Pink Floyd at Pompeii has been described as ‘Gods playing to the Gods’. It is a masterpiece. They were also playing to their legions of fans all around the world, most of whom only got to see them through this film. The film played at midnight in movie theaters all across America, all through the 70s and 80s. Long before UA-cam it was how generations of fans were introduced to them live. Many would go every weekend seeing it dozens and dozens of times, forming small communities of like-minded folks who couldn't get enough of this amazing new avant-garde sound. You're seeing now why they are considered so influential in the evolution of rock and popular music in general. Great reaction. Love what you said about them making you think about things that their unique brand of music seems to draw out of you. That is their superpower. Creating an altered and higher state that doesn't necessarily require drugs to get you there. Sophisticated, complex, big boy music and lyrics representing a significant next step in the evolution of both the band and rock and roll in general. Might want to check out “Shine On You Crazy Diamond 1-5” next, studio version first. 👍 “Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet, And I am you and what I see is me" - Echoes
You left out taking acid and mushrooms to these shows. I was there in the 80s with Rocky Horror and Pompeii. I use to sneak out the house and go when I was 13. We had a fukin blast!!!!!!
@@Christopher50now oh I didn't leave it out, I just never partook. But hats off to those who did and survived those times. Learned my lesson from Syd and others and stayed away from the stuff.
Wow thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. This was my favorite one so far... song wise. It's just so good. EVERY pf song so far has been amazing but this one really spoke to my heart and my ancestors inside me. Strange, but true. I will be busy listening to this over and over.
I noticed recently that there's also an earlier live tape of the song - they played it live in Montreux in September '71 - NOT at the Jazz festival (where they had played the year before) but at a festival for modern classical and electronic music, just *before* the Meddle album came out. So that was a show with a different kind of audience than they would normally have at their concerts - but it went over beautifully, they got a standing ovation for Echoes! 😊 Very interesting tape here of the entire show here (nearly two hours, I think it's from a live radio broadcast). Echoes is the opener: ua-cam.com/video/Ft9xfHVeTaM/v-deo.html
If you like Nick’s drumming on this, you NEED to watch One Of These Days from the same performance. Even dropping a stick, grabbing another and not missing a single beat.❤
The master of slow rolls The same exact thing happened to Ian Paice in the best version from Child in Time :D he grabbed the stick he dropped immediately and literally didnt even skip a beat, obviously Baker did as well, even when breaking sticks 😅 🤘👹❤
@@franzjosephamrein2663Beastie Boys "Gratitude" official video is an homage to Pink Floyd Pompeii, they even have "Pink Floyd London" stenciled onto their speakers.
A lot of love for this song lately. ❤ I swear, this song is magic. It never feels like 23 minutes to me anymore, it's secretly a 3 1/2 min song that warps time and space
Yes, this song really merges bluesy exploration with a deliberate effort to build a clear sonic structure on a large scale...The theme of absence and reaching out for loved ones who may or may not be there, it has that in common with "Shine On" four years later, and I figure this 1971 epic was also a necessary preparation for that other masterpiece.
It is pure magic indeed. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I'm glad I did both parts at once. It's just beautiful. And the direction of the video is superb as well. This was amazing 😊
BACK IN THE DAY: This was a Movie you could catch at the Local Mid-night Film Theater. And they played it LOUD...! Couple of Fatties, sitting in Total Darkness at Midnight listening to FLOYD... ! Those days are gone forever... Best Descriptors for Pink Floyd Music: Psychedelic or Stoner or Acid Rock
This was one of my fave albums from the 70’s. I drove my parents mad by constantly playing it. They were not impressed at all…. ‘That’s not music, switch it off!!!” Thanks for your reaction and making this old lady happy x
When I first started smoking weed in 1972 my friend and I would put on Meddle and play Echoes and just trip along through the whole thing without saying a word. Intense experience for sure. That was 52 years ago and still sounds just fine!
Richard Wright with his keys contributed a lot to that spacey sound of Pink Floyd in the earlier days which today is sometimes a little bit overlooked. Listen to "Set the controls..." live on Ummagumma - it really feels like flying around in your spaceship between the sparkling stars, so etherial. No other keyboardist sounded like that. He rather was on the classical and jazzy side - maybe the more straight and rocky style of the later years wasn´t quite his anymore.
Pink Floyd's music is timeless. They will never be duplicated. I never get tired of listening to their music. They have been a favorite of mine, since 1980.
This was near the beginning, watch Echoes live at Gdansk, the final performance of Echoes of Gilmour and Wright (RIP), the culmination of decades of musical experience and an amazing goodbye between the two music gods.
I’m 70 and been listening to Floyd since the 60s, I’ve seen them 3 time live and enjoyed every minute, now I pass the baton over to you the younger generation to discover and take in the fantastic music.
I've meditated to Echoes since I was 17, after a TM course. I'm 60s now & I still do😊 MEDDLE is by far my 2nd favorite Floyd Album. It's a Fabulous lp. From start to finish 🥇 Thanks for your appreciation Lee, listen to the full MEDDLE 🎉
It was so cool discovering 'Meddle' when I was 15. I only knew 'Dark Side Of The Moon' by them and had never even heard of 'Meddle' until my sister bought it in 1975, long after it had come out. Back then, long before the internet, you didn't know everything about every band out there like you can now. Most of the kids my age hadn't known about Pink Floyd until 'Dark Side Of The Moon' came out in 73. This song is an entire side of an album! The other side of Meddle has some great stuff too. The album starts off with 'One Of These Days', one of their best, and 'Fearless' is another of their best songs (for my tastes). I can remember learning how to play the verse and main riff of 'Echoes' on the guitar back then, loved playing that on my no-name guitar and cheap Wards amp. This album was a big turning point for them, even though it wasn't a big commercial success. Like someone mentioned, they showed 'Live At Pompeii' at theaters back in the late 70's, I remember seeing it. They used to show rock and roll movies at some theaters later at night. Me and my buddies would go and sneak beers in with us. :) Saw that movie, a Jimi Hendrix documentary (fantastic stuff), The Stones 'GImme Shelter', Zeppelin's ' The Song Remains The Same', a few others.
Pink Floyd is on a level all their own, their compositions are an Experience, like a Play or a movie. And their live performances were head and shoulders above all the other great bands I grew up listening to in the late 60s and 70s. I saw Pink Floyd live twice, one time was "The Wall" world tour in 1980, that Show was the most incredible performance I've ever seen, of any kind, in all my 67 years on this earth! "Echoes" is just one of their masterpieces, Dave Gilmour sings the higher harmony in part 1, while Rick Wright sings lower part,... then they switch in part 2,... Gilmour singing the lower harmony and Wright's singing the higher part.
I believe this is the most insane recording ever, the venue, the band, the funky beat, the guitar solos, the drumming, the bass playing, the keyboards re so good
Echoes is my favourite Pink Floyd track ever from my favourite Floyd album, Meddle. 15 when I heard this when the late great DJ John Peel played the whole thing on his nighttime show. Loved it ever since! Miss discovering all that new 70s music!❤❤
Pink floyd are brilliant live,their artistry is amazing & light shows & visuals are fantastic,ive been a fan since the very early 70s & have seen them live twice. Unforgetable. X
This is so much better than the album version. This is pure 4 piece progressive rock at its best. No lights or big show, which makes Nick so much more obvious. Easy top 5 of all time. A real pin of modern art.
Initially didn't know what to expect from "Drummer Reacts," but have been loving your knowledgeable commentary. Don't worry about age 30 coming round, it's 60, 70, and beyond that are scary. Despite all that's wrong in the world, be happy for living today--life expectancy at birth probably averaged only ten years for most of human history!
A friend of mine owns all of the PA you see in this video, He built it up in his garden couple of years back and members of the Australian pink Floyd performed echoes through, it’s on UA-cam with my friend Chris Hewitt being interviewed
@@L33Reacts Go to Troglodyte Music on UA-cam you can see all the PA and hear various other tracks of pink Floyd played through The PA my friend is Chris Hewitt who owns the PA and tons more vintage equipment which he hires out for films and TV
You have way of diving into a fresh band and starting with what many would say is the pinnacle of their catalog. I have this DVD and think Echoes is right up there. Welcome to Floyd, Lee. Hope you can get those teeth checked out and solved soon. Tooth/mouth pain is no joke. Don’t put it off man. And because I hung on till the end, I say you will not just become an echo, you will shine on you crazy diamond!
So happy seeing this pop up! That riff was definitely pinched by Sir Andrew Loyd Webber for the Phantom of the Opera 😂 Just quintessential Pink Floyd, not many lyrics but says everything it needs to say perfectly and musically just WOW!
Superb, all round. One of the best live performances, & what a venue. Cheers for this much needed reaction, It will still grab you years from now, it does me at 73, fuck I am 73 (on Jan 1st). I was in my 20's first time watching this.
This, for me, is Pink Floyds finest moment and yes, since everyone else says it I have to also. I have been listening to this / watching the DVD since the start of the 80s. And never got bored of it! But why never released as a CD? The reacts are always fun and insightful from L33, he is rapidly becoming my fave reviewer!
When I was young back in the 70s before I got married and had a family, some friends and I used to have a smoke and listen to this in a room with the lights out and we were transported to another world through this incredible music. Those were the days man ✌️🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸
I consider Echoes one of the best songs ever recorded - absolutely fantastic! Pink Floyd often went to France - not only to play, but also to relax. Before they became really famous, they had quite a big fan base there. They were also approached by the French director Adrian Maben. He was in Pompeii on vacation, and when he came back from a tour, he found he had left his wallet behind. He went back there, and when he saw the atmosphere of the empty amphitheatre, he thought it would be great to make a film about Pink Floyd there. They were very lucky that the mayor of the town was a Pink Floyd fan and allowed it. The only two artists who played to live audiences were David Gilmour in 2016 (2 concerts - you can watch them here on UA-cam and they are stunning!) and King Crimson in 2018. While both Pink Floyd and Frank Sinatra played for recording purposes, there was no audience present.
This is great stuff. I managed to see David Gilmour playing in his very amphitheatre back in 2016, 45 years after this was recorded with Pink Floyd. Truly a lifetime experience!
I first saw this performance, the entire one in fact, over 30 years ago when I happened to see it on laserdisc and decided to buy it and give it a watch. I was a Floyd fan by then but wasn't as familiar with their earlier, pre-Dark Side work, and had never heard of this performance. It blew me away and to this day I'm still not sure how to react to it other than damn, this is about as good as it gets in the rock genre. I thought that then and still think so now. Even the Beatles, still my favorite if just barely over Floyd, Zeppelin, Hendrix and the Allman Brothers, couldn't top this.
@@L33Reacts Forgot how great this was. Like how you picked up on it being echoes of the past. Btw if you do Quadrant 4 (Cobham) look for the original that had a few seconds of them making a joke /laughing at the start. Scan the audio file so you don't wind up listening. Really good commentary liked it.
1972, I was 12, my brother got me that album for my birthday 😊 I LEGGED IT into the lounge, whipped it out and put it on..the next minute my mum comes flying into the room.."what the fks THAT....GET IT OFF NOW...😂😂😂😂 (she was into Sinatra.. enough said) 🤣🤣🤣
They cared so much about every detail of their music. They seduce you into every moment & take you with them through such a captivating performance. They gain your trust and then lift off on an intense journey and then…so smoothly back to baseline. I love to see people really enjoying Pink Floyd. Seeing your smile grow and your eyes light up was so wholesome! ❤
I personally believe that Meddle is Pink Floyd's most intimate album. Such an incredibly emotional selection of songs. I remember my friend getting the album, and encouraging me to listen to it, but I had no interest. Then one day...BOOM! I dove into this incredible journey of the mind, heart, soul, and psyche. Ever since, this has been my favorite PF album. Haven't seen Pompeii in a while. Thank you for taking Curabell's request!! And congrats on the 10K subs!!! Breathe in what life is sending you...
"for the spirits who inhabit Pompeii"... nicely said! monster performance and film... proof that you don't need a shirt to play guitar. could you imagine Hackett or Fripp out there, nips exposed to the fresh air. amazing piece of work, as usual thanks for the excuse to revisit, and it adds a lot to see an open-minded and open-eared soul discovering it. btw, the YT channel/dude Polyphonic did a really nice short film on this song. worth checking out.
Roger Water said this song first half is about humanity lack of empathy towards each other ( Violence) . The second half is the future were humanity has found empathy for one other. Checkout David Gilmour return to Pompeii 2016. Has last concert at 70 yrs. old .He is the only person to play twice inside the Amphitheathrer. " In any tongue" **************
Great reaction. Glad you enjoyed it. I've seen it so many times, but never get tired of it. 30 is very young! Wait 'till you hit your 60's (which won't be for a long time).
Yeah I'm still young but I feel like I've lived many lifetimes already just in my 30 years. But I hope to show this to my grandkids one day 😎 this was amazing. Thank you for watching!!
Absolutely great reaction dude! I enjoyed watching you react to the greatest band ever. This was over 50 years ago! I can watch this over and over again, it is that good.
Went to Italy back in 2008. Went to Pompeii. My husband wanted to go to the Amphitheatre but it was so stinking hot myself and our friends didn't want to go to that spot. Just wanted to get back to the tour bus. Well he has never forgotten that. I have always felt bad that I didn't make the effort! You should check out Sorrow from the Pulse Tour. Looks like they are also at Mt. Vesuvius which is right by there.
I was around your age the first time I saw this film (maybe a little younger.)It was at a local movie theater that played Live at Pompeii as the midnight movie on weekends. It was my first introduction to Pink Floyd and to music like this - experimental, expansive, psychedelic, explorational. And the setting of this ancient amphitheater provided the elements of mysticism and antiquity - it was a transformative experience for many Gen X'ers like myself who went on to discover prog (Gabriel-era Genesis, Yes, King Crimson) and then other experimental, underground musical forms of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. It's great to see your reaction, which was exactly how I experienced it myself. I went back many times to revisit this film. I love seeing the younger generation discovering this stuff.
I am not old enough, but was lucky enough to catch them early in the tour after Momentary Lapse of Reason while they were still opening with it. I am still jealous though.
@@craigkerr2764If it’s any consolation to you, just think that in the 70s when I was going to live concerts, there was no internet, no mobile phones, NO UA-cam!!
It was filmed live and shown in cinema’s as a “feature” movie “Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii” in about 1972. I went to see it with my friend, we were both about 14. It blew us away ! Years before music video’s were even thought of…. I’m 65 now, and “Meddle” remains one of my favourite albums…. I also own this movie on DVD
Nick Mason ad un certo punto dell'assolo iniziale perde una bacchetta ma è così veloce a prenderne un'altra che neanche ce ne accorgiamo Non ci credevo finché non ho visto quel frammento in un video al rallentatore. Grande Nick The Best Mason 🥁😍
I lived opposite the floyd rcording studios, we used to see them and lots of musicians regularly, in London you just let it happen you don't approach anyone, thats one of the reasons famous people like living here. used to see the live at pompei film at local cinema after pubs closed so around 11.30 - midnight usually an all night film session, they were great fun as you could smoke and drink in cinema then, we would have our bottles of wine with us.
Remember staying quiet for a long hour after listening to Echoes studio version. I would describe it as to musically reborn and die, as you get a reset on what you call music, and instantly know there won't be anything like it, ever. Music faced its limits the day Pink Floyd appeared.
One of the greatest musical events ever by anyone, such a great and out of the box concept from 1972. Those bands you mentioned had similar incredible concerts that conjure up an intensity very few can match. This song is also legendary on the original Meddle album and closed many a Saturday Night party back in the 70s. You can also see the last time it was played in concert when David Gilmour had Richard Wright in his touring band for the On An Island Tour and they did that album plus a large set of Pink Floyd Clasics, including Echoes in Gdansk, Poland in the shipyards where the 1980s freedom movement to raise the Iron Curtain in the Communist Dictatorship started. So the concert was poignant on several levels and they did a 26 minute Echoes that was magnificent. Check it out, enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Pink Floyd at Pompeii has been described as ‘Gods playing to the Gods’. It is a masterpiece. They were also playing to their legions of fans all around the world, most of whom only got to see them through this film. The film played at midnight in movie theaters all across America, all through the 70s and 80s. Long before UA-cam it was how generations of fans were introduced to them live. Many would go every weekend seeing it dozens and dozens of times, forming small communities of like-minded folks who couldn't get enough of this amazing new avant-garde sound. You're seeing now why they are considered so influential in the evolution of rock and popular music in general.
Great reaction. Love what you said about them making you think about things that their unique brand of music seems to draw out of you. That is their superpower. Creating an altered and higher state that doesn't necessarily require drugs to get you there.
Sophisticated, complex, big boy music and lyrics representing a significant next step in the evolution of both the band and rock and roll in general.
Might want to check out “Shine On You Crazy Diamond 1-5” next, studio version first. 👍
“Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet,
And I am you and what I see is me" - Echoes
You left out taking acid and mushrooms to these shows. I was there in the 80s with Rocky Horror and Pompeii. I use to sneak out the house and go when I was 13. We had a fukin blast!!!!!!
...and also SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND PART 6/9 😉
@@Christopher50now oh I didn't leave it out, I just never partook. But hats off to those who did and survived those times. Learned my lesson from Syd and others and stayed away from the stuff.
Wow thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. This was my favorite one so far... song wise. It's just so good. EVERY pf song so far has been amazing but this one really spoke to my heart and my ancestors inside me. Strange, but true. I will be busy listening to this over and over.
I noticed recently that there's also an earlier live tape of the song - they played it live in Montreux in September '71 - NOT at the Jazz festival (where they had played the year before) but at a festival for modern classical and electronic music, just *before* the Meddle album came out. So that was a show with a different kind of audience than they would normally have at their concerts - but it went over beautifully, they got a standing ovation for Echoes! 😊
Very interesting tape here of the entire show here (nearly two hours, I think it's from a live radio broadcast). Echoes is the opener: ua-cam.com/video/Ft9xfHVeTaM/v-deo.html
If you like Nick’s drumming on this, you NEED to watch One Of These Days from the same performance. Even dropping a stick, grabbing another and not missing a single beat.❤
I'll add it to the list! Thank you! Sounds awesome.
There was a band who copy this event But I don't know dhere name It is crazy looks almost similar even the sound I like to keep the original ❤
The master of slow rolls
The same exact thing happened to Ian Paice in the best version from Child in Time :D he grabbed the stick he dropped immediately and literally didnt even skip a beat, obviously Baker did as well, even when breaking sticks 😅
🤘👹❤
@@franzjosephamrein2663Beastie Boys "Gratitude" official video is an homage to Pink Floyd Pompeii, they even have "Pink Floyd London" stenciled onto their speakers.
Love the bass in that track too
Pink Floyd makes me feel high, even if I'm not high
"I know ive been high, I've always been high like the most of us. Very hard to explain why you're high, even if your not high"
David Gilmour and Richard Wright played Echoes together 35 years after.. Amazing!!
Gdansk. Sonically superior and visually stunning.
A lot of love for this song lately. ❤
I swear, this song is magic. It never feels like 23 minutes to me anymore, it's secretly a 3 1/2 min song that warps time and space
Yes, this song really merges bluesy exploration with a deliberate effort to build a clear sonic structure on a large scale...The theme of absence and reaching out for loved ones who may or may not be there, it has that in common with "Shine On" four years later, and I figure this 1971 epic was also a necessary preparation for that other masterpiece.
It is pure magic indeed. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I'm glad I did both parts at once. It's just beautiful. And the direction of the video is superb as well. This was amazing 😊
Most incredible live band I ever saw.
I see why... what a show. The sound is huge. 3 bands worth of creativity and sound in 4 guys here.... amazing work
1975 & 1977 DSOTM & In the Flesh, ANIMALS, The Spectrum Philadelphia, FLOYD & YES FOREVER 😊
Nick Mason casually flipping his right drumstick and not missing a beat at 7:48
So good to hear someone appreciate Nick's drumming, too often he's ignored.
BACK IN THE DAY: This was a Movie you could catch at the Local Mid-night Film Theater. And they played it LOUD...!
Couple of Fatties, sitting in Total Darkness at Midnight listening to FLOYD... ! Those days are gone forever...
Best Descriptors for Pink Floyd Music: Psychedelic or Stoner or Acid Rock
Never in my life have I seen anyone make it through this song without closing their eyes.
This was one of my fave albums from the 70’s. I drove my parents mad by constantly playing it. They were not impressed at all…. ‘That’s not music, switch it off!!!” Thanks for your reaction and making this old lady happy x
When I first started smoking weed in 1972 my friend and I would put on Meddle and play Echoes and just trip along through the whole thing without saying a word. Intense experience for sure. That was 52 years ago and still sounds just fine!
Richard Wright with his keys contributed a lot to that spacey sound of Pink Floyd in the earlier days which today is sometimes a little bit overlooked. Listen to "Set the controls..." live on Ummagumma - it really feels like flying around in your spaceship between the sparkling stars, so etherial. No other keyboardist sounded like that. He rather was on the classical and jazzy side - maybe the more straight and rocky style of the later years wasn´t quite his anymore.
Rick was an absolute genius with his keys & timing as well as his Music plus vocals.💕
Pink Floyd's music is timeless. They will never be duplicated.
I never get tired of listening to their music. They have been a favorite of mine, since 1980.
The photography in this film is really iconic. That has to be one of the greatest long shot slow zooms ever. I've seen it parodied many times.
This was near the beginning, watch Echoes live at Gdansk, the final performance of Echoes of Gilmour and Wright (RIP), the culmination of decades of musical experience and an amazing goodbye between the two music gods.
I’m 70 and been listening to Floyd since the 60s, I’ve seen them 3 time live and enjoyed every minute, now I pass the baton over to you the younger generation to discover and take in the fantastic music.
I saw "Live ar Pompeii" in a theater when I was in high school and it changed my life.
I've meditated to Echoes since I was 17, after a TM course. I'm 60s now & I still do😊 MEDDLE is by far my 2nd favorite Floyd Album. It's a Fabulous lp. From start to finish 🥇 Thanks for your appreciation Lee, listen to the full MEDDLE 🎉
Same here, got me through some very dark times. Very special.
It was so cool discovering 'Meddle' when I was 15. I only knew 'Dark Side Of The Moon' by them and had never even heard of 'Meddle' until my sister bought it in 1975, long after it had come out. Back then, long before the internet, you didn't know everything about every band out there like you can now. Most of the kids my age hadn't known about Pink Floyd until 'Dark Side Of The Moon' came out in 73. This song is an entire side of an album! The other side of Meddle has some great stuff too. The album starts off with 'One Of These Days', one of their best, and 'Fearless' is another of their best songs (for my tastes). I can remember learning how to play the verse and main riff of 'Echoes' on the guitar back then, loved playing that on my no-name guitar and cheap Wards amp. This album was a big turning point for them, even though it wasn't a big commercial success. Like someone mentioned, they showed 'Live At Pompeii' at theaters back in the late 70's, I remember seeing it. They used to show rock and roll movies at some theaters later at night. Me and my buddies would go and sneak beers in with us. :) Saw that movie, a Jimi Hendrix documentary (fantastic stuff), The Stones 'GImme Shelter', Zeppelin's ' The Song Remains The Same', a few others.
The brilliance of that riff is that it manages to be so incredibly heavy, yet the guitar tone is chimey, and almost wholly clean!
Crazy acoustics in that ancient arena.
Seriously... must have been eerie playing there lol
In 1972 a friend hand me the album Meddle and said "you have got to hear this", been a fan every since.
Now that's some funky ass baseline.
Ya, I'm not a big fan of Roger's ability on the bass, but he just kills it in this version.
The beginning of their most creative period in my opinion. Next up Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were here, Animals and The Wall…
I'd include 1972's Obscured By Clouds in that fantastic run, as well.
Pink Floyd is on a level all their own, their compositions are an Experience, like a Play or a movie. And their live performances were head and shoulders above all the other great bands I grew up listening to in the late 60s and 70s.
I saw Pink Floyd live twice, one time was "The Wall" world tour in 1980, that Show was the most incredible performance I've ever seen, of any kind, in all my 67 years on this earth!
"Echoes" is just one of their masterpieces, Dave Gilmour sings the higher harmony in part 1, while Rick Wright sings lower part,... then they switch in part 2,... Gilmour singing the lower harmony and Wright's singing the higher part.
I believe this is the most insane recording ever, the venue, the band, the funky beat, the guitar solos, the drumming, the bass playing, the keyboards re so good
Evolution from primordial slime.
Love it!
Echoes is my favourite Pink Floyd track ever from my favourite Floyd album, Meddle. 15 when I heard this when the late great DJ John Peel played the whole thing on his nighttime show. Loved it ever since! Miss discovering all that new 70s music!❤❤
Absolutely Great, Absolutely Amazing!
New prescriber because ya'll are listing to Pink Floyd
On part 2, LOVE the way Richard Wright held that note while playing that haunting melody underneath .
An audience of souls and spirits - who better to experience Pink Floyd and who better for the band to become one with. I won't go further yet.😊❤
Pink floyd are brilliant live,their artistry is amazing & light shows & visuals are fantastic,ive been a fan since the very early 70s & have seen them live twice. Unforgetable. X
Besides the obvious musical genius, was there ever a more wholesome message of seeing the humanity in the rest of humanity?
This is so much better than the album version. This is pure 4 piece progressive rock at its best. No lights or big show, which makes Nick so much more obvious. Easy top 5 of all time. A real pin of modern art.
Music for grown-ups. Just dosent get any better 🎸🎸🎸 🥁🥁🥁 the very best of British right there.
Initially didn't know what to expect from "Drummer Reacts," but have been loving your knowledgeable commentary. Don't worry about age 30 coming round, it's 60, 70, and beyond that are scary. Despite all that's wrong in the world, be happy for living today--life expectancy at birth probably averaged only ten years for most of human history!
Great reaction……🎸❤️🔥
“52 yrs ago” (Timeless)
A friend of mine owns all of the PA you see in this video, He built it up in his garden couple of years back and members of the Australian pink Floyd performed echoes through, it’s on UA-cam with my friend Chris Hewitt being interviewed
Seriously? That's amazing. That's one of a kind for sure. I'd love to see that lol
@@L33Reacts Go to Troglodyte Music on UA-cam you can see all the PA and hear various other tracks of pink Floyd played through The PA my friend is Chris Hewitt who owns the PA and tons more vintage equipment which he hires out for films and TV
After Richard Wright died David Gilmour never played Echoes again, as he felt they joined souls not just voices on this song.
I am just glad hat Pink Floyd does mean something to somebody way after their prime. Actually they managed to create timeless music.
You have way of diving into a fresh band and starting with what many would say is the pinnacle of their catalog.
I have this DVD and think Echoes is right up there. Welcome to Floyd, Lee.
Hope you can get those teeth checked out and solved soon. Tooth/mouth pain is no joke. Don’t put it off man.
And because I hung on till the end, I say you will not just become an echo, you will shine on you crazy diamond!
So happy seeing this pop up!
That riff was definitely pinched by Sir Andrew Loyd Webber for the Phantom of the Opera 😂
Just quintessential Pink Floyd, not many lyrics but says everything it needs to say perfectly and musically just WOW!
ALW pinched so much stuff it is hard to keep track of all the artists he has ripped off
think that's why Roger commented in Amused To Death , '' Lloyd Webbers awful stuff runs for years and years and years ....''
@@craigkerr2764Queen was another band he took from. “White Queen” during the instrumental section.
Do you think the riff in this, could've come from Procol Harum's song Conquistador from 67?
Hope you enjoyed my friend. This was fantastic!
Nice reaction to this masterpiece. Thanks.
I grew up with music,cant beat the brilliance,along qirh other great bands.cant beat it.
Superb, all round. One of the best live performances, & what a venue. Cheers for this much needed reaction, It will still grab you years from now, it does me at 73, fuck I am 73 (on Jan 1st). I was in my 20's first time watching this.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I definitely did as well. What an iconic and beautiful performance. These guys are legendary
This, for me, is Pink Floyds finest moment and yes, since everyone else says it I have to also. I have been listening to this / watching the DVD since the start of the 80s. And never got bored of it!
But why never released as a CD?
The reacts are always fun and insightful from L33, he is rapidly becoming my fave reviewer!
When I was young back in the 70s before I got married and had a family, some friends and I used to have a smoke and listen to this in a room with the lights out and we were transported to another world through this incredible music. Those were the days man ✌️🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸
I remember when this movie came out. It played at certain theaters on Long Island back in '73. It was like a cult movie at the time. Great days!
I consider Echoes one of the best songs ever recorded - absolutely fantastic!
Pink Floyd often went to France - not only to play, but also to relax. Before they became really famous, they had quite a big fan base there. They were also approached by the French director Adrian Maben. He was in Pompeii on vacation, and when he came back from a tour, he found he had left his wallet behind. He went back there, and when he saw the atmosphere of the empty amphitheatre, he thought it would be great to make a film about Pink Floyd there. They were very lucky that the mayor of the town was a Pink Floyd fan and allowed it. The only two artists who played to live audiences were David Gilmour in 2016 (2 concerts - you can watch them here on UA-cam and they are stunning!) and King Crimson in 2018. While both Pink Floyd and Frank Sinatra played for recording purposes, there was no audience present.
This is great stuff. I managed to see David Gilmour playing in his very amphitheatre back in 2016, 45 years after this was recorded with Pink Floyd. Truly a lifetime experience!
The real Pink Floyd🤘
Saw you were a drummer when you reacted to Comfortably numb and thought you would appreciate Nick's drumming. Thanks for your reaction.
Don't forget to WATCH "SORROW " from the Pulse Concert! Fantastic video!
I first saw this performance, the entire one in fact, over 30 years ago when I happened to see it on laserdisc and decided to buy it and give it a watch. I was a Floyd fan by then but wasn't as familiar with their earlier, pre-Dark Side work, and had never heard of this performance.
It blew me away and to this day I'm still not sure how to react to it other than damn, this is about as good as it gets in the rock genre. I thought that then and still think so now. Even the Beatles, still my favorite if just barely over Floyd, Zeppelin, Hendrix and the Allman Brothers, couldn't top this.
Now you're talkin' :)
Ayeeee 😊
@@L33Reacts Forgot how great this was. Like how you picked up on it being echoes of the past. Btw if you do Quadrant 4 (Cobham) look for the original that had a few seconds of them making a joke /laughing at the start. Scan the audio file so you don't wind up listening. Really good commentary liked it.
Every Floyd song is a trip….where to is up to you.
1972, I was 12, my brother got me that album for my birthday 😊 I LEGGED IT into the lounge, whipped it out and put it on..the next minute my mum comes flying into the room.."what the fks THAT....GET IT OFF NOW...😂😂😂😂 (she was into Sinatra.. enough said) 🤣🤣🤣
the dead souls must have loved this out of this world live show.. epic music
Ive been listening to this for 40 years and the sound still gets me. Stunning and warm.
Great reaction
They cared so much about every detail of their music. They seduce you into every moment & take you with them through such a captivating performance. They gain your trust and then lift off on an intense journey and then…so smoothly back to baseline. I love to see people really enjoying Pink Floyd. Seeing your smile grow and your eyes light up was so wholesome! ❤
Us & Them is another amazing song of theirs.
Classic!🔈🔉🔊😎
I personally believe that Meddle is Pink Floyd's most intimate album. Such an incredibly emotional selection of songs. I remember my friend getting the album, and encouraging me to listen to it, but I had no interest. Then one day...BOOM! I dove into this incredible journey of the mind, heart, soul, and psyche. Ever since, this has been my favorite PF album. Haven't seen Pompeii in a while. Thank you for taking Curabell's request!! And congrats on the 10K subs!!! Breathe in what life is sending you...
Another awesome reaction . So soothing for the spirit and mind. Everything Pink Floyd just magnificent.
"for the spirits who inhabit Pompeii"... nicely said! monster performance and film... proof that you don't need a shirt to play guitar. could you imagine Hackett or Fripp out there, nips exposed to the fresh air. amazing piece of work, as usual thanks for the excuse to revisit, and it adds a lot to see an open-minded and open-eared soul discovering it. btw, the YT channel/dude Polyphonic did a really nice short film on this song. worth checking out.
you need to watch 'Set the controls for the heart of the sun' and 'One of these days' from pompeii... pure genius by Nick
I could listen to Richard and David harmonize all day long.
Roger Water said this song first half is about humanity lack of empathy towards each other ( Violence) . The second half is the future were humanity has found empathy for one other. Checkout David Gilmour return to Pompeii 2016. Has last concert at 70 yrs. old .He is the only person to play twice inside the Amphitheathrer. " In any tongue" **************
Great reaction. Glad you enjoyed it. I've seen it so many times, but never get tired of it. 30 is very young! Wait 'till you hit your 60's (which won't be for a long time).
Yeah I'm still young but I feel like I've lived many lifetimes already just in my 30 years. But I hope to show this to my grandkids one day 😎 this was amazing. Thank you for watching!!
Absolutely great reaction dude! I enjoyed watching you react to the greatest band ever. This was over 50 years ago! I can watch this over and over again, it is that good.
Went to Italy back in 2008. Went to Pompeii. My husband wanted to go to the Amphitheatre but it was so stinking hot myself and our friends didn't want to go to that spot. Just wanted to get back to the tour bus. Well he has never forgotten that. I have always felt bad that I didn't make the effort! You should check out Sorrow from the Pulse Tour. Looks like they are also at Mt. Vesuvius which is right by there.
Rocks best groove ever
This was a concert film a. Talking Heads... also did one *STOP MAKING SENSE.* You should also check that out.
Poor old Nick must have some good weed fxxxxxx brilliant,simply the best
long live the Floyd!
Whole album is amazing💯
This film blew my little teenage mind when I saw it for the first time in the 80's. Still does actually.
I saw this film decades ago in a movie theater. I remember sitting in my car for a while afterwards. Buzzed.
Back in the 70s there were no videos. I saw him in the cinema.
Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun! Drums! Good. 👍
You got that right!
You got that right!
Yes.
😁😁😁😁👍
Just think this isn't any studio mumbo jumbo this is all raw and natural
saw this in 82 on VHS, wow what a wonderful experience
I was around your age the first time I saw this film (maybe a little younger.)It was at a local movie theater that played Live at Pompeii as the midnight movie on weekends. It was my first introduction to Pink Floyd and to music like this - experimental, expansive, psychedelic, explorational. And the setting of this ancient amphitheater provided the elements of mysticism and antiquity - it was a transformative experience for many Gen X'ers like myself who went on to discover prog (Gabriel-era Genesis, Yes, King Crimson) and then other experimental, underground musical forms of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. It's great to see your reaction, which was exactly how I experienced it myself. I went back many times to revisit this film. I love seeing the younger generation discovering this stuff.
Echoes is a PF favourite, saw them play it live in the 70s
I am not old enough, but was lucky enough to catch them early in the tour after Momentary Lapse of Reason while they were still opening with it. I am still jealous though.
@@craigkerr2764If it’s any consolation to you, just think that in the 70s when I was going to live concerts, there was no internet, no mobile phones, NO UA-cam!!
It was filmed live and shown in cinema’s as a “feature” movie “Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii” in about 1972.
I went to see it with my friend, we were both about 14. It blew us away ! Years before music video’s were even thought of….
I’m 65 now, and “Meddle” remains one of my favourite albums…. I also own this movie on DVD
Glad the channel is growing so well! Floyd has a way of reaching the soul. Thanks for another heartfelt reaction 🎸
this and suppers ready
Nick Mason ad un certo punto dell'assolo iniziale perde una bacchetta ma è così veloce a prenderne un'altra che neanche ce ne accorgiamo
Non ci credevo finché non ho visto quel frammento in un video al rallentatore.
Grande Nick The Best Mason 🥁😍
🤗 It's cold in NYC too! Staying warm with some ☕ hot chocolate & this PF reaction from you. 🤔 20 minutes .... 🤗 I could do my nails too! 🥰🐰
Zeppelin and Floyd my top 2 fav bands forever!!
I lived opposite the floyd rcording studios, we used to see them and lots of musicians regularly, in London you just let it happen you don't approach anyone, thats one of the reasons famous people like living here. used to see the live at pompei film at local cinema after pubs closed so around 11.30 - midnight usually an all night film session, they were great fun as you could smoke and drink in cinema then, we would have our bottles of wine with us.
In the late 60ies and early 70ies Pink Floyd tried to create a new kind of music and they did so. Beautiful, disturbing exiting and never boring.
Remember staying quiet for a long hour after listening to Echoes studio version. I would describe it as to musically reborn and die, as you get a reset on what you call music, and instantly know there won't be anything like it, ever. Music faced its limits the day Pink Floyd appeared.
I stood on that spot in '86.
Talent that’s it, pure talent. Speaks for itself…. timeless!
One of the greatest musical events ever by anyone, such a great and out of the box concept from 1972. Those bands you mentioned had similar incredible concerts that conjure up an intensity very few can match. This song is also legendary on the original Meddle album and closed many a Saturday Night party back in the 70s. You can also see the last time it was played in concert when David Gilmour had Richard Wright in his touring band for the On An Island Tour and they did that album plus a large set of Pink Floyd Clasics, including Echoes in Gdansk, Poland in the shipyards where the 1980s freedom movement to raise the Iron Curtain in the Communist Dictatorship started. So the concert was poignant on several levels and they did a 26 minute Echoes that was magnificent. Check it out, enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶