Ice-T Performs ‘Comfortably Numb’ on ‘Tonight Show,’ Talks Getting Approval From Battling Pink Floyd Members

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Ice-T over the moon to get enemies David Gilmour and Roger Waters to approve Comfortably Numb cover

Ice-T has explained how he managed to get David Gilmour and Roger Waters to sign off on his cover of Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb'.

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Ice-T Performs ‘Comfortably Numb’ on ‘Tonight Show,’ Talks Getting Approval From Battling Pink Floyd Members

Ice-T is a multi-hyphenate already, but the gangsta rap legend might want to consider adding diplomat to his extensive resumé. On The Tonight Show on Wednesday (Dec. 4), Ice sat down with Jimmy Fallon to explain how he managed to get two of the most bitterly divided men in rock to finally agree on something. Falllon noted that the new Body Count album features a cover of Pink Floyd’s iconic 1979 song “Comfortably Numb,” which Ice-T somehow got…

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Watch Ice-T’s Body Count Showcase ‘Comfortably Numb’ on ‘Fallon’

Body Count stopped by The Tonight Show to perform their recent song, “Comfortably Numb,” an updated version of Pink Floyd’s 1979 single. The track, off the group’s new LP Merciless, sees frontman Ice-T rapping his own lyrics over the familiar music. Ice-T sat down with host Jimmy Fallon to discuss the new album, as well as working with Pink Floyd and David Gilmour to get permission to use the classic song. “Not only David Gilmour, but David G…

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“They haven’t agreed on anything for 20 years”: How Ice-T got Roger Waters and David Gilmour’s go ahead for Body Count’s Comfortably Numb cover

More unlikely than his choice of song were the odds of the two warring Floyd members saying yes to it…

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“Gilmour says, ‘I want to play on it’ – like, he doesn’t do this’”: Body Count rip through their Comfortably Numb reimagining on the Tonight Show, as Ernie C does his best David Gilmour

In an interview with host Jimmy Fallon, Ice-T recalled getting the approval (and assist) for the modern-minded reworking from Gilmour – while also getting the go-ahead from Roger Waters

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Today it’s hard to get Pink Floyd members to agree on something, however, so much so that Roger Waters and David Gilmour approved an unusual cover of the song. It’s about Body Count’s rap-metal version of legendary rapper Ice-T. How Ice-T covered Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” A couple of weeks ago, the band Body Count shared their powerful performance of the classic Pink Floyd single from the album “The Wall.” However, this version has reworke…