Pink Floyd - Time | The clock was... a BASS?! ⏰🤯
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“Bass players are ten a penny, but a good wit is hard to find, so we hired him.” The ‘we’ refers to rock royalty Pink Floyd, and the bass player in question is Guy Pratt. Guy became a household name when David Gilmour asked him to join Pink Floyd in 1987, but his CV as a top session player includes the likes of Roxy Music, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tom Jones, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Iggy Pop, The Pretenders, Ronan Keating, Electronic, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Orb, Natalie Imbruglia, All Saints, Elton John and Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets. - เพลง
As a bass player of 20 years, I feel violated learning this
Were just students😊
Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants. Don't feel bad. 👍
Well it's your fault
It's a lie
@@charlespancamo9771 Is it? I have no idea I never considered it before either way
That is insane, makes Roger Waters even more genius
All the band came up with crazy stuff, that's why PF is so unique. Echoes is a great example of inventiveness.
@@Rondo2ooo oh, absolutely!
nice forbidden pfp
Picking muted strings makes him a "genius"? Get a grip.
David is jelly
When I saw Roger do it live, my jaw dropped
I was at the top nose bleed seats and when they played money in quadraphonic sound the best intro I ever heard
Same! All these years I never knew. When I went to one his shows I saw him doing it I remember saying out loud "it's the BASS?!"
why?
lie
Same! When i got home i immediately tried it on my bass. So cool
Damn that is actually kind of shocking to learn.
Actually not
And a lie
@@miguelmelchior986 really?
@@miguelmelchior986 lol
@@miguelmelchior986 no it’s not lol
I will never hear that piece the same way again...remarkable
Yeeèeeeep😅
couldn't have said it better myself. this automatically put Time up in the top 3 pink floyd songs IF IT WASN'T already there. This is just, like what, mind blowing.
Wait until you hear Gilmour explain how he did the Comfortably Numb solo on a clock.
bahahahaha.
I learned about it and called the clock police. 😮
Exactly.
Gilmour was a good guitarist but the others were brilliant
Probably the best solo in existence
Roger may not be the flashiest bass player but his timing is impeccable
Roger is the least talented musician in Floyd. He’s a brilliant composer and songwriter and arranger. Dave has said he made it clear from the start Roger wasn’t interested in getting better at playing bass or guitar. Listen to Floyd studio vs live for the main 4 albums. Live the bass is much much simpler because Rogers playing it. David played bass on the main 4.
@@YashKnowsBestjust from this statement i can tell youre a true pink floyd fan and yes if you listen to their earlier albums the bass lines werent incredible and rogers only began to become better at bass during meddle
@@YashKnowsBestyeah the man is a genius and has some pretty solid basslines, but he is definitely not a great bass player.
@@big_gamer1234 I mean he quite literally one of the greatest bass players of all time.
@@spaghettisauce445 I mean actually listen to bootlegs Roger is even better live.
Everyone in Pink Floyd is and was a genius.
no argument here
🙌🏼
they were on dope. thats the secret
the use of a slide on his bass with an echo effect to create the ambience in the middle section of echoes is another example of Waters’ brilliance
🔥🔥🔥
Whoa! It's really that? 😮
I saw a cover band do that cuz I'm too young to have ever seen the real deal and I'll never forget seeing that technique it blew my mind
Guy Pratt is an amazing musician.
He's got some fantastic stories.
That’s crazy. When you listen to it after this it’s obvious but I never noticed b4
I heard a Richard Wright story, that Roger, in the early day's of Floyd, wanted to use ordinary household items to recreate sounds for music. For days, the four members would use rubber bands, cooking pans and other items, deadening the pans to sound like drums and stretching rubber bands to sound like the bass. Until Richard finally realized this is insane, "why would we do this, we already have instruments to create the sounds we need."
Too bad they didn't capture that on film.
Some bits are recorded, the wine glasses on shineon are from that album
I remember seeing that somewhere too
Drugs are a hell of a drug
Is this the household objects story?
@@king.2597 yes nearly, wright says it might have been rogers idea, he wasnt sure, first in 1970, then it was shelved, then after DSOTM, because nobody came up with any new material they tried it again, wright and gilmour didnt like it, then waters who as usual, was the only one coming up with new material at this time, asked the others about doing an album about absence, thus the idea for WYWH began
I'm glad I wasn't the only bassist completely blown away by this fact
The scream exactly right before “we don’t need no education” is Roger’s inhale-scream that he did on Careful with that Axe.
Most of the unusual sounds you've heard in Pink Floyd records WERE produced by instruments but, with various technical additions. Most musicians won't even discover those sounds through the lifetime of their music journey.
Case in point the whalesong/seagull sound on Echoes, which was discovered when Gilmour's guitar tech plugged in his wah pedal backwards :D
@@mrz80Sometimes I wonder how tf he got that idea. Or maybe just happy little accident.
@@FUZZY_FREQUENCIES From what Gilmour has said in interviews his tech accidentally hooked the thing up backwards
@@mrz80 Perhaps was out of his mind temporary with the band.
Holy shit! I can't be the only one who immediately started listening to Time to see if it sounded just like this. Insane.
It's not insane, it's amazing, mind-blowing, fantastic and so on.
Not insane.
John Myung from dream theater makes a noise that sounds exactly like a bell by using a harmonic on his bass on a song called glass prison. Dream theater also did an entire Pink Floyd album live DVD and it's amazing.
I saw him do it in concert a couple years back, thinks that's how I found out. Was mind blown, far away but I saw his wrist moving with clock sound I was like nooo waay.. US & THEM tour it was brilliant 🤯
You just have to appreciate and respect Waters and Gilmour! Both legends of the game! Very early geniuses
Read an interview with Dave years ago and he was putting Waters down for not even playing bass on some songs.
Read an interview with Waters where they told him what Dave said.
Waters said something like: ‘.. who cares who plays bass- I just want the song to be great.’
Yes Roger, that is correct.👍🏻
The point is Roger has spent his entire career bitching and moaning and causing problems. All of the turbulence in Floyd is directly linked to him, but he thinks he’s God’s gift to man and can do no wrong.
@@tetsusiega2 Well he did write the lions share of pink floyd music so theres that……….
@@tetsusiega2 well, Pink Floyd became shit after he left, so there's that... they might as well have been a mere tribute band after 1981...
@@tetsusiega2another hater that knows zero facts
@@foljs5858 Pink floyd had already gone to shit with The final cut with Waters. Personally I prefer the division bell to the final cut
Gilmore and Waters were two geniuses working the magic of 7 men
Roger was truly ahead of his “Time”.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
I knew this 35 years ago when I was 10 about Roger Walters and how he created a ticking clock for Time with his bass. It still blows my mind even today.
it always totally sounded like a clock to me
Greatest band ever, happy 50th birthday Dark Side of the Moon!
You def do psychedelics lol
Yes Sir
Agree
ZZ TOP is on par with Floyd. ZZ TOP was/is Blues-Rock. Floyd is in an unnamed category, though considered rock. It is possible to have several favorites. ZZ TOP stayed together in original line up 51 years till bass player Dusty Hill passed. Dusty picked his successor and they are still rockin'the blues. What if Pink Floyd had stayed together that long?
Dream theater is up there also and they did a pink floyd album live DVD.
Wow- I put it on & holy cow that’s exactly what he’s doing...feel like I’m hearing this part of the song for the first time 😂
He's the first person to accurately explain the feeling of tripping and playing the guitar without tripping
the power of actual music made by actual musician.
I remember making some weird noises with my bass when I bought it. Never thought you could actually use that to make music in such a crazy way
What, what, what? 🤯🎸🔥
Wowwww this one BLEW me away. I listen to that song everyday!
Greatest song of all time. No pun intended. Beautiful lyrics that you can use to guide you through life, and one of the most emotional guitar solos of all time by David Gilmour. Waters pours his heart out in the lyrics, David with his strings.
Guy Pratt… easily top 5 bassist. His bassline for Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer’ ruled the ‘80s.
He tells a great story about playing that and playing with Michael Jackson
Watching him burn his way thru "One of These Days" on the PULSE video I thought "LORD that must be fatiguing to play!"
Dark Side of the Moon is my ultimate album. I have listened to it from it release date. I know loads of little weird facts about the album but never new the ticking clock was done on the bass. Insane.
ive spent years into floyd i own a black strat replica essentially i run a hiwatt amp as my main rig on the helix floor unit i mean i can go on and on and on there was a point in life where i could play bass drums piano guitar and sing most of dark side wish you were here the wall a momentary lapse of reason and so on. the point im trying to make is even with all that above i still didnt know this was a thing either. they always find a way to impress me more
You owe it to yourself to listen to both the 4.0 and 5.1 surround versions of this album. It's incredible!
@@n.miller907 I know both well. I have quite an extensive vinyl collection and a really good surround sound system. I know both versions.
@@deadshot4245 watt a plonka 😃
This is also one of my favorite albums. I have the regular album and I also have the master recording which sounds phenomenal with the moving coil cartridge I have mounted on my turntable.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.....
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day...
Roger also made those chicken noises with the bass on Interstellar Overdrive
Yeah, I thought that was some other randomly-generated electronic sound. I wouldn’t have realized without checking here that Roger created that on his bass.
Ticking away
The moments that make up a dull day...
All of them made sounds for everything they did. Never see this again it was absolutely MAGICAL!
Probably the most creative thing Roger ever did on the bass. "But what about that fretless bit on The Wall??" That was Dave.
And Dave on Young Lust, Sheep, and one of these days
The other really cool thing Roger did with the bass was make that chicken noise in interstellar overdrive
Money riff was Dave as well.
Nobody denies Rogers briliance, but msking yiu move... all Gilmour, Wright and Mason.
See Emily Play is outstanding bass work for 1967. Always loved it’s sound
Remember how it all ended with comfortably numb??
Roger and dave had two different ideas and Roger idea was accepted
On croyait que les sons spéciaux des Pink Floyd étaient électroniques et créés par des instruments sophistiqués alors que la plupart venaient de leurs guitares 🎸 batteries et orgues.
Un talent hors normes les mecs ! 😮
Blowing a lot of people's minds right now
Guy Pratt is the man. Touring with floyd since 87. Saw him on David's rattle that lock tour. Him and John carin where integral in the live pink floyd sound post waters
I can’t believe I didn’t know that. I always try to do it on my cowbells when I’m jamming and wondered how they actually did it
Not surprised at all he is talking about Roger Waters.Genius Brilliant Lyricist Composer Songwriter there are no surprises anymore.
PINK FLOYD THE EPITOME OF MUSIC
(SHINE ON 💎)
🎼☮️👊🇨🇦
This will forever change the way I hear this song from now on.
In a good way we hope!
Makes me appreciate the song even more.
There was also a lot of recorded clocks. A lot of artists borrowed those sounds.
I thought this was a pretty well-known fact. He did it on every live stage.
I thought that it was obvious, but seeing the comment I see that I was wrong
I guess most of us have only ever listened to the recordings and maybe a couple live performances here and there. I myself had no idea.
All the old people that saw him are dead, dying looks like.
@@AgentJackBauerrAs far as I know he still tours. You should go see him while you still can, it's a great show.
it's not true, they recorded the sounds in an antique store, he just does this live, there is nothing genius about this. ANY musician knows about palm muting....
The best mix of brilliance, perfection and art = Pink Floyd.
I remember seeing him live and when I saw him playing during time my mind was blown
This was so cool to learn!
One word....ART!
Two words....ART!
This unorthodox way of going about things was probably what made Roger and Syd work so well together in the early days.
Content like this is why I love youtubes
Holy shit ...what??...lol that's awesome man
I had always assumed that was done by Nick Mason using those wooden percussion blocks. Well, it was percussion, in a way - percussion on the bass guitar.
I always thought it was something like bongos or congas.
@@keefercfer I was in a band where the drummer had wooden percussion blocks as part of his kit. He would play them with mallets and they would make the same sound as this.
I saw him play it live like that on the last tour! They had a close-up of that technique on the video screen, I couldn't believe that at nearly 80 years old he kept it locked in for that whole long introduction!
I learned this when covering this song with a band I was in about 10 years ago. When our drummer told me to do this I thought he was nuts, but when I tried it the sound was perfect. Always keep an open mind when your bandmates offer suggestions, you just may learn something new.
How long have we been listening to Dark Side and didn’t know this? 🤷🏼♂️👏
You can see that in the concerts, how haven't you notice it
I thought everybody knew this
Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands of all time. I’m 45 years old and even though they were a little bit before my time in the mid 90’s ,1995,when I went to college my friends and I were on a huge classic rock kick. We still listened to Hip Hop,Metal,Grunge,80’s Glam Rock,EDM(which we called Techno back then)but classic rock was huge for us at that time. We went to a lot of concerts in the 90’s and one of my favorite shows was Steve Miller. They were amazing and a lot of bras were thrown up on stage. I guess that’s a big Steve Miller thing for women to do at their concerts. Man we seen so many awesome shows in the 90’s. Metallica,Megadeth,Korn,Pantera,Slayer,Ozzy,Deftones,Soundgarden,STP,Alice in Chains,Tool. When I lived in LA from 1997-2006 we were at a smaller club and out of nowhere “Radiohead” started playing. They were not on the marquee and just decided to play for a hour. That was a thing that happened in LA from time to time. We use to hangout at the Malibu Inn in Malibu and they would have local band’s play there like college bands. One night a good college band was playing there and the Malibu Inn had a restaurant on the right side if you where looking at the place from the parking lot and the bar area was on the left hand side. There was also a outside bar area further left. The news got around that Tom Petty and his wife were having dinner and Petty came over to the bar area after dinner and ended up jamming with the college band for a couple hours. It was amazing. This was in 1997-98 and I had a cell phone,a Motorola Startech,which was the dopest phone out at the time. But not everyone had a cellphone at that time and if this happened ten years later,not even say 5 years later,the bar would of been packed because people would of called or text a few people and the place would of been packed. It eventually became that way but it was incredible and I loved LA for stuff like that. But my favorite Pink Floyd album is “Animals” followed by “Dark side” and The Wall. Also “Wish You Were Here “ There is one album called “Ummagumma” and it’s definitely very strange to say the least.
I've listened to Dark Side of the Moon every single night when I lay down to sleep, regardless of what that day has held something in that music gives me a calm feeling of everything is going to be ok. When the pause is over and the bells,chimes start the song Time i have a certain feeling I can't explain but it's basically everything is fine you can rest now and I can crash within a few minutes if I choose to instead of enjoying more of the album! Try it with 100% open mind.
I thought it was made by pushing the string down on the pole of the pickup
That's what he's doing
@@businessofrhythm2315 he's picking it while it's muted lol
That would be a hella THUMP- when have to dub movie sfx with my bass, the string of off and on the pickup will be used to make the sound of a heavy, pounding heart from a 1st person POV
@@MrGallade475 look at his left hand it keeps pushing down
What's a pickup pole?
Always assumed it was a metronome.
In a way it was. A human metronome. He had to do it on time.
Time is my favorite pink floyd song. Literally makes me cry and re think my life everything I hear it
I remember seeing a cover band of Pink Floyd since I'm too young and being blown away by echoes, the wind sound halfway thru the track was made by the guitars and they were "strumming" in like a circular motion was very cool to see and no other bands use those techniques
I listen to this album on vinyl while I was tripping on mushrooms on my 21st birthday and I've never been the same since lol I love it
I used to love that song... Now it gives me anxiety though :/
You are young and life is long
Time is one hell of a ride for a song
I've known this for years but I also have played Waters bass lines for years. It is quite impressive his pauses his playing down the scale sounding haunting at times like in Shine ON you Crazy Diamond. I enjoy every minute of plying it.
Guy Pratt did this live when I went to a David Glimour concert. It blew my mind
This is why today music bother me alot..
most underrated band of all time
doesn't matter how popular they are they'll always be underrated right?
Alot of effects were created by feeding notes into a sequencer and then replayed on a track. I can see how, in the studio, Roger could play two bars of this and then the sequencer would just repeat it as long as they needed it.
The album was released in 1973- they more likely would have used a tape loop (having to manually cut and splice the audio tape), not a sequencer
Bass is indeed the ultimate musical instrument 😊
Yeah, because it’s a guitar.
I met Guy in a Brisbane music shop a decade ago.... a true gentleman, so down to earth! he was stoked that I gave him props for his vocals in Run
Taking away the moments that make up dull day ....
Played in many bands the covered this song. This opening etude was played on everything ,but the bass. "NO WAY", mind blown!
😮 50yrs of my life just changed
can confirm, seen him doing it live
Pink Floyd Is So Iconic. Major Trailblazers of there time. Just magnificently amazing. Makes me want to go listen to album when I get home
Holy shit, I would never have guessed !! Incredible :D
Like a magician showing how they did their trick.
Such a phenomenal song. I just scrolled across this but now I need to go listen to that album. Lol
😂😂😂 What’s funny to me is I covered this with a rock trio and I was trying figure out how to incorporate the clock. I looped the clock part on my bass similar to how he just showed it and yeah I’m dying I had no idea that’s what the clock sound was
These are details that made Floyd better than everyone else.
I didn't know this and it never occurred to me. Gonna go listen now...
Pink floyd is pure genious
I go by the spot up in Warner Bros studios on the back lot where they shot the iconic photograph for “Wish You Were Here” with the two business men shaking hands and one on fire! Blows my mind every time! And that lot has iconic spots all over it!
Pink floyd makes sounds that sounds like music to your ears
How did you not know this. I've known for years...or at least 15 years what that effect was. I could tell by the way he played his rickenbacher on that Live at Pompeii footage. Brilliant.
50 years have got behind me. Favorite cut on DSOTM. Surprised no one knew this!
Damn, I'm just speechless
I got lucky to see roger live, seeing him do this blew my mind and my friends minds
SO awesome!
Just another reason I'm glad my dad introduced me to pink floyd. They are amazing!
WUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT???😲😲😲 I thought it was Nick Mason doing woodblocks! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Oh man , the trips I went on ! With pink Floyd!
At 7:30 pm on the 10th of March, 2023 in the city of Mount Clemens, Michigan inside the Emerald theatre was a black backdrop stage adorned with instruments which were visible from the purple, yellow, red and white stage lights being gazed on by a crowd walking about or drinking and perhaps sitting too only visible to each other by dim house lights. "Think Floyd" of Chicago calmly took to the stage. And that night I learned this technique as well....
my first reaction, thats FUGGING OUTSTANDING!