Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb - '70s Guitar Solos

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Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb

The song's more like "Appropriately Boring"—well, at least during the sleepy verses, which concern Pink's real and imagined medical ailments (or some shit). But then David Gilmour's melodic, powerful solo kicks in to give the song some life—and it's arguably his best work ever. (Ironically, it was a leftover from his first solo record.) "It's made even better by the key changing right when it starts," GBV's Doug Gillard says. "He lays off the blues licks for once for a bit of good melody."

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Guitarist: David Gilmour
Album: The Wall
Year: 1979
Length of solo: 1:46
Guitar used: 1970 Fender Stratocaster
Where recorded: CBS Studios, New York; Producers Workshop, Los Angeles; Super Bear, Miraval, France
Alternate YouTube version: Live, circa 1980

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