I saw the title of this video and IMMEDIATELY clicked... Echoes is an absolute POWERHOUSE that showcases the amazing synergy that these 4 guys had when they all played together
So this was recorded in 1971. Watching you guys experience it for the first time took me back to when I first heard it in about 1975. It made a huge impact on me, and I'm amazed and grateful and hopeful that almost 50 years later it's effecting people the same way.
David Gilmour (the guitarist and vocalist), actually made a return to the same amphitheater in Pompeii in 2016 for his solo tour. It was also filmed and had a live audience...the first *public* performance in the amphitheater since 79 AD!!
the ghost of Pompeii was probably happy to see 1st concert after 2000 years . 😎👍🎶 Pink Floyd is the 1st and only to make a concert to Pompeii after 2000 years 2 times . 1972 and 2016 .
Il Live at Pompeii fu realizzato agli inizi di ottobre del 1971 non 1972. E nel 2016 solo DAVID GILMOUR da solista si è esibito nell' antico Anfiteatro romano
My son is 7 years old and autistic (non-verbal). I tried to see if he responds to different kinds of music. If he is too hyper, I play this song and he instantly calms down.
My two and a half non-verbal autistic granddaughter and I watched this for the first time together a couple of weeks ago. She was entranced and didn't move for the entire song.
Soo, back before drones (which was like, yesterday for folks my age lol), they used giant cranes to get those big long distance wide shots you see at the beginning and the end of this. And yes they had zoom lenses back then, so that wasn't an issue . Every Easter they show "The Ten Commandments" on Network television, which won like a zillion academy awards. There are spectacular wide angle long shots of the thousands of Jews marching out of Egypt after they were set free, that they wouldn't even attempt today without the use of computers and CGI. And that was 1956!! We won't even discuss the parting of the Red Sea scene which is as amazing a special effect as anything you'll see in movies today. In short, this generation didn't invent this stuff. They only found ways to use technology to shortcut and oft times cheapen the look and sound of what was done more authentically before it. Anyway, great reaction as always!! You guys have great taste. Try not to make us wait too long for that Animals reaction. 😉✌️👍
Also could get long shots from the top of the amphitheatre opposite with a zoom lens. But yeah in the pre-digital, pre-tiny electronics for radio controlled aircraft (drones) days, we used high quality film and high quality lenses!
@MikePhillips-pl6ov yeah absolutely. They could very well have been up in the upper reaches of the coliseum on the other end. But the angle of the initial shot seems like it's higher than the coliseum itself. IDK. But the idea that it had to be a drone or something completely unfathomable was a little surprising. Also I should mention that crain shots isn't something relegated to the past. It's still the predominant way most long shots are done. (That was for the kids, not you).
@@flubblert, you mean the Pompeii *arena* or *amphitheater.* Colosseum or Coliseum is the specific name of the large and iconic amphitheater located in Rome, and it comes from the fact that it was once fronted by a giant statue (a "colossus") of emperor Nero, lost in some war or earthquake in the Middle Ages. It appears that the name Colosseum was never used by the ancient Romans themselves and only became commonplace in the early Middle Ages (before the statue was destroyed, of course). The ancient Romans likely called it simply "Amphitheatrum Caesareum" ("Caesar's amphitheater"), which was also used by similar structures in other cities of the empire, like the stunning Verona Arena in northern Italy, somewhat smaller and less famous, but much better preserved than the Colosseum (so much that it's STILL IN USE 2,000 years later for theater, opera, and other performances!).
Guys if you want to see an absolutely amazing concert, watch the live Pink Floyd Pulse Concert from 1994! I'm 65 and I've been to many, many concerts in my life and this concert was the best concert I've ever seen in my life! Light show is spectacular and naturally the music is top notch excellent! You both will be blown away, garrenteed ! God bless you both!
The trippy part is all done on instruments: slide on bass with probably some delay (Binson echo), the seagull noises are done with a wah pedal with the ins and outs reversed into a guitar using the guitar's volume and tone knobs, and the rest is done on the organ the keyboardist is playing
"How'd they get the lenses?" Yes, back in the olden times, in the long long ago, the lens mines were a treacherous place and to brave the journey there was momentous quest. Nowadays we make the lenses, a much safer process than in the times of danger and sadness that was the seventies.
3 of the 4 guys performing in Pompeii in 1971 also performed 23 years later at the Pulse Concert. All 4 of them reunited in 2005 at the Live 8 concert.
It's a shame for all his anti tyrant political ramblings, Roger himself is a tyrant and destroyed a beautiful band. If any band should have shined through the 80s and 90s, it should have been Pink Floyd. Don't get me wrong, I love momentary lapse and division bell, but it's obvious what's missing. However, David's solo albums are better than Roger's.
They are playing for the ghosts of pompeii...those scorched by the volcano...think about it...the last time there was live music there...was just before the volcano erupted...2 thousand years ago...
""Strangers passing in the street, by chance, two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me.” That was on ‘Meddle’ in 1970 and basically my message hasn’t changed." - Roger Waters
Those are some of the greatest and most poignant lyrics written by the Floyd, or perhaps ever written by anyone, poet or musician! Very profound. It’s a message that summarises the whole of Pink Floyd’s career where much of their work talks about empathy between fellow humans and also between nations.
Live at Pompeii was a whole concert film. I watched it in a theater when it was new. I suspect that a lot of people recommending it have never seen any part but this one. They performed all their best pre-Dark Side of the Moon material.
They were filmed in Pompeii for a few days in the first week of October 1971, about a month *before* Meddle's release. Then they were filmed in a Paris studio in December, doing the songs they didn't get to do in Italy: Careful with that Axe, Eugene; Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, and Mademoiselle Nobs[Seamus]. The first version of the film was released in September 1972. Shortly afterwards, the director films them at Abbey Road during the making of Dark Side of the Moon, releasing a second version in the end of 1973, subsequently getting an American release in 1974.
The full length movie details the recording of Dark Side of the Moon. They were firing on all cylinders by this point as a jam band, and the movie is a culmination of that. The album version has some really fantastic moments, but seeing a live version is amazing, especially in this setting. This is the genesis of modern Pink Floyd. Rest of the album is pretty great, but not what you’d expect.
Awesome reaction 💪 whats up with the one headphone listening guy,😬 he's only experiencing half greatness 💯 Glad you guys enjoy PINK FLOYD. STAY AWESOME
From a 1966 high school graduate and a Floyd fan from as far back as I can remember, my advice to you guys, is just soak up all the Pink Floyd you can.
That amphitheatre was built approx 2-2,500 years ago and the roads built by the Romans (ie the Italians), like the Appian Way, is still in use, still not destroyed by potholes, 2000+ years after its construction. They knew how to build stuff too last, their “concrete”/mortar is unsurpassed, it’s lasted above ground, underground and submerged in salt water. And we can’t reproduce anything as perfect today. Our modern concrete is short lived & rubbish by comparison to what they made 2000 years ago. Mainly, today, we’re rubbish at loads of stuff!
The boiling liquid is mostly hot wet clay. The lava and ash in that area has been exposed to boiling hot acidic ground water for centuries, and the minerals have broken down into clay. The general name for those bubbling mini-geysers is "mud pots."
Guys that was really a great reaction. From a Pink Floyd fan for over 40 years , Man its good too see & please try to listen to all there stuff over the years if you can . Enjoy
The "lava-scene" is from the Phlegraean Fields just northwest of Napoli, not south like Vesuv and Pompeji and probably way more dangerous. It´s not a mountain, but part of a leftover of an ancient super-volcano which became increasingly active again in the last years - similar to Yellowstone.
this song live is really great. The emotions, music, editing on this recording is unreal! Personaly If I were you I would get super high and listen to the studio version. The quality there... its truly one of the greatest song OAT
Nick Mason is on drums, Roger Waters is on Base Guitar, Richard Write is on Keyboards & vocals, and David Gilmour, perhaps the best guitarist in recent times. This was filmed in 1971.
Been a fan since 1969. My daughter is also a huge fan of Pink Floyd. You can’t just pick A song but need to listen albums from the beginning to end….and not talk.
If you guys go to Yellowstone National Park you can see similar volcanic activity. The park sits inside a gigantic volcano so there are not just geysers but also bubbling pools of mud and boiling water. It’s insane. People fall in and dissolve.
the band was there, the film crew was there and 2 unknown stray kids had wondered in and were allowed to stay, imagine being one of those 2 kids, the film maker had returned years later working on stuff for the directors cut, and was approached by one of those kids, who asked him, you remember those 2 kids? well i was one of them, he was grown by then.
Side notes: When David Gilmour was asked if he’d ever perform “Echoes” again, his reply was “Not without Rick”. Sadly, organist Richard Wright passed away in 2008 after suffering from cancer. An interesting video from this same time is Pink Floyd “Chit Chat With Oysters” at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OcwbxVIhn1I.htmlsi=qm5QpCnQvWDZ2JX2 It’s interesting to see the guys taking a break from their work on this “Live at Pompeii” video and just having a meal and joking around together. Also of note: David Gilmour returned to perform again at this same arena at Pompeii in 2006. In addition to the concert footage, there’s video of him, his wife Polly and some of his kids visiting the surrounding area plus some pre-show behind the scenes footage. And they invited some very cool guests to perform during various parts of the show: David Crosby and Graham Nash from Crosby, Stills & Nash, David Bowie, and Richard Wyatt are the ones I recall. Some behind the scenes video with these guys is included as well. I just got the DVD of this concert, but haven’t had a chance to watch all of it yet. I’m hoping there’s more behind the scenes footage.
You guys are the next best thing to Bevis and Butthead doing reactions!!! Love the full album reactions. You definitely started with the varsity by going to Pink Floyd at the start but glad you did.
Now go watch their performance of "One Of These Days" from this film. If you pay attention, you'll see Nick Mason lose a stick during the fiercest part of the jam and grab a new one without missing a beat. One of the sickest things I have ever seen a drummer do! :)
1971 i was 10, and dark side was about to come out, i have had the privilege of growing up on the floyd, and they never get old, well the guys did but the music did not
The live at Pompeii was probably one of the biggest achievements in the cultural word of music. But Pink Floyd wasnt the only ones who performed a show with the same concept of an historic location for humanity. The other example of this is Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu Pichu, where they performed a live session at the heights of the Andes Mountains in the ruins of Machu Pichu. I highly suggest to check them out! There is a lot of crazy music out there!
“Riding the Gravy train” - you might want to check out Have a Cigar if you’re getting into the Floyd. In fact, the whole album “Wish you were here” bangs
One really cool thing about this movie is that you could go see it in theaters in 1974 and it also included studio footage of the making of Dark Side of the Moon. Imagine seeing it on the big screen
Hi there. You haven't heard about the Roman City of Pompeii? That's VESUVIUS volcano in the city of Napolis Italy. Pompeii is a city where everybody was literally turned into ashes whyle they were at home during the night time. Many are still in the same position when they died centuries ago. You can surch for Ruins of Pompeii. Take care 🤘🤘
The overhead shot, was probably with a crane, which was what was used back then for overheads, as drones were a long way in the future. You have to appreciate how legendary, and almost mythical this performance was at the time, because the only time you would see it, was if it was on TV (very rare) or at a cinema, because computers and RU-vid were a long time in the future, and even VCRs weren't widely owned. So back then, Floyd fans would talk about where they saw it, and most had never seen it and couldn't watch it, even if they wanted to.
Without Echoes, there would have been no Dark Side of the Moon. This production perfected the long form song format. The bubbling you saw was just hot mud. Ground water seeps through the rock and as it gets close to the lava beneath the rock, the water boils and makes steam which rised and heats the mud up. The aerial shot was shot from the rim of the stadium. Everything back then was shot on 35 mm film. Optic lens physics has been known for centuries. The glass technology was actually better back then because everything has moved to digital capture ccd technology so the skills for high technology glass lens manufacture have eroded.
In case you didn't know, when they stand closer to each other towards the end, with themselves projected on a screen behind them, not only are they not really playing, but they're also in a completely different location: a Paris studio. A couple of months later. The absence of Rick Wright's beard clearly tells us we're not in Pompeii anymore. He might have shaved it off in Pompeii, but surely not mid-song.
Are they reading the chat? As Floyd "newbies" maybe they need to know that this is what directly preceded "Dark Side" (and how this same movie shows them at Abbey Road Studios working on the early versions of the Dark Side tracks).
@@robertdubin5850 I always forget that, thanks. I think it's just because Echoes is so clearly the beginning of what they then did with the "big four."
The location was chosen for the acoustics. Some of the film went missing, so not all angles could be edited in. This was 1971, so not filmed on digital equipment. Still, it gives me so much joy. 😊🎸🥁
It's not a Colosseum guys, it's an amphi theatre, they played plays on it and had other performances. True, some places they also used Colosseums for that but where they had a theatre, they normally used that for those things and left the fighting for colosseums. In Rome, they also used the Colosseum for plays simply because the theatre wasn't large enough to house all the people who came to see it. Theatres were typically smaller than colosseums.
Best react channel i have ever seen, you guys are awsome, can't wait for you to listen to the rest of Pink Floyd catalog, ofc Animals (best album)and the Wall, but i would like to mention some hidden gems, Obscured by Clouds is also a really good record in it s very own way, its a movie soundtrack so its very different from there big albums in the 70's, but still good music, btw it came out between Meddle and DSOTM, also i would recommend listening to The Division Bell after.
The most insane live performances I've heard are from the live album Swans Are Dead by Swans. It was meant to be their last release after they disbanded, though they would get back together a decade later. It's almost two and a half hours and consists of material from a 1997 tour and a 1995 tour. The live version of Blood Promise if one of the greatest things I've heard. I would love to see a reaction to it, as no one has done a reaction to that album.
filming with a crane boom, there was no drones in 1971, no autotune, no drum machines, no computer help whatsoever, back then it was all done by musicians who could write/play and sing no help needed, opening and closing shot was shot with a stationary cam on top way back, top of the last row, nosebleed seats, using zoom, they did have zoom back then
Back in high school - late 70s - they would show the Live at Pompeii at midnight showings at the show on Fridays.... Not sure how many of us who were there remember being there.
"How did they have the lenses and shit?" Mate use your brain...It was a colosseum - great fucking walls around the whole arena. Did you NOT see them in the background? So you set up a scaffolding platform on the top of the walls right at the back. Then you use the professional camera systems that shot ALL the movies back in the day from the 50's through the 70's. They knew how to make lenses back in those days. Except in those days the glass was hand ground to get the best optical quality. Now go and listen to it ALL again in the audio format. Have a few beers or dubes first if you must. then put this record on. Don't have a record player...? GET one! they are pretty cheap.
Its great to see youngsters enjoying music ive loved for 45 yrs, but never never never interrupt a Gilmore solo. PS have you noticed that Andrew Llyod Webber stole the riff for phantom of the opera
Pink Floyd is deeper than the Mariana trench, higher than any satellites orbiting earth, cooler than an iceberg in a river of liquid nitrogen, hotter than a solar flare of lava spouted from the sun, smoother than a quantum stabilized atom mirror, more Zen than 10,000 Buddhist monasteries, larger than what we know as our universe. Their music is an enigma that is beyond what we are capable of comprehending.
It was a movie made about Pink Floyd , director thought it would be amazing to shoot in the ancient amphitheater playing for the lost souls of the volcano
There was no drones, they used Cranes. Also, they were very young here. What you hear is what you get. Talent, Skill and Perfection! :) I grew up during the greatest music and musicians of all time.
The reason why the did it there is because of the natural reverb the amphitheater provided. They didn’t have to add any post production because it was so good there. Not to mention it’s an eerie and straight up badass place to play.
Hello, contrary to what you mentioned, according to the film's director, outside the Coliseum you couldn't hear anything, since Pompeii is a touristic city, all movements in the city and outside the Coliseum continued normally and did not interfere. I heard almost nothing from the band outside due to the anti-acoustic structure applied in the construction of the Coliseum. Advanced technology from Roman antiquity. Interesting isn't it?
Try elp, 3 musos at top of their game, crazy live videos keith emerson playing organ, piano, carl palmer class drummer, greg lake bass and lead guitar, they will blow your minds.
It wasn't that they had a lifetime of experience to play so well, they were young. But they were poets and artists and musicians just breaking the rules.
11:32 - Acid was definitely NOT their “cup of tea”. Especially after what happened to their former band member Syd Barrett. Syd did too much acid and basically fried his brain. Syd was an original founding member of Pink Floyd. When he became mentally unstable in 1967 they brought in long time friend David Gilmour. The initial idea was that David would do the live gigs and Syd would continue on behind the scenes as song writer in a similar way as with Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. But that didn’t really work out. Syd did go on to make two solo albums, but he had a lot of help from Dave Gilmour and other Pink Floyd band mates. Though Syd lived for many years afterwards, he never really recovered mentally and died in 2006. RIP Roger (Syd) Barrett.
