PINK FLOYD - Echoes Part 1 Live at Pompeii 1974 FIRST TIME REACTION TO ECHOES PART 1 LIVE POMPEII

[@seankeltie5679]

It doesn't matter what questions you ask!!,they will all be right,by design. Every pink floyd recording is for the individual and your questions are your own interpretation of what you are listening to!!.genius of a different level!!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@robertwatson2823]

This song was side 2 of their Meddle album and was 23 minutes long. Meddle was my 1st PF album and I recognized they were different right off, but when I flipped the album to side 2, I was changed. They took me on a journey and touched my soul like no music had ever done before. That is when I became a Floydian and have been for 50+ years and will always be!! Pack your bags because these boys will take you on many wonderful journeys!

[@ShawnSalvadori]

I've enjoyed so many if their songs and I feel like I'm just scratching the surface 🤘

[@ReactorsReactions101]

This is my fav Live Floyd. EVER

[@keyrat1753]

Roger Waters is playing bass guitar and is standing in front of Richard Wright (on keyboards). Roger Waters did not perform at the Pulse Concert, as he had already left the band years earlier. David Gilmour plays lead guitar at Pompeii and Pulse. David also returned to the same coliseum in Pompeii to perform in front of a live audience in 2016.

[@jonhenke1504]

Adrian Maben the director for this whole concert had lost his passport when visiting Pompeii and he thought it was when he was visiting the arena in Pompeii. He went back to look for it and sat down and realize this is where we have to do live Pink Floyd in a concert!! It's kind of funny he never says anything about finding his passport in the interview!! It was around the time of Woodstock and he wanted to do the antithesis of Woodstock with an absence of people instead of hundreds of thousands of people! Pink Floyd refuse to do a playback they wanted to do live music. Also Adrian maben went back in 2001 to do some additional footage in Pompeii and when he was in the Italian tourist headquarters he ran into someone who said "I know you" to Adrian! And he said how? And he turned out to be one of the lead guys in the tourist department said I was one of the kids who snuck in and watched the original concert 30 years ago!! Anyway Mister Maben knew some people in the Italian consulate and tourist department and got permission because the Italians actually liked Pink Floyd before they became popular with the Dark Side of the Moon!! If you want to get a very accurate take and find out everything about this song and this concert just listen to the 20-minute interview with Adrian Maben!

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Now I see how they got to play at such an awesome place 😎

[@glennbrock6560]

David Gilmour on guitar and co-lead vocals with keyboardist Rick Wright. Nick Mason on Drums. "Hey You" is a good listen, with Roger Waters on co-vocals with David.

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Ok, now I think I've got David Gilmour and Roger Waters faces figured out, just need the others to sink in 😆

[@joerenaud8292]

When people talk about listening to Pink Floyd as a mind expanding experience what they mean is because Pink Floyd uses long drawn out tunes and sounds it forces your mind to start drifting into your own thoughts about whatever you want to think about. A song that's faster or more busy and full of lyrics will hold your immediate attention most of the time throughout that song but when you hear a song with long periods of stretched out tones your mind will automatically stat thinking about your own life or fantasies. What I find interesting about these 2 songs was the fact that this band was playing to no one at all, there was no audience except themselves and the crew who filmed this event and the sound quality coming from 1974 is quite outstanding to say the least.

[@ianfortier6796]

Echoes of the past, echoes of the future.

[@dc2694]

David Gilmour (the guitarist) played Pompeii again in about 2016-this time with an audience. Definitely worth checking out.

[@rancidcrabtree.]

Pink Floyd's music is art and art appreciation happens on the client side, not the server. There is a meaning the artists had in mind, but that is secondary to your interpretation. What you get out of the performance is just as valid. More so since it is a reflection of your thoughts, your values, your experiences... you. Nice reaction! Send more!

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Great, thank you 😁🤘

[@ianfortier6796]

Nice reaction! The lyrics for this song actually have nothing to do with Pompeii or Vesuvius, they just chose to play and record here because it's very existential considering the history, which is the connection between the song and venue. Echoes is about evolution, how we are all descended from that single organism that first went from sea to land. That we're all different, yet the same. It's a lesson that we all need to help and understand each other for the greater good of our progression as a species. In the full length version, there's an instrumental middle section, which for me at least, is what the world was like just as that organism found land. The music builds and brings us back to the present, so we can look forward to a better future now that we understand our origins.

[@Rassskle]

Neither the album or Echoes were written for Pompeii. “ Someone” visited the newly excavated ruins and the penny dropped, it was a perfect location to perform the full Meddle album. Deals were done and multiple extension leads were put together to borrow electricity from the nearest house. No audience allowed because the ruins are fragile and easily destroyed. The ampitheatre at Pompeii was Romes biggest and greatest. Pompeii was a bit like Romes beach side tourist play ground for the rich and famous. When Mount Vesuvius erupted all was lost...... 80 years later, Rome built The Colosseum bigger and better, but in Rome itself. The full performance is available on DVD and U Tube, as well as a movie .

[@flubblert]

That's David Gilmour on lead guitar and vocals. David Gilmour is the phenomenal guitarist of Pink Floyd. That's Gilmour at Earls Court "Pulse" singing and playing, not Roger. Roger was long gone from the band by then. Roger was the primary lyricist and *bassist* for the group, and also sang lead or co-lead with David occasionally. Echoes is a 23-minute song off of the Meddle album - separated here in two parts. This is from 1971. Moments before they were to become one of the biggest most influential bands in rock history. It's not improvised. The album sounds nearly exactly the same, although the mix seems a bit better here.

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Oh wow. So they weren't even the legends in rock that they are now at this point? I couldn't tell since they're playing in quite an epic place with a wild setup 😯

[@flubblert]

​@@ShawnSalvadori This is the song where it is generally agreed they found their sound and if you will, direction. (You need to check out the full uninterrupted 23 ½ min album version). The next album, "Dark Side of the Moon" 1973 would shake the world and put them firmly on the path to that legendary status. Dark Side is a cohesive flowing concept album that's best listened to properly from beginning to end for full impact. Maybe two or three songs at a time for reaction purposes. You should consider it. If not, check out "Time" from it. Studio version.

[@doscwolny2221]

​@@ShawnSalvadori they were still legends, maybe top 20 greatest. Their 70's run is what catapulted them up to the top 5( i reckon they are 2nd greatest behind the beatles now)

[@philshorten3221]

On the slow pan Richard Wright Keyboards Roger Waters Bass Nick Mason Drums Dave Gilmour Lead Guitar

[@philshorten3221]

After Echoes you could jump to S hine on Y ou crazy D iamond (1-5) Part of the tribute album (Wish you were here) to founding member Syd Barrett who was dropped out of the band suffering severe mental health issues and the effects of drug abuse. During recording of the album a overweight man in a coat, bald head and shaved off eyebrows wandered into the studio. It too several minutes before they realised this was their old dear friend Syd!

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Ok, this makes more sense to me now! 😁 may have a reaction already in the works 😅

[@saulinvictus9274]

There are more more songs that they played in pompeii another great song is careful with that axe eugene and set the controls for the heart of the sun

[@65alef]

And A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Thanks for the songs 🤘

[@philshorten3221]

A little song about all life on the entire planet and how we are all related and should be better human beings. Open Windows instead of building walls.

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

When you said "That's Roger, right?" It was David.

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Oh yes, I've come a long way since this video 😅 but I still make mistakes heheh

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

@@ShawnSalvadori That's OK. I do too.

[@glennbrock6560]

Roger played bass

[@jamiedimond9419]

syd

[@jonhenke1504]

I think you're kind of conflating Richard Wright who plays keyboards and sings with David Gilmour the lead singer and lead guitarist which is understandable cuz they look and sound similar! But in this case Richard has a beard and David does not.

[@godfatherstabba]

That seemed slowed down.

[@thobiassilva2784]

this is the version with the correct pitch, the others are accelerated.

[@victorstefanovsky6902]

1972,not 1974

[@betsyduane3461]

Pompeii has nothing to do with the lyrics.

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Understood now, but didn't make the connection at that point in the reaction 😬