Thank you Bob Ezrin, without you, we would never have become Comfortably Numb. For those who don't know, David Gilmour had shown this demo piece for Bob Ezrin at the beginning of sessions for The Wall, at that rating, Roger Waters was the writer of 100% of the songs. After listening to that, Bob made Gilmour play the whole song he wrote, which is the chorus we just heard and the first version of what would become the verses but found in Em in front of Waters. Ezrin said that Roger decided to not include any of the material from David, which led both Waters and Ezrin to argue about that. At the end of the day, Roger decided to give it a chance and work on it with David, which caused one of the greatest fights between them, it went so rough that they almost got to their fists in a restaurant down in Los Angeles.
What Netflix fiction have you been watching about this? The song is not 100% Waters. Only the guitar solos could actually make the song. As for the 100% Waters lyrics, try to picture them on a different music framework
Gilmour had the chorus, which sounded beautiful, but didn't know what to do with it, this is not a song. Erin wanted Gilmour to write something but he had nothing, Waters didn't want to take anything until Ezrin challenged him to do something with this. Waters came back the next day with a song. If you don't believe me or Waters, go look up Bob Ezrin interviews about the wall, he stated this. Also, in other interviews he has said that their disagreement of the final version of the song was a 2 vs 1 thing. Ezrin like Waters version better but they reached an agreement and included Gilmours vision of it at the end of the song.
Comfortably Numb in all of its Pink Floyd and David Gimore guises are the greatest achievement of the human race. We have peaked as a civilisation and thus can all die now listening to this magnificent masterpiece.
I remember hearing this live on radio 1 when Gilmour was being interviewed on the Into The Night show back in 1992. He had brought in some demos that had never been heard before, including the demo of Money, Learning To Fly and this one. In his own words, Gilmour said that he was in the studio recording his first solo album in 1978.
A lot of songs are wrote this way. Paul McCartney wrote "Yesterday" singing "Scrambled Eggs" later changing it to "Yesterday". This was the songwriting formula for many bands like Black Sabbath. Guitarist Tony Iommi would usually come up with a cool riff or a chord progression and use this to write the music for the entire song. Next, Ozzy would hum a tune (as Gilmour did here) or sing non-sensical lyrics in order to establish the vocal melody that is sung on top of the music. Finally, it would be up to Geezer Butler to write actual lyrics that fit Ozzy's vocal melody. In this case, David Gilmour assumed the musical roles of Tony and Ozzy, and Roger Waters assumed the lyrical role of Geezer Butler. (Footnote: Although Ozzy rarely wrote a complete set of lyrics, he did come up with some pretty good titles such as "Iron Man", which would help inspire Geezer's lyrics.)
Interesting fact: Nik Kershaw's "Riddle" track, was actually just a concept track that he decided to leave the obscure place-holder lyrics in. Hence why it makes no sense, hence why also the title of the track. Pretty much like this, except using random words and sentences.
I can’t remember who the interview was with but I remember reading an interview where a famous musician was talking about his writing style and he said he would often take another person’s song and just rewrite/change everything about it bit by bit until he had a completely new song.
Search "Paul McCartney Get Back creation" here on TH-cam to find my favourite part of the Peter Jackson documentary. It's really covers everything from Zero through chords and melody jibberish to quite nearly the finished refrain and the verse just lacking the right words, in very little time actually.
This was a song David was working on as a solo project. He was talked into using it as a part of a song Roger was working on which became Comfortably Numb.
It was the conception of comfortably numb before Roger wrote the words by David Gilmour. Musical idea by David. Intresting to see a brilliant song in its early stages
It is not conception. Conception would need all the parts ready before it goes for arrangements. What we see here is some fragment. Conception was created with Roger, when remaining parts were added
@@MaximeCrochu This musical idea was never realized by David in a real song. David's solo album was released in May '78 while Roger presented the band with the demos of _The Wall_ and _Pro and Cons_ in July '78. It was Roger and Bob Ezrin who made that David chorus the piece we know … And of course *_no one questions_* the excellence of musical embroidery in David's solos :)
@@MaximeCrochu The "basic ideas" are those expressed in texts and projects, certainly not in a simple round of musical chords. From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gilmour_(album) *_"… a song included on this album [editor's note: David Gilmour (album)], the piano ballad "So Far Away", uses a chorus progression not unlike the chorus to "Comfortably Numb", albeit in a different key.[7]"_* 7 ^ Carruthers, Bob (2011). "The Wall". Pink Floyd - Uncensored on the Record (E-book ed.). Cooda Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-908538-27-7. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
This demo was created when David was making his 1st solo album. This 1978 release (e.g., David Gilmour) remains the most successful solo project of any Pink Floyd band member. Gilmour has stated that he didn't have time to complete the song for his solo project, so he played the demo to Waters and the rest is history.
Some lyrics I've transpired from this demo go as followed: Put it on the line Put it to the test I'm just the same as all the rest I'm not the worst, but I'm not the best There's nothing to live And nothing to die for There is no future No place to grab for I'm just floating away on the wind
@@alanj5379He's among the greatest lyricists of all time, but his lyrics for the Comfortably Numb demo were just as bad or even worse. ("Listen, I am a physician, I can handle your condition like a magician")
@@remsi2208 (messing around & expounding off your entry) "Listen you , I am a physician, I can handle your condition like a magician If you don't want me I'll go fishin' I can do both .... I'm in that position You have no hair it is receding
The humming is as if its coming from a place you know far far away... its drilling into your wall and calling you out.. its like you can't resist but fly away and out of your wall... would have been a fitting inclusion in the wall.. a small spark of hope
This is absolutely beautiful I can feel the pure raw art coming from the really deep inside of Dave’s core almost like a mystical inspiration the best band ever
If wondering how he got these sounds, David gilmour used a high strung ovation guitar plugged up into a phase 90 into his amp for this setup. In the studio version, he did not use the phase 90.
Gilmour wrote this music while trying to figure out what his friend meant by the phrase "tune a guitar to a high D". Gilmour recorded this demo just a bit too late for him to include a song upgrade of it on his first solo album. We are all glad it was too late. Else this lovely tune would have been marooned on a little noticed solo album. Such marooning is the sad fate that befell Murder and Near The End on Gilmour's About Face solo album. Better if those two songs had been saved for Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse Of Reason.
One of the most prolific and amazing guitarist David Gilmore. Such a genius at his craft. Once Waters added his part they created such an beautiful song.
For me, the best two songs on the Wall are Comfortably Numb and Hey You. You can hear both of those in this demo. He didn't contribute the lyrics to either, but he wrote the melody, the phrasing, certainly the amazing guitar solos. The idea that Waters is the only genius behind Pink Floyd is straight up BS.
I agree with you about Waters being the only genius on those 2 songs, but I also really like "Blue Sky" & Thin Ice" when I'm in a slightly different mood. The feud between Waters & Gilmore is way deeper than Waters will admit. His ego is massive. He resents that Gilmore wasn't a founding member although he spent much time there while Syd was still there. It's a real shame that band members from a band that seeming is so acceptable , peaceful , and loving. I don't like that at all. For 2 guys to work on such beautiful songs for the most part and make buku money and make so many people joyful and then fight about it for the rest of their lives is totally hypocritical in my opinion also in my opinion it seems Waters is much more aggressive and insulting . It kind of ruins the song for me . This doesn't seem to be the way Syd Barret would have done it .
There's no denying that without Waters, this song wouldn't have existed or would've ended up in a solo Gilmour album with Polly's lyrics on it. Truth is, even though the melody and humming sounds beautiful, David didn't know what to do with it. Ezrin pushed Waters to do something with it, the rest is history.
Por lo que sé, este es un demo que iría en el primer álbum solista de David y éste lo presentó a la banda y Roger Waters compuso la letra para el tema que en un principio se iba a llamar "The Doctor".
Brilliant to hear demos. Love the humming of melody. I would do this all the time at jams, and people would hate it. "wheres the words, thats dumb" they'd say. Words come only when a tune stands the test of time and proves itself worthy.
"Words come only when a tune stands the test of time and proves itself worthy." I'm not sure this is true. Everyone has their own method of course, but the most celebrated songwriters all discuss writing complete songs fairly quickly.
@@TooleyPeter it goes both ways. Some of the biggest bands sing nonsense when putting together pieces or have like a chorus but not completely written verses. It’s pretty common. U2 was like this often in developing some of their biggest records, with bono initially singing gibberish over what become the biggest songs. Gilmour here does it as well.
Hmm... I'm kinda getting Forever Autumn (well, the original Lego commercial version) vibes from this. Makes me want to listen to Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds again, and that's an offer I can't refuse.
Clear proof here, as to David’s stronger instinct for Melody, as well as a much more attractive, singing voice than Roger Clearly, this was David’s song and it’s important to note that it’s also Pink Floyd‘s most successful song.
Another brick in the wall has hundreds of millions more Spotify streams. While I like comfortably numb quite a bit more, statistically its not their most successful song
This is not a song ffs! He had a nice idea of a melody but didn't know what to do with it. If it wasn't for Ezrin and Gilmour, this would have never become a song.
Ive become a massive fan of Pink Floyd in my later years... well my thirties and forties. I have just hit the big Five O, and looking at Gilmour when he was younger reminds me a little bit about me, as I was told that I wasn't a bad looker - never took this seriously until I recently saw pics of myself in my 20s and 30s. I looked in the mirror the other day and almost didn't recognise myself as I steered at my receding hair line, had numerous grey hairs and what I saw wasn't what I remember I looked like. David Gilmore, and I say this as a straight guy, was a good looking bloke. With time his looks have withered but he still commands a maturity and strength that others possess less of. He also stood thick and thin with Pink Floyd and when Waters left in '85 Gilmore loyally continued with the band that Waters expected would fold.. but it didn't. There's a lot of jealousy from Waters towards Gilmore. Waters was an arrogant ol' talented soul who doesn't believe in democracy and has become woke and even more arrogant with age.
Wow. This is beautiful. It lacks the grit of the album version, I suppose that is due to Roger's absence in the demo :p. That doesn't make this better or worse, just different... beautiful where the album version is incredible.
This was the orgin of the song or the idea with David laying down a rythym, and humming a melody that had not yet had words written for. Colaboration. Roger put the lyrics to it and of course it became history! Great colaboration...
@@ralphiecifaretto8961 omg thats not true. Roger waters solo stuff is aweful! Pink floyd came out with some pretty good songs without waters. Listen to division bell! Pretty good! Go listen to radio kaos! Its aweful!
@@ralphiecifaretto8961 20 songwriters? Lol where did u hear that? I know his wife writes lyrics of his recent solo stuff. But u never heard david gilmore had 20 writers to help write the division bell. Where did u hear that?
This wasn’t really a demo for comfortably numb. David was working on his first solo album when a friend asked him to create something for a “high strung” guitar. David, not knowing what that was, strung his guitar up several octaves and slapped this together for the friend. It wasn’t what his friend was looking for but David kept it around. Luckily he still had it when Roger asked for help on “The Doctor”. By the way, this isn’t what a “high strung” guitar is. All just a happy accident.
Gilmour states in the documentary Wider Horizons that this is what BECAME "comfortably numb" when it was time to work on The Wall.His greatest Pink Floyd song and his greatest guitar solo.
Nah man, Comfortably Numb was basically fully made by David Gilmour, Roger created only some bass lines.... G, G7 and Em and obviously the lyrics in the verse and in the chorus created by David.... This song was planned to be in David Gilmour's solo album... And that's why Roger doesn't play this song when he's touring, he only plays it in very rare situations.
@@franklinclinton4690 Comfortably Numb was one of Waters "encore" songs on the Us & Them tour.Also in the encore for the Dark Side of the Moon tour and of course in The Wall tour.The problem he has when including that song is that NOBODY plays it like Gilmour.
@@thefuturefactory56 Man, read about Comfortably Numb and watch some interviews from both sides, Comfortably Numb is Gilmour's Another Brick in the Wall, it's his main song, it was really going to be part of David's solo album and it were going to be an instrumental song, but Roger asked to put it in their new album "The Wall" and Roger worked on lyrics, that's all... Comfortably Numb melody is 95% written by David.
Comfortably Numb was written, sung, and played by David Gilmour, not roger the truth dodger slaughters. Same with Shine on you Crazy Diamond and most other good Pink Floyd songs. The other good ones were by Richard Wright, such as Great Gig in the Sky with vocals by Clare Tory. Some say roger slaughters wrote good lyrics, but sorry "I'm alright Jack; keep your hands off of my stack" doesn't quite cut it for me. Not to mention his weak unsteady vocals. Oh yeah and he played bass.
BTW, that aaaahh aahhh ahhhh cannot be attributed to Rick Wright! Per the session singer, Clare Torry's own comment on Wikipedia: Clare Torry: I went in, put the headphones on, and started going 'Ooh-aah, baby, baby - yeah, yeah, yeah.' They said, 'No, no - we don't want that. If we wanted that we'd have got Doris Troy.' They said, 'Try some longer notes', so I started doing that a bit. And all this time, I was getting more familiar with the backing track. […] That was when I thought, 'Maybe I should just pretend I'm an instrument.' So I said, 'Start the track again.' One of my most enduring memories is that there was a lovely can [i.e headphone] balance. Alan Parsons got a lovely sound on my voice: echoey, but not too echoey. When I closed my eyes - which I always did - it was just all-enveloping; a lovely vocal sound, which for a singer, is always inspirational.[9] This is also seen in the fact that since 2005 and winning her lawsauit - she is now credited as co-author of "The Great Gig in the Sky". After all, as a session musician she was paid £30 for this gig. To my mind, here voice is one of the most notable track on DSOM...
Yes. David originally made this to go on his debut solo album but chose not to develop it further. When it came to do The Wall he brought this along, and worked with Roger to integrate it into the narrative of the doctor (Comfortably Numb) which Roger already had lyrics to. But the two made several compromises during the development, something Roger talks about in his interview on Absolute Radio.
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Comfortably Doo
Nope. It's 'Comfortably Doo-Doo'. That makes a whole world of difference ! LOL 😂
All I hear is radio caca, radio doo doo, radio caca. :p
nice to see chubz here 🗿
😂😂😂 Scooby Doo like this demo
Probably one of the most beautiful demos ever..
totalmente
@John Jay 😅
@John Jay are you actually that thick? Its not the actual lyrics he had in mind its how almost every band creates a vocal line for a song.
@@stevowilliams8279 Right, its literally how you write melodies
@John Jay - hush. Your ignorance is showing.
From doodies to comfortably numb. They really are the best band ever
Thank you Bob Ezrin, without you, we would never have become Comfortably Numb.
For those who don't know, David Gilmour had shown this demo piece for Bob Ezrin at the beginning of sessions for The Wall, at that rating, Roger Waters was the writer of 100% of the songs. After listening to that, Bob made Gilmour play the whole song he wrote, which is the chorus we just heard and the first version of what would become the verses but found in Em in front of Waters. Ezrin said that Roger decided to not include any of the material from David, which led both Waters and Ezrin to argue about that. At the end of the day, Roger decided to give it a chance and work on it with David, which caused one of the greatest fights between them, it went so rough that they almost got to their fists in a restaurant down in Los Angeles.
Roger is an idiot.
What Netflix fiction have you been watching about this? The song is not 100% Waters. Only the guitar solos could actually make the song. As for the 100% Waters lyrics, try to picture them on a different music framework
@@JosephDFaziothat was not what he was saying, read again. Up to that point Rogers wrote all the material of the Wall sessions
@@maurice2213 let him say what he meant
Gilmour had the chorus, which sounded beautiful, but didn't know what to do with it, this is not a song. Erin wanted Gilmour to write something but he had nothing, Waters didn't want to take anything until Ezrin challenged him to do something with this. Waters came back the next day with a song. If you don't believe me or Waters, go look up Bob Ezrin interviews about the wall, he stated this. Also, in other interviews he has said that their disagreement of the final version of the song was a 2 vs 1 thing. Ezrin like Waters version better but they reached an agreement and included Gilmours vision of it at the end of the song.
U know a song is awesome when the only words are "do do do", and it's still better then 90% of modern songs
99.9%
99.999999999_______
100%*
100 %
There’s no percentage, it’s a song from GOD
Comfortably Numb in all of its Pink Floyd and David Gimore guises are the greatest achievement of the human race. We have peaked as a civilisation and thus can all die now listening to this magnificent masterpiece.
Roger: "that's fantastic Dave, ye got an name for it?"
David: "Doo Doo"
Roger: "perfect ol' chap"
Hahahahah!!
It’s a bit... toppy...
This is the funniest thing I ever read
@@jessehowell102 why thank you. It practically wrote itself I was just the instrument it chose to..
Fuck man I'm tired. Finish the sentence please.
@@roberthelmick9574 "it chose to say." I don't know, that's the best I can do.
I didn't think I would get so touched by David Gilmour do do doing for three minutes. I guess that's the power of him.
He does Aaaaaaaahhhh very well too, check out the Celestial Voices segment from SoS, esp the Pompeii version.
@@TheRattkingAlways gives me the chills during that part. 😅
This is how he writes his solos too. He sings them over chords, then replicates on guitar.
Absolutely beautiful. Then again he could literally sing the ABCs and I would be mesmerized. God I love his voice 💗
David Gilmore is the most underrated singer
I remember hearing this live on radio 1 when Gilmour was being interviewed on the Into The Night show back in 1992. He had brought in some demos that had never been heard before, including the demo of Money, Learning To Fly and this one. In his own words, Gilmour said that he was in the studio recording his first solo album in 1978.
A diamond in the rough. This recording is priceless.
A lot of songs are wrote this way. Paul McCartney wrote "Yesterday" singing "Scrambled Eggs" later changing it to "Yesterday". This was the songwriting formula for many bands like Black Sabbath. Guitarist Tony Iommi would usually come up with a cool riff or a chord progression and use this to write the music for the entire song. Next, Ozzy would hum a tune (as Gilmour did here) or sing non-sensical lyrics in order to establish the vocal melody that is sung on top of the music. Finally, it would be up to Geezer Butler to write actual lyrics that fit Ozzy's vocal melody. In this case, David Gilmour assumed the musical roles of Tony and Ozzy, and Roger Waters assumed the lyrical role of Geezer Butler. (Footnote: Although Ozzy rarely wrote a complete set of lyrics, he did come up with some pretty good titles such as "Iron Man", which would help inspire Geezer's lyrics.)
Brilliant assessment. Totally agree.
That just song writing yup
Interesting fact: Nik Kershaw's "Riddle" track, was actually just a concept track that he decided to leave the obscure place-holder lyrics in. Hence why it makes no sense, hence why also the title of the track.
Pretty much like this, except using random words and sentences.
I can’t remember who the interview was with but I remember reading an interview where a famous musician was talking about his writing style and he said he would often take another person’s song and just rewrite/change everything about it bit by bit until he had a completely new song.
Search "Paul McCartney Get Back creation" here on TH-cam to find my favourite part of the Peter Jackson documentary. It's really covers everything from Zero through chords and melody jibberish to quite nearly the finished refrain and the verse just lacking the right words, in very little time actually.
This was a song David was working on as a solo project. He was talked into using it as a part of a song Roger was working on which became Comfortably Numb.
This is so, so incredibly beautiful.
The original is way better though
@@nirad8026 i mean technically this is the original
David Gilmore is a Gorgeous Man, i Luv his seeet tender voice.🫠🩵 my heart.
It was the conception of comfortably numb before Roger wrote the words by David Gilmour. Musical idea by David. Intresting to see a brilliant song in its early stages
It is not conception. Conception would need all the parts ready before it goes for arrangements. What we see here is some fragment. Conception was created with Roger, when remaining parts were added
this song was written originally by David for his solo album in 78...
@@MaximeCrochu
This musical idea was never realized by David in a real song. David's solo album was released in May '78 while Roger presented the band with the demos of _The Wall_ and _Pro and Cons_ in July '78. It was Roger and Bob Ezrin who made that David chorus the piece we know … And of course *_no one questions_* the excellence of musical embroidery in David's solos :)
@@Enrico.Sbardolini It was originally for David’s Solo album in 78 but he told he was to late for work on this song. The basic idea came from David 😉
@@MaximeCrochu
The "basic ideas" are those expressed in texts and projects, certainly not in a simple round of musical chords.
From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gilmour_(album)
*_"… a song included on this album [editor's note: David Gilmour (album)], the piano ballad "So Far Away", uses a chorus progression not unlike the chorus to "Comfortably Numb", albeit in a different key.[7]"_*
7 ^ Carruthers, Bob (2011). "The Wall". Pink Floyd - Uncensored on the Record (E-book ed.). Cooda Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-908538-27-7. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
In addition to his guitar playing ability, I always wanted his total rock star hair from the early days.
Why not grow it out?
@@aquamate5127 Trying! But it is too bushy. Lol.
I bet he does, too! lol
He probably does, too.
This demo was created when David was making his 1st solo album. This 1978 release (e.g., David Gilmour) remains the most successful solo project of any Pink Floyd band member. Gilmour has stated that he didn't have time to complete the song for his solo project, so he played the demo to Waters and the rest is history.
@@terrencesclassicrockcorner quote?
Some lyrics I've transpired from this demo go as followed:
Put it on the line
Put it to the test
I'm just the same as all the rest
I'm not the worst, but I'm not the best
There's nothing to live
And nothing to die for
There is no future
No place to grab for
I'm just floating away on the wind
🥱
Geez im glad roger waters was pink floyd lyricist
@@alanj5379He's among the greatest lyricists of all time, but his lyrics for the Comfortably Numb demo were just as bad or even worse. ("Listen, I am a physician, I can handle your condition like a magician")
@@remsi2208
(messing around & expounding off your entry)
"Listen you , I am a physician, I can handle your condition like a magician
If you don't want me I'll go fishin'
I can do both .... I'm in that position
You have no hair it is receding
The humming is as if its coming from a place you know far far away... its drilling into your wall and calling you out.. its like you can't resist but fly away and out of your wall... would have been a fitting inclusion in the wall.. a small spark of hope
This is absolutely beautiful
I can feel the pure raw art coming from the really deep inside of Dave’s core
almost like a mystical inspiration
the best band ever
If I ever sang an entire song, singing, “doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo,” it would just sound like an out of tune stutter. This man is amazing. ❤️
I read somewhere that this guitar tuning has a high "E" as the low "E" and it is one octave above the "High E". Unbelievable idea.
If wondering how he got these sounds, David gilmour used a high strung ovation guitar plugged up into a phase 90 into his amp for this setup. In the studio version, he did not use the phase 90.
Without a demo like this, there can be no song
I love the guitar music in this version. Awesome chords, tremendous playing, and some wicked guitar effects.
Gilmour wrote this music while trying to figure out what his friend meant by the phrase "tune a guitar to a high D". Gilmour recorded this demo just a bit too late for him to include a song upgrade of it on his first solo album. We are all glad it was too late. Else this lovely tune would have been marooned on a little noticed solo album. Such marooning is the sad fate that befell Murder and Near The End on Gilmour's About Face solo album. Better if those two songs had been saved for Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse Of Reason.
So blessed are we to have the point of conception of this most beautiful thing..
One of the most prolific and amazing guitarist David Gilmore. Such a genius at his craft. Once Waters added his part they created such an beautiful song.
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From 1:13 to 1:20 it sounds a bit like 'Hey You' intro played with chords instead of arpeggios.
Lol, it seems like hey you arpeggio, you are right
nice one. Agree :)
Probably because HY uses the same guitar and tuning as CN
Ok and?
Great catch
LYRICS:
Doo, doo doo
Doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo, doo doo
Doo
Doo doo doo doo
doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo...
Doo doo doo...
Blessed to even get to hear this. Ride on DG !
For me, the best two songs on the Wall are Comfortably Numb and Hey You. You can hear both of those in this demo. He didn't contribute the lyrics to either, but he wrote the melody, the phrasing, certainly the amazing guitar solos. The idea that Waters is the only genius behind Pink Floyd is straight up BS.
I agree with you about Waters being the only genius on those 2 songs, but I also really like "Blue Sky" & Thin Ice" when I'm in a slightly different mood. The feud between Waters & Gilmore is way deeper than Waters will admit. His ego is massive. He resents that Gilmore wasn't a founding member although he spent much time there while Syd was still there. It's a real shame that band members from a band that seeming is so acceptable , peaceful , and loving. I don't like that at all. For 2 guys to work on such beautiful songs for the most part and make buku money and make so many people joyful and then fight about it for the rest of their lives is totally hypocritical in my opinion also in my opinion it seems Waters is much more aggressive and insulting . It kind of ruins the song for me . This doesn't seem to be the way Syd Barret would have done it .
There's no denying that without Waters, this song wouldn't have existed or would've ended up in a solo Gilmour album with Polly's lyrics on it. Truth is, even though the melody and humming sounds beautiful, David didn't know what to do with it. Ezrin pushed Waters to do something with it, the rest is history.
This is beauty striped back without all the other noise
This is beautiful
Dio mio… quelle frasi sono un capolavoro… ho la pelle d’oca
If I will ever have a child I will play this as a lullaby
Por lo que sé, este es un demo que iría en el primer álbum solista de David y éste lo presentó a la banda y Roger Waters compuso la letra para el tema que en un principio se iba a llamar "The Doctor".
Brilliant to hear demos. Love the humming of melody. I would do this all the time at jams, and people would hate it. "wheres the words, thats dumb" they'd say. Words come only when a tune stands the test of time and proves itself worthy.
"Words come only when a tune stands the test of time and proves itself worthy." I'm not sure this is true. Everyone has their own method of course, but the most celebrated songwriters all discuss writing complete songs fairly quickly.
@@TooleyPeter it goes both ways. Some of the biggest bands sing nonsense when putting together pieces or have like a chorus but not completely written verses. It’s pretty common. U2 was like this often in developing some of their biggest records, with bono initially singing gibberish over what become the biggest songs. Gilmour here does it as well.
@@amostlyreasonableguy Yes, he does it beautifully.
AMAZING!
origin of great creation!!
Fantastic
This could be the official lyrics. Do dooo dooo doo
Doo doo doo take all the credit for most of our work Roger...
Hmm... I'm kinda getting Forever Autumn (well, the original Lego commercial version) vibes from this. Makes me want to listen to Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds again, and that's an offer I can't refuse.
Clear proof here, as to David’s stronger instinct for Melody, as well as a much more attractive, singing voice than Roger
Clearly, this was David’s song and it’s important to note that it’s also Pink Floyd‘s most successful song.
Most successful? By what metrics? Another Brick in the Wall is much more wellknown
@@sammoreton333 well, this particular metric would be airplay. Comfortably Numb has been played on radio more than any other Pink Floyd song.
@@DanLetts97wheres that stat from buddy?
Another brick in the wall has hundreds of millions more Spotify streams. While I like comfortably numb quite a bit more, statistically its not their most successful song
This is not a song ffs! He had a nice idea of a melody but didn't know what to do with it. If it wasn't for Ezrin and Gilmour, this would have never become a song.
the verse is fucking gorgeous
I go to this demo time and time again when I want to forget about life for three minutes.
Ive become a massive fan of Pink Floyd in my later years... well my thirties and forties. I have just hit the big Five O, and looking at Gilmour when he was younger reminds me a little bit about me, as I was told that I wasn't a bad looker - never took this seriously until I recently saw pics of myself in my 20s and 30s. I looked in the mirror the other day and almost didn't recognise myself as I steered at my receding hair line, had numerous grey hairs and what I saw wasn't what I remember I looked like. David Gilmore, and I say this as a straight guy, was a good looking bloke. With time his looks have withered but he still commands a maturity and strength that others possess less of. He also stood thick and thin with Pink Floyd and when Waters left in '85 Gilmore loyally continued with the band that Waters expected would fold.. but it didn't. There's a lot of jealousy from Waters towards Gilmore. Waters was an arrogant ol' talented soul who doesn't believe in democracy and has become woke and even more arrogant with age.
The doo a doo, doo doo doo
roger = body. gilmour = the right suit
It wouldn't sound too out of place on some of Gilmour's solo albums to be honest.
It was originally meant to be on one of his solo albums, actually.
He’s probably made more $ with it on a Floyd album. And, the wall sold bc of the song.
It was meant to be on his first solo album but he couldn't be 'bothered' to finish it... He says luckily
Estou confortavelmente entorpecido!
the nasceny of a miracle
Wow. This is beautiful. It lacks the grit of the album version, I suppose that is due to Roger's absence in the demo :p. That doesn't make this better or worse, just different... beautiful where the album version is incredible.
This was the orgin of the song or the idea with David laying down a rythym, and humming a melody that had not yet had words written for. Colaboration. Roger put the lyrics to it and of course it became history! Great colaboration...
La nascita di un capolavoro
wtf nigga, my homie David Gilmour is spitting straight facts in this song
Genius
That's how must of songs are born.
Nice lyrics.
is it just me who heard a bit of “hey you” peeking through at around 1:37 ?
I can't not think of Bill Murray singing Star Wars.
This shows the pink floyd sound is gilmour!
This shows that without Roger Waters, Pink Floyd would have been elevator music.
@@ralphiecifaretto8961 omg thats not true. Roger waters solo stuff is aweful! Pink floyd came out with some pretty good songs without waters. Listen to division bell! Pretty good! Go listen to radio kaos! Its aweful!
@@Johnnyrocks34 David Gilmour had to bring in like 20 other songwriters to replace Waters. The guy can't write a song by himself.
@@ralphiecifaretto8961 20 songwriters? Lol where did u hear that? I know his wife writes lyrics of his recent solo stuff. But u never heard david gilmore had 20 writers to help write the division bell. Where did u hear that?
@@ralphiecifaretto8961 they were written mostly by gimour and richard wright. If u can show me who the other 19 are. Or even one name im interested
Inspired by the outro to Wish You Were Here
Can't throw Rick too much credit.
Did anyone find this on spotify?
He could be reading out an itemised invoice for the repairs to my car for it's MOT and i'd still be transfixed
there is another one that sound similar but he sings some simple filler lyrics to it. truly amazing this man
😢😊 you can hear hey you in there
David Do More
Doo doo*
Wish I could get this on cd or iTunes.
you can just rip this by googling 'youtube to mp3'
Just add the dark side of Rog’s twisted psyche and you have a hit….
Kinda sounds like "Green is the Colour" from More
I like the Lyrics!! 😂
My God , Angels would be Jelly
I have become... Comfortably Doo
Am I the only one that thinks 1:29 sounds like Moving by Supergrass? Or that moving sounds like this to be more precise.
This is how I sing all floyed songs 😂😂
does there exist footage of comfortablynumb studio version because i wanna see it
This wasn’t really a demo for comfortably numb. David was working on his first solo album when a friend asked him to create something for a “high strung” guitar. David, not knowing what that was, strung his guitar up several octaves and slapped this together for the friend.
It wasn’t what his friend was looking for but David kept it around. Luckily he still had it when Roger asked for help on “The Doctor”.
By the way, this isn’t what a “high strung” guitar is. All just a happy accident.
Gilmour states in the documentary Wider Horizons that this is what BECAME "comfortably numb" when it was time to work on The Wall.His greatest Pink Floyd song and his greatest guitar solo.
Nah man, Comfortably Numb was basically fully made by David Gilmour, Roger created only some bass lines.... G, G7 and Em and obviously the lyrics in the verse and in the chorus created by David.... This song was planned to be in David Gilmour's solo album... And that's why Roger doesn't play this song when he's touring, he only plays it in very rare situations.
He talks about it on this interview: th-cam.com/video/InG6RAZ0KWs/w-d-xo.html
@@franklinclinton4690 Comfortably Numb was one of Waters "encore" songs on the Us & Them tour.Also in the encore for the Dark Side of the Moon tour and of course in The Wall tour.The problem he has when including that song is that NOBODY plays it like Gilmour.
@@thefuturefactory56 Man, read about Comfortably Numb and watch some interviews from both sides, Comfortably Numb is Gilmour's Another Brick in the Wall, it's his main song, it was really going to be part of David's solo album and it were going to be an instrumental song, but Roger asked to put it in their new album "The Wall" and Roger worked on lyrics, that's all... Comfortably Numb melody is 95% written by David.
He is singing the solo already?
Damn he is a beast
Comfortably numb pt.2
Yui Hirasawa did the same metode
Comfortably Numb was written, sung, and played by David Gilmour, not roger the truth dodger slaughters. Same with Shine on you Crazy Diamond and most other good Pink Floyd songs. The other good ones were by Richard Wright, such as Great Gig in the Sky with vocals by Clare Tory. Some say roger slaughters wrote good lyrics, but sorry "I'm alright Jack; keep your hands off of my stack" doesn't quite cut it for me. Not to mention his weak unsteady vocals. Oh yeah and he played bass.
Way better this embriyonic version then the usual one. More bright, evocative, nordic, almost epic.
What kind of s**t do you eat?
Final studio versions of a song are never the best.
Gilmour: Ima bouta sing the doom song now!
Do a solo!
Who’s here because of Rick Beato?
*Rick Beato sent me here. You too?*
Wright wrote the aaaahh aahhh ahhhh for Great gig in the sky, why not Gilmour and his dooo doo dooo
BTW, that aaaahh aahhh ahhhh cannot be attributed to Rick Wright! Per the session singer, Clare Torry's own comment on Wikipedia:
Clare Torry:
I went in, put the headphones on, and started going 'Ooh-aah, baby, baby - yeah, yeah, yeah.' They said, 'No, no - we don't want that. If we wanted that we'd have got Doris Troy.' They said, 'Try some longer notes', so I started doing that a bit. And all this time, I was getting more familiar with the backing track. […] That was when I thought, 'Maybe I should just pretend I'm an instrument.' So I said, 'Start the track again.' One of my most enduring memories is that there was a lovely can [i.e headphone] balance. Alan Parsons got a lovely sound on my voice: echoey, but not too echoey. When I closed my eyes - which I always did - it was just all-enveloping; a lovely vocal sound, which for a singer, is always inspirational.[9]
This is also seen in the fact that since 2005 and winning her lawsauit - she is now credited as co-author of "The Great Gig in the Sky". After all, as a session musician she was paid £30 for this gig.
To my mind, here voice is one of the most notable track on DSOM...
@@JonathanCallund yes. You're absolutely WRIGHT!
You’re wrong
@@JonathanCallundyou re right. Its Torry thing
comfortably doo mkay
do...do...doonumb
This is actually Robert Wyatt dooooing
A B no it’s not. It’s Gilmour alone in a studio in France 1978 when he was recording his solo album.
Yeh i did know that, but this sounds more like Robert Wyatt's wacky vocal style :)
RUBBISH!
Don't you recognize David Gilmour's voice?
I thought the first part was going to break out with, "The Lunatic is on the grass...". The guitar tone sounds similar to my untrained ear.
It's the same chord being played, good ear!
Comfortably doo do doo
8/21/23 Looking back; seeing forward ("Z-Z") for the first time today;
on my way to being 'Comfortably Numb II.'
The music is almost one hundred percent Gilmour. Waters added the lyrics.
Only refrain is from David
So harmonicaly/melodicaly it was David & lyrics were Roger's?
Yes. David originally made this to go on his debut solo album but chose not to develop it further. When it came to do The Wall he brought this along, and worked with Roger to integrate it into the narrative of the doctor (Comfortably Numb) which Roger already had lyrics to. But the two made several compromises during the development, something Roger talks about in his interview on Absolute Radio.
@@branting2 Thank you so much Johan!
David wrote the chorus progression, Roger wrote the verse progression. Lyrics by Roger, 2 guitar solos by David.
@The Lonely Traveller No. Only the chorus melody.
_Hello, is there anybody in there?_ etc... is the verse, its melody isn't present here.
AnyColourYouLike the version chord progression is here. Waters sung his doctor part over it.
i would rather listen to dave gilmours doo doos over 95% of todays music
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
Anyone here cuz of Rick Beato