Go Your Own Way/Comfortably Numb

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Originally Posted by seteca

(wow..I think it's been about 30 years since I posted on The Ledge..)

Me too dude and I ended up here yesterday (as I'm sure you've seen on the chit chat forum!)

Funnily enough, while we are talking about coincidences, I was listening to Comfortably Numb from Earls Court 1981 when I stumbled on this thread!

I can't see any connection either here. Not in tempo, chord structure, dynamics.. Nothing at all. I'd actually argue the point that GYOW contains a solo at all. The first one being more of a solo, a guitar "break" maybe. The second solo is Lindsey ripping off his own Frozen Love solo with more distortion and then repeating the same note over and over in "Chain" fashion which hardly qualifies as a solo in my opinion. Comfortably Numb contains a nicely written middle solo followed by one of the greatest solos of all time.

Thats not a slight on Buckingham or praise for Gilmour, just what my ears tell me from those two tunes..