Drummer reacts to "Seamus" & "Echoes" by Pink Floyd
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- Опубликовано: 11 апр 2024
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PS: This was insane. I'm glad I paired these two tracks together.... what a contrast. It shows them off in their best ways... Echoes is just on another level. How do you even explain the feeling that song gives you? I tried my best.
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Echoes may very well be the greatest composition in rock history
One of my favorite pieces of music, regardless of genre.
I second that. But then, I think "Blue Monday" is the best pop song ever written.
@@altaclipper That may well be true. This is the greatest performance of a pop song ever however: ruclips.net/video/av-AvDEKJnc/видео.html
Close to the Edge
This is the peak of genius human expression, doesnt get better, only the performance in Pompeii competes
I believe this has not been explained before. The song's middle section features Waters using a metal slide on his bass, sliding it in a circular motion over the strings for the swirling sound and bringing it through a Binson Echorec effect. Gilmour plays a high-pitched screeching noise called the "seagull," which is supposed to imitate the sounds of whales. This was discovered by accident by plugging a wah-wah pedal the wrong way, where the guitar was plugged into the output of the pedal, and the input of the pedal was plugged into the input of the amplifier, with a heavy echo effect. The pitch variation is done by using either pickup position 2 or 4 and the second tone knob.
The initial "ping" is a piano through a Leslie rotating speaker. Rick's Farfisa organ is running through a Leslie rotating speaker.
That’s some technical knowledge. Are you sure you’re not George Martin reincarnated
@user-oe9hj9yl7m lol... no.. the information is out there. Take a look at a site called "Gilmourish"... being a musician myself, I have tried these tricks. The creativity of PF cannot be understated.
@@user-oe9hj9yl7m lol... I wish 😁
L'effetto finale (scala shepard)mi dà tutte le volte l'impressione di essere in partenza per il cosmo
E che dire della chitarra di David,quando si insinua fra gli altri strumenti sembra arrivare da galassie lontane
Adoro poi la ripresa del tema iniziale, fino all'esplosione del Big Bang
Se posso vorrei suggerirti la versione eseguita alla Royal Albert hall, durante il tour di On a island ,tour solista di David
I knew some of that. Thanks for filling in the rest!
Dear Lee, Annotation: Seamus was the Dog of Steve Marriott ('Small Faces' and 'Humble Pie') and one of the members of Pink Floyd took this with him temporarily, because Marriott was on Tour with his Band 'Humble Pie' at least as far as I remember. ☺Kind Regards Heinz from Munich. 🌳🥀🌱🌷💓✨
In the early 70s Echoes and Dark Side graced the family stereo, and Pompeii graced our Drive-In a mile down the road. The sound of Echoes is inexplicable. Green and submarine. I think Echoes may well the Pink Floyd's "Close to the Edge". The song above all others.
I’d have to agree. Completely different of course. That’s Floyd: totally unique. My longest-standing favorite band ❤
Yeah I'd submit this as their early peak as well (like Yes with CTTE) But they have so many more it's kinda wild. Almost every album has a CTTE in some form. This was fantastic and would have been foundational for me if I had heard it when I was listening to DSTM back in freshman year lol
Echoes is a masterpiece
"Fan". There's no way I'm missing a single second of this Pink Floyd epic masterpiece.
I think Rick is the unsung master behind floyds soundscapes and starscapes and atmospheres.
Pink Floyd’s music has gotten my through all the tough times of my life. Echoes is amazing. Will always be a fan.
Drifting to sleep and troubled dreams then waking with relief to "a million bright ambassadors of morning ...".
I received Meddle as a Christmas gift in 1971. I was 18. You have no idea what it was like hearing Echoes for the first time. Mind totally blown. It's a joy to watch reactors listening to this. Now I hear this and think of Richard Wright. What a talent, sadly missed. Thanks, Lee. Always a joy watching you. Stay groovy, my friend.
Got to remember that "Pink Floyd" comes from the names of two legendary blues musicians.
As a twelve-thirteen year old, I used to listen to Echoes in bed at night through my single, mono earbud, eyes closed, imagining images in my head through the instrumental sections. (fan!) Eventually, I had put together a complete and very surreal movie in my mind. 50 years later, I can still remember a lot of it!
That sounds like exactly something I would do... I used to think of all kinds of stuff with music. I'd have custom music videos in my imagination and I would dance around the house as the music blared. I didn't have any siblings and after dad passed mom was never home. So I had the house to myself to play stuff loud a lot lol
The album before this, Atom Heart Mother, is a similar masterpiece and contains the best song written by Rick and his best piano playing ❤
Summer of 68, yes, such a great song. I still wonder why the band themselves didn't like AHM, it's in my top 5 Floyd albums. But Gilmour and Waters, who usually can't agree on anything, both think that Atom Heart Mother is their worst album.
@@DrStrangelove3891 Yes, totally. I’ve seen some reactions to it and they are always totally amazed. Definitely top 5
Me (16) and my brother Andrew (18), summer 1974, listening to Echoes on a tiny cassette player up on a cliff top in Cornwall. A wonderful memory and still a great fan of this track…miss you Andrew xxxxx
"I am you and what I see is me", that's profound philosophy for a song lyric. And then the next line: "And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?" Meaning that if we reach out to each other, help each other, then we will understand ourself better. This is some deep level shit man 😎 (oh, and FAN ofc)
Fan - I was introduced to Pink Floyd at age nine. It was a dark time for my family as my older sister was missing at the time. So, many songs bring me to a dark place. However, my eyes were closed during most of Echoes and I really enjoyed how it made me feel. I will always love PF. As you put it, music just takes you places. ☮
FAN.... Yup Lee, I was with you for the whole video.... Let me assure you that I listened to this when it first came out in 1971 and I am still listening to it 53 years later and it has never been anything other than special and awesome.... SO... you know that in 53 years time you will still have this on whatever form of playlist they have around then... enjoy it and remember me telling you this. Keep on Rocking young sir.
It was the mid 70's.
After playing what was to become Shine On You Crazy Diamond, then the entirety of Dark Side of the Moon, the band asked the fans what they wanted for an encore. We unanimously responded, "Echos!"
British Winter tour 1974/75. I was at the Cardiff gig. They also did two song that later became Sheep and Dogs.
When you observed that a lot of what you're hearing in Echoes reminds you of Animals, I think what you're hearing is the core Pink Floyd sound that they finally found when they made this album. I think that sound is all over this album and their next 5 albums.
I think you are correct, my friend. They truly embraced themselves here. After this, there was no turning back for them.
I also remember when I first heard Pink Floyd: it was Ummagumma (the live LP), and I heard it in 1971, when I was 16 or 17-don’t remember the exact date. It was like nothing I'd ever heard before, and I was really impressed.
Amazes me every time I hear this , how they took their time, nurtured it, and brought it to life. Plus, in the early 70s when these bands were under so much pressure to keep their songs 2-3 minutes long. PF never gave a crap about that.
When I saw Pink Floyd live for the first time in 1975, “Echoes” was their encore and it was trippy as hell.
David Gilmour LIVE IN GDAŃSK (with Richard Wright) includes a spectacular live performance of Echoes, in one take (no “part 1 & 2” like Pompeii).
I agree. That was one hell of a show! Of all the performances of Echoes I've seen, that one seems to best invoke the album version, although remaining different.
With special guest Lead Vocals😂
As a young teenager in the 70's I found Meddle in my older brothers "don't you dare touch" vinyl collection. (hey I was the little brother, of course I played his records when he was out).
Suddenly it was like proper grown-up music😂
Just like me!! The same thing happened to me! I was 13
I'm so glad you did the album cut and not just the Pompeii version.
Great to share this experience with you and listen to the whole song again. I remember my first experience of it when a couple of friends and I went to a midnight screening of "Pink Floyd in Pompeii". It was a big deal for a few guys in school that weren't really allowed to go to that part of town at that time. But the memory lives with me even today. Thanks for the video. .😎😎
Fan! (As requested).
‘Echoes’ was my first Pink Floyd experience.
1971, aged 15. Epic Masterpiece. Genius.
🎶❤️🎶
This live at Gdańsk is the daddy off all performances. "Masterpiece "
This piece of muic helped me during a troubled time in my youth. My parents had divorced, my mom passed, and I was living with my father and step mother. Neither had any idea what to do with a pot-smoking 16 year old boy. I used to do my calculus homework with this on headphones. The music helped with the healing, by giving good dreams.
I saw them.
In concert the day after they dropped this album. They played echoes and everyone was blown away. October thirty first nineteen seventy. University of toledo fieldhouse tickets two dollars and fifty cents. Money well spent. Peace ✌️
Pink Floyd played a big part in a lot of my best trips back in the day. You'd have loved those days. So happy to see this stuff still being appreciated. Of course I'm a FAN - haha. Good reaction man.
The seagull sounds were discovered by accident when Dave Gilmour plugged a wah pedal in back to front, and when he turned the tone control on his guitar up and down, all these weird sounds appeared.
Wow it's around 50years and I'm still a "FAN" 😂
FAN! Of Echos, Pink Floyd, and of course you also L33. I so hope you get into Obscured by clouds next. Very underrated album by the boys. Enjoy the rest of your weekend sir. ❤the reactions. All substance with no fluff!
Massive understatement: I'm a fan of this song.
Thank you, Lee, for helping me to discover the studio version. I’ve enjoyed the live Pompeii and seeing them (so young!) playing and singing is neat, but this studio version feels more coherent to me. I love it.
The way you internalize music is fun and interesting to watch! I’m a fan!
(Edit: seeing at Pompeii the shirtless David and Richard was nice!)
It’s been said a live performance is a photograph - all done at once; a studio performance is a painting - you can layer on additional things or take them off.
Fan, indeed. This album and Animals are my two favorites. I guess that works out fine since this album reminds you of Animals. The studio version of Echoes is so well produced. Plenty of soundscapes for my stereo to chew on. Definitely one that works well played LOUD!!! Enjoy!
I've been a fan of this song since the first time I heard it. 2nd only to Close to the Edge as a complete album side.
The cymbals on this are awesome!
"These guys know what they're doing." Exactly, that's how I've always felt about Pink Floyd. Like I can let my critical mind rest and just go along for the ride, knowing I'm in safe hands.
GREAT reaction Lee!! What a way to make my Friday - here it is...my #1 Pink Floyd track! Echoes...not Seamus (Seamus is a fun, silly track...nice & bluesy) - but Echoes is Floyd at their finest - album version is them realizing their potential & perfecting the psychedelia, prog & concept all in one song! It led the way to Dark Side!
Indeed the Pompeii version is sublime & just that much better. I'm always in the mood for Echoes - no matter my mood! Cheers.
25:45 "It's like a whole world inside you head, man. It's crazy. They did something special here"
Beautifully put!
Lee - in 1972, my girlfriend (now wife) and I loved the Meddle album. Most people had never heard of Pink Floyd. The had a couple of spacy albums with occasional animal noises, but nothing a radio station would play. Meddle was a revelation, but still no radio to make their name. One day we heard Pink Floyd would be appearing in concert at the Kennedy Center and quickly grabbed 4 tickets. Maybe they would play One of These Days, or Echoes! In a hall usually reserved for opera and classical music, we were escorted (!) to our seats and given a program (!) for a performance of something called "Eclipse". "Oh, no" we thought "what's this?" But when Floyd hit the stage, they launched into fabulous versions of all our favorites from Meddle, finishing with a stunning version of Echoes, played through a massive 360 degree sound system with speakers placed in the back and sides of the hall. Then came the "intermission". What? We weren't used to such things. When they returned to the stage, they played a a mind-boggling set of all new songs that nearly a year later we discovered was the premiere performance of what was now called Dark Side of the Moon. The rest is history. We've been telling friends this story for 52 years now. It seems like yesterday. We were in the third row, right in front of David Gilmour. We almost had heart attacks when the giant gong was struck, and it burst into flames. Best concert of our lives, and we've been to a lot!
Woof !!
Please clarify one detail: "The giant gong was struck, and it burst into flames."
As a 1970's "art-rock" *fan* , I've heard quite a few gongs deployed. Which Floyd song was that ?
@jamespuleo3269 I'm not positive about this, James, but I do recall they saved "One of These Days" for the encore, after leaving the stage following the DSOTM portion, and I believe it was right after the "I'm going to cut you into little pieces!" line, as David returned to the roaring metallic growling slide - which he played standing up with a slide on his usual favorite, "Black Strat" and the gong was struck!
This has been in my head for decades…..nothing else..just this.
Echoes is such an amazing song. It's an eternally important song for me. The first time I did mushrooms listening to it was such an important moment in my life. The arrangement, the construction, tense moments, release (especially around 18:30, the one note that brings hope amidst the chaos, so awesome), and everything else. This song is a trip by itself, an audible trip even if you're just listening to it sober. These guys knew what they were doing haha
Amazing.
Fan! Middle section always made me think of seagulls screeching in a cave..
"Seamus"... Well, this will be interesting. I don't even know what I would say.
Lee, I want to add that you might very much enjoy the live Echoes David and Richard performed for David’s concert “Remember That Night Live at Royal Albert Hall” (May 2006).
It’s classy and shot with some intimacy. You can see the expressions on David’s and Richard's faces as they sing together and during their back and forth, which is wonderful:
“…and I am you” (Richard)
“and what I see is me” (David)
David smiles at Richard during the groovy beat part and Richard’s look to David towards the end of the eerie part signals David to get ready to play again.
You see Richard sing “…and no one sings me lullabies…” ❤️
Both sing: “…:call to you…”
Richatd sings: “…across the sky” ! 💕
And you see a dark silhouette of David Crosby as he’s watching from the wings.
(David Crosby and Graham Nash and David Bowie performed a few songs that night with David)
Marc Brickman, who was lightning director and designer for Pulse, was lighting designer here, too.
The live Echoes at Gdansk is frequently mentioned as a favorite by many and recommended to you. I thought I would recommend this one in case you hadn’t heard of it. It’s beautiful and you love Richard.
It was performed a few months before the Live at Gdansk concert.
Thats exactly how i feel .thank you
“Fan” - how could I stop, when Echoes is playing? This is definitely the first jump off the diving board, before they got Dark Side underway. Sooooo inventive and mesmerizing.
Thanks for the reactions!! SENDING HUGS for YOU, TODAY!!! :) Remember: Storms ALWAYS CLEAR!! HUGS!
I always took the single-piano-note (thru a leslie speaker) to be like a sonar "ping," like echo-location. In the "spooky" part, those *low, low* tones (listening on vinyl back in the day) were unheard-of in my experience of music ~~~
A truly *fan* tastic piece, with all four musicians carrying equal weight ~~~ and foreshadowing the "mature" Floyd sound to follow ~~~~
Fan. Tripped like hell.😊
i love that whole "funky" section in the middle is just one chord and they do so much with it and it's the part of the song that many of us can't wait to get to!
And it’s doubled up - two layers of drums and organ (don’t think the bass is doubled but I could easily be wrong).
I was in high school, at a friend's house, doing acid, and there was a reel-to-reel tape deck there that belonged to his older brother. I turned it on and it was a couple tunes of Hendrix at Monterey Pop and Echoes. Needless to say, it made an impression.
Echoes is one of those where the live version (Pompeii) arguably exceeds the studio version.
Great
The 2nd part felt like I was on a boat in the sea in the 1500s, calm but foggy.
That riff has been taken by quite a few artists since the 70s when I bought this record including Andrew Lloyd Webber ( Phantom) and Weller (You do something to me); glad some young people still appreciate the Echoes experience.
Around the 17-18 minute point (on the video), the wailing sounds remind me very strongly of the bit in Several Species after the animals have assembled and leading into the Pict's speech.
FAN
No doubt. Floyd carried many “themes” through their career. Bits and pieces from Pipers, AHM, Ummagumma etc show up on Wish You Were Here, Animals, DsOTM and The Wall.
Interstellar Overdrive is the ultimate Floyd experience!
I´m a great FAN of good music, Pink Floyd, Echoes, etc...and a great FAN of your reactions.
As a longtime Pink Floyd FAN, I'd love to see you go through the Ummagumma album. Loved your Echoes reactions.
Thank you my friend! I appreciate that. I'm glad you enjoyed it. This was fantastic.
FAN: love watching your journey through Floyd
Fan!! I listened all the way through as I've done a hundred times before. I really like where Richard has the animal like sounds in the middle section. He is such a sound design genius. Or maybe it wasn't Richard- hard to tell with these guys. Glad you enjoyed it Lee, and related it to getting high and listening to Echoes. The stoner spirit lives here, yes.
Every time I hear that middle part of Echoes, I'm walking along a beach covered in fog. Big clumps of seaweed and twisted logs of driftwood dot the beach, appearing out of the fog as I continue walking. Meanwhile, unseen seagulls cry overhead and vultures perched on driftwood caw ominously. One very eerie place to be.
Hope things get better for you soon, my brother.
Seamus is my favorite PF song. 👍
We go through so many phases in music. These 70's tunes were more than songs, they were masterpieces, compositions, epics. Then the short hits became preference. Following after our attention spans shortened and we preferred straight up hooks.But these classic trippy songs were deliberate and meaningful (even in their abstract concept). They had drama, space, and drew you in unlike today's "hit ya and move on" mindset.
Note the dog howling at the end of Sheamus hits the blue note which is either the 7th note or the 9th note
I’m sorry, I made a mistake earlier in mentioning that Stephen Stills and David Crosby joined David Gilmour, performing some songs for David Gilmour’s live Remember That Night concert. It was Graham Nash and David Crosby who were there performing, not Stephen Stills.
To get the full effect, you have to listen to it in the woods at night.😱
An ocean without waves and covered in fog where seagulls scream.
A mysterious being begins to move towards the surface where it emerges in a jump.
Cthulu? Is that you? Jk that was beautiful words.
Floyd's drummer Nick Mason, touring with his "Saucerful of Secrets" played Echoes on his last tour. If you ever get the chance to see that, GO!
This REALLY foreshadows what was to come in their transition after Syd's departure. Just as with "One of These Days."
That dog can Sing!😂
I had greyhounds for a while. The first was quiet but the second loved to “roo.” It was very effective with telemarketers.
Echoes is Pink Floyd at their finest. It's so creative. The middle section is like a total void of music and sound. The word that comes to mind is desolate. I can picture myself in a desert wasteland. The background almost sounds like vultures circling. Then Rick's organ brings us back to familiar surroundings and the music comes back in, pulling my mind out of the empty void. It's art at it's best. I've been taken on a journey by the music.
As a fan of this song from the time it came out, I always try to concentrate on all of it. It is epic. I saw the Pompei concert at a midnight showing when it originally came out. Still love it. As a songwriter I listen and learn.
"Echoes" is one of my favorite experiences, but I'm sure glad there was no one watching me the first time I heard it, which was in the "Live at Pompeii" concert film. In a theatre, with Sensurround sound.
FAN!
The live half of Umma Gumma, Echoes, and DSOTM says it all for me when it comes to PF.
I listened to the live material so much I wore out my LP. They in retrospect didn’t think much of the studio half, but it has its own charms (“Several Species” is my ringtone).
Hi Lee, I love your channel ❤️. I first heard echoes in 1977 when I was 14 years old. I've been into prog every since, so keep up the good work.
Hey Graham! Thank you so much. I appreciate that. I'm glad you're digging through channel. I can see how this song might make someone a prog fan for life! It's captivating!
@@L33Reacts hey Lee, how much to play Atom Heart Mother next Friday?
@grahamcowlin1110 if you are referring to the 24 minute suite (I'm guessing you are) the minimum for that would be 40$. I usually go by 8 minute chunks at 15$. But it's up to you, you could always do more. 😆 😅 I am keen to hear it though. I've heard a lot.
an absolutely great album.
Oh forgot to mention. The weird bird/whale sounds was done by Dave plugging in a wash wash pedal incorrectly creating a strange but controllable feedback. Apparently a roadie did it originally and they thought Hay! We can do something with this!
Fan😊
BTW there's a cool video where Echoes has been put over the end of the movie 2001 (a space odesy) and it works really well with the creepy part fits over the "in to infinity" scenes
Very 2001 ish with this music. Especially the ending. Glad you mentioned it.
When I was a kid, my folks bought an Irish setter and named him Seamus. Then, year later, Pink Floyd released this album. Jus' sayin'. 😜
The name Seamus in the Irish language means James.
@@jaycorby My sons name is Ciaran, what does that mean?
@@standbytogo123 Ciaran is a form of the Irish word 'ciar' , which means black. Pronounced KEEron, the name is held by 2 Irish saints from the sixth century - St.Ciaran the Elder and St.Ciaran the Younger.
Echoes….the best ever Floyd track…bar none !!!! ‘Nuff said.
im a fan of studio Pink Floyd! and live Pink Floyd! what a happy coincidence!
Just like a mini trip. Bring on the shrooms
I love Rick Wright. Pretty sad that we will never see live version of this song again... (fan)
FAN!! l watch you all the time all the way to the end of your videos, " BIG FAN!!"💖🥰🤘🎶
Thank you emily. I appreciate that so much 🙏😊 glad you enjoy the videos. I'm so lucky to have such a great community here.
FAN
This son is just Fan tastic
Fan-tastic x
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Fan
fan of the channel and fan of Pink Floyd
Echoes is a f*cking masterpiece! Btw, do you think you'll react to PF's The Division Bell one day? It doesn't get enough love, imo, but it really is a great album. Atom Heart Mother Suite is also a must. Rock on, dude! I'm a FAN!!🤘🏽💗
I probably will end up doing every floyd album! I really want to hear the syd era stuff now. But I'm down for whatever!
@@L33Reacts Cool! 😃
Fan, yeah Couldn't miss this especially that guitar right now
I first heard this on Walkman headphones wandering in a dry riverbed. Appropriate
Fan tastic.
Rick played both Farfisa and Hammond organs, plus the piano running through the Leslie rotating speaker that’s usually paired with the Hammond.
Both Pink Floyd and Radiohead are two bands that just exist in their own genre and in their own space. I don't mention them together because the music is similar, but for the fact that nobody can *do* what they do when they're at their best; it just defies categorization. Each band not only uses, but *masters/mastered* elements of so many genres of music, from jazz to funk to rock to classical to folk to ambience, etc., etc.; they just are what they are.