Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb (Pulse) & Hey Hey Rise Up REACTION/ANALYSIS | The Daily Doug (Ep. 385)
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
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0:00 Intro
3:41 Hey Hey Rise Up
10:42 Comfortably Numb Intro
14:36 Comfortably Numb (Live)
In this #MasterpieceFriday edition of #TheDailyDoug, we're making it a Pink Floyd Friday with their all-time classic Comfortably Numb. In my Fan Favorites video for my Patreon, the Pulse live version won over the studio version, so that's what I'm using. I'm starting, however, with their brand new song Hey Hey Rise Up, which was written and released to lift up and support the people of Ukraine. Enjoy!
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If you are analysing live performances, I would suggest Pink Floyd Echoes live in Pompeii 1972. One of the great live renditions.👍
Absolutely , this is a floyd masterpiece. The best ever live performance
@@adamjames6683 it showcased what they could do live, even though there was no crowd. Thumbs up for the sound engineers and Floyd for one of the great live performances.👍
He did... live in Gdansk!
@@endapian sorry but live in gdansk in 2016 doesn't come close to Pompeii 1972.
@@adamandrew9052 I just want to say that he already reacted to "Echoes". It is impossible and difficult to compare all versions of the same piece of music....
What amazes me the most about David's solos, in Comfortably Numb, is how much he communicates with his guitar without ever showing off. Each notes is essential and matches perfectly with the lyrics.
Even if Pink Floyd is labeled as a rock band, this piece takes more from the blues. It "speaks" a lot.
Yes! A lot of Dave Gilmour's vocabulary comes from blues. It speaks a lot with very little. Straight to your heart
"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."
There may be lines as agonizing as this, but I haven't heard any that are more painful.
And so many of us have lived those lines.
Right in the feels.
YES! Mine is Goodbye Blue Skies. It began my journey of a lifelong battle with depression. And to this day, a sunny day gets me kind of down, I prefer the rain. 🌹🌹
Piercing shadows tickling our hope
Maybe Time. That hits completely different now that I’m in my early 40’s
Something about Pink Floyd and David’s guitar playing. Just touches your soul.
I listen to this, High Hopes and On the Turning Away, almost everyday for the last two years. It helped keep me sane during the pandemic pandemonium.
My favourite 3 fine PF pieces!✌️😎
Glad you’ve mentioned ‘On the Turning Away’, my all-time favorite Pink Floyd song.
Oh yeah! On the Turning Away has another sublime guitar solo. For me on the same level as Comfortably Numb. High Hopes ia also a beautiful masterpiece
Yes!
Both are masterpieces... actually, most of Pink Floyd's undoubtable masterpieces are the ones which has the best Mr. Gilmour's solos. Others guys from PF were amazing and above the lines, however Gilmour is in a level that hardly we will see someone even getting close. I'm not talking about technics itself but David is able to make guitars turning alive and hit our souls.
As a true Pink Floyd fan, I must have heard Comfortably Numb at least a thousand times in my lifetime and in different versions. The truth is, it's one of the few songs that never gets old and you never get tired of it. Then, years later, when you see David Gilmour even wielding his instrument in this iconic solo, it's pure fantasy. In 1994, I bought a ticket to a concert that Pink Floyd played in Prague as part of a tour that included Pulse. The day before the concert, I had a bad case of strep throat and a high fever - I was really sick. I was still determined to go to the concert, but it had been raining a lot since the morning and it was cold. I had to stay in bed and gave the ticket to my cousin. To this day I still feel guilty because it will never happen again.
If I may be so bold as to say so, I think this is *not* something to feel _guilty_ about... just to have some Sorrow (another great, no?) over having missed. And for that, I give condolences. You did the right thing, though, for both yourself and others (strep being extremely contagious, after all).
So you were stuck in bed uncomfortably numb…..sorry. 😬😆
@@Eleventhearlofmars hah. Except... it sounds to me like the numb part was missing, and there was only discomfort! :'( ;)
I was in line to this concert, Summer 1994 and someone offered me what in today's money would make €1000 for my ticket and I said NOPE. Never regreted!
This song is so powerful you'd probably fail a drug test after listening to it.
This song is just another experiment of David Gilmour's because he learned to use ProTools and can't stop. He made a perfectly awful Floyd album, and now inserted himself into someone else's work. His tireless crusade to belittle all things Pink Floyd has really made me lose all respect for him
@@johnpeace971 what do you mean?
@@johnpeace971 well that's just as incorrect an opinion as I've ever heard anyone have. Enjoy being all alone on your island of duh.
@@johnpeace971 what are you talking about?! ProTools? On Comfortably Numb? Which was written ten years before ProTools existed?
@@johnpeace971 I see there are no videos on your RUclips channel, do you have any original music to share that isn't a ProTools experiment?
Comfortably Numb features 2 of the best ever guitar solo in one song. Masterpiece.
I was at the pulse Concert in Philadelphia at Veterans stadium in the summer of 1994. That disco ball light reflecting all over the stadium gave a truly unreal experience.
I was there, too. Then, layer in the year, twice again in Giants Stadium. I think in Philly they closed the first set with One Of These Days, and opened the second set with Hey You. In the old Meadowlands, they didn't do Hey You, because the entire second set was just Dark Side.
Its a shame the official video was recorded indoors. I remember being completely amazed that a scaffold with a disco ball on it came out of the floor and rose to a height that could not have possibly been underground. I still don't know how they did that
Saw them on the same tour in the New Orleans Superdome. Surreal isn't a strong enough word for the disco ball solo.
@@Madman007 Superdome as well... Amazing performance..
It just doesn't get any better than that... no flashy shredding, just pure emotional mastery. Brilliant.
Pure music . Dave Gilmour lives in Brighton /Hove about 400m from where my son has a property with his partner . I only realised this a few years ago , I admit I've sat on the seafront outside his house just soaking up the vibes . My son has no idea who he is but then one of his best friends is Carissa Palmer daughter of Carl and he has no idea who her dad is either.
@@johnp5351 - Why is your kid oblivious?
Very Emotional
I just love how Dave just lets the notes breathe... goosebump heaven!
The monochrome image of David bent over his guitar, the intense backlight silhouetting the intensity of the moment - what incredible things we are lucky to have come to witness and appreciate.
I feel like " Keep Talking " by Pink Floyd is somehow forgotten. For me a hidden gem with an amazing guitar solo.
Not only masters of instruments, but masters of audio technology, shaping analog signals the their exact specifications. Masters of visual design with concert lighting and mechanics that perfectly compliment their music. Masters of mixing and recording, even capturing live audio with similar quality to studio versions of songs. Not only amazing visual and audio artists, but amazing electronics and audio engineers.
Great point
Nick Mason and Guy Pratt are currently touring as members of Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets playing pre Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd songs.
I saw them last night (Thursday 28th) totally brilliant.
Yep, I saw them pre-pandemic and it was wonderful. My tickets for the next go around have been rescheduled multiple times but I think this time's for real.
I hope they come to Southern California this year or next. I would love to see them!
I was at that concert and it truly was the best night of my life. I bought the dvd when it came it out and have seen it again many times and it STILL sends shivers down my spine. NO other band can do this. Absolutely wonderful.
You lucky thing. Out of interest, were you named after Angharad Rees of "Poldark" fame? A lovely Welsh name.
It’s a beautiful song. When those three play together it still just sounds like Pink Floyd, even after 28 years, so refreshing. David has most definitely still got it, he continues to impress. Loved this video. This version of comfortably numb also still gets me emotional. Thank you for this Doug 🖤
I had the privilege of attending the last of these shows at Earls Court, about a week after the date of this recording. Earls Court was a huge barn of a place, usually used for exhibitions and motor shows, but Pink Floyd somehow made the acoustics work. It's difficult, on a 4:3 video on a screen, to convey the immense scale of the venue or of the show, to feel how amazing it was to watch that huge screen slowly pivot to hover horizontally over David Gilmour's head and then pick him out with a flood of light, or be part of the floating glittery sea of dancing reflections from the glitterball. It was overwhelming. Not just sound, not just lights, but the effect of that sound and those lights. The low frequencies would resonate through you, you could feel the heat of the flashpots on your face. And it was all coordinated to land just perfectly. The effect was almost visceral. I found myself feeling the music, the soundscape, as much as listening to it. It truly was a transporting experience, and I've never encountered anything quite like it, before or since.
I saw a show from a late 1980s tour at a stadium in Tampa, Florida. I was far up near the top but the sound was excellent, as they had speakers all around the very top of the "bowl" providing a surround effect. I saw them again in 1994 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena California and they had that mirror ball thing.
I was at the same show but in The Netherlands in a football stadium in Rotterdam. The accoustics were fenominal, considering to be in a stadium. I feel even more Lucky now being able to have attended this concert. Pink Floyd, I consider them above all other bands. My all time number 1 band .
I was at Earl's Court that year too. One of the most unforgettable concerts ever. Wasn't the only tour they used that "arch and circle" rig on, but having caught them on two of the tours they did use it on, its incredible versatility blew my geeky stage-tech mind. Same rig, two totally different shows. Only occasionally, between songs, though. And the Division Bell stage we saw here, with that quartet of giant Leslies on stage... just wow, right? Most of the time you're lost in the music but the rest of the time thinking " d*mn, I want to see that board.... "
I actually had a crew pass for The Wall AT the wall in Berlin. A buddy of mine was working the varilight console and I got brought in as a last-minute substitute assistant (since he'd worked with me before and I was available at short notice). That was a pretty awesome show too.
@@davebooth5847 Could enthuse for hours. The way the spots round the periphery of the screen were coordinated. The combination of pyros and lighting effects in One of These Days. The immense lasers, creating a lacework skimming seemingly just over our heads. From my position on the balcony just above the point where the plane crashes at the end of On the Run, the smoke and sparks rose all around me. Towards the end of Another Brick in the Wall, we could see something being inflated on top of the speaker stack just to our right, but couldn't tell what it was. When the lights came up at the end of One of These Days to reveal a huge inflatable pig, spotlights for eyes, mere feet away from me... the way I felt right in the heart of the performance throughout, in a venue as big and impersonal as Earls Court, was amazing.
@@davidhills3100 well, the pig was a "trademark thing that must happen at every Floyd gig" since the Animals tour - they just made it bigger and more spectacular every time :) Gotta agree with ya about Earl's Court, though. I'd seen five bands there and Floyd filled it better than any other. I was much more used to to being there for the boat show. I'd wander the show one day and the others I'd be at the tube station playing shipwreck songs and shanty melodies - best busking pitch for a folkie ever :D
Fun fact. I was at this show at Earls Court a couple of days after the show they filmed for Pulse. I still have the tour programme and ticket stubs.
My Dad took me. I was five years old!
I got into this show for free as the night before I was due to go, a stand collapsed when everyone stood up at the start of the show and our seats ceased to exist. When we got to Earl's Court we were offered different seats and a full refund. We were much closer to the stage so you could feel the heat from the pyrotechnics.
I just mentioned the stand collapse in my own comment. I was there a few days later.
I agree with everything you said Doug if you don't have goosebumps after this your probably dead.
This song is pure genius and David's guitar playing is perfect on every level. Total mastery!
As a 63yo cynical guy, this solo brings tears to my eyes.
Just an absolutely phenomenal performance of Comfortably Numb. The giant mirror ball reveal, then opening, then opening AGAIN - I still get goosebumps. Mr Gilmore is, without doubt, my favorite guitarist.
Heard this song a million times,still gives me the chills every time
Excellent choices for analyzing guitar solos! I enjoy how Gilmour always “sings” his guitar, rather than simply playing it. These two songs show an interesting contrast. The ending solo for Comfortably Numb just pulls out all the stops, exploding in dramatic intensity. The three-part solo for Hey, Hey, Rise Up is far more restrained. It builds slowly and holds back - leaving a mournful, grieving wail about what’s happening to Ukraine.
May the red viburnum grow in peace again. 🇺🇦
Isn't the viburnum a shrub with white flowers? Do you wish for Soviet rule? I don't understand. Please take the time to explain these things to me.
@@chrisgillard6129 The video around 2:00 already explains this. It was a song that the Soviets banned.
David haws two ways of composing guitar solos: He sings them onto tape than transposes that to guitar, or he just blows off and makes it up. Comfortably Numb contains both. The middle solo is a transposed vocal, the end a let's see what happens spontaneous take (or rather a few takes because he says he spliced several takes)
Facts. Pure facts
I was lucky enough to be at these Earl’s Court gigs. Don’t know if it was this actual one, but still remains as the best concert I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to a lot.
The extended solo is unbelievable, and as for the glitterball, I distinctly remember turning away from the stage to watch the lights reflecting from it(I was in the 4th row, close enough to feel the pyro), and then being awestruck as it opened. Just watching this back brings a lump to my throat. Incredible
Snapper, I was there too and the glitter ball, that I likened to the opening of a flower, was a stunning part of the stage show
I honestly think this is the most beautiful guitar solo ever recorded. I love the studio version, but the Pulse version is just from another dimension :)
Listen to the solo from The turning away on the live Pulse concert.
Watching David play Marooned live Is really something to behold .. The one he did for Fender has great camera showing his hands and his face so you get to see him feeling every note .
Right, it's awesome! You may already know this, but David Gilmour won a Grammy for the song Marooned.
@@trevorjameson3213 I actually was not aware of that .. In fact I just did some reading since your comment made me ask myself , "How many Grammy's have Pink Floyd won over the years ...I'm listing track after track in my head that I was certain could have/should have earned one . They easily had at least 3-4 + over the career right ? Nope just 1 and it was for a song with no lyrical content !!!! That's sad for me as a fan but speaks insane volumes to the masterpiece of of Marooned .
we were there on the night. Earl's Court 20th October 1994. It was an experience rather than a show, it was stunning in every respect> No one plays the air like tDavid Gilmour. The performance was as close to perfection as you can get. We sneajed in to the foyr early and heard a bit of "dark side" in the soundcheck for a few minutes before the security guys twigged :) Still the greatest show on Earth
I will definitely second this. Floyd played 12 nights at Earls Court in this run and I was there for two of those nights. It was an almost spiritual experience. I have been to, probably, hundreds of gigs before and since but this one will always be in my top three (I can't choose a top one between this and Queen at Wembley '86 or Led Zep at the O2 '07)
I saw them that same year at Texas stadium in Dallas awesome show
I was there too! We should organise a reunion :D IT was very very touching when David Gilmour thanked Roger Waters at the end for the songs he was "privileged" to play. They weren't getting on at the time but the worst had passed and you could tell there was respect there still.
Hey hey rise up is so powerful the people of Ukraine are magnificent un response to the appalling invasion. May peace be restored soon
@@willrobb5577 that's very sweet of you.
That guitar tone is just one of a kind. Great interpretation of that song! Gilmour is one of the absolute greats and so important to the success of Pink Floyd. It was of course a group effort back in the day and all members equally important for the end result.
Stunning music and stage show. Melody always beats virtuosity in my book. The crafting of an arrangement may well incorporate virtuosity, but touching the heart or soul will place your music in the memory for far longer than - well, you see where I'm headed...
Thank you, Doug, for your thoughts and insights.
I was lucky enough to be at this show and I'm not embarrassed to say that I started crying when the glitter ball started to open!
You weren’t the only one.
After the show,we all poured onto the tube,stunned by what we’d just seen.
@@TheCornishCockney when we left Earls court a TV crew from the ITV breakfast show TVam stuck a camera in my face asking what we thought of the show. My wife saw me on TV and apparently I was rambling about lights in the sky!!!
God what I would give to have been alive during this time. It's so crushing knowing I'll never be able to see Pink Floyd like this
II saw them in Toronto at an open stadium and the glitter ball came up out of the floor on scaffolding that I have no idea where it was coming from, There was a building the size of a trailer on the floor and the ball came up out of the rear top. They must have been assembling it in sections as the ball slowly rose up
That last solo still gives me goose bumps
It's not so much the fact those solos are melodic, I think they create an emotional connection to the song, they make us feel something you can't explain. Some notes just.... resonate in your soul.
Gilmours solos are like stories....sad stories, just beautiful and full of emotions, great musician
Comfortably Numb's chord progression during the verse and the 2nd lead is the best on the world. I just love it...
David Gilmour solos are my go-to when playing air guitar.
sometimes playing air guitar is even better then the real deal
I won't say a single word about THE GREATEST GUITAR PLAYER EVER. I won't say that the selective abscence of notes is as important as the played notes. All I'm saying is: Nick is a freaking BEAST! Also, Richard is just absolute pure MAGIC.. Great video and reaction as always, Doug. Cheers from Brazil!
A simple listening of "Comfortably Numb" should work as antibiotics to all the horrible, naughty, nasty, "piseiro" noise ever recorded.....
I see those little kids and I cry. This piece moves me as no other song in all my years has moved me.
It made me cry too
Learn about the 15,000 martyrs of the Donbass, killed for speaking Russian, attending the Russian Orthodox Church, for being born Roma or Russian in Ukraine……. Search BBC for two documentaries about 4+ years ago. Do your research. Learn the truth.
Doug, thank you once again from Ukraine. I hope that we will have peace once again and go on on the music journey as in the good old days. That song/video was recorded in the first days of the war, and while I never really cared about Boombox, Andriy expressed what most of us here felt. The lyrics go like: the red viburnum bowed down in the meadow, somehow our Ukraine is in sorrow now, but we will raise that red viburnum, and we'll cheer up our glorious Ukraine. Thanks to Pink Floyd, these guys proved once more that they are one of the greatest.
I've been playing guitar since the early 80's when I first heard Randy Rhoads, so I grew up w/ the whole 80's hard rock guitarists. But, I have to say Dave Gilmours live solo here on the Pulse performance of this song, is mind blowing and by far my all time favorite guitar solo.
Awesomeness!!!!! The solo in the live version of "Comfortably Numb" is always completely epic!!! If I had known you were going to react to "Comfortably Numb" live, I would have suggested the "Live in GDansk" performance. During that performance, they had a *live* string section. "Comfortably Numb" live with a string section? Every time I hear that solo, I'm brought to tears. THANK YOU for sharing your experience with this with us! :)
after pulse Gdansk performance is totally awsome
If I ever start a reactions YT channel, this version of Comfortably Numb will be where I start. A thousand listens in and it still never, ever fails to make me cry my eyes out.
My closest friend, she showed me this song, sat across from her on the floor late one night in her home. Weeks later she would take her life. There’s something about remembering her intertwined with this epic, epic music which is beyond overwhelming.
And your understanding of it, appreciation of it, knowledge of its power, adds to it.
Thank you. ❤
This got to be the #1 guitar solo by anyone anywhere...
23:00 Does my heart good seeing Doug really grooving to this! Peace, peace, peace!
According to my books, "Comfortably Numb" was inspired by a time when Roger Waters was very ill, but The Show Must Go On, so the band's doctor gave him something to get him through the performance. It turned out that he had hepatitis.
Gilmour's demo was an instrumental for his first solo album.
Waters said in an interview that trying to play bass with his arms and hands pretty much numb from the drugs made for the longest two hours of his life.
In one solo he throws more musical ideas than so many players in his entire discography, he is magnificent
I love both songs. Telling us the extra information about them and the artists that make them is pure gold. something to be valued. Thanks!
I'm crying watching your reaction. Im Ukrainian, and I appreciate you helping spread the word this way. Thank you. Sincerely thank you.
I respect the fact that David decided to release the new song under Pink Floyd instead of his own name, meaning it will be on a bigger platform to raise money. It was great to see him with Nick on drums again.
i was at this concert nearly 30 years later it still gives me goosebumps ! i was sat just to the left of the mixing section !
all these years(63yrs) all this music..... still got gossebumos of this song/solo
i have been a PF-fan all my life and they never let me down
Played this one many times in my band , And have to say that it gets in to your bones when performing it , Its like it takes over you and you feel it not just play it . And it seems to bring nearly all music lovers together at gigs . Powerfull is not the word
Wow you finally got to CN. This musically and lyrically is one of the greatest pieces of music you will ever hear across all genres. That being said the album version is also a must mainly because of the orchestral movement within the piece that does not quite come out on the awesome live version. Oooooppsss one more thing it is the only song that has 2 of the greatest guitar if not the greatest guitar solos ever. The middle one many of his peers say this is the greatest guitar solo ever. Many music fans think the final guitar solo is the greatest ever. You decide!
When I saw that todays song was “Comfortably Numb” is said “Ah, the 2 greatest guitar solos on the face of the planet”.
Great on the album but too short. It should go on forever...
So true well said
Very true, and it's interesting how many songs have not just one but two amazing solos. Kid Charlemagne, Rosanna, Goodbye To Love and Reelin' In The Years spring to mind. They must have had their weetabix on those days!
Comfortably Numb is one of the most extraordinary pieces of music ever composed. I always felt that towards the end, it became the funeral march of a lost and tormented soul. All of the anguish and regret of something glimpsed and lost is distilled and channeled into one extended searing cry. This never gets old. Ever. It speaks to something that we all know and cannot be expressed in any other way. Music - real music is a language all its own. Extraordinary musicians like David Gilmour can communicate their inner experiences as few can today. Gilmour’s guitar appears to be connected directly to his soul. Some musicians can manage that for a few moments. For Gilmour, it’s his natural state of being. It is unmistakable and cannot be faked.
The only song that brings a year to my eye every time I hear it, so powerful and full of soul
Thank you Pink Floyd for the beautiful music 💗
I saw them in Gothenburg 1994. It rained the whole day like never before and Gothenburg is a rainy town on the west coast of Sweden. They appear in the midst of the rain and Gilmour just said -Lets get on with it. On the third song all the clouds dissapeared in an instant and it turned into the musical experience of my lifetime. When those stands began to turn in the light of the disco ball with all the stars above, oh man.
I think it's amazing that a vocal recorded outdoors on a phone (in a city no less) can sound like it was recorded in a studio.
Just hit on your channel and been scrolling through quite a few more uploads... Great to hear your take on these prog albums from back in the day.....thank you so much for being so entertaining and informative same time!!! Cheers 🥂 xx
Doug I stumbled upon your station searching for Pink Floyd material. I absolutely love your channel. Keep up the great analysis of great rock and roll!
Fantastic. Thank you Doug. Nice commentary on the progressions and structure.
Wonderful to hear a new PF song - a shame that it took such events to produce it but that was a great tribute to the Ukrainians too.
Thank you.
I was there,Earls Court,West London,October ‘94.
I’m still recovering.
Best concert I’ve ever witnessed.
I can't imagine what it would be like to have been there live. I think I would literally weep.
Never fails that I get chills, every time, with that song - specifically that version, and it's literally thousands of times hearing it! The emotion in Dave's playing, the notes he hits...otherworldly!!
I truly think that his guitar is an extension of his soul. Thanks for the reactions, love your insight & commentary! Cheers.
Gilmour's guitar alone brings me to tears, easily. within the context of the scope in which this track was released, well, i cried throughout. Thanks, Doug.
The greatest version of Pink Floyd mother is available on RUclips, it's a video of them in 1980 or 81. The lead guitar solo is twice as long, and with both David and Roger it's pretty magical.
One thing that concerns me about this reaction is that up to now I've noticed Doug gives his analyses almost always during solos which makes me think Doug is not that much into solos! He'll probably be bored to death with these two :)
And another thing, we shouldn't call what he's doing merely 'a reaction'. This man gives analyses, teaches things, highlights important musical points etc. I would rather use a pharese like educated reactions, public education or deconstructive reactions etc.
Love you guys
This station and Charismatic Voice are the two best. Would love to see Doug and Elizabeth join forces to give a master class on composition and voice.
Well, lucky you then! He wanted to give analysis during the solo and then stopped himself because he didn't want to talk over it.
@@Leyrann Noticed it and laughed out loud :))
Reacteaching I would call it.
O dinler merak etme.
goosebumps every time....masterpiece ....
Saw this concert in Oakland in 93' one of the best I've ever seen!
No one, and I mean NO one, puts as much emotion and feeling into a guitar solo as David Gilmour.
Just at the end tears came out of my eyes. So powerful.
the versión with David Bowie and Gilmour on vocals is AWESOME!! My fav!! the last or one of the last shows of Richard Wright on stage
What a fantastic analysis. Simply superb. Well done. I've carried PF in my heart for 50 years, and never, ever heard anyone ever speak about it in a way I could relate to. So, thank you.
Comfortably Numb has, and always be a favourite. The Wall, is a masterpiece of musical storytelling.
This was the first time I’ve heard Hey Hey Rise Up, and it’s emotional impact was astonishing. My partner is Ukrainian, she managed to get out reasonably early. She’s now back in Ukraine, in Lutsk caring for her father who has suffered two strokes.
I’ve seen the devastation to her family.
I’ve seen the devastation to the Ukrainian people.
There are no words. Just emotion.
He plays with such feelings and passion..
No Gilmour isn't the fastest or flashiest but he can convey more emotion in one single note than any 10 shredders put together, he doesn't try to show off, he just PLAYS his heart and soul out, I didn't see this tour but saw the 1988 version, just as powerful but this???? This is beyond iconic.
Marvelous choices.
I am also extremely fond of "On the Turning Away" from the live video of Delicate Sound of Thunder.
Thank you for the treat.
It doesn't matter what guitar David Gilmour has in his hands, any instrument he plays instantly sounds like David Gilmour. That's the mark of a true virtuoso.
Having Nick Mason as his drummer for over 45 years is also something that cannot be understated, Nick just innately feels where David is going to go and gives him the support he needs to soar on those iconic solos.
They're actually called mirror balls, not glitter balls. But I've heard several people call them glitter balls (and, of course, disco balls).
Fun fact (bragging rights): I got to work with the lighting designer for PF during this time (Marc Brickman) once as a lighting tech. He took the whole lighting crew out for dinner one night and told us incredible stories about hanging out with the fellas from Pink Floyd. I also got a similar experience from Tom Kenny (not the SpongeBob voice actor) who worked with everyone who was anyone in the mid-late 60s. That dude REALLY had the juice on Gilmour, Waters, Page, Plant, etc.
It's amazing when you analyze that outro guitar solo in all of its ethereal cosmic power and beauty...to realize it's almost all minor pentatonic (with a few blue notes here and there). It's the most basic of scales that young guitarists learn VERY early on...but Dave knows how to make it sing. And that goes to show that phrasing is more powerful than the actual notes being played. Let your instrument sing...don't bog it down with a lot of gobbledygook.
I like how people with the right ear can be like "C#m". I figured that out pretty quickly myself, but not without picking up an instrument and playing along.
I tune up before recording these videos so that I have a fresh frame of reference.
Many kudos for reacting to Hey Hey, Rise Up! Kudos for Pink Floyd (one of my all time favorite bands) for recording this, as well as kudos to you for this video. Thank you, Doug. As for Comfortably Numb, well, it’s amazing. Best Gilmore guitar solo ever.
Honestly i think gilmour has better solos then Comfortably Numb.
A few that come to mind are
Mother
Dogs
Shine On
Time
High Hopes
Money
Not saying Comfortably numb isn't good. Because it is absolutely incredible, but i think that some other songs have solos that are equally good if not better
I think this last song is a mistake I didn't want to hear because it's actual and we should never trust in media's and politics nowadays. A big mistake!!! A French woman who thinks like most of French people, we have a the biggest liar as a president. We don't trust in anything now, and Pink Floyd just disappointed me. The best lesson is to wait for a long time and know the real truth before acting and give lessons. I'm so disappointed of UK for the first time of my life. If only France got out of OTAN, as our general De Gaulle did... If I have any American saying that they saved us, I will just ask to this stupid person what is the 4th of July to him, except a feast! Oh, by the way, my grandfather was in the planes of Air Forces to send bombs on Germany and spent all the 2nd war in England, as the warrior he was. I told you, this song is too soon, we don't know the truth, just the one THEY want us to believe...
@@isabelledrevet5913 the Ukrainian conflict directly involves Gilmour's family. I think its his grandchildren that are Ukrainian and live in ukraine. This song isn't about politics, it is entirely about getting this conflict to stop so that no more lives of innocent civilians are lost, and so that Russian civilians can stop suffering for the actions of a dictator that they cannot control
@@psych0CS2 that's not the position of UK... I still think it's too soon to know where comes the conflicts, we should wait before having position... Of course, it's the opinion of a French woman who still lived 5 years of horrible experiences and, with tcheating again, must support again 5 years of liars... Sorry if, as most of French people, I must be careful of politics now... Whatever, it's the first time of my life I don't believe in anything anymore. So, just be careful, that's all I can say. Too soon to know the real truth... Sorry if David is involved, but he must be careful too, a man I respect anyway, forever.
200 years from now, this will be considered with how masters like Motzart and Beethoven are viewed today by musicians and music history majors
Please react to Shine on You Crazy Diamond live from PULSE. Absolutely incredible performance and such an emotional song written for their friend.
Great version but it is shorter than the studio version, it really needs to be heard in full with roger waters singing lead
the album version is the best of Shine on
@@Yausbro - I'm just curious if you've seen it live, or only heard recordings of it played live?
I went to that very gig. Best concert I have ever been to. The glitter ball was awesome. A joy to watch the video. Notice no mobile phones to spoil it. It still gives me goosebumps listening to the guitar solo. I love the way it soars and takes you to a different place. Loving your explanations of how it does that from a technical point of view fascinating.
First time I saw this was on PBS. I was crying at the end. So beautiful and wonderful. So emotionally moving.
Was lucky enough to be their! Travelled from Edinburgh to London & was the Saturday after the pulse was filmed on the Thursday! October 94 I believe around 15 shows played a record in residence..The set list included hey you a few others not on pulse & remember show starting with Astronomy domine, Apologize for the book instead of comment but loved your reaction & gained a sub 😂💯👍
I went to see Pink Floyd at Earls Court on this tour but can’t believe it was that long ago!
Stumbled upon this. Absolutely, wow!
I was at Earls Court on Saturday 15th October 1994. I had a quarter ounce of hash that someone on the coach down had given me and I was blown away by the whole.l concert but the performance of Comfortably Numb, the lasers, lights and glitterball topped it off. I still have my ticket framed and the programme from that night. Probably the best night of my life and I am immortal, 😉 as a couple of songs from that night made it on to the pulse recording
Great reaction videos all week (for me) Doug. Had to drive to Ely yesterday (15 miles) so saw once again the Division Bell's Cathedral.
I find almost all of the live versions interesting, but for me the last reunion on 2005 london I guess, was the best one, I admire Mason on drums at his 60's so ready as if he is doing it for the very first performance of this masterpiece
This live version makes The Wall version sound like a demo tape. I love the way the 2nd solo has been extended and developed over time.
Yes!
I was at this tour too. Not on the recorded night though. And definitely not on the first night when the seating collapsed.
Very much enjoyed that one Doug!
Thank you for this reaction. I was waiting to see that on your channel.
Like you said, you cannot avoid this song, it’s just too good. The best thing I have ever heard!
The keyboard adds so much to this hence why David Gilmour called Richard Wright the glue of pink Floyd
I saw this in Barcelona in 94. I was 18. Best experience in my life still. When the disco ball appeared in the middle of the Olympic stadium I thought I could just jump and fly (I didn't do it, luckily 😅)
Gilmour is probably the most recognizable guitarist for me. Sadly, I got into Pink Floyd about the time they broke up, so I was never able to see them live. For me, Gilmour got more out of fewer notes. He didn't need to play a thousand notes a minute to get the feeling of the song. Sometimes less is more.
When it comes to iconic Gilmour solos, you can't forget "Time"