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4,562Today we’ve got a super-sized episode coming your way… featuring Pink Floyd's Echoes, a song so epic that it began as 24 separate songs. Songs that the band didn’t know what to do with. In fact, they called them “Nothing, Parts 1-24.” Well, when Pink Floyd did figure it out, what they had on their hand was a song so monumental that it changed the course of their entire career and rock music… jumpstarting The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the best-selling and most iconic albums of all time. But the intrigue doesn’t end there. Echoes may also have an unexpected connection to oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, a two-thousand-year-old volcanic blast, and an anti-Woodstock concert played to an empty stadium. We’ve got an incredible story from one of my all-time favorite bands, coming up… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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Today we are returning to one of my favorite bands of all time. Pink Floyd! We’ve told a lot of Pink Floyd stories here on the channel, from all across their catalog, but with a lot of emphasis on their period between The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. We’ve also hit on their 80s and 90s material. And we’ve talked band origins going back to the 60s. But this time around, I want to get into an album we’ve yet to cover, their 1971 LP Meddle. And I’m sure you already know where I’m going with this. We’re gonna be talking Pink Floyd’s extended masterpiece Echoes because it’s a great song and an even more incredible story.
The creation of Pink Floyd’s 6th studio album Meddle marked a pivotal moment in the band’s career. The foursome of Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Rick Wright were still adjusting to life without founder Syd Barrett. The former Floyd frontman left the band in 1968, or had been pushed out, due to mental health issues. We’ve covered how that all went down before, so we won’t go into it here. But Barrett’s departure cut the band to the core and became an introspective turning point for Pink Floyd’s evolution. And it was here on Meddle where Pink Floyd signature sound began to coalesce. The record is regarded by many as the group’s first magnum opus… and the first properly mature Floyd album.
So three months after the release of Atom Heart Mother, Pink Floyd was back to work in the studio. In the preceding weeks they had been out on tour in the US and Europe—a schedule that would continue throughout 1971. Meddle’s session would begin in January 1971 and extend through September for a total of nine months. But before Pink Floyd would lock down their new identity and direction, they had more growing pains to get through. When they turned up at Abbey Road for the first recording session they were all empty-handed.