Guitarist Reacts to David Gilmour Solo - Comfortably Numb - Pulse 

What I Love about David Gilmour is that he stands there in one place and let's the Guitar do the talking. You won't see him running around the stage, climbing on amps, rolling on the floor, etc etc etc. He stands there and mesmerized everyone around him. Including the rest of the band. There's always one or two with that huge smile when he is playing. That look like Yeah David, do what you do best!

Rule Number 1: You never, ever pause a David Gilmour solo. Rule Number 2: You never, ever violate Rule Number 1.

Masterpiece.

Pink Floyd never tried to fill every hole perfectly with a note, but every note they did play was perfect.

David Gilmour has always gone for beautiful sound and perfect sound rather than biting the strings with his teeth and playing behind his head and jumping up and down saying look at me look at me!! He's always played to the song as you say! You might want to react or even just check the following songs for yourself that are fairly new for David Gilmour: "On an Island" "In Any Tongue" "The Blue". These are from his recent solo albums - "On an Island" and "Rattle that Lock"! All beautiful songs with great sounding solos! Enjoyed your unique reaction to guitar solos! Oh and by the way Pink Floyd is second to none when they do live shows!! I've seen them four times in three different decades and I've seen around a hundred concerts in my life from every great group you can think of pretty much! I know I'm getting a bit long-winded here but a gentleman named Bob Ezrin said in a guitar magazine that David Gilmour has the best hands with which he's ever worked with. He stated that David Gilmour can take a ukulele and turn it into a stratovarius!!

Oh, David, no one can touch you. My fave of his is the LIVE version of…. ON THE TURNING AWAY.

Dave Gilmour had an incredible live rig, and a massive number of effects at his disposal, (pedals and rack). He creates a thick, warm solo tone, with all his guitars, Strat, Tele, 56 Gold Top, and many other, played through his 3 Hiwatt Dr103 100 watt heads and sometimes six 4-12 Wem cabinets loaded with Fane speakers.

You're right, he "plays to the song". Well said. He stays within the confines and does it with such beautiful phrasing. With this song, his playing reflects and contributes to the subject matter so appropriately that it seems like it was inevitable.

he is my favourite and his solos are always a song into the song. Stay safe

You don’t just ‘listen’ to a Dave Gilmour solo, you get taken on an emotional journey to a destination of his choosing. Thank you Dave. You’ve enrichened many with your aural art.

You need to check out david on the slide guitar on high hopes for the pulse concert

The EMG pick-ups are really nice. The tension build up and then the release with David is so well done. Many of Davids solos are just ethereal. That entire Pulse video is great. I have a set of older Lace Holly Grail's that are very much like the EMG's. Noiseless but single coil sound. David also has the presence control on that red strat too if I remember right. I would love to have a copy of his tone board.

I like his three-fret's worth of bends that always finish up accurately on the target note. So many people finish the bend still flat of the note.

June 14th '94, Hoosier Dome (still have my stub). They started with the entire Dark Side of The Moon for the first half and did most all of their other hits in the second half. I've been to about 60 concerts, that was the best "Show" As you were saying it reminded me of a Vince Gill interview early in his career when he was recording and after the cut the producer said "Let's try that again and this time only play Half of what you know..."

David Gilmour is a sick sick man. 50 years since he was absolutely destroying strings on a Strat no on has ever been able actually do since. Bending strings all the way from hell and back and then all the way to no where. Impossible to play like he has. No one has done it. The only one to ever complete fuck a guitar like him is Stevie Ray Vaughn.

One does not simply listen to David Gilmore... one experiences David Gilmore.

Try "On The Turning away" remastered 2019, from The Delicate Sound of Thunder live concert. A deeply emotional guitar solo from DG.... Beautiful.

You do know that pausing any David Gilmour solo, is sacrilege 😉😊

Gilmour knows how and when to apply “negative space,” which is crucial for any composition - musical or otherwise

I like how this guy stays quiet and just lets Gilmour let his playing speak for itself. It is the perfect solo.

brilliant

You are right, the pace and melody of the solo is perfect for the song, and many people see this as the greatest guitar solo ever. For great emotional guitar work, I love Gary Moore, and highly recommend Parisienne Walkways live. Thanks for the upload and reaction.

Pretty sure David is using his active pickups on the red Strat…DG-25 pickguard. The middle tone knob boosts the high and low end and the bottom knob boosts the mid. I have the pickguard fitted and love the way you can get close to a humbucker sound on a guitar that doesn’t pop your hip out🤣🤘

Guitars ask for David Gilmour for Christmas.

This and stairway to heaven are the two highest rated solos. There's no solo that gets me so emotional as this one. None. Check out Thrill is gone with B.B king and Gary moore

I watched till the stopped the video during the riff. Read sneakyfox comment.

Very much agree with your comment how he serves the song, rather than shredding for the sake of showing off ❤❤

Quality over quantity. Another example of a Strat being played would have to be Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing (Alchemy Tour)

This is my favorite solo of all time, this performance here is epic. The emotion played here it just moves me. The only other solo that comes close to the same emotion for me is John Petrucci's Hollowed Years solo from the live at the Budokan dvd.

Never...never interrupt this solo. Wait till the end

He makes the guitar sing.

Don't stop in middle of solo.........

Not Gilmores best solo but one of his best with Pink Floyd. The solo does mean a lot more with the rest of the performance and song with it. lol The best David Gilmore solo i have heard was on a black Les Paul with gold pin stripping and fixtures ( probably highly polished brass fixtures ), for a Les Paul benefit concert. Les Paul invited David to perform himself, but the organisers tried to stop Davids invite......Les insisted on David performing and won the argument. lol Was the best Chicago blues i ever heard, better than Mike Bloomfield.......and no accompaniment, just David and a Les Paul that looked like it belo nged in a museum glass cage.

Active pickups at their best.

3 rules about David Gilmour solos: 1) Never pause a David Gilmour solo 2) Never pause a David Gilmour solo 3) Never pause a David Gilmour solo Its not the notes, its the nuance

NOOOOOOOOOO!!! Never, never, EVER pause a David Gilmour solo - especially THIS one.

You sound like a used car salesman talking at the speed of sound during the intro. Its not so much the guitar he is playing but the amps and pedalboard he uses. The pick ups look like Fender lace sensors. He did use EMG pick ups at one point. Marshall and Hiwatt amps as well. The main thing is he sounds the same even when using a LesPaul. I will say learn to play this song as well as Learning to fly and On the turning away and you will get a real deep understanding how he plays. I love playing all the songs and appreciate the simple delicate parts and how they fit together. It teaches you how to play with emotion and feeling and let the guitar do the singing. No need to try and be the star of the show but serve the song and the rest of the band.

A fan bought his Strat for $4 million, not including lessons or taxes.

Please lissen SORROW

You missed half the song! This was a disappointment, but that was a fantastic solo.