilmour, while the lyrics and verse progression were written by bassist Roger Waters. Sry dude... Do your PF homework..
He's still detached from reality . Lol
@@rdhudon7469 That he is...I can't stand the guy,never could.
When I was a child I had my tonsils out. They gave me ether. They put a cloth over your nose and mouth and drip the liquid onto it. Strangest experience ever. Saw ships with smoking stacks on the far horizon just like he describes. The atmosphere was full of static and there was a stench. Getting high on ether does NOT work. I was only 4, but I remember that perfectly.
This guy and Mark Knopfler sure give people experiences through their guitars, they don't sing much they leave that for the guitar.
I think the moment David started singing and watching her melt into his voice was priceless.
Listening to Floyd on acid or shrooms is a completely different experience. But that's all in the past now.
You really need to do a full album reaction to appreciate the true artistry. Just listening to One song from the middle of the album is like walking into the middle of a conversation, you miss so much of it.
I listened to Floyd for years before I actually understood that, and it wasn't until I watched The Wall whilst a little bit over the influence, that it really hit me, that everything they did flowed into everything else, then I went back and listened to every album again and had my mind blown and became a real fan.
The comfortably numb Live Pulse versión has the greatest guitar solo of the history. Period.
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@@geraldherrmann787 should have mentioned the show... Totally agree though.
@@MaddogJones gilmour is ageing like good ole red wine.
@@geraldherrmann787 Indeed, the greatest melodic guitar soloist ever... Also I was surprised they found a version of this performance that wasn't edited ro shorten the solo, almost as good as Pompeii.
When THE guitar solo (the GOAT solo!!) starts, you can tell the Metal Dad knows what is coming. But I love the Rap Teen's comment during the first solo. This IS music you can feel in your bones. But it also moves your soul and makes your heart weep with joy.
Very important song for me, I had a similar experience when i was 21 getting diagnosed with Type 1 with a 970 glucose level. Comfortably Numb helped me during that time i give it 200 Tomatoes.
Pink Floyd- Time (lyric video)
Such an amazing song, it hits harder as you get older.
David Gilmour know when not to play a note. Less is more. And this is the ultimate version. The David Gilmour solo version with Crosby and Nash and David Bowie from the Remember That Night is great too.
Leo Fender created the Stratocaster in 1954...God then created Dave Gilmour to play it
The holy trinity of the stratocaster: Gilmour,Clapton and Knopfler
@@StevenQ74 no
The song comfortable numb is about Sid Barrett who was the original guitar player for pink Floyd who had a mental break down.The song is a dedicated to Sid and founder of Pink Floyd
Oh yes
StevenQ74 you for got one that made the Stratocaster more than a guitar he universal instrument Jimi Hendrix
One of the best live guitar solos I ever heard. Love watching and hearing Gilmore at his best. Great reaction!.. Thanks !!
Folks, listen to the lyrics again!! "The child is grown, the dream is gone and I've become comfortably numb." That deals with far more than only a drug-induced worldview. I can't tell you how many adults I've known who, when they were younger, had aspirations (dreams) about what they could accomplish in life. Then later, even years later, they had given up on those high hopes and settled, instead, for being another cog in the machine. So "Have a Cigar" and "Welcome to the Machine," that kind of thing. Metal Dad, I thought you would have known this!!
Their commentary on this aspect of life was preceded by "Us and Them" along with "Time" on DARK SIDE OF THE MOON and by "High Hopes" on THE DIVISION BELL, among others. How fortunate us Pink Floyd fans are that they were not content with instrumentals only, which are extraordinary. They also made sure that some of their lyrics made us think... at least those willing to. As the poet Ian Anderson said in Thick as a Brick... "I may make you feel, but I cant't make you think." Feeling (using emotion only) is child's play. Thinking is another journey altogether.
Thanks for posting!!!
“The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
― Thomas Sowell
YES! PINK FLOYD always a legend. It's such a great song, David Gilmore guitar playing hits you hard. It's so emotional
I'm a blessed man. I was able to see them on this tour. Awesome show! Columbus Ohio, devision bell. No one bends strings on a strat quite like David Gillmor
"I cannot put my finger on it now, the child is gone, the dream is gone..." the BEST line in ALL of music in the history of the universe... maybe ever...
The child is grown*
I was there when this was recorded. It was played over a surround sound system and it was so loud the floor was actually shaking.
My envy is real :(
Listening to this song is awesome but when you can hear it and also feel it you're into a whole new experience.
Hence “Pulse”, I should imagine
After that Alice Cooper intro I was half expecting to hear some "Hey, Teacher leave them kids alone!" from Floyd ;)
Paul Doerwang would have been a good link!
Gilmore's 2nd solos is epic, historical, maybe the best ever laid down. So, so much emotion! The entire song is a masterpiece. If you don't get a lump in your throat or misty eyed, if not outright crying by the end, you were born without a soul.
His daughter wld never admit it, but I think this song, live, had an impact on her.As she gains life experiences+ matures, it will mean more. She needs that cool personna now. She'll eventually reach a point where impressing others won't b as important.
David Gilmore RULES!!!
*He just donated 120....120 of his guitars to be auctioned for his charity....including the original Fender Strat that he originally played for this song. You must do more Floyd!! Thank you!!!!
.** Update: The black Strat alone, was auctioned for
$3.4 million!!!
@Derek Charette sure Buddy
@Derek Charette most of them do from eons ago to today 😓. Ask forgiveness, believe on JESUS and repent. GOD has final judgement not Satan 💯🤴
Well if he made a deal with the devil he got one Hell of a deal, because the devil is the second-most petty and powerless of all the fictional characters in the Bible (second only to the elohim), but Gilmore's guitar skills are both legendary and real. Gilmore is a real-life demigod and his miracles actually exist.
One band and performance that gets overlooked is Santana’s “Soul Sacrifice” from Woodstock. It’s an instrumental, but absolutely amazing. Please do a reaction to that song.
You know it!!!! Mike Shrieve!!!!!!!!!!
David Gilmore plugs his guitar into his soul and touches heaven.
It WAS amazing. I attended the 1994 tour on it's stop in Pittsburgh. It's a treasured memory.
I was there! I still remember that show as one of the best live shows I've ever seen.
"...I cannot put my finger on it now, the child has grown, the dream is gone........"
~ Roger Waters
How proud I felt when my daughter texted me these exact lyrics a few months ago...😊
It was a mesmerizing experience being there, I was standing up and my legs began to wobble and I had to sit down, David Gilmour literally knocked me down
The dad looks like Jeff Dunham's 'walter' only 40yrs younger!
That moment every father dreads,the moment when your daughter mentions pink floyd and acid!
Hey dad! I am so impressed that you are exposing your child(ren) to music that is not in the main stream play list. I have done the same and the results have been richly rewarding. Keep it up. Thumbs up. So proud of you.
I wanted to say thank you, Juliette (hope I spelt that right) Your phrase "The kind of music you feel moving through your bones" Those are the words I've been looking for, to explain how I feel about music. At the start of lockdown, I did the 10 Album thing, the I went on and did 10 windband and orchestral peices and now im continuing with other music. I was tryingto explain how I feel when the music takes me over, that disconnected feel when its in yuour head and nothing else matters. Thank you
It's awesome (that's gnarly to old farts like me, lol) that a song from my childhood still impresses those of all ages 50 years later
It isn't just impressing is it. It just blowing you away. And trust me, Pink Floyd will continue to do that long after we are dead.
Love your comments. Nailed it regarding Dave Gilmour makes a guitar weep with emotion. There has and never will be anybody like him!
I, and I think everyone came for the Pink Floyd reaction. No one on this planet can resist goosebumps nor appreciate Pink Floyd enough. Not one person.
Best guitar solo ever performed by Man.
If God had to pass on his power and name, he'd give that place to David Gilmore.
Feels the music moving through her bones... Oh yeah, she gets it!
Pink Floyd actually started in 1965, and their first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was released in 1967. This song is from their album The Wall released in 1979. David Gilmour’s 2 solo’s in this song are absolutely perfect. Not sure what it is about David Gilmour’s solo’s but they reach down inside to my soul. One of my top 3 favorite guitarists in rock.
The album The Wall was released in 1979.'Comfortably Numb' has been amazing for 40 years.
The Wall was released in DECEMBER of 1979 and is the number one selling album for the entire decade of the 70s WOW 23,000,000 copies--beat out
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
I was at the opening night at Earl's Court...when the spotlights hit the glitter ball I burst into tears!!!
Was that the night the seating collapsed?
@@Iced-Rockin-Man Luckily no. We were driving down to London to stay in a hotel and had tickets for 2nd night. On the way down we heard on the radio about the seating collapse on the opening night and were worried that our show would also be cancelled. Thankfully it wasn't!
I was at this actual gig! (even though it ran for 2 weeks at Earl's Court) As we walked up the stairs there was signs up telling us the show was being filmed by BBC. Two weeks later it was aired on BBC2. I took my wife to it and it's been the best gig of my life and I've been to many gigs.
Recommended? 💗ABSOLUTELY 💗 Pink Floyd has been my favorite band since I was 14 when "The Wall" came out. I'm 54 now & I still listen to them almost daily while working around the house. If you haven't yet reacted to "The Great Gig in the Sky" from "Dark Side of the Moon", I highly recommend it 💗
Betsy Klein I’m 63, and still listening to this era of Floyd. Dark Side, The Wall etc.
They are awesome live. Saw them in 88 at Foxboro, MA. Pigs do fly, lol.
Such a sight, you two - You are so sweet together, and to see your impressions and opinions mingle, break and elevate, without battling for rank, is so fun and life confirming. I am smiling here - Thx!
Not even talking about the music, you have to understand how awesome looking the show was - it might look like a regular large gig now but in 1994 shows did NOT look like this, it was absolutely mind blowing. That amount of moving lights had never been put together before - they'd only recently been developed. Look at a vid of a 'normal' gig of that era and see how boring it is. Even today that would be a major gig to set up.