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

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chuckduffy said:
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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Shouldn't there be an extra 'de' in there? Or are you thinking of a live version?

Not a huge fan of "the wall" compared to their earlier stuff though. DSOTM is one of my long term favourites. But that just probably shows my age to within about a year :)

As far as I remebember there aren't any self indulgent solo's on there though...
 
Whaleblue said:
Shouldn't there be an extra 'de' in there? Or are you thinking of a live version?

Not a huge fan of "the wall" compared to their earlier stuff though. DSOTM is one of my long term favourites. But that just probably shows my age to within about a year :)

As far as I remebember there aren't any self indulgent solo's on there though...
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I think you might be right about that de, and a missing dee too.
 
chuckduffy said:
I think you might be right about that de, and a missing dee too.
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This has reminded me of a news story I saw - probably back in the late 70's or 80's - about this chap who'd written a book from which you could look up the name of a song based on the ups/downs/sames in a humming pattern. I think it worked in principle, but I'm not sure he'd thought through the minor issue of people inconsiderately recording new stuff!
 
Classical music at its best...

Echoes...
but every once in a while you get something that strikes me as classical but not yet recognized... "Set the controls for the heart of the sun."

Music isn't about solo's, and half of what we hear in solo's is about mixing. How many guitar solo's were pulled off really well the first time through, start to finish? [Aqualung is one...]

... though I did like some of his post Floyd work.

I first heard, and then learned. "I like to hear that kind of music, but that isn't what I like to play."
(ideas insured by Floyds of Flondon.)
-Ron

grimtraveller said:
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.
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Feel better?

If it makes you feel better to dis an obviously influential piece of music, gfi. I often wonder why it's in the top tiers of "best solo" polls myself, but Neil Young is usually there and Dylan makes the singer polls, sometimes it's not the skills or flawless technique but just the number of people the piece has managed to connect with, very hard tp predict.
 
rpm61 said:
If it makes you feel better to dis an obviously influential piece of music, gfi. I often wonder why it's in the top tiers of "best solo" polls myself, but Neil Young is usually there and Dylan makes the singer polls, sometimes it's not the skills or flawless technique but just the number of people the piece has managed to connect with, very hard tp predict.
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Yes Neil Young is "Mr Soul"!

VP
 
My favorite Floyd member was always Richard Wright. I know it's customary for middle-aged dudes to kneel at the altar of the guitar god, but I think Wright was a less-replaceable member all around. His "Egyptian" sound was a huge part of their pre-DSOTM work, and his The Great Gig in the Sky is easily the most haunting sublime moment on that same bloated album, and the only one I still actually listen to. For decades those two other "Pigs" would bicker back and forth about who was the real Pink Floyd. Through all this Richard remained characteristically quiet, understated even through his last days.

This is a shipwreck of a thread, but since it's already at the top, RIP Richard. Ok I'll shut up now.
 
I've never heard it, I think.

Who are Pink Floyd, anyway? Are they as good as A-Ha?
 
fat_fleet said:
My favorite Floyd member was always Richard Wright. I know it's customary for middle-aged dudes to kneel at the altar of the guitar god, but I think Wright was a less-replaceable member all around. His "Egyptian" sound was a huge part of their pre-DSOTM work, and his The Great Gig in the Sky is easily the most haunting sublime moment on that same bloated album, and the only one I still actually listen to. For decades those two other "Pigs" would bicker back and forth about who was the real Pink Floyd. Through all this Richard remained characteristically quiet, understated even through his last days.

This is a shipwreck of a thread, but since it's already at the top, RIP Richard. Ok I'll shut up now.
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I am with you on this one, he was a very important member of the Floyd. I like his playing and his songs. "Remember a day"

VP
 
rpm61 said:
If it makes you feel better to dis an obviously influential piece of music, gfi. I often wonder why it's in the top tiers of "best solo" polls myself, but Neil Young is usually there and Dylan makes the singer polls, sometimes it's not the skills or flawless technique but just the number of people the piece has managed to connect with, very hard tp predict.
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It's not about feeling better, really. And I don't think that the "Comfortably Numb" solo is particularly influential, either - not when compared with his previous work. The band? Yes; that solo? Fuck, no.
 
I had the misfortune to walk through Roger Waters' set at Glastonbury a few years. By the time I had fought through around half a mile of mud and crowds, he was just about reaching the climax to the first part of his first solo. The whole thing struck me as the most horribly indulgent guitar wankery. Had to go and find a band playing trashy noise just to clean my ears out.

I don't think I've ever managed to make it through The Wall either. Someone on here said a tune I did reminded them of Meddle era Floyd, so I gave that a listen and did like it though.
 
well ...... I like it but it's just a solo.
Any really good improvising player comes up with equally good stuff.

Although I am a Pink Flord fan and a fan of Gilmour including his solo work; one thing I've never liked was that he does a buncha solos and then cuts and pastes bits and pieces of each one to make a complete solo.

For me, a solo should be come up with 'on the spot' and in a single complete take.
That's my preference.

Having said that I like Gilmour and his toan ..... I rarely plotz over a specific solo however.
There's one done by whoever Steely Dan was using that day on the 'live' Kid Charlemagne that always makes me press rewind to hear it a few times.

Sonny Rollins has a few solos that make me go whoa.
 
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