Pravijo, da je to eden najbolj zapostovljenih komdadov od Floydov. Slučajno sem ga ujel danes, ko sem poslušal radio. Te vrne v tiste čase nazaj, ko si komaj čakal, da iizide kakšna nova plošča.
7.7.2024
While Pink Floyd were already one of the biggest bands in Britain, it was their last two albums, Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother, which saw them move away from the psychedelic sound of their early work, but the band were yet to stride. With Meddle, Pink Floyd finally unlocked their potential and ‘Echoes’ was the album’s most crucial component.
Even after they recorded the song, ‘Echoes’ continued to be a source of reference for Pink Floyd in the studio and provided a basis to make ‘One Of These Days’, the opening track to the same album.
Without ‘Echoes’, Meddle would have fallen to pieces, and in the mind of Gilmour, it was vital in Pink Floyd becoming the band they always could have been. Looking back upon the release of Guitar World in 1993, Gilmour reflected, “Well, I think ‘Echoes’ is the masterwork of the album – the one where we were all discovering what Pink Floyd is about. ‘One Of These Days’ is a little subsidiary piece that came out of the work on ‘Echoes’.”
He continued: “I always loved it. It’s seminal, I suppose, yeah. A lot shorter, in any case – better for radio play. Meddle is really the album where all four of us were finding our feet – the way we wanted Pink Floyd to be. Much more than on Ummagumma or Atom Heart Mother.”
In the same conversation, Gilmour explained how ‘Echoes’ was one of the pivotal songs in the Pink Floyd back catalogue and stated how it led to them later creating their magnum opus, The Dark Side Of The Moon. “‘A Saucerful of Secrets’ was a very important track; it gave us our direction forward. If you take ‘A Saucerful of Secrets’, ‘Atom Heart Mother’ and ‘Echoes’ – all lead logically to Dark Side of the Moon,” he reflected.
Additionally, Gilmour has previously labelled ‘Echoes’ as his favourite song by Pink Floyd to perform live, although he hasn’t performed the track since the death of Rick Wright. Speaking at an event in 2020, the musician revealed: “‘Echoes’, I would say. Was terrific fun to play, particularly on my last solo tour and the solo tour in 2006 with Rick Wright. That was terrific, and it couldn’t and shouldn’t be played again now he’s dead.”
Posted from: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-pink-floyd-song-david-gilmour-called-a-masterwork/
