I don't like Pink Floyd's (David Gilmour's) "Comfortably Numb" solo.

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It's just kind of there. It is annoying how every hack has to learn it note for note. Just play your own boring solo, idiots! :p
 
I don't like Pink Floyd anything. Nothing. Can't stand that light duty crap.
 
I liked it when Gilmour's adopted son got sent to prison for being a giant douche :laughings:
 
Yeah I could never get into them overall.

I never liked the Dead either...even though my songs and voice have been compared to them.
 
I think it's odd how it wins "best guitar solo" polls, when it's not even HIS best. I really like his guitar playing and I totally get "Time" and "Shine on". I just don't get this solo at all.
 
I LOVE Pink Floyd's (David Gilmour's) "Comfortably Numb" solo.

There - I said it. :eatpopcorn:
 
Bubba po said:
I think it's odd how it wins "best guitar solo" polls, when it's not even HIS best. I really like his guitar playing.
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Although I didn't realize it at the time, David Gilmour's guitar playing {and Syd's} and Pink Floyd's music were to have a cataclysmic effect on my musical headspace. In Gilmour's case, the albums "A saucerful of secrets" and "Meddle" specifically. "Echoes" for me is their high water mark. I like his jaggedy soloing on "Let there be more light" too.
 
Who knows? I haven't listened to them since college days when my suitemate would repeatedly play my copy of "Numb" when he got really wasted. I sold all my LPs the next term . . .
 
Jon Stoppable said:
It's not even the best solo on DSOTM. Time is better.
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that would be because it's not ON DSOTM.

I like everything ...... I like pretty much all music and all decent recordings ...... I am a Floyd fan but I prefer the earlier stuff. Meddle is probably my fav although I really like Umma Gumma (which is a compilation actually) too.

I also like The Monkees, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Meshuggah and The Ramones and The Ventures.
Frank Sinatra had some good stuff too.

:cool:
 
Yeah, I actually always liked like Meddle and Umma Gumma a lot too. I think I have the records here someplace?

Funny though, when I think of Pink Floyd, I never thing of guitar soloing per se, but that comfortably numb solo is apparently revered in some circles. I can't even remember how it goes, but I see people covering it all the time (like just the solo without the song!?) on soundclick and stuff. It's almost like Eruption in that sense....people just wanna replicate it for some reason.
 
heatmiser said:
Yeah, I actually always liked like Meddle and Umma Gumma a lot too. I think I have the records here someplace?

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I have multiple copies of Umma Gumma (6000 vinyl albums ya' know) but Meddle has been hard to find a good quiet copy of. I have maybe 3 copies but they're all kinda noisy ..... I like good clean quiet vinyl (there IS such a thing) so I've been looking for a clean one for a while.
I don't think they pressed many of that particular album for some reason.
I think they finally re-released it on vinyl recently so as soon as I have a spare 30 bucks I'll get one.

And yeah ....... I think of Floyd in terms of the complete concepts and arrangements ...... not guitar solos although I don't tend to think in terms of solos anyway since that's what I do.
The totality of the song is my thing.
 
Not a fan of Pink Floyd..........but I do like Wish You Were Here.......Dark Side of the Moon is the most over rated album ever......

There, now I said it ;)
 
I think Comfortably Numb is a let-down. It doesn't have the same feeling of direction, the sense that you're being taken somewhere with it that you get on Time, or Another Brick, etc. It just seems like mindless fret-wanking by comparison. And it's too long. Way too long. :zzz:
 
I've always been fond of "Comfortably Numb", but I prefer their pre-DSOTM work, except Ummagumma.
 
heatmiser said:
Yeah, I actually always liked like Meddle and Umma Gumma a lot too. I think I have the records here someplace?

Funny though, when I think of Pink Floyd, I never thing of guitar soloing per se, but that comfortably numb solo is apparently revered in some circles. I can't even remember how it goes, but I see people covering it all the time (like just the solo without the song!?) on soundclick and stuff. It's almost like Eruption in that sense....people just wanna replicate it for some reason.
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it goes like this 'ba dee do dah bah de doo de bah, bah dee do bah de doo be dah' you can print that out and tack it to the wall for when you are trying to learn it note for note without any backing music. im trying to remember the last time i played an actual honest to jehovah guitar solo.
 
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