Pink Floyd - Time | The clock was... a BASS?! ⏰🤯 

As a bass player of 20 years, I feel violated learning this

When I saw Roger do it live, my jaw dropped

Roger may not be the flashiest bass player but his timing is impeccable

I will never hear that piece the same way again...remarkable

Everyone in Pink Floyd is and was a genius.

Damn that is actually kind of shocking to learn.

the use of a slide on his bass with an echo effect to create the ambience in the middle section of echoes is another example of Waters’ brilliance

Wait until you hear Gilmour explain how he did the Comfortably Numb solo on a clock.

That is insane, makes Roger Waters even more genius

I heard a Richard Wright story, that Roger, in the early day's of Floyd, wanted to use ordinary household items to recreate sounds for music. For days, the four members would use rubber bands, cooking pans and other items, deadening the pans to sound like drums and stretching rubber bands to sound like the bass. Until Richard finally realized this is insane, "why would we do this, we already have instruments to create the sounds we need." Too bad they didn't capture that on film.

That’s crazy. When you listen to it after this it’s obvious but I never noticed b4

Most of the unusual sounds you've heard in Pink Floyd records WERE produced by instruments but, with various technical additions. Most musicians won't even discover those sounds through the lifetime of their music journey.

I'm glad I wasn't the only bassist completely blown away by this fact

Holy shit! I can't be the only one who immediately started listening to Time to see if it sounded just like this. Insane.

Guy Pratt is an amazing musician.

The scream exactly right before “we don’t need no education” is Roger’s inhale-scream that he did on Careful with that Axe.

Probably the most creative thing Roger ever did on the bass. "But what about that fretless bit on The Wall??" That was Dave.

He's the first person to accurately explain the feeling of tripping and playing the guitar without tripping

I saw him do it in concert a couple years back, thinks that's how I found out. Was mind blown, far away but I saw his wrist moving with clock sound I was like nooo waay.. US & THEM tour it was brilliant 🤯

You just have to appreciate and respect Waters and Gilmour! Both legends of the game! Very early geniuses

Read an interview with Dave years ago and he was putting Waters down for not even playing bass on some songs. Read an interview with Waters where they told him what Dave said. Waters said something like: ‘.. who cares who plays bass- I just want the song to be great.’ Yes Roger, that is correct.👍🏻

I knew this 35 years ago when I was 10 about Roger Walters and how he created a ticking clock for Time with his bass. It still blows my mind even today.

John Myung from dream theater makes a noise that sounds exactly like a bell by using a harmonic on his bass on a song called glass prison. Dream theater also did an entire Pink Floyd album live DVD and it's amazing.

Gilmore and Waters were two geniuses working the magic of 7 men

Roger was truly ahead of his “Time”.

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

Guy Pratt… easily top 5 bassist. His bassline for Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer’ ruled the ‘80s.

Wow- I put it on & holy cow that’s exactly what he’s doing...feel like I’m hearing this part of the song for the first time 😂

Dark Side of the Moon is my ultimate album. I have listened to it from it release date. I know loads of little weird facts about the album but never new the ticking clock was done on the bass. Insane.

Wowwww this one BLEW me away. I listen to that song everyday!

Greatest song of all time. No pun intended. Beautiful lyrics that you can use to guide you through life, and one of the most emotional guitar solos of all time by David Gilmour. Waters pours his heart out in the lyrics, David with his strings.

All of them made sounds for everything they did. Never see this again it was absolutely MAGICAL!

Greatest band ever, happy 50th birthday Dark Side of the Moon!

I learned this when covering this song with a band I was in about 10 years ago. When our drummer told me to do this I thought he was nuts, but when I tried it the sound was perfect. Always keep an open mind when your bandmates offer suggestions, you just may learn something new.

the power of actual music made by actual musician.

This unorthodox way of going about things was probably what made Roger and Syd work so well together in the early days.

Roger also made those chicken noises with the bass on Interstellar Overdrive

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.....

I remember making some weird noises with my bass when I bought it. Never thought you could actually use that to make music in such a crazy way

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day...

What, what, what? 🤯🎸🔥

I saw him play it live like that on the last tour! They had a close-up of that technique on the video screen, I couldn't believe that at nearly 80 years old he kept it locked in for that whole long introduction!

This was so cool to learn!

Ticking away The moments that make up a dull day...

I thought this was a pretty well-known fact. He did it on every live stage.

This will forever change the way I hear this song from now on.

Yeah, I thought that was some other randomly-generated electronic sound. I wouldn’t have realized without checking here that Roger created that on his bass.

Guy Pratt is the man. Touring with floyd since 87. Saw him on David's rattle that lock tour. Him and John carin where integral in the live pink floyd sound post waters

On croyait que les sons spéciaux des Pink Floyd étaient électroniques et créés par des instruments sophistiqués alors que la plupart venaient de leurs guitares 🎸 batteries et orgues. Un talent hors normes les mecs ! 😮

I remember seeing a cover band of Pink Floyd since I'm too young and being blown away by echoes, the wind sound halfway thru the track was made by the guitars and they were "strumming" in like a circular motion was very cool to see and no other bands use those techniques

Not surprised at all he is talking about Roger Waters.Genius Brilliant Lyricist Composer Songwriter there are no surprises anymore. PINK FLOYD THE EPITOME OF MUSIC (SHINE ON 💎) 🎼☮️👊🇨🇦

I met Guy in a Brisbane music shop a decade ago.... a true gentleman, so down to earth! he was stoked that I gave him props for his vocals in Run

I can’t believe I didn’t know that. I always try to do it on my cowbells when I’m jamming and wondered how they actually did it

I've listened to Dark Side of the Moon every single night when I lay down to sleep, regardless of what that day has held something in that music gives me a calm feeling of everything is going to be ok. When the pause is over and the bells,chimes start the song Time i have a certain feeling I can't explain but it's basically everything is fine you can rest now and I can crash within a few minutes if I choose to instead of enjoying more of the album! Try it with 100% open mind.

There was also a lot of recorded clocks. A lot of artists borrowed those sounds.

Blowing a lot of people's minds right now

Holy shit ...what??...lol that's awesome man

Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands of all time. I’m 45 years old and even though they were a little bit before my time in the mid 90’s ,1995,when I went to college my friends and I were on a huge classic rock kick. We still listened to Hip Hop,Metal,Grunge,80’s Glam Rock,EDM(which we called Techno back then)but classic rock was huge for us at that time. We went to a lot of concerts in the 90’s and one of my favorite shows was Steve Miller. They were amazing and a lot of bras were thrown up on stage. I guess that’s a big Steve Miller thing for women to do at their concerts. Man we seen so many awesome shows in the 90’s. Metallica,Megadeth,Korn,Pantera,Slayer,Ozzy,Deftones,Soundgarden,STP,Alice in Chains,Tool. When I lived in LA from 1997-2006 we were at a smaller club and out of nowhere “Radiohead” started playing. They were not on the marquee and just decided to play for a hour. That was a thing that happened in LA from time to time. We use to hangout at the Malibu Inn in Malibu and they would have local band’s play there like college bands. One night a good college band was playing there and the Malibu Inn had a restaurant on the right side if you where looking at the place from the parking lot and the bar area was on the left hand side. There was also a outside bar area further left. The news got around that Tom Petty and his wife were having dinner and Petty came over to the bar area after dinner and ended up jamming with the college band for a couple hours. It was amazing. This was in 1997-98 and I had a cell phone,a Motorola Startech,which was the dopest phone out at the time. But not everyone had a cellphone at that time and if this happened ten years later,not even say 5 years later,the bar would of been packed because people would of called or text a few people and the place would of been packed. It eventually became that way but it was incredible and I loved LA for stuff like that. But my favorite Pink Floyd album is “Animals” followed by “Dark side” and The Wall. Also “Wish You Were Here “ There is one album called “Ummagumma” and it’s definitely very strange to say the least.

One word....ART! Two words....ART!

The best mix of brilliance, perfection and art = Pink Floyd.

I listen to this album on vinyl while I was tripping on mushrooms on my 21st birthday and I've never been the same since lol I love it

I remember seeing him live and when I saw him playing during time my mind was blown

How long have we been listening to Dark Side and didn’t know this? 🤷🏼‍♂️👏

Played in many bands the covered this song. This opening etude was played on everything ,but the bass. "NO WAY", mind blown!

I had always assumed that was done by Nick Mason using those wooden percussion blocks. Well, it was percussion, in a way - percussion on the bass guitar.

Content like this is why I love youtubes

Guy Pratt did this live when I went to a David Glimour concert. It blew my mind

Makes me appreciate the song even more.

You can see that in the concerts, how haven't you notice it

I thought it was made by pushing the string down on the pole of the pickup

I listened to the whole album for the first time about 2 weeks ago while driving alone at night. Almost no cars on the road but me. I thought that was a heartbeat. The alarm clocks ringing scared the fuck out of me and got my heart rate up. The opening of Time before the vocals had me on edge after getting jump scared by the bells. It gave me the feeling of being followed and had me checking my rearview. I don't know how people could listen to this while tripping out. Seems like it would be terrifying.

Always assumed it was a metronome.

Time is my favorite pink floyd song. Literally makes me cry and re think my life everything I hear it

I used to love that song... Now it gives me anxiety though :/

most underrated band of all time

Alot of effects were created by feeding notes into a sequencer and then replayed on a track. I can see how, in the studio, Roger could play two bars of this and then the sequencer would just repeat it as long as they needed it.

This is why today music bother me alot..

😂😂😂 What’s funny to me is I covered this with a rock trio and I was trying figure out how to incorporate the clock. I looped the clock part on my bass similar to how he just showed it and yeah I’m dying I had no idea that’s what the clock sound was

Bass is indeed the ultimate musical instrument 😊

I go by the spot up in Warner Bros studios on the back lot where they shot the iconic photograph for “Wish You Were Here” with the two business men shaking hands and one on fire! Blows my mind every time! And that lot has iconic spots all over it!

😮 50yrs of my life just changed

I got lucky to see roger live, seeing him do this blew my mind and my friends minds

These are details that made Floyd better than everyone else.

Pink floyd makes sounds that sounds like music to your ears

Well if there was any doubt that Pink Floyd was one of the greatest bands of all time this should make it crystal clear.

HOLY WHAT! Everything i knew was a lie. The clock sound was SO PRECISE, I thought it was a prerecorded sound effect. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY MIND BLOWING!

Like a magician showing how they did their trick.

Saw this about 12 years ago when I saw him live. It blew me away how long he kept that rhythm

Holy shit, I would never have guessed !! Incredible :D

Time is one hell of a ride for a song

I didn't know this and it never occurred to me. Gonna go listen now...

my first reaction, thats FUGGING OUTSTANDING!

How did you not know this. I've known for years...or at least 15 years what that effect was. I could tell by the way he played his rickenbacher on that Live at Pompeii footage. Brilliant.

Oh man , the trips I went on ! With pink Floyd!

50 years have got behind me. Favorite cut on DSOTM. Surprised no one knew this!

Just another reason I'm glad my dad introduced me to pink floyd. They are amazing!

Wow i'm so surprised to see that this isn't a common fact, i thought it was one of the main reasons floyd is so successful, for their experimental genius and professional skill. Listen to reaction in G or interstellar overdrive live in stockholm and you can hear all the noises/experimental rock fragments of the music. Pow R Toc H, Matilda mother, scream thy last scream, anything with syd barrett honestly shows their amazing skill and experimental genius. I love playing bass along to these songs and they are one of my biggest inspirations for making music today, and it's because they invented a lot of the music we know today. As far as i'm concerned they invented noise rock, punk, and even an early formula of sabbath metal. You can hear the seeds being planted listening to nick masons perfect pounding drums or roger waters immaculate groovy basslines, along with rick wrights snake charmer organ playing on the farfisa compact duo with the binson echorec, and of course Syd barrett's genius songwriting that i can only describe as like reading a book except in music form.

Taking away the moments that make up dull day ....

Pink Floyd Is So Iconic. Major Trailblazers of there time. Just magnificently amazing. Makes me want to go listen to album when I get home

WUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT???😲😲😲 I thought it was Nick Mason doing woodblocks! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯