Two local kids stumbled on them setting this session up, and instead of telling them to go the band invited them inside and pulled up two chairs for them so they could watch and listen to the whole thing. How cool is that. Floyd did this session in the amphitheatre for the shear acoustics the place gave, as the place was built for public speeches back in roman times. Experimental sound production at its best.
Amphitheatres were a place of entertainment and sometimes executions. It wasn't an area for public speeches. You see, I'm Italian and I know my hystory very well. 🎉
@@MissMariQueen sti stranieri vorrebbero insegnare la storia italiana agli italiani...beh talvolta nemmeno i nostri connazionali la conoscono e non conoscono la differenza tra ANFITEATRO e TEATRO ROMANO !😁
I saw the title of this video and IMMEDIATELY clicked... Echoes is an absolute POWERHOUSE that showcases the amazing synergy that these 4 guys had when they all played together
My son is 7 years old and autistic (non-verbal). I tried to see if he responds to different kinds of music. If he is too hyper, I play this song and he instantly calms down.
My two and a half non-verbal autistic granddaughter and I watched this for the first time together a couple of weeks ago. She was entranced and didn't move for the entire song.
David Gilmour (the guitarist and vocalist), actually made a return to the same amphitheater in Pompeii in 2016 for his solo tour. It was also filmed and had a live audience...the first *public* performance in the amphitheater since 79 AD!!
Soo, back before drones (which was like, yesterday for folks my age lol), they used giant cranes to get those big long distance wide shots you see at the beginning and the end of this. And yes they had zoom lenses back then, so that wasn't an issue . Every Easter they show "The Ten Commandments" on Network television, which won like a zillion academy awards. There are spectacular wide angle long shots of the thousands of Jews marching out of Egypt after they were set free, that they wouldn't even attempt today without the use of computers and CGI. And that was 1956!! We won't even discuss the parting of the Red Sea scene which is as amazing a special effect as anything you'll see in movies today. In short, this generation didn't invent this stuff. They only found ways to use technology to shortcut and oft times cheapen the look and sound of what was done more authentically before it. Anyway, great reaction as always!! You guys have great taste. Try not to make us wait too long for that Animals reaction. 😉✌️👍
Also could get long shots from the top of the amphitheatre opposite with a zoom lens. But yeah in the pre-digital, pre-tiny electronics for radio controlled aircraft (drones) days, we used high quality film and high quality lenses!
@MikePhillips-pl6ov yeah absolutely. They could very well have been up in the upper reaches of the coliseum on the other end. But the angle of the initial shot seems like it's higher than the coliseum itself. IDK. But the idea that it had to be a drone or something completely unfathomable was a little surprising. Also I should mention that crain shots isn't something relegated to the past. It's still the predominant way most long shots are done. (That was for the kids, not you).
@@flubblert, you mean the Pompeii *arena* or *amphitheater.* Colosseum or Coliseum is the specific name of the large and iconic amphitheater located in Rome, and it comes from the fact that it was once fronted by a giant statue (a "colossus") of emperor Nero, lost in some war or earthquake in the Middle Ages. It appears that the name Colosseum was never used by the ancient Romans themselves and only became commonplace in the early Middle Ages (before the statue was destroyed, of course). The ancient Romans likely called it simply "Amphitheatrum Caesareum" ("Caesar's amphitheater"), which was also used by similar structures in other cities of the empire, like the stunning Verona Arena in northern Italy, somewhat smaller and less famous, but much better preserved than the Colosseum (so much that it's STILL IN USE 2,000 years later for theater, opera, and other performances!).
So this was recorded in 1971. Watching you guys experience it for the first time took me back to when I first heard it in about 1975. It made a huge impact on me, and I'm amazed and grateful and hopeful that almost 50 years later it's effecting people the same way.
the ghost of Pompeii was probably happy to see 1st concert after 2000 years . 😎👍🎶 Pink Floyd is the 1st and only to make a concert to Pompeii after 2000 years 2 times . 1972 and 2016 .
Il Live at Pompeii fu realizzato agli inizi di ottobre del 1971 non 1972. E nel 2016 solo DAVID GILMOUR da solista si è esibito nell' antico Anfiteatro romano
The trippy part is all done on instruments: slide on bass with probably some delay (Binson echo), the seagull noises are done with a wah pedal with the ins and outs reversed into a guitar using the guitar's volume and tone knobs, and the rest is done on the organ the keyboardist is playing
Guys if you want to see an absolutely amazing concert, watch the live Pink Floyd Pulse Concert from 1994! I'm 65 and I've been to many, many concerts in my life and this concert was the best concert I've ever seen in my life! Light show is spectacular and naturally the music is top notch excellent! You both will be blown away, garrenteed ! God bless you both!
""Strangers passing in the street, by chance, two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me.” That was on ‘Meddle’ in 1970 and basically my message hasn’t changed." - Roger Waters
Those are some of the greatest and most poignant lyrics written by the Floyd, or perhaps ever written by anyone, poet or musician! Very profound. It’s a message that summarises the whole of Pink Floyd’s career where much of their work talks about empathy between fellow humans and also between nations.
Yeah... and while there weren't rock concerts, 2000 y ago we build those arenas and thousands of people attended performances of plays there. It wasn't only gladiators. Another fact. 2016 Pink Floyd performance was the first live event there with an actual crowd, after 2000 years.
Thanks for adding this note. Those guys writing and performing were NOT tripping on acid. They saw how it permanently damaged someone they loved. They weren't perfect, but who is?
This is a thing of beauty. The song tells a major story and for it to be done on the grounds of the hallowed grounds of the horror. David Gilmour came back to Pompeii and did a concert in the coliseum with a full audience. Gilmour won’t do the song anymore at his shows since Richard Wright passed and he’s the one on the keyboards singing with David.
"How'd they get the lenses?" Yes, back in the olden times, in the long long ago, the lens mines were a treacherous place and to brave the journey there was momentous quest. Nowadays we make the lenses, a much safer process than in the times of danger and sadness that was the seventies.
They are playing for the ghosts of pompeii...those scorched by the volcano...think about it...the last time there was live music there...was just before the volcano erupted...2 thousand years ago...
That amphitheatre was built approx 2-2,500 years ago and the roads built by the Romans (ie the Italians), like the Appian Way, is still in use, still not destroyed by potholes, 2000+ years after its construction. They knew how to build stuff too last, their “concrete”/mortar is unsurpassed, it’s lasted above ground, underground and submerged in salt water. And we can’t reproduce anything as perfect today. Our modern concrete is short lived & rubbish by comparison to what they made 2000 years ago. Mainly, today, we’re rubbish at loads of stuff!
3 of the 4 guys performing in Pompeii in 1971 also performed 23 years later at the Pulse Concert. All 4 of them reunited in 2005 at the Live 8 concert.
It's a shame for all his anti tyrant political ramblings, Roger himself is a tyrant and destroyed a beautiful band. If any band should have shined through the 80s and 90s, it should have been Pink Floyd. Don't get me wrong, I love momentary lapse and division bell, but it's obvious what's missing. However, David's solo albums are better than Roger's.
Awesome reaction 💪 whats up with the one headphone listening guy,😬 he's only experiencing half greatness 💯 Glad you guys enjoy PINK FLOYD. STAY AWESOME
The full length movie details the recording of Dark Side of the Moon. They were firing on all cylinders by this point as a jam band, and the movie is a culmination of that. The album version has some really fantastic moments, but seeing a live version is amazing, especially in this setting. This is the genesis of modern Pink Floyd. Rest of the album is pretty great, but not what you’d expect.
From a 1966 high school graduate and a Floyd fan from as far back as I can remember, my advice to you guys, is just soak up all the Pink Floyd you can.
Live at Pompeii was a whole concert film. I watched it in a theater when it was new. I suspect that a lot of people recommending it have never seen any part but this one. They performed all their best pre-Dark Side of the Moon material.
Been a fan since 1969. My daughter is also a huge fan of Pink Floyd. You can’t just pick A song but need to listen albums from the beginning to end….and not talk.
Nick Mason is on drums, Roger Waters is on Base Guitar, Richard Write is on Keyboards & vocals, and David Gilmour, perhaps the best guitarist in recent times. This was filmed in 1971.
The boiling liquid is mostly hot wet clay. The lava and ash in that area has been exposed to boiling hot acidic ground water for centuries, and the minerals have broken down into clay. The general name for those bubbling mini-geysers is "mud pots."
They were filmed in Pompeii for a few days in the first week of October 1971, about a month *before* Meddle's release. Then they were filmed in a Paris studio in December, doing the songs they didn't get to do in Italy: Careful with that Axe, Eugene; Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, and Mademoiselle Nobs[Seamus]. The first version of the film was released in September 1972. Shortly afterwards, the director films them at Abbey Road during the making of Dark Side of the Moon, releasing a second version in the end of 1973, subsequently getting an American release in 1974.
When I listen to Pink Floyd, it amazes me. Like how amazing that these men found each other. This band is unbelievable and some higher power brought them together. Absolute beauty. Perfection. David Gilmour is a god, 100%.
Now go watch their performance of "One Of These Days" from this film. If you pay attention, you'll see Nick Mason lose a stick during the fiercest part of the jam and grab a new one without missing a beat. One of the sickest things I have ever seen a drummer do! :)
the band was there, the film crew was there and 2 unknown stray kids had wondered in and were allowed to stay, imagine being one of those 2 kids, the film maker had returned years later working on stuff for the directors cut, and was approached by one of those kids, who asked him, you remember those 2 kids? well i was one of them, he was grown by then.
Also in the Pompeii Staduim. ONE OF THESE DAYS IM GOING TO CUT YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES. The drummer just rocks it, in a major beat change, loses/breaks a drum stick, quickly gabs a spare without missing a single beat. Just mesmerising.
Hi, guitar nerd here, so that banshee scream in the middle of the song 16:26 is an effect made from the guitar. What you do is you plug in a wah wah pedal backwards, then use it with a guitar with single coil pick ups (fender Stratocaster in this song) and what happens when you mess with the volume knobs with that pedal on, it makes that scream effect, slap an echo on it, and you get some trippy spacial effects :)
Side notes: When David Gilmour was asked if he’d ever perform “Echoes” again, his reply was “Not without Rick”. Sadly, organist Richard Wright passed away in 2008 after suffering from cancer. An interesting video from this same time is Pink Floyd “Chit Chat With Oysters” at th-cam.com/video/OcwbxVIhn1I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=qm5QpCnQvWDZ2JX2 It’s interesting to see the guys taking a break from their work on this “Live at Pompeii” video and just having a meal and joking around together. Also of note: David Gilmour returned to perform again at this same arena at Pompeii in 2006. In addition to the concert footage, there’s video of him, his wife Polly and some of his kids visiting the surrounding area plus some pre-show behind the scenes footage. And they invited some very cool guests to perform during various parts of the show: David Crosby and Graham Nash from Crosby, Stills & Nash, David Bowie, and Richard Wyatt are the ones I recall. Some behind the scenes video with these guys is included as well. I just got the DVD of this concert, but haven’t had a chance to watch all of it yet. I’m hoping there’s more behind the scenes footage.
1971 i was 10, and dark side was about to come out, i have had the privilege of growing up on the floyd, and they never get old, well the guys did but the music did not
The "lava-scene" is from the Phlegraean Fields just northwest of Napoli, not south like Vesuv and Pompeji and probably way more dangerous. It´s not a mountain, but part of a leftover of an ancient super-volcano which became increasingly active again in the last years - similar to Yellowstone.
Shot from a crane with different lenses. I believe the song is about evolution. The screeching noises have always reminded me of seagulls and of course the Albatross. And 50 years later, every one still digs yet another timeless masterpiece. And no! They weren’t on acid. They had lost their key band member to psychedelics.
Love the reaction and I can forgive your lack of knowledge, like drones or Native Tribes (not many of either those in Italy in 1971 guys). But you do appreciate the incredible music these 4 geniuses produced. Fun fact it is David Gilmour and Richard Wright on vocals and their harmonies were so important to the song that after Richard Wright died, David Gilmour never performed the song again.
@flubblert to be fair I think both the drone and tribe comments from the guys were intended to be a bit tongue in cheek and not meant seriously, which is why I made the flippant comment, but even back in Pompii's prime there were no Tribes in Italy or drones lol.
@@simply_psi no I suspect there wasn't. 😏 I'm not even sure how they were using the word tribes, but it makes more sense for them to be confused about 79 AD in that respect than it would 1971. Just trying to help the boys out a little. Didn't realize you were being flippant. 😉
If you guys go to Yellowstone National Park you can see similar volcanic activity. The park sits inside a gigantic volcano so there are not just geysers but also bubbling pools of mud and boiling water. It’s insane. People fall in and dissolve.
Without Echoes, there would have been no Dark Side of the Moon. This production perfected the long form song format. The bubbling you saw was just hot mud. Ground water seeps through the rock and as it gets close to the lava beneath the rock, the water boils and makes steam which rised and heats the mud up. The aerial shot was shot from the rim of the stadium. Everything back then was shot on 35 mm film. Optic lens physics has been known for centuries. The glass technology was actually better back then because everything has moved to digital capture ccd technology so the skills for high technology glass lens manufacture have eroded.
Hi there. You haven't heard about the Roman City of Pompeii? That's VESUVIUS volcano in the city of Napolis Italy. Pompeii is a city where everybody was literally turned into ashes whyle they were at home during the night time. Many are still in the same position when they died centuries ago. You can surch for Ruins of Pompeii. Take care 🤘🤘
The live at Pompeii was probably one of the biggest achievements in the cultural word of music. But Pink Floyd wasnt the only ones who performed a show with the same concept of an historic location for humanity. The other example of this is Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu Pichu, where they performed a live session at the heights of the Andes Mountains in the ruins of Machu Pichu. I highly suggest to check them out! There is a lot of crazy music out there!
In case you didn't know, when they stand closer to each other towards the end, with themselves projected on a screen behind them, not only are they not really playing, but they're also in a completely different location: a Paris studio. A couple of months later. The absence of Rick Wright's beard clearly tells us we're not in Pompeii anymore. He might have shaved it off in Pompeii, but surely not mid-song.
filming with a crane boom, there was no drones in 1971, no autotune, no drum machines, no computer help whatsoever, back then it was all done by musicians who could write/play and sing no help needed, opening and closing shot was shot with a stationary cam on top way back, top of the last row, nosebleed seats, using zoom, they did have zoom back then
“Riding the Gravy train” - you might want to check out Have a Cigar if you’re getting into the Floyd. In fact, the whole album “Wish you were here” bangs
The overhead shot, was probably with a crane, which was what was used back then for overheads, as drones were a long way in the future. You have to appreciate how legendary, and almost mythical this performance was at the time, because the only time you would see it, was if it was on TV (very rare) or at a cinema, because computers and TH-cam were a long time in the future, and even VCRs weren't widely owned. So back then, Floyd fans would talk about where they saw it, and most had never seen it and couldn't watch it, even if they wanted to.
I'm a 68 yr old grandmother who has seen Pink Floyd 6 times. I saw Rodger Waters in Rio in 2001. Maybe you will look at old people differently now. Lol
It's not a Colosseum guys, it's an amphi theatre, they played plays on it and had other performances. True, some places they also used Colosseums for that but where they had a theatre, they normally used that for those things and left the fighting for colosseums. In Rome, they also used the Colosseum for plays simply because the theatre wasn't large enough to house all the people who came to see it. Theatres were typically smaller than colosseums.
You guys are the next best thing to Bevis and Butthead doing reactions!!! Love the full album reactions. You definitely started with the varsity by going to Pink Floyd at the start but glad you did.
One really cool thing about this movie is that you could go see it in theaters in 1974 and it also included studio footage of the making of Dark Side of the Moon. Imagine seeing it on the big screen
Are they reading the chat? As Floyd "newbies" maybe they need to know that this is what directly preceded "Dark Side" (and how this same movie shows them at Abbey Road Studios working on the early versions of the Dark Side tracks).
@@robertdubin5850 I always forget that, thanks. I think it's just because Echoes is so clearly the beginning of what they then did with the "big four."
Guys that was really a great reaction. From a Pink Floyd fan for over 40 years , Man its good too see & please try to listen to all there stuff over the years if you can . Enjoy
The location was chosen for the acoustics. Some of the film went missing, so not all angles could be edited in. This was 1971, so not filmed on digital equipment. Still, it gives me so much joy. 😊🎸🥁
These musicians are the real thing live no autotune they can create where others would need studio and 6 months computer bodging. The cam must be on a long boom.
Pink Floyd is deeper than the Mariana trench, higher than any satellites orbiting earth, cooler than an iceberg in a river of liquid nitrogen, hotter than a solar flare of lava spouted from the sun, smoother than a quantum stabilized atom mirror, more Zen than 10,000 Buddhist monasteries, larger than what we know as our universe. Their music is an enigma that is beyond what we are capable of comprehending.
this song live is really great. The emotions, music, editing on this recording is unreal! Personaly If I were you I would get super high and listen to the studio version. The quality there... its truly one of the greatest song OAT
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Two local kids stumbled on them setting this session up, and instead of telling them to go the band invited them inside and pulled up two chairs for them so they could watch and listen to the whole thing. How cool is that. Floyd did this session in the amphitheatre for the shear acoustics the place gave, as the place was built for public speeches back in roman times. Experimental sound production at its best.
Amphitheatres were a place of entertainment and sometimes executions. It wasn't an area for public speeches. You see, I'm Italian and I know my hystory very well. 🎉
@@MissMariQueen sti stranieri vorrebbero insegnare la storia italiana agli italiani...beh talvolta nemmeno i nostri connazionali la conoscono e non conoscono la differenza tra ANFITEATRO e TEATRO ROMANO !😁
How tf did I find another argyle fan on this channel
@@samuraimaster6584🙂Green Army!
I saw the title of this video and IMMEDIATELY clicked... Echoes is an absolute POWERHOUSE that showcases the amazing synergy that these 4 guys had when they all played together
"Imagine if a native saw this."
You mean... an Italian? 😂
🤭👍🏼
😂😂 yeah I caught that too
Those native Latins, still rocking their togas like it's the year 79 :)
These two are thick as pig shit😂
They’d drop their basket of olives in amazement.
My son is 7 years old and autistic (non-verbal). I tried to see if he responds to different kinds of music. If he is too hyper, I play this song and he instantly calms down.
I'm 47 and autistic and it works for me too.🤘🤘
My two and a half non-verbal autistic granddaughter and I watched this for the first time together a couple of weeks ago. She was entranced and didn't move for the entire song.
My son is autistic and a drummer. I played this and he was completely engrossed in the Tv. He was totally silent.
This makes me so glad. I'm undiagnosed autistic (I'm sure) you sound like such a great father 😊
Good for you ! I'm a high functioning Autistic. Pink Floyd always makes me feel better.
They are playing for the Echoes of a long gone people.
Oh man, I'd never thought of it that way! Nicely put.
David Gilmour (the guitarist and vocalist), actually made a return to the same amphitheater in Pompeii in 2016 for his solo tour. It was also filmed and had a live audience...the first *public* performance in the amphitheater since 79 AD!!
was that the performance they filmed and made a movie about?
@@daviddilley9305 Yeah! Gilmour released it as a Live DVD and Album!!
But no echoes ...he refused to play .
I was at Pompeii the week after he appeared, I was gutted I’d missed the gig.
@@qwill8254 David Gilmour non ha voluto più suonare ECHOES dopo la morte di Rick Wright perché ha sempre detto " Senza Rick non è possibile "
Soo, back before drones (which was like, yesterday for folks my age lol), they used giant cranes to get those big long distance wide shots you see at the beginning and the end of this. And yes they had zoom lenses back then, so that wasn't an issue .
Every Easter they show "The Ten Commandments" on Network television, which won like a zillion academy awards. There are spectacular wide angle long shots of the thousands of Jews marching out of Egypt after they were set free, that they wouldn't even attempt today without the use of computers and CGI. And that was 1956!! We won't even discuss the parting of the Red Sea scene which is as amazing a special effect as anything you'll see in movies today. In short, this generation didn't invent this stuff. They only found ways to use technology to shortcut and oft times cheapen the look and sound of what was done more authentically before it.
Anyway, great reaction as always!! You guys have great taste. Try not to make us wait too long for that Animals reaction. 😉✌️👍
Also could get long shots from the top of the amphitheatre opposite with a zoom lens. But yeah in the pre-digital, pre-tiny electronics for radio controlled aircraft (drones) days, we used high quality film and high quality lenses!
@MikePhillips-pl6ov yeah absolutely. They could very well have been up in the upper reaches of the coliseum on the other end. But the angle of the initial shot seems like it's higher than the coliseum itself. IDK. But the idea that it had to be a drone or something completely unfathomable was a little surprising.
Also I should mention that crain shots isn't something relegated to the past. It's still the predominant way most long shots are done. (That was for the kids, not you).
@@flubblert, you mean the Pompeii *arena* or *amphitheater.* Colosseum or Coliseum is the specific name of the large and iconic amphitheater located in Rome, and it comes from the fact that it was once fronted by a giant statue (a "colossus") of emperor Nero, lost in some war or earthquake in the Middle Ages. It appears that the name Colosseum was never used by the ancient Romans themselves and only became commonplace in the early Middle Ages (before the statue was destroyed, of course). The ancient Romans likely called it simply "Amphitheatrum Caesareum" ("Caesar's amphitheater"), which was also used by similar structures in other cities of the empire, like the stunning Verona Arena in northern Italy, somewhat smaller and less famous, but much better preserved than the Colosseum (so much that it's STILL IN USE 2,000 years later for theater, opera, and other performances!).
So this was recorded in 1971. Watching you guys experience it for the first time took me back to when I first heard it in about 1975. It made a huge impact on me, and I'm amazed and grateful and hopeful that almost 50 years later it's effecting people the same way.
the ghost of Pompeii was probably happy to see 1st concert after 2000 years . 😎👍🎶 Pink Floyd is the 1st and only to make a concert to Pompeii after 2000 years 2 times . 1972 and 2016 .
Nel 2016 dei Pink Floyd c'è stato solo DAVID GILMOUR da solista.
Il Live at Pompeii fu realizzato agli inizi di ottobre del 1971 non 1972.
E nel 2016 solo DAVID GILMOUR da solista si è esibito nell' antico Anfiteatro romano
The acoustics in those ancient stadium ruins are amazing.
Additional thanks for listening to the whole song - many just react to part one.
This is real music. No drones in 1971. One of Pink Floyd's greatest. It's not a song, but a journey.
I died laughing at "Native tribes hearing this"
Pompei is in Italy homie.
The trippy part is all done on instruments: slide on bass with probably some delay (Binson echo), the seagull noises are done with a wah pedal with the ins and outs reversed into a guitar using the guitar's volume and tone knobs, and the rest is done on the organ the keyboardist is playing
Guys if you want to see an absolutely amazing concert, watch the live Pink Floyd Pulse Concert from 1994! I'm 65 and I've been to many, many concerts in my life and this concert was the best concert I've ever seen in my life! Light show is spectacular and naturally the music is top notch excellent! You both will be blown away, garrenteed ! God bless you both!
I second that!
I could repeat that nearly word for word, including the bit about being 65...
""Strangers passing in the street, by chance, two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me.” That was on ‘Meddle’ in 1970 and basically my message hasn’t changed." - Roger Waters
Those are some of the greatest and most poignant lyrics written by the Floyd, or perhaps ever written by anyone, poet or musician! Very profound. It’s a message that summarises the whole of Pink Floyd’s career where much of their work talks about empathy between fellow humans and also between nations.
Those lyrics in mind while imagining what everyday life must’ve been like for those Romans…
Native tribes? It's Italy mate😅😅
Yeah... and while there weren't rock concerts, 2000 y ago we build those arenas and thousands of people attended performances of plays there. It wasn't only gladiators.
Another fact. 2016 Pink Floyd performance was the first live event there with an actual crowd, after 2000 years.
@@TheMule71 nel 2016 non si sono esibiti i Pink Floyd nell'antico anfiteatro romano di Pompei ma DAVID GILMOUR da solista con la sua band di supporto.
Etruscans actually in this case
By the time they did this film, their acid days were long over. They had seen what it did to Syd Barrett, and they wanted no part of that.
Thanks for adding this note. Those guys writing and performing were NOT tripping on acid. They saw how it permanently damaged someone they loved. They weren't perfect, but who is?
This is a thing of beauty. The song tells a major story and for it to be done on the grounds of the hallowed grounds of the horror. David Gilmour came back to Pompeii and did a concert in the coliseum with a full audience. Gilmour won’t do the song anymore at his shows since Richard Wright passed and he’s the one on the keyboards singing with David.
Now this is what we’re f’n talking about, Gentlemen!!!
LFG!!! 🤜🏽🤛🏽
"How'd they get the lenses?" Yes, back in the olden times, in the long long ago, the lens mines were a treacherous place and to brave the journey there was momentous quest. Nowadays we make the lenses, a much safer process than in the times of danger and sadness that was the seventies.
They are playing for the ghosts of pompeii...those scorched by the volcano...think about it...the last time there was live music there...was just before the volcano erupted...2 thousand years ago...
Exactly bro, it makes this performance so damn powerful. It honestly moves me to tears…
That amphitheatre was built approx 2-2,500 years ago and the roads built by the Romans (ie the Italians), like the Appian Way, is still in use, still not destroyed by potholes, 2000+ years after its construction. They knew how to build stuff too last, their “concrete”/mortar is unsurpassed, it’s lasted above ground, underground and submerged in salt water. And we can’t reproduce anything as perfect today. Our modern concrete is short lived & rubbish by comparison to what they made 2000 years ago. Mainly, today, we’re rubbish at loads of stuff!
3 of the 4 guys performing in Pompeii in 1971 also performed 23 years later at the Pulse Concert. All 4 of them reunited in 2005 at the Live 8 concert.
It's a shame for all his anti tyrant political ramblings, Roger himself is a tyrant and destroyed a beautiful band. If any band should have shined through the 80s and 90s, it should have been Pink Floyd. Don't get me wrong, I love momentary lapse and division bell, but it's obvious what's missing. However, David's solo albums are better than Roger's.
Definitely going to need more Pink Floyd boys 🫡
Awesome reaction 💪 whats up with the one headphone listening guy,😬 he's only experiencing half greatness 💯 Glad you guys enjoy PINK FLOYD. STAY AWESOME
The full length movie details the recording of Dark Side of the Moon. They were firing on all cylinders by this point as a jam band, and the movie is a culmination of that. The album version has some really fantastic moments, but seeing a live version is amazing, especially in this setting. This is the genesis of modern Pink Floyd. Rest of the album is pretty great, but not what you’d expect.
MEDDLE IS FABULOUS ❤❤❤
From a 1966 high school graduate and a Floyd fan from as far back as I can remember, my advice to you guys, is just soak up all the Pink Floyd you can.
The ancients understood what we have forgotten, that's why this piece was played there - acoustics.
Rolled and ready..
🫡👊🏽💨
Live at Pompeii was a whole concert film. I watched it in a theater when it was new. I suspect that a lot of people recommending it have never seen any part but this one. They performed all their best pre-Dark Side of the Moon material.
Yeah I saw it too. Fuckin' awesome 😎
Been a fan since 1969. My daughter is also a huge fan of Pink Floyd. You can’t just pick A song but need to listen albums from the beginning to end….and not talk.
Nick Mason is on drums, Roger Waters is on Base Guitar, Richard Write is on Keyboards & vocals, and David Gilmour, perhaps the best guitarist in recent times.
This was filmed in 1971.
There will never be a guitarist like David Gilmour ever again. An absolute magician with 6-strings...
The boiling liquid is mostly hot wet clay. The lava and ash in that area has been exposed to boiling hot acidic ground water for centuries, and the minerals have broken down into clay. The general name for those bubbling mini-geysers is "mud pots."
Nick Mason, the drummer, is the unsung hero of this whole film (Pink Floyd, Live at Pompeii, 1973).
Nick tours with his band and plays pre dark side of the moon material
One of the nicest and unassuming people I have ever met - not just because of his passion for Ferraris.
please post more Pink Floyd you haven't even scratched the surface, animals and the wall are great!
This was Meddle - Echoes came out on that in 1971, Live @ Pompeii was 1972, so 52 years back from 2024.
They were filmed in Pompeii for a few days in the first week of October 1971, about a month *before* Meddle's release. Then they were filmed in a Paris studio in December, doing the songs they didn't get to do in Italy: Careful with that Axe, Eugene; Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, and Mademoiselle Nobs[Seamus].
The first version of the film was released in September 1972.
Shortly afterwards, the director films them at Abbey Road during the making of Dark Side of the Moon, releasing a second version in the end of 1973, subsequently getting an American release in 1974.
When I listen to Pink Floyd, it amazes me. Like how amazing that these men found each other. This band is unbelievable and some higher power brought them together. Absolute beauty. Perfection. David Gilmour is a god, 100%.
Really awesome! If you're done with Pink Floyd for now, you should totally do _In the Court of the Crimson King_ by King Crimson!
Absolutely. The rustic chains of prison moons are shattered by the sun...
Now go watch their performance of "One Of These Days" from this film. If you pay attention, you'll see Nick Mason lose a stick during the fiercest part of the jam and grab a new one without missing a beat. One of the sickest things I have ever seen a drummer do! :)
the band was there, the film crew was there and 2 unknown stray kids had wondered in and were allowed to stay, imagine being one of those 2 kids, the film maker had returned years later working on stuff for the directors cut, and was approached by one of those kids, who asked him, you remember those 2 kids? well i was one of them, he was grown by then.
Also in the Pompeii Staduim. ONE OF THESE DAYS IM GOING TO CUT YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES. The drummer just rocks it, in a major beat change, loses/breaks a drum stick, quickly gabs a spare without missing a single beat. Just mesmerising.
You guys should check out the 4k version of this video. You're gonna be so surprised by how good the cameras were back then lol.
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Hi, guitar nerd here, so that banshee scream in the middle of the song 16:26 is an effect made from the guitar. What you do is you plug in a wah wah pedal backwards, then use it with a guitar with single coil pick ups (fender Stratocaster in this song) and what happens when you mess with the volume knobs with that pedal on, it makes that scream effect, slap an echo on it, and you get some trippy spacial effects :)
The pyroclastic flow from the volcano traveling over 100 mph and around 1,000 degrees killed 1,150 and incased them in hot ash.
Side notes:
When David Gilmour was asked if he’d ever perform “Echoes” again, his reply was “Not without Rick”. Sadly, organist Richard Wright passed away in 2008 after suffering from cancer.
An interesting video from this same time is Pink Floyd “Chit Chat With Oysters” at th-cam.com/video/OcwbxVIhn1I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=qm5QpCnQvWDZ2JX2
It’s interesting to see the guys taking a break from their work on this “Live at Pompeii” video and just having a meal and joking around together.
Also of note: David Gilmour returned to perform again at this same arena at Pompeii in 2006. In addition to the concert footage, there’s video of him, his wife Polly and some of his kids visiting the surrounding area plus some pre-show behind the scenes footage. And they invited some very cool guests to perform during various parts of the show: David Crosby and Graham Nash from Crosby, Stills & Nash, David Bowie, and Richard Wyatt are the ones I recall. Some behind the scenes video with these guys is included as well. I just got the DVD of this concert, but haven’t had a chance to watch all of it yet. I’m hoping there’s more behind the scenes footage.
The Amphitheater was built over 2000 years ago, before electricity. No amps were needed.
1971 i was 10, and dark side was about to come out, i have had the privilege of growing up on the floyd, and they never get old, well the guys did but the music did not
You can't find this kind of perfection in today's music, by anyone.
Good as this is, Echoes live at Gdansk is even better.
This is true
Even better just the actual studio version
The "lava-scene" is from the Phlegraean Fields just northwest of Napoli, not south like Vesuv and Pompeji and probably way more dangerous. It´s not a mountain, but part of a leftover of an ancient super-volcano which became increasingly active again in the last years - similar to Yellowstone.
rogers bass in this is great also hes going up and down , up and down
Shot from a crane with different lenses.
I believe the song is about evolution.
The screeching noises have always reminded me of seagulls and of course the Albatross.
And 50 years later, every one still digs yet another timeless masterpiece.
And no! They weren’t on acid.
They had lost their key band member to psychedelics.
Love the reaction and I can forgive your lack of knowledge, like drones or Native Tribes (not many of either those in Italy in 1971 guys). But you do appreciate the incredible music these 4 geniuses produced. Fun fact it is David Gilmour and Richard Wright on vocals and their harmonies were so important to the song that after Richard Wright died, David Gilmour never performed the song again.
I understood them to be referring to some ancient tribes reaction had they been exposed to this music back then. Not 1971. Could be wrong.
@flubblert to be fair I think both the drone and tribe comments from the guys were intended to be a bit tongue in cheek and not meant seriously, which is why I made the flippant comment, but even back in Pompii's prime there were no Tribes in Italy or drones lol.
@@simply_psi no I suspect there wasn't. 😏
I'm not even sure how they were using the word tribes, but it makes more sense for them to be confused about 79 AD in that respect than it would 1971. Just trying to help the boys out a little. Didn't realize you were being flippant. 😉
No way! They had lenses in the 70's? Woah!!
Love this reaction. This video hits home and love to see you guys react to it.
I saw this at a drive in movie as mignight showing when it first came out in 1974
If you guys go to Yellowstone National Park you can see similar volcanic activity. The park sits inside a gigantic volcano so there are not just geysers but also bubbling pools of mud and boiling water. It’s insane. People fall in and dissolve.
Live in gdansk...the last time they played this before one of them passed...just a few years back...they knew it was the last time, so touching
My favourite version of this song, so moving
im so glad that i was a teenager in the 70s , pure talent not like the crap they produce today.
No wayyyyyy!!! David absolutely shreds on this one , Can’t wait 🤘
Thats no shredding, thats tasty choice of notes and sounds, amazing feel
@@PhilBrandesyeah that’s true I 100% agree with you, truly a mistake on my part 😅😂
This synchronicity ❤
You’re going to love Animals!
Without Echoes, there would have been no Dark Side of the Moon. This production perfected the long form song format. The bubbling you saw was just hot mud. Ground water seeps through the rock and as it gets close to the lava beneath the rock, the water boils and makes steam which rised and heats the mud up. The aerial shot was shot from the rim of the stadium. Everything back then was shot on 35 mm film. Optic lens physics has been known for centuries. The glass technology was actually better back then because everything has moved to digital capture ccd technology so the skills for high technology glass lens manufacture have eroded.
Hi there. You haven't heard about the Roman City of Pompeii? That's VESUVIUS volcano in the city of Napolis Italy. Pompeii is a city where everybody was literally turned into ashes whyle they were at home during the night time. Many are still in the same position when they died centuries ago. You can surch for Ruins of Pompeii. Take care 🤘🤘
The live at Pompeii was probably one of the biggest achievements in the cultural word of music. But Pink Floyd wasnt the only ones who performed a show with the same concept of an historic location for humanity. The other example of this is Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu Pichu, where they performed a live session at the heights of the Andes Mountains in the ruins of Machu Pichu. I highly suggest to check them out! There is a lot of crazy music out there!
In case you didn't know, when they stand closer to each other towards the end, with themselves projected on a screen behind them, not only are they not really playing, but they're also in a completely different location: a Paris studio. A couple of months later.
The absence of Rick Wright's beard clearly tells us we're not in Pompeii anymore. He might have shaved it off in Pompeii, but surely not mid-song.
Listen to some very different Progressive rock like Genesis, Yes and King Crimson!
filming with a crane boom, there was no drones in 1971, no autotune, no drum machines, no computer help whatsoever, back then it was all done by musicians who could write/play and sing no help needed, opening and closing shot was shot with a stationary cam on top way back, top of the last row, nosebleed seats, using zoom, they did have zoom back then
“Riding the Gravy train” - you might want to check out Have a Cigar if you’re getting into the Floyd. In fact, the whole album “Wish you were here” bangs
It was 1972 and the ghosts of Pompeii had free admission.
best song ever made live, best song ever written..... that's it that's all !!!
You should try : MIKE OLDFIELD Tubular Bells (Live at the BBC, 1973)
The overhead shot, was probably with a crane, which was what was used back then for overheads, as drones were a long way in the future.
You have to appreciate how legendary, and almost mythical this performance was at the time, because the only time you would see it, was if it was on TV (very rare) or at a cinema, because computers and TH-cam were a long time in the future, and even VCRs weren't widely owned. So back then, Floyd fans would talk about where they saw it, and most had never seen it and couldn't watch it, even if they wanted to.
I saw this on the big screen at a movie theater. That was around fifty years ago. Guess that makes me a long-time fan.
Just listen to the album, lights out, dark room and let Echos take you on a journey
I'm a 68 yr old grandmother who has seen Pink Floyd 6 times.
I saw Rodger Waters in Rio in 2001.
Maybe you will look at old people differently now. Lol
We loved our music back in the day, it made us feel, it made us think and question. It was art. It was about expression not money. It had soul.
You guys need to check out 2001 a space odyssey put to the music of Pink Floyd doing this song.
It's not a Colosseum guys, it's an amphi theatre, they played plays on it and had other performances. True, some places they also used Colosseums for that but where they had a theatre, they normally used that for those things and left the fighting for colosseums. In Rome, they also used the Colosseum for plays simply because the theatre wasn't large enough to house all the people who came to see it. Theatres were typically smaller than colosseums.
Meddle is my favorite PF album
You guys are the next best thing to Bevis and Butthead doing reactions!!! Love the full album reactions. You definitely started with the varsity by going to Pink Floyd at the start but glad you did.
Drone, LOL. It was filmed by a Helicopter with a cameraman hanging out the side.
This is a portion of a full documentary, that shows them making the music in studio and clips of interviews, you can find the whole thing on youtube.
One really cool thing about this movie is that you could go see it in theaters in 1974 and it also included studio footage of the making of Dark Side of the Moon. Imagine seeing it on the big screen
Are they reading the chat? As Floyd "newbies" maybe they need to know that this is what directly preceded "Dark Side" (and how this same movie shows them at Abbey Road Studios working on the early versions of the Dark Side tracks).
Meddle did not directly precede Dark Side. Obscured by Clouds came out in 1972.
@@robertdubin5850 I always forget that, thanks. I think it's just because Echoes is so clearly the beginning of what they then did with the "big four."
Guys that was really a great reaction. From a Pink Floyd fan for over 40 years , Man its good too see & please try to listen to all there stuff over the years if you can . Enjoy
They had camera's on rails and used a crane for the distance shot. The main issue back then was power. Where to get the power.
They had to run power cables to the local town hall to drive the equipment.
And I am you and what I see is me.
Do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can
You guys want to watch one of these days from the same concert, the drumming in that is insane, you'll love it
The location was chosen for the acoustics. Some of the film went missing, so not all angles could be edited in. This was 1971, so not filmed on digital equipment. Still, it gives me so much joy. 😊🎸🥁
Natives? You mean like Italians?
Rule number one while listening to Pink Floyd, do not for any reason talk during a David Gilmour guitar solo.
These musicians are the real thing live no autotune they can create where others would need studio and 6 months computer bodging. The cam must be on a long boom.
Desde ciudad de La Plata buenos aires Argentina les digo q pink floyd es una banda de otro planeta, no hay igual, ni parecido
The whole set is next level.. Love this set...
Pink Floyd is deeper than the Mariana trench, higher than any satellites orbiting earth, cooler than an iceberg in a river of liquid nitrogen, hotter than a solar flare of lava spouted from the sun, smoother than a quantum stabilized atom mirror, more Zen than 10,000 Buddhist monasteries, larger than what we know as our universe. Their music is an enigma that is beyond what we are capable of comprehending.
in 1972 when they did this it must have been such a trip
this song live is really great. The emotions, music, editing on this recording is unreal! Personaly If I were you I would get super high and listen to the studio version. The quality there... its truly one of the greatest song OAT