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You just witnessed probably the greatest guitar solo ever. Been listening to Pink Floyd for over 40 years. Still love it.
If your ears aren't ringing after listening to this song, did you really listen?
Second greatest
50 + years here!
@@trevorsanders5303i respect your opinion but that dosen't change the fact that this is the greatest guitar solo ever and its voted many times
The crazy thing is about a minute and half was cut out of this second solo 'for TV'. The full second solo is getting around YT.
Rodger Waters when he was a kid had a super high fever and was delirious and he was talking to people but it was like they weren't listening. Later in the 1977 concert in Philadelphia Rodger Waters The Lyricist for Floyd again was sick with hepatitis and he was in so much pain he didn't think he could play. A doctor gave him a muscle relaxant / antibiotic and he went on stage barely able to move his arms. He was worried he was playing terribly but the audience was loving it going crazy so he became Comfortably Numb kind of not caring. Roger said it was the longest 3 hours of his life!!! That's the catalyst for the lyrics of this song. David Gilmour wrote the music and they collaborated one of the last collaborations between them!!! That's the truth of it!!
I was at that concert in the Spectrum! Brings back great memories! Thanks
🇺🇸👨🏽🦳Hey ! @jonhenke … You have your facts wrong here , Bruh 😎….. Comfortably Numb , had NOTHING TO DO , With Roger Waters…. IT WAS ABOUT , SYD BARRETT AND HIS ILLNESS , RIGHT BEFORE A PERFORMANCE THAT THE BAND WAS SCHEDULED TO DO !!! 😡…😡🫵🏽 THAT ! My friend IS what that song is about !!! Not Roger !!! 🤨👨🏽🦳🇺🇸
I too was at that concert at the Spectrum, stayed overnight at the hotel by the parking lot, and had a few drinks with the road crew stating that Roger event. Memories.
As Roger later told the story, he claimed he couldn't play anything because he couldn't feel his hands , arms, legs, fingers anything.....he also said that his mind was in another universe.......hence comfortably Numb.
The band supposedly played around him while he stood on stage doing nothing except maybe stumbling around.
Supposedly, David and Rick added the baselines whenever they could.
I was going to tell the background story of this incredible song. But you nailed it! I have nothing else to say
Pulse concert is entirely off the charts 30yr ago and still probably the best produced and engineered concert to date.
30yrs mate
@@alanbrooke6173 bad math and no coffee lol. Thanks
So off the charts you can lose 10 years of your life just listening to it lol.
+1 if you had the blinking light CD
Yes, indeed. Even more, Gilmour declared to be regretted to film this concert on tape instad of 35mm, thats the reason this video will never be in HD and that's why is in 3:4 with poor quality.
30 years ago and still unmatched in live musical genius
Gilmore's solo one of the finest ever
Gilmour
@@robertmartin8565 thanks for the correction can't believe I misspelled his name been a fan for over 40 years 😁
@@gregorylensegrav208 No disrespect intended, I am just a Gilmour snob......Cheers !
@@robertmartin8565 you and me both I'm just bad at spelling
This is like picking up a book, reading chapter 18, and trying to work out the story.
Excellent comment 👍🏻
I mean, fair! But also, music can mean whatever you want it to mean. That’s the beauty of art. And I’m glad I got to experience this performance and song, regardless of if I know every single detail behind it.
The thing about Pink Floyd’s music is that you hear your own story parallel to theirs
@@KoalityReactions Watch the movie "The Wall". Things make more sense in context.
@@troylund2837 This is exactly what I have in mind. Agree!
Also from the PULSE collection of musical gems: SORROW and also HIGH HOPES.
Sorrow, High Hopes, as well as In Any Tongue and Faces of Stone from Gilmour's 2016 Live At Pompeii.
100% agree with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Floyd... I am 60 this year, Floyd has been an integral part of my whole life.. Nothing exists anything like them in this day and age. Immortal...
"Great Gig In The Sky" (Pulse concert) amazing
I feel the DSOT version of Great Gig In The Sky is a better one. The girls are superior in the older concert. The Pulse concert version girls struggle through it.
@@floyd066"Fidelity" is at the core of Pink Floyd concerts. When you see them live, you get the song you know, sometimes with a bit extra. The guitar solo here is extended, but every chord, every note, every bend from the original is there and every part is instantly recognisable as belonging to "Comfortably Numb." The "Pulse" version of "the Great Gig in the Sky" simply isn't that accurate. Everyone is entitled to their opinion as to which is better, but for me, the "Pulse" version isn't quite the song as it was conceived.
the studio version is better Claire Tory amazing
@@floyd066 "The girls struggled throught it"?
LOL are you on drugs?
Sam Brown crushed it did as did Durga Mcbroom.
No one listens to the album version and then dislikes it live...snob.
@@floyd066You have no idea what you're talking about... the backing singers are absolutely top notch. Many professional vocal coaches, singers, producers and of course Pink Floyd themselves have said how technically great they each are.
Their live performances in '88 of "On the Turning Away" hits me in the feels every time
You must watch On The Turning Away. Another great solo and great lyrics
Attending a Pink Floyd concert was something that transcended the musical aspect alone: it was almost an "extrasensory experience" that involved your entire being.
David Gilmour's wife (I assume his second wife, since he divorced his first in 1990) some time ago said: «David is not very good at expressing emotions and feelings with words, but as soon as he picks up a guitar he can "speak to you" like no one else».
As an Italian I will never be able to forget their concert held in Venice on July 15th, 1989: the stage was set up on a large floating "raft" moored in the center of the San Marco basin, in front of the Doge's Palace. The free concert was broadcast live on the first channel of the Italian National State broadcaster (RAI 1) worldwide, including the Soviet Union (delayed) and simultaneously in the two Germanys, with an estimated audience of 100 million viewers. The big problem for the organizers was that they completely got the spectator forecasts wrong, because they expected around 20,000 people and instead 200,000 arrived! This, clearly, in a place as beautiful and delicate as Piazza San Marco and the Venice Lagoon, created quite a few problems. I remember part of the audience who attended the concert on dozens and dozens of small/medium sized boats around the floating stage, as well as a completely packed Piazza San Marco.
For technical reasons, due to live television needs, the availability of satellites for world viewing and advertising, the concert was limited to just ninety minutes, with some songs cut or completely eliminated compared to the original setlist (only fourteen songs were played instead of the twenty-three scheduled in the tour).
The closing of the concert was marked by the traditional large fireworks display that characterizes the Redentore festival and which recorded an intensity of one hundred and seven decibels, exceeding the permitted limits.
David Gilmour said: «The Venice show was great fun, but very tense and unnerving. We had a specific length of show to do; satellite transmission forced us to have an absolutely precise program. We had the list of songs and we had shortened them, which we had never done before. I had a big red digital clock on the floor in front of me and the start time of each song written on a piece of paper. If we were getting close to the start time of the next song I just had to turn off the one we were playing. We had a lot of fun, but the city authorities who had agreed to provide security, sanitation and food completely reneged on everything they were supposed to do and then tried to blame us for all the subsequent problems."
The Wall as an album is a complete story about a character named Pink, with each song being a chapter of the story of Pink's life. In this chapter, Pink is having a conversation with a doctor who's medicating him so he can perform at a concert. It's after this that Pink truly begins his descent into madness and further insulates himself inside of the wall that he's built around himself to keep the world from continuing to hurt him. The album is based on the life of Syd Barrett, who was a founding member of the band that had to leave due to mental-illness as a result of drug usage. David Gilmour was his replacement after Syd had to leave the band.
For this song, Roger Waters drew off of his personal experience when he had to be medicated for severe stomach cramps for him to be able to perform at a concert one night. The verses are the doctor talking to him. The first chorus is him remembering when he was severely ill as a child and had a high fever (the past), and the second chorus is him remembering that childhood experience when he was medicated and performing as an adult. He remembered seeing/knowing something in a dream as a child during his fever, but he couldn't remember what it was when remembering that time as a medicated adult.
During this song at the concert when the disco ball opens like a flower, there's a giant gem in the middle that represents Syd - the "crazy diamond" of Pink Floyd. When the lights go out at the end of the song, the shining gem is the last light to go out. The song "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" is a also tribute to Syd. Sid Barrett died on 7 July 2006.
I came here to point out a couple of things
You've just written everything I would and much more
¡Enhorabuena!
Good stuff
@@CharlieMcowan Thanks. 😁
David Gilmore shows up dressed like he's going to walk around a home improvement store but instead performs the greatest guitar solo in history.
Greatest Live Guitar Solo Ever!!! Still to this Day and this was in 1994!!!! Greatest Live show still to this day!!! My Greatest regret in Life is wanting to see this show but not going 😕……ALL the Song’s from Pulse are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✌🏼✌🏼
This song is from the double album, The Wall. The album is a single story, told in 26 songs, about a guy who cuts himself off from society and struggles with his mental health. He builds a psychological wall, brick by brick, with each thing that happens to him (father killed in war, overprotective mother, abusive teachers, cheating wife, greedy managers). It is based, in part, on the real lives of the band members, especially Roger Waters and Syd Barrett.
I love watching people react to Floyd and get the joy that I felt years ago. Try Sorrow from the same concert.
Pink Floyd is what music aspires to be. David Gilmour is an alien with the ability to open inter dimensional portals by playing guitar 🎸
I saw the Kansas City version of this concert, also in 1994, driving with my family for 4 hours to get there. This one song was the high point of the night, and one of the high points of my life. For the rest of the 90's, I could give myself goosebumps at will by thinking of that night.
The song is from the 1979 album 'The Wall', a concept album partly inspired by Roger Water's life. Father dead in WWII, overprotective mother, sadistic schoolteachers... the Wall is a metaphor for keeping his feelings in check, and hidden from everyone else.
I love that your family went. What a memory!!! 🤍
@@KoalityReactions My sister was a KU student at the time, so we crashed with her afterwards.
Great reaction Sorrow, Money, Keep Talking, Wish You Were Here , US And Them all from pulse concert is a must!!!
I was impressed by how quickly you came up with a good understanding of the song.
The album it is from is a concept album. The whole album tells the story of a boy who grows up during war and becomes a rock star known as Pink.
This song is based on Roger Water's personal experience as a boy who lost his father in war. Later as a PF band member, he was sick but had to go on stage. He was given some sort of shot and went on to perform.
Pink went through the same experiences. Later Pink goes on trial in court.
🙃 "Comfortably Numb " is one song of a concept double-album called THE WALL (1979) which was also made into a movie (1982) 🙂 Now go back 33 years and watch them do ECHOES Live in Pompeii (1971/72) ...
Hard to believe it's 30 years next month I saw this tour in Raleigh. 4th row, best concert by far and I've seen many of the classic bands. Just watch the entire concert, you won't be disappointed.
And that wasn't the last song of the night. It was followed by "Run like Hell".
I know! I don’t think I said it was the last song of the concert.
@@KoalityReactions You didn't but it's amazing that there was even more after that!
The darker vocals that start represent a doctor about to give a musician an adrenaline shot, and the bright vocal is the musician in his own head but not really responding to the doctor. The song is from the concept album, The Wall, and has a deeper back story that I think some others have described below.
From this concert, Pulse, check out "Sorrow," "Keep Talking," "Run Like Hell," and "High Hopes"! There are a few studio versions that are essential: "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" are a couple!
Saw em in 73 in Tampa. I was 13. No adult supervision. 3 times in Atlanta. Nothing like em.
Epic!!! Damn.
On The Turning Away 1988 live by Pink Floyd and Boston - More Than A Feeling
I'm 63, and have been listening to Pink Floyd since I was 9 years old...my all time favorite group. I've been to 2 of their concerts, Animals, and Pulse...both front row seats. To understand the lyrics, you have to look at the history of Pink Floyd. Much of their music revolves around founder Sid Barrett, and the struggles he had back in the early years, even before David Gilmour joined.
High Hopes, Run Like Hell, Sorrow, The Great Gig in the Sky are just a few more great ones from this concert.
seeing them in concert was a very great experience the light show mixed with the music was unbeatable one of the best I have ever been too in my life seen them 5 times including this Pulse concert
I spent so many hours when I was young on the floor with my headphones on just inhaling the sonic textures of Pink Floyd.
This song needs to be taken into context with the remainder of the album, The Wall.
David comes on stage dressed like he's coming over to mow your lawn and commences to kill it performing one of the greatest songs in rock music history.
"Wish you were here" from this same concert is amazing
This guitar solo is pure poetry. It's historic.
Their music has been influential across various artistic mediums, including film, visual arts, and literature. Pink Floyd offers a multisensory experience, combining exceptional musicianship, profound lyrics, and innovative soundscapes. Their music has the power to transport you, challenge your perspectives, and provide a lasting emotional and intellectual impact.
*WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF FLOYD*
The second guitar solo is 'the show'.... which is why it's so much more emotional than the first one...
Oohhhh I see… love that.
Great reaction to a stunning show. I was at that actual concert, the night they filmed it, 4 rows from the stage. It was the most mesmerising experience of my life. It was almost impossible to take it all in. I had to look behind me to see the spinning mirrored globe during this song. It's difficult to tell from this video just how massive the scale of the the stage and every else was. It was completely vast. Hard to believe it'll be 30 years ago this October!
To fully understand the song in the context of The Wall double album ( it’s a brilliant concept album exploring many deep psychological themes )
This single comes as the main
character : Pink who is a rockstar , is overdosed in his hotel room and missing
His manager busts in and he is dead in a chair
When the song says a little pin prick it is an adrenaline shot that revives him but he is a hot mess
The movie is brilliant and a much watch
The story goes that Roger Waters was feeling ill before going on stage, so a Doctor gave him a shot to help. It made him disorientated, (hence Comfortably Numb) but he did complete the show.
Great reaction, Jenna! I listen to youtube reactions for two main reasons. First, to hear new music; second, to watch younger generations experience and enjoy music that i grew up listening to.
The lyrics may make more sense in context of the album The Wall. Each song on it is related and tells a piece of the overall story.
It is a great joy to watch younger people discover Pink Floyd. I did see this tour. I can recommend "anything" from this concert film. "Pulse". Thank you! This song is from the concept album "The Wall". Much happens before this song in the story. So glad you enjoyed!
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMONDS.. live 90.
Gilmour's guitar hollows out the sky.
mental patients are a continuing theme in Pink Floyd's music
This song is from the album The Wall, which was a concept album and tells the story of a fictional character called Pink (very original haha). The music is mostly from Roger Waters, he wrote all the lyrics and most of the music (tho the music from this song was created by Gilmour). Waters does borrow or is heavily inspired by his own experiences but it is not autobiographical as such. The character Pink is also a rock artist, who falls into a deep personal abyss. All the events that put him into the path of self destruction are bricks in the psychological wall he builds around him to shut him off from everything and everybody. Comfortably Numb comes about three quarters into that story and is indeed about a doctor medicating him before a show. It was 'inspired' by Waters getting medication for a stomach ache before a show in the previous tour. He said it was the longest two hours of his life.
Love your reactions! I appreciate you taking the time to ponder the lyrics. PF lyrics are deep and emotional yet they can mean different things to different people. Would love to see more Pulse concert. Every single song is amazing. I’ve been a PF for 50 years. I love seeing young folks discover these forgotten treasures.
Enjoyed your reaction to this classic performance!! I was fortunate to see Pink Floyd on this Pulse tour at The Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas in 1994. There were 47,000 fans and I had 18th row seats on the floor!! An experience of a lifetime! I also previously saw them in 1987 in Austin. If you are wanting recommendations, from this Pulse concert I highly recommend "High Hopes" and "Now and Then" (both absolutely beautiful)!! Also, "Take It Back" and then "Run Like Hell" (an amazing light show for the finale of the concert!!).
Probably THE best live rock performance of all times!
I saw pink Floyd in Seattle live in the 80's. Always and will be my favorite group.
Oh god ! If only I could hear Pink Floyd for the first time again. It started for me in 1988 when the older kids in my neighborhood dosed me with acid and we listened to Dark Side and The Wall. Those assholes are still my best friends to this day !
Hahahaha what a story!! Friendships for life.
Got 2 tickets to see Pink Floyd. My wife didn't want to go. Told me to take a friend. Told her she was going. She was pissed off at me until the concert. It's all she talked about for the next few weeks. Great "told you so" moment.
I was lucky enough to be in the crowd for this performance. It was the most mind blowing experience I've ever had
No way!!! Incredible.
One of Pink Floyd's masterpieces !! One of, if not the best guitar solo ever recorded. Enjoy the journey !!!!
Roger Waters lyrics were inspired by his experience of being injected with tranquilisers for stomach cramps before a performance in 1977. This was the first encore. Followed by Run Like Hell.
You should watch the restored edit which has clips of David with his eyes closed playing like a God, unbelievable 🎸
I saw the Animals tour I saw the Wall in LA and have seen David's version of Pink Floyd several times and he is the greatest to ever pick up a guitar
Pink Floyd had a spectacular light show consisting of lasers on their world tour ... after the tour ended -- the light show were so spectacular that it went on tour on it's own -- a light show on tour (enhance by Pink Floyd's music) .... it was a limited dates ....
First you caught the edited version of the solo. They added back the rest on the re release in 2022 of the show. The solo is a little more than a minute longer.
The conversation in the song is between a drugged out singer and the doctor who is examining him and prescribed medication so he can function and go on stage to perform at a show
Welcome to the magical world of Pink Floyd's 1994 Pulse concert, the greatest concert ever, imho. Every song is stunning and worth reacting to. But some have that extra shine: High Hopes, Keep Talking, Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Sorrow, and Run Like Hell. I look forward to seeing your take on one or all of these.
Thank you, that’s so kind! 🤍
Great job analyzing the song. You pretty much nailed it. As others have said many of Pink Floyd's albums tell a story and are meant to be heard from beginning to end. This song is from "The Wall". Based on how close you came to nailing the meaning of "Comfortably Numb" I'm betting that you can figure out what "The Wall" represents in the story told by the album - think psychology. It is well worth your time to to sit down and listen to the whole album and dissect it.
Oh wow, thank you! And yeah, The Wall is definitely making sense now. I need to dig in deeper for sure!
Pink Floyd is the GREATEST band of all time.!!
think about it this way most of pink floyds songs/tunes are over 50 years old .. that is half a century old... lol and they still sound as cool and fresh today as they did way back then ! thats what makes floyd so special,
This song is a mash up of two songs. It starts with a medical emergency just before a gig and then goes into the second part describing a childhood illness.
I was there that night, and they finished with Run Like Hell, except nobody did, I think we were all completely mesmerised, by what we had just witnessed.
This performance of 'Comfortably Numb' was the penultimate 'first encore' for this show at Earl's Court London on their Division Bell Tour. The final encore was 'Run Like Hell.'
Your correct, when you think of guitar solos from now on you think of David Gilmour and this performance.
'Wish You Were Here' is one of the bands best known songs and they play it in this concert as well (crowd goes wild), watching the saxophone solo alone is worth the price of admission.
The whole concert is worth reacting to, I have the Pulse DVD, they remastered it and released it on Blu-Ray in 5.1 DTS.
'The Great Gig In the Sky' is a beautiful piece both the studio version that Clare Torry improvised in a 3 hour studio session on a Sunday and got paid £30 for (twice normal as it was a Sunday), the three amazing backing vocalists on this tour, Sam Brown, Durga McBroom, and Claudia Fontaine each take part of Clare Torry's vocals.
When the band played at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan on this tour they performed the entire Dark Side of the Moon, the first time they played the entire album since 1995.
Pulse is both the name of Pink Floyd's third live album, and the film made of the 1994 Earl's Court London concert during the Division Bell Tour.
Pink Floyd is known as a band that not only plays exceptionally well in a live performance but put on the most elaborate shows having pioneered many technologies to do so.
That stage is one of three that allowed them to be setup so they could move from city to city in the tour. 700 tons of equipment took 53 articulated trucks and a crew of 161 people.
The isotope splitting gold plated copper vapor lasers in the show cost $120K each at that time and hadn't been used outside a physics lab.
Total costs were said to be $54 million and the band played for 5.5 million people in 68 cities with an average audience of 45,000 fans who paid $35 a ticket. It grossed $250 million which was the most for a concert at the time.
This was the most elaborate show since The Wall Tour with elaborate sets and giant props. 'The Wall' was their 11th studio album released in 1979. The double album was also made into a film in 1982. It is a rock opera with a similar theme to 'Tommy' by 'The Who,' with a father lost in WWII, trauma and abuse in relationships.
It is amazing that The Wall got done as the bands financial managers had nearly bankrupt the group, members of the band were having family and relationship problems, and for tax reasons they relocated to various cities outside of the UK for a year that created issues in collaborating, and Waters was being a bit of a tyrant.
The record company pushed a Christmas release with financial incentives that put more pressure on the schedule and band members. Waters fired the keyboardist Wright. It was a mess.
It was unlikely that anyone would have predicted that 15 years later the band, minus Waters, would put on the biggest most elaborate, and expensive concert series to date.
I grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin and other great bands in an era when Music was of extremely gifted and talented musicians
This was a song written about an an experience they had with band member Waters!
It really doesn’t get any better than that! Still gives me goosebumps! Great reaction, thank you
You really should watch Wish You Were Here from the Pulse concert. You'll fall in love with the song all over again.
Another brick in the wall was the first song I heard from Pink Floyd when I was a kid and the live version in this concert is the best.
It's part of the story being told in The Wall album. The trajectory of the story puts the songs into context.
Another great song from the Pulse concert is “ Run Like Hell “ it was the encore & boy did they give it everything. The lasers and the pyrotechnics are breathtaking. ❤️🏴🇬🇧
And now you hit my top 3, NF, Iron Maiden and Pink Floyd.
This whole concert was god-level
You should see this Pulse concert’s Wish you were here, it might surprise you to see how Gilmore makes some of those sounds. They play it right before Comfortably Numb as the first two of their three song encore. The second set they play their 1972 album Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety and it is epic. The opening of the Pulse concert is their tribute to the band’s first leader, Syd Barrett, who Gilmore replaced in 1967-8, song title is Shine On You Crazy Diamond, from their Wish You Were Here album.
I saw this concert Live about 8 months or so before this video was made at the Pontiac Silver Dome just outside of Detroit . You would have loved it when they did Wish You Were Here the crowd of approx 90.000 were all singing so loud the band lowered their volume and stopped singing and let the crowd do it. You can't go wrong with any song from this show they are all awesome. If you like watching concert video you should watch the whole show .
Oh my god I would have been BALLING! The audience participation (especially in person) gets me every time. 🎉😭
I love that you said “Administer” something.
You can't even imagine what it was like in the mid 70s, being a teenager and putting Dark Side Of The Moon on the record player. Also, making sure you had a supply of needles for the player.
David's Stratocaster shares the lead vocals. Masterful as always.you don't always need drugs to become comfortably numb. You may just need to quiet your mind , put on your headphones , turn it up and let yourself take the universal Pink Floyd journey.
Hi! Excellent choice for a review. Thanks!
As probably everyone else on here is going to tell you, the PULSE Concert is legendary. It was actually Pink Floyd's tour to support "The Division Bell", which turned out to be their last studio album. And they may have realized that this was going to be their last ride, as they were all middle-aged by 1994. The tour was the most expensive in history, to that point. (The name, BTW, comes from the original CD release, which had a red LED in the spine that flashed, or 'pulsed'.)
I had the excellent fortune to see this tour, and it was *incredible*. You already saw the stage was massive, Wikipedia can give you the stats, but suffice it to say, the stage lighting was so intricate and so synced to the music that it was almost another performer. Every song from this concert is superb, and would make a fine subject for reaction. And "Comfortably Numb" has been called arguably the greatest concert performance ever recorded. You really do need to see the PULSE version of "Wish You Were Here". But you could choose from "Time", or "Money", or "Run Like Hell" (the concert finale on nights when it wasn't "Comfortably Numb") or "Have A Cigar", or "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)".
As for "Comfortably Numb" itself, it comes from their concept double-album "The Wall". It tells the story of a fictitious young boy named Pink, who wants to grow up and become a rock star. Over the course of the four sides, he does achieve his dream, but at great personal cost. This song appears late on Side 3, when Pink has realized that in order to 'work hard and focus', he's pushed away everyone who cared about him. Instead, he sees that he's surrounded himself with yes-men and sycophants, leeches who just want to use him, and don't care at all for his well-being, or his mental health, which is deteriorating. He has no way to escape his world, so in his pain he turns to drugs to numb himself.
Roger Waters, Pink Floyd's bassist and principal songwriter, did base the lyrics for the song on an actual event which happened to him many years before. But in the context of the album, as the song begins it's one night before a concert, and Pink is too stoned to perform. The promoter, dreading the idea of having to give refunds, calls in a local doctor to get Pink into some shape to play. It's the doctor's voice we first hear ("Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me..") trying to assess Pink's condition, and try to learn what he took. The dreamy chorus is Pink, trying to respond, as he's able ("Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying..."). The doctor puts together an all-purpose wake-up shot, injects it into Pink ("Just a little pin-prick") and sends him out onto stage. David Gilmour's first guitar solo is while Pink is still stoned, and it soars beautifully. But the second solo is after Pink has been 'sobered up'. He has to face his pain and loneliness on stage, and in this solo we hear Pink's rage, fear, helplessness, and self-loathing, and Gilmour makes us feel it all.
Pink Floyd is a finestkind rabbit hole. And in it's own way, so is the PULSE Concert. Enjoy!
Wow, thank you for this!! Loved all the info and backstory.
Also super jealous you got to go!!! Epic.
Great Gig in the Sky from the same concert!
I'm 62 been a pink Floyd fan since my parents bought Darkside of the moon in 1973 (which I still have). This concert everything is just so mesmerizing the guitar solo of comfortably Numb is the most beautiful solo ever
You would also love "On the Turning Away". The singer was greatly affected by the plight of the homeless and this song was the result.
You must understand most people at the time were listening to this song just so stoned. I'm 71 now but oh yes this song was awesome when you were high as well as sober.
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I see lots if people have explained the background to the song, but I thought I'd add that in performance the "disco-ball" opens like a lotus flower, a common symbol of personal awakening.
I first saw Pink Floyd back in 1967 (when I was 15) playing in a pub in North London.
Songs can often be born out of something personal, but a great song transfers it to the universal.
Absolutely love your reaction! I could tell the music was talking to you. The boys and this song and many others are well worth exploring. Just enjoy the journey young lady. Besides from my daughters being born seeing them live was one of my favorite moments in life . Just keep doing what you do.
Awe thank you, that’s so kind. I appreciate you! 🤍
I was there at earls court and it was a life changing night.
Never been to a show like it and never will again.
Best memory!! damn.
I was there. It was absolutely amazing
Pink Floyd, one of the greatest concert experiences of my life! David Gilmour is one of the greatest and most underrated guitarists of all time!
Saw it in 1994 outdoors at Soldier Field in Chicago. Me and 60,000 other fans. Amazing concert
Anything from this pulse concert is great!
I’m 48 been loving this band since I was in middle school
One of the most intelligent commentaries to this song I’ve heard. Would love to hear her commentary after she watches the movie.
Ummm wow. Hahaha That’s so nice of you to say! 🤍
Good reaction, yes it is autobiographical as is the whole of the album The Wall, this is an edited version, about 2 and a half minutes of the solo has been cut. Seen them several times back in the day and 45 years a fan, The drummer Nick Mason is still playing with his band A Saucer full of Secrets who I will be seeing in June, they play early Floyd (pre DSOTM) and are amazing
"Hands felt like two balloons" = a phenomenon, especially for a child, when a very high fever does indeed make your hands feel like they are floating like balloons.
Giving away my age, I saw PF in 1972 at the Hollywood Bowl. They played the entire Dark Side of the Moon album, even though it hadn't been released yet. It was up till then, the best concert I'd ever been to, and to this day, still is. At the end nobody wanted to leave. Perfection up and down the line. Thanks and keep going with The Floyd, you won't regret it.
This is one of the songs that David Gilmour said he never gets tired of playing. And it's plain to see why listening to that solo. One of my favorite quotes about him as a guitarist is actually from the former lead guitarist of Megadeth, Dave Mustaine. He said, "Yeah… David was an influence on me, for sure. Fans might not know it because of my work with Megadeth, but I've always been into fusion. So much so that I actually consider myself that type of guitarist; I've just always found myself playing metal. But as far as Gilmour goes, man, I just love his tone. He can do more with three notes than most guys can with a million."
Probably never to be repeated, the whole production including lighting was on an entirely different level to most.
The opening is either doctors or the EMTs speaking to a non-responsive patient. Gilmour’s part is the mental dialogue going on inside the patient’s head while they’re trying to bring him back. .
You’ll love watching the performance of Wish You Were Here from PULSE!
One doesn't merely listen to Pink Floyd, one experiences them. Welcome to the rabbit hole!