Pink Floyd- "Comfortably Numb" Live Pulse '94 (Reaction) 

This is THE definition of the Ultimate Concert Experience! So many individual elements executed perfectly together to become the end result and experience...and to do this for a whole tour...lucky whoever got to experience this in person! And their final tour on top of everything else! Thanks so much for watching with me. Don't forget to subscribe for much more Pink Floyd in the future! 🥰

Try One Of These Days from the same concert. lights, explosions, giant boars heads with laser light eyes utterly unbelievable.

Those spinning lights you're seeing are actually spinning Leslie speakers! It may be something more advanced than a spinning Leslie speaker someone corrected me earlier but the spinning speakers gives the music a more three-dimensional sound! When Pink Floyd sets up their sound system for a concert they make sure that the sound you hear is like you're inside the speakers! You will never hear a more complete unbelievably perfect Soundsystem then at a Pink Floyd concert live! I know that because I've seen them four different times in three different decades and I've seen about 100 concerts from AC DC Led Zeppelin and everyone in between alphabetically and never seen a better show than Pink Floyd puts on!

It does my old heart good to see young people enjoying the music of my generation. Because one doesn't merely listen to Pink Floyd. One EXPERIENCES Pink Floyd. Welcome aboard.

The Pulse Tour was far ahead of its time. Nobody had previously pulled off anything like this in terms of sound engineering and the light show, which was computerized (unheard of before!) And as far as I can tell, even more than a quarter of a century later, nobody has ever since pulled anything off that would be comparable. A performance of a lifetime that has its place in music history! And the second solo of Comfortably Numb is probably the best guitar solo ever played on this planet!

THIS is why so many of us of "a certain age" have a hard time relating to most of what passes for music today! We kinda got spoiled by this.....we have very high expectations!

Pink Floyd's sound is timeless. You can feel their music. Hard to explain. But you get it!!

Pink Floyd are a British national treasure . Legendary

Having been a PF fan pretty much since they started, and been to many concerts, this one twice, there absolutely no group better to hear live! Honestly blown away to point actually felt this music for days! Not even exaggerating! Watching young ones react takes me back every time! No band better IMO!

No matter how many times I see this it just leaves me breathless.

Thank you for making the effort to find the correct 4:3 ratio version that shows all the effects with no cropping. ;-]

I can still FEEL this song. Perfect in all of its parts! One of the best songs I’ve ever heard,!

Its well worth watching all the pulse show and remember this wasnt the last song

Hi ! LoL In 1994 my girlfriend and i went to the Montreal Olympic Stadium ! Pulse was a great live Concert ! we were standing on the ground were we had lots of space around us and had a great view ! another memory i cherrish !

Great reaction to this classic!!! I saw Pink Floyd on this Pulse tour at The Alamodome in San Antonio with 47,000 fans!! And yes, they played the entire Dark Side of the Moon from start to finish in the second set of the show! An experience of a lifetime!!!!

What an AMAZING concert that was!!! I saw them in Toronto the summer of that year!!! Absolutely mind-blowing!!! I also saw them in 1987 in Ottawa, Canada. These guys sure knew how to put on an incredible show!!! ❤

The guitar solo is well known as one of the best of all time. I saw Pink Floyd 11 times on the Pulse tour and each night the solo was different. The structure was basically similar but there were nuances that made each night different. I wouldn't trade those 11 nights for anything.

I've rocked out to this video at least 100 times. Now it's 101. It never gets old.❤

Back in O.C. Calif when I was 30 my wife heard a commercial on the radio about a P.F. show coming up. Knowing I am a Floyd fan she called the radio station (KMET - LA, “The Mighty Met”) to get information on the concert, The DJ on live radio Cynthia Fox…. said...."Congratulations, YOU are caller number 10, YOU just won tickets to the show and the Sound Check Party before the show"... I met David Gilmour back stage. He gave us both a signed album that I have in my music room. We talked for 22 minutes. I called him…“The Master Of The Stratocaster” He smiled. I told him his music will stand the test of time with anything from Beethoven or Mozart. He smiled even bigger. I asked if I could shake both his hands that make such great guitar solos, he smiled bigger and said “Sure” and shook both hands at the same time, making a cross between us, I smiled HUGE. Hard to explain how awesome that moment was in my life. I asked him to describe his technique of playing guitar, he replied… “I strike a note, bend it, shake it and then release it”…. Yes, he does that quite well, better than any other guitarist I know. . I told him in my eyes he’s a “Legend“. He thanked me and said “Enjoy the show”…. during the concert after the song “Money” he looked right at me and said…. “On saxophone, another Legend, Mr. Raphael Ravenscroft” … acknowledging my comment to him. It is my favorite moment in over 300 shows I’ve seen. I asked David…. How do you create those awesome solos?… he said….. I sit on a stool and listen to what Roger, Nick and Rick put down and play along. I listen to what I played and pick out what I like, then I put the pieces together into one piece then learn to play it as one. Our fans are fanatics for our shows to sound like the albums so I must play it correctly each time in a show. I have the concert Brochure and album on the wall with David’s picture centerfold. All of us fortunate enough to have seen this show live were in a TRANCE.... MESMERIZED the entire show... as you can imagine. We walked out saying.... What did we just witness? That was out of this world incredible. The Red Fender Stratocaster he used for this concert in the Guitar Collector World is ....PRICELESS

I can remember when all the Pink Floyd albums came out.

I sparked up my pipe for this reaction, as I do to all Pink Floyd songs. Thanks

I saw Floyd during this tour in Dallas TX at the old Cowboys stadium. It was an awesome experience! So glad I was able to see these legends before they retired.😊

Greatest reaction, thank you!

The lighter is such a nice touch 👏

saw this 5 times. outdoor needed FAA clearance for lasers, 14 days in a row sold out. 200,000 watts of power ( used in final song " run like hell". 128 wireless speakers, 200 ton stage. Disco ball is a FU to critics who said no future cause they don't play dance music. Greg Phillinganes ( M.J.music director said that they perform at a level above every). One thing leaving the concerts was people faces stunned what they just experience. Lighting dir. Mark Brinkman started with Floyd with the WALL. David Gilmour "live at Pompeii" last time at 70yrs old playing 'Com. Numb" 26 million views

The light show looks futuristic by today’s (2023) standards, yet this concert took place almost 30 years ago in 1994. Just another example of Pink Floyd being ahead of their time.

There were also three female vocalists who added allot to the mix. I have read that the pull on the electric grid was greater than any concert before or since…..huge. The other stats for this tour are equally impressive…almost 200 worked on the tour….three teams of roadies and technicians to set up and tear down who leap-frogged each other on the road.

I have seen Pink Floyd Live 4 times… I saw this same show Syracuse Carrier Dome in N.Y. 1994. The concert brochure said the stage is 120 feet wide. It takes a crew of 60 technicians three days to set up the entire lights and all. The concert schedule required that there had to be three entire crews to keep up. They leap froged each other for 92 shows with 20 Trucks per crew and a total staff of 195. The tour cost the promoters $98.MILLION to put on, but the total profit was $260 MILLION. Nick Mason’s drumming is incredible and matches Gilmour’s guitar emotions while Richard Wright takes us on a Magic Carpet Ride of tones that form the foundation of it all. When the “Disco Ball’ was uncovered and the lights hit it….. WHAT IS HAPPENING was what I said….The entire crowd was held in a trace and our minds totally blown by what we witnessed.

The stank-face when that guitar solo reaches its climax is involuntary, and I love that lol. My only regret about attending this show is that I peaked early; nothing since has come close to the sheer majesty of this concert. At our outdoor venue, the crystal ball/flower was mounted closer to the stage, but it was no less an out-of-body experience when that whole segment unfolded...pun intended. The entire show is a must-watch as you mentioned, but if I may recommend two others: "Sorrow" and "Run Like Hell", the latter of which was the final encore and they went a little nuts with it.

Went to 6 nights at Earls Court. Best gigs Ive ever attended and Ive been going to gigs since the mid 60s,

I remember the first time I saw this. So awesome.❤

A commenter on another channel stated he was at this concert. He said he was crying, and a girl sitting next to him fell to the floor overcome with emotion. I saw them live in the late 80’s but missed this tour. DAMN. Don’t know what I was thinking.

😎👍 next one from Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away ( live to the Delicate Sound of Thunder concert 1990 ) 🎸🎶🎶

I saw the Pulse concert in Gothenburg, Sweden, and it remains the most mind-blowing stage presentation I've ever witnessed. Every other concert before or since has seemed tiny by comparison.

🥰 I loved this concert! 🤭Worth the trip to NJ! 🤔 And missing getting floor tickets to Prince at MSG for the Love Sexy Tour, but at least we weren't in nosebleed. 🤯 Still can't believe I was blessed to see this phenomenal show for free. 😉Shout Out to God working in mysterious ways! The Planets were aligned right that day I tell you! 😚 And I still want a giant Glitter Ball Object de Art for my Living Room.... 🙄 still... 😆🐰

Took my wife to the El Paso concert... it was her 1st concert lol!

There is actually a longer version of this song from the Pulse concert where Gilmour’s solo is 1:50 min longer but it was cut for the album. I’ve heard two reasons why it was cut, one us that it had to fit the CD, another is that Gilmour played a note wrong and did not want it inti the DVD. Still in my view. The longer solo make sense…

One never tires. Magnificent! Grazie!

"Sorrow".....also from the Pulse Live concert....MUST WATCH!

Pink Floyd are the Undeniable God's of Live performance. Everything you just witnessed was designed for the audience. The lights Highly choreographed to maximize and amplify the emotion in the music. To merge the visual with the musical to give everyone in attendance a completely visceral experience. There is No One in the 21st century that can even hold a candle to them.. If you want a complete experience, watch the 2016 David Gilmour Live in Pompeii concert. The performance of this song. A 70 yr old man in a black Tshirt shredding the songs for more than 2 hrs

This part of the floyds 14 night residency at the 19,000 capacity earls court (the only arena on the tour...the rest were stadiums).

Nice reaction to one of the greatest slow hand guitarist in prog. Now it's time for the greatest prog band ever Yes and a song called Roundabout🙏🍁

I was at the Soldier Field show in Chicago that year. We're talking full 360 degree surround sound with music, voices, sound effects coming at you from all directions throughout the stadium. An amazing experience of light, sound and music. The Pulse video is great but can never come close to the actual experience. Transcendent.

Acoustic. Yup. Listen carefully and you'll hear it ringing in the background providing some excellent fill! Nothing is wasted or overused in this song.

That guitar part you liked during the second solo; many people refer to that as the ‘waving part’, maybe because Gilmour waves the guitar around whilst he’s doing it, maybe because, as you said, the sound he creates almost comes at you in waves. In guitar lexicon though, those are ‘divebombs’. Basically you use the whammy bar to quickly lower the pitch of the note your playing (and in this case, bring the note back up again). So called because it’s supposed to be reminiscent of a bomb dropping. It’s a common technique, pioneered by Hendrix. Gilmour uses it in an especially emotive way. The pitch he’s playing it at makes it more reminiscent of a person’s scream, which I think is the point, given the context and themes of Comfortably Numb. Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’ has some fantastic divebombs in it, for a really good example of when they’re used.

So many songs you can play from pulse tour !

There are no words… ❤🥰🙏

I saw them on their "Momentary Lapse of Reason" tour in 1988. It had the same exact stage set-up. I don't know about people crying, but I was sitting there slack-jawed throughout the concert. I remember thinking, what the hell is that thing as it began to open above the floor seats. I feel so fortunate to have seen them. I'll never forget it and seeing the videos brings it all back. Thanks for the reaction.

On certain shots, I can pick out a little black spot among all the other little black spots which I know is my head. One of the best nights of my life.

The PF fans call that guitar in waves as 'screaming guitar'. Great review and reaction.

Nice reaction. I saw them at the Silverdome in Detroit on this tour. After an intermission, they played Dark Side straight through. After they finished, David Gilmour announced that was the first time they had played it straight through since 1975. I heard they played it several more times at other venues after that.

Top five guitar solos.......immortal!

What amazes me is 🤗not 1 phone in the air! 😒 Its not like we didn't have Polaroids we could have used but that wasn't a thing back then. You took pics if you got backstage to meet the band in those days! 😌🐰

Yes. Richard Wright is amazing.

Still the BEST EVER Concert experience I have in Tampa 94 even top it up the 89 DST Tour in Vienna experience.

I was there. I’m still coming down.

Well…. You can’t miss with this one, Brandon; one of the most iconic guitar solos in history… most legendary light shows…. One of top bands in history. One of my top 2 bands for sure. PF were their own genre. They took you away to a whole different place in your mind. Still do. Good choice.

Roger Waters was the original co vocalist with Dave on this song. He was also the main lyricist of Pink Floyd material through the seventies and all their most classic albums. He left the band in the mid-80s mostly over creative differences with Gilmour. Thus you have keyboardist Richard Wright and other backup musicians singing his verses here. This is one of the reasons its so important to listen to the studio versions of Floyd first to hear the original production as it appeared on the albums with the original personnel. Then you can compare the live version later. With Floyd usually it's pretty close or better. PS Roger is on tour in Europe as we speak. He toured all over the United States last summer doing a bunch of Pink Floyd material. He does a hauntingly beautiful and even darker version of Comfortably Numb in his show. You can catch his live 2022 version here on RU-vid.

I saw that concert in Montpellier in France and it was the best concert ever... You're talking about Depeche Mode often, I also saw the Devotional Tour... That wasn't like Pink Floyd but I really loved it (Blasphemous Rumors is my favorite song from them)... Your reaction is so interesting, complete, you don't miss a thing... You love music, we can feel it, and the way you talk about it makes you special. Thanks for your beautiful channel, you're a nice person. Love from France 🇫🇷😘

Sans doute un des plus grands solos de guitare de l histoire de la musique pour la meilleure prestation scénique de tous les temps, je l ai vu a Paris, les spectateurs étaient quasi en transe ! Pink Floyd de 1968 a 1983 ont enregistrés que des chefs d'oeuvre (hormis les 2 musiques de films : obscuced by clouds et more) ! Leur musique est intemporelle, comme celle de mozart ou beethoven. (j ai regardé votre vidéo avec les sous titres français, je ne parle pas du tout anglais) . bonne continuation

You will want to watch the entire concert. Pulse Tour 1994 It is the greatest show ever done in my opinion and I've seen PF 4 times and nearly every other legendary band since 1966 over 300 shows. Being there was the most mind blowing experience of my life

Great reaction, man! They played Echoes during the first leg of the previous tour in late 1987. Rehearsals during that period are on RU-vid and I believe some of the shows uploaded here have Echoes as well.

One last comment from me - You mentioned the ring lights they installed in the auditorium that graphically mirrored the circular screen behind the stage (called Mister Screen, because as cool and detached as they were, they could also be giant dorks). When you see the stage brightly lit, you'll notice the entire thing is a giant eye looking upward, and I always interpreted those ring lights as more eyes looking down at the audience. They also hung several banners overhead with variations on the Division Bell album cover, and when you put all those elements together, you notice how unified the graphic design of the whole thing was. Very cool.

If I had to pick my favourite band from the 70’s, it’s a Sophie’s Choice situation between The Floyd and Queen. Off to check out more Floyd reactions. Please oh please do a reaction to Procol Harum’s performance of 1967’s Whiter Shade of Pale (Live in Denmark 2006) - it will absolutely blow you away!! Hugs from The ATL!

Welcome to the machine….

There have been some tours more profitable, but NONE as powerful and emotional. When you mentioned the lighting, I thought the following info would bring some clarity to the immense undertaking this tour was. Three stages leapfrogged around North America and Europe, each 180 feet (55 m) long and featuring a 130-foot (40 m) arch resembling the Hollywood Bowl venue. All in all, the tour required 700 tons of steel carried by 53 articulated trucks, a crew of 161 people and an initial investment of US$4 million plus US$25 million of running costs just to stage. This tour played to 5.5 million people in 68 cities; each concert gathered an average audience of 45,000.

Pleased to see you take a look at this performance Brandon. It really was a phenomenal live concert. Another extraordinary live performance that I’d like to see you to react to, is Santana “Soul sacrifice” performed at Woodstock in 1969. If you do, make sure it’s the full 9 minute 37 second version.

I've never seen Pink Floyd live.😥

A Multimedium Extravaganzum

Another Incredible performance from this Pulse Concert, part of Pink Floyds 1994 The Division Bell World Tour. Pink Floyd are renowned for their elaborate, massive tours, and the Pulse Concert is no different. This is listed as "the final concert tour" of Pink Floyd, but the three members of Pink Floyd here at this Pulse concert, did play together as Pink Floyd in the 2000s, but they did not tour. The three members of Pink Floyd onstage here are, (you known them), David Gilmour, (guitar, lead vocals), Rick Wright, (keyboards, vocals), and Nick Mason, (drums, percussion). The rest of the musicians and singers are PFs' touring band that year or that tour. Although Guy Pratt has been playing bass for PF since Roger Waters quit the band in 1985/86, but he's not technically a member of Floyd.

This was the 1st encore of the concert. Now you should check out the 2nd encore and concert closer, Run Like Hell. Best finale EVER!

Lighting Crew: Dave, how many Lights can we have? Gilmour: Yes!!!!! Lighting Crew: 🤷‍♂ Okay then..... Audience after every Pulse show in each city: 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I'm 51. & after all these years my fave & GOAT album is still Pink Floyd "The Wall", from which this song came. It was a constant companion & expressed every feeling I had as a teen. They never toured a lot & broke up after "The Final Cut", but got back together in '86 without Roger Waters (Waters, an original member, wrote most of The Wall & was my fave member) with "Delicate Sound Of Thunder" album/tour. I personally didn't like the album & didn't care to see the concert. Later I watched the vhs they put out & was glad I didn't waste my time & money. But by the time they came out with "The Division Bell", from which this "Pulse" show came, it had been so long, & I actually thought the album was better, so I wound up with tix to see this tour in an outdoor stadium. I wasn't expecting much, & figured couldn't be much better than the previous tour, but thankfully I was wrong & they blew me away! I'm still processing how lucky I was, guess you could say? It sounded better than the records! They played a set of old mixed with new songs, took a break, then came out & did "Dark Side Of The Moon" album, filled by encores, including this, "CN". I'd seen many guitar greats, including Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, & Eddie Van Halen to name a few, but knew I was witnessing the best in David Gilmore! It was the best sounding concert I've ever heard. ...Fyi, it was RETRO in the name that landed me here, friend! You evidently seem to know wtf you're doing, cause reactions are the new smack for the Old Skhool!🤘😎 See ya! ✌🌎❤

One of the things they achieved by having three different voices singing Roger's parts is that there is no way of making a direct comparison and saying, "This person doesn't sing it as well as Roger does." But they've set it up so there is no comparison -- three voices are perforce going to sound different from one. So you're not making a direct one-to-one comparison between two people.

I recall you said on an earlier video that you weren't a big fan of long Guitar solos, you're a keyboard player so ok, I get it. But tell me that Dave Gilmour's solos throughout this Pulse concert & all the other Pink Floyd clips you've seen & heard hasn't changed your mind? Gilmour does way more than a guitar solo, he plays the song, with all the emotion of the lyrics. It's like the guitar is not just a feature but integral to the songs. Someone said a while ago that lots of kids want a guitar for Christmas, but Fender Stratocasters want David Gilmour....God's Guitarist!!

Gdańsk is brilliant and shows Gilmore can still shine at his age, but musically , I believe live in Pompeii , 1973 , rivals Pulse. Echoes is perfect for the empty ampitheatre..... and I can hear the music echoing the cries and pain from the dead gladiators and Christians etc 2000 years ago.

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What is your background? I want that. Thanks.

now give us "dogs" 🙃

If there is a Heaven, and IF i get there, i bet Jesus' voice sounds like David Gilmore's.