Comfortably Numb Demo David Gilmour 1978

Over mic'd guitar makes it impossible to hear all the words, but still a rather unique opportunity to hear the 1st draft of one of the songs that has became one of his signature songs. Somen and crisp images from the Wall (Live at RAH London). He played this song from atop the Wall. I hear it brought the house down.

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Music

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• Gilmour
• Pink Floyd
• Comfortably Numb
• The Wall

[nickhirst999]

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

[CoreyTaylorlover12]

this is epic

[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!

[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.

[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



[WiIdbiII]

GILMOUR IS THE FUCKING GREATEST!!!

[jorgeshhhh]

song borns

[clearyourthirdeye]

best lyrics EVAR!

[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!