David Gilmour & David Bowie - Comfortably Numb

[jtk1519]

F'n epic...

[hopkinsnhorns]

great rendition, love it. and the fact that it reminds me of The Departed is not a bad thing at all either.

[e]

fuck yes. that may be the most soulful guitar solo of all time. also bowie is a god.

[HornsN04]

Wow, that was fucking great.

[hullabelew]

I really like the change that Bowie put on the melody line on the verses....makes it almost his own. Almost like the 3rd part to Major Tom and Ashes to Ashes. I could listen to Gilmour's solo all day long and never get tired of it.

[MP5]

I could never get tired of Gilmour. I love the live Bowie rendition here but Gilmour and Floyds live sets while amazing- they were Gods in the studio. One of the few bands that the studio albums transcend the live sets. We will never be able to truly appreciate the live sets of Zeppelin, Young, Jimmy, or SRV but thankfully we have the best of Floyd and Gilmour.

[hullabelew]

Totally agree. Never really cared to see Pink Floyd after the whole Waters/Gilmour crap, but I saw Gilmour in 1984 on his "About Face" tour. One of the 'cleanest' shows I've ever seen. Bowie's Serious Moonlight Tour and maybe the Queen show from 1979 are about the only large shows that were that crisp.

[thekube]

Totally agree. Never really cared to see Pink Floyd after the whole Waters/Gilmour crap, but I saw Gilmour in 1984 on his "About Face" tour. One of the 'cleanest' shows I've ever seen. Bowie's Serious Moonlight Tour and maybe the Queen show from 1979 are about the only large shows that were that crisp.

You got to see Gilmour, Queen, and Bowie live. You are a gigantic asshole :)

[mrfloyd]

Yes the memories I saw the Serious Moonlight Tour in the in July 1983, Gilmour solo July 1984 and Roger Waters solo April 1985 all in the Frank Erwin Center. All incredible shows especially hearing Waters in surround sound.

[hullabelew]

Yep. From 78 to 87 or so, I saw about everyone who toured through DFW, Lubbock, Amarillo, Austin and OKC. I wish I had kept all of those concert t-shirts to have something made from them.

Stevie Ray was supposed to tour as a part of Bowie's band on the Serious Moonlight Tour. SRV wanted to be paid as a headliner so Bowie said 'No' and replace him with Earl Slick. I thought that was going to be end of ever getting to see SRV have any commercial success. He had already recorded "Texas Flood", but it hadn't been released yet. Without the exposure from Bowie, I thought he killed his chances of being heard outside of Texas. Turns out, that got him a lot of exposure and people bought "Texas Flood" to see what all of the talk was about.

Bowie heard about SRV when Mick Jagger had him play at his birthday party. Then John Hammond got involved to record "Texas Flood" and he signed to play with Bowie on one song on "Let's Dance".

[HornsN04]

Speaking of Gilmour's guitar work, this is off Division Bell, which isn't old school but I thought was a good album in its own right. Such a beautiful song.

[cajunhorn]

Gilmour's guitar work is simply amazing. It's like a hit of valium and big swig of vodka in this tune.

[kevwun]

The best guitar solo ever in my book, not that it's worth much.

[elguapo]

Speaking of Gilmour's guitar work, this is off Division Bell, which isn't old school but I thought was a good album in its own right. Such a beautiful song.

I could listen to this all day. Gilmour is a genius.

[mileslong]

awesome clip, thanks

[bamachine]

Righteous dude

[HornsN04]

"David Gilmour: Live In Gdansk" is currently on PalladiaHD (TWC 1664). It's halfway over, but I happened to stumble across it on my TV Guide. Some really good music.

[fortyakers]

For those of you that saw ex-Pink Floyd members in the 80's, was there a sense that they were past their prime, or was there still a "these guys are just as relevant as ever" sense?

I suspect the mid-80's would've been an interesting time to see Gilmour/Waters, because I don't know if enough time had passed to cement their status as legends, yet their contributions to music had peaked.

[hullabelew]

For those of you that saw ex-Pink Floyd members in the 80's, was there a sense that they were past their prime, or was there still a "these guys are just as relevant as ever" sense?

I suspect the mid-80's would've been an interesting time to see Gilmour/Waters, because I don't know if enough time had passed to cement their status as legends, yet their contributions to music had peaked.

If you went thinking Gilmour was past his prime, it took about 5 seconds to set you straight. When they went out on tour, they were promoting their own stuff and, at least in Gilmour's situation, he was playing only a handful of Floyd material. It was more like he was just taking a break from Pink Floyd and not on a Floyd tribute tour. His solo stuff was actually very, very solid on it's own.