David Gilmour describes this song as a conversation between his guitar and Richard Wright's keyboards. He also said, after Richard passed away, that he would never perform the song again.
Last time Echoes played together at a concert in Gdansk. By the way, this is another great concert where the band is accompanied by the Polish Symphony Orchestra. It's definitely worth seeing (it's here on youtube in full)...
@@the-NightStar As far as I've seen in videos, they try to get as close as possible to the original during their performances... They even copied the concept of the stage show. No question - with a lot of attention to detail, but in the end it's just another cover band, nothing more, nothing less.
David Gilmour, the skill and the talent of Pink Floyd Nick Mason, the pulse and drive of Pink Floyd Roger Waters, the attitude and brains of Pink Floyd Richard Wright (R.I.P.), the art, atmosphere and colour of Pink Floyd
@@Arthur.in.the.Fridgeprobably because of the legal dispute between him and the other 3 members. When he left, he tried to claim that he was Pink Floyd and wanted the band to breakup while he went solo. He can be a bit of an arrogant, selfish prick.
People always look at that The Beatles gig on the pub roof as something revolutionary and here were these dudes, in the middle of a roman amphitheater of a volcano ravaged city rocking their brains out for almost 2 hours for posterity and eternity, with no audience, but ghosts. Always ahead of their time! Also, Nick Mason (the drummer) is the star of this performance. Everyone is feeding off of him and the whole groove relies on him. One of the most underrated drummers of his generation.
It was on the roof of Apple corps building and they hadn't played live in 4 years, thats what made it special not the location, obviously this location is special
Just as an fyi this was 2 1/2 years after the Beatles played on the rooftop and they were seriously considering going to the ruins of the amphitheatre in Sabratha, an ancient Roman city in Libya, to play at the time, but didn't want to do the hassle. So this idea of Floyd's was after the Beatles nixed the idea of playing in ruins, and since Floyd recoreded at Apple, where the Beatles were, I'm pretty sure where they got the idea. Still a great choice by Floyd, however.
Pink Floyd are so unlike other bands. They never leave you thinking that was nice. They always leave you thinking !!! Then you want to hear more. I'm 76, I first saw them live in London in 1967. I still listen to them and still thinking😂😂👍👍❤
@@pulsarlights2825 Well, whoever is a fan of PF's "early" years is prompted by abbreviations, especially if not a native English speaker. I mean ... "Careful with that axe Eugene," "Set the control of the heart of the sun," "Shine on you crazy diamond," and that's not to speak about "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict." I'm only 50 and sadly speak English with an hoRRRible FRRench accent ... believe me, the latter is an excellent motivation to go for short names with "Foyds* (yeah ... for some reason you will certainly easily guess, I tend to skip the "The" too 😂😂😂)
I feel very fortunate to have seen Pink Floyd perform Echoes in its entirety back in 1973. It's a performance that I will never forget, and remains the single most memorable song from any show that I have ever seen. They performed this in Pittsburgh during their Dark Side Of The Moon tour in an arena with a retractable roof. The first half of the show they played a lot of their "older" at the time songs, and finished with Echoes before intermission. They came back to play the entire DSotM album. The arena was set up for surround sound, and when they started to play Breath, they opened the retractable roof and played the rest of the show under the stars. The cherry on top, I was sitting 6 rows from the stage right in front of David Gilmour. A night to remember.
Fortunate indeed! I was wondering if they played any of this outside of this performance as I've been to two shows and they didn't play any portion of this. Would have been a treat.
I saw the same show in Chicago at a movie theater size venue. The second half of the show was called A Piece for Lunatics which later became Dark Side of the Moon
Same show in Boston in a small concert hall. Started out with 'Careful With That Axe Eugene' and almost freaked me out because in my acid-induced state I thought they were tuning up until I realized what song they were playing, and then that blood curdling scream! Then, they activated the surround sound for Dark Side of the Moon, which hadn't been active for the first half of the show, and that was truly mind-blowing. Good times, good times!
If that made you emotional you must watch David Gilmour live at Gdansk performing Echoes, it was the final performance before Richard Wright passed away. The ending is just Richard and David speaking to each other through their instruments. It is beyond emotional.
The only thing about Gdansk and this performance. And multiple other live performances if you listen. While basically the same. Are very different as well. Gdansk and this are somewhat SUPER different It's all amazing though. All of it. I'm not bad talking at all. I love Floyd.
Pompeii version is the by far the best imho, its pure magic perfection, maybe the best piece of art ever painted, eternal...the Gdansk Version is sometimes to hard and impatient, especially in the beginning, the spirit of the place is missing, Floyd are releasing the Ghosts of the place and showcase that time is an illusion, everything is connected, Life and Death, emptyness, silence and full sound, lonelyness chance to overcome by band spirit, light and shadow, grasping potential of human creativity, tender soul touching guitar screams which are emotional releasing, a mystery journey to your deepest core ❤
Gilmour had once said “Echoes” is “the one where we were all discovering what Pink Floyd was all about". It's the song which set forth their artistical and musical path after Syd - who was their main song writer - left in the 1960's. The song lyric itself is about loneliness and the innate human desire to connect with other people yet it seems to be that desire which builds, drives and eventually crumbles humanity.
Thank you! I've been into their music for the past four decades, and you may well be the first one I see throwing the light on Nick the way he deserves. I get that people tend to focus on the vocals and guitars over the drums. And I also get that you must listen to live performances to see him really shine. But he should be everywhere in the present comments since the camera is on him nearly half the time. How can one look at this video and not realize how amazing and central he is in the band's music? That is a mystery to me ...
All I can say is that “You Get It!” I never thought I would hear a full review of this performance. Step back to a primordial earth. Climb back out to the present. Thank you for giving this the analysis it deserves, !
Hi Aileen. This is actually from a movie from the French Film Director Adrian Maben. There are other pre DSotM songs performed in the movie including, "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" and "Careful with that Axe Eugene" which are far more experimental and "Space Rock" than their later material. All are masterful and you should definately give them all a play. David actually was allowed to play Pompeii again many years later albeit with a different line up and with an audience this time. Regarding "Echoes" David wouldn't perform the song again after the death of Richard Wright, so their final performance together "Live in Gdansk-2006", apart from being a superb concert, is a fitting epitaph to Richard, much missed, R.I.P.
Richard Wright without anything to filter his consciousness through the instrumentation of his endless supply of thought and creative energy with a set of keys and a mind before his time. RIP you Legend.❤
Post Syd Barret Pre-DSotM Pink Floyd is amazing and not that well-known in comparison to their later works. This "Live at Pompeii" film and the "live" album from Ummagumma is a great recollection of their repertoire at the time.
I found the 2016 concert in Pompeii to come up a bit short of their usual brilliance. Chuck Leavell is a master musician, but it just didn't have the same spirit as with Rick Wright. RIP Richard.
Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano 2000 years ago. Herculaneum was also destroyed. This was in one of the surviving amphitheaters. There are still hot vents that haven't completely cooled.
Playing for the ghosts of Pompeii. Approximately 15,000 lives were taken in 79 AD after mount Vesuvius erupted, sending out a pyroclastic flow that buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Stabiae. Thanks for the reaction! Cheers!
The bodies that were suffocated and fell on the spot, buried in the ash that hardened. Decomposed and disappeared over the next 2 millennium. Leaving a mold behind they poured plaster in to and cast an image of those people. Echoes of the lives lost that day in history.
This one is special, it was the last thing David Gilmour played with Richard Wright live before he passed away. Gilmour has retired it from playing live, it doesnt feel like Floyd without Richard Wright.
@@CaffeineNightOwl I like it in the sense you can see how much time has passed and they still get tremendous pleasure playing off eachother. I enjoyed the last time together just as much!
I think loneliness is a very real part of this song, especially the line “Strangers passing in the street. By chance two separate glances meet. And I am you and what I see is me.” And I think that is about the fact that we are all connected, but even in a busy city we can feel very alone. Because sadly, even though we are all connected, we isolate and see others as strangers instead of connecting with them. 16:09 That guitar, to me, has always represented our frustration and desire to scream against the loneliness, and the desire to be heard…over the low perpetual chugging along of life in loneliness. And yes, there’s a real panic to that…the fear of invisibility and utter anonymity.
When life first began in the depths of the oceans the land was completely empty, and then life reached upward. For all our differences, we are all related, we are the Echoes of the explosion of life, and we should strive to be better human beings everyday. Open windows instead of building walls! ❤❤❤
One of my most favourite pieces of music in my 62 years on this planet. Pure genius. Pink Floyd changed my life in 1976 and led to me really falling in love with music, although it had always been around from childhood. Hearing Floyd made me realise that music could be so much more.
At this point they were with EMI record label and they were not known for promoting their talent so,Pink Floyd took matters in their own hands and made this promotional documentary. At the same time they were writing and recording The Dark Side of the Moon
When you experience Pink Floyd you are taken on a spiritual journey a trip and you are forever grateful that you then become Floyded with such a wonderful catalogue of music filled with emotions and lyrical content ❤
I love this song so much I just named my pup Echo! This is the greatest band to ever do it! I love watching people enjoy them for the first time! They did a whole concert in Pompeii! I just imagine being someone randomly hearing this masterpiece “echoing” out of the old arena! These guys were special!
the story of life. the first organisms trying to find each other. the blooming life. the mass extinction events (particularly the latest one). the surviving animals trying to find each other. and finally, humans.
I still remember the first time I discovered Live at Pompeii on a DVD I bought from the music store I was working at at the time. I also found it life changing. Even more life changing once mushrooms were involved.
This song is the best example of creativity in music. That' high pitched squealing you heard in the middle of the song was a recording of whales communicating under watee. Pink Floyd had it recorded under water at the Vancouver Aquarium in 1971 then it was programed into the synthesizer of keyboardist, Richard Wright. Amazing video. I bought this on DVD around 25 to 30 years ago. Great reaction!❤
That’s the first time I’ve heard that. The seagull sounds (maybe described as whale song) is achieved by reversing the input output on a wah pedal and tooling around with the tone knobs. Done it myself and it’s very fun to do.
Okay Aileen, I have to share this story with you. Back in 1977, I took a girl on a date to see the movie this is from, at a special midnight showing. The theater had planned on showing it on just one screen, (they had three) but the crowd was enormous, got restless, and suddenly everyone started to move, so it was either be swept along or get trampled. All three theaters were filled with Pink Floyd fans. The one we were in, the crowd absolutely destroyed the last 15 minutes of Murder on the Orient Express, and I can distinctly remember seeing beer bottles being thrown and smashing into the screen. The theater only had one print, so it made for a very late night for some of us, but they did screen it for everyone. It was quite the experience for a couple of young college students!
Could cry watching Richard Wright's playing and singing, such a huge factor in the Pink Floyd story, after 50 years of listening to this incredible band it's great to see younger people loving their music.
Richard Wrights demise was the catalyst for this song. An outstanding keyboard player who was so instrumental in providing Pink Floyd with bucolic keyboard arrangements. The tone of this song echoes the spirit of Richard's spirit as an Albatross gliding through the air pockets of an wide open sky.
Dear, I watch your reaction videos every now and then and I like them a lot. Pink Floyd wanted to record everything live, without any playback: this meant transporting all their concert equipment, except lights, to Italy by truck, along with a 24-track recording system that would guarantee the same sound quality as their studio work. The crew, arriving on site, discovered that they did not have enough electricity to power all the equipment. The problem was solved by bringing electricity directly from the town hall via a very long cable that ran through the streets of the city of Pompeii to the Roman Amphitheatre; this circumstance limited the actual filming time to just four days, from 4 to 7 October 1971. Some reels recorded in Pompeii were lost and so part of them was filmed in a studio in Paris. I'm Italian: please Pompei is written with just one "ì" at the end. Greetings from Milan
It's hard to realize that this was recorded 53 years ago. If you want to completely "close the circle" on "Echoes", then you need to watch the final performance of this song (right before Richard Wright died of cancer). They performed it live one last time in "Echoes, live from Gdansk, The final performance". It's on u-tube and probably the best version they ever did.
Your title couldn’t be more true. This is the song that change my from walking a path towards suicide - the way the song comes back out of the darkness that engulfs the middle. I saw a sliver of hope. That was 30 years ago. 🙏. Thank you again for all of your channel and beautiful reactions.
Reference - Far Out: 10/16/2021 What’s That Sound? The seagulls featured on Pink Floyd song ‘Echoes’ David Gilmour went to plug in his wah wah pedal to try and crank out some funk. What he didn’t realize was that he plugged it in backwards, creating high pitched quacks and caws that were reminiscent of seagull calls. Delighted with his happy accident, the band recorded the effect and dropped it into the composition’s middle section. To replicate the sound live, Gilmour would repeat the backwards plug-in set up and take a metal guitar slide to the string to create feedback. The feedback, going through the wah wah pedal, produced the familiar nautical sounds that colour the track. Eventually, the sounds were simply put to tape and played alongside the ambient middle section instead of labouring over the reconstruction of the noises.
The Far Out article is quite inaccurate. If I recall, it was a roadie that did it by accident. At least that’s what earlier interviews with Dave have said. Regardless, the effect was originally used during The Embryo during 1970 and ‘71 tours, before ending up in the middle of Echoes. It would later be used in Is There Anybody Out There? from the Wall. Far Out also indicates he used a metal slide live to create the effect, but that is wrong. The slide (with heavy echo) is used to make the high pitched sustained notes at the beginning of the song, by lightly rubbing the slide on the string. Roger Waters does the same thing on the bass during the middle, although he is doing it across multiple strings to create a more of a swirling effect rather than playing a melody. Dave’s pedalboard has a switch to reverse the signal path into the wah for the seagull effect, which is created by an automatic feedback loop in the pedal, not feedback from the guitar. You don’t play anything on the guitar at all. Turning up the guitar volume is all that is needed to get the effect, and there is a point where you are between no sound and the full effect where you get the stuttering, “laughing” effect. You can also alter the tone with the tone knob or the way pedal itself. It doesn’t work as well with humbucker pickups, just single coil. You can see during live performances, including this one, that Dave is muting the guitar strings with his left hand, and just adjusting the volume. Every live performance I have seen in person or on video the effect is still created with the guitar, not from tape. There’s no reason to use a tape, and Dave’s performance is different every time. There’s no “labouring” over the effect, as Far Out states. Plug a guitar with single coil pickups backwards into a Crybaby-type Wah Wah and just twiddle the volume pot. Very simple to do.
@@NewBritainStationThanks for setting the record straight; what you posted is what I’ve heard over the years for multiple sources. I’ve done this very thing and is a blast to noodle about with.
Beneath all of that, was Richard Wright holding it all together and setting the mood with his keyboards. You’re almost not aware of it, until,you focus in and realize, OMG, HE’s THE THREAD stitching it along together.
There are a few things to put in perspective here. This was filmed in 1972, and was made right after the recording of the "Meddle" album, which includes the two large sections of the song "Echoes", as seen in this video. This concert marks the end of the more experimental phase that the band went through, after the departure of Syd Barret, due to mental illness. One year after this, they would unleash "The Dark Side of the Moon", and achieve immortality. Loved your reaction. It brings me great, great joy seeing this resonate at such deep level with people, over 50 years after it was done.
Saw this in a film theater in "74 and it was an incredible experience. The heard and saw Echoes live in 1974 in full quad. It was the best concert I've ever been to.
I've watched this many times over 50 years and still feel the same as you do every time. Was lucky to meet a couple of them during concerts back in 1988
Aileen By the way, that's original Bassist, Roger Waters in this classic. Roger left the band in 1985. But he has returned for some reunions with them: David, Nick, and Richard before Richard's death in 2008.
The eerie aspect of the song and the place they performed is such a perfect combination, it makes me emotional looking at the ruins of Pompeii and listening to the song at the same time, it's crazy
The lyric, "Strangers passing in the street. By chance two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me", really is the wellspring for much of what Roger Waters would go on to write about for all of the successive albums. That is, to have empathy as the main motivator for writing and saying (and I paraphrase), "if you feel this way, well I do too".
this is a band that went to an ancient Roman amphitheater, with no one but a couple a very lucky kids in the audience, set up and played musical masterpieces....could it be anyone other than Pink Floyd?
It is a phenomenal song and performance. Pink Floyd gets associated with marijuana and psychedelics all the time, but my Dad always points out that the things they do with sounds balance on their songs and all the complex tones and such, if you listen on a good surround sound or a good pair of headphones, you really don't need drugs to go on a trip. Also, if you have never been, Pompeii is absolutely amazing and absolutely surreal. You can literally see graffiti on the walls and wonderful artworks, while at the same time being a desolate place. It was unreal being there.
Grazie di cuore. Un vero capolavoro dell' arte musicale di questo quartetto leggendario. Ho partecipato a 4 dei loro concerti il primo nell'89. Rimangono da sempre i miei preferiti. Grazie ancora.
One of the best things about Pink Floyd is most bands would write all these melodies and segments and say "That's like 6 different songs, that's a whole album!" and Pink Floyd say "That's a song."
Hi Aileen 😊👍 Absolutely fantastic reaction to Pink Floyd's Echoes live from Pompeii in 1971😊👍 After the period of Syd Barrett in the 1960s, the band had lost its way and had to reinvent themselves and they chose a more introspective path and chose to be more philosophical in their approach to their art 😊👍 There are other live versions of this that are in front of massive crowds however I believe the meaning of the art reveals itself more prominently in the setting in Pompeii and you have hit the nail on the head on the meaning that they were conveying in their music, in their art and presentation, in their production and in their lyrics 😊👍 I've seen every one of your reactions to Pink Floyd's music and coming from your perspective you reemphasize that the meaning of their presentation is universal😊👍 There is no time period where their influence and storytelling isn't reached...they have an influence on us all 😊👍 Have a great day you and Arya 😊👍
I visited Pompeii a month ago. I snuck away from the tour to take a special solo trip to this location, they have basically a Pink Floyd museum in the underground sections there at Pompeii
Even though Pompeii was destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 A.D., it's amazing how much architecture remains intact. I'd love to go there. Pink Floyd's performance there in '71 was brilliant.
At 34 years old Pink Floyd albums have been my whole life since the day I was born. Live at pompeii was my entire HS experience and rip Rick Wright, there will never be another like you.
Yes, the long, slow dolly shot from the back of the band and around the speakers. There definitely is something creepy, lonely and almost scary about it, but, yes, very stylistic. Reminds me of something Kubrick would do. I love it, and look forward to that every time I watch it. The camera choices were really quite simple but so effective. Whoever thought to do this at Pompeii, well that was a great choice considering the history of the place.
It really is. Younger people (under 35 I suppose) just, on the whole, don't know what real music can be like. It's emotional, powerful and competent like we just don't see anymore ... there are indie bands etc. carrying the flame but the general public does not and will likely never hear from them.
I am SO HERE for this! One of the greatest moments in music right here. I always think about David's bare feet in the dirt. That dirt with all of that history and blood, playing music that is perfect.... BLISS!!
Love love love Pink Floyd!!1997the fancy State theater in Pennsylvania they played ( Dark Side of The Rainbow) it was like the wall music with the Wizzard of Oz! It was AMAIZING!! No shortage of substances in that building! I'm a huge music fan!😊
11:20 "The way he's banging those with intensity, I feel those drums definitely need a cigarette after this performance!". Nearly spat my drink over the screen 🤣 Some people say that John Bonham is rocks greatest drummer, bur I would argue that Nick Mason is right up there with him. Love your reaction to this performance - it's my go to Pink Floyd track & I listen to this every day & it never get old.
Great lyrics. . Great guitar sound and guitar work and guitar solo. Great drums. Great keyboards. This just takes you away. . Love me some old school classic PINK FLOYD. .
