Pink Floyd - Echoes (Live at Pompeii) | REACTION
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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.
The gig is for the souls of Pompeii
The gig was not called Echoes by coincidence, Pompeii is full of echoes of the past.
@@thomasmain5986 yep, "Live at Pompeii" was the gig. 👍
You beat me to it ha ha.
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.
No audience but the ghosts of Pompeii. The brilliance of Pink Floyd.
this exactly!!!!
Its been said
@@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
The hardest rocking groove in alll rock history!!!
This was recorded less than 20 miles away from my home. Unfortunately, I was -27 when it was recorded
Careful with that volcano Giuseppe 🌋
David Gilmore is everything Pink Floyd needed.. his tone is unmistakable
He plagiarised it from David Gilmour.
@@romanfedrich6967 hahaha, sure
@@romanfedrich6967 I beg your forgiveness for making that common misspelling error... I'll do better
Still though could you imagine if Jeff Beck had agreed to join, that would've been something too
So you're just going to forget about Syd Barrett the original singer for Pink Floyd
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.
No turning back gentleman. You will stand with and defend this band until the day you die. Welcome aboard!
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
A must see !!
I wasn’t looking at the running time, and sitting here waiting for the second part, then suddenly it cut off, lol.
Need to play part 2 to see the bass player go nuts on the gong.
It's kind of funny that out of all the Echoes reactions on CZcams, 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.
Only Pink Floyd could set up in an ancient amphitheater and perform for all the souls lost to Mt. Vesuvius.
Biber could do it!
@@lperea21Bieber?
@@lperea21 LMFAO!
@@lperea21If you're going to bring up a demigod of music such as the Beebs then you better spell his name right.
@@smmusicplus96 im atheist 🤪🤪🤪
Richard Wright and David Gilmours voices are so similar that they're the perfect compliment for each other
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.
the vocal harmonies entered Richards Wright and Gilmour are beautiful one of my favorite parts,, music is mesmerizing and it's live!!!
there is a second part to what you have just heard and seen!
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!!
Live for the ghost of Pompeii !
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.
Pink Floyd are pure genius& remember this when you needed pure talent, no fancy stuff like today, they will be played forever ❤️🙏
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.
digital isn't always the best, theirs a reason people keep going back to vinyl
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.
@@PGLAMB1978 Digital IS infinitely better. But I was talking about recording, NOT vinyl... SMH.
Pink floyd are off another planet unbelievable so good 👍
Thank you thank you for playing ECHOES, Floyd...👍👌have a listen to PIGS. That's a whole another level.. cheers.
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..!
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. 👍
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!
Waters referred to this as the precursor to dark side lyrically: “i am you and you are me” became “us and them”
Never heard about ALW lifting this...!!
@@karenscigliano9787 Waters slyly references this in the song "It's a Miracle" on his solo album Amused to Death. It's very subtle, but pointed.
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
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.
How about a Tip from a old rocker (71). Grand Funk Railroad. Inside looking out. Pure rock. The base line is sick 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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.
I swear that one of the best grooves in any music. Straight up groove that's makes you move
God, we were lucky to have been young then. Thank you 2 for grooving to our timeless music!
This video should be recommended to anyone who loves music 🎶 pink floyd never fails to amaze me
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.
Their voices harmonize so perfectly even live man
God damn you two really are hitting the CZcams gems. Keep it up.
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.
I miss those days so much
This song turned me on to pink floyd when I was 14 on mudhrooms.. been a die hard fan since
I remember seeing Pink Floyd when they were this young, seems like just yesterday, but it was 50 years ago. Time passes so fast!
Italy, Summer, rock stars......Life must have been very hard for them....)
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.
Thank you!!
For me this is the finest piece of music to have been captured on film.
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!
Music videos as a format go back to the 1920’s but I will agree and say that this is one of the all time best!
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.
First performance in that stadium for approx 2000 years!
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! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
The thing that puts Pink Floyd over Zeppelin is that Floyd never stole music 🤷♂️
@@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.
@@vicprovost2561 Final Cut was more like a Roger Waters solo record though, i think when you look at it like that, its credable.
Saucerful of Secrets and Careful With That Axe, Eugene are also on this movie. Good ones to watch as well. Echoes, always my #1 Floyd song!
I can watch the entire live in Pompeii video all day and never get tired of it.
It's mesmerising
My favourite audio visual performance , 🍄 take a trip and enjoy it.
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.
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.
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.
I saw them performed this live 1971 University of Toledo Fieldhouse. They drop this album the day before. Love your reactions
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.
I have seen that guitar in Irsay’s collection. Being a huge Floyd fan it literally gave me chills! Love this song, both parts one and two!
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 ✌️
Thanks for hanging out with us!!
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 !! 👍🎵🎼✌
Few bands have that outer space feel!!!!!
You should hear careful with that axe Eugene from the same place . And celestial voices both great pink Floyd tracks
Now for part 2
Medicinal Rock at it's best.'Careful With that Axe Eugene' later in the gig is an experience to behold.
Part 2 of this performance starts with the drummer, Nick Mason, working them cymbals like crazy. You fellas will def enjoy. Money back guarantee!!😁
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.
Just discovered you brothers! You are great reactors. Anyone who "gets" and appreciates Pink Floyd is at the top of my list. Keep rocking!☮
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
"Man that's funky!" if you want some more funk check out "Pigs" from Pink Floyd's Animals album.
BRUTAL driving Rhythm with Gilmour wrecking his guitar and yo minds 😮
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.
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!
I grew up with this band. Love your reaction. You can consider it a music video. They are THE band in my humble opinion
I love this one but the Gdańsk version, for me, is even better!
Потрясающая игра и видеоряд. Браво! Такое выдает только Пинк Флойд.👍👏
Video of the song is is so Raw it's a natural sound
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".
I first heard this decades ago and it still slaps me around the back of my head. A timeless masterpiece!
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!
Echoes of our times.
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....
Someone once commented that they were playing for ghosts of the past and for spirits of the future.
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
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.
You guys are really amazing, you see , hear it all, I love watching you guys !!
Here are a couple tidbits of information you might find interesting. The guitar that David Gilmore is playing he bought in 1970. He made a number of modifications to it over the years including rather significant ones like trading out the neck and pickups several times as well as more cosmetic changes like changing out the white pickguard for a black pickguard. It became known as “The Black Strat”. In 2019 David Gilmore donated “The Black Strat” and over 120 guitars and other instruments to be auctioned off with proceeds going to a nonprofit environmental organization (ClientEarth). “The Black Strat” sold for almost 4 million US dollars (about 3.4 million pounds). In all his collection sold for over 21 million dollars. Of note he did not donate all his guitars. He kept at least one beat up looking guitar he used over the years for practice. You can see this guitar in the video below. Please share with us a reaction to this song/video. This year the band released its first new song in 28 years to benefit humanitarian organizations providing aid to Ukraine. The story behind this is super cool. In short David’s Ukrainian daughter in law shared with him an instagram video of a Ukrainian rock singer who - in the middle of a US tour flew back to be a soldier. He recorded a video of himself singing in an empty town square a traditional Ukrainian song. Gilmore was inspired and went onto craft an instrumental accompaniment to the singer’s instagram video. He called the singer who was injured in the hospital for permission, then rang up drummer Nick Mason (a founding member of Pink Floyd) saying he wanted to make it a “Pink Floyd song” so it would raise more money. They got together with other musicians who have been a part of Pink Floyd and released the video as a fundraiser. The story gets even better. Back in 2015 the band that the Ukrainian singer is in (Boombox) was to play at a benefit concert. The singer could not make it to the concert so David Gilmore did an impromptu performance with the band - a Pink Floyd song called “Wish You Were Here”.
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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.
79 AD, not that it makes much difference
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.
A glimpse into Pink Floyd as they are reaching the Zenith of their creativity this film also shows them laying down tracks for Dark Side of the Moon
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.
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.
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It really is a very moving performance, the one in Gdansk.
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
Great choice, that's the way l like to wake up in the morning, with a great jam session. Looking forward to more of your reaction 👍🤩
You cats are quickly becoming my go to reaction channel. Great picks! Great commentary. I can tell you guys are serious music people.
I remember seeing this at the theater 50 years ago. Bought the DVD over 20 years ago.
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.
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!
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..👍
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
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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.
This was a movie, live at Pompeii I seen it at the Embassy Theatre in Auckland NZ in 1974 I was 18.
Their music always takes you on a journey!
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!
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.
Good reaction. I knew the bass riff was coming, caught you like I thought it would.
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.
Amazing 👏
I can't believe this recording is as Old as me
Best raw footage of The Floyds
You will love em even more when u know how they came up with the name to PINK FLOYD
Perhaps they were performing the a crowd we just couldn’t see them. Perhaps it was the spirits of Pompeii
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