Comfortably Numb chords by David Gilmour

Song's chords Bm, A, G, Em, D, C, E, B

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Gilmour has performed the song during each of his solo tours. In his 1984 tour to promote his album "About Face", the set list referred to the song as "Come On Big Bum". The vocals during the verses were performed by band members Gregg Dechart and Mickey Feat. In 2001 and 2002, the verse vocals were performed on different dates by guest singers: Robert Wyatt, Bob Geldof, Kate Bush and Durga McBroom. During 2006, Richard Wright sang the Waters' part. On 29 May 2006 at the Royal Albert Hall, David Bowie sang Waters' part as a special guest. The song was often referred to as "C-Numb". This song features two guitar solos by David Gilmour. In 1989 the readers of the Pink Floyd fanzine The Amazing Pudding voted this song the best Floyd song of all time. David Gilmour's solo was rated the 4th best guitar solo of all-time, by Guitar World magazine, in a reader poll. Also on Guitar World there are details on David Gilmour's "Comfortably Numb" solo stating that the solo (most likely the outro solo) was pieced together from several other solos that Gilmour had been experimenting with at the time. In August 2006, it was voted the greatest guitar solo of all time in a poll by listeners of digital radio station Planet Rock. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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