This doesn't replace the original and the rest of the band knows he's a bellend, but at the same time it can be interesting to see someone revisit a work like this. Whether it's any good or not, I dunno man. It'll be very far from my preferred way of listening to it. He's like an anti-George Lucas, where instead of going back to make something you worked on long ago more appealing, you do the opposite, but dramatically, tragically misreading the room all the same.
Comfortably Numb is a solid crowd pleaser; live it's a solid encore song to close out a show. Waters on his most recent tour led with Comfortably Numb delivered with the energy and optimism of a funeral dirge. It makes a statement I guess, but is it what anyone wants? Is it even what Waters wants? What does he get out of performing that song that way aside from just deliberately taking the wind out of the sails of one of his greatest cowriting achievements to make the audience feel down?
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