Drummer reacts to "A Saucerful of Secrets" (Live at Pompeii) by Pink Floyd
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- This band can't keep getting away with this. It's not fair. How do they keep getting better with each new song I hear?? This was nuts, man. Nuts.
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Mason is horridly underrated.
He really seems to be. Dude has major chops. Great sense of rhythm.
Spot on comment...!! He's like Ringo, right guy for the band he is in...
Mason is like drawing a carpet for the whole psych happening set, a tasty humble magic at its own
Mason is one of the best 4/4 drummers in the annals of history.
Agreed
The Live at Pompei concert was probably the greatest ever concert.. .of any band. And nobody was in the audience!!
Couldn't agree more, a stunning performance.
You can take the probably out 👍🏻
Unless you count the untold number of wandering souls haunting the ruins, ages ago trapped in the volcanic explosion of mount vesuvias, unable to cross over to the afterlife for generations due to their earthly regrets and sorrows. Though I think, thanks to Pink Floyd that day, I feel like a fair number of them were able to find the harmony they were looking for, carried to the eternal lands of their loved ones by the sheer heart of this music gifting them peace.
Totally agree!
This film, originally titled “Pink Floyd,” is in, along with “Five Easy Pieces,” “Annie Hall,” “ALIEN,” and “Homicide” my ALL-TIME Top 5 movies of all time!
The real Pink Floyd🤘
The glorious thing about this movie is how much it shows *how* the music is made. Everything is out there. Four young men, at the height of their creativity, working seamlessly together. It looks like crazy stuff, and it seems like it really shouldn't work, but they have such talent, they make it work.
When David gives the vocalization is one of my favorite parts of the filmed performance. It's like the angles singing.
Angels. 😊
@lisasmithline1386 Whoops, yes! LOL! 🤣
For me...this song...this performance...this time...is as cool as anything Floyd ever did. I love this performance so much that I can say without hesitation...that it changed my life.
They seem pretty damn iconic here.. in style and music! They really made something special here.
Floyd is the best soul therapy possible, the taste and choice of combing their ideas is fkg genious ❤
We were blessed in the seventies for sure...........
And this is how you put out psychedelic music with JUST the instruments at hand and a few primitive boxes with dials. No studio tricks to create the magic!
all in their 20s..at Pompeii...how did they even think of this, write this. amazing
Another classic from this concert is Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun it is another stunner for sure
Jeez... All I can think of is the impact on me and kids my age when we heard this. I first saw this movie (Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii) around spring of 1974 at the age of 13. So yeah, I'm 63 and can tell you exactly when I first heard this. That level of impact! Floyd was exploring music within the "rock" genre from a unique sonic perspective. Kids who grow into musicians will naturally use stuff they heard. Hence the sense of legacy.
As simplistic as rock actually is, yet varied as a genre can be, Pink Floyd are unique.
PS.:
Definitely do 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun' from the same movie.
AND ..."Careful with that axe Eugene"
Floyd was not yet popular in the mainstream during this time ('68 Saucerful Full of Secrets ), but they ruled what was referred to as the "underground" in London. These are the guys people like The Beatles and Stones and other mainstream icons of the era were going to see when they got a little time on their hands. As you noted, this wasn't just about playing the instruments, it was about getting sounds out of the instruments that no one had really attempted before. Experimentation that would ultimately give way to the next evolution of rock.
They were not the only pioneers, but they hold a prominent spot in the group photo for sure.
The first Floyd I ever heard was Interstellar Overdrive in 1967 - a year the Stones and Beatles gave us Ruby Tuesday and Penny Lane.
@@petermachare5711 Pink Floyd was playing underground shows since 1966 with jams of extended instrumentals (Interstellar Overdrive was an experimental instrumental of even 30 minutes time). People like Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Pete Thownsend, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page were part of their casual audience.
I saw them do this piece @ the Carousel ballroom in SF 1968. In quadraphonic sound! It was incredible!
As an Oldie (but goodie) I want to know HOW it feels to be seeing The Live at Pompeii Concert for the first time? I saw it first in a cinema in London, on a BIG screen. Unforgettable.
the studio version has a choir doing the vocal part at the end,but i think david's solo voice is even more moving. richard's organ playing brings tears to my eyes,it is so beautiful. the chord changes make me sad and happy at the same time. it's amazing how music like this can touch your soul. i feel very fortunate that pink floyd's music has been a part of nearly all of my life.
Lee, this is the title track to PF's second album, and was from when founding member Syd Barrett was still technically in the band (he didn't play on this song.) When Syd was asked to leave, the rest of the band were nervous about how they could possibly continue without their main songwriter. So when they next went into the studio this is what they came up with. In some ways this is PF's '2112', a statement of artistic independence that could only have come from this band at that moment. No matter what we all think about this, the band consider it one of the most important turning points in their history, and more than one have called it their favorite piece of Pink Floyd music. It was a live staple during their experimental early period, which is a huge rabbit hole if you're interested.
Edit: "Tomorrow Never Knows" was from 1966. "Time of the Season" by The Zombies was from '68. PF somehow went from critical and commercial darlings in 1967 to a cult phenomenon in 1968 that steadily built a following (the French LOVED them for some odd reason 😆) around this sort of experimental, space-psych rock, until their songwriting muscles had developed enough that by the early 70's they were able to write successful, commercial music again.
Your 100% right Lee, I've heard and seen every decade of music since the 1960's and honestly the number of "Great" Prog, Rock & Fusion bands and incredible musicians & musicianship with Never be matched from the 60s & 70s !!!! 🎼🎵
Only a few bands like Rush, Dream Theater have kept that level going in later years !! 👍
There will never be another Era as great as the bands from the 1960s -70s 🎶
What a special and unique time ... of creative overabundance. I wish I was there to see it myself. But alas, I'm stuck in this cyber dystopia.
@@L33Reacts It truly was Lee, I'm glad your enjoying your journey of these great Bands and Musicians and don't worry there are plenty of old "Kats" like myself and others to help you with info if needed Man. 👍🎶🎼✌
Nick Mason and Richard Wright are Pink Floyd's secret sauce: Yes, David Gilmour and Roger Waters probably are the peaks, but those peaks could not stand without the Mason/Wright foundations. I think Mason and Wright have peak moments also ("Time," for example, or "Any Colour You Like") while David and Roger sit on the foundations, but they really are the glue imho. Thank you for appreciating their composition and arrangement!
I have to get this movie. It is so cool watching them perform the songs. Adds so much to the experience that I have grown to love over the last 50 years
I have it on a VHS tape but the new remaster looks much better.
I definitely want to get it as well. I've loved it so far! The very artful direction of the video is awesome too.
@@kbrewski1 I saw them live at Wembley in 1974 and only recently got the CD of that. I'm thinking I might get this DVD now that I've seen this and Echoes.
It's great that you're doing this song that's often overlooked and BIG THANKS. I think it contains the roots of later PF work. The fantastic set The Control From The Heart Of The Sun also comes from the same concert and the 2nd album. Astromony Domine from the 1st album (by Syd Barrett) and Atom Mother Heart (a whole album page; I found my access via the live broadcast from KQED in 1979 without any orchestral arrangement) are other such gems. It's amazing how many different musical projects PF realized within the early years; unimaginable in today's music world.
The BEST version of Astronomy Domine I think ❤️
I’ve seen people totally TRIP OUT to this and other early Floyd …. Good trip/bad trip is subjective but it’s always worth having a non-tripping “guide” for just such occasions! 😉
The second half of this song is called Celestial Voices.
Beautiful stuff. ✌️
My first PF album
This song is born of the ashes of former live Pink Floyd performances of "The Massed Gadgets of Auxmines" and "Celestial Voices". It all came together to make this one amazing piece of music.
Well, wait until you get to Careful With That Axe, Eugene.😀
Early psychedelic Floyd is not as popular but super interesting especially when you can watch them live. All the early experimentation is what made them the masters of their craft and allowed them to go on to create such masterpieces.
I love this song; it would be great at a funeral.
Check out Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. There's a live version as part of this film, the studio version is good too. Nick is on fire on that one.
lest played. most loved. visual and sound. thank you.
I can safely say you get it man. I had an awesome trip listening to the studio album back in the day. Great reaction mate. Keep having fun. Set the Controls. Oh yes.
This song brings me to tears every time I hear it, whether it is the studio or live versions. It's just so beautiful.
I fell in love with this band in 1973, when my older brother brought home the album 'Dark Side of the Moon'! I was 13 and it was like nothing I had ever heard!
a good follow up from the same album: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. It might be the last song with Syd Barrett
Been waiting SO long for your reaction videos for the rest of this concert!!Bad ass band!!!
A lot of youtube reactors can't handle the chaos of the first half of this piece----they even have the audacity to simply cut it out and just react to the prettier second half, not understanding that the initial cacophony is what lends the second half all its power.
L33! You definitely have to do “Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun” Pompeii version! Nick Mason goes ballistic!
Great reaction! Glad you are digging this Pompeii concert
The song itself is made up of 4 parts
I - Something Else
II - Syncopated Pandemonium
III - Storm Signal
IV - Celestial Voices
Plenty more great stuff from this concert as well. Looking forward to your reactions .
Thanks again, good to be reminded of the older Pink Floyd when Richard Wright played the piano with his elbows. Here's another one from Pompei
Pink Floyd - Mademoiselle Nobs - Live Pompei, it's PF at their most experimental.
I was in awe just like you the first time I saw this
Beautiful.
When bands had long hair was greatest musical time-late 60's early 70's
Long hair is the way to go! Connects you to the spirit world. According to the native Americans, at least.
One word: Dogs.
Dogs of war is a better track ;) x
@@richardbeaton7324 No, its not. LOL!
Hi Lee. Pete V here. Glad you enjoyed it. I was going to suggest something from Ummagumma. That was even more out there than this track. They had to include a live album with it as by itself it was very weird. It was a double album. Vinyl that is.
(I shouldn't be saying this but...) In a flat in '68 we experienced our first acid trip. We had decided beforehand that we would play 'A saucerful of secrets' (the studio album version) and I can tell you it is the perfect 'vehicle' in which to take you on your 'trip', as it were!
Mason's entry at 8:18 might be the meaning of life
Nick's performance in Live at Pompeii is remarkable. He was at his peak during this time imo. You should check out Echoes and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun if you haven't yet to see what im talking about. Actually, you should watch the entire film, Nick is actually the center of attention in most tracks. Also, there are some pretty interesting interviews in there, and they appear working on some songs for their legendary album The Dark Side of the Moon.
I highly recommend you check out their first album. Syd Barrett is on it, so it's quite different from the Pink Floyd that we all know and love, but then again so is this album : )
This is a song about war.
The first part is the tensions rising before the actual war. The second (crazy) part is the battle. Third part is the aftermath. Gilmour's vocals at the end is the mourning of the dead.
Brilliant.
super cool j'adore👍👍❤
Try Careful With that Axe Eugene from the same concert!!! Another very unusual song with a surprise that will have you jump out of your chair!!
Yeah, Roger reveals his scary side!
Well, I think it's time I dug this movie out and watched it again. Been too long.
Man, the first time I watched it and realized their audience was the Spirits of the dead at Pompeii I got hard goosebumps.
Yes, they are young here. I'd say the very same age as brother Lee. I was in a state of shock the first time I saw David Gilmour as an old man with short hair.
"And then you find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun."
Sort of like a circle of fifths. You don't quite know where tonic is, and then eventually it lands. Another beautiful thing about Pink Floyd that it is so open and gives her mind a chance to rest from the crazy bombardment of thoughts. And yet it is also very interesting musically.
If you get this Blu-ray or DVD from this concert you also get an interview from Adrian Maben the director and the guy who came up with the idea for this concert in an empty ancient theater. He put the idea in front of the Floyd guys of the antithesis of Woodstock and having the concert in an empty stadium representing absence. I usually don't get into interviews that much but the one with Mr Maben is really interesting!
It also shows the Floyd guys in the studio working on Dark Side of the Moon before it was an album!!
hey....i am old and love em...you are young and love em too.....hopfully floyd will be carried on long after we are gone....cheers
The studio version of this sounds much more intimate, with backing vocals and instruments properly mixed, but it works as a live, intense noise, thrash-fest as well.
People tend to forget that Pink Floyd as a prog band, they have a pretty dark sound, some of their songs paved the way for too many experimental metal bands that came decades after them
I like your style so much, Lee! Casual and cool, listening to the whole thing while commenting and then an opinion at the end. It's like listening to music with a friend, a favourite thing I don't do much these days.
Glad you enjoy my friend! I like the format too. Pausing the song and then talking for 2 mins and then starting again is a crime against art. It had to stop. And now, here we are. 😆
Fantastic reaction Lee.
Nailed it😊
Ronnie
SCOTLAND 😊
The Gnome must have been on the UK version of the album. Don't know if it's on a US album. That's the song I would like to hear!
The song was in the second album of Pink Floyd 1968
Avant Garde is probably your best description for the first part of this piece... It's such a great way to understand their development... they are much more than Dark Side Of The Moon and after... As all the Flotdians amongst us know.... Keep on Rocking.
Was looking up one of my all time favourite recordings to listen to and saw this pop up, so had to give it a go. Glad I did! I'm mainly a vocalist, but have also performed publicly as a bassist and rhythm guitarist. Wind, Brass, and Percussion have always been difficult for me; I don't claim to be able to play any of that. I'm way too clumsy. However, gimme a couple of hits and 7 toms and I can play a while and most people like it. Beyond that, I'm lost. Snare? ... Maybe. Cymbal? ... I think I hit one once. Hi-hat? ... Wot's dat? But some of my best friends and band-mates in my life have been drummers.
id like to see the sheet music for this . !!
You may not have realised that Floyd started out as an avant garde experimental band
Nick is the only member of Pink Floyd keeping this early pre Dark Side of the Moon era material alive! His band Saucerful of Secrets were excellent covering this often overlooked material…
You need to check out Snarky Puppy the song is Lingus.
This will prove that there’s bands still making amazing music.
White Rabbit was considered trippy in the day due to lyrics!
Great Song on Meddle is "One of these days" Really shocker for Pink Floyd. Comes out of the gate hard, and does not stop.
Just one statement is read in the middle of the tune which says: " One of these Days, I'm going to Dash you into little pieces. (or maybe bash)
Really great tune, but a short one.
Cut
"ONE OF THESE DAYS, I'M GOING TO TEAR YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES!!"
Pure metal. Might possibly be the embryonic origin of Heavy Metal music.
Although technically, it was Jimi Hendrix's music that inspired the term Heavy Metal. A reporter once described his music as sounding like "heavy metal falling from the sky."
You should do the 4 sides of Ummagumma, which has this song along with Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun and "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict” Listening to that entire album, in order, was something we used to love to do while “under the influence” of …. whatever
If you want a whole other side of Pink Floyd, Obscured by Clouds, which is my favorite Pink Floyd album just for that reason….
You have got to check out Soft Machine: an amazing band that Pink Floyd played shows with, members of Soft Machine were on Syd Barrett's solo album, they were in the same sort of psychedelic scene. Soft Machine quickly turned from "Canterbury" psychedelic to psychedelic crazy jazz fusion type music.
I highly highly suggest listening to the track "Out-Bloody-Rageous" from the album "Third"
You gotta do Sorrow live at pulse , And One of these days live at pulse. Careful with that axe live at pompeii is good too ;)
Try some Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd....Arnold Layne, Bike, See Emily Play, The Gnome. Its good stuff and Barrett has some later wild albums. Gilmour played on and produced them after Syd left Floyd, with help from guys in Soft Machine.
👍👍👍👍👍
Underground music. That is what Floyd was in the 60s. Then it became a bigger band and more mainstream. But its roots are underground.
I just subscribed, I love your own intro music. I have been a fan of tool from the age of 16 for almost 30 years now. I first got into Pink Floyd through my Dad when I was 12. I can tell that you actually appreciate and enjoy music. Have you herd of King Crimson? If not check Epitaph (live 1969) Or just look up Mantra (live Filmore West Dec69). King Crimson is my favourite Prog rock band. In my opinion the creators of progressive rock. There most commercial song I guess would be In The Court of The Crimson King. If you wish.
Or another commercial song would be 21st century schizoid man.
If you want to see Nick at his best watch “One of These Days” from Live at Pompeii.
A musician therapy just flushes it all out, Not hit parade material but fun to watch and hear now and again, The record labels will not take or promote creative stuff anymore, I am sure people do not change that much it's just the opportunities change, PF had a couple years where they were pretty much carried by the label and came good, If you have high interest in PF, as you seem to, the film is a good window in them, Who were PF?
Tomorrow Never Knows was even earlier 1966
please try the band "SOFT MACHINE" from the same time (68-70) the other band who revolution the music
1. This wasn't the best version of Saucerful you could have picked. Already they were rushing through the "space" and "pandemonium" sections in such a way as to suggest they'd gotten bored with it. Its last performances (infrequent) were on the first Dark Side Of The Moon tour, and were paced similarly to this one. -
2. The title might suggest flying saucers. Roger retconned it as a soundscape about a war and its aftermath. I'm sure it's really just a structured version of the sort of improvs they used to play at events like Games For May and on the John Latham Session. (We need to remember that in those days the proper atonal improvisation of Derek Bailey, John Stevens et al was more "available" and well-known to musicians).
Anyway it's one of the three defining tracks of Floyd's truly progressive era - along with Interstellar Overdrive and (depending on who you ask) either Sisyphus or the mark-2 version of Set The Controls...
The best, most intense, versions of Saucerful come from 1969-1970 - the 14-20 minute ones where they'd really get absorbed in those first two sections.
Sometimes you just have to try stuff out. I think that this was one of those times.
ARRRGGHHHH ARRRGGHHHHHHH ARRRGGGHHHH HA ! so that's where they got the idea for Great gig in the sky.
What do you *call* the first half of this performance ?
Well, if it were a Grateful Dead tape from this era, the title on the cassette would be "Space Jam."
Since you dig this, someday perhaps your ears will trip over ~~~Sun Ra and his Arkestra~~~.
("Nuclear War" is a hoot....)
A bit of a different one from the Floyd. Lots of percussion and effects but no lyrics. Not one of my favorites from the movie though. Truly, I would have suggested SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN myself, but that's just me.
dude i've yet to hear people react to Syd Barretts' two solo albums ''Syd Barrett'' and ''The Madcap Laughs'' do it do it do it pls.
Next song one of these days same concert Nick breaks drum stick and never misses a beat
If you’re looking for a modern band that’s actually got something to say and plays complicated music I recommend King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. IYKYK and if not then I’m happy to suggest a few albums.
I'm 69 and have been a big Pink Floyd fan since the early 70s, but even I think early experimental Pink Floyd sucked ass and was often hard to listen to until they found their footing and sound beginning with "Meddle", which they later cannibalized many parts of to incorporate into their masterpiece "Dark Side of the Moon" two years later.
It's just God disguised as Nick Mason
Dogs
It's coming soon!
Dude, I think you're ready to listen to The Dark Side of the Moon. I don't know if you dare to do a review of the whole album at once (there are some here on YT). This trip is best in one take...
This was very early Floyd, their second album, around the time they kicked Barrett out of the band. It is the most poorly received of all their albums, not charting until 2019. Kind of a mixed bag, even among the members of the band. Mason said it was his favorite. Waters thought is was complete shit. I see it as an essential steppingstone for the band to become the mega band they became. Floyd continued their experimentation with the next couple of albums, Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother before everything exploded.
You are correct, the music of today is superficial. I don't see any creativity. Not like this. I was blessed to have seen Pink Floyd 4x.
Why live ? Studio only if you want a like
Because someone requested it.
@@L33Reacts can't go wrong with live at Pompeii, or pulse. Both exceptional live statements from different eras of Floyd.
Get a life!
Drug trip