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09-05-2009, 04:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield  I do like track, this but Floyd were never really Jazz - a lot of their stuff is actually based on Blues - but if you want tripped-out Jazz/Rock then you need Soft Machine!! 
Listen to the last 5-10 minutes of "The Moon in June" from Soft Machine 3 - for a real trip!!   | I think this was a hint at the origins of the name "Pink Floyd".
Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Maybe not.
But ckeckout
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"
And ECHOS is awesome.
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09-05-2009, 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by baba Great song! Heard them open with it live in '87. | Me too. I thought my smile couldn't get wider when I was waiting for the concert to start and then it happened.........................PING
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09-05-2009, 02:53 PM
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09-07-2009, 02:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Chicago, IL | | | I liked this song so much, I made our band cover it a few years ago. It goes over suprisingly well for such a long song in a bar.
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09-08-2009, 03:17 AM
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Originally Posted by By-Tor I think this was a hint at the origins of the name "Pink Floyd".
Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Maybe not.
But ckeckout
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"
And ECHOS is awesome. | Well you seem to be addressing me and my post about Jazz - I've heard all of their output many times over the last 30 years and none of it is Jazz - especially "Several etc" - which is just silly and a studio technology joke!
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09-09-2009, 07:39 PM
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But I'd rather listen to any floyd record than any jazz record I've come across yet. |
09-10-2009, 03:46 AM
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09-21-2009, 11:13 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Jersey | | | This is by far my favorite Pink Floyd cut of all time. It's spacious, intense, and grandiose. But it's got to be listened to in an appropriate setting. |
09-21-2009, 11:35 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | I love Echoes and pretty much every song on Meddle. I will agree with Brucey on the idea that this is not a complete concept album like Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, and Animals. I saw them do Echoes live during the Pulse tour and it blew me away.
My guitarist and I have been playing Echoes for about 15 years now and it still brings a smile to our face. We played it live with our old jam band a few times as a closer and we had on a couple of separate instances we had drunks breaking down into tears when we were finished. We knew where they were coming from.
It's funny how there are a lot of legends surrounding this song. The Stanley Kubrick one is new, and I never heard that before. It is my understanding, and of course, what the hell do I know, but is my understanding that Echoes was one of Floyd's first attempts to play to the images a young moviemaker that rode a kneeboard with a helmetcam on his head. Kneeboards were popular with surfers at the time that this song came out. Surfers were able to ride at speeds close to that of stand up surfers, but had an advantage when tucking into the hollow sections of waves, which allowed them to get really long deep barrel rides. (Picture Rick Griffin paintings and a lot of acid and you can get a good idea where some of these dudes were mentally). Anyway, this movie maker dude was a kind of inventor, and he created his own lightweight waterproof housing for a super8 video camera that could be worn on a helmet. He filmed himself surfing, and the end result was a long slow motion short film of just one of his waves. Pink Floyd created Echoes to this film. I've half-assed looked for confirmation on this story, and haven't really come up with much to support it, so I'm not sure how accurate it is, but IMO, it PWNS the Kubrick story. 
Oh yeah, FWIW, we used to also open sets on occasion with a bluegrass version of Fearless with a banjo. We'd play it fast as hell. Lots of fun. |
09-21-2009, 11:38 PM
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09-22-2009, 12:00 AM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | I just found a reference to it on Wikipedia, right below the Kubrick part.
"The 1973 George Greenough film "Crystal Voyager" concludes with a 23 minute segment in which the full length of "Echoes" accompanies a montage of images shot by Greenough from a camera mounted on his back while surfing on his kneeboard."
Here's a link to the movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Voyager
Here's a link to the dude. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Greenough
I'm stoked. It really happened. I had almost totally written it off as some stoney thought.
Here's a link to the wikipedia article on the dude. |
09-22-2009, 04:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield Well you seem to be addressing me and my post about Jazz - I've heard all of their output many times over the last 30 years and none of it is Jazz - especially "Several etc" - which is just silly and a studio technology joke! | Pick up a copy of "La Poeme Electronique" from Edgar Varese, and then do a comparison with Pink Floyd.
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10-21-2009, 02:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Old York | | Pink Floyd is my favorite band, and Echoes is an amazing song. I can't think of any other band who can pull off a 23-minute long song, but they did. In the studio version, there is this weird but awesome melody starting at 18:14..I love it but I can't tell what it is playing it, it sounds like a keyboard to me, but it also sounds like it could be a guitar effect, does anyone else know? 
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