Just an awesome reaction dude. So, Echoes was the entire Side 2 of Meddle (my first intro to Pink Floyd) Side 1 has a mix of styles but 1 definitely Pink Floyd track "One of these days" After Meddle came the absolute masterpiece albums The Dark Side of the Moon (which is a Bible for modern life) followed by Wish You Were Here (a dedication to founding band member Syd Barrett who had dropped out suffering severe mental health issues and the effects of drug abuse. Syd was dearly loved)
What Gilmour is doing is he plugs his guitar into a WahWah pedal backwards, turns the volume up, and both tone knobs all the way down. Guitar is still quiet until you slowly turn up one of the tone knobs. He’s also plugged into a Benson EchoRec. It’s awesome to do this effect yourself 😊
@@alsvinylcollection Gilmour used a Cry-Baby. It also needs a ton of (Binson) delay, and he was one of the first users of the EH Big Muff distortion. Be VERY careful though, reverse wiring is LOUD, it can easily blow your speakers.
One of the things you picked up on in your Echoes I video is that Pink Floyd, while a rock band with a huge sound, allows each artist to shine individually. No one steps on one another ... this creates such a unique soundscape because each artist is the best at what they do. David's guitar touches your soul ... Roger's bass is super funky and bold, Rick on the keyboards is so psychedelic and cannot be replicated; while the whole thing is held together by Nick on drums (the most under-rated drummer in rock history). Individually they are the best that has ever been at their respective roles ... together they create ... Pink Floyd ...
You should also check Echoes live version in Gdansk, the last performance with Rick. Hits me every time. Anyway, there's a long journey ahead of you, I myself started listening to them only about 5-6 years ago, and that's the experience one can definitely call musically life changing.
"And through a window in the wall come streaming in on sunlight wings a million bright ambassadors of morning" Ah yes Thank you for a great reaction, glad you can feel the experience, you used many adjectives that describe it well.
Enjoyed your reaction to this masterpiece, everything from this Pompeii concert is amazing, and this version of Echoes is my favourite. The band members here are David Gilmour (Lead Guitar) Nick Mason (Drums) Richard Wright (Keyboards) and Roger Waters (Bass Guitar). Dave Gilmour came into the band in 1967 as a replacement for Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett who left due to personal reasons in 1968, he passed away in 2006. Roger Waters left the band in 1985 after a huge bust up, he's still performing, and Richard Wright passed away in 2008. Looking forward to more of your Pink Floyd reactions✌
Pink Floyd is simple incredible; they've touched so many people's lives! Looking forward to more of your Pink Floyd reactions. It's a fun musical journey down the Pink Floyd rabbit hole! It's great for old Pink Floyd fans like myself, seeing young people enjoying the band as we did 50 years ago!
It is so incredibly gratifying to see another convert from the younger generation. I went to the movie theatre to see the Pompeii movie which was the first time I ever saw them playing. Can you imagine what it was like to hear this in 1971 and then to see this movie in 1972. I immediately went to see them live. It was my first concert. They played Echoes, but they opened with all of Dark Side of the Moon, which hadn't been released yet. It was transcendent. You've got so much ahead of you and it will change your life. BTW that seagull crying sound you were asking about was discovered by accident. Gilmour plugged his guitar into one of his pedals backwards. They then ran it through a Binson Echorec drum wire echo unit. I sat 20 feet above his head right about the stage and watched him do it live. Small theatre in Manchester.
You have taken a first step into discovering & learning who Pink Floyd are & their musical genius! By all means listen to the studio versions of their albums, you will love them, but I assure you, they reach another plane when they perform Live! They are not just a Musical masterclass, they are an Experience that will touch all your senses! You have a journey ahead of you, you will love it!
If you go back before Meddle, it's quite a different band with quite a bit of "experimentation" 🤔 In an interview Dave Gilmour said he would sometimes turn away from the audience because he felt uncomfortable. Still there is some good stuff but Meddle, specifically "Echoes" & "One of these days" was the start of what became something very special.
This song was created a piece at a time by Richard Wright and a couple of the other members of the band and eventually they put it together originally calling it 26 pieces of nothing. Then they came up with echoes as they put the Meddle album together. To me that middle section that sounds like whales calling to me was either actually whales calling, or a long journey walking through a dark swamp at night then coming to the light when the music starts back up! A great composition I think eventually will be up there with a Mozart or Beethoven piece if not now! And at the end it's basically David Gilmore and Richard Wright parting ways and having a conversation as they get farther apart kind of like saying good night I'll see you next time.
Thanks for the great reaction. I propose that you check out as well the very last performance of Echoes. It was done by David Gilmoure with Richard Wright in Gdansk. That took place nefore Wright passed away. You can experience a fantastic moment of music communication between Gilmour and Wright. And I hope to watch more Pink Floyd by you. Go through their history. And yes, do studio first and check out the live versions after.
One thing I love about Pink Floyd is every album has a distinctive style and feel, they all feel unique but still have that Floyd signature sound. Plus they're all masterful musicians that blend together well.
Happy to see a new PF fan, and one who is so respectful of their work and who can talk so well about it. The fact that you said you'd do more reactions to them got you a new subscriber 🙂
The late Richard Wright (rest his soul) was a recognized sound engineer who was able to translate sound into the sound of Pink Floyd in every song they composed
Enjoyed your reaction. I have a prediction. After you finish the PF catalog, "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" from "Wish You Were Here" will be your favorite PF composition and performance.
Love this reaction... To be honest, the original recordings are quite nice, but Floyd is a live band, they often develop songs live in another category musically, but in addition you have those light effects which makes it very ambience and a totally different experience you dont wanna miss✌️🔥
Piano miked up to a Leslie rotating cabinet I believe . First saw / heard this when I was 10yrs old , in about ‘74. Could watch this every day and never get bored 😎 Welcome to the Pink Floyd rabbit hole 😉
Loving your reaction to pink floyd only just started listening to floyd last year it's been a fantastic journey have to have my floyd fix every day your in for a real treat
This is a well loved song. There are many live performances of it throughout the years. . Studio is awesome but Floyd will need to be heard live, {no rush take your time}.you will fall in love with this band like the rest of us. Remember listen in order to understand the message of each album. The lyrics are a crucial part also. Some of the sounds you are amazed by, are the synth and Rick Wright's keyboards. After all this time people realized this is one group that is above everyone else on their own level. You have lots of pleasure in your future. But David Gilmour's guitar as usual is everything 🙏🏽
Great to see another great reaction and to see it as a piece of music that stands up even today. they are just truly inventive musicians, old to new i love the majority of their works. I would recommend tracks by another great band and i can give you many of this groups tracks but checkout "Marillion - Neverland" both studio and live, but there is old and new that i can recommend! keep listening :)
Pink Anderson Floyd Council After purchasing Piper at the Gates of Dawn in 1968 I collected everything they recorded on vinyl after that. Actually bought two vinyl records and one eight track. So one of everything has remained unopened over the decades. Had the opportunity to see Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, The Wall and Momentary Lapse of Reason. (twice) ✌️☮️ 🤠🐂🏞️
Speaking of headphones, it is one way to listen to them. I have and do but only when I'm flying in my airplane till I wear headphones anymore while listening. And even though I have a couple pair in the house nothing beats a proper set up stereo. True you can feel a woofer with headphones on but you will never hear the full range of music. Which with Pink Floyd is what it is all about. Those who only wear headphones.........
As a sound engineering student, you are in for a ride. And starting at the chronological start is a great idea. They will, along the way, throw you for a loop, though. Especially in their early years. Hang in there though. You will be rewarded. I'll follow your journey, hoping to relive by proxy my discovery of this totally unique band
When you listen to each person playing, you realized how each one is a master on what they did, then how they control tempos and song transitions. In the beginning of Saucer Full of Secrets....They play/what would be considered trash playing instruments with other bands and it sounds amazing.
I heard this age 20 I think bought from virgin records mail order probably advertised in nme & arrived in iconic corrugated cardboard wrapping. had no idea what I was listening to but has stuck with me ever since and rediscovering all these years later htrough other peoples ears to great effect.greatly appreciate your knowledgeable first time reaction
now 72 got echoes album on release from a then fairly new Vrigin records, arrived in signature cardboard slipcase, played it more than anything else, .and now revisiting via reactions, can't believe how articulate these are on on first listen, way ahead of me age 19 going on 20. Especially Loved you reaction. This is my. no.1 desert island disc, would never tire of playing through in one piece.
Really nice reaction. Ive been following pink floyd most of my life. So interestingly Echoes, the piece is pretty much palindromic, if you take the centre of the song its like the song is echoed back, if you put it on loop then its like its echoing again. So imagery we had the Albertross in the first half, it symbolizes bringing wind to ships and protecting sailors but also they are thought to carry the souls of dead sailors. So there is a life / death duality. It almost gives the feeling of the destruction of the Manoan Civilization (what some think of atlantis) which was destroyed by volcano and sunk into the sea (everything is green and submarine). So Pompeii is pretty appropriate and fits most of the imagery.
I think the chronological order idea is fantastic. It's quite a feat and I've never seen anyone do it. If that's the case, the first song you hear will be Astronomy Domine from the album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.
You are one of many new listeners on RU-vid to the bands I was marvelling at as a teenager. You are going to have some fun. Real classics amongst the Floyd collection that I never get tired of listening to. Enjoy.
The strange sounds are from the effects pedals being accidentally connected the wrong way round so it was discovered accidentally but used to great effect on this track
@@alsvinylcollection A copypaste since I wasn't sure about the correct terms: "Rick Wright chanced upon his keyboard pings when routing his piano through a revolving Leslie speaker and the Binson Echorec delay so beloved of the Syd Barrett-era Floyd."
@@static1st For Al's information, the seagull sound is a Gilmour trademark which he'd used occasionally, virtually since he started with Floyd. It got its first major showcase in live versions of Embryo (e.g the second BBC one), but it pops up sometimes in versions of Atom Heart Mother and Saucerful Of Secrets. (And it may or may not also feature briefly in that supposed-Wright-solo Sisyphus)
Yes, genius, utter musical mastery and so far ahead of their time but also of that time. Yes, album reactions for Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, then the Wall, will give you the foundation of just how great they were and knowing what they were when they really hit their stride and made music that will be listened to forever. When done with those 4 you should do the Pulse Live Concert, the video is beyond spectacular! Welcome to one of the 2 best bands to react to, them and Led Zeppelin will blow you away! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Really enjoyed your take on Echoes through Pompei eyes. Interesting take. BTW Richard Wright’s “echo” sound was piano through a Leslie speaker. Good old analogue genius.
From day one , they always experimented . David often played the guitar through the Hammond organ..... with or without the Leslie speaker included. lol
Sorry I had asmall problem with my phone but as I was saying,thete is a dvd about the making of dark side of the moon and they show you how they make a looping sound before that even existed. Its fascinating to see just how innovative they were. I cannot wait to hear your reactions to the rest of their albums.
Love that you're going to work your way from the start. A couple things to note, pre-1971 they were VERY experimental. Still, each album feels like the musical step to the next one. Also, they had a handful of early singles that weren't on any albums until you get to the compilation album called Relics from 1970. Whether you do those in order of release or wait until Relics would slot in is up to you. It will feel a little like backtracking for you though. Early singles include See Emily Play, Arnold Layne, Candy And A Currant Bun, Point Me At the Sky, Biding My Time, Apples And Oranges, Paintbox, and Careful With That Axe Eugene. There were a couple tracks on the soundtrack for Zabriskie Point which don't really show up anywhere else either. Come In Number 51 Your Time Is Up, Country Song, Heartbeat Pigmeat, and one more I can't recall the name of atm. Just to make sure you're aware of these hidden tracks in case you want to react to them as well. Great job, man. Looking forward to the rest!
I applaud your decision to start from their first album and go all the way through them. Just know that everything before Meddle is rather different. I would forgive you if you fast forwarded it to through some of their earlier songs. Fun fact about the recording of their first album: it was done at Abbey Road Studios. While The Beatles were recording St Peppers, in the studio next to them was pink floyd. Roger Waters remembers meeting John Lennon, he regrets that encounter as they were "snotty" with each other.
Welcome to the Pink Floyd experiance, I am one of the lucky ones to have been with PF from the start. You will notice that PF always comes in gentle and slowly raises you up into a journey to where no other band can ever take you, and on that journey It's just one delight or surprise one after another, and once it is over they gently set you back down again. Each band member is an extraordinary musician, which is rare. Dark side of the Moon was the first ever concept album and must be listened to as a whole. P.s never pause a Gilmour solo, just saying :)
Man, are you in for a life experience you will cherish forever... Liked, subscribed and waiting expectantly to your journey through the greatest music ever. You have been given the best advice... Don't do Live and listen to the Albums through. Congratulations. Enjoy.
I loved your reaction to pink floyd and your comments on the soundscape that they creat on all their albums. There is a dvd about the making of dark side of the moon
I have no doubt that many Pink Floyd fans would disagree, but I don’t care for their very early work at all. For me, Pink Floyd began with the Ummagumma album (especially Astronomy Domine live).
You can start from the beginning but the sound of Pink Floyd as most of us know it, started when David Gilmour joined the band. I have been listening to their music for about 45 years now and I recommend Dark Side Of The Moon for your next reaction. But this is your channel and you do as you like.
That's very interesting to hear! I'm a stickler for doing things in certain orders, but you've been listening to them for 45 years so I'd say your advice is more valuable! I'll start with Dark Side of the Moon. Thank you for sharing :)
@@alsvinylcollection I personally think once you have gone through the catalogue starting from 1973 and going to the end, then you might have a better appreciation for the earlier stuff. Good luck in this, probably life changing but certainly enjoyable, journey. We will be coming along for the ride.
Awesome reaction! I'm subscribing. PF music is a great journey. If by chance you are a sci-fi movie fan, there is an excellent video syncing the studio version of Echoes to the ending of Kubrick's 2001. Definitely worth a watch as the visuals fit perfectly. You are correct to listen to Dark Side, WYWH and Animals as recorded. These are 3 of the greatest albums of all time, and I can't pick a favorite. Finally (my opinion), The Wall has much great music but is not on par with the other three concept wise. The live version of Comfortably Numb (from The Wall) at Pulse is perhaps the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. While the Pompei concert was minimalist in every way, Pulse is full blown sonic and light show spectacular. This is post Waters though.
I think you’re now a fellow Floyd fan, after just one song! Welcome brother, I love your reactions. Do them your way, speak when you want, pause when you like and be your self. The line up for Echoes, David Gilmour guitar and vocals, Richard Wright (rip) keyboard and vocals, Roger Waters bass and Nick Mason drums. I love your plan to do they’re entire discography, I’ve not seen another Channel do it. Please keep going, you’ll make it. Regards, Rich (No 40)
Positively surprised you took in such great advice. Studio first, headphones, entire albums (although that's really only important for The Wall, Darkside, Animals, WYWH and The Final Cut). Oh and do not watch the The Wall movie until you feel you have a personal understanding of its meaning.
The bass drone is just the bass guitar rubbing strings through a delay. The distinctive cymbal is a Floyd "trademark sound" of a Paiste 2002 22" ride. There are no synthesisers on this album. Most of what you hear is the Farfisa Deluxe Duo organ, (A cheaper Italian organ marketed against the Vox Continental at the time.) As you are an engineering student, I thought my tips might help. I'm with a British Floyd tribute band, so we managed to recreate all these sounds.. Shout me if you want to come see a show. :o)
Thank you so much for these amazing nuggets of gold! They're amazing sounds. Really interesting about the Farfisa Deluce Duo Organ too!! Awesome that you're in a tribute band, where abouts are you guys based?
I think one of the keys to many of their magical sounds and tones is the Hammond organ. The Hammond may have been replaced by electric pianos and synthesisers....... but it always outshines the newer keyboards when played well, and has so many functions that are musical and not just a different or mechanical “noise”.
Pink Floyd ARE THEIR OWN GENRE!!! If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times...when you world turns to shit and you've had a crappy day, you come home, pour a scotch (or similar), or glass of red, drink that offing it down. Then, pour another, woof that down too, then pour a third one and go turn off all the lights. Put this OR any Pink Floyd record on. Go find a bean bag or deep leather couch, put your headphones on and sink down into your chair, close your eyes, sip away the final drink, and let the music sooth your soul !!!
And again Pink Floyd managed to recruit another great analyst to the brotherhood. Yeah! Your plan sounds solid man, although there is some doubt about keeping your promise to not interrupt the music 😁. For me you don't need to keep your promise. Every word out of you comes from a big source of musical insight. Endulge me. I know many nice moments of listening pleasure lie ahead.
It's pretty rare to see someone actually react to the second half of this song from live at Pompeii. I saw Pink Floyd in concert for the first time in 1974, I was 17 years old. Of course it was the seventies and beside smoking weed and drinking beer we would occasionally do other chemicals! In particular LSD or mescaline!! Now I'm not promoting drug use and I certainly wouldn't say that it's good for a 17-year-old to do these kind of drugs but it was the seventies!! I was attending a Pink Floyd concert at an outdoor venue and at the time they had quadraphonic sound (Google it)! Basically a four speaker setup two on the stage, two behind the crowd that was on the field. (The venue was a stadium) They had the ability to make the sound go around all four speaker Banks to make it go in a circular direction!! Needless to say when they started doing the sound effects that you heard at the very beginning of this track and some other effects that they had going around the speakers and being under the influence of LSD it was something that I probably will never forget!! I actually thought that the stadium was a flying alien spaceship that was starting to lift up off of the Earth...yes I know😮😮😁😎 Those were the days!
I agree that it is better to listen to the studio version of Pink Floyd’s songs before watching the live performances. However, if time does not permit, then I strongly recommend ANY and ALL songs from the Pulse Concert (Earls Court, London 1994).
Are they summoning the spirits of their audience now? You know, the souls of the deceased who were the only spectators invited to the show, or specters may be a better word for the audience?
One last word: you are the first I've seen to play Echoes part 1 and part 2 back to back thus far, and to think that this is your introduction to Pink Floyd is quite an amazing perspective to be born with.
I still want to find the guy who THREW AWAY the original 35mm prints for this, which were apparently kept in an archival place around Paris. I believe? Wanted to move out the old stuff, I guess. Shame that we are left with enhancing a 1974 video copy..Imagine the glory of the original 35mm!! One day a copy will show up...I hope.
A bit of research on the band will answer your questions. The piano sound was created by mixing it up and running it through a Leslie speaker. Sometimes they ran it through David Gilmours guitar. They are masters of experimentation
Did you know the new pokemon game is out on the Nintendo switch this means that everyone can complain about the games for multiple months and say how good the last games were after saying how bad they were at the start but switching up as people do everytime they begin and then move on to the hit video game on their electrical device to play Phantasamaphobia as it is an encore in the echoing caves of hope and I like the video
The seagull sound effect: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MtZDszk3S3Y.html The piano is run through a Leslie. There are three of them among their speaker cabinets.
and, there are a lot of great groups to react to. Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Queen, Rush, but the Pink Floyd journey is certainly the best. I do however, usually recommend checking out Postmodern Jukebox cover of Radiohead's Creep, featuring Haley Reinhart- 100M views, brilliant cover, 10 out of 10! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m3lF2qEA2cw.html
Welcome to the rabbit hole... Pink Floyd is their own music genre. There has never been, nor will there ever be, another band like them. For me, starting with Obscured By Clouds and ending with The Wall there really isn't a bad track in there. Their very early stuff with Syd Barrett and their first few attempts trying to find their sound without him are less likely to blow your mind. Piper At the Gates of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets, Ummagumma, etc are very experimental and never really gained any traction. Atom Heart Mother was better, but still not their best stuff. (Other than a few tracks ie. Set the Controls For the Heart Of the Sun, Astronomy Dominae, Careful With That Axe Eugene, etc there isn't much there) There was one album after The Wall called "The Final Cut", but it was basically a Roger Waters' solo album as Richard Wright had left the band, Nick Mason (drummer) only contributed some sound effects, and none of the other members had any writing credits, and it isn't their best work. Pink Floyd as a band didn't really exist when it was released in 1983. Dark Side (1973) is easily the best album ever recorded. The studio version of Echoes on the second side of Meddle (1971) is where they finally did find their sound. That song was the last song they recorded before starting work on Dark Side (other than previously recorded work that was released on Obscured By Clouds) and it shows. Although it was recorded in 1994 about 15 years after Roger Waters (bassist and principle song writer) left the band, check out the P.U.L.S.E. album. It was recorded live at Earl's Court London where they played for two weeks straight to sold out shows to end the tour promoting their album The Division Bell. Notable tracks are "Wish You Were Here", "On the Run", "Sorrow", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Comfortably Numb" (IMHO the greatest song ever performed by any band), and they also played the entire Dark Side album which is worth every second of your time. I got to see them in Vancouver, Canada on this tour and I will never forget that night (even as stoned as I was...) Enjoy the journey it's a fun one...
