David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb

[isidro2391]

La huella de Pink siempre estará impresa en Gilmour.

[c1cter]

The drummer is like what the hell; i have one shot of this and I will do..

[BlackFuryFx]

I LOVE THIS VERSION!

[tonzasso]

it was recorded in 1986

[Griskabora]

I just love watching his fingers. He probably has the best looking fingerwork for any guitarist.

[Jamingedling]

@analogvids My mate used to drive the coach for floyd back in the day and he says that this was 1986 but he cant remember where it was, and judging by the age of Sam Brown in this vid Id say he was right lol, she looks about 10 haha

[Griskabora]

He plays this guitar better than the strat. Don't you think?

[Griskabora]

The second guitar solo is more innovative than usual. He seems to play faster and more smoothly on this guitar.

[SilverTounge85]

This is from 1986 I think. Some benefit gig in South America or something. I think Roger Daltrey played as well.

[misterbillylicious]

go gilmour go

[TheCobraUK]

How fit is Sam brown here!!!! this has to be one of the best live versions ever!

[FrusciantePadawan]

Didn't know Adam Sandler played drums lol

[SilverTounge85]

@FrusciantePadawan Yes, it kind of looks like him, hehe. It's Simon Phillips though. Toto drummer etc.

[harnois75]

@FrusciantePadawan Who?

[Xcorgi]

This is the best live version of this solo I've ever seen and heard! Possibly because of the awesome Charvel guitar he's using here. I believe it has an EMG in the humbucker spot.

[Xcorgi]

@TylerGGrinstead Sorry dude but look closely at the headstock to see the large "C" at the front of the Charvel logo. It was back when Charvel still used Fender Strat shaped headstocks. Later on they began using the trademark pointed headstocks for both Chavel and Jackson. You need to look very closely. There is NO Fender logo, just Charvel. I can see how you got confused.

[Bojman2]

With Chucho Merchan in the bass... a colombian!!!!!! fellow countryman!!!

[ACfiz]

idiots, the pink floid verson is way better , and you know pink floid created this song

[1glassMilk]

This solo is out of this world!!

For me one of the most important parts in music history.

[guevara2867]

one in a billion

[mjasic]

The finest guitarist ever!!!!!



[mjasic]

I adore the music of PF since more than 35 years (don't try to count my age LOL) and every time I find it fresh and great. Why? Because of the way David expresses his feelings through his play. Maybe not the greatest guitar player, but certainly the finest one.

[floydfan831]

What guitar is that? Ive never seen Gilmour use anything like that before

[Kumagoro314]

@floydfan831 Pretty sure that's a QMT Stratocaster

[Kumagoro314]

@floydfan831 Sorry, FMT

[sucramnormark]

I really dislike the singig during these years of pink floyd performing this song... they mess it up totally... not subtle like it used to be. Oh the tasteless 80´s...

[airrudy]

does anyone else get an orgasm at 5:35?

[BlackFuryFx]

@airrudy hell yea,

especially at 6:30 too,

that bend... holy shit..

[airrudy]

@BlackFuryFx yea that element of the solo is great, he also does it in the Omni Atlanta 1987 version.

Also, the way he plays the chord at 5:53, with Dave its these little things and little differences to for example the Pulse Solo (which i'm sure you could hum note to note without hearing it ;) ) that make every single version i find of this SO great

[Artathlon]

How to feel about this? Well, as David at 0:23

[paolojtjjj1]

wow

[theguru469]

The chorus would have sounded a lot more badass if there wasn't so much reverb on it.

[MHAUS67]

What day was that!!!! this is by far the best version ever.... period.

[DanMcfly]

The same bass man seen on "David Gilmour - In Concert 2005"

Very good!

[thedeadliest]

strange guitar

[ltcurry]

brilliant

[durango112]

Holy shit. Have never heard gilmour improv a solo to the extent he did on this rendition

[musicmanru]

SUPER!!!!

[bethopklz]

Old times, very good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lapad81]

Recorded as part of the Colombian Volcano Disaster Appeal Concert, September 2nd 1986 Royal Albert Hall, London 01. You Know I'm Right 02. Run Like Hell 03. Out Of The Blue 04. Comfortably Numb John "Rabbit" Bundrick - keyboards David Gilmour - guitar, vocals Michael Kamen - keyboards Jodi Linscott - percussion, background vocals Chucha Merchan - bass Billy Nichols - background vocals Simon Phillips - drums Mick Ralphs - guitar

[pnkelvin]

I love sam brown !!

[sokkmakk]

The ending solo hear on this version is ohhhh so massive!! get goosebumps all over my body with the insane sound and flow he creates when he plays it. almost as good as the high ranking p.u.l.s.e version

[darkmachete]

This needs to be an mp3.

[darkmachete]

Or you could just give me the mp3 sight responding to this comment. That way everyone can get it. :)

[spanqz]

just copy and paste the URL into where it says Video URL... then click convert then it should come up with a link to download the mp3 version

[rammers2006]

simon phillips....good drummer.... plays with Toto now.... great second to Jeff Porcaro. (RIP)....

[1qez]

unbelievable great performance! From out of this world....

[sebrouxx]

The guitar is a Charvel San Dimas with an EMG humbucker

[12wsatye]

at 6:00 things start to get heavy, at 6:15 its over the edge and by 6:30 gilmours fricken unreal. what dave does in that 30 sec span is amazing!!!!

[Thomas1190]

After 6:40 things start getting intense also. I have never seen Gilmour play like this before. This has to be far the heaviest version i have seen. Gilmour is the man!

[Thomas1190]

Gilmour's playing is out of this world on this one! Amazing!

[jrgnyr]

Not a great version of the song, but Gilmour brings it with the solo. This being one of his first performances after Waters left, I think he was beginning to feel re-energized with the Floyd material.

[1timealco]

@jrgnyr This

[1glassMilk]

one of the best C-numc solo's of dave

[lilzuma]

Yes!!!!!

[simonecozzetto]

quanto mi fa sognare quest assolo!!

migliore chitarrista di tutti i tempi...nessa discussione!

[pippoliturchi]

david è uno dei migliore secondo me, tra questi jimy hendrix, page, brain may, santana....tutti a loro modo riesco a farci sognare. bella versione di questa song!!! ma la preferisco di tutti i pink!!!!!!!! ciao simone!!!!!!

[manudg1]

que maravilla sin palabras :)

[misredkimmy]

David Gilmour is so perfect

[blueberryfieldss]

Gilmour looks like Kathy Bathes on the movie Misery. (no ofense, im a fan of him but in this video he looks like)

[rdaws73]

lmao I see it

[mazey131]

More like meatloaf

But he is so much cooler, talented, and amazinger than Meatloaf

Dave Gilmour to play another gig FTW!

[screamingsaucer]

after hearing the song a million different times over the decades this had to have been David's creative peak, ripe off dropping his first wife and that high maintenance, verbose bandmate.

[eggo63]

@screamingsaucer; hahahahahaha! without that "verbose bandmate", this song wouldn't exist and you would likely have never heard of this guy. "High maintenance" aside, he was a founder of the band...unlike this scruffy-looking Sid Barrett replacement.

[screamingsaucer]

@eggo63 you mean these lyrics wouldn't exist or at least half of them you seem to remember what a great singing voice this 'founder' had that could do a 'scruffy-looking' lead singer/guitarist/co-writer of the band justice. I hope he makes his on-off appearance on the tour, standing on top of the wall where he rightfully belongs.

[ericynot]

@eggo63

Get your facts together. Gilmour wrote and recorded most of this song while doing his first solo album. This song existed without benefit of Roger Waters (whom I like very much).

And, do you really think a guitarist as good as David Gilmour would not have been heard of if not for Roger Waters? That seems most unlikely. He's twice the guitarist and singer Barrett (whom I also like very much) was. Waters was a major musical force, but Gilmour took PF to the next level.

[thetittymonster7]

@ericynot roger waters wrote almost all of the material from this album, apart form the songs "Comfortably Numb" and "Mother".

[ALBE0Q]

what a powerful version!

[ViKTull]

VES and YES

[screamingsaucer]

Best version on the 'tube!

[jptpsm]

I'm not sure about it. go check the one in "PULSE" tour...

[Sean2112bd]

I like how he's doing this solo. His improv skills really shine through here.

[steelermule]

i think the blonde is hillary clinton  thats back when bill would still do her

[dufortrph]

**spits coffee all over monitor**

That's the funniest thing I've read in a while.... thanks!

[TuttiBrutti]

spettacolare!! quasta canzone è intramontabile come gli interpreti...divino...sublime!­! altro che cantanti da quattro soldi di amici.. sempre P.F.

[Brrrrr43]

5*****great solo at the end especially.

[sokkmakk]

The 2nd solo he plays here is just out of this world..WOW!!!.might be the 2nd best version i have heard of this song next to the pulse version where the 2nd solo is flawless.

[videocreatorgr]

I will agree with you! And also live versions of this solo are better than the studio, which is very short.

[az1421]

great great great ************

[floydgeorge]

blonde is sam brown was on the 94 division bell tour later

[videocreatorgr]

I think I saw her on a Lynyrd Skynyrd live video. But I don't know, I am not sure she was on that video.

[videocreatorgr]

The drumkit sounds great. Does the greater snare size play an important role, except the reverb effect, for this unique snare sound? And, of course, Gilmour's solo is so wonderful!!!

[dufortrph]

Yup, that great snare sound is due (in part) to the depth of the drum.

[videocreatorgr]

Thanks, man! And, of course it's due (in other part) to the reverb! I don't know many things about drums! Thanks a lot! Do you know who is that  awesome drummer?

[dufortrph]

Simon Phillips - played with The Who (among many others) for a while)

[videocreatorgr]

Thanks, man! I saw his bio in WikiPedia and he played with a large goup of famous names (The Who, Jeff Beck, Michael Schenker, Mike Oldfield and many others).

[dufortrph]

You're welcome, anytime....

[b24warbaby]

Whose the blond ?

[FenderCP]

Rachel Fury :)

[Pensygirl54]

Very Very Nice  THANKS

[luca82yngwie]

sorry but nick mason can't play like this.. this drummer give a this song the rock power that there isn'it first.. for me.. i don't like this waters's vocal part.. i think that this a gilmor idea because hr want change a song.. genio is waters?? i think of yes.. gilmor playd for 30 years with waters's song?? i think in part of yes..

[peterlanghaar]

Brilliant solo! Damn! I've never heard him play like this. beautiful.

[shibanizer]

ladies and gentleman , simon phillips on drums, what a fuckin jerk, smashed the whole end of the song, double bass here, double there, accent here, accent every second, jerk this is not how floyd sounds... maybe toto, disgusting...

[harnois75]

@shibanizer Well, I'd rather Simon played like Simon and brought the song to life as he is so adept at doing than do a deathly dull impression of Mason. This isn't Pink Floyd, just a truly fantastic performance of great song - get over it.

[tushar310]

This song is totally incomplete without David Gilmour.

and it sounds weird without his voice.

[Aigan]

Umm....he's there...he's the one with the guitar in front of the band. See him?

If your referring to the verse, its ALWAYS sung by someone else, usually Waters or Wright. Gilmour sings the chorus.

[GuitarRHCPfan]

He is right in front of you with the long brown hair. Your probably use to seeing him old with his white balding hair.

[TylerGGrinstead]

@tushar310 Even though he is singing in it.. smart

[imcnevindude]

@tushar310 you mean roger waters? and of course roger waters wrote the album it was on -_-

[phillydude782422]

im liken the part at 6:10-6:26

[FloydGilmour]

i love this part 5:41 to 5:52

[rumosk8]

I agree so much...it's made by the hands of God (Gilmour) !!!

[ElvisBangalter]

where is manson? :P

[Aigan]

It's Mason, first of all :)

And I believe this was filmed right after Pink Floyd reformed under Gilmour in the late 80s. Since he had last played live in the very early 80's, Mason feared that, through lack of practising, he would not be able to keep up with everyone else. I believe a lot of the songs on Momentary Lapse of Reason were done with a drum machine, for this reason.

[TheGoodDoctor62]

Sam Brown is looking as hot as fuck as usual :O)) she bought me a beer in Ipswich when Jools Holland played there :@)

[AdamGoulett]

Wow lucky.

[VvdisgorgevV]

Man that ending solo was awesome. That guitar sounds amazing. Lol, what an epic drummer.

[jessebickeldotcom]

Best version I've seen.

[koanflyer]

Dio esiste: qui suona la chitarra.

[PFLOYD33]

it's not pink floyd it's only dave gilmour

[knoxrox167]

its not gilmour without his red strat

[haynesallica]

more like black strat lol

[MrPinkFloyd882]

Or his Black Strat.

[nikhiljo]

Phew! Dave definitely got some pussy taht night!

[haynesallica]

haha

[darksyde84]

ohh my God...Dave is on fire..nice to see this video as he plays the solo very differently than he usually does..sweet

[drumDan4]

i believe the drummer is simon phillips, now plays with toto to replace Jeff Pocaro (rip)

and yeah he's fuckin awesome, not his best performance tho, but stil an icon

[87blacknight87]

great solo.. oh my god, that drummer is a motherfuc*er

[calaldocera]

Rock School music?

[guilhermeiron]

great solo performance...

[rui842]

orgasmic

[Jamingedling]

best solo eva n perfnmnce..

[koanflyer]

This is Music!

[CrazyMixx]

I love it when Dave seems to be in a playful mood with this song. Besides that fact that he nails it all tyeh way through, and yes the drum is awesome too, this just come of as a well played free style jam.

Sweeeeet!

[cypher47]

my comment was for furbyparade

[swingert]

is that really the great Simon Phillips on the drums? cool...

[susser345]

the man is a genius

[Andrew72287]

This was a charity show in 1986, David Gilmour solo, none of the other members are present.

[revolutionday1]

You tell 'em, Andy!!

[fjansz]

Think it's just a blues in B minor on maybe a custom ESP guitar with just one humbucker an a lot of delay. That guitar might be shredded by now....

[4erosmith]

I want to address a question in those who they really knows, is it truth what the keyboard player of pink floyd have one cut finger?

[v4mpir33d]

3:16 ?

[artie8ziff]

isn't this gilmour's solo efforst in '84? I have this one in home, and that's what the file tells me?

[tfn105]

Great version. And to confirm the others who have said this - no Mason or Wright

[jtjcp88]

Fuck me sideways, that was just amazing

[DukeSmith007]

this is awasome!

[FurbyParade226]

6:11 wow..that must be david gilmour shredding...it wasn't even worth a yawn. What's funny is that is probably all the more he can do with a guitar when it comes to skill...but dont worry...its beautiful ..right?

[gibijobi]

Only kids care about "shreddding"

[CheifJay]

Wow.

...Just... stop talking.

You know NOTHING.

[oreke1406]

wow nick..these kids are really beating you up. shredding is about speed. not skill. keep playing guitar hero noob. herman li has plenty speed. but he doesnt have all the skills. you're soo clueless.

[oreke1406]

and to follow up on my last response: furbyparade226 once stated: "I'd love to play guitar like David Gilmour. Anybody would."

[haynesallica]

shredding is about skill , just a different kind of skill.

[fenderstrat918]

shredding is a sport, not music

[b24warbaby]

A +++++

[nickcarver]

That isn't skill? I hope there isn't anyone dumber than you in the world. Gilmore is awesome.

[cypher47]

you just made a complete fool out of yourself by saying those you poor, confused bastard

[cypher47]

you just made a complete fool out of yourself by saying those you poor, confused bastard

[iamnasty]

it's not about being fast or being technically perfect...it's about making people feel something with the music...and he does..no one does it like him anymore

you asshole go fuck michael angelo batio and satriani....dumbasses

[VintageReverb]

thats so fuckin' right!!

[darkmachete]

@iamnasty Satriani has written a few good songs that aren't about how fast you can play. But I will agree that Gilmour has more emotion in his solos than any other guitarist I have ever heard!

[UAEPINKFLOYD]

the best version of Confortably Numb solo ever.the sound of that guitar with gilmour is awesome. thanks for posting man.

[elizabeth62i]

Yeah, it's Gilmour,with Simon Phillips (now Toto) on drums.

[humankiller99]

gilmour is god!

[Pulsar89]

There seems to be a lot of confusion about this video. This is what I think: It's The Colombian Volcano Appeal at the Royal Albert Hall, 9th February 1986. And it's only Gilmour. Mason and Wright are not there. It's also probably the first time Sam Brown sang backing vocals with Gilmour. Someone else has posted the same vid (watch?v=rOyM-Qn73JE), but the quality of this one is much better.

[24floyd]

wow have'nt seen this version b4 love it my fav song ever thanks pink floyd

[oreke1406]

nevermind. i tabbed it myself. if anyone wants it, let me know. xD

[oreke1406]

i wish i could find tabs for this.

[ltcurry]

The show was the First Policemans Ball. England 1986

[StevieRayVaughan84]

Ehi Ehi Ehiiii...but what kind of a guitar Gilmour Does he's using??????? 0_0!!!!!!!!!

It's the first time that i see him with a guitar like this!!!

[analogvids]

the logo seems to be of a G&L but I'm not able to see it properly. The shape of the headstock reminds of a genuine Fender but in the 80s all the clones had the same shape as the original. Anyway it seems to be a custom guitar (maple cap, floyd bridge, ebony or brazilian rosewood for the keyboard, 1 pickup only...)

[cville57]

That Might Be A Charvel

[Glukkonitis]

It's David Gilmour in 1984. Not Floyd.

[analogvids]

I think you're wrong... except for Roger Waters all other Floyds are there; maybe the year could be right but I recorded it from tv in 1988.

[Glukkonitis]

I'm pretty sure it's Gilmour - the guests singing the doctor's parts and the lighting techniques came only with Gilmour's About Face tour.

[analogvids]

Ok, it's not a problem, it's only a curiosity... but you can see that the "guests" are Nick Mason and Richard Wright... maybe the truth is in the middle :)

[leeblues2]

No only David is there. Rick and Nick are not.

[Kal119]

Best song from Pink Floyd

[staruser]

in one word: awesome performance!!!