Comfortably Numb Demo David Gilmour 1978

[stillclimbin]

A piece of standard shit until the maestro got hold of it

[peggybinky]

The greatest guitarist of all time.

[KokasBoy]

Fuck! It made me cry! Again!

[soopawhoops]

awesome!

[WiIdbiII]

GILMOUR IS THE FUCKING GREATEST!!!

[jorgeshhhh]

song borns

[clearyourthirdeye]

best lyrics EVAR!

[TheRedBar0n76]

It's the master at work. Making a vision another timeles supersong. Roger Waters had no other choise as to come up with a matching lyrics for this. The song was almost ready. It's like Lennon and Mc Cartney to titans getting the max out of it

[saturn11]

Starting at 2:00, it becomes a song that doesn't have anything to do with 'comfortably numb.' at 2:47, it goes back to the part he was playing at the beginning, his "coming through in waves" section of the song. Waters wrote the verses and probably most, if not all of the lyrics. It seems silly to squabble about who contributed what when the collaborations are this good.

[zdlore1985]

@saturn11 Actually from 2"00 to 2"47 it's the same chord sequence from the final product. It's just that the melody was changed on the album version which Roger sings. I actually love that haunting melody he hums in that dark section. This whole demo is really beautiful even though it's just dave singing with rhythm guitar. I'm glad he saved it for Pink Floyd because Waters wrote incredible lyrics for the tune, and Michael Kamen wrote a wonderful orchestral score for the song as well.

[saturn11]

@zdlore1985 I hear what you mean about the part from 2 to 2.47 now, though it's not quite the same. Good ear! I also think it's beautiful, but it certainly is a clear demonstration of which guy was the word man, and which guy wasn't (an acknowledgment that Gilmour himself has made time and again). Without Roger, this is a lovely chord sequence with a beautiful hummed melody over it. Spacemen3 made an entire career out of almost exactly the same approach!

[Taldegardo92]

well, the chorus was just the same as the original version.......but the rest of the song was a bit worse than the final one (modded by waters)

[caesareor]

Is it just me or this is better than the finished song?

[5jerry1]

This is really neat.

[TheBeatlefloyd]

awesome, i love Davis Gilmour sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooo much

[Fendergreats19933]

I Fucking Love You David Gilmour x



[IsisTiamat]

Perfection....

[k0stil]

so waters wrote the scary verse and gilmour wrote the happy chorus,right?

[Fretlessjay]

@k0stil yea something like that. Roger got some the idea of his verses from a bad experience on tour where he got some stomach virus and had a doc give him tranqilizers before a show, theres more to it but i cant think on it atm, some one els may though.

[SecretTimeWarp]

@Fretlessjay Not a stomach virus - it was actually hepatitis.

[Fretlessjay]

@SecretTimeWarp yup thats right, he talks about it on The Wall Movie commentary but i forgot exactly what he said its been so long.

[kenakuma]

@k0stil

Maybe, could be that Gilmour just wrote the verse part himself later, at least the musical part like he did here.

[1985MarcinM]

Where is the verse melody? There is some in this demo but it's different than in the fina version. Was the verse melody composed by Roger actually?

[NappyHeadedHorse]

When gave this to Roger Waters to write some lyrics for the melody, he couldn't have possibly imagined Roger would wind up coming up with some of the best lyrics ever written. "I cannot put my finger on it now; the child has grown, the dream is gone," it doesn't get much better than that

[RafaType]

The birth of the best song ever!!! Sooo amazing *.*

[lucasrenguero79]

eso fue en el 80

[apage251]

I don't understand why Roger acted the way he did. Its great that he wrote the lyrics and came up with some great simple riffs. But this just shows how much of an ass he really was. He wanted control. The wall would have been nothing without contributions like this. When people other than Floyd fans think of CN, they probably think of the solo, not really the words. Its to bad he couldn't chill out, they could have made more great music together.

[ride4ride10]

@apage251 your stupid he didnt want control. he was insane, crazy. He just expressed with an album. The next album may have been a little over th top but Thew Wall was a great way for him to get out what he needed out. If you havent noticed the whole album is about him going crazy

[apage251]

@ride4ride10 uh Roger Waters never went crazy, that was Sid, about 12 years before The Wall came out. Roger Waters did want control. After the Final Cut, he said Pink Floyd was a spent force and tried to stop Gilmour and Mason from using the name. So don't tell me he didn't want control. I love Pink Floyd and I do like Rogers work, but that doesn't change the fact that he was an asshole.

[ride4ride10]

@apage251 roger did go crazy. ik syd did to but so did roger. the same way syd did with drugs look it up

[apage251]

@ride4ride10 I don't know were you got that info. Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett went crazy. Roger Waters may have been "unstable" for awhile, but he never went crazy. If you have a credible source I'd like to see it though.

[maizzago]

When I was a child I have a fever

[starchland]

I love how their best song many would argue, came about in a time of crisis for the band

[Brrrrr43]

Well from what I understand, he wrote all the music for comfortably numb and was starting on the lyrics a bit and Roger heard it and liked it so they collaborated and came up with a masterpiece. This is a great find !

[ride4ride10]

@Brrrrr43 The whole album is Rogers lyrics

[Brrrrr43]

@ride4ride10 The lyrics for the MOST part were Roger's..The music was basically done by Gilmour and Wright...DSOTM was all lyrics by Roger, and music again by Gilmour and Wright..

[NappyHeadedHorse]

@Brrrrr43 No, actually almost all the music to the album was written by Roger, and 100% of the lyrics. Gilmour wrote or co-wrote the music for Comfortably Numb, Young Lust, and Run Like Hell, and the producer Bob Ezrin did the orchestral arrangement for The Trial. Other than that, The Wall was Roger's show. Rick Wright quit (pressured by Roger) early on in the making of the album, and is barely even on the album.

[hogwarts09]

nice arse dave 0;56

[CoreyTaylorlover12]

this is epic

[nickhirst999]

There aren't any words. He's just singing "scat" ie: "Do do do do...do do do do do"!

[crazyhorserider1991]

roger wrote the lyrics

[nickhirst999]

Yes I know that! On the final version. What I meant was that in his video description, N8lyQwik says that it's difficult to hear the words in this version and I was pointing out that there are no actual words in this version!

[FloydGilmour]

@nickhirst999 this is melody :p

[nickhirst999]

@FloydGilmour

Did you mean to reply to 1985MarcinM? I didn't mention melody. My reply was a year ago to someone who asked what words are being sung

[hektikal]

@nickhirst999

he's practesing how to fill in the guitar parts for comfartably numb.. also doing the lyrics each time it would get boring for himself i presume :)

nice find to



[nickhirst999]

@hektikal

No. As DG explains, this was recorded at Superbear studios in the South of France just after the band (Rick Wills and Willie Wilson) had gone home after he recorded his first solo album "David Gilmour" in 1978.

He had an idea and put it down on tape using an Ovation guitar tuned in "Nashville" tuning. There are no words at this stage because Roger Waters hadn't heard the song yet, hence Gilmour is just singing "Do do do do do do do do do". This later became the chorus.