It's a really great song, and the massive guitar solo works just fine for me here.

NC.

cesb wrote:I believe that solo to be miraculous. I don't see how it can have been improvised, for it is too perfect for too long, and actually gets better as it goes along.

I recall reading (maybe in Tape Op?) that Gilmour tracked the solo against just a click and a piano; that's it. Kind of makes it more impressive, if true.

I didn't get the Floyd when The Wall came out. It was what the stoner 8th graders listened to, and I was non-stoner 7th grade. How much I missed.

The "Comfortably Numb" solos are the anti-crap, as far from crap as one can get.

The first one rolls along, clean, on the ocean of strings and bass, a little intro to the next minute or two of verse, as it starts the climb. It ratchets up, those naked thunky bass notes herald the second solo, and it crashes down, all dirty beauty, to bring it home. And then, after it's all over, you can just stop the record because the rest of the album is Roger's "Woe is me" psychodrama filler.

I cried during the second solo on the Division Bell tour at Soldier Field. So beautiful, "Comfortably Numb"! Solo-ut!

Great solo- kind of pompous record.

I like this song and solo. I don't really dig The Wall, but Pink Floyd is for sure a great band, not crap no matter what.

zom-zom wrote:You have bad ears...

huh?

if i don't remember a solo from memory it's crap.

guess what...

this one's crap.

My knee-jerk reaction is "crap," since it's upper-register Strat wheedling. Chorused upper-register Strat wheedling, no less.

However, this particuar slice of upper-register Strat wheedling happens to make up some key thematic material that moves the song forward. Take it away, and a huge part of the song is missing.

NOT CRAP. Waffle 8 for foreshadowing cargo-pants-era Clapton.

FuzzBob wrote:cargo-pants-era Clapton

awesome

i read about this being several improvisations recorded on seperate tracks and then pasted together. just like the female vocal on great gig in the sky. i'm pretty sure that it's a hiwatt amp and rotary speaker too.