OK, now you should check out "Echoes" live at Pompeii, 1971. When they were young, a classic performance in an ancient Roman amphitheater in Pompeii, Italy, where a volcano destroyed the city in 79 A.D. In "One of These Days", Nick Mason (drummer) says "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces." In "Fearless" you hear the crowd at a Liverpool soccer match singing "You'll Never Walk Alone." David Gilmour once described Echoes as a musical conversation between himself and Rick Wright (keyboard player). After Rick passed in 2008, he wouldn't perform the song anymore.
You beat me to it, this is my all time favourite version of Echoes, i absolutely love the whole Pompeii gig, and in my opinion it's hands down their best live performance👌
LP version so much better than the poor version at pompeii , they never got the live thing going untill Dark Side Of The Moon . Im 62 been a fan since i was 10 when my dad bought me this LP , Echoes is my fav track of the Floyd , my fav Lp is Wish You Were Here . Seen them live twice The Wall tour and the Pulse Tour both in London
@@philmead7977 No, Gdansk, Richards last live performance with David before his death, Echoes is incredible and so poignant especially the final guitar and keyboard interplay between them.
I’m 56 years old young man and I’ve been watching you all day. It almost brings tears to my eyes that the younger generation is not letting this music die off you will never be lonely again when you connect with Pink Floyd and here’s one for you ummagumma That’ album is a trip,
Your reactions temind me what it was like to hear Floyd for the first time. It makes me so happy to see a young man so captivated by them in 2024. Bravo
Wierd isn't it? Just to watch someone else get the Floyd gives you a thrill! So many people don't get it and think it's dull depression on record, when it's really pure art for the mind. ✌️
The solitary lyric in 'One Of These Days' is "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.". The story goes that the band was working in studio on a very complex tape effect and it was giving them trouble. Then one of the members screamed the line at the tape in exasperation. Don't know how true it is but it's one of my all time favourite numbers!
I have been waiting for this moment, through 3 Pink Floyd Reactions, this one got me to Suscribe, as this one you finally cryed. So nice to see those tears of Reality, Hope, and Vision during Feerless! Namaste!!!
What is known by Floyd as the seagull sound in Echoes was discovered by accident when daves wah wah effects pedel was plugged in through his guitar the wrong way round. The in and out Jack's on the pedal were plugged in with the IN cable in the OUT socket and The OUT cable in the IN socket by mistake, dave used his guitar volume controls to manipulate the sound that was produced through the amplifier and speakers.
I was born in Seattle in 1974. I was 16 when grunge hit. I had the opportunity to see all the best shows from the bands of the early 90s. But one band to me always was the GOAT. PF... At age 18 in 1992 I got a PF tattoo on my shoulderblade of an image from The Wall. A couple years later in 1994 I traveled to Vancouver BC to see two shows on the Pulse tour... OMFG... So in 2005 when they got together to play Live8 I went. David's last tour in 2015 I was at the first show in Brighton two weeks before the album dropped. I have been to see Roger play three times, The Wall, Us & Them, and This Is Not A Drill. And I went to see Nick in Miami. BUT THIS SATURDAY MORNING, I will be flying to NYC to see the last show of David's current tour on Sunday. This will be the 5th time I have seen David play, but the first time in the USA. I remember sitting on a bus on a band trip age 16 with several hours to kill and a kid gave me his copy of The Wall to listen to... I didn't know you could do that with music. It changed my life... Be ready before you dive in, or you'll be stuck drowning and clawing the thin ice...
Welcome to PINK FLOYD Fandom! If you do Echoes as a video on its own as you say you are doing you absolutely must do the live video from Pompeii....MINDBLOWING!!!
Man, you made me pause to go get a Reese’s out of the fridge!( it’s on the counter now to soften up) Fearless is a great track. Echoes is deep af! This whole album... and pretty much everything by them... is awesome. Loving watching your journey. 🤛😎👍🤟 🔥🌳🌬💨
That performance can get emotional when you see them looking over to one another every now and then. They both knew they would never play that piece together again. This was truly a special piece of music that, over the years, became to mean so much between David and Richard. They had a bond that grew tighter over time. (Guitar and Keys.) (Drums and Bass) In most bands, these elements bounce off one another to keep time. When I listen to Pink Floyd, it is the ONLY time I wish Mankind could be Immortal. R I P Richard Wright 😢
Let Pink Floyd "Meddle" with your mind. This album is the sound of an acid trip (or maybe that's just my own personal experience), and "Echoes" is absolutely ghostly. (Also: Check out Pink Floyd performing Echoes live in the Pompei amphitheater, it's transcendental.)
I'm an old Floyd fan and when I was a teenager I'd listen to this album for Echoes and One of These Days, but when I got older I really fell in love with Fearless, San Tropez and Pillow of Winds.
@@davemiii I'm gettin' to be an old Floyd fan. Found 'em when I was 17 after a DJ took a smoke break and played the entirety of Dogs on the radio. I'll be 50 in less than 3 months. Meddle was my favorite album at one point, and I listened to it nearly exclusively for a year once. It's too hard to pick a favorite now; several rotate.
@@RykDavid actually very good point, I'm not much older than you so I guess I should say "middle-aged" Floyd fan. So I can't honestly say I was listening to them from the beginning like a lot of our fellow fans can. But yeah, as I matured I have definitely circled back to different stuff. I was jamming to Set The Contols for the Heart of the Sun the other night. Good stuff.
Pink Floyd was the biggest Live Band of all times. A feast for eyes and ears. Don‘t miss out on that. „Comfortably Numb Live Pulse 1994“ is a must (or the whole concert). Be sure to WATCH the concert, not just listen to it.
‘Echoes’ has the most poignant and moving lyrics ever written for ANY song. Pink Floyd’s message of empathy towards ALL of mankind is prevalent throughout a lot of their work and there is no better an example than is extolled within this extended masterpiece with the words ‘Strangers passing in the street, by chance two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me’.
Another great reaction, and thanks for your honest emotions. I have never seen anyone have a reaction like that to Fearless - very intriguing, and good on ya. If you do The Wall album next, be aware it's a double album and is a full concept album with a complete story. Please do some research into what the album is about before listening to it, and while you're at it, also do some background info into the song Comfortably Numb, just to understand it better - it is one of their best known and technically great songs. Well done.
Great reaction! Next, is "Echoes" live in Pompeii (parts 1 & 2). Also, you jsut said "I'm not going to hear a bad song from these guys"... most people don't like Seamus on Meddle, but I think it's fun, and the video of the song on Live at Pompeii is really cute.
I love all of Meddle, but it took time. Seamus seemed like a throwaway track, and St. Tropez always made me think of a bad Holiday-Inn lounge band. ...but they've both improved with age. (Mine. Lol)
The crazy sounds in the middle part of Echoes are just that, the echoes of a distant time, willowing across the sand in other words the ghosts of the dead. They performed this song live in Pompeii where that meaning is on point!
Bro i could name a few albums for you to check out,but like every other floyd fan its a rite of passage and your own path to walk down,i wish you nothing but happy vibes bro,stay lit my friend ❤
Even if you don't do Ummagumma, you should definitely listen to the song "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"
I agree. Uma Guma was always a must on camping trips. S S S would be my first choice also. And then Grantchester Meadows. I think he's falling in the rabbit hole deep. Hopefully he does the whole album. And then atom heart mother. Or at least the Suite. ✌️
I saw Pink Floyd live only once. Back in 1987 their first concert without Roger Waters, at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. They opened the show with Echos. They haven't played that since 1974. What a phenomenal show. If you want to watch a great live performance of Echos, David Gilmour s solo concert with Rick Wright (his last filmed performance, RIP) in Gdansk Poland is on UA-cam and it's phenomenal. Highly recommend.
You have good taste. Fearless has long been one of my Floyd favorites. The juxtaposition with the Liverpool crowd singing their trademark "You'll Never Walk Alone" is one of the most startling and beautiful things in music. You can tell that the boys were still casting about for their identity as of 1971, still periodically dipping back into Syd's fey style. I think Dark Side, the next year, surprised even them, but from then on they stuck to that path. Thank God. Floyd is NOT for anyone with ADHD, needing to move on to the next peak experience RIGHT NOW. They are patient in their buildup, and reward any listener willing to buy into it. One thing you keep noticing, but largely at a subliminal level is just how important Rick Wright's keyboards were to their sound and psychological impact. you've noticed that all four of them have extensive jazz backgrounds. It shows up all throughout their music, especially the sax solo in Money. The end of Echoes is really some bad Juju, almost suggestive of Voodoo. "You can't do this to black folks" is perfect and funny as Hell. Well done. Later, when Roger Waters began to lose his mind, his treatment of Rick was shameful. As far as I know, he never apologized.
One last experience that I'd like to share!! The year was 1975 I was 18 years old and going to my first concert which was Pink Floyd at an outdoor venue in Jersey City New Jersey called Roosevelt stadium!! They played concerts at that stadium all summer long and I went to that stadium and saw many great bands throughout the 70s!! But Pink Floyd was touring for I believe the Animals album and they did a lot of material from Dark Side and Meddle!! Being an 18 year old and being the mid-70s of course I partake in some hallucinogenic!! Well by the time Floyd started the song Echoes I was peaking on my acid trip!! At that time Pink Floyd had what they called a quadraphonic setup where they had 2 speaker banks on stage facing the crowd that was on the field and another set of speaker Banks BEHIND the crowd facing towards the stage where they could make the sound go around in a complete circle if you were down on the field, which I was!! Well during the crazy sound part of Echoes they started to do a surround sound type of deal where the sound was going around all four speakers and starting to go faster and faster!! I was beginning to hallucinate that I was in a giant flying saucer that was getting ready to take off and just when I was about to start to freak OUT they broke back into the mellow part of the song that I recognized and it was almost as if it was designed exactly for my trip!!!😮😮😮 I know it probably wasn't I know I'm crazy but it really worked out that way and it was one of the craziest experiences at a concert that I've ever had in my life!!!!❤🎉
As another old 'veteran' like yourself who's always enjoyed music for the altered mind, I had to pause during the Echoes center part where Gilmore sounds like some birds and the words "You can't do this to Black People" had me both laughing so hard while feeling sympathy since there was basically no music - just a soundscape.
Welcome to PF rabbit hole, to get a feel of what they were all about you should listen to the full Live at Pompeii, especially “Set the controls” and “Saucerful of secrets”
Just so you know, Mr Gilmour stands flat-footed, head down, barely moves from one spot, and lets his fingers and the strings do all the talking. No traditional rock and roll antics here. This is serious big boy music performed by extremely talented musicians who take their craft very seriously. Gilmour is considered one of the best guitarists of all time. For him it's all about the emotion and feeling, not about him and jumping around. There is a live Pompeii version of this (1&2) where you can see them in action... and an even better live version from 2006, the last time it was played live in its entirety. Richard Wright, the brilliant keyboardist and co-vocalist on this, passed away shortly after and Gilmour said he would never play it again without him. "Echoes, live in Gdansk" 2006 .
"Just so you know, Mr Gilmour stands flat-footed, head down, barely moves from one spot, and lets his fingers and the strings do all the talking." ............... for example today, Nov. 5th, in Madison Square Garden.
Great to see appreciation for Meddle. It's number two behind Dark Side for me. Echoes is my favorite Floyd song. It hints at what's to come on Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals.
Watch the video of Live at Pompeii you’ll see Gilmore killing this. The film at the local cinema was my introduction to Floyd in 1971 I bought Meddle on the back of that and never looked back
Wait til he sees Echoes live at Pompei. Gilmour puts on a a goddamn guitar clinic during that solo. And it’s just incredible to watch them doing it note for note on the sands of the amphitheater.
The cheering and chanting at the end of Fearless is the fans of Liverpool football club, at a match, singing the club anthem. It's called You'll never walk alone and is sung at every game
Thank you mate for explaining that, now it makes sense, lol. Love it I do aye? Oooooh hell yes, huge fan here for 50 years ( lord I’m old, hippy, stoner still) lol👏👏👏👏👏🤣👋👋👋🥰💕 thanks Kezzyboii, really love seeing a first Pink Floyd first timer, WARNING MY FRIEND…ADDICTING TO YOUR VERY SOUL” welcome son, your turn to love them as we do!🥰💕
Lots of fun watching you experience Pink Floyd. I was 15 in ‘71 and we would play the entire album- always- cause it was meant to be listened entirely in the order on the album. You are great fun to watch!
Jazzy, first thing, props for the Whitney shirt. She was a goddess. You’re smashing these Floyd albums. Great reactions! I’m getting a wiggle butt waiting for your reaction to The Wall.
Pink Floyd was named after two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, so you'll certainly hear the blues influence, but, as you've noticed, there's also the rock and psychedelic parts as well. Pink Floyd is one of the bestselling musical artists of all time, in the top ten, right up there with The Beatles, Elvis, and Michael Jackson. Meddle is where Floyd began to develop the sound it was known for. But if you really want your mind blown, you'll have to listen to Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall. The rabbit hole is deep. Enjoy. "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces."
Echoes is widely considered the holy grail of progressive rock. Music will never be the same for you after this experience. The way Rick Wright brings us back into the light with his keys after that period of darkness is just masterful.
It's good to see that you are continuing your journey down the Pink Floyd rabbit hole!!! You're pretty much taking the same journey that I took as a 16 or 17 year old when I discovered the Dark Side of the Moon album and then went and purchased THIS album!!! In the very first song, which is called "One of These Days", what you HEARD was the distorted voice of I believe Roger Waters saying "ONE OF THESE DAYS I'M GOING TO CUT YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES!"😮 I would also urge you to watch the video for the live at Pompeii version of Echoes!! ❤
Looks like we are following you through your Pink Floyd rabbit hole. Well at least I am starting with Dark Side Of The Moon then we went to Wish You Were Here and then Animals and now Meddle. I wonder where to next? Maybe The Wall?
I love this album so much. It was the second album I ever heard by Pink Floyd and it’s always held a very special place in my heart. The album cover is a close up picture of a human ear under water.
chiding then climbing. You say the hill's too steep to climb Chiding, You say you'd like to see me try Climbing. Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone You'll never walk alone Liverpool! Liverpool! - U.K liverpool football club gerry and the pacemakers.
Hi again... Ur 60 year olds back. I'm a drummer, and have played every zep song from every album, cassette, and CD a few hundred times each over the many years. Every word, note, and songs blueprinted in my mind and soul. As many gen-re that are out there that we grow up to. Zeppelin grabs u, hugs ur very soul and makes u forget EVERY OTHER GEN-RE U EVER KNOWN...magical band, and TOP SHELF. Been my favorite band my entire life.....😊 Masters of the art!! The third and forth songs were full of back masking...they played a lot of music backwards... U can really hear it in the backwards whistling...
The album cover is a human ear submerged water. Pink Floyd formed in London in 1965. They were pioneers of the whole psychedelic rock scene along with Iron Butterfly, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane. The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973 put them on the global map. Hit a lot of people out of nowhere who'd never heard of them up til then. Their first two albums featured their former frontman Syd Barrett, who is what Shine On You Crazy Diamond was written about. By the way, Fearless is one of my favorites, too.
Best Floyd reactions I've ever seen so far. Good work mate. 👍 It is a bit spoiled by an hour and a half of frikkin adverts though.... (Slight exaggeration) But love that you love it. A lot of people ain't deep enough to get the excellence of Floyd. Don't skip over The Final cut. My favourite. 🇬🇧✌️🇺🇸
I saw David Gilmour in 2006 in Toronto on his On An Island tour. They ended the show with Echoes. I am forever grateful that I got to see David Gilmour and Richard Wright perform the song live before Richard passed away from cancer the following year
Yes, David's solo album, put together in his home studio, with some drum machines like the single; no more magic, no more atmospheric images, 80s pop. Division Bell at least has one or two good “nostalgic songs” with transitions 😉✌.
To answer your question around the 44:30 mark - That’s a guitar, plugged into a wah wah pedal backwards (guitar output to pedal output, pedal input to amp input) which creates a weird feedback loop, which you then use the tone knob on the guitar to make it scream. A sound that happened due to a studio wiring accident, but turned out to be one of Gilmour’s freakiest sounds. It also appears on parts of The Wall album.
ECHOES, LIVE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 2006. LAST TIME DAVID GILMOUR N RICHARD WRIGHT ( keyboard ) PERFORMED THIS BEFORE HIS PASSING. R.I.P. RICHARD. THE CONNECTION THEY MADE THAT NIGHT WAS TOTALLY STELLAR. GREAT REACTIONS. DONT WORRY ABOUT THE TEARS. DAVIDS GUITAR DOES THAT TO ME EVERY TIME. ALSO RECOMMEND THE LIVE PULSE VIDEO, FULL CONCERT. ROCK ON 👊🖖
Everyone here will say "Live In Pompeii" or "Live In Gdansk", but there are some fabulous less well known versions of Echoes. Look for "Live At The Empire Pool, Wembley" for a great sax part, and you can also see Nick Mason and Guy Pratt perform this song live on the Saucerful of Secrets tour - as recently as July this year, taking it back to its early 70s vibe! And then look for "Nothing Part 14".
I saw them do Echoes at Knebworth 1975 in the uk the one and only time in all the live shows I've been too. saw Floyd many times over the years up to the division bell tour 1994 at Earl's court London where they recorded P. U. L. S. E.
Fantastic! You should do Obscured By Clouds next. It falls in between Meddle and Dark Side in terms of release dates. This way you can either move forward or backward with the next one.
Excellent! :) PS if I can, I'll send you a pic of your vidio playing on TV monitor, between a pair of 1972 Wharefdale SPs - old and on their 3rd rebuild (sound OK tho). These units have played all the PF albums as I got them - and Live Aid on the day, simucast broadcast on TV and HiFi FM radio. Took a day off work for that one. PPS the front cover is an ear, with ripples of water :) all good fun!
The first song on this album was my introduction to Pink Floyd in 1971. Been in love with them ever since. This whole album is the epitome of all of Floyd's following work.
echoes is a real trip - I love it cos it challenges those 'normal' sounds. to those who have never heard them. those freaky sounds . ahead of their time.
The high pitched screeching sound you thought might be hyenas is actually called a seagull sound effect. Gilmour came across it by accident when he mistakenly plugged his wah-wah pedal in backwards. Genius that he is, he figured out how to incorporate it in the soundscape of the Echoes transition section.
This is album was my introduction to Pink Floyd and forever turned me into a Floydian. Thank you, brother, for these Pink Floyd album reactions!!! Keep them coming.
this is the first full album i heard by Pink Floyd. before that, it was just whatever was on the radio (mostly Money, Wish You Were Here, etc.) good songs, but stripped of the context of the greatness that surrounded such songs. with this one, i was immersed and fell into a deep hole. only good things lay beyond
I havent seen any comment tell you this, but the album cover is an ear🤣🤣 seems fitting but wild. I love pink floyd, it is my dad and i’s music we listen to together and bond through. Ever since i was a kid (23yo) anywhere we went it was pink floyd on the radio. I love seeing new people experiencing pink floyd because that is what they are, an experience!!!
The "seabird" sounds came about by accident. Gilmour plugged his guitar into an effects pedal the wrong way round and the rest is ..... if you get a chance,, watch the George Greenough film about catching surf "tubes" on camera, years before GoPro's etc. Echoes is played over the film and it's sublime!
Watch "Echoes" Live at Pompeii' Then watch the final time with David Gilmour " Live at Gdansk" playing "Echoes' After your P.F rabbit hole checkout some of Dave's guitar solo work 2016 Dave returns to Pompeii ***********. the only person to play twice since 79 AD in the theater, here is a hallway inside the theater that shows P.F. 1962 appearance with no audience. Best watch is " 1994 Pulse" their last concert after 14 days in a row sold out.
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, MDDEL, ANIMAL, WHISH YOU WERE HERE, THE WALL, MOMENTARY LAPES OF REASON, ALL OF THOSE REACTION ARE OUT FOR MORE
OK, now you should check out "Echoes" live at Pompeii, 1971. When they were young, a classic performance in an ancient Roman amphitheater in Pompeii, Italy, where a volcano destroyed the city in 79 A.D. In "One of These Days", Nick Mason (drummer) says "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces." In "Fearless" you hear the crowd at a Liverpool soccer match singing "You'll Never Walk Alone." David Gilmour once described Echoes as a musical conversation between himself and Rick Wright (keyboard player). After Rick passed in 2008, he wouldn't perform the song anymore.
You beat me to it, this is my all time favourite version of Echoes, i absolutely love the whole Pompeii gig, and in my opinion it's hands down their best live performance👌
LP version so much better than the poor version at pompeii , they never got the live thing going untill Dark Side Of The Moon . Im 62 been a fan since i was 10 when my dad bought me this LP , Echoes is my fav track of the Floyd , my fav Lp is Wish You Were Here . Seen them live twice The Wall tour and the Pulse Tour both in London
@@philmead7977 No, Gdansk, Richards last live performance with David before his death, Echoes is incredible and so poignant especially the final guitar and keyboard interplay between them.
Agreed he would get more views from watching Pompeii
Pink Floyd Has always been, and will always be STONER MUSIC.....
I’m 56 years old young man and I’ve been watching you all day. It almost brings tears to my eyes that the younger generation is not letting this music die off you will never be lonely again when you connect with Pink Floyd and here’s one for you ummagumma That’ album is a trip,
Your reactions temind me what it was like to hear Floyd for the first time. It makes me so happy to see a young man so captivated by them in 2024. Bravo
Wierd isn't it?
Just to watch someone else get the Floyd gives you a thrill!
So many people don't get it and think it's dull depression on record, when it's really pure art for the mind.
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The solitary lyric in 'One Of These Days' is "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.". The story goes that the band was working in studio on a very complex tape effect and it was giving them trouble. Then one of the members screamed the line at the tape in exasperation. Don't know how true it is but it's one of my all time favourite numbers!
Meddle is considered by many, myself included to be the first album that hinted at what was to come with the 3 albums you've covered and the wall.
Totally agree.
To me it seems like the first hint of it and their first song that I can put my finger on was a saucerful of secrets that third part of that OMG
Dude, you're on fire mate! Everyone's a winner when Floyd is at the front and centre. Literally can't go wrong. Love it mate
Pompeii.......please.
An empty ancient amphitheatre in Southern Italy, with 4 musicians at the top of their game playing to the gods only
I have been waiting for this moment, through 3 Pink Floyd Reactions, this one got me to Suscribe, as this one you finally cryed. So nice to see those tears of Reality, Hope, and Vision during Feerless! Namaste!!!
Bro you authentic af. And you hit the jackpot with these Floyd reviews. I can see this stuff breaking your brain.
We are all ONE when listening to Pink Floyd!
Peace everyone!
What is known by Floyd as the seagull sound in Echoes was discovered by accident when daves wah wah effects pedel was plugged in through his guitar the wrong way round. The in and out Jack's on the pedal were plugged in with the IN cable in the OUT socket and The OUT cable in the IN socket by mistake, dave used his guitar volume controls to manipulate the sound that was produced through the amplifier and speakers.
You’re the goat! Now do The Wall it’s a life changing album
Yes! This progression of listening to them in a row like this is such a great way to experience it for the first time
Yep
Not yet.... after this he needs to do Obscured By Clouds.
I was born in Seattle in 1974. I was 16 when grunge hit. I had the opportunity to see all the best shows from the bands of the early 90s. But one band to me always was the GOAT. PF... At age 18 in 1992 I got a PF tattoo on my shoulderblade of an image from The Wall. A couple years later in 1994 I traveled to Vancouver BC to see two shows on the Pulse tour... OMFG... So in 2005 when they got together to play Live8 I went. David's last tour in 2015 I was at the first show in Brighton two weeks before the album dropped. I have been to see Roger play three times, The Wall, Us & Them, and This Is Not A Drill. And I went to see Nick in Miami. BUT THIS SATURDAY MORNING, I will be flying to NYC to see the last show of David's current tour on Sunday. This will be the 5th time I have seen David play, but the first time in the USA. I remember sitting on a bus on a band trip age 16 with several hours to kill and a kid gave me his copy of The Wall to listen to... I didn't know you could do that with music. It changed my life... Be ready before you dive in, or you'll be stuck drowning and clawing the thin ice...
Enjoy the show very jealous could not get tickets for uk
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If you do Echoes as a video on its own as you say you are doing you absolutely must do the live video from Pompeii....MINDBLOWING!!!
This music is my childhood, I am so glad to see a new generation experience Pink Floyd for the first time.
Echoes is such a beast that people underrate Fearless. Great album. Real music is life changing.
Fearless is one of my favorites
I feel you dude, I've been listening to Floyd since 1974. Going to see David Gilmour on Sunday, New York City MSG.
Definitely agree with the others saying you have to check out Echoes Live at Pompeii. They take the song to a whole new level.
When you do ECHOES separately, make sure it’s ECHOES LIVE AT POMPEII - I & II
Good pick! This is where they solidified their sound.
Absolutely...
Man, you made me pause to go get a Reese’s out of the fridge!( it’s on the counter now to soften up) Fearless is a great track. Echoes is deep af! This whole album... and pretty much everything by them... is awesome. Loving watching your journey. 🤛😎👍🤟
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That performance can get emotional when you see them looking over to one another every now and then. They both knew they would never play that piece together again. This was truly a special piece of music that, over the years, became to mean so much between David and Richard. They had a bond that grew tighter over time. (Guitar and Keys.) (Drums and Bass) In most bands, these elements bounce off one another to keep time. When I listen to Pink Floyd, it is the ONLY time I wish Mankind could be Immortal. R I P Richard Wright 😢
Let Pink Floyd "Meddle" with your mind. This album is the sound of an acid trip (or maybe that's just my own personal experience), and "Echoes" is absolutely ghostly. (Also: Check out Pink Floyd performing Echoes live in the Pompei amphitheater, it's transcendental.)
Appreciate you listening to the comments. Also glad you’re a fan of PF and hopefully other prog bands later on.
100% this. Would love to see how he gets on with King Crimson and early Genesis.
A Pillow of Winds and San Tropez are such often over-looked songs, even by fans. I'm so glad that someone else out there vibes on them the way I do.
I'm an old Floyd fan and when I was a teenager I'd listen to this album for Echoes and One of These Days, but when I got older I really fell in love with Fearless, San Tropez and Pillow of Winds.
@@davemiii I'm gettin' to be an old Floyd fan. Found 'em when I was 17 after a DJ took a smoke break and played the entirety of Dogs on the radio. I'll be 50 in less than 3 months. Meddle was my favorite album at one point, and I listened to it nearly exclusively for a year once. It's too hard to pick a favorite now; several rotate.
@@RykDavid actually very good point, I'm not much older than you so I guess I should say "middle-aged" Floyd fan. So I can't honestly say I was listening to them from the beginning like a lot of our fellow fans can. But yeah, as I matured I have definitely circled back to different stuff. I was jamming to Set The Contols for the Heart of the Sun the other night. Good stuff.
Seamus. He said his dog was singing to great gig in the sky
Pink Floyd was the biggest Live Band of all times. A feast for eyes and ears. Don‘t miss out on that. „Comfortably Numb Live Pulse 1994“ is a must (or the whole concert). Be sure to WATCH the concert, not just listen to it.
Yea man I was lucky enough to see them on that tour in 94 , went to Rotterdam in Holland Couldn’t get tickets for London 😊
‘Echoes’ has the most poignant and moving lyrics ever written for ANY song. Pink Floyd’s message of empathy towards ALL of mankind is prevalent throughout a lot of their work and there is no better an example than is extolled within this extended masterpiece with the words ‘Strangers passing in the street, by chance two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me’.
Another great reaction, and thanks for your honest emotions. I have never seen anyone have a reaction like that to Fearless - very intriguing, and good on ya. If you do The Wall album next, be aware it's a double album and is a full concept album with a complete story. Please do some research into what the album is about before listening to it, and while you're at it, also do some background info into the song Comfortably Numb, just to understand it better - it is one of their best known and technically great songs. Well done.
Love your reactions bro
Great reaction! Next, is "Echoes" live in Pompeii (parts 1 & 2). Also, you jsut said "I'm not going to hear a bad song from these guys"... most people don't like Seamus on Meddle, but I think it's fun, and the video of the song on Live at Pompeii is really cute.
Yeah, I like it on Pompeii, but always skip it on the album
I love all of Meddle, but it took time. Seamus seemed like a throwaway track, and St. Tropez always made me think of a bad Holiday-Inn lounge band.
...but they've both improved with age. (Mine. Lol)
Dog belonged To Steve Marriott, of Small Faces and Humble Pie
Brilliant reaction. Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to share this with us.
The crazy sounds in the middle part of Echoes are just that, the echoes of a distant time, willowing across the sand in other words the ghosts of the dead. They performed this song live in Pompeii where that meaning is on point!
Whale songs like underwater the ping is sonar they said submarine in the lyrics
The picture on the album cover is a HUMAN EAR taken underwater
Bro i could name a few albums for you to check out,but like every other floyd fan its a rite of passage and your own path to walk down,i wish you nothing but happy vibes bro,stay lit my friend ❤
Even if you don't do Ummagumma, you should definitely listen to the song "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"
I agree.
Uma Guma was always a must on camping trips.
S S S would be my first choice also. And then Grantchester Meadows.
I think he's falling in the rabbit hole deep. Hopefully he does the whole album.
And then atom heart mother. Or at least the Suite.
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Definitely their best song
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I saw Pink Floyd live only once. Back in 1987 their first concert without Roger Waters, at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. They opened the show with Echos. They haven't played that since 1974. What a phenomenal show.
If you want to watch a great live performance of Echos, David Gilmour s solo concert with Rick Wright (his last filmed performance, RIP) in Gdansk Poland is on UA-cam and it's phenomenal. Highly recommend.
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You have good taste. Fearless has long been one of my Floyd favorites. The juxtaposition with the Liverpool crowd singing their trademark "You'll Never Walk Alone" is one of the most startling and beautiful things in music.
You can tell that the boys were still casting about for their identity as of 1971, still periodically dipping back into Syd's fey style. I think Dark Side, the next year, surprised even them, but from then on they stuck to that path. Thank God.
Floyd is NOT for anyone with ADHD, needing to move on to the next peak experience RIGHT NOW. They are patient in their buildup, and reward any listener willing to buy into it.
One thing you keep noticing, but largely at a subliminal level is just how important Rick Wright's keyboards were to their sound and psychological impact. you've noticed that all four of them have extensive jazz backgrounds. It shows up all throughout their music, especially the sax solo in Money.
The end of Echoes is really some bad Juju, almost suggestive of Voodoo. "You can't do this to black folks" is perfect and funny as Hell. Well done.
Later, when Roger Waters began to lose his mind, his treatment of Rick was shameful. As far as I know, he never apologized.
One last experience that I'd like to share!!
The year was 1975 I was 18 years old and going to my first concert which was Pink Floyd at an outdoor venue in Jersey City New Jersey called Roosevelt stadium!! They played concerts at that stadium all summer long and I went to that stadium and saw many great bands throughout the 70s!!
But Pink Floyd was touring for I believe the Animals album and they did a lot of material from Dark Side and Meddle!!
Being an 18 year old and being the mid-70s of course I partake in some hallucinogenic!!
Well by the time Floyd started the song Echoes I was peaking on my acid trip!! At that time Pink Floyd had what they called a quadraphonic setup where they had 2 speaker banks on stage facing the crowd that was on the field and another set of speaker Banks BEHIND the crowd facing towards the stage where they could make the sound go around in a complete circle if you were down on the field, which I was!! Well during the crazy sound part of Echoes they started to do a surround sound type of deal where the sound was going around all four speakers and starting to go faster and faster!!
I was beginning to hallucinate that I was in a giant flying saucer that was getting ready to take off and just when I was about to start to freak OUT they broke back into the mellow part of the song that I recognized and it was almost as if it was designed exactly for my trip!!!😮😮😮
I know it probably wasn't I know I'm crazy but it really worked out that way and it was one of the craziest experiences at a concert that I've ever had in my life!!!!❤🎉
As another old 'veteran' like yourself who's always enjoyed music for the altered mind, I had to pause during the Echoes center part where Gilmore sounds like some birds and the words "You can't do this to Black People" had me both laughing so hard while feeling sympathy since there was basically no music - just a soundscape.
Welcome to PF rabbit hole, to get a feel of what they were all about you should listen to the full Live at Pompeii, especially “Set the controls” and “Saucerful of secrets”
Just so you know, Mr Gilmour stands flat-footed, head down, barely moves from one spot, and lets his fingers and the strings do all the talking. No traditional rock and roll antics here. This is serious big boy music performed by extremely talented musicians who take their craft very seriously. Gilmour is considered one of the best guitarists of all time. For him it's all about the emotion and feeling, not about him and jumping around. There is a live Pompeii version of this (1&2) where you can see them in action... and an even better live version from 2006, the last time it was played live in its entirety. Richard Wright, the brilliant keyboardist and co-vocalist on this, passed away shortly after and Gilmour said he would never play it again without him.
"Echoes, live in Gdansk" 2006 .
This track is not good live
Gilmour is the greatest slow hand guitarist 🎶👑🎶
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"Just so you know, Mr Gilmour stands flat-footed, head down, barely moves from one spot, and lets his fingers and the strings do all the talking." ............... for example today, Nov. 5th, in Madison Square Garden.
Great to see appreciation for Meddle. It's number two behind Dark Side for me. Echoes is my favorite Floyd song. It hints at what's to come on Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals.
Watch the video of Live at Pompeii you’ll see Gilmore killing this. The film at the local cinema was my introduction to Floyd in 1971 I bought Meddle on the back of that and never looked back
Wait til he sees Echoes live at Pompei. Gilmour puts on a a goddamn guitar clinic during that solo. And it’s just incredible to watch them doing it note for note on the sands of the amphitheater.
Do the whole live at Pompeii video including the beginning before echoes and the studio darkside rehearsal segments
The cheering and chanting at the end of Fearless is the fans of Liverpool football club, at a match, singing the club anthem. It's called You'll never walk alone and is sung at every game
Thank you mate for explaining that, now it makes sense, lol. Love it I do aye? Oooooh hell yes, huge fan here for 50 years ( lord I’m old, hippy, stoner still) lol👏👏👏👏👏🤣👋👋👋🥰💕 thanks Kezzyboii, really love seeing a first Pink Floyd first timer, WARNING MY FRIEND…ADDICTING TO YOUR VERY SOUL” welcome son, your turn to love them as we do!🥰💕
Lots of fun watching you experience Pink Floyd. I was 15 in ‘71 and we would play the entire album- always- cause it was meant to be listened entirely in the order on the album. You are great fun to watch!
Jazzy, first thing, props for the Whitney shirt. She was a goddess.
You’re smashing these Floyd albums.
Great reactions!
I’m getting a wiggle butt waiting for your reaction to The Wall.
I love when Nick looses his stick @ Pompeii, without missing a beat... Watch the original Live At Pompeii, when you have the TIME.
Pink Floyd was named after two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, so you'll certainly hear the blues influence, but, as you've noticed, there's also the rock and psychedelic parts as well. Pink Floyd is one of the bestselling musical artists of all time, in the top ten, right up there with The Beatles, Elvis, and Michael Jackson. Meddle is where Floyd began to develop the sound it was known for. But if you really want your mind blown, you'll have to listen to Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall. The rabbit hole is deep. Enjoy.
"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces."
Echoes is widely considered the holy grail of progressive rock. Music will never be the same for you after this experience. The way Rick Wright brings us back into the light with his keys after that period of darkness is just masterful.
This is early Floyd. Not too early but early.
It's good to see that you are continuing your journey down the Pink Floyd rabbit hole!!! You're pretty much taking the same journey that I took as a 16 or 17 year old when I discovered the Dark Side of the Moon album and then went and purchased THIS album!!!
In the very first song, which is called "One of These Days", what you HEARD was the distorted voice of I believe Roger Waters saying "ONE OF THESE DAYS I'M GOING TO CUT YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES!"😮
I would also urge you to watch the video for the live at Pompeii version of Echoes!! ❤
Awesome. More Pink Floyd!!!! Keep it up Bro!!!!!
you should listen to Pink Floyd LIVE at Pompei Full concert 1972
Man, I 5s skipped through the screaming ghosty stuff and your mic was hanging off! 😂
That was awesome. Very cool haircut by the way 👍
Hell yeah meddle is the fucking best
Looks like we are following you through your Pink Floyd rabbit hole. Well at least I am starting with Dark Side Of The Moon then we went to Wish You Were Here and then Animals and now Meddle. I wonder where to next? Maybe The Wall?
I love this album so much. It was the second album I ever heard by Pink Floyd and it’s always held a very special place in my heart.
The album cover is a close up picture of a human ear under water.
47:08 always makes me feel like when you start to feel good after being depressed. I used to listen to Echoes all the time, great album!
When you said "I get it", that's what it's all about. Such a joy to watch your reactions! These guys bring the feels!
chiding then climbing. You say the hill's too steep to climb Chiding, You say you'd like to see me try Climbing.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone
Liverpool! Liverpool! - U.K liverpool football club gerry and the pacemakers.
Like the way you react to my favorite band of all time. You should watch Pink Floyd's, Live at Pompeii 1972.
Hi again... Ur 60 year olds back. I'm a drummer, and have played every zep song from every album, cassette, and CD a few hundred times each over the many years. Every word, note, and songs blueprinted in my mind and soul. As many gen-re that are out there that we grow up to. Zeppelin grabs u, hugs ur very soul and makes u forget EVERY OTHER GEN-RE U EVER KNOWN...magical band, and TOP SHELF. Been my favorite band my entire life.....😊 Masters of the art!! The third and forth songs were full of back masking...they played a lot of music backwards... U can really hear it in the backwards whistling...
The first time I heard Echoes was in1973. It was after midnight in a darkened room, and I was high on LSD.
The album cover is a human ear submerged water. Pink Floyd formed in London in 1965. They were pioneers of the whole psychedelic rock scene along with Iron Butterfly, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane. The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973 put them on the global map. Hit a lot of people out of nowhere who'd never heard of them up til then. Their first two albums featured their former frontman Syd Barrett, who is what Shine On You Crazy Diamond was written about. By the way, Fearless is one of my favorites, too.
Glad you are enjoying the journey. I haven't heard that album in decades.
Dude, you're really good at this. I have had some good 420 times with you. listen to these Pink Floyd albums.. and I'm 67.
i cannot wait until u get to yes and the beatles. this channel is great fun
Best Floyd reactions I've ever seen so far. Good work mate. 👍
It is a bit spoiled by an hour and a half of frikkin adverts though....
(Slight exaggeration)
But love that you love it.
A lot of people ain't deep enough to get the excellence of Floyd.
Don't skip over The Final cut.
My favourite.
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I saw David Gilmour in 2006 in Toronto on his On An Island tour. They ended the show with Echoes. I am forever grateful that I got to see David Gilmour and Richard Wright perform the song live before Richard passed away from cancer the following year
I was there man, recorded both nights :) I saw Rick out back, up on a railing smoking. Remember the fire alarm?
its an ear on the cover. and sound waves
Yeppers, turn it 90 degrees clockwise
It's an ear under water. If you have the vinyl, the cover open out to reveal the whole ear
I believe the album cover depicts A piece of coral...in reference to" Deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves" in the tune "Echos"
There's some fabulous cymbal work in one of the build-ups to the final drop. Really great.
“A momentary lapse of reason” is a great album. Highly underrated.
meh
Yes, David's solo album, put together in his home studio, with some drum machines like the single; no more magic, no more atmospheric images, 80s pop.
Division Bell at least has one or two good “nostalgic songs” with transitions 😉✌.
To answer your question around the 44:30 mark - That’s a guitar, plugged into a wah wah pedal backwards (guitar output to pedal output, pedal input to amp input) which creates a weird feedback loop, which you then use the tone knob on the guitar to make it scream. A sound that happened due to a studio wiring accident, but turned out to be one of Gilmour’s freakiest sounds. It also appears on parts of The Wall album.
ECHOES, LIVE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 2006. LAST TIME DAVID GILMOUR N RICHARD WRIGHT ( keyboard ) PERFORMED THIS BEFORE HIS PASSING. R.I.P. RICHARD. THE CONNECTION THEY MADE THAT NIGHT WAS TOTALLY STELLAR. GREAT REACTIONS. DONT WORRY ABOUT THE TEARS. DAVIDS GUITAR DOES THAT TO ME EVERY TIME.
ALSO RECOMMEND THE LIVE PULSE VIDEO, FULL CONCERT.
ROCK ON 👊🖖
Man! You're hitting the classics! Love it
David Gilmour, today Nov. 5th (and upcoming days) Live in Madison Square Garden.
Just fired up you're reaction to Pompeii at the start of echoes, but havent watched it yet. I wish both of these could be first time reactions.
Everyone here will say "Live In Pompeii" or "Live In Gdansk", but there are some fabulous less well known versions of Echoes. Look for "Live At The Empire Pool, Wembley" for a great sax part, and you can also see Nick Mason and Guy Pratt perform this song live on the Saucerful of Secrets tour - as recently as July this year, taking it back to its early 70s vibe!
And then look for "Nothing Part 14".
I saw them do Echoes at Knebworth 1975 in the uk the one and only time in all the live shows I've been too. saw Floyd many times over the years up to the division bell tour 1994 at Earl's court London where they recorded P. U. L. S. E.
Fantastic! You should do Obscured By Clouds next. It falls in between Meddle and Dark Side in terms of release dates. This way you can either move forward or backward with the next one.
Yeh, you get it!
Excellent! :)
PS if I can, I'll send you a pic of your vidio playing on TV monitor, between a pair of 1972 Wharefdale SPs - old and on their 3rd rebuild (sound OK tho). These units have played all the PF albums as I got them - and Live Aid on the day, simucast broadcast on TV and HiFi FM radio. Took a day off work for that one.
PPS the front cover is an ear, with ripples of water
:) all good fun!
The first song on this album was my introduction to Pink Floyd in 1971. Been in love with them ever since. This whole album is the epitome of all of Floyd's following work.
echoes is a real trip - I love it cos it challenges those 'normal' sounds. to those who have never heard them. those freaky sounds . ahead of their time.
The high pitched screeching sound you thought might be hyenas is actually called a seagull sound effect. Gilmour came across it by accident when he mistakenly plugged his wah-wah pedal in backwards. Genius that he is, he figured out how to incorporate it in the soundscape of the Echoes transition section.
and of course he used the Echoplex as well.
This is album was my introduction to Pink Floyd and forever turned me into a Floydian. Thank you, brother, for these Pink Floyd album reactions!!! Keep them coming.
great reaction bro
hey man great vid, i think youd love led zeppelin, i recommend going through their discography chronologically
The Live in Pompeii version of Echoes is definitive. Cannot be missed.
The Wall is essential, but be warned. It's a lot.
True; it's a lot and it's very dark.
@@marymargaretmoore9034 It's bloody depressing 😭
@@campermobile3217 Agreed!
My favorite Pink Floyd album !
this is the first full album i heard by Pink Floyd. before that, it was just whatever was on the radio (mostly Money, Wish You Were Here, etc.) good songs, but stripped of the context of the greatness that surrounded such songs. with this one, i was immersed and fell into a deep hole. only good things lay beyond
"Echoes" live at Pompeii, 1971. You can watch them do it......
The lyrics are, "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces."
It is a song of rage.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the song Careful With That Axe, Eugene 😅
Yess. I was hoping you'd do this one. Great choice. #PinkFloyd #TOOL
I think you're ready for Pulse 👍🤘
I havent seen any comment tell you this, but the album cover is an ear🤣🤣 seems fitting but wild. I love pink floyd, it is my dad and i’s music we listen to together and bond through. Ever since i was a kid (23yo) anywhere we went it was pink floyd on the radio. I love seeing new people experiencing pink floyd because that is what they are, an experience!!!
We need pink Floyd comfortable numb live version!!!
After you do "The Wall", of course :)
The "seabird" sounds came about by accident. Gilmour plugged his guitar into an effects pedal the wrong way round and the rest is ..... if you get a chance,, watch the George Greenough film about catching surf "tubes" on camera, years before GoPro's etc. Echoes is played over the film and it's sublime!
Watch "Echoes" Live at Pompeii' Then watch the final time with David Gilmour " Live at Gdansk" playing "Echoes' After your P.F rabbit hole checkout some of Dave's guitar solo work 2016 Dave returns to Pompeii ***********. the only person to play twice since 79 AD in the theater, here is a hallway inside the theater that shows P.F. 1962 appearance with no audience. Best watch is " 1994 Pulse" their last concert after 14 days in a row sold out.