My SO used to play a great acoustic version of “Comfortably Numb”- not sure if it was Waters or Gilmour or both, but he would have NEVER played a cover version by someone else, so it must have at least been one of them.
It was a beautiful duet, and so harmonized and serene that it was almost hard to tell, at the beginning, that it was, in fact, the song. Rarely was the traditional melody sung. I’m scouring the internet TRYING to find this song. I broke up with the SO recently, so there’s no way I can ask him what it was.
Does anyone happen to own/know this specific live version or know where I can find it? Thank you so much!
I will be watching this thread with interest, remembering my 15-year effort to find Pete Townshend’s acoustic version of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” I heard on the radio once, and hoping it won’t be your fate.
Yep. Between getting help figuring it out here on the SDMB and getting the actual album through eBay, I was very grateful for teh Interwebz in putting me and that song back together again.
Oooooh, whack me with the clue bat. I did a similar thing, someone actually knew about a movie I’d seen once, as a child. Lotsa fun putting 2 + 2 together.
There is a Comfortably Numb demo version that is purely acoustic. David is humming/singing. He doesn’t actually sing any words, just “do, do, do, do.” The acoustic is drowned in phaser. Actually it might be 2 acoustic guitars, one with a ton of phaser (might be a 12 string) and the other with just the strum noise. Or it could be the same guitar run through 2 lines. It is hard to to tell because there is simply so much phaser going on.
I don’t know if this is what you are talking about.
well, this is the closest I can find: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rOyM-Qn73JE which leads me to believe it’s somewhere on david’s 1986 tour. Thanks so much for the input, guys!
I’ve got a reasonably extensive selection of Floyd releases, including several “bootleg” tapes, and there’s no acoustic version of CN on any of them. There is an acoustic demo track, but it’s got no lyrics (Waters just hums a bit) and it’s less than two minutes long.
Probably the most accoustic official releases would be from David Gilmour’s Meltdown concert and from his recent On an Island/Remember That Night tours.
