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I’ve been stuck on listening to various live versions of Comfortably Numb (e.g., Pulse, Live in Gdańsk, etc) just to find out which has the best solo because it’s lived rent free in my head for a quarter of a century
What’s the verdict
Speaking as a casual, non-musical person, I gotta stick to Pulse but, ironically, it goes beyond Gilmour’s solo: I think Rick Wright’s keyboard work added a richness to it that no one was able to match afterwards.
Pulse is even better than the original