Pink Floyd "Comfortably Numb" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach / Opera Singer
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- I've heard Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" once before, in a car driving to a Patreon playlist our community put together in memory of Kirk's mother's passing. It was so emotional, and so captivating that I think we both shed tears. I knew then I wanted to hear a live version, and do a full breakdown.
Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Pink Floyd, performing "Comfortably Numb” live at the Pulse concert performance in 1994.
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Performed by Pink Floyd - Words and Music by Roger Waters
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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Personnel of PF "P•U•L•S•E"
*Pink Floyd*
David Gilmour - lead vocals, guitars, lap steel guitar, talk box
Richard Wright - keyboards, backing vocals, *lead vocals on "Time" and "Comfortably Numb"* (verses)
Nick Mason - drums, gong, roto-toms
*Additional personnel*
Guy Pratt - bass guitar, backing vocals, *lead vocals on "Comfortably Numb"* (verses) and "Run Like Hell"
Jon Carin - keyboards, programming, backing vocals, *lead vocals on "Comfortably Numb"* (verses)
Sam Brown - backing vocals, first lead vocalist on "The Great Gig in the Sky"
Durga McBroom - backing vocals, second lead vocalist on "The Great Gig in the Sky"
Claudia Fontaine - backing vocals, third lead vocalist on "The Great Gig in the Sky"
Tim Renwick - guitars, backing vocals
Dick Parry - saxophones
Gary Wallis - percussion, additional drums (played and programmed)
Hiyas! Small question, which headphone are you using, and are you happy with it? Guessing Sennheiser, but the type?
Toodles 👋😎
Thanks for doing Pink Floyd. Gilmour, Mason, and Wright are the original members here. Gilmour replaced Syd Barret back in 69ish and Roger Waters left in the early 80's. You should check out their album Animals. By far my favorite. The only way to truly get Floyd is to listen to full albums. They were masters of creating a listening expierence.
I suggest you watch "The Wall" the movie.
Repeat after me… I will never pause in the middle of a David Gilmore solo
Seriously....I love her reactions noramlly but that was some serious heresy. If you stop the solo then you loose its continuity, its build up and a lot of its power. Its a real shame and it ruins the experience.
@@RippPryde Yeah, but, it's kind of what she's supposed to do, discuss the song :)
4 or 5 times no less. "I love the colors"? Siiiigh The word stagnant should never be uttered on anything Pink Floyd related ever. Ever ever. Sacrilege of the first order
Amen brother 🙏
I will never EVER must interrup gilmores solos
DO NOT pause in the middle of a David Gilmour guitar solo! Especially this one!
Exactly. It is blasphemy to do so.
That solo takes you through the universe and back!
@@christianpagan1288 Yes, it is an extraordinary piece of music. Every time I listen to it, I appreciate it that much more.
Quite honestly, the greatest solo ever!!
It's like interrupting God when he's laying down the ten commandments.
Listen to the entire album in sequence. It tells a complete story. "The Wall" is a Rock Opera where each song contributes a chapter to the whole of the concept album.
Syd and Roger were long gone by this time. The verse harmonies are by Rick Wright (keyboards), Jon Carin (keyboards) and Guy Pratt (bass). The rest is David Gilmour with Sam Brown, Durga McBroom and Claudia Fontaine.
Sam did a fantastic job on _Great gig in the sky._ Always carried a torch for her singing but that was a new high for her.
My preferred version of the band
I saw them on the Momentary Lapse tour right after Roger left. It was an incredible concert, but I don't think that a proper analysis should be done with live Pink Floyd. Their experimental sound was curated in the studio, and I mean this with the utmost respect to the band, but live Pink Floyd does not equal studio Pink Floyd
I agree because they pull a lot of ordinary sounds and incorporate them into their music which is so cool. I guess for concerts they could use recordings of those sounds just the same as in studio. However, perhaps timing may be slightly off live.
As David Gilmour's wife said about him, 'David struggles to express himself emotionally with words, but put a guitar in his hands and he makes you feel everything'.
She actually said that? Awesome!
He also happens to be one of the greatest rock singers of all time.
Wow, that makes PF's song "Keep Talking" all the more poignant
Pink Floyd has been one of my biggest influence to playing guitar the lead solo is a very good level to play to
Same with me honestly, but the only emotion I feel is sucks at guitar.
David Gilmour's guitar solo in this song is one of mankinds greatest achievements and the most legendary musical brilliance of all time
It is. And Wolfgang Mozart would approve.
Agreed. Hallowed ground.
It's an average solo at best. The solo in Another Brick in the Wall is far better as well as hundreds of solos from hundreds of other guitarists.
@@stevepalmer3465 See, this is where people get it wrong. It's not always about technical skill, and it's not the difficulty level.. He let's the guitar sing, it's emotional. Written perfectly and commanded by the player.
@@Nanemec this. Technically the solo isn't that spectacular, it's the ride it is taking you on, the emotions that are hidden within and the chills on your back. I can listen to this song over and over and the solo hits me hard each and every time. It's what the solo does to people that makes it one of the best solos out there. Comfortably Numb isn't my favorite Pink Floyd song, but the solo definitely is
24:54 David Gilmour controls the universe. And the lyrics “The child has grown, the dream is gone” get me every time.
That's all about in this song... about a child growing up and losing touch with the divine, his life source!
I get misty eyed when I hear Wish You Were Here. I Iost my mom decades ago when I was 18 and that always reminds of her.
RlP all of our Iost Ioved ones ❤😇
Some 59 years ago (I was 4 years old), I was seriously ill after contracting measles.
My temperature was dangerously high, and I remember lying in bed looking up at a beautiful, huge tree, filled with millions of pink blossom petals. I reached up and began picking at the blossom, but it felt as if I was wearing boxing gloves.
Fast forward 14 years or so to when I first heard this track, and I instantly connected, and to this very day, if I close my eyes and concentrate, I can relive that feeling in both my hands. Maybe a mental scar? Who knows.
But this version of this song was as if it were performed by the music Gods themselves. Mindblowing.
‘Wish you were here’ by Pink Floyd would probably make Elizabeth cry
totally
Wish you were here makes me cry
I know it makes ME cry.
Oh yes! The track "Wish You Were Here" from the album of the same name is my favourite Pink Floyd track: wonderful lyrics and moves me every time I hear it.
Without being too morbid, I would like it played when I shuffle off this mortal coil; mostly because I love the song but partly so I can get one last, gentle, joke in to cheer up those seeing me off.
Certainly my favorite of the Pink Floyd albums. And I like a LOT of Pink Floyd albums.
David Gilmours guitar solo in this is probably the most iconic guitar solos ever recorded,
(2nd solo)It has to be the greatest guitar solo EVER!!
It resonates with me everytime, it's really something so emotional.
best solo in the history of rock... hmmm... lets listen to it
Only Elizabeth could ruin it
I disagree. There's no "probably" about it. ;)
I was at this gig in Earls Court, London in 94. One of the greatest nights of my life. Turned me into a huge Floyd fan.
This comment might be lost in the sea of time, but I remember hearing this song for the first time, and it was this version. At the time I was going through a bad breakup, and I'd gotten really sick with something and ended up in the ER. I was listening to it while waiting for the doctors to complete their workup... it really catches that vibe of just being completely divorced from yourself mentally and physically and then they give you something to "help you ease the pain, get you on your feet again." I can still smell the antiseptic if i close my eyes.
"It feels like it's distorting our perception of time." Welcome to Pink Floyd. :D
If that isn’t an accurate statement, I don’t know what is.
Came here to say this! Cheers!
Perfectly right. To celebrate this distortion of time I recommend as next song to review.... Pink Floyd's Time!
Welcome, to the machine.
Well said by all.
Pink Floyd! Finaly! I can feel: Great gig in the Sky is getting closer…
That'll be an interesting reaction. Have to be the version on DSotM with Clare Torry.
The first reaction videos that I watched were Great Gig videos. They were hilarious.. I have never seen a voice coach react to that song, and I think it would be interesting. To see the look of confusion on reactors faces during that song would be entertaining.
Great Gig in the Sky will blow her mind.
Bot thumbs up for Great gig with Claire
The original singer or the three girls live in the Pulse tour video
There'll be no more AHHHHHHHHHHH is so powerful in the album version of the song. It's a scream, a high and tight scream. Hearing it here puts a beautiful spin on what is otherwise a shocking moment in the album version.
I can add something, if I may, as I am old enough - and such a huge fan of 'The Floyd' - to know the history and sentiment behind this truly legendary piece.
In the early days of Pink Floyd there was a member: Sid Barrett. This extraordinary guy wrote a lot of the lyrics for their earlier tracks. However, as legend seems to suggest, Sid vanished into a world of drugs and alcohol. The remaining band members were very busy developing their style (with Sid) and, at some point, had to make the decision to shut-up-shop and call it a day ... or press on Sid-less.
They chose the latter strategy.
However, Sid was such a creative force within the band and so loved by his peers that they wrote this song as a tribute to Sid. The lyrics broadly speak of Sid's genius and off-the-scale creativity (partly loosened-up by substances known only characters like Sid Barrett).
Comfortably Numb describes Sid's journey into an internal, emotional wasteland and how people 'outside Sid' were trying to call to him ... to draw him back from his foggy world, back to the band and to rejoin his adoring colleagues.
The track is from a concept album which chronicles the life of a famous, but severely lost performing artist and song writer named: "Pink" (mythical stage name), and that character is modeled on Sid Barrett. The track really has to be heard in the full context of the legendary Floyd album: "The Wall" (brace yourself: it's light, airy, exciting, insightful and very, very dark, ..., emotional and terrifying all in one long story-telling compilation).
If you have the time and inclination:
1. Listen to the album: The Wall (really listen to the lyrics with analysis). Listen JUST ONCE.
2. Watch the movie (you may have to watch it more than once, as it's busy and emotionally complex).
3. Come back and redo your video on Comfortably Numb.
I can assure you; you won't regret one moment of it.
That, dear Ms. Charismatic Voice, is the only way one can do justice to the legendary track: Comfortably Numb.
While I have your attention ...
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Keep up this great work.
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Syd Barrett actually descended into schizophrenia, probably fueled by the drugs and alcohol, and was institutionalized for most of his later life. Roger Waters, who was very close to Syd, suspected that he was encouraged in his substance abuse in order to keep him performing. Hence the lyric "Can you stand up? I do believe it's working, good. That'll keep you going through the show. Come on it's time to go."
Syd Barrett was mentally ill. He had psychosis, probably schizophrenia - maybe drug induced but not definitively.
Well said! Just to add the intensity and beauty of Vera doesn’t always get mentioned, it is often in the shadows of these intense epic masterpieces, the whole album is a journey of emotions.
Listen to the whole of Dark side of The Moon, and Wish you Were Here. With the lights off.
Not much of a reaction if they you all can't see me, but maybe on a second listen?
@@TheCharismaticVoice It needs to be said, though, Pink Floyd made concept albums, and Dark Side of the Moon needs to be listened to as an album.
@@coyote4237 i mean it doesnt. it works almost as well as singular songs. Only band ive really ran into where you "need to" sometimes hear the song before is tool with stuff like lost keys and rosetta stoned, 10 000 days pt1 and 2 and parabol and parabola. the last one especially is crucial to the experience. since they transition so seamlessly. Pink Floyd albums are more atomic even if there is an over arching story or theme to the albums and its not a bad or good thing.
@@stugeh I totally disagree.
@@coyote4237 agree to disagree then I guess🤷♂️
All of that 'stuff underneath' she mentions that creates the 'time slowing' effect, that's Rick Wright, the secret ingredient of Pink Floyd. All the texture, the finesse, the binding he adds to their best songs can never be underestimated. May he rest in peace.
Originally, David Gilmore & Roger Waters sang dual leads on this song. Singing the verses of the song is someone who replaced Roger Waters (At least for the tour.) Waters left the band in the early nineteen eighties. The repeated chorus, " There is no pain....." sung by David Gilmore (with that fantastic lead guitar playing)
Also, just so you know, never interrupt Gilmore's guitar solos. 😉
@@mikevaughan3592 Would be so nice to hear her reactions to the studio version of this song with Roger and David singing.
Doubt you'll read this but it is David Gilmour singing. The initial sound on this live version was meant to give you the feeling of being in that "comfortably numb" mode. The song is about the illness nut also drugs. And as has been repeated, please don't stop in a David Gilmour soulful solo 😊
That was so well said. You are absolutely right. Rick was so important to Pink Floyd.
Rick Wright was a critical element of the unique sound of Pink Floyd. He never showboated as a keyboardist (think Rick Wakeman, Jordan Ruddess, Keith Emerson, et al) but his compositional contributions are many. As a keyboardist myself, I try to blend into the mix as well as Rick did. Most of the time, you are not really conscious of his playing, but take it away and you no longer have Pink Floyd. RIP Rick.
It's interesting to see how people have encountered this song over the years. When this album (The Wall) came out in 79 you put the needle on the vinyl and you listened straight through. The album is all one piece. Listening to this one movement outside the work is like listening to one symphonic movement outside the work. Then in 82 the movie came out and would be played in local movie theaters at midnight every weekend as this really cool social experience much like Rocky Horror Picture show. This particular track gained popularity as a single eventually and now has a life of its own, but when the work was released, it was just one brick in the Wall. If you like this song, you should either listen to the album in one sitting, or watch the movie, which is just a playing of the album overlaid with psychedelic artwork and video vignettes. For the time, it was, and still is an incredible sensory treat.
... listened straight through, interrupted by turning/changing the vinyl three times, in four parts I'd characterise (just making this up on the spot now) as childhood, young adult, troubled rock star, and megalomania with final breakdown. Comfortably Numb concludes side three.
The very essence of the song: "When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown
The dream is gone." Keeping that in mind, the guitar solo at the end is a dirge or lament w/ a screaming cry to wake up, but knowing that you can't.
"Distorting our perception of time" - I've never heard Pink Floyd described more accurately.
Also, "We're really off the train now" is a perfect description of Floyd.
@@EdwardGregoryNYC I was really _on_ the train here. That works too.
I always got that on, Learning to Fly.
Definitely.
What a load of cr*p. Everyone who replies "oh yes you're totally right!!" (or some derivative of that), you're suckers for both the industry of CZcams and the whole reaction-video scam.
@@peterschurr8087 You're right. I actually _dont_ get any enjoyment or satisfaction from watching reaction videos.
And CZcams, despite what my brain tells me I'm feeling, is in no way entertaining and is a terrible way to pass the time when I have nothing more important to do than enjoy myself for a while.
You, sir, have cut right to the chase and convinced me that even though I _think_ I like watching stuff like this, in reality the digital world is a scam on a facade of an illusion dressed up as hollow whimsy.
You have rightly pointed out that I have no authority to decide for myself what I do with my life, nor indeed to determine how I perceive what seems to be 'good' use of any free time I have.
Oh, what an insight! Such an eloquent statement of objective fact that all should read and adhere to. You, sir, should be carried shoulder-high through the virtual cities of this internet community for revealing to us all the True Path for digital satisfaction!
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Pink Floyd didn't just create music, they created soundscapes.
Agreed, at the same time Procol Harum was also creating soundscapes with wonderful lyrics.
@@Kingwoodish Be so Great to see her react to Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale
You should know by now that this is from "The Wall" It's a song loosely based on the life of their friend and former bandmate Syd Barrett. Syd had severe drug problems and he once sat in on a session with the band and at first no one knew who he was. He had changed soo much. I highly recommend you listen to the entire Album before Watching the Film.
I was an 18year old at this actual gig. It was incredible. I was not so much a Gilmore fan, and wish Waters had been there, but boy did they make up for not having much of a focal point front man with incredible lights and lasers. When the HUGE disco ball dropped down from the center of the stadium and then opened everybody was blown away!!
If you don't tear up during a David Gilmore solo, you may not be human
When will chat-GPT be able to listen to a track and give an emotional opinion? Then we'll have the yardstick for AI sentience I guess.
Bingo
I tear up all the time
It does get emotional! Especially if you have been there, under the ball, as the volume is taking over existence and this song that you already know by heart is exploding from all around you!
Also, I don't think the ball was working correctly in this concert. In Chicago the bottom AND the top opened together earlier in the song and an even more blindingly white light projected from the core of the mechanism. It was spiritual.
@@SH-th4wy tears of joy sensory over load
Oh not to diminish this song because it's breathtaking, but if there's any Pink Floyd song suitable for a vocal coach review, it's gotta be Great Gig in the Sky! Clare Torry's performance is unparalleled!
And polyphonic did a feature on how this song came to be.
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Oh lord yes!
Totally agree with you ! The Great Gig in the Sky is an awsome song.
Yup. That's an absolute knocks-your-socks-off vocal. One of the best performances ever caught on record (even if they did send her home with a "Yeah, OK, thanks," and a measly £30 session fee). I think the problem is going to be that Elizabeth appraises videos, and no one would have even considered filming an unknown session singer improvising a vocal during what was supposed to be an album mixdown session. I'd still love to know what Elizabeth makes of the performance, because I think her jaw would hit the desk, but without a video record, she's not going to be able to run through her checks on whether there's visible neck relaxation, what the jaw placement looks like and that sort of thing.
I don't disagree, but it's not really a Floyd vocal per se? Or am I wrong. It's a guest?
YOUR analysis is; as always, so much more valuable and insightful than any other vocal coach/analyst I have listened to.
Keep up the good work!
Ahem. I had to pause myself because I got something in my eye. I haven't felt this song so much lately, having covered it several times (with MUCH limited resources), but in this 'vulnerable' state I'm in, it... got to me again. So, anyways, a lot of people doesn't understand why some of us loved this "third stage" of Pink Floyd so much, but this video is a perfect example; how Gilmour, Wright and Mason added elements (and Guy Pratt in bass blew my teenager mind back then) and "grew" the old songs to match their 'new ambiental' sound. In any due case, this is a song you just can't escape from. Great video!
One criticism: never ever interrupt a David Gilmour solo. It makes the gods angry.
I've subsequently read many of the angry and lecturing replies. GOOD GOD, PEOPLE. IT WAS HUMOR! I do realize that she had to interrupt for her analysis. But have we all lost our sense of humor and sarcasm? Everyone is always so ready for a fight. CHILL THE FK OUT!
Haha! Well said. It's her job, though! ♥
Never ever!
lol
@@pattybristol8296 Never anger the gods. Even to do your job.
LOL. That's what I thought don't you ever ever do that!!!
If dissonance is disturbing, listen to the studio version of this song. Your goose bumps will get goose bumps! Gilmour's solos are haunting and so beautiful they'll bring tears to your eyes.
My issue with it is that it's way too short in the studio version 😂
BINGO.
Forty years ago, I was confident that I could do a good job on both voices in the studio version. Haven't tried lately, but I'm confident I could beat the vocals in THIS performance... except for Gilmour's, perhaps : )
Every year away from the original release, the vocals get a little more...troubling
The BEST guitar solo ever, hands down. Not just the song, but this particular performance. It is PERFECT.
Balloon-hands down!
Im not sure what people don't get about this song. Its right there in the lyrics. Of course the movie helps understand as well. He is combining a feeling of mental disassociation in reference to Syd Barret's break down and the pressures of performing with people pushing you and people depending on you. Call in a doctor or a deeler to push you through your exhaustion and brain fog. Its a feeling that reminds him of the fever dreams he had when he was sick as a kid.
The surreal feeling of the outside world moving and existing around you muffled by fever or drugs or exhaustion so you feel like your head is stuffed with cotton and you are all alone in your head with this barrier seperating you from other people and the world. You can still see that world and hear that world but you're not really part of that world. You can function if they tell you what to do but you would rather be left alone. At the same time you are afraid to be by yourself.
Im going to stop now because i just realized that is my own interpretation assuming it is what Waters was intending it to be.
Now i guess i do see the confusion of different interpretations.
Wow, rabbit hole!
The song "Time" will rock your world.
The Solo To Comfortable Numb is by far one of the best solos ever in all Rock music period . !!
THIS solo!
🔥🤘😎🤘🔥
No, it's actually two of the best solos ever.
Rolling Stone usually sucks, but they nailed it when they named this the greatest guitar solo ever.
I didn't know that ?!! Yes I agree 💯
Βest version ever -Live in pompeii 2016 ...thats the best solo of numb ever
The tour used two stages that leap frogged throughout the tour. The stage took 3 days to assemble and took a whole construction crew (welders, riggers, etc.). The lighting included four 11 KW search lights. Pink Floyd created a company, Whole Hog, that developed the lighting controls.
i saw it with the block-wall assembly stage construction.
I sooo appreciate your musical and emotional perspective on music that I have loved for most of my life. You bring an even greater appreciation to me!
You heard David Gilmour’s true vocals in the emotion pouring from the guitar. Where you felt two guitars were trading dissonance was only David. A one of a kind master.
David Gilmour is one of those very rare musicians who can make their guitar cry and sing. I grew up with Pink Floyd in the 70s and I STILL feel my heart clutch when he plays.
The beauty of his solos is that he doesn't really play a lot of notes. He just plays the right ones.
At the end of the second solo when that guitar is screaming in pain I can't stop the tears.
@@armadillotoe my sentiments exactly, Smokey
That emotion he is able to produce on those strings really sets him apart. It is impressive.
For me, I understand that it is a dialogue between a patient and his doctor.
Loving the dives into music that I love. Thanks for expanding the mind of a music fan
I was 10 years old when I first heard Comfortably Numb and 44 years later nothing else comes close.
Another vote for "Wish you were here"-Pink Floyd.
Honestly, Gilmours Guitar Solo overshadows everything in this song.
Leo Fender gave us the Stratocaster, and God gave us David Gilmore to play it 👍👍👍
it is be consideren to be one of best guitar solo's ever, many say the best
also overshadows ALL the other guitar solos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This may well be the greatest live guitar solo ever. Can only think of 2 other performances by other artists that come close.
This solo and Blackmore's one from Child in Time are for me the greatest ever.
As a guitar player I have studied David Gilmore for 30 yrs. Blues style with rock add ins is his most common style. Great solo on this one. He just goes and goes. So fun!
your work just makes me so happy. to look at songs i have grown up with intellectually is really fun!!! thank you so much for what you do
The three men singing the verses were keyboardists Richard Wright and Jon Carin plus Guy Pratt on bass. David Gilmour sang lead. The BVs were Sam Brown, Durga McBroom, and Claudia Fontaine.
All fine vocalists in their own right, indeed Sam had several hits herself in the UK in the 80's, most notably "Stop!".
Sam Brown great singer. did not know she was in this - nice one.
R. I. P. Rick.... 😥
R. I. P. Claudia... 😥
It’s Dave Gilmour, he’s a guitarist who can sing, not a singer who can play the guitar.
I'd agree with that, but like no other guitarist, his instrument is like a voice, and he makes it sing.
He's a guitarist who can sing really well. Rick Wright has the second nicest voice. And Roger Waters's voice has, uh, a certain distinct character, shall we say.
Roger Waters is the main writer and bass player of this song and this album. He sings lead on this song with David Gilmour singing the chorus and playing lead guitar.
@@Peter-976 Did do originally. Not in this recording.
@@Peter-976 This tour is from a decade after Roger Waters left the band. Literally, I believe _Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking_ came out in 1984 and _Pulse_ is from 1994.
There is a version of this where David Bowie takes Roger Waters' role. It's amazing. (concert: 'Remember that Night', live at the Royal Albert Hall)
I just watched this reaction for probably the 20th time. It's my all-time favorite reaction. Your ability to break down music - beyond vocals - and see the majesty and absorb what the musicians are doing is simply intoxicating. Super fan.
"There is an amazing solo that's also happening" um...just THE Greatest guitar solo EVER!
Yuuuppp....
While I would bring up Eddie Hazel's Maggot Brain, this is certainly up there.
Definitely the greatest solo of all time
@@daveybreedlove8650 At least top 10 realistically, as Page, Hendrix, and a few others have had solos on par with this, for me myself I would say this and Page's "Since I been loving you" performance are in the top 3 to me, but Gilmour and Page had a way of putting feeling and soul to their solos that others lacked.
I used to get into arguements with a friend that was an Eddie VanHalen fan about who had the better solos, and he always wanted to point out the technical aspects and speed of the solos that Eddie did, to which I would always come back with, yeah it's great and on a level that only a handful in the world could match, but....did you feel it in your soul?
That to me is what set guitarists like Gilmour and Page apart from the rest, they make you feel it in your soul when they play and grab you by your emotional reaction to it, just...emotionally moving is the closest way I can describe it.
Welcome to the Pink Floyd journey. No band had ever had the depth of this band. Been on the journey for 45 years.
Same here, my middle school teacher introduced me to them via the Animals album and I have been hooked ever since
I absolutely loved this video and your comments on Comfortably Numb. I listened to this song hundreds of times but I actually learned from you 🙂. I now know better why I love it so much.
Mind blown. With Elizabeth and Pink Floyd! I could hardly hold my stuffing in!
When he started his solo i cried, when she stopped his solo for the third time i screamed!
Lol me too, but I do like her descriptions.
If you don't want interruptions, why don't you just watch the original video. These kind of reaction/analysis videos chop up the content by nature, you have to make peace with it, part of the format.
@@andraskovacs8959 Correct, and very well stated.
@@andraskovacs8959 I watch a lot of reaction videos and I don't get worked up about pauses, but her stopping choices were especially painful in this one.
me too bro
The closing guitar solo is arguably the GREATEST rock guitar solo of all time. Gilmore is the MASTER
Yes, yes he is actually "The MASTER of the Stratocaster."
You're wrong. Ther is no argument!
One must spell gods name correctly: GILMOUR 😁
The fact that it was recorded in one take, on the first take, is incredible.
@@martinbones681 I was going to say that
I am absolutely in love with your passion listening to this song. It's one of my favorites and reexperiencing it with you is appreciating all over again.
Considered one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. The way that David Gilmore emotes through his guitar, which seem to be a very real extension of his body and soul, is just beyond amazing. You'll see he bends the strings on almost every note.
Pink Floyd is another band that you don't "listen" to, you rather experience the band. They are masters at taking you on a journey.
I had the privilege of seeing them on this tour when they came through Columbus OH. It was one of the only concerts I’ve been to where the audience stopped jumping and sat down to get lost in the journey.
I saw this tour 3 times in 1994...Foxboro,Mass, Yankee Stadium and the old RFK in Washington D.C....once in 1988...totally spiritual...glad you got to see it too!!
And what a journey it is. Well said, sir, well said.
Precisely. Pink Floyd submerges you into their world by escorting you into your own head. They show you a place that can only exist for you alone in your mind, a corner you’ve never looked into before, but there’s so much hidden in it. It changes you when you find it.
Agreed. I have said that I don't understand how people can listen to Pink Floyd while high, because Pink Floyd IS the drug.
Literally one of the greatest, if not the greatest, guitar solos of all time. David Gilmour is so talented and plays in a way that sounds impressive yet effortless all at the same time. So melodic and emotional, and he makes it look so easy. And his voice is like buttah. I could listen to him sing the phone book.
Yes, and I could listen to his solos in this song go on for 15 minutes each!
When Elizabeth recently asked who your "anytime" voice, David Gilmour immediately came to my mind. I too would listen to his angelic tones sing the phone book 😂
Also the sweetest !!!!!
His guitar is alive. It sings. It sings it's heart out.
You know you're exposing that we're getting oId if you remember using phone books 😅 But yeah this is an iconic solo. I also love the end of Hotel California with the dual guitars.
THankyou for doing this I am so gratefull.
Here's what amazes me- For many, many years I have considered the guitar solo from the studio version of this song one of the best of all time. I felt the pain and torment, but also the ecstasy of the protagonist in this piece. It's like it represents the escape , and also the reasons for a need to escape, all at the same time. And yet, for this performance Gilmour chose to take it in a new direction which added so much emotional depth. Kudos to David Gilmour for being able to put himself through a whole new emotional catharsis for this performance. So, so much respect...
One doesn't merely listen to Pink Floyd, One experiences them!
This live performance of comfortably numb has what I think is the greatest guitar solo of all time.
It is widely considered to be one of the top guitar solos by many :)
too bad she stops it every 10 seconds
@@goldenboy140 well, u r kind of right but if you do an analysis it's inevitable. I enjoy Elizabeth's thoughts on it and I am quite sure she watched/heard the whole solo without stopping again afterwards to give time another chance to stand still... 😏
Check out the Pompeii version:)
This piece is music will carry across the centuries.
Man merged with machine, Dave's guitar rif sent me to another place. Absolutely beautiful 👊
David Gilmour’s singing voice is so warm and soothing. Very comforting. Underrated vocalist. All-time guitarist.
It is comforting.... some might say it makes them comfortably numb....
Okay that was painful even for me, I apologize.
Underrated is such an over used, overrated term.
Gilmour underrated ? By whom ?
@@TheBlockDog 😭 Show the list where Gilmour is ranked among the best vocalists. Or at all. I stand by my comment. Dozens agree.
At 25:00 that Stratocaster screaming like a banshee wow what’s not to like 👍
Gilmore can make that strat sing!!!
@@batmanlives6456 I know you want more, but it's Gilmour.
"The child is grown. The dream is gone." Followed by that solo? ALL THE FEELS.
Dear Elizabeth, thank you for the presentation.
My apologies, at first, I was shocked and disappointed that you have never heard Pink Floyd and especially this song !?
Then, I became excited for you and myself, because it is your first time, and I get to witness this! Thank you so much for reviewing this song, which means so much to me and many others here.
Best.
I also have a moment where "Comfortably Numb" started playing in a car. I was driving to work, to a job I had been in for 8-9 years at the time. Dissatisfied, unhappy over crappy pay and crappy conditions and not seeing any reasonable path for upward mobility until people retired or died. Going in day after day, little to be proud of, just getting by. Weary from solving the same problems day to day, week to week. Just maintaining, not improving. When the line came up "When I was a child / I caught a fleeting glimpse / Out of the corner of my eye / I turned to look but it was gone / I cannot put my finger on it now / The child is grown / The dream is gone" it shot me straight through heart. Lump in the throat, misty eyes, maybe a tear or two dropping... it wasn't dissatisfaction. It was depression. It was a dead end. It was time to move on.
The most cleverly constructed lyric in rock " When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now - the child is grown - the dream is gone. I am comfortably numb."
Truth!
This line from Echoes is right up there too.
"Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?"
@@timothyblatnicky2409 Nothing beats waking up to a million bright ambassadors of morning!
David Gilmour is the guitarist doing the lead vocals.
Syd Barret was not with the group anymore at this time
@@SeanCleverly Not quite. I can think of a number of Floyd lyrics that surpass this. RUSH lyrics are superlative. Jethro Tull. Iron Maiden. There are many, many lines from many songs that are superior. The entire songs Time or Eclipse/Brain Damage from Dark Side of the Moon are better. Most of The Wall, Shine on you Crazy, Animals, the whole album. Two Suns in the Sunset. However, as it subjective, I can see the appeal. It is a good song, and a great line. However, I do think that
"And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"
was Floyd's penultimate moment.
No matter how you interpret this song , it doesn't really matter. It's so beautiful, who really cares.
David Glimore, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright are the only remaining members. Gilmore vocals/ guitar, Mason/ drums, and Richard Wright Keyboard/ Vocals. They have toured with the same base group of musicians since hte mid-eighties.
That "smooth singing" guitar virtuoso was David Gilmour. Roger Waters had split with the band at that point already and Sid Barret had been gone for a couple of decades.
In my humble opinion, the Waters/Gilmour combination of Floyd in the 70s was the best Floyd. The Smooth Gilmour contrasted by the Anxiety of Waters was the perfect bi-polar relationship in life as it was in their music. The tug of war between the two very different personalities translated to the most timeless and brilliant music ever known.
Pink Floyd is one of the few bands that should ideally be listened to in full albums. Do yourself the favour of having all of the lyrics on hand and listen to albums like the Wall, Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle or Wish You Were Here in their entirety.
I agree with you completely. Very well said, and fantastic albums listed.
Agree - best live performance I attended was PF in 1977. But, they were still awesome artists, post-Waters, for 30 years.
Thank you. I grow so weary of these “let’s analyze a song for money” channels. Music is great when it is great. Don’t try to capitalize on THAT.
Now back to just enjoying amazing music…
David Gilmour 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
So agree. Floyd albums are like a book. You listen from start to finish. Especially true with Dark Side thru The Wall.
One of the things that makes David Gilmour such a great guitarist is that he makes his guitar sing and soar like it is another vocal part
I have always held the view that no musician projects as much emotion with a guitar as Gilmour. In particular, his performance on the 'Delicate Sound of Thunder' version of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" gets me in the feels long before the vocals come in. Every time.
Yes, his phrasing is the best!!
Yes! ... You nailed it....
I think you were overwhelmed at times with the sound. It's intense for sure. Thanks for analyzing all kinds of music. You are so expressive and on point with your commentary.
Loved this analysis. Your observation of the sustained cords with the solos on top made me think this song feels like running through molasses. Great react…keep’em coming!
Elizabeth needs to know that Gilmour's solo here is acknowledged as one of the greatest in Rock history. I hope she can become a Pink Floyd fan and pursue more of this bands amazing music
She also needs to know that without Roger Waters this is a hot pile of burning garbage that might as well be a cover band practicing in their parent's garage.
@@saltydroog854 Big time disagree✌️
@@saltydroog854 Sorry Salty Droog, the reason your ears do not appreciate this iteration of Floyd is that you have your head too far up Roger Waters arse to see and hear the brilliance of these 3 that Roger always dismissed off hand as talentless blokes.
As others have said, The Wall is a rock opera. It's a full story from start to finish. Comfortably Numb is the turning point for the main character, a rock star named Pink. After a life of hardship, abuse, and troubled relationships, he suffers a mental break while on tour and mentally shuts down (goes catatonic) while in his room. His manager and doctors break into the room and try to get him back on his feet before the show, and ply him with drugs (probably stimulants) that will get him through the night ("Okay, just a little pinprick"), which he equates to being treated for a fever as a child. Unfortunately the treatment does not go well, leading to the next act of the story where Pink slips further into outright delusion, twisting the one thing he had left, his music into something monstrous, and finally shutting himself off from the rest of the world with the completion of The Wall.
That gospel-like "AAAAAAHHHHH" that came in on the second verse is a scream, not necessarily of pain, but of emotional anguish. "There'll be no more AAAAAAAAHHHHHH, but you may feel a little sick."
That time distortion is the exact feeling that they were going for. It's not about drugs, though. It's about breaking with reality as everything you've tried to hold onto comes crashing down around you.
Good thing I read the comments first, I was going to post something very similar but probably wouldn't have been as eloquent. Great summary, It's very surprising that it took a year after the video was originally posted for someone who understands the song and has the ability to describe it clearly to appear in the comments.
Definitely an emotional rollercoaster ride !
@@mrz80 Didn't remember it being Hep, but yeah, that's the backstory. In the context of the album, though, it's Pink's mental break.
Watching the movie called, "the wall", portrays this album as the rock opera it is. Great comment.
@@michaelkelly339 Thank you for explaining the backstory and context of this song that I've only come to recently. It makes it all the more moving to listen to.
Those "weird sounds" at 24:34 give me the goose-bumps-shivers. It's a powerful amazing sound that I have never heard before from any other guitarist.
Same…they give such delicious tension! And she assumed they were from 2 different sources, but no, that’s all him! ❤
His voice is beautiful! This song is one of my favorites of theirs.
There are basically three layers of Waters' writing on this song: most directly, it's about an experience that Waters had before a concert in Philadelphia in 1977 where a doctor was called to give him tranquilizer shots for extreme abdominal pain so he could go on with the show. Turns out he had hepatitis. He compares it to a feeling he had as a child wherein he was extremely sick.
But he's taken these experiences and filtered them through the personality of Pink, who is the central character of "The Wall" album. For Pink, the song acts as a kind of confessional (in the chorus sections). You have The Doctor singing the darker verse sections, and Pink, singing internally, and confessionally in the choruses, ultimately unable to communicate. This is why, for instance, you have the "bright" guitar solo in the middle of the song in the key of D and the "dark" solo at the end in the key of E-minor. The bright solo is representative of a kind of hopefulness in Pink, that, by the end of the song, completely erodes.
“The worst two hours of my life” as Waters described it. As they say, or perhaps as The Wall says…The Show Must Go On.
Excellent explanation of the background to the song.
He had appendicitis, not hepatitis.
@@CamaroAmx In his Rolling Stone interview he says he had hepatitis
@@danielswaim5566 I seen an interview years ago where he said it was appendicitis. So who knows?
I'm a guitarist of almost 40 years and I've listened to this song 1000's of times, and that outro solo brings a tear to my eyes every time! Gilmour is a master of giving you the feels. Pink Floyd loud, on a great sound system, in surround, in the dark is a religious experience for me.
It's the difference between a competent and great musician. An good, or competent preformer can put together a series of notes in a harmonic and pleasing manor. A great one can reach your soul (for lack of a better term) and induce an emotional response.
AMEN!
That dang Solo just tears me apart everytime
This song has been the sound track for many a session of distorting my perception of time 😂
“The child is grown. The dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb.”
This line always gets me. It's really sad, but many times true when you think about it. Remember, he wrote the song later in life. It's not all about one event. The events I know about are a fever as a child and when he was sick on tour, so they dope him up with something, so he can make it through the show. He claimed whatever they gave him made him feel nothing.
The song is broken up by two guitar solos, both on the list of top 100 guitar solos of the millennium.(yes, one song made the list twice). The first goes with the smooth, going with the flow feel of the song. The second is after the line, “The child is grown. The dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb.” It is angry. This is not how things were supposed to be. This is not the dream.
I like the first one 1000 times more, because it feels nice. But the second solo is without a doubt the best solo of all time... the notes are so clean but the feeling it evokes is so raw and hopeless...it makes "Hey you" hit so more harder and to the nerve. I love this song.
I agree with liking the first solo better. Just so solemn and the sadness in it. It really fits in where the song is at that point. Just so much emotion in the 1st solo. Both are excellent. But I do love the 1st one way more
That line always gets me too, I try to sing along but can't hold my tears. It's hard knowing that my wall was developed in my childhood, but still not be able to tear it down at age 65...
I've heard this version of Comfortably Numb hundreds of time and still I continue tearing out at the end of the guitar solo. It's so pure, so emotional, so deep!
Once I've heard a joke about this:
"One day my neighboor called the police because I was listening to Comfortably Numb too loud. The police came and arrested my neighboor" 🤣
Anyway thank you to share your point of view and we all agree that this song will remain in our heart forever. ❤
Brilliant joke ! I wouldn't be surprised if it really happened..
😂😂😂😂😂
I love your videos, Elizabeth, and TY for doing a deep dive into Comfortably Numb.
That said, I echo what others are saying about interrupting a guitar solo, ESPECIALLY THIS ONE. Going a step further, maybe try taking a poll beforehand on whether or not one should pause during the song at all. It kills the vibe.
David Gilmore has two amazing voices, the one he sings from his mouth, and the one he sings from his guitar. No one makes a guitar sing like he does.
The second solo is a religious moment to me. My late brother cried once listening to it. It’s now “his” song.
It's the second solo, no question.
Several of his solos are religious experiences for sure.
The voice you love is David Gilmore, also lead guitarist. HIGHLY recommend you watch David Gilmore's Concert at Pompeii in a 2500 year old Roman amphitheater. It is magnificent!. "
Please, if u want to show u know stuff, it's Gilmour!
Absolutely’ Pompei concert is epic !!!
@@rolandwong9059
Yes yes
One of my favorite David-only songs is his musical rendition of Shakespear's Sonnet 18.
@Scaggs Pink Floyd as a band never played live in front of an audience in Pompeii, where Floyd only recorded her documentary without an audience,but in 2016 David returned and played the first concert in the amphitheater that was ever played live there. To this day, no one else has been allowed to play live there.
I feel like the guitar is allowed to express what Waters cannot say in words. "I cannot put my finger on it", but the guitar nails it.
The light from the disco ball was set at a certain speed it felt like the venue you were in was spinning, it was awesome!
You gotta watch "The Wall" to know more about this song's history.
If you have never seen that movie, you really should go check it out. I've seen it at least 30 times and stil find things of interest in it
Yes. The entire "Wall" album is a theme about growing up, joining a band, getting into drugs etc.. It's like a rock opera, like the Whos' Tommy. I remember this album came out when I was in junior high. I had to go see the movie, after that.
My heart almost stopped when you paused during David Gilmour's solo. I didn't know that this was possible without the world going to end 😲
It isn't . I saw rips in the sky and heard an agonizing cry from Gaya who noticed someone paused a Gilmour solo
The weather has been fucked up ever since..And some earthquakes also!
Wow, I'm sure I commented on your reaction before, but your thoughts on minimalism really caught my attention this time around. I love Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians". Now that you mention it ....I totally pick up on that comparison. I saw this rendition live in a stadium ( 75,000+) in this particular tour & it was absolutely phenomenal. BTW, I had a severe fever as a child so I relate to the lyrics quite well. Thank you for your insight!! Brilliant!!!
By some measures the greatest guitar solo of all time. I love the vocal analysis, but he sings with his guitar what he could never do without. There are many great guitar players, but no one else can do what he does
The Pulse live version of Comfortably Numb needs to be preserved and sent to space. The most epic performance of this song. The final guitar solo - I've no words.
agree
I love this version but I have to disagree. I think Pompeii is better.
@@Is3acTambolas True! I didn't think it could ever be possible, but old Dave managed to outdo his younger self
Together with the wall show by roger waters and special apparition of Gilmour
"These guys" during the verse in this case are Rick Wright (older guy on keys), Jon Carin (younger guy on keys), Guy Pratt (bass). Rick is a forming member, now deceased. Carin and Pratt played with Floyd since the mid-80's, and both continue to play on Gilmour and Floyd-related projects. You will also hear the female backing vocalists in various bits during the verses Sam Brown, Durga McBroom, and the late Claudia Fontaine.
The lead vocal in the chorus and lead guitar is David Gilmour who has been with the band since the late 60's.
Roger Waters was a founding member who played with Pink Floyd until the early 80's and then only made one subsequent appearance with the band, once at Live 8 in London, although Gilmour and founding member Nick Mason (drummer) joined him for one of his Wall tour dates, and Gilmour and Waters appeared for some charity stuff together before finally going their separate ways.
perfectly summed up. Gilmour entered the band in 1969 replacing Syd Barrett who "went mad" due to drugs and probably schizophrenia. Syd passed away in 2006 and Rick, in 2008.
i saw them in this very close to stage we all just cried and listening to your absoulute genius analysis is also atreat of a lifetime ty so much ITS AFLOWER WHEN I SAW THIS I CRIED it was unreal 1987