Waleed wields the axe at The Walkleys
Is Waleed Aly Australia’s true Renaissance man? When he’s not winning the internet with his reasoned and well-argued political stance or being an academic, lawyer, author and human rights campaigner, it seems he’s also a dab hand on the guitar.
And what better place to show that skill off than with his band Robot Child in front of his journalism peers at The Walkley Awards – with a note-perfect rendition of the solo in Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb.
(While the picture is not perfect bear in mind it’s all about the music).
And he certainly won yet more admirers among his journalist peers judging from the reaction on Twitter:
Renaissance man. Great way to describe it.
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The greatest person to happen to Australian media since Margaret Pomeranz.
Waleed Aly for the first President of an Australian Republic. Yayyyyy!!
I would’ve liked to have heard the first solo. Harder to master Gilmour’s feel. Onya Waleed.
Indeed Waleed is impressive and inspiring all sorts of ways. A treasure.
What saddens me is that there are so few (any?) with half his talent and insight willing to infiltrate government and political parties..
Plato had it right (even if he had much else wrong): Why should philosophers be kings? Because they’d rather not. (paraphrased).
Waleed for prez.
@Mark Whittle – no way that first solo is harder than the second one…..
In this vid I note the white middle male in the foreground sipping red wine and ignoring the blazing moment in front of him.
@Mark Whittle @Ben
Ben – Mark knows exactly what he’s talking about. Less notes in the first solo, that’s why it’s harder. Look up ‘feel’ in the rock guitar dictionary, it plays that solo!