PINK FLOYD COMFORTABLY NUMB MOVIE
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For the solo, the Pink Floyd guitarist used a heavy pick on his Fender Strat with maple neck through a Big Muff and delay via a Hiwatt amp and a Yamaha RA-200 rotating speaker cabinet.

PINK FLOYD COMFORTABLY NUMB TV

In an August 2006 poll by viewers of TV music channel Planet Rock it was voted the greatest guitar solo of all time. Gilmour's second guitar solo on 'Comfortably Numb' regularly appears in Best Guitar Solo of All Time polls. While it does seem that this is a song about the 'joy of heroin,' it has little, if any connection to heroin even if it's condition resembles that of somebody who's totally wasted. Supporting this, afterwards are the songs 'The Show Must Go On' (Pink realizing as he gets to the show that there isn't really any turning back, and he's forced to go on-stage), 'In the Flesh II' (the redone version of the first song on the album, now with Nazi-Pink singing, threatening random minorities), and ' Run Like Hell' (after the crowd, loving nazi-Pink, has been whipped into a frenzy, now hunting minorities in the street, much like late 1930 Germany).

PINK FLOYD COMFORTABLY NUMB MOVIE

In the movie Pink begins to melt on the way there, and underneath he finds that he is the cruel, fascist model of a Nazi party representative by the time he arrives at the concert. Medics and the band manager come in and give Pink a shot to pull him out of his catatonic stupor, the manager pays protesting Meds some cash to shut up and let him take Pink to the concert in the state he's in (obviously a threat to his health, but the Meds, who probably don't make enough money, accept). This song is the final step in Pink's (Roger Water's) transformation into the Neo-Nazi, fascist character you see in the movie The Wall. But, anyway, it wound up with us taking a fill out of one version and putting it into another version.' I probably couldn't tell the difference if you put both versions on a record today. We really went head to head with each other over such a minor thing. It was more an ego thing than anything else. We had another go at it and I thought that the second take was better. We'd done one track with Nick Mason an drums that I thought was too rough and sloppy. But the arguments on it were about how it should be mixed and which track we should use. Then we had to add a little bit, because Roger wanted to do the line, 'I have become comfortably numb.' Other than that, it was very, very simple to write. We changed the key of the song's opening the E to B, I think. I'd written it when I was doing my first solo album. Dave Gilmour said in Guitar World February 1993: 'Well, there were two recordings of that, which me and Roger argued about. They ended up editing two takes together as a compromise. Waters and Gilmour had an argument over which version of this to use on the album. It was so bad that at the end of the show, the audience was baying for more. I did the whole show hardly able to raise my hand above my knee. A doctor backstage gave me a shot of something that I swear to God would have killed a f-ing elephant. I had stomach cramps so bad that I thought I wasn't able to go on. He explained: 'That comes from a specific show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia (June 29, 1977). He said most of The Wall is about alienation between the audience and band.Д®xploring further, Mojo asked Waters about the line, 'That'll keep you going through the show,' referring to getting medicated before going on-stage.

At the show, Roger's hands were numb 'like two toy balloons.' He was unable to focus, but also realized the fans didn't care because they were so busy screaming, hence 'comfortably' numb. Pink Floyd had to do a show that night in Philadelphia, and the doctor Roger saw gave him a sedative to help the pain, thinking it was a stomach disorder. In a radio interview around 1980 with Jim Ladd from KLOS in Los Angeles, Waters said part of the song is about the time he got hepatitis but didn't know it.

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