Vin you nailed it when you said "no one is on their level.", midway through the reaction. No one was. Save perhaps Tool, no one ever has been. Can you find other individuals in music you might say are more musically talented? Sure. It's personal preference after all. Can you find other bands or individuals who might create more poignant lyrics or have a better stage performance? Same answer. But can you find another band that cranks out Music, Lyrics and Performance at that level and for that long? Try. I mean, good luck. This is a 23 minute song. There is no second song. You just listened to half of it. Who else is pulling that off? In 1971 no less. Just crazy when you consider what other music was being produced in 1971. They literally are their own musical genre`. To answer a couple of your questions, this performance was actually part of a documentary about the band. There were several songs and band interviews as part of the documentary. I bought it years ago. It's great. Filmed in Pompeii, Italy (whispers of tax reasons were behind it being moved from London) and because it's just a really cool idea to film there in front of no one outdoors in an auditorium like that. This song is just about human interaction and connection. Roger Waters was a great songwriter. The rest of the songs on the "Wish you were Here" album you will really enjoy lyrically. This one lyrically is pretty obscure but as they went on, his lyrics became much more cynical and sophisticated. Oh and yes... vocal and musical style was copied heavily. Have you listened to Queensryche? It's basically theft. The guitar sound is just David Gilmour. The guy's just a genius. The most emotive guitar player to ever play I think. If you start looking at the body of work and consider what he's done here and on some of the songs you've reacted to.... the solo on "Time", "Comfortably Numb", "High Hopes", "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" etc. He even managed to make "Breathe" sound like a lullaby as the song lyrics were written as a dialogue of parent to child. He's just brilliant. Underrated. But a Legend to those who know. Wait until you hear "On the turning away". Solo at the end gets a tear almost every time from me,

Never gets mentioned but Rick Wright's keyboards are superb all through this.

I see that you didn't realize one thing: Pompeii was a wealthy ancient Roman city, but 2000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the city under 4 to 6 meters of volcanic ashes. Largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city offers a unique snapshot of Roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried, and an extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants. If you search for images of the city, you will notice citizens frozen in position, like statues, under a layer of ash. And this show was performed there, with no audience, because all the souls of the citizens were there, with their bodies frozen in time.

David described Echoes as a musical conversation between himself and Rick Wright (keyboards). When Rick passed away, David no longer played Echoes.

I always love when people react to this version, because as Rock drummers go Nick Mason gets very little love, and I think this shows how excellent he is. He normally plays pretty slow and relaxed but when required to turn it on he really can. Plus you got to see them in thier youth :)

I love the reactions of this performance, everyone ask "where's the crowd?" DEAD ~2000 years ago

Echoes is that rare kind of song. You don't listen to it, you simply cast off your earthly distractions and let it transport your spirit into the beautiful ether

Echoes has it all. Great musicianship, vocal harmonies, lyrics, crazy space rock sections; it's really the total package. It is kind of a relationship song. It's more about the cosmic relationships between every human being. How we are all connected to one another on a cosmic level. That's how I've always interpreted it.

This song never gets old. David Gilmour is GOAT 🎸

Rip to one of the best pianist ever

Now you are trapped into doing the second half of this performance. Get after it!😜

Performing for the ghosts of Pompeii, the ancient city in southern Italy that was destroyed in 79 AD by the volcano Vesuvius. An amazing show. Sori will need to watch it again with her eyes open.

"Nobody is on these guys level".. Yes indeed.

Echoes is probably my favourite song EVER and IMHO you have to listen to the studio version first at least three times before you can give an opinion,then listen to pompeii. What gets me is that a lot of people think Floyd only started out with DSOTM when in fact they did so much great music before that.

I'm probably projecting way too much, but I always felt that playing in an empty amphitheater in Pompeii, a thousand years after that eruption was also a way to bring out the echoes of a distant time. I really like that cut to the statues and figures before the beginning of the singing, as it brings out the history of the place and of the people towards the light. Apologies for my poor English, I hope this was still understandable

The most gifted musicians ever,✌👊

The whole Pompeii concert is a religious experience. Should binge the whole album IMO.

Talking about David Gilmour's voice, watch a saucer full of secrets on the same Pompeii tape. Gilmour literally justs say ahhh the whole time and it sounds amazing

Man that perfomance from David is for the aeons. Playing like a God, for Gods, while looking like a God himself.

Its not really about romance its about human connection more generally.

This live version is amazing, but cuts out some 15 minutes of instrumental that's on the album version, which takes up the entirety of the B side. It has a final verse & chorus: Cloudless every day you fall Upon my waking eyes Inviting and inciting me to rise And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning And no one sings me lullabies And no one makes me close my eyes So I throw the windows wide And call to you across the sky Vin is right, Meddle was 2 years before Dark Side of the Moon, with another album Obscured By Clouds following it and preceding Dark Side.

Live AND in 1971... no Auto Tune or any of that shit, just genius talent. Thanks for this you two!

It sounded like phantom of the opera because Andrew Lloyd Webber plagerised pieces of echoes.

You should check out the Live in G’Dansk version of this song. It’s awesome and the last time Gilmour and Wright performed it together before Richard died

Roger Waters actually did accuse Lloyd Webber of stealing his phantom of the opera score from this

The reason this part doesn't end just abruptly, as being part 1 of 2, is because it's a film. The film bookends with Echoes. If I remember correctly, this part goes into an interview or a studio session.

This film is the definition of magic and perfection. You must see the whole thing, or at least part 2 of Echoes. The also show clips of the making of Dark Side. The line up is what most people think of as Pink Floyd - their original bass player, but with Dave replacing there original singer. There is no one in arena and that was the point. They are the first band (entertainment) to play in the arena in 2000 years. It was their answer to all the big concert films that were being release in that time. Rodger Waters was (or is still) suing the Phantom of the Opera for gleaning that progression. If you do watch it, watch the original film. There is a newer edit that has lots of space stuff in it which I think detracts from the music. I have seen Floyd 8 times, with and without Rodgers, and this is still the greatest performance. I thank God every time I watch it that it was made.

i cant wait for them to react to careful with that axe eugene (hopefully one day)

Excellent music choice. Echos is one of my favourite Pink Floyd songs and in my opinion the most important song they did. After being on a kind of a drift for a couple of years after Syd was gone, this song defined the new floydian sound that would be carried on and perfected during the 70's. Simply a masterpiece.

The entire live performance is amazing guys ☝️

The whole Pompeii concert/video is absolutely amazing. You should definitely watch it front to back.

Half way through don’t forget to enjoy the rest of the song

I was standing there at that location back in 2009. I saw this Pink Floyd video long after. It was eerie knowing I was in a place with so much history.

"Strangers passing in the street......" Was actually Roger Waters expressing empathy.

You just saw a rare video (via a proper "film" crew) and view of the original lineup (post Syd Barrett), just the band jamming with no accompaniments, four guys doing genius musical things. David Gilmour (guitar, vocals) Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals) Rodger Waters (bass guitar) NIck Mason (drums) Pompeii is a roman ruin and at the time probably couldn't handle a crowd. Since then modern Pink Floyd was able to host a full concert there as well as a David Gilmour show where only people were only able to fill the arena floor, the venue probably has been restored to a point to have this happen.

If you watch the actual documentary Pink Floyd at Pompeii you'll see them in the studio working on parts of Dark Side of the Moon.

Echoes is simply the best song of history of human being

The lyrics of the second verse are according to Roger Waters about “the potential that human beings have for recognizing each other’s humanity and responding to it, with empathy rather than antipathy“, and he describes it as forming the basis of his own philosophy. I haven't read anything from him about the first verse, but you seemed to get the crux of it. I won't spoil anything more before you've had the chance to hear the rest of the song.

This is what I would call their classic lineup, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason. This is the lineup that created dark side of the moon, wish you were here, animals and the wall.

It's about life evolving and how we all have a common ancestor.

The Floyd's history has always been about the music and not them. They generally do not appear on their album cover art (except Ummagumma where they are effectively on display individually in the construction of the album). Here, they play in an amphitheater to no one. From their first days they developed their light show as something to hide behind. And then The Wall where they used a surrogate band and hid behind a wall. This movie, Live At Pompeii, was really the first time an audience got to see the band playing at a venue and in the studio. My understanding of the song and I think I have heard Roger use the term "empathy", i.e., connecting with others, which is an idea that runs through all of of the post-Meddle albums.

I see this not being the full version was already covered!!! IT's a MUUUUUUST!

One of the things I like is that you never cut your videos. Regards from Spain.

People can say anything they want about The Wall. This was Pink Floyd's apex peak as a band.

Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me Those lyrics might be my favourite in all of song.

VOICES FROM HEAVEN

This is my favorite Pink Floyd live set ever. Better than Pulse, sorry PF fan base. This is the jam. The pan shot of the stencils of their speakers "Pink Floyd. London: does it for me. Live with no audience, save the ghosts of Pompeii and whichever living viewers happen to be watching at the time. Thanks for this.

I’m 52 and when I was 5 years old my parents and aunts and uncles listened to all of this great stuff and to me it’s always been there for me , we had Pink Floyd , Led Zeppelin, deep purple , Black Sabbath ,The Who , Queen all putting there best stuff out from 68 through the 70’s , music was so awesome then , but then my parents were overcome with evil and started listening to Disco !! God damn Kc and the sunshine band !! Anyway this was recorded at Pompei which was a small vacation spot for romans and a hedonistic getaway for when you really wanted to go crazy , mount Vesuvius erupted killing everyone because they liked putting things in there butts

You finally got it with the evolution aspect, well done 🎉

Sori is absolutely right. It's about empathy, for everyone around you.

Loved vin saying nobody is on their level, nobody Ofcourse it's in the eye of the beholder but if these guys take one thing from this entire journey of the channel and the village and all the new music I hope the biggest takeaway has been the fact that Floyd is now a part of their being, once it goes in it'll never come back out And to think you may have gone through life never even knowing they existed!

saw them a couple of times on the '89 tour. Momentary Lapse of Reason was the album they were touring (without Waters, after the legal battles I think). I forget which show it was, but me and the friends I was with dropped a tab, and went in. We were sitting on the floor some rows back. Things were starting to kick in, and the lights went down. Audience started getting quiet and the first "PING" hit...and in my section it went dead quiet...the second "PING" and a guy two rows in front of me got up and said "Boys and girls, buckle up!! It's gonna be a bumpy ride!" I got lost in the music after that. Still to this day I can not believe they opened a show with this song, but it was a fantastic show and one of the best trips I ever had.

Hello friends, if you liked this video, then then you have to see a band from our country, Chile, called LOS JAIVAS, band Rock Progressive , and Latinoamerican Folklore ,the song "La Poderosa Muerte" that, like Pink Floyd, recorded in the Ruins of Pompeii, they did it. made in the Heights of Machu Pichu, published in 1981, based on a great Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature .... Greetings from Chile

when you got the lucky to produce your music without a label pushing and pushing, we get bands like pink floyd they dont followed any trend they invented his own sound, and most of all they in his 20s create music so mature, only with aged we understand the meaning of it, thats amazing!!!! and is the only band whom sound better live than the original record and never play the same so year after year we never heard the same song, i love it

Andrew Lloyd Webber totally ripped off the tune of The Phantom of the Opera but Roger Water didn't care to take it to court so he was lucky!

Pink Floyd are gods, this song is the best thing i've listened to...and im only 31.

I have the director's cut of Pink Floyd live in Pompeii on dvd, the full version of Echoes is truly epic !

Best Pink Floyd song.

Finally, you guys have to now do the rest of this performance....you will not be disappointed....its a must

Timeless progrock one of my favorite Pink Floyd song❤❤❤❤❤❤

This is a masterpiece! So good to see it here.

They are that good. Love you guys

That a reaction my boy feelin the pink floyd groove right there!

My top picks for you two to review: 1. Black Sabbath "Too late"; 2. Dead Can Dance "Song of the Stars"; 3. Textures "Timeless"; 4. Nevermore "Sentient 6"; 5. Tesseract "Survival"; 6. Manowar "Master of the Wind"; 7. Jeff Loomis "Chosen Time"; 8. Dream Theater "Pull Me Under"; 9. Madder Mortem "Evasions"; 10. Tyr "Mare of my Night"; 11. Rob Halford "Resurrection"; 12. Judas Priest "Painkiller"; 13. Jorn "Out to Every Nation"; 14. Textures "Messengers (acoustic live session); 15. Ninet Tayeb "Vague"; 16. Depeche Mode "Insight"; 17. Chris Cornell "Disappearing One" & "When I'm Down"; 18. Halestorm "I Am the Fire"; 19. Blind Guardian "Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)"; 20. Scott Matthews "Obsession Never Sleeps"; 21. The Gathering "Shrink"; 22. Dio "The Man Who Would Be King" & "As long as it is not about Love"; 23.Type O Negative "Wolf Moon"; 24. Muse "Take a Bow"; 25. Kamelot "Rule the World"; 26. Sinistro "Petalas"; 27. Iron Maiden "Hallowed be Thy Name" and that's it, for now... You won't regret it ;)

They play in the right place , ancient amphitheater , to the ghosts of people who lived 2090 years ago and then again in 2016 to their descendants . Are they playing for everybody who ever lived , for us now and for everyone in the future ? They know how to play with time , that's for sure ...

The album Meddle is awesome. You can hear them almost becoming what they are about to become. It is post Syd leaving the band when they were still trying to figure out what they were without him. This album marks the last stop of their slightly disjointed cohesion before their sound exploded into dark side of the moon and became solidified as what we really know them for today.

GOD IS LISTENING THIS MASTER PIECE

This is only part one you listened to. It is 1972. It is a movie of a live performance and it is awesome. They did not lose anybody to drugs. The guitarist from their firs album got mental problems and left. In 1983 bassist Roger Waters left. It was a bitter divorce with many lawsuits.

Greatest live performance by any band ever....

These youtube versions of this song drive me nuts by cutting the first few minutes of the song of. How do you cut the"PING" off?!?

Why was it recorded in the empty amphitheater? ECHOES through time reverberating back to the surface through all eternity.

on the DVD part 1 ends goes to the band recording parts of "Dark Side" in studio and take a break for some pie. " with NO crust"

The masters of sound and vision.

It was only Part one of Echoes in Pompei, you need to react to Part two. The lineup is the same as for many years to come: Richard Wright on keyboards and vocal, Roger Waters on bass (and also on vocals, but not in this song), Nick Mason on drums and David Gilmour on guitar and vocals. :-)

I *love* the way y'all react to things, & as I'm currently homeless & in a shelter I think of y'all near every time I eat...

They played this concert for the dead. For the lost souls of Pompeii. After Pink Floyd's concert, I like to think that their souls have finally found peace.

yeah, Lloyd-webber ripped it off for phantom of the opera, Floyd decided not to sue!

If you watch Gilmours " live At Pompeii" double DVD. they show a tunnel inside the Amphitheatre dedicated to this video. That concert ( 42 yrs. later ) Gilmour said was very special to him. I believe that this was his last concert. Only one song from the past played this time ( one of these days)

Mount Vesuvius, a volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy, has erupted more than 50 times. Its most famous eruption took place in the year 79 A.D., when the volcano buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under a thick carpet of volcanic ash. Pink Floyd didn't want a 'crowd' there (I presume you mean an audience) because they wanted to evoke atmosphere etc.

Hi vin and sori, I'm a huge floyd fan from Liverpool England. Sori if I remember you like the saxophone at the end of shine on you crazy diamond. Listen to the Gunners dream from the final cut, also vin I know you both love your lyrics, great the way you take time to analyse them. Listen to the final cut from the final cut. Keep up the good work. Love it

Love watching your girl just close her eyes and take it in. You are in listening to Gods.

We need part 2 of this masterpiece

You have to watch the whole film Pink floyd at Pompeii and perhaps you will see that each of the songs have a very specific meaning in the movie. A good part of the film was recorded at the solfatara a part of an active volcano (super volcano) called Campi flegeri. Dark side of the moon was released a year later in 1973, at pompeii it came out in 1972.

There are several bands who sound musically and vocally (specifically David Gilmour) in parts like Pink Floyd. E.g., Mostly Autumn, RPWL. Both bands admit to being influenced by Floyd, though they do have their own style that is apparent from extended listening.

My band growing up ! Brilliant, enough said... love you guys ! Can I still say guys ? Ahhh Phuk it .

Wow it's pretty awesome that I actually watch this video and you guys have pretty much just made this video! I have not stopped listening to your comments post video but from what I've heard let me clue you in on a couple of things! The drug member that you spoke of Vin was Syd Barrett! By the time this video was made Syd was already out of the band because of a mental breakdown due to too much LSD! The vocal style that you are speaking of is actually a two-part harmony with David Gilmour doing the low Harmony and Richard Wright does the high harmony! I believe in Wikipedia or somewhere I've heard it described where at a concert somewhere down the line they switched and Gilmore did the high and Wright did the low!! Feel privileged that you have at least a chance to see recorded versions of this song live because once Rick Wright passed away David Gilmour never performed the song live again! He said they had such a connection, especially in this song, that he could not do it again without his partner!! Truly one of the best pieces of music ever to be recorded by a human!! Do it justice and listen to Part 2 also!!

For the Gods and the Ghosts of Pompeii...After 2000 years, Pink Floyd

My favorite PF footage!!!🎸🔥🤘💯

Music that came dicrectly from heaven. My no 1 song of all time

Echoes, as Roger Waters declared in an interview, was the attempt to describe “The potential that human beings have for recognizing each other’s humanity and responding to it, with empathy rather than antipathy.“

Just Nothing Like It, David Gilmore - guitarist par excellence. Just Nothing Like it - Pink Floyd live experience. Just Nothing like it - Roger Waters the best lyricists. Roger Waters wrote this song after reading a poetry of Pakistani 🇵🇰 revolutionary poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Echoes directly took the inspiration from Allama’s poem called “Two Planet”. Roger also said that they were criticised for songs related to space so he changed the imagery to next level beautiful underwater scene.

You gotta love that analog psychedelic sound. I mean no other band could have pulled this off back then.

best jam ever by the best band ever lived,next listen to saucerful of secrets part 2(celestial voices)live at pompeii.its one of the best build ups ever then the crescendo at the end jees

Oh! You guys did Echoes! You’re the best!

you guys have the best Pink Floyd analysis, reactions. I don't always agree with your view but I haven't seen anyone else try to interpret the work with as much effort and thought. :)

Nobody had played in that arena for 1000 years - now hear the ECHOES at Gdańsk - the last ever performance and a great conversation between Rick and David - very moving.

Gilmours voice on dogs of war has a real edge unlike any other floyd track and a great bit of sax, a very under rated track.

The best version of echoes for me is the one played at the ghdansk concert David gilmore said after this concert that he would not play it again because it would not sound the s ame without his dear friend and band member who was fighting cancer at the time and not long after sadly lost the battle toward the end of this version you can feel and sense the emotion and mutual respect between these two wonderful people it's an absolutely incredible experience that touch me deeply watch and listen to it see what you think

Song is not over

Hope you guys read this, as it is so long after you did this reaction. The reason there is no crowd is because at that time in history (1972) quite a few bands were putting out movies of their shows, or sometimes their whole tour with songs from various cities in the movie. Pink Floyd decided to do a live show with no crowd in the uncovered ruins at Pompeii. There actually were a few spectators, some kids were allowed to sit up those exit tunnels, as long as they stayed out of camera, they could stay!! LUCKY KIDS!!!! Besides, could you imagine what a crowd would have done to that amphitheatre if they had been allowed in?