Just look at your screen, that’s where it’s happening!
The greatest guitar solo ever by Dave Gilmour nobody can play like him ever…this is anrelaxing song listen to some more Pink Floyd and thanks
That is not the OG solo, at the mirror ball part it is very different than the one that is supposed to be in this video. I’ve heard this song a million times and I know that solo by heart. I don’t know exactly what show it’s from, but it isn’t the one from the pulse box set or dvd. There are parts of it that are horrible. It made me instantly react like wtf is going on.
Pink Floyd has an incredibly deep catalog to explore as a therapist. Their original guitarist/singer/songwriter Syd Barrett had significant mental issues, made worse by drugs etc., that led to a near inability to function and his leaving the band. This had a profound impact on the band, and particularly Roger Waters.
In addition Roger’s father was killed in WWII when he was very young. Roger would write most of Floyd’s lyrics, and these two events feature heavily.
The songs ‘If’ and ‘Echoes’ were the first couple, but the albums Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, and the Final Cut explore madness, mental illness, absence, war, and the human condition and how we interact with each other.
The albums as a whole each explore different sort of things - Dark Side focuses on madness and the things that often trigger it (money, time, death, travel, war, etc.); Wish You Were here explores absence and isolation; Animals addresses the political and societal “norms” that have the effect of marginalizing and demeaning people; the Wall is the story of a rock star and the things in his life that led him to walking off his feelings and others; the Final Cut explores war and its effect on the human race.
These are very simplified descriptions, of course, but I hope it highlights how they are best experienced as a whole.
The other band that had a truly incredible lyricist that explored many things regarding the human condition is Rush. Neil Peart, the drummer, has many songs like Subdivisions, the Trees, Territories, Witch Hunt, Limelight, etc. that I think you would enjoy too. Again, it’s a deep catalog and these would just be the beginning.
OPEN YOUR EYES DURING THE SOLO!!! You’re missing everything!!!
I was stranded in the wilderness of colorado in a vw van for 11 days. I played this cd every time I darned to start it for heat. Richard Darner
I can’t lie. I feel like I have been depressed for so long that I have became a little numb for the most part. But hearing that line, “the child has grown, the dream is gone,” just now in my current emotions about made me start crying.
… sometimes the reason for desiring and/or seeking numbness is much less complicated than you are making it… sometimes you simply want to NUMB Physical Pain and when this is the case, one seeks and desires NUMBNESS as a release from Daily torture, when your government thinks that they know what’s best for you… Idiots. The government still doesn’t realize that it is they who have caused the current “Fentanyl Crisis” by the very nature of trying to STOP the use of “Opioids,” even when “Opioids” are a way to improve one’s way of life. ARGH! It’s not always driven by a childhood problem, a painful memory, etc. Psychological pain is one side of the coin only. Sometimes NUMBNESS is a genuine solution, temporary or not. Like in this song NTMBNESS was a solution to the problem of otherwise not being able to play the rest of the show… so you’re all wrong.
Remain Well & reasonably Happy too… Cheers…
There a copy of their live version of The Wall somewhere on Youtube that gives you the whole album in the original context. The movie gives you a different version of the same story.
You want to do Dark Side of the Moon. Listen to the entirety of The Wall. Both of these albums explore entire themes of life.
Best show I have ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of shows! Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami 1994. About 7th row on the right side of the stage, when the giant pig popped out it was over our heads! The weather, lights, lasers, mirror ball, sound and the blimp…
Song recommendation - Johnny Cash ‘A boy named Sue’
Where’s Roger?..
Saw them in 87, still, the greatest concert i’v ever been to
Gilmour’s vocals are always stunning. He rarely gets the credit he is due for his gorgeous voice.
Well done…
better late than never…
is unexcusable that somebody who is into music never heard pink floyd one of the icons of all times. is like saying you never hear elvis
I dare to say that all instruments in Pink Floyd composition are not just playing music, but talking to each other. And I would like to stress the wording ‘composition’ and not just music, because this is whole package of true art that you are being delivered, especially during the concerts with all the lighting.
This is the music that men make.