Favourite Gilmour solo

Edited by dr wu23 - December 23 2015 at 12:16

I rather prefer the 'Delicate Sound Of Thunder' version over 'Pulse'. My fave live version (from before the echo box touch) is from 'Is there anybody out there?'.
Gilmour's solos are always better live. Echoes from Pompeii smokes every other option in this poll, but then again (as mentioned earlier) so does Pigs on my bootleg copy of 'Plays the Animals'.

i voted for "Comfortably Numb".

O666 wrote: Comfortably Numb. This still impressed me after 32 years. Perhaps he have more technical solos than CN but this is "The Most Emotional" Dave solo for me. AND one of 2-3 fade outs that I like, happened in this song. Normally I don't like Fade Out in the end of songs.

But I prefer the live versions he did, without the fade-out (as I understand it), but rather continuing the solo with more energy.

Guldbamsen wrote: I rather prefer the 'Delicate Sound Of Thunder' version over 'Pulse'. My fave live version (from before the echo box touch) is from 'Is there anybody out there?'. Gilmour's solos are always better live. Echoes from Pompeii smokes every other option in this poll, but then again (as mentioned earlier) so does Pigs on my bootleg copy of 'Plays the Animals'.

I also prefer the Delicate Sound of Thunder version of Comfortably Numb over the PULSE one... actually, it's my favourite version of this song. I do prefer it over the Is There Anybody Out There one, for even if that one is a bit longer and more complete than the studio one, the Delicate one goes even further. And I also prefer Gilmour's solos live most of the time. As for Echoes, that's a very frustrating song for me... of course I love it, but there are things I like better from the studio version, and parts I like better from the live ones... though I would rather pit the original one with the Gilmour solo one he did on his last tour. His solos were really wonderful on the new version, much more powerful and mature, and the music in general sounded more complete, but the vocals did fit better on their younger years. But even more important is the section in which the music comes back after the atmospheric screeching guitars part... the drums (or percussions or whatever), don't get the same feel; and then the guitars, coming into the "heavier" guitars that are usually played lower on the live versions in favour of the U2 like guitars; but the part that really takes it for the original version is the keyboards during this part... it's got such a beautiful and melancholic melody, and it's totally absent from the live version... I would need to hear the Pompeii version again to see if Rick does play that right on that one, but that little "detail" is what makes me choose the studio over the live ones.

Money is number two.  Got to go with C Numb .  Gilmour really has a bunch of great solos.  Not a bad one in the bunch,  A couple of ones that didn't make the list, Fat Old Sun, Yet Another Movie, and I love Return to Tunkusa on the Alan Parsons album ' A Valid Path'.

Edited by tdfloyd - December 24 2015 at 01:41

Sorrow is missed here. I think it's one of his best.
About Comfortably Numb, I'm fond of the Remember That Night 2006 version. The most talking and crying version imo.

Tom Ozric wrote: I forgot to say that his soloing throughout Keep Talking (intro, main solo, last section) is delicious. .......and Marooned.........

And the list goes on...

Some tough choices there, but I'll go for Time, which for me just shades it over Comfy Numb & SOYCD.

dr wu23 wrote: Hmmm....I suppose Shine On...the guitar section is longer of course and a bit more varied. But even though I like the tone, melody,  and phrasing by Gilmour in general over the years of his best work with Floyd, I have never thought of him as a 'virtuoso guitar player' and felt that he could have been a bit more 'flash' at times. I'm sure I'll get more bricks thrown at me , but that's just the way I feel about his playing.

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