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This is a Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii - the city that was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in ancient times and then uncovered in modern times. They literally played a gig to no one (but the road crew and camera / recording folks) in an ancient Roman theatre. First time there had been live entertainment there in 1900 or so years. Completely wild.
I think there's footage out there either with one of the band members or someone on the crew/management who said that there were 3 kids who snuck in and wanted to watch. They were spotted and told that if they watched quietly and stayed put in one spot, they could watch the performance. So somewhere in that amphitheater - outside of the shots' framing - 3 Italian kids got to witness one of the dopest live performances ever recorded and I bet they tell that story every year at Christmas.
@@yodude9624 Sure it's been said, but do you think everyone reads all the comments below? No. The average person who watches these videos only reads a few of the comments if at all. There are probably many who have no idea what Pompeii was. This idea should be pointed out often.
Alot of people don't realize that they had provide all of the power and everything in order to do this and was done at the same time as Dark Side of the moon
True story. In 1978 I was VP of my high school student council. Every year on senior day we would go to the HS auditorium and watch a movie that the student council picked out. Well, somehow I convinced the rest of the council (must have been my undeniable charm) to pick this one, Pink Floyd at Pompeii! Needless to say a few young minds were either warped or completely blown that fine day.
Sometimes Pink Floyd has had two or more people singing the same vocals at the same time, but other times Gilmour double tracks himself, offset by a fraction of a second.
I've been a huge fan of Pink Floyd since my early 20's when I first got out of the Marines. I'm now closing in on 72 years old and still I never get tired of listening to them.
This was live, one of the best performances ever. You will also need to watch part 2 of this song as there is another 10mins of this track to go. The video is in 2 parts but it’s one incredible 23min journey of a song
It's kind of funny that out of all the Echoes reactions on RU-vid, almost none of them ever actually watch Part 2. Pretty every reaction now matter how supposedly "blown away" they are by the music, they can't be bothered, apparently. I mean, you supposed to watch the whole thing at once. Watching part of a song and then waiting god know how long to finish it, kinda kills the vibe anyway.
What's amazing is that this is done LIVE. For the time, to get such a GREAT live recording without the advantage of modern digital equipment is incredible. The harmonies of Gilmour and Wright are just incredible as well.
Among so many things to admire the Floyd on, the fact they invested early on in PA and equipment to get exactly what they wanted is one of my favorite things about them.
You are in the presence of Gods my young brothers. Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. That's pretty much the God list right there. I'm 66 and I love that you are enjoying PF just as much as I always have. They are my number 1. Love your reaction video!!
It was filmed in '71, released in '72. "Echoes" is on their 1971 album "Meddle." David Gilmour on lead guitar and vocals, Rick Wright on keyboards and vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass. Andrew Lloyd Webber stole this riff for his musical "Phantom of the Opera." They decided not to sue him. You guys should do "Dark Side of the Moon" live at Pulse from '94; it's epic!
Excellent boys! It was a live performance, to record themselves. 1972. It’s a whole movie that also shows them in the studio recording “Dark Side of the Moon”. “The Wall”movie is epic too. That’s 1979
The comments have told you now, about Pompeii... LIVE, just meaning, NOT previously recorded. These guys performed this LIVE, but just to crew and such, as the Pompeii lava still smolders and the relics still stand, in part. Only Pink Floyd, right? Yes, this is part one of two. 👍
Not just any city. Pompeii was destroyed and quite literally buried by a pyroclastic flow from a volcanic eruption in 79 CE. This was filmed in the old colosseum.
Pompeii was an ancient Roman city that was buried by the ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the amphitheater is like 2000 years old.... This was filmed in 1971, same year the album Meddle came out. They split the song Echoes to start and end the movie with this song, on the album it is one track, takes the whole side. There were actually several evolving versions of this movie. The first contained only what they filmed at Pompeii, but then they added stuff when they were in studio working on the Dark Side of the Moon album. Includes behind the scene clips as well.
Other than a few kids that snuck in the amptheater, there was no audience. Everyone you see in the shot other than the band is the crew. The kids were told they could stay as long as they didn't get in the way.
BACK IN THE DAY: This was played on the Big-Screen midnight showings in the middle 1970's. Nothing like seeing the Roman coliseum from wall to wall... The Theater Amplifier System was good enough to make the walls shake..!
Back in the day before music videos, you could go to a movie theater and see stuff like this. Concerts, Festivals, etc., sometimes done in sort of a documentary form. We didn't have TV channels you could watch this stuff on, and it wasn't the big chain theaters either. They were the local independent "Art theaters" that played this stuff, along with foreign and "underground" movies.
This was filmed in 1971, released in 1972, when the band members were around 25. 45 years later,in 2016, lead singer/vocalist David Gilmour returned to the same location to perform some Pink Floyd songs in front of a live audience.
Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano and was buried under 4 to 6 m of volcanic ash, the place still has people frozen in time as it happened, covered in and incased in ash like statues . its a strange place . and the floyd decided to play inside the roman amphitheatre, probably just because its a cool place to play some tunes . all my best to you and yours from Liverpool
The famous black strat. David Gilmour auctioned his guitar collection for charity. The black strat alone made almost 4 million dollars. Bought by Jim Ersay the owner of the Indianapolis Colts. This is only part 1 there’s a part 2 equally as great.
This was recorded for a special tv show. Everything went wrong. It was a 6 days session but it took 3 days to bring enough electricity. So they filmed only 3 songs ( Echoes, One of these days and Sauceful of Secrets) and the rest was made in a studio in Paris.
Who else but the Floyd would conceive of and produce a "live" concert film that takes place in an ancient Roman coliseum with no actual audience but the road and film crew. Gotta love these guys. Btw, this song is off their album Meddle released in1971 prior to the release of DSOTM. While this is an awesome performance (and this is only part 1) the studio version is far superior. Also, this movie contains clips of them working on Dark Side in the studio...very cool stuff. Up to this point they were still considered an experimental or even avant-garde group that was known for their extended free form jams during their concerts. They made their living touring and making soundtracks for art house type films until the tremendous success of Dark Side provided them the resources to produce the legendary albums that followed. Way, way, way ahead of their time.
Untouchable indeed, they and Led Zeppelin are in a league of their own and everyone else lines up behind them. You just viewed part 1, you need to do part 2 next. This amazing song opened and closed the documentary about that concert there. Also there are great takes of Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun and Careful With That Axe, Eugene! Floyd will continue to freak you guys out, their catalog is expansive and was utterly amazing Live. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
@@BrewerUMich91 And Zeppelin never had a bad album, Floyd before Meddle can't say that, their last album with Waters, the final cut, Sucks. I love both bands, have a better day.
Yes. One of first music videos as a live performance. IMO one of baddest songs of all time. I was just hoping for your channel to react to this live Pink Floyd the other day when you guys did side one of WYWH. Love hanging out with you! Can’t wait for side ✌️
Pretty "Koool" wasn't guys !! Groundbreaking in it's time playing Live at Pompeii 🎶 This was the period after the "Meddle" Album and during the recording of "Dark Side" and this song "Echoes" is one of Classic Prog's Greatest Epics !! 👍🎵🎼✌
So glad you guys did this video. It has to be one of the best filmed performances ever. Probably one of the first music videos. The David Gilmour guitar solo was incredible. Great reaction!
No pleasure can compare to the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more you guys make others happy, the greater will be your own happiness and the deeper sense of having served your numerous fans. You always bring great music and understanding to so many. Thanks again, guys. Keep up the hard work, and making us all smile. Especially us old dawgs in our 70s.
I always come back to your review cause it’s so real from guys who really appreciate music. Just wanted to mention the atmosphere in the coliseum with daylight fading and the cinematography and the music with David Gilmour’s amazing solo❤️, this is just a work of art.
nice reaction guys, fantastic unique band, as I think you said this is only half the song, you gotta to do part 2, or start again and do the whole song. When Echoes came out on vinyl in 1971 the song was the entire second side of the Meddle album, 23 minutes of perfection. All versions are amazing but the studio version is outstanding. Keep it going, lovin it.
One of my favorites of all time. The lyrics are just badass! Gilmour is the King of Slow Hand! I don't care what anybody says. 🤣You guys are right, this was part of the "LIVE in Pompeii" video. You should see the whole thing. In between filming the LIVE stuff they show them working on recording the Dark Side of the Moon album. You get to actually see what they're using to make all of those cool sounds.
Any time you can see Gilmour making his magic is a great experience. Mason, Wright and Watters also have outstanding performances. This was a small part of the overall "concert".
David Gilmour guitar, and Richard Wright keyboards, had very similar voices. Richard was maybe and octave higher but they complimented each other very well. David Gilmour went back to Pompeii and recorded a solo show just a few years ago with a full audience. It's great!
Pompei was a city that was buried by the volcano Vesuvius in the year 59 AD, and was found and dug up back in the 1900s. This was the first time anyone had played in that stadium in almost 2000 years. Maybe the first ever concert there. And that footage of them walking around is from nearby at the still active volcano at the site in Italy. So, they are playing this live at a stadium that was buried under lava and then carefully excavated over the past 50 years or so.
I’ll never get tired of hearing that, 1st heard it in 80 as an 11 year old, best friends 17 year old brother said check this out and we were blown away and had to hear everything they’d done after that!
Also, one of the founders of Pink Floyd went crazy, ended up in on a sale asylum they wrote songs like lunatic nine songs, dedicated to this gentleman, whose name escapes me, but he cofounded the band Pink Floyd, and was apparently the genius behind some of the music
The David Gilmour, Richard Wright duet in this song is absolutely beautiful! This song, because of the harmonizing, created a special connection between the two of them that lasted until Ricks death from cancer in 2008. Below is a link to this song, "Echoes", live in Gdansk Poland in 2006, just two years before Rick Wrights death. I've heard it's the last time the two of them, Gilmour and Wright, performed the song, it's a very special video in that regard alone. It's another superb live Pink Floyd performance, and both of them are in their 60's. Also, they do both parts 1 and 2. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fZBOCbX2v8o.html
Nice reaction guys. Worshipping at the altar of Floyd! You guys are so young, I've been grooving to this song and this performance since I bought the record in the 70's, and got a hold of a VHS tape copy of the Pompeii docu-concert in about '81. The whole concert and documentary is available on DVD in case you want to see whole thing. Totally worth every penny. This band is the shit, was the shit, will always be the shit. In 500 years they will still be studied by music historians the same way we study Bach and Beethoven. Nice to see the universal power of music on a new generation!
Makes me so happy to see you guys discovering and digging this tune, and all the others by Pink Floyd. Back in the day, this music was so far ahead of it's time, that few people could appreciate it. I had a few friends with whom I would listen to Pink Floyd every day, but most everyone I knew just could not get into it, and would actually laugh and tell me to turn it off if I played their records. It was just over the head of so many people. For one thing, people were used to hearing short songs with a certain structure, and anything outside of that format was just not interesting, or incomprehensible, or something. Love all your reactions guys, and I hope to see many more. The studio version of this is worth a listen, as well as other live versions in later years. I have so many stories, having been listening to them and going to their concerts since 1973. Gilmour played an absolutely stunning show at this same stadium in Pompeii back in 2016 I think it was. I was not able to get over to see him play in Pompeii, but I did fly up from Florida to see him play Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden a few months before his show in Pompeii.
Normally I don't like reactions to the live versions of songs but this is definitely an exception. One of my favorite performances of my favorite Pink Floyd song.
That's David Gilmour guitarist, and Richard Wright keyboardist doing the main vocals on this. However David Gilmour, and bassist Roger Waters (not singing here) are the two main voices you hear on most of their most popular songs. Lots of trading off leads and harmonizing going on. All three have distinct voices that sound great together and serve the material well.
Another thing Pink Floyd were known for was having the most equipment, and the best equipment, of any band at the time. Look at those microphones. When have you seen a rock band back then using Sennhauser mikes? Never.
This whole movie is a phenomenal example of their musicianship pre Dark Side! I was always rewinding my VHS version of this as a youth. It also has studio footage of them recording Dark Side of the Moon.
Just unsubed about half of my reaction channels narrowing down to the genuine reactors and you guys are now on the top of my list of real deal reactions thanks guys for the insightful, interesting and genuine reactions and for having an open mind to this classic music from back in my day it’s obvious y’all know what your doing
Pink Floyd had a knack for hitting every note that makes your body contort. Just saw some live floyd hits this weekend with a twist. What a treat this is
There are so many firsts that Pink Floyd used for this tune. The opening note was Rick Wright playing a grand piano fed through and echo device (Binson Echorec) and also a Leslie speaker, which you may know is a setup with a speaker and an amp, and there is a rotating baffle siting in between the speaker and the amp. Produces a very distinctive sound. Both together is totally unique. At the end of Echoes (which took up a whole side of the Meddle album, the one right before Dark Side of the Moon), they play a really crazy effect called a Shepard Tone, which is also known as the Barber Pole effect. It sounds like the notes keep getting higher and higher, but it is actually a loop. It is an example of an auditory version of an optical illusion: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LeslieCabinetSlowFastSlow.ogg
The collusium was full that day, they put the concert on for the people who died..😏 they made enough noise to wake the dead put it that way, the acoustics of a round theatre are unbelievable though, I was in the choir as a kid and our cathedral is round..😳 Liverpool, home of the Beatles and the Catholic cathedral is known as Paddys wigwam 🤣🤣🤣 singing in there was amazing, the sound bounces around and comes back at ya, I first saw them 1974..the Liverpool Empire theatre, Dark Side of the Moon tour 😊 A-MAZ-ING....😳I got the Meddle album (Echoes) in1972 for my birthday off my brother..👍
I really appreciate that ya'll are covering such a wide variety of music. It is truly culture and roots us to the past. Side note, David Gilmore went back with his solo band playing most of Pink Floyd's collection plus a few of his solo hits and it's at the same venue, just restored. Have a watch!
Quite possibly the most phenomenal live performance of all time ! I love the studio version but this live version takes it to another level . This is iconic
With this reaction, digging deep into Pink Floyd, you guys are setting the bar very high for other reactors. Your combined musical acumen is so great to see and understand. Dig this channel.
Back in the old days Pink Floyd was shrouded in mystery, they would release albums and have no pictures of the band in them, they would release music and you would hardly know anything about the band. Nowadays a quick Google search will tell you everything you want to know, but in those days? You would dig for glimpses.
The eruption was in the year 79 just about 47 years after Christ on the Cross. The town had a part with basically villas/mansions on the coast and trade people in town. The rich people got on boats and went out offhsore and survived but the ash came down so fast thet the people in town were buried alive, They have been digging out these Roman ruins since the 60s. They found a mummy of a guy walking his dog on a leash, When they dug up the downtown area where all the shops were they basically found a "food court" like you'd have at a modern mall. There were big tables with deep dish bowls full of fish, chicken and other meat bones, and since people were illiterate there were paintings of fish, chickens and cows next to each of the dugout areas. So basically you could go shopping and order some lunch....Haunting music for a haunted place....
This is one of the best live performances, EVER.. Period! Music should be known as Before Floyd, and After Floyd. That tempo change, into that groovy, funky section makes my face melt, EVERYTIME I hear it. Floyd was like no other band, before or after. They will never be duplicated.. Just copied.
Nick Mason(the drummer) is the absolute star of this performance. Everyone is grooving and feeding off of him. It's beautiful. Truly one of the most underrated drummers of his generation.
Great reaction! Don't forget Part 2 - you've only heard half of this epic song!! They split it into two for this video - it begins and ends the 'concert'. This version really amps up the groove from the amazing studio counterpart.
One of the effects Gilmour uses on his guitar work here, is that he played through a wah-wah pedal plugged in back to front, which was a mistake originally, but they found a way to use it musically to great affect.
There's just something about the Floyd that is different, and I don't use that word lightly, like it is so overused in today's vernacular. Their music is overly simplistic but hits deeper than most bands who try to be complex and deep. Floyd knows how to craft a song. They have mastered the build, and they're also, as you said, getting you locked in on the groove. Mesmerizing. Nothing like them out there.
These guys were so incredible as a LIVE group. I'm glad you got to this, but in reality, this is about half the length of the album version & I really think you should explore that one.
I was 17 the 1st time I saw Pink Floyd live at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia way back in September 1987. They opened the show with Echoes! My teenage mind was blown for real! I never thought I would ever hear it live. I was there with friends who are not here but are. RIP Bobby, Ruthie, JFK Stadium, & Mr. Mason. Floyd reminds me of good times. Nice review guys & take care.
The speaker on the left is 100% correct, the vocal here and in the studio version is Richard Wright and David Gilmore singing together, one of the charms of the arrangement. And yeah, that funky part after the first verses is seriously strong. Wouldn't a "Living Colour" cover of the whole song be a treat? Get Bernie Worrell to guest for the keyboard. I'm digging your presentation. Thanks!
For the past 2 years Echoes has been my No.1 most played track on Spotify. The 2001/Echoes mix is just so tight, almost like Echoes was written for the part.
