@@michaelszczekot8920 First time I ever seen it paused especially as it was building. Quite frankly took me back 40 years when my beloved Mum knocked on my bedroom door when I was with a girlfriend. Equally frustrating..lol
I listened to this song EVERYDAY during Chemotherapy and though it was brutal sometimes, I ALWAYS felt peaceful while hearing this...Grateful to Pink Floyd and their catalog! #Survivor #Grateful🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔
Wendy Shank David Gilmour’s “Red Sky At Night” S Ed my fucking life, that’s all I’m saying. I was going down for the third count. That’s all that pulled me through.
I did the same thing during my Chemo for Lymphoma. Floyd is so soothing. Two day's after Christmas 2017 they took out my Spleen because it was 50% Cancerous with Lymphoma. It came back in 2016 so that's when I did six month's of Chemo. When they got done with my Chemo they did a PET Scan. What they saw was that the Lymphoma was gone, but I had Lung Cancer and had to have my Left Upper Lung taken out. Then they saw that the Cancer had migrated to my chest wall, so they took about a square foot of it out. I also have nine Stent's in my heart. I have the album cover from Dark Side of the Moon etched above my name on my headstone and they are to play nothing but Pink Floyd at my wake. Just a matter of time. I hope you are well and stay that way!
He doesn't just play the guitar, he turns it into an extension of his very being. In the past century there have been maybe a dozen people who can be said to have mastered the guitar and obviously David Gilmour is one of them.
@Thora Friganza I mean yea he amazing no doubt about that but I personally think that Joe Satriani is one of the best guitar players along with Santana. They're all really great. It's hard to pick a favorite.
....1 OF THE GREATEST.... .....NO....NOT 1 OF THE GREATEST.... ....HE IS THE GREATEST.... AND AS FAR AS WHAT someone said about santana..joe someone...being.... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂....NO..NOT..EVEN.. FVCKING CLOSE..
This was my first concert when they came to Philly in 1994. Senior in hs, sitting in the field of Veterans Stadium with the lights and sound echoing everywhere. Was an incredible experience
I saw the same tour in 94. My senior year of hight school. Skipped school that day and drove to Atlanta with some friends to see this concert. It is to this day the most incredible thing I have seen live. Unbelievable experience.
I was at the Vet too, July 1994 after my junior year of college and still have the ticket stub (in a frame with my Dark Side of the Moon LP). What a show! I was sitting right behind, leaning on, the Phillies dugout roof.
What an outstanding reaction to my favorite performance of this classic. The second you looked at your arms and had goosebumps, I knew you just got it. Keep up the great work man. Much appreciated!
The song is about a musician who is very successful and having a mental breakdown. He had no father growing up, he was lost in WW2. The mental issues are stemmed from having no dad growing up. It's all in the movie "The Wall".
You think you got chills? I saw them twice during this tour and that song is absolutely the best song I’ve ever seen in concert (and I’ve seen a lot of concerts). It’s 100 X more intense in person!! Thanks for your reaction. Loved it.
Roger Waters was very sick as a child referenced in the song. Years later he was similarly sick before a concert & a doctor gave him a muscle relaxer which almost which was almost too effective. The song is about that from my understanding.
Some music transcends time and takes you to places in your mind you can't go with it speaking to your soul. Pink Floyd, true artists, musicians, and performers.
I was lucky enough to go to that concert. It was indescribable. ❤️ I think you would love a song called hey you by them also high hopes is great. Actually everything they do is a masterpiece. Great reaction!
Why many people believe the song is about drugs. It is actually about how Roger felt like as a child, when he was sick with a fever, as an adult he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality.
@@Lonesomepoet have to say,I totally agree with what you have to say, as I myself had to do some research to find out the meaning of the lyrics, as I use to think it had to do with drug taking, majority of people seem to love it for the guitar solo,either way great music that will never fade.
Ok.. realising perhaps this is the first time you've ever experienced this masterpiece i cannot call you **!**!!!!** but hey.. at least you know now that Pink Floyd can't be ever interrupted. I rest my case.. Amen! As far as the goosebumps... still got it after hearing this a near 100 times...
The greatest live solo by the creation that is Dave Gilmour, AND YOU STOPPED IT MID STREAM! Go to your naughty corner and think about what you just did young man!
There are a couple ways to interpret the song. When Roger Waters wrote it, he was describing the way he felt when he was sick when he was young, and a similar feeling when he was sick and got some sort of shot from a doctor (probably a muscle relaxer) before a performance that made him feel numb. However, this song also is part of the album (The Wall) that tells the story of a performer named Pink. In that story, drugs are involved, and a doctor gives Pink a shot so he can stand up on stage and perform, because he is too drugged up to stand up without a stimulant to counteract the drugs.
No he wasnt..... the song was written about a 1977 concert in Philadelphia, during the Animals tour.... he was sick and they sent him a doctor who gave him tranquilizers to get him through the show. That is confirmed by him in multiple interviews....... in reference to the wall, it's at the point where pink has cut himself off from the outside world, and he has resorted to self medication.... this is, in the album, where he devolves into insanity.
I think the character "Pink" is an amalgamation of Waters and Waters experience with others who had a profound influence on him, and Syd is probably right at the top of the list.
Officially, the song was written in 1977 after an incident in Philadelphia, where he was too sick to perform, and a doctor gave him tranquilizers/ muscle relaxers to get him "through the show". In perspective to the album The Wall..... which is, in my opinion, the greatest concept album, ever..... it is at the point where the main character, pink, had been self medicating to combat the loneliness and emptiness he was feeling after cutting himself off from the outside world..... it is the moment he descends into madness.
That's a million dollar light show. ( it does so much more over the rest of the show). They had to have three complete setups. It would take the roadies 3 days to set up for a show therefore they needed 3 complete setups, so they could hopscotch around the country while on tour. That is being in one city for a night or 2, while setting setting up in the next city, while another crew is pulling in to the next one. CRAZY but awesome at the same time.
Okay, so Pink - a rock musician - is sitting in his hotel room, stoned out of his mind. In comes the manager, with doctor in tow because, well, there's a show that's due to begin in a few moments. So they shoot Pink up with "stuff" so that he could make it to the event. -- The song is a conversation between manager/doctor and Pink.
@@jamesohare6593 it's a frickin TRICK OPERA, genius. It's full of fictive characters. The "hero" of the story depicted in this Rock Opera is named Pink.
@@jamesohare6593 Okay, well it's both. The Wall is a rock opera, the story of Pink's rise to rock&roll fame and his mental collapse. Many of the events in Pink's life have been inspired by the writer's - Waters' - own life and he was quoted about this particular song, indeed. I'm sorry I reacted so bad, by the way. Peace.
The song is in three voices. The first, for lack of a better name, (sung in this version by Rick Wright) is the Doctor. "Just tell me where is hurts." The voice is external and talking to the second character. The second character speaks in an internal voice (let's call him Pink, sung by David Gilmour). "When I was a child..." This voice is all inside Pink's head. The third voice is Pink's guitar (David Gilmour's ethereal playing). This voice expresses all the emotion of alienation and angst. This voice is the key that makes the song great. Greatest song ever and this is the best version of that song.
“The child is grown, The dream is gone” The line above, right before one of the greatest solos EVER, explains Comfortable Numb.... “Can anybody hear me” is the inner child dying & screaming out alone in an adult body & adult mind, nobody adult can hearing the pain.... As a child, you never give up on anything that means something important to you, an adult tells you to stop but you do not listen as if the adult is speaking a language you do not understand, the language being “give up”, nonstop waves of “give up”.... You become an adult, now you are just part of the brain washed adult heard, “adults only do this, adults only do that, that is childish”, you follow with no push back nor questions asked, you’re just “okay, will do, no problem”, now you’re Comfortable Numb.... “Feel a little pin prick” & every lyric after is showing that adults need something injected or taking for energy & “life”, as a child you wake up energize naturally”, no drug required to “live”....
My favorite thing on You Tube: watching Pink Floyd, especially David Gilmour's guitar solos, grab hold of people's soul and taking them to heaven! 👼🎸🎸🎸 I feel David Gilmour in my heart. The G.O.A.T. and the greatest guitar solo hands down. I love Jimi, Jimmy, Carlos and Eric but I FEEL David in my SOUL!
This is from the album/movie The Wall, and is a small part of the storyline. It can’t be interperted on its own. The main person «Pink» has withdrawn and is «Comfortable Numb» to the pains of life. Then his manager comes in to the hotel room, and gives him something to get him on his feet so he can get through the show.
Lyrics: 2 people doc. and Roger. Roger got stomach cramps before a concert. Doc. "needs some information first", gives him a shot ( pin prick ) . He can hardly move his arms ( hands felt like 2 balloons ). Now he is "comfortably numb." The disco ball enter their concerts after 1981. Music critics in the 70"s ( disco ) ) said that you can not dance to their music, that they were not very popular band to go see. REALLY !!!!!!!!!!!!
it helps with Pink Floyd (if you are new to them) to research the basic meaning of the song before you hear them. Then once you listen to them you can follow it and enjoy it sooo much better.
It's about a rock star having a mental breakdown causing delirium. He remembers that he was delirious when he had 105 degree fever as a child. The doctor gives him a shot to make him feel well enough to perform in his show that evening. After the show, let's just say the shit hits the fan!
I play this in the Cadillac with the Bose surround sound, it's absolutely amazing! It's usually Rittz, Tech N9ne, Pac, something like that but this gets play in my vehicle for sure!
Craig Chaquico from Jefferson Starship is also a very good guitarist. There is a song with a great solo. It's called save your love. Craig was in his early 20's when they recorded this song. Lead vocals is Mickey Thomas who sang Fooled around and fell in love with Elvin Bishop. Very talented musicians in this band. Craig Chaquico has since put out solo albums and 90% is acoustic, and you are right. The acoustic guitar does sound nice. Anyways, the studio version is good . Hopefully you will react to it. The solo in this song is fantastic, and I believe this man is underrated. Now David Gilmour wss born with a guitar in his hands. When.he plays you can feel.the emotions in the sound. One of the best, if not the best guitarist on the planet.
this song is about when Pink Floyd was playing in Philly and Roger Waters had sharp stomach pains. Doctors shot him up with pain killers to get him thru the show. He penned these lyrics years later.
If you want to hear something that sounds like your being 'lifted out of yourself' at the end, listen to Pink Floyd's 'The Great Gig in the Sky'. Both the studio version (which I prefer) or the Pulse version sang by those same 3 women you saw here in 'Comfortably Numb'. Great Gig is thought to be about the stages a person goes through when dying and is like nothing else you've ever heard.
I notice young people are always trying to figure out rock lyrics right from the jump..First off, if you were able to understand lyrics right off it wouldn't be poetic, now would it?... Where's the mystique in that?....You're looking for a road map....Directions!....That kind of information is reserved for the back of oatmeal boxes, or directions on how to put your kids bike together..Or, Pop music...And on the flip side, many songs are written through personal experiences that no one could relate to, either ever, or right off..Songs are also written leaving to the general public to interpret for themselves...Some songs have no deep meaning at all..They just sound good, and just digging the vibe, most often (especially in Rock), is enough.
If youre ready for your next dose of these chills, my dude, then Janis Joplin, Ball and Chain, Live. You're not ready. I grew up on it, and even im still not ready.
The album this song is from "Another brick in the wall" follows a movie they did called The Wall. If you want to understand the meaning watch the movie, the album and movie go together step by step.
The people who experienced this concert in particular this song, I hope realise the sheer magnitude of this. I’m am infinitely jealous of anyone who attended.
Yes we did. :) It was 10 nights at Earls Court. I went to 4 nights. And on the first leg of this tour I caught them at Wembley Stadium and two nights at the London Docklands Arena. Caught loads of tours 70s to 90s, and I think everyone agreed this was the stand out concert of that period. It was even broadcast on national TV at the time.
The only thing confusing is why anyone would halt a Gilmour solo!?? Folks born after 1990 care soooo much about lyrics. Must be the hip-hop influence. Wonder what you will make out of Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven and/or Tommy James and the Shondells Crimson and Clover! LOL
He was about to over dose on heroin. This is from his recollection. When the doc entered the room to give him a shot of adridilin so he could perform on stage
Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality.
Ok, here is what the lyrics mean since your were trying to figure out what some of it meant. The Song is about............It's not about anything as in "a song on a record" in that sense. It is the sound track part used in the Pink Floyd movie "The Wall". Which is modeled after a guy named Sid Barret I think, who was a close friend of Rodger Waters. It is the crazy twisted world of this guy who is a Rock Star(we are talking ending 70s). When this song plays in the movie, we see Rock Star Bob Geldof on the verge of a O.D., and this song kicks in, as his managers try to find away to get him up and going so he can preform on stage. In which his life takes a mental down fall after. But the sound tracks songs are too cool to be just sound tracks to a movie, and became the album. You might get lucky by looking for it up here and locate that movie excerpt with the scene and song play of what I am talking about. This guitar solo version is very good. But I like the "Delicate Sounds of Thunder" version way better. Which is also up here too. You may want to check that out as well.
Thx doc! I knew you would eventually react to it if i kept requesting it 😂 Of you wanna react to any other parts off this concert i suggest. Run like hell Another brick in the wall or shine on you crazy diamond. Everything is amazing!
You can play an electric without an amp you know... And if you get an amp you can control the volume so no problem playing with a connected amp without bothering anyone unless you do it late at night then it won't do when everything else is quiet in the building. Tho you can use a headset, just plug it in and then you can crank it up as much you like.
Say Doc...ya just got pinked. The Floyd with David Gilmour's mastery over the guitar will reach down into your inner core and yank out your soul taking it to universal places you have never experienced before only to gently and safely send it back where it belongs...comfortably numb... I growing up with Pink Floyd as a teenager I really get a better perspective in watching you younger folk react to them...Good job...
Oh man, he sure is. I feel closer to God when listening to Pink Floyd than many churches. Incredible music, makes my spirit soar and be thankful for the gift of creativity that some have in abundance, so they can bless us w/ their gifts.
Repeat after me: "I will never interrupt a David GIlmour solo again"
Roger Southwick Hell Yes!!!!
Roger Southwick facts
Roger Southwick everybody interrupts the solo 😂
@@michaelszczekot8920 First time I ever seen it paused especially as it was building.
Quite frankly took me back 40 years when my beloved Mum knocked on my bedroom door when I was with a girlfriend.
Equally frustrating..lol
ESPECIALLY to show us his muscles! More muscle on that stage than this guy could ever obtain. Hate sounding mean but....why!?
interrupting Dave Gilmour during a solo is like having your heart stopped its not good for your health
I listened to this song EVERYDAY during Chemotherapy and though it was brutal sometimes, I ALWAYS felt peaceful while hearing this...Grateful to Pink Floyd and their catalog! #Survivor #Grateful🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔
Hope you are well!
I hope things are going well with you. All the best.
I'm sure the surviving members would love to hear about this. Hope you are well!
Wendy Shank David Gilmour’s “Red Sky At Night” S Ed my fucking life, that’s all I’m saying. I was going down for the third count. That’s all that pulled me through.
I did the same thing during my Chemo for Lymphoma. Floyd is so soothing. Two day's after Christmas 2017 they took out my Spleen because it was 50% Cancerous with Lymphoma. It came back in 2016 so that's when I did six month's of Chemo. When they got done with my Chemo they did a PET Scan. What they saw was that the Lymphoma was gone, but I had Lung Cancer and had to have my Left Upper Lung taken out. Then they saw that the Cancer had migrated to my chest wall, so they took about a square foot of it out. I also have nine Stent's in my heart. I have the album cover from Dark Side of the Moon etched above my name on my headstone and they are to play nothing but Pink Floyd at my wake. Just a matter of time. I hope you are well and stay that way!
David Gilmour is one of the greatest ever on the guitar! You can feel every note he plays
Gilmour is absolutely one of the most talented individuals on the guitar that has ever lived... and is my personal favorite.
He doesn't just play the guitar, he turns it into an extension of his very being. In the past century there have been maybe a dozen people who can be said to have mastered the guitar and obviously David Gilmour is one of them.
@Thora Friganza I mean yea he amazing no doubt about that but I personally think that Joe Satriani is one of the best guitar players along with Santana. They're all really great. It's hard to pick a favorite.
....1 OF THE GREATEST....
.....NO....NOT 1 OF THE GREATEST....
....HE IS THE GREATEST....
AND AS FAR AS WHAT someone said about santana..joe someone...being....
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂....NO..NOT..EVEN.. FVCKING CLOSE..
It’s like the guitar is another voice
Never stop a Dave Gilmour guitar solo.
You can tell the real great guitarists how they play from the heart, not from the fingers.
Now you know why people said you don’t go see Pink Floyd, you experience Pink Floyd.
Still the best concert I've seen, then Queen, then TSO.
Drew
The same thing for Gilmour’s later solo work. Downloaded on an Island and you will see what I mean.
"im literally getting goose bumps!"
yup, comfortably numb will do that to you
Yep - no idea how many times I've heard this version over the years and it still gives me goosebumps.
its made me cry too
Yeppers
*Pink Floyed songs
1st solo - homage to a friends mind
2nd solo - aching pain of their loss.
This was my first concert when they came to Philly in 1994. Senior in hs, sitting in the field of Veterans Stadium with the lights and sound echoing everywhere. Was an incredible experience
I saw the same tour in 94. My senior year of hight school. Skipped school that day and drove to Atlanta with some friends to see this concert. It is to this day the most incredible thing I have seen live. Unbelievable experience.
I was at the Vet too, July 1994 after my junior year of college and still have the ticket stub (in a frame with my Dark Side of the Moon LP). What a show! I was sitting right behind, leaning on, the Phillies dugout roof.
I'm fifteen. Pink Floyd has been with me since 1970. I love them with every single particle of my body
Same for me 😘
There’s guitar solos and there’s a Dave Gilmour solo mans a genius 👍🏻
Please DO NOT interrupt the greatest guitar solo of all time. Respect!!!
I’ve heard this song many 100’s of times and still get goose bumps watching this video. Good reaction
Yup. Shivers up the spine every time
Thats how the electric guitar is supposed to be played, by an English gentleman.
HahahHa YAAAAAAAAAS
As a French woman, I totally agree with you... British music and musicians are the best! 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Never stop sir David Gilmore guitar solo
A performer's managers pumping him full of drugs to get him ready for the show , the show MUST go on
What an outstanding reaction to my favorite performance of this classic. The second you looked at your arms and had goosebumps, I knew you just got it. Keep up the great work man. Much appreciated!
The song is about a musician who is very successful and having a mental breakdown. He had no father growing up, he was lost in WW2. The mental issues are stemmed from having no dad growing up. It's all in the movie "The Wall".
You think you got chills? I saw them twice during this tour and that song is absolutely the best song I’ve ever seen in concert (and I’ve seen a lot of concerts). It’s 100 X more intense in person!! Thanks for your reaction. Loved it.
heaven is a place where that guitar solo never ends
Roger Waters was very sick as a child referenced in the song. Years later he was similarly sick before a concert & a doctor gave him a muscle relaxer which almost which was almost too effective. The song is about that from my understanding.
Facts!
Your understanding is correct, nothing to do with heroine or any other drug.
yep, that's the story
And also, a bit of “Take this and get out there on stage no matter what”.
You are correct my friend
Some music transcends time and takes you to places in your mind you can't go with it speaking to your soul. Pink Floyd, true artists, musicians, and performers.
Welcome to the rabbit hole that is Pink Floyd... all the best from the far north of New Zealand!
I was lucky enough to go to that concert. It was indescribable. ❤️ I think you would love a song called hey you by them also high hopes is great. Actually everything they do is a masterpiece. Great reaction!
I still till this day can't listen to pink floyd w/o tearing up
Why many people believe the song is about drugs. It is actually about how Roger felt like as a child, when he was sick with a fever, as an adult he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality.
It's just that the song has at least a drug reference. Different people have different interpretations, and that's what's great about art.
I get what you're saying though, the majority fail to understand the meaning from the artist's point of view.
@@Lonesomepoet have to say,I totally agree with what you have to say, as I myself had to do some research to find out the meaning of the lyrics, as I use to think it had to do with drug taking, majority of people seem to love it for the guitar solo,either way great music that will never fade.
@@damopaul9188 Right on, mate. Cheers and rock on!🥂
Ok.. realising perhaps this is the first time you've ever experienced this masterpiece i cannot call you **!**!!!!** but hey.. at least you know now that Pink Floyd can't be ever interrupted. I rest my case.. Amen! As far as the goosebumps... still got it after hearing this a near 100 times...
The greatest live solo by the creation that is Dave Gilmour, AND YOU STOPPED IT MID STREAM! Go to your naughty corner and think about what you just did young man!
I was at that show in the horseshoe in 94. Amazing show! If you want to understand the lyrics you need to watch the Pink Floyd the wall movie.
An the 8th day , God created David Gilmour ✨ 😁 Best band of all times .. 🎸🎶
Gerry Weed
I believed she created him on the first day. That’s where she got the inspiration to create the universe.
@@briganfree3656 👍😎
Timelessness in a capsule for you...😍👌😲
There are a couple ways to interpret the song. When Roger Waters wrote it, he was describing the way he felt when he was sick when he was young, and a similar feeling when he was sick and got some sort of shot from a doctor (probably a muscle relaxer) before a performance that made him feel numb.
However, this song also is part of the album (The Wall) that tells the story of a performer named Pink. In that story, drugs are involved, and a doctor gives Pink a shot so he can stand up on stage and perform, because he is too drugged up to stand up without a stimulant to counteract the drugs.
No he wasnt..... the song was written about a 1977 concert in Philadelphia, during the Animals tour.... he was sick and they sent him a doctor who gave him tranquilizers to get him through the show. That is confirmed by him in multiple interviews....... in reference to the wall, it's at the point where pink has cut himself off from the outside world, and he has resorted to self medication.... this is, in the album, where he devolves into insanity.
@@mikemclaughlin3306 In the song it is a doctor giving him a shot to get him snap out of his psychosomatic catatonia to preform.
I think the character "Pink" is an amalgamation of Waters and Waters experience with others who had a profound influence on him, and Syd is probably right at the top of the list.
@@nyborg6425 that's the movie, but yes, and he never does, physically, yes, but, mentally, bo
Some would call this music "magic".
Jeg gjør det :)
12:03 That's called The Gilmour Effect :)
Don't talk over the best guitar solo ever.
Shame on the man.
Officially, the song was written in 1977 after an incident in Philadelphia, where he was too sick to perform, and a doctor gave him tranquilizers/ muscle relaxers to get him "through the show".
In perspective to the album The Wall..... which is, in my opinion, the greatest concept album, ever..... it is at the point where the main character, pink, had been self medicating to combat the loneliness and emptiness he was feeling after cutting himself off from the outside world..... it is the moment he descends into madness.
That's a million dollar light show. ( it does so much more over the rest of the show). They had to have three complete setups. It would take the roadies 3 days to set up for a show therefore they needed 3 complete setups, so they could hopscotch around the country while on tour. That is being in one city for a night or 2, while setting setting up in the next city, while another crew is pulling in to the next one. CRAZY but awesome at the same time.
No confusion just listen to THE WALL front to back and it will all become crystal
Okay, so Pink - a rock musician - is sitting in his hotel room, stoned out of his mind. In comes the manager, with doctor in tow because, well, there's a show that's due to begin in a few moments. So they shoot Pink up with "stuff" so that he could make it to the event. -- The song is a conversation between manager/doctor and Pink.
There's nobody named pink in this band
@@jamesohare6593 it's a frickin TRICK OPERA, genius. It's full of fictive characters. The "hero" of the story depicted in this Rock Opera is named Pink.
If I'm wrong I apologize but I understood it to be about roger waters couldn't get up for the show and it was written about that ok
@@jamesohare6593 Okay, well it's both. The Wall is a rock opera, the story of Pink's rise to rock&roll fame and his mental collapse. Many of the events in Pink's life have been inspired by the writer's - Waters' - own life and he was quoted about this particular song, indeed.
I'm sorry I reacted so bad, by the way. Peace.
Yeah I found out they made album in78 waters wrote the movie in 82 movie is about pink .sorry
The song is in three voices. The first, for lack of a better name, (sung in this version by Rick Wright) is the Doctor. "Just tell me where is hurts." The voice is external and talking to the second character. The second character speaks in an internal voice (let's call him Pink, sung by David Gilmour). "When I was a child..." This voice is all inside Pink's head. The third voice is Pink's guitar (David Gilmour's ethereal playing). This voice expresses all the emotion of alienation and angst. This voice is the key that makes the song great. Greatest song ever and this is the best version of that song.
“The child is grown, The dream is gone”
The line above, right before one of the greatest solos EVER, explains Comfortable Numb....
“Can anybody hear me” is the inner child dying & screaming out alone in an adult body & adult mind, nobody adult can hearing the pain....
As a child, you never give up on anything that means something important to you, an adult tells you to stop but you do not listen as if the adult is speaking a language you do not understand, the language being “give up”, nonstop waves of “give up”....
You become an adult, now you are just part of the brain washed adult heard, “adults only do this, adults only do that, that is childish”, you follow with no push back nor questions asked, you’re just “okay, will do, no problem”, now you’re Comfortable Numb....
“Feel a little pin prick” & every lyric after is showing that adults need something injected or taking for energy & “life”, as a child you wake up energize naturally”, no drug required to “live”....
My favorite thing on You Tube: watching Pink Floyd, especially David Gilmour's guitar solos, grab hold of people's soul and taking them to heaven! 👼🎸🎸🎸
I feel David Gilmour in my heart. The G.O.A.T. and the greatest guitar solo hands down. I love Jimi, Jimmy, Carlos and Eric but I FEEL David in my SOUL!
I'm ashamed to say I'm from the UK and havn't heard this. That solo was incredible. Great vid sir.
If you like the sound of guitars, you should definitely listen to David Gilmour as much as possible.
I am proud to have been born in the same country as all the original pink Floyd members.
Those people who saw Pink Floyd live they are the luckiest people ever to live.
This is from the album/movie The Wall, and is a small part of the storyline. It can’t be interperted on its own. The main person «Pink» has withdrawn and is «Comfortable Numb» to the pains of life. Then his manager comes in to the hotel room, and gives him something to get him on his feet so he can get through the show.
After he says he has that feeling once again, he literally says "I cannot explain you would not understand" LOL
Lyrics: 2 people doc. and Roger. Roger got stomach cramps before a concert. Doc. "needs some information first", gives him a shot ( pin prick ) . He can hardly move his arms ( hands felt like 2 balloons ). Now he is "comfortably numb." The disco ball enter their concerts after 1981. Music critics in the 70"s ( disco ) ) said that you can not dance to their music, that they were not very popular band to go see. REALLY !!!!!!!!!!!!
WTAF????? Let me interrupt the guitar solo . . . so I can talk about how epic the guitar solo is going to be? Holy hell.
Great reaction my man!!!!
Goose bumps....
That's Pink Floyd effect
You could always stick a pickup on your acoustic - it would sound pretty good - I did that with mine.
One does not simply just listen to Pink Floyd…….you feel Pink Floyd
Artist from around the world as said that this is the best guitar solo ever written.
it helps with Pink Floyd (if you are new to them) to research the basic meaning of the song before you hear them. Then once you listen to them you can follow it and enjoy it sooo much better.
Never interrupt a David Gilmour guitar solo
It's about a rock star having a mental breakdown causing delirium. He remembers that he was delirious when he had 105 degree fever as a child. The doctor gives him a shot to make him feel well enough to perform in his show that evening. After the show, let's just say the shit hits the fan!
In the 80's Pink Floyd was the ultimate concert to go to ....
So inspirational. BTW, most electric guitar amps have a headphone jack 😉🎸🎧
Watch the film The Wall all will become clear ....... but never ever ever interrupt a DG guitar solo ever !!
Forget “explanations”, and enter the dream.
This is back-of-the-brain music, like all great art. Just let it flow.
Rule #1 - NEVER interrupt a Pink Floyd masterpiece
Rule #2 - Refer to rule # 1
money & time by pink floyd are both examples of the greatest guitar player ever
“The child is grown, The dream is gone” 😥
Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour is the all time famous guitarist.
I play this in the Cadillac with the Bose surround sound, it's absolutely amazing! It's usually Rittz, Tech N9ne, Pac, something like that but this gets play in my vehicle for sure!
Rich bro. Love that you don’t confine yourself to one genre. That’s why I watch.
Now that you've done this, react to Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits. Mark Knopflers guitar work is among the best.
Kamyar has to be alchemy live though 👍🏻😃
Yes! Gilmour and Knopfler are my two favorites 💕
HAS GOT TO BE ALCHEMY VERSION!!!!!
@@karpatka1797 Gilmour and Latimer...
Live version of course
Craig Chaquico from Jefferson Starship is also a very good guitarist. There is a song with a great solo. It's called save your love. Craig was in his early 20's when they recorded this song. Lead vocals is Mickey Thomas who sang Fooled around and fell in love with Elvin Bishop. Very talented musicians in this band. Craig Chaquico has since put out solo albums and 90% is acoustic, and you are right. The acoustic guitar does sound nice. Anyways, the studio version is good . Hopefully you will react to it. The solo in this song is fantastic, and I believe this man is underrated. Now David Gilmour wss born with a guitar in his hands. When.he plays you can feel.the emotions in the sound. One of the best, if not the best guitarist on the planet.
Pink floyd Echoes
Pink floyd Time
Pink floyd Hey you
Yes the drugs are numbing his pain ( mental/ physical) now he's comfortably numb
Hey bro you know it’s CRIME interrupting a Gilmour solo ☝️
dude, you paused for the gun show. lmao
this song is about when Pink Floyd was playing in Philly and Roger Waters had sharp stomach pains. Doctors shot him up with pain killers to get him thru the show. He penned these lyrics years later.
If you want to hear something that sounds like your being 'lifted out of yourself' at the end, listen to Pink Floyd's 'The Great Gig in the Sky'. Both the studio version (which I prefer) or the Pulse version sang by those same 3 women you saw here in 'Comfortably Numb'. Great Gig is thought to be about the stages a person goes through when dying and is like nothing else you've ever heard.
React to Dogs, Time, or Money. All greats starts to Pink Floyd, my favorite band of all time. Please do more from them!
I get chills every time I hear the comfortably numb guitar solo.👍
I notice young people are always trying to figure out rock lyrics right from the jump..First off, if you were able to understand lyrics right off it wouldn't be poetic, now would it?... Where's the mystique in that?....You're looking for a road map....Directions!....That kind of information is reserved for the back of oatmeal boxes, or directions on how to put your kids bike together..Or, Pop music...And on the flip side, many songs are written through personal experiences that no one could relate to, either ever, or right off..Songs are also written leaving to the general public to interpret for themselves...Some songs have no deep meaning at all..They just sound good, and just digging the vibe, most often (especially in Rock), is enough.
Exactly
If youre ready for your next dose of these chills, my dude, then Janis Joplin, Ball and Chain, Live. You're not ready. I grew up on it, and even im still not ready.
The album this song is from "Another brick in the wall" follows a movie they did called The Wall. If you want to understand the meaning watch the movie, the album and movie go together step by step.
The people who experienced this concert in particular this song, I hope realise the sheer magnitude of this. I’m am infinitely jealous of anyone who attended.
Yes we did. :) It was 10 nights at Earls Court. I went to 4 nights. And on the first leg of this tour I caught them at Wembley Stadium and two nights at the London Docklands Arena. Caught loads of tours 70s to 90s, and I think everyone agreed this was the stand out concert of that period. It was even broadcast on national TV at the time.
that solo was edited. they cut 1min 10 secs from it. the full version can be found on youtube
Love this song
The only thing confusing is why anyone would halt a Gilmour solo!?? Folks born after 1990 care soooo much about lyrics. Must be the hip-hop influence. Wonder what you will make out of Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven and/or Tommy James and the Shondells Crimson and Clover! LOL
If you like this song you should watch the movie Pink Floyd the wall
I love The Wall.
Love that you feel the music like we all have when we first hear it and I'll tell you I was going back and back on the album lol
He was about to over dose on heroin. This is from his recollection. When the doc entered the room to give him a shot of adridilin so he could perform on stage
FYI to all future reacters to this guitar masterpiece. we cannot see your goosebumps.. though we appreciate where you're coming from. carry on.
Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality.
Glad u enjoyed it! Just remember the most important thing rt now? Is DJT getting back into office!😊😉
Ok, here is what the lyrics mean since your were trying to figure out what some of it meant. The Song is about............It's not about anything as in "a song on a record" in that sense. It is the sound track part used in the Pink Floyd movie "The Wall". Which is modeled after a guy named Sid Barret I think, who was a close friend of Rodger Waters. It is the crazy twisted world of this guy who is a Rock Star(we are talking ending 70s). When this song plays in the movie, we see Rock Star Bob Geldof on the verge of a O.D., and this song kicks in, as his managers try to find away to get him up and going so he can preform on stage. In which his life takes a mental down fall after. But the sound tracks songs are too cool to be just sound tracks to a movie, and became the album. You might get lucky by looking for it up here and locate that movie excerpt with the scene and song play of what I am talking about. This guitar solo version is very good. But I like the "Delicate Sounds of Thunder" version way better. Which is also up here too. You may want to check that out as well.
Thx doc! I knew you would eventually react to it if i kept requesting it 😂
Of you wanna react to any other parts off this concert i suggest. Run like hell
Another brick in the wall or shine on you crazy diamond. Everything is amazing!
You can play an electric without an amp you know... And if you get an amp you can control the volume so no problem playing with a connected amp without bothering anyone unless you do it late at night then it won't do when everything else is quiet in the building. Tho you can use a headset, just plug it in and then you can crank it up as much you like.
Say Doc...ya just got pinked. The Floyd with David Gilmour's mastery over the guitar will reach down into your inner core and yank out your soul taking it to universal places you have never experienced before only to gently and safely send it back where it belongs...comfortably numb...
I growing up with Pink Floyd as a teenager I really get a better perspective in watching you younger folk react to them...Good job...
Leo Fender created the Stratocaster and God created David Gilmour to play it.
The best song ever with the best guitar solo ever...
Rules n1 do not interrupt Sir Gilmour solo. That's the law
Dave Gilmour is king of the goosebumps!
Oh man, he sure is. I feel closer to God when listening to Pink Floyd than many churches. Incredible music, makes my spirit soar and be thankful for the gift of creativity that some have in abundance, so they can bless us w/ their gifts.
@@saintejeannedarc9460 added with the lightshow performance is incredible - would love to have been there!