Before I learned to play guitar, I was convinced that David Gilmour was a magician or an angel - something inhuman anyway - because I couldn't believe a mere human being could wring all those emotions out me, just by playing guitar. Then I learned to play, learned his solos note for note, and am even more convinced that he's a magician or an angel! Anyone can learn his solos, they're not ridiculously fast or technical, but no-one else can stomp all over my soul like he can. Oh, they can play all the right notes in the right order at the right time, but they lack the witchcraft he has in his hands.
That's not witchcraft. Sorry. He didn't need to Cast spells. What he has lived in life and overcame comes through his fingers to the guitar and is carried to us on the " wings of Love." Its just that simple.
i think I remember someone interviewing him, where he said that he realized early on that he couldn't play as fast as some other guitarists, so he had to work out his own way, and he certainly worked out a great way to do that.
No video does that ball justice. It was incredible in person. It projected a billion rotating points of light across everything. This entire concert was seared into my soul.
Some people argue the second solo of comfortably numb as played during the pulse concerts has remained the best guitar solo ever played on this planet. I tend to agree. There are probably more skillful solos in terms of technique, but the way Gilmour makes his guitar sing and convey emotions beyond words is unmatched!
I think it's hard to rate this kind of thing and a big part of art is subjective and so what speaks to some won't so much to others, but I do agree that it's definitely up there. 🙏🔥🎸
I think there is one better: Try listening to the title track on the Camel album "Stationary traveller". Andy Latimer is a wizard on a Les Paul Custom: th-cam.com/video/YTwyl0VSEHg/w-d-xo.html
One of my pet peeves is when people call it a "solo". It's NOT a solo. The band NEVER stops playing. They just tone it down a bit to let him shine and support him, occasionally rising up to the forefront, especially the drums a few times. The bass guitar maintains the backing throughout as well. So IMO this is technically an "instrumental" performance, highlighting Gilmour's pure emotion pouring out of his guitar. As far as "best", it is subjective. For pure beauty, yes this is tops. For sheer craziness, nothing can touch EVH's Eruption performance. But it's apples and oranges.
"I know this song I've heard it before but not this performance" Immediately I thought, dude, you have no idea what an absolute treat you have headed your way!❤
the best comment on about it this track i have read is "David looks like a plumber that come in to fix your toilet, but drops the 2 greatest solos on you"
It's said that Polly Sampson, his wife, said that David runs out of words to express what he wants to say and his guitar expresses those words for him. It's surreal what this man can do with a guitar, takes you on a journey beyond conscious thoughts to another plane.
Ah oui !!! Fantastique !!! Je ne me laisserai jamais de ce morceau de génie .... Depuis 1969 que je suis tombé amoureux de cette musique, de ce groupe incroyable, c'est toujours le même plaisir venu de sentiments quasi divins ! Oh oui on a tellement vibré dans les 70s que tout a paru fade ensuite ! Vraiment ! ...... Pour revenir à David, car c'est lui le génie de Pink Floyd, je pense qu'on ne saisit pas à quel point cet homme est une incarnation de l'inspiration magique et intemporelle, un talent extraordinaire et unique, à tel point qu'il traversera les siècles 🙏🙏🙏
E non vi dico,che mi è successo).(Camminavo in una bellissima Strada Famosa di Roma...come al Solito stavo a Sentire Confortevole N.ad un certo punto mi si leva gli auricolari,e proprio davanti ad un negozio di strumenti Musicali..e inizia il momento dell'assolo,mentre cammino dietro di Me sentivo un passo felpato che si avvicinava,Mi giro mentre rimetto i il filo al telefono,e dietro di me erano circa una ventina di chitarre,che volevano sentire il loro Maestro,erano tutte in fila attente ad ascoltare,finito il pezzo,e arrivato il commesso,e con tenerezza faceva una carezza ad ogni chitarra,promettendo a loro che per Natale,Avrebbero ricevuto Gilmour per Regalo.lo seguirono disciplinarmente dentro il negozio,e ogniuna l'ho ringraziarono ...vi immaginate se non fosse solo Fantasia,non mia ma delle chitarre...😂😂🎉❤.
The "disco ball" opens as a lotus flower. In the song the protagonist is trapped inside themself, "comfortably numb", unfeeling, and the opening of the lotus represents their opening and release. I am old enough to have seen PF in 1967. The production of music and especially its availability were very different. The first time I saw them they were in the back bar of aa north east London pub on a stage no more than 300mm high.
@@FaanaMusic Sorry guys I would compare it to a Caravaggio and that exquisite Italian word for light and shade chiaroscuro. Sorry couldn’t help myself. 😎
I believe the glitter ball with the giant pink "gem" inside is a tribute to Syd. Syd was PF's "crazy diamond", the character of Pink was partly based on Syd, so when the ball opens, it reveals that Pink Floyd's Crazy Diamond shines on! Great reaction!
Saw them at an outdoor football stadium, the ball was trainer mounted and near the sound controls midfield. It was hidden until it began rising up to about 60', it was easier to see the pink diamond shape when it opened. thanks for the story Fremen ur spot on.
Our music, I'm 72, was made to be listened to. At a concert we sat or stood and just listened. Yes, we did a tremendous amount of drugs that mellowed you as opposed to anger drugs of today. Our bands were not afraid of doing 15 or 20 minute renditions. They built a great song.
Whenever I experience the 'second solo' from this piece, and I have experienced it a multitude of times, it is almost unimaginable that a human being could wrest that kind of sound and emotion from a stringed instrument. It is as though I'm placed under some sort of spell - chills run up and down my body and I sway with the up and down clusters of notes being produced. Gilmore acts the sorcerer here, and we are drawn back again and again to his magic. I'm almost reluctant to admit that I'll be 79 years old this September - are there any others my age who react this way?
65 here, and a witness of the wall in london earls court 1980, i believe it was , david playing this on top of the wall that was built on stage, I wil never forget that moment, and i've been at a pulse and delicate sound of thunder concert too, everytime a floydgasm.
I'm 72. Five years ago I took my parents to see Brit Floyd for their 70th anniversary. They had never been to a rock concert. My 95 year old father was a lover of jazz, but had no interest in rock or guitar. They played Comfortably Numb, and during the second solo my father turned to me and said "God damn!" I said "I know". Enough said.
Yes! It’s great to see younger generations enjoying,in my opinion, the best music, didn’t realise at the time how spoiled I was listening to all those great bands. Floyd,Zeppelin,Sabbath,Free, ..I’m still listening to them now, seems like it’s only me that’s getting old.
You are so right. There are so many small and large inventions, designs, and artistic excellence that converge to present a masterpiece - and we get to be pulled right through the soul of it all.
Faana Music, thank you for sharing this and your insights. You actually expressed so many facets of Pink Floyd in a way that I had reserved myself. It is so nice to see that I am not alone... Thank You.
I went to school in the 70's, and the music throughout the 70's, into the mid-late 80's was just so amazing, everything seemed to be bringing more talent, every record seemed to be great. We took it for granted that it would always be that way, we appreciated it, but would have appreciated it more had we known that would be the pinacle. Just amazing times, I'm so happy to have lived through it. Listen to music by The Jam, The Pokice, Blondie, Ultravox, Frankie Goes to Hollywood to hear people making just the music they wanted to make, protest music was something that was strong in the 70's as few could stand up to 'the man' in any other way. A time when music really had something to say.
I've been a pro prog-rock drummer for over 45 years and I'm considered by many to be a top session player, but when I watch Niel peart it makes me feel like an amateur. I'm sure you get the same feeling when you watch Mr Gilmore. ✌❤🇬🇧
I have been playing guitar for decades and have to say it doesn't matter if you think you know the notes David is playing you will never be able to convey the feelings he finds so easy to convey. He both inspires you to try and conspires to make you disappointed!
I was born in the 60s. The difference between music then and now is that music was allowed to be much more exploratory and diverse, as well as the beliefs of people were allowed to be. Now, musicians and people in general allow themselves to be forced into label-boxes, and individuality is demanded to be sacrificed for the sake of conformity. It's gotten so bad that if a person doesn't strictly conform to a plurality they can be cancelled and have their lives and careers demolished. This has resulted in modern-music having a canned and labeled feel to it, whereas music in the 60s and 70s was a complete buffet in comparison. Pink Floyd were fearless explorers of music, constantly trying to find new ways to express their emotions and messages through musical methods that were extremely experimental and inventive at the time. A prime example of this is that most rock musicians and groups stayed locked into using a 4/4 time signature for their music. Bands like Pink Floyd used multiple time signatures and often would shift time signatures throughout some of their songs. You can really see their exploration in this area in their earliest works as they were defining themselves as musicians. A key to Pink Floyd's music being timeless and loved by successive generations of listeners is they've been as masterful at composing their music as they've become masterful at playing and singing their music. Another major factor is that they're constantly striving to improve their songs. When you compare the Pulse performance of Comfortably Numb to the song on the album, you can see major differences in the levels of David's guitar mastery. His playing and singing has become much more emotive and nuanced over the decades. One of David's greatest gifts is his ability to play various types of guitars while losing none of his emotive ability. He can emotionally wreck a person's heart whether he's playing a Strat, an acoustic guitar, or a steel guitar. One time I told my wife that he's so phenomenal at emoting with string instruments, that he could make a crowd start weeping using just a cardboard box with rubber bands as strings and holding it up to a microphone while he plucked the rubber bands. 😁
It was just as you thought… music, friends, the people in your life were what mattered and these kinds of performances made incredible memories among everyone in attendance. Listen again and think about what it was like to be there, with the swelling crowd. I was lucky enough to see Gilmore live many times and this show in particular. Thanks for playing it and you are right, it was a better time.
There are no words that can adequately describe how good that solo is. Gilmour at his brilliant best he just takes us to another dimension like no, and I mean no, other guitar player can. And that voice, wow!
14:02 The reason for that is that nowadays we mostly have MUSICIANS, who play an instrument and that's it, the rest will be done by a computer. Back then, music was made by ARTISTS. An artist is someone who doesn't just play an instrument, but expresses feelings and tells a story through it. And in every generation there are a few virtuoso's who've completely mastered their craft and are simply on another level from everyone else. David Gilmour most definitely is a virtuoso.
Very much enjoyed you reaction and I am now a new subscriber. David is so good that he doesn't over clutter his playing with notes that are not needed. He's clean and smooth as well. This version is really an edited version. The actual solo is longer. It is, or hopefully still is, on YT. For the same reasons I enjoyed your not over analyzing it all. Looking forward to future videos.
Through an improbable set of circumstances I was fortunate enough to obtain tickets to Pink Floyd and a Date in 1988 at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Astounding performance, at an Historical venue. I'll Not be forgetting it.
I really think this concert and especially the performance (very much including the show) of Comfortably Numb should be considered as one of the cultural high points that humanity achieved.
Pink Floyd is literally on a level all their own. In my lifetime, I saw this band live 5 or 6 times live in large venue stadiums and arenas. Each show was more than "a concert", a Pink Floyd concert was more of an immersive experience, exquisitely beautiful. The sound, Davids guitar solos, the lasers, the arrangements, the VIBE of the crowd. It's not songs being performed, it is a complete, flowing, emotionally and visually charged, audio intensive world that lives and breathes, enveloping and saturating all of your senses. The 1st time I experienced Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety live, my mouth hung open for like 3 days. I can actually say I was awestruck, which I didn't even know was a real thing. It is, like a deep spiritual awakening, it leaves a person speechless. What else can I say ...... (pages and pages actually.) This band has been my absolute band of choice, over all others, for over 55 years now. I never tire of their unique, sublime sound, changing over the decades. Always a joyful time hearing this band, simply love their creations. For me, the music they created, saved and changed my life forever. Truly one of the greatest bands to ever have existed, a gift to us all. Timeless ......
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I saw them in '94' at the Oakland Coliseum. Brother in law scored great seats from his car dealership. 10 rows back and almost dead center of the stage. They played this song with that 8' disco ball that turns into a space ship being shot with lasers and the entire place was like Laserium on steroids. I'm 68 and I still try to listen to this song every day. Shedmen
This is definitely the best version - PULSE was extraordinary 3 stages all moving on, being played on or dismantled. Two weeks sold out 80000 per night in London at Earls Court. Phenomenal. Do something different and listen to ECHOES both at Pompeii but ALSO Gilmour at Gdańsk - the very last time it was played before Rick passed. There’s something special about BOTH versions - the Gdańsk however for me edges it because Rick and David riff so beautifully off each other.
@@2ridiculous41Sadly,no longer there! Agree,only around 20000 max capacity. Saw The Eagles there,many years ago.They had an intermission,so my son and myself(plus a hell of a lot of others!),went out to get a beer. Half way down my pint,and the first few bars of Hotel California came floating out of the arena! Never seen so much beer disappear as fast as that! They turned Joe Walsh loose in that second half,and no one sat down for the rest of the show! Superb arena with excellent accoustics,should never have been torn down!😡
Just as John Bonham KNEW the "power of the pause" on the drums, so the master David Gilmour understands the "squeezing of each note"- when to attack, when to release, & his understanding of "intervals" between notes is simply amazing: how he uses those intervals to "lift or hold" you in the melody. He's truly in a class by himself.... & a humble man. I love you, David Gilmour-you're my guitar hero! Thanks for posting, Bro'!
This is my kind of music, and i know that at least one my kids likes Pink Floyd too, but hey, i like some disco as well ( not all of it) but donna summer's i feel love is good, some artists played it live in a dutch tv show th-cam.com/video/T9S2iDh1je4/w-d-xo.html
Knofler and Gilmour - both make a Fender Stratocaster sound incredible in totally their own way/style. nb pls check out PF's Delicate Sound of Thunder live video (I think better than Pulse)
In many ways I also prefer the DSOT performances. I was at both, so not much bias here. The video cinematography is better in DSOT and has a more intimate/personal feel to it.
Enjoyed your knowledgeable reaction. Nice to see a real guitar player react to a masterpiece and understand how great it really was. I was an old rocker myself back in the 70’s….. and you are right about the difference in mood and purpose of music back then. We didn’t relate music for the money. We created music because we had something to say. Now it’s all about sales, and fame, and money. We just played what we felt, and if it became popular, that was just a bonus. I think we were much happier back then.😎🎸🎶🇨🇦
Pink Floyd are the Undisputed Gods of Live performance. Everything is built, designed to pull the emotions of the audience to the surface. The synchronization of the lights, special effects with the music bring the audience to tears. The mirror ball is something that has been part of Floyd shows for a long time
The staging and light show cost 25 million--back in 1994. They were always cutting-edge in terms of live performance. I was lucky to see them a couple of times live back in the day. Check out the live version of 'On the Turning Away'--the vocals are mind-blowing, especially a capella. The 'Pulse' concert is worth checking out in full--they also played the entire 'Dark Side of the Moon' as part of the performance.
Congratulations on finding the finest work of music by any guitarist, in my humble opinion ever created. I have seen Gilmour (PF) in concert many times over many, many years (showing my age lol). Welcome to the world of music that plays with the soul. There is nothing like it. I still get tingles and emotional when I hear this track, and this is the music that they will carry me off too.
Also Sorrow and High Hopes from the Pulse tour have great live solos and Marooned from the Division Bell album has the most emotional solo ever recorded in music history...
@@FaanaMusic Make sure to pick the 'restored & re-edited' version from the official Pink Floyd channel. It has much better audio & video quality than the older uploads.
This song, this performance, this lead guitarist, this harmony, this light show...wow. Pure magic. An all time great performance of one of Pink Floyd's best songs.
During the thousands of times I’ve watched this performance, I found myself thinking that the the lotus-ball opens and we catch that ‘fleeting glimpse’ - which is in the lyrics ‘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…’ So it quickly goes out as the song is finished… Just a matter of opinion - everyone shall find one’s own meaning, it’s an art) Great reaction, thanks!
Thanks for this - I appreciate your thoughtfulness. I was around then (I'm 59). I don't know that the world was any nicer or more cohesive, but the splinters didn't have a megaphones and were forced to consider others much more often when voicing opinions, because there were no impenetrable echo chambers. Also, absolutely right about the music culture. It was more about groups coming together with similar desires to create music. At the time, it was simply required and expected that whatever music you produced had to be played live in order to survive. Bands INTENDED to be on stage performing their music, so you were always subject to the quality of your last performance. It's trial by fire 100+ nights a year for years! People these days really do not understand how different music sounds when you are actually in the venue with bands like PF. As freaking awesome as this recording is, there is a completely different, existential feeling produced when you have the live sound separation, resonance and community experience of such a concert. I think, maybe, this cultural example of the art influencing society, not vice-versa, that's a reason I don't believe people were fundamentally nicer.
Faana commented on the amount of work involved in producing this performance. First I really knew of PF was when I caught the whole of this Pulse concert by pure chance on late-night TV in the late 90's, I just couldn't stop watching, the music and the lightshow were stunning. Just think of the computing power used to operate all those hundreds of lights individually in 3 dimensions and colour (and co-ordinated with the music). I became a Pink Floyd addict overnight. And Dave Gilmour's playing, of course.
You'd need to understand the blooming of the lotus flower, and the life meaning it holds. The flower opens when Gilmour's iconic guitar solo hits its peak. This is among the greatest live guitar solos (and overall performances) ever. As for the guitar solo, thanks so much for not stopping the video to analyze it. As is ALWAYS the case with Pink Floyd, not only is the musical performance a work for art, but the background art (lighting and effects?) is a work of art.
This is doubtless the best live performance of this song EVER and I have seen more than one reactor brought to tears by the second solo. Edit: And Nick Mason does not get enough credit for his fantastic performance on drums here. Perfection.
The Orb opening for me symbolized a spiritual rebirth or cleansing. It is the best way I can describe it for the many reaction host shedding so many tears. Myself included.
This is a fantastic performance and I have the pleasure of saying that I was at this Pulse concert in 1994 in Earlscourt, London but you also have to hear him play live in Pompeii in 2016 at 70 YEARS OF AGE - MAGNIFICANT - Comfortably Numb
A very awesome reaction, i've watched you react to Dire Straits and what you said about a time when people were actually nice to each other ...Music in the 70's , early 80's was made to be enjoyed, to make a difference, not souly to make money....The bands cared about making music that changed peoples lives .
It is this song, this performance, and that solo that got me into guitar. You can get endless tone with a dreadnaut acoustic, a Fender Stratocaster, and Gibson Les Paul. Add a Marshall tube Amp and 70s-90s classic rock is covered.
One very young lady I saw reacting to this same video said that the opening of the disco ball seemed to her "like watching an angel being born" ... To me that pretty much sums up the entire performance.
Great. Here are a few suggestions. A live version of Moonlight Shadow - th-cam.com/video/huRvdtTh2bA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hM7DgYwI6OeWUC7r very Knopfler solo. The original video of Moonlight Shadow - th-cam.com/video/e80qhyovOnA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=oucl7HONjbSLOPwK Sentinel - th-cam.com/video/I_zL9qt_ySU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=l83trRZh_8hcwbbS This is the first track from the live premiere of Tubular Bells 2 Mike displaying his amazing guitar playing live on TV - th-cam.com/video/FXDan5L0dBA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3TpYQv0JG4I52cGX
In 1974 at Knebworth I saw Pink Floyd perform Echoes, Dark Side of the Moon and I believe the first performance of Wish you Were Here. What a band, what a concert and what an experience. You're right by the way, the music at that time, at least the parts I listened to, were mostly moving and deep.
For me the best guitar solo of all time, not so much the technique, but the most emotional. You float on this cloud of sound and are taken on a journey.
The whole Pulse concert was one of a kind - and this was 30 years ago! The lights were computerized (for the first time ever on a scale like this). This was the tour / concert of a century.
You don't realise how big the stage setup actually is, until you notice the random shots where you can see all of it and the band members for a sense of scale. I'm sure i read it was/is 50 meters tall.
Well spoken, we are mainly numb and disconnected in or daily bubble. Maybe the disco ball bubble repesents that, opening at the of the performance to a magic staff which binds polarity, a kind of prayer mill. Also you are right, this hole way of preparation and delivery of this song is a human sharing wonder beauty in music like with the pyramids on architecture, cultural world wonders.
70's yes but really from the 60's experimental since 66' 67' is an amazing year nights in white satin' whiter shade of pale' .. pink floyd and david is blues progression
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Before I learned to play guitar, I was convinced that David Gilmour was a magician or an angel - something inhuman anyway - because I couldn't believe a mere human being could wring all those emotions out me, just by playing guitar. Then I learned to play, learned his solos note for note, and am even more convinced that he's a magician or an angel! Anyone can learn his solos, they're not ridiculously fast or technical, but no-one else can stomp all over my soul like he can. Oh, they can play all the right notes in the right order at the right time, but they lack the witchcraft he has in his hands.
That's not witchcraft. Sorry. He didn't need to Cast spells. What he has lived in life and overcame comes through his fingers to the guitar and is carried to us on the " wings of Love." Its just that simple.
With Gilmour, it's not about the notes you play, it's about how you bend the strings. Not many people have the fingers for those insane bends he does.
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i think I remember someone interviewing him, where he said that he realized early on that he couldn't play as fast as some other guitarists, so he had to work out his own way, and he certainly worked out a great way to do that.
I was at this gig. . Worth a mention that the glitter ball. . was 6 Meters diam. . mindblowing gig from start to finish
Wow! Jeleaus... That must had been incredible! 🎸🔥
No video does that ball justice.
It was incredible in person.
It projected a billion rotating points of light across everything.
This entire concert was seared into my soul.
run like hell and Sorrow just about the best on the night for me.
Was in my twenties in the 70 s. Loved pink floyed then as I do now.
Cymbaline 1970 @@barbarafoster6757 th-cam.com/video/wsxMbNuSJhI/w-d-xo.html first song . Love th echoey sinistas david goes off in the end
Some people argue the second solo of comfortably numb as played during the pulse concerts has remained the best guitar solo ever played on this planet. I tend to agree. There are probably more skillful solos in terms of technique, but the way Gilmour makes his guitar sing and convey emotions beyond words is unmatched!
I think it's hard to rate this kind of thing and a big part of art is subjective and so what speaks to some won't so much to others, but I do agree that it's definitely up there. 🙏🔥🎸
If it’s not it is 1B
And to think about a minute and a half was cut out of the second solo for this video!
I think there is one better: Try listening to the title track on the Camel album "Stationary traveller". Andy Latimer is a wizard on a Les Paul Custom:
th-cam.com/video/YTwyl0VSEHg/w-d-xo.html
One of my pet peeves is when people call it a "solo". It's NOT a solo. The band NEVER stops playing. They just tone it down a bit to let him shine and support him, occasionally rising up to the forefront, especially the drums a few times. The bass guitar maintains the backing throughout as well. So IMO this is technically an "instrumental" performance, highlighting Gilmour's pure emotion pouring out of his guitar. As far as "best", it is subjective. For pure beauty, yes this is tops. For sheer craziness, nothing can touch EVH's Eruption performance. But it's apples and oranges.
"I know this song I've heard it before but not this performance"
Immediately I thought, dude, you have no idea what an absolute treat you have headed your way!❤
Oh boy was he ever in for a treat, I was there and I still get goose bumps, tingles and tears in the eyes.
just a guy in jeans and a t-shirt let his guitar talk like no one ever... EVER... will do anymore
CORRECT!!!
Best ventriloquist EVER!!
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the best comment on about it this track i have read is "David looks like a plumber that come in to fix your toilet, but drops the 2 greatest solos on you"
No pretense or inflated ego or trying to impress anyone. He is a real musician.
Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck,Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, David Gilmore, to name just a few what a wonderful time it was.
Best guitar solo on the world ever
Guitar starts singing itself when David gilmour plays it
Absolutely, his tone is out of this world.
It's said that Polly Sampson, his wife, said that David runs out of words to express what he wants to say and his guitar expresses those words for him. It's surreal what this man can do with a guitar, takes you on a journey beyond conscious thoughts to another plane.
Ah oui !!! Fantastique !!!
Je ne me laisserai jamais de ce morceau de génie .... Depuis 1969 que je suis tombé amoureux de cette musique, de ce groupe incroyable, c'est toujours le même plaisir venu de sentiments quasi divins !
Oh oui on a tellement vibré dans les 70s que tout a paru fade ensuite ! Vraiment ! ......
Pour revenir à David, car c'est lui le génie de Pink Floyd, je pense qu'on ne saisit pas à quel point cet homme est une incarnation de l'inspiration magique et intemporelle, un talent extraordinaire et unique, à tel point qu'il traversera les siècles 🙏🙏🙏
E non vi dico,che mi è successo).(Camminavo in una bellissima Strada Famosa di Roma...come al Solito stavo a Sentire Confortevole N.ad un certo punto mi si leva gli auricolari,e proprio davanti ad un negozio di strumenti Musicali..e inizia il momento dell'assolo,mentre cammino dietro di Me sentivo un passo felpato che si avvicinava,Mi giro mentre rimetto i il filo al telefono,e dietro di me erano circa una ventina di chitarre,che volevano sentire il loro Maestro,erano tutte in fila attente ad ascoltare,finito il pezzo,e arrivato il commesso,e con tenerezza faceva una carezza ad ogni chitarra,promettendo a loro che per Natale,Avrebbero ricevuto Gilmour per Regalo.lo seguirono disciplinarmente dentro il negozio,e ogniuna l'ho ringraziarono ...vi immaginate se non fosse solo Fantasia,non mia ma delle chitarre...😂😂🎉❤.
thank you so much for reacting to this, one of the most beautiful solos ever
i was present at the pulse concert in 94 at alvalade stadium in lisbon
Agree, it is so well composed. Friend of mine played it as an audition for the music academy (rock guitar) and got accepted! 🎸
A well known heavy metal guitarist once said "David Gilmour can do more with one note, than most guitarists can do with an entire fret board."
Who was he ? Joe Satriani ? Yngwie Malmsteen ? Steve Vai ? Because I hate their style... Petrucci maybe better but... Whodunit?
@@garryiglesias4074 Dave Mustaine, and the quote doesn't go exactly like that.
@@i-deni-i5138 Yes, but the fun part is: Pink Floyd, before being named "[The] Pink Floyd [Sound]" was named "Meggadeaths"...
The "disco ball" opens as a lotus flower.
In the song the protagonist is trapped inside themself, "comfortably numb", unfeeling, and the opening of the lotus represents their opening and release.
I am old enough to have seen PF in 1967.
The production of music and especially its availability were very different.
The first time I saw them they were in the back bar of aa north east London pub on a stage no more than 300mm high.
Wow!!❤
Wow!! Pink Floyd live the year I was born - I lift my hat 🙂 ... I saw them only back in 1988 - DSOT - Tour ...
Year I was born too ❤️✌🏼
Me too …can’t remember where though!
Me & my wife were there the night they recorded this. We were 23 at the time !! A live concert that will be with me till my dying day.
Simply the greatest guitar solo in the history of mankind.
No doubt about that 🤘🤘👌👌👍👍
Love your input...finally a musician who knows what he's talking about...great stuff!
It's no less than rock musics equivalent to the most beautiful Van Gogh painting...It is a masterpiece of light and sound performed live!
I went to the Netherlands recently and so I'm loving this analogy! 🙏❤️
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Sorry guys I would compare it to a Caravaggio and that exquisite Italian word for light and shade chiaroscuro. Sorry couldn’t help myself. 😎
For my part, I would think more of Salvador Dalí.
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What could be more apt for a psychedelic band than Dali’s The Hallucinogenic Toreador?
E, perché, MIRO', che vi ha fatto, esplosioni di colori...
I believe the glitter ball with the giant pink "gem" inside is a tribute to Syd. Syd was PF's "crazy diamond", the character of Pink was partly based on Syd, so when the ball opens, it reveals that Pink Floyd's Crazy Diamond shines on! Great reaction!
If that’s the story, COOL!!!!
Saw them at an outdoor football stadium, the ball was trainer mounted and near the sound controls midfield. It was hidden until it began rising up to about 60', it was easier to see the pink diamond shape when it opened. thanks for the story Fremen ur spot on.
Our music, I'm 72, was made to be listened to. At a concert we sat or stood and just listened. Yes, we did a tremendous amount of drugs that mellowed you as opposed to anger drugs of today. Our bands were not afraid of doing 15 or 20 minute renditions. They built a great song.
Whenever I experience the 'second solo' from this piece, and I have experienced it a multitude of times, it is almost unimaginable that a human being could wrest that kind of sound and emotion from a stringed instrument. It is as though I'm placed under some sort of spell - chills run up and down my body and I sway with the up and down clusters of notes being produced. Gilmore acts the sorcerer here, and we are drawn back again and again to his magic. I'm almost reluctant to admit that I'll be 79 years old this September - are there any others my age who react this way?
Only 61 here...
But I am still moved to tears when I listen or watch David Gilmour bring heaven to earth with 6 strings.
Im only 70, but yes i react in the same way.
I'm gonna be 61 soon, but I get what you're saying.
65 here, and a witness of the wall in london earls court 1980, i believe it was , david playing this on top of the wall that was built on stage, I wil never forget that moment, and i've been at a pulse and delicate sound of thunder concert too, everytime a floydgasm.
I'm 72. Five years ago I took my parents to see Brit Floyd for their 70th anniversary. They had never been to a rock concert. My 95 year old father was a lover of jazz, but had no interest in rock or guitar.
They played Comfortably Numb, and during the second solo my father turned to me and said "God damn!" I said "I know".
Enough said.
So happy to see young people reacting like I did fifty years ago
Yes! It’s great to see younger generations enjoying,in my opinion, the best music, didn’t realise at the time how spoiled I was listening to all those great bands. Floyd,Zeppelin,Sabbath,Free, ..I’m still listening to them now, seems like it’s only me that’s getting old.
Was at the show in Texas Stadium. People that have never seen the show in person, will never understand how truly AWESOME it was.
Being 70 I can tell you it fully felt like family a feeling i greatly miss.
I'm 72, I agree.
Davids guitar sings better than most people nowadays. Grabs your soul.
Mr. Gilmour plugged that damn guitar into his soul
What a treat to see somebody how hasn't seen that performance before... it's a hell-ova ride into the genius of Dave Gilmore live!
You are so right. There are so many small and large inventions, designs, and artistic excellence that converge to present a masterpiece - and we get to be pulled right through the soul of it all.
Faana Music, thank you for sharing this and your insights. You actually expressed so many facets of Pink Floyd in a way that I had reserved myself. It is so nice to see that I am not alone... Thank You.
I went to school in the 70's, and the music throughout the 70's, into the mid-late 80's was just so amazing, everything seemed to be bringing more talent, every record seemed to be great. We took it for granted that it would always be that way, we appreciated it, but would have appreciated it more had we known that would be the pinacle. Just amazing times, I'm so happy to have lived through it. Listen to music by The Jam, The Pokice, Blondie, Ultravox, Frankie Goes to Hollywood to hear people making just the music they wanted to make, protest music was something that was strong in the 70's as few could stand up to 'the man' in any other way. A time when music really had something to say.
I've been a pro prog-rock drummer for over 45 years and I'm considered by many to be a top session player, but when I watch Niel peart it makes me feel like an amateur.
I'm sure you get the same feeling when you watch Mr Gilmore.
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Yeah, I know what you meant. It's the choices they make and the presence they have when they play. 🙏🔥🎸
I have been playing guitar for decades and have to say it doesn't matter if you think you know the notes David is playing you will never be able to convey the feelings he finds so easy to convey. He both inspires you to try and conspires to make you disappointed!
I was born in the 60s. The difference between music then and now is that music was allowed to be much more exploratory and diverse, as well as the beliefs of people were allowed to be. Now, musicians and people in general allow themselves to be forced into label-boxes, and individuality is demanded to be sacrificed for the sake of conformity. It's gotten so bad that if a person doesn't strictly conform to a plurality they can be cancelled and have their lives and careers demolished. This has resulted in modern-music having a canned and labeled feel to it, whereas music in the 60s and 70s was a complete buffet in comparison.
Pink Floyd were fearless explorers of music, constantly trying to find new ways to express their emotions and messages through musical methods that were extremely experimental and inventive at the time. A prime example of this is that most rock musicians and groups stayed locked into using a 4/4 time signature for their music. Bands like Pink Floyd used multiple time signatures and often would shift time signatures throughout some of their songs. You can really see their exploration in this area in their earliest works as they were defining themselves as musicians.
A key to Pink Floyd's music being timeless and loved by successive generations of listeners is they've been as masterful at composing their music as they've become masterful at playing and singing their music. Another major factor is that they're constantly striving to improve their songs. When you compare the Pulse performance of Comfortably Numb to the song on the album, you can see major differences in the levels of David's guitar mastery. His playing and singing has become much more emotive and nuanced over the decades.
One of David's greatest gifts is his ability to play various types of guitars while losing none of his emotive ability. He can emotionally wreck a person's heart whether he's playing a Strat, an acoustic guitar, or a steel guitar. One time I told my wife that he's so phenomenal at emoting with string instruments, that he could make a crowd start weeping using just a cardboard box with rubber bands as strings and holding it up to a microphone while he plucked the rubber bands. 😁
Can't believe this was 30 years ago, and that i was lucky enough to be in the audience
Wow, I'm jealous but also grateful that I can learn about this music at least through the footage.
I was at the Tampa and the Orlando shows... Outstanding! 🤘🔥
It was just as you thought… music, friends, the people in your life were what mattered and these kinds of performances made incredible memories among everyone in attendance. Listen again and think about what it was like to be there, with the swelling crowd. I was lucky enough to see Gilmore live many times and this show in particular. Thanks for playing it and you are right, it was a better time.
There are no words that can adequately describe how good that solo is. Gilmour at his brilliant best he just takes us to another dimension like no, and I mean no, other guitar player can. And that voice, wow!
14:02 The reason for that is that nowadays we mostly have MUSICIANS, who play an instrument and that's it, the rest will be done by a computer. Back then, music was made by ARTISTS. An artist is someone who doesn't just play an instrument, but expresses feelings and tells a story through it. And in every generation there are a few virtuoso's who've completely mastered their craft and are simply on another level from everyone else. David Gilmour most definitely is a virtuoso.
🙏💯 completely agreed that this needs to be changed.
Give me the chills every time I here this
Very much enjoyed you reaction and I am now a new subscriber. David is so good that he doesn't over clutter his playing with notes that are not needed. He's clean and smooth as well. This version is really an edited version. The actual solo is longer. It is, or hopefully still is, on YT. For the same reasons I enjoyed your not over analyzing it all. Looking forward to future videos.
did not expect your guitar to accompany the REACTION
Through an improbable set of circumstances I was fortunate enough to obtain tickets to Pink Floyd and a Date in 1988 at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Astounding performance, at an Historical venue. I'll Not be forgetting it.
Nowhere to hide playing at that pace,every note has to be bang on.!!!!
I really think this concert and especially the performance (very much including the show) of Comfortably Numb should be considered as one of the cultural high points that humanity achieved.
Pink Floyd is literally on a level all their own. In my lifetime, I saw this band live 5 or 6 times live in large venue stadiums and arenas. Each show was more than "a concert", a Pink Floyd concert was more of an immersive experience, exquisitely beautiful. The sound, Davids guitar solos, the lasers, the arrangements, the VIBE of the crowd. It's not songs being performed, it is a complete, flowing, emotionally and visually charged, audio intensive world that lives and breathes, enveloping and saturating all of your senses. The 1st time I experienced Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety live, my mouth hung open for like 3 days. I can actually say I was awestruck, which I didn't even know was a real thing. It is, like a deep spiritual awakening, it leaves a person speechless. What else can I say ...... (pages and pages actually.) This band has been my absolute band of choice, over all others, for over 55 years now. I never tire of their unique, sublime sound, changing over the decades. Always a joyful time hearing this band, simply love their creations. For me, the music they created, saved and changed my life forever.
Truly one of the greatest bands to ever have existed, a gift to us all. Timeless ......
I saw them in '94' at the Oakland Coliseum. Brother in law scored great seats from his car dealership. 10 rows back and almost dead center of the stage. They played this song with that 8' disco ball that turns into a space ship being shot with lasers and the entire place was like Laserium on steroids. I'm 68 and I still try to listen to this song every day. Shedmen
This is definitely the best version - PULSE was extraordinary 3 stages all moving on, being played on or dismantled. Two weeks sold out 80000 per night in London at Earls Court. Phenomenal. Do something different and listen to ECHOES both at Pompeii but ALSO Gilmour at Gdańsk - the very last time it was played before Rick passed. There’s something special about BOTH versions - the Gdańsk however for me edges it because Rick and David riff so beautifully off each other.
Capacity at Earls Court is 20,000.
I've done shows there.
@@2ridiculous41Sadly,no longer there! Agree,only around 20000 max capacity. Saw The Eagles there,many years ago.They had an intermission,so my son and myself(plus a hell of a lot of others!),went out to get a beer. Half way down my pint,and the first few bars of Hotel California came floating out of the arena! Never seen so much beer disappear as fast as that! They turned Joe Walsh loose in that second half,and no one sat down for the rest of the show! Superb arena with excellent accoustics,should never have been torn down!😡
Most solos stay in the higher notes. I love it when he goes down to the low keys.
Just as John Bonham KNEW the "power of the pause" on the drums, so the master David Gilmour understands the "squeezing of each note"- when to attack, when to release, & his understanding of "intervals" between notes is simply amazing: how he uses those intervals to "lift or hold" you in the melody. He's truly in a class by himself.... & a humble man. I love you, David Gilmour-you're my guitar hero! Thanks for posting, Bro'!
I really appreciate when I see today's youth appreciate the music of the late 60's and 70's. (before disco ruined everything!) 😕
Thank you so much.
Absolutely agree about disco. Saturday Night Fever and The Bee Gees have a lot to answer for.
This is my kind of music, and i know that at least one my kids likes Pink Floyd too, but hey, i like some disco as well ( not all of it) but donna summer's i feel love is good, some artists played it live in a dutch tv show th-cam.com/video/T9S2iDh1je4/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for not interrupting the solo. There should be an app that destroys the computer of anyone who dares to pause Gilmur's solo.
Knofler and Gilmour - both make a Fender Stratocaster sound incredible in totally their own way/style. nb pls check out PF's Delicate Sound of Thunder live video (I think better than Pulse)
Yeah, same guitar, completely different touch.
In many ways I also prefer the DSOT performances. I was at both, so not much bias here. The video cinematography is better in DSOT and has a more intimate/personal feel to it.
Coincidentally, i was watching my bluray of Delicate Sound of Thunder when this popped up!
Enjoyed your knowledgeable reaction. Nice to see a real guitar player react to a masterpiece and understand how great it really was. I was an old rocker myself back in the 70’s….. and you are right about the difference in mood and purpose of music back then. We didn’t relate music for the money. We created music because we had something to say. Now it’s all about sales, and fame, and money. We just played what we felt, and if it became popular, that was just a bonus. I think we were much happier back then.😎🎸🎶🇨🇦
Thanks for great commentary!
I wish you all the best
Pink Floyd are the Undisputed Gods of Live performance. Everything is built, designed to pull the emotions of the audience to the surface. The synchronization of the lights, special effects with the music bring the audience to tears. The mirror ball is something that has been part of Floyd shows for a long time
The staging and light show cost 25 million--back in 1994. They were always cutting-edge in terms of live performance. I was lucky to see them a couple of times live back in the day. Check out the live version of 'On the Turning Away'--the vocals are mind-blowing, especially a capella. The 'Pulse' concert is worth checking out in full--they also played the entire 'Dark Side of the Moon' as part of the performance.
Congratulations on finding the finest work of music by any guitarist, in my humble opinion ever created. I have seen Gilmour (PF) in concert many times over many, many years (showing my age lol). Welcome to the world of music that plays with the soul. There is nothing like it. I still get tingles and emotional when I hear this track, and this is the music that they will carry me off too.
Also Sorrow and High Hopes from the Pulse tour have great live solos and Marooned from the Division Bell album has the most emotional solo ever recorded in music history...
Thank you for the recommendations! 🙏
@@FaanaMusic you are welcome...enjoy your music journey...
@@FaanaMusic Make sure to pick the 'restored & re-edited' version from the official Pink Floyd channel. It has much better audio & video quality than the older uploads.
This song, this performance, this lead guitarist, this harmony, this light show...wow. Pure magic. An all time great performance of one of Pink Floyd's best songs.
Guitars ask for David Gilmour for Christmas.
nice 👌
I would like to go back in time and attend this concert!
beautiful guitar to go with it too 🎸🎸
During the thousands of times I’ve watched this performance, I found myself thinking that the the lotus-ball opens and we catch that ‘fleeting glimpse’ - which is in the lyrics ‘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…’
So it quickly goes out as the song is finished…
Just a matter of opinion - everyone shall find one’s own meaning, it’s an art)
Great reaction, thanks!
Thanks for this - I appreciate your thoughtfulness. I was around then (I'm 59). I don't know that the world was any nicer or more cohesive, but the splinters didn't have a megaphones and were forced to consider others much more often when voicing opinions, because there were no impenetrable echo chambers. Also, absolutely right about the music culture. It was more about groups coming together with similar desires to create music. At the time, it was simply required and expected that whatever music you produced had to be played live in order to survive. Bands INTENDED to be on stage performing their music, so you were always subject to the quality of your last performance. It's trial by fire 100+ nights a year for years! People these days really do not understand how different music sounds when you are actually in the venue with bands like PF. As freaking awesome as this recording is, there is a completely different, existential feeling produced when you have the live sound separation, resonance and community experience of such a concert. I think, maybe, this cultural example of the art influencing society, not vice-versa, that's a reason I don't believe people were fundamentally nicer.
I was at this concert. Ahoy Rotterdam NL. Beginning of November 93. Perfect acoustics 🎉🎉🎉
Faana commented on the amount of work involved in producing this performance. First I really knew of PF was when I caught the whole of this Pulse concert by pure chance on late-night TV in the late 90's, I just couldn't stop watching, the music and the lightshow were stunning. Just think of the computing power used to operate all those hundreds of lights individually in 3 dimensions and colour (and co-ordinated with the music). I became a Pink Floyd addict overnight. And Dave Gilmour's playing, of course.
Saw them in New Orleans. Will never forget the emotions
Boy did I party hard listening to this in early 70's so many good bands back then
You'd need to understand the blooming of the lotus flower, and the life meaning it holds. The flower opens when Gilmour's iconic guitar solo hits its peak. This is among the greatest live guitar solos (and overall performances) ever. As for the guitar solo, thanks so much for not stopping the video to analyze it. As is ALWAYS the case with Pink Floyd, not only is the musical performance a work for art, but the background art (lighting and effects?) is a work of art.
I was there and have seen PinkFloyd 6 times over the years but this performance was the best ever by far.
This is doubtless the best live performance of this song EVER and I have seen more than one reactor brought to tears by the second solo.
Edit: And Nick Mason does not get enough credit for his fantastic performance on drums here. Perfection.
The best guitar solo of Gilmour is always the last one we listened. There are so many best solo of David!
Pink Floyd are not just a music band, they are creators of feelings!
Good music touches the soul, this bring a tear.
The Orb opening for me symbolized a spiritual rebirth or cleansing. It is the best way I can describe it for the many reaction host shedding so many tears. Myself included.
Absolutely phenomenal!!!
Oh ya it’s brilliant and beautiful
In the dictionary under the definition of the word 'epic' it says "see Dave Gilmore's Pulse solo to comfortably numb"
Haha, true! 🔥🎸
The Best!!!! Desde Argentina....
This is a fantastic performance and I have the pleasure of saying that I was at this Pulse concert in 1994 in Earlscourt, London but you also have to hear him play live in Pompeii in 2016 at 70 YEARS OF AGE - MAGNIFICANT - Comfortably Numb
Although you're very knowledgeable, I subscribed because of your sensitivity, your enthusiasm and your smile.
A very awesome reaction, i've watched you react to Dire Straits and what you said about a time when people were actually nice to each other ...Music in the 70's , early 80's was made to be enjoyed, to make a difference, not souly to make money....The bands cared about making music that changed peoples lives .
It is this song, this performance, and that solo that got me into guitar. You can get endless tone with a dreadnaut acoustic, a Fender Stratocaster, and Gibson Les Paul. Add a Marshall tube Amp and 70s-90s classic rock is covered.
One very young lady I saw reacting to this same video said that the opening of the disco ball seemed to her "like watching an angel being born" ... To me that pretty much sums up the entire performance.
If I could ask for a Magic Desire, I just want to forget all Pink Floyd music and hear then for the very first time again.
I find your comments fascinating even before the end of the clip
Thank you! 🙏 What in particular did you resonate with?
A wonderful performance from Pink Floyd, and Gilmour's solo is stunning. I would like to hear your thoughts on Mike Oldfield in a future video.
Mike Oldfield is a great idea, thank you!
@@FaanaMusic Great, here are a few suggestions;
Moonlight Shadow. The original video. th-cam.com/video/e80qhyovOnA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=j1QJI5DCR5sTqsCP
Great. Here are a few suggestions.
A live version of Moonlight Shadow - th-cam.com/video/huRvdtTh2bA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hM7DgYwI6OeWUC7r very Knopfler solo.
The original video of Moonlight Shadow - th-cam.com/video/e80qhyovOnA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=oucl7HONjbSLOPwK
Sentinel - th-cam.com/video/I_zL9qt_ySU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=l83trRZh_8hcwbbS This is the first track from the live premiere of Tubular Bells 2
Mike displaying his amazing guitar playing live on TV - th-cam.com/video/FXDan5L0dBA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3TpYQv0JG4I52cGX
In 1974 at Knebworth I saw Pink Floyd perform Echoes, Dark Side of the Moon and I believe the first performance of Wish you Were Here. What a band, what a concert and what an experience. You're right by the way, the music at that time, at least the parts I listened to, were mostly moving and deep.
For me the best guitar solo of all time, not so much the technique, but the most emotional. You float on this cloud of sound and are taken on a journey.
The whole Pulse concert was one of a kind - and this was 30 years ago! The lights were computerized (for the first time ever on a scale like this). This was the tour / concert of a century.
This solo is so good that every time I hear it, it starts from goosebumps and ends up with tears of happiness
I was lucky enough to be there - doesn't seem like 30 years ago this year.
My 2 favourite bands, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits :D
IKR it's just perfect.
Run like hell is another great one from this same concert
You don't realise how big the stage setup actually is, until you notice the random shots where you can see all of it and the band members for a sense of scale. I'm sure i read it was/is 50 meters tall.
I saw the show at Soldier Field in Chicago. The top of the stage poked out above the bowl by at least one to 200 ft.
Was it just me, or did this seem like a shortened version of this particular solo?
Well spoken, we are mainly numb and disconnected in or daily bubble. Maybe the disco ball bubble repesents that, opening at the of the performance to a magic staff which binds polarity, a kind of prayer mill. Also you are right, this hole way of preparation and delivery of this song is a human sharing wonder beauty in music like with the pyramids on architecture, cultural world wonders.
Pulse concert at Earls Court. Damn near a spiritual experience.
If only everything in life could be this perfect.....
Hi. David sings through his guitar, and it is hard to define.😪
you have to react to the concert in pompeii the guitar solo there is PERFECT
70's yes but really from the 60's experimental since 66' 67' is an amazing year nights in white satin' whiter shade of pale' .. pink floyd and david is blues progression