Comfortably Numb

[TerryMcK]

Which guitar solo do you prefer the first or the second?

[wtnhighlander]

Which guitar solo do you prefer the first or the second?

Yes.

[Just Bob]

3 minutes ago, wtnhighlander said:

Yes.

Yea me too.

[ncfowler]

it would be easy to chose if you post a link to both, but since it is Pink Floyd, yes

 

[..Kev]

Gilmour is the king of tone!  One of my favorites for sure.

[Guest]

Funny, I kind of hated Pink Floyd back in high school.  Not because of the music, but because every stoner-wannabe in school wore a Dark Side of the Moon t-shirt, even if they have never heard the music.  Or they say stupid stuff like "Dude, you should watch Alice in Wonderland with Dark Side playing in the background while tripping".   Same reason why I am tiring of walnut (because every hipster bar is decking itself out in poorly made slab tables).  Like @Eric., I am allergic to fads.

But, nowadays I listen to Pink Floyd quite a bit.  I really can't pick a favorite solo.  Not being a guitarist, I can't appreciate it the way a guitarist could.  They both sound great to me, and I would agree with Kev that the tone is fantastic.  My favorite song is probably "wish you were here," not only for the music, but for the meaning.  

[drzaius]

4 hours ago, TerryMcK said:

Which guitar solo do you prefer the first or the second?

Yes

[Gnarlywoodguy]

How about Knopfler Telegraph Road?

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[Eric.]

Second one, no contest.

However...it's a good song, catchy, cool, everyone knows it and loves it, whatever...one of the weakest songs on the album, IMO.

Thin Ice, Goodbye Blue Sky, Nobody Home, In the Flesh...best songs on the album.

And despite Mike's aversion to the t-shirts...Dark Side is a WAY better album in toto.  I love The Wall, but let's be honest.

[Guest]

The t-shirts are fine.  It was the wannabe stoner soccer jocks wearing the shirts that I had an aversion to. 

[gee-dub]

The coffee just kicked in and I figured out you weren't talking about two different artist's versions of comfortably numb but the two solo sections within Pink Floyd's version.  I voted for both.  Although my garage band days were spent behind a keyboard I am a sucker for great guitar work.  I even have discs that just carry the lead-in bars to the solo and then the lead-in bars to another solo, etc.

Clapton - Crossroads Live, Johnny Winter - Cheap Tequila off Still Alive and Well, Rick Vito's slide solo on Bob Segar's Like a Rock, Neil Geraldo on Pat Benetar's Promises in the Dark, Yngwie on Dreaming from the Odyssey album  . . . it's endless . . .

[Eric.]

2 minutes ago, gee-dub said:

Rick Vito's slide solo on Bob Segar's Like a Rock

Yeah that is some killer, killer stuff.  Think I'll give that a listen right now, it's been a while.

[Janello]

THIS

Did I mention I am in love with the Cellist? 

[MisterDrow]

3 hours ago, Eric. said:

Second one, no contest.

However...it's a good song, catchy, cool, everyone knows it and loves it, whatever...one of the weakest songs on the album, IMO.

Thin Ice, Goodbye Blue Sky, Nobody Home, In the Flesh...best songs on the album.

And despite Mike's aversion to the t-shirts...Dark Side is a WAY better album in toto.  I love The Wall, but let's be honest.

Gotta agree with Eric on all counts. Great song but easily one of the weakest of the album.

Love me some Pink Floyd!

[gee-dub]

1 hour ago, Eric. said:

Yeah that is some killer, killer stuff.  Think I'll give that a listen right now, it's been a while.

For those who may wonder . . .

[prov163]

One of my favorite albums is David Gilmore Live in Gdansk.  Plays in my shop weekly.

Funny, I'm old enough to remember that the first time I listened to Dark Side of the Moon was at a friend's house.  We smoked some herb and listened to it on a Quad system.  Still a great album all these years later.

[Cliff]

I've only heard Comfortably Numb once.. played live by Dream Theater and Queensryche at the end of show. I've never really been a PF fan, but in the last few years I've come to realize there is nothing wrong with them. My younger days bias no longer exists. But I still don't seem to listen to them.

[Llama]

7 minutes ago, Cliff said:

 

I've only heard Comfortably Numb once..

 

Plz Ban

[ClassAct]

Pink Floyd: Still First In Space.

Blew off studying for a law school final taking place the next day so I could buy a last-second ticket to see Pink Floyd in the Kingdome (1987). Best decision I ever made; the show was incredible, and the sound was too in the notoriously bad Dome. Got a sucky mediocre grade on the final but who cares -- it didn't affect my life one bit. Floyd, OTOH, I'll always remember.

[Coop]

On August 26, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Janello said:

THIS

Did I mention I am in love with the Cellist? 

How long have you felt this way?

[Janello]

9 hours ago, K Cooper said:

How long have you felt this way?

for 8:09 minutes.