"Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd
To say that my father was (and is) the most influential man in my life would ge the grossest of banal understatements. My relationship with my father will be examined more closely in future posts.
He gave me my first copy of "The Wall" on cassette when I was 13. He just let me listen to it for three years and waited patiently. Finally, when I was 16, I asked him my questions about the album. I may have learned more about 20th Century European history in our "Wall" conversations than at any other time prior to my Juinor year in college. The he broke out the movie. WOW.
I have STRICT instructions from him that this song is to close out his funeral when the day comes. I take this charge more seriously than about any other duty or responsibility imaginable.
This was the first song that showed me how the guitar could literally and figuratively be a voice in a song. Still my favority guitar solo ever, and probably one of my top three songs of all time.