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ONE OF THESE DAYS (Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, David Gilmour) in « Meddle » (1971)

David Gilmour: electric lead guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass; Rick Wright: piano, organ; Roger Waters: bass guitar through Echoplex; Nick Mason: voice, drums.

David Gilmour:

«It just sounded very violent, and we like a joke as much as anyone else [laughs] - it just came out. I can't remember exactly how it happened. It's an old theme for us ... «I’m gonna cut you into little pieces», and «be careful with that axe, Eugene» and ... they're similar sorts of themes aren't they ?»

«Your mother didn’t like this», Capital Radio, 31 December 1976

David Gilmour:

«One of These Days is a little subsidiary piece that came out of the work on Echoes. I always loved it. It's seminal, I suppose, yeah. A lot shorter, in any case - better for radio play»

«Careful with that axe», Guitar World, February 1993

John Leckie (sound engineer):

« I recorded One Of These Days at AIR Studios from scratch. Putting the bass through the Echoplex. Long periods of ‘dum-daa-dooga-daa’ and turning the feedback up. It was a real freak- out jam session. Throw in anything: Jimmy Young, Nick Mason sped up, Nick Mason slowed down. I was a bit disappointed that it never survived at its full length »

« Reflected Glory », Mojo, March 2022.

« One of these days, I’m going to cut into little pieces »

A PILLOW OF WINDS (Roger Waters/David Gilmour) in « Meddle » (1971) | Produced by Pink Floyd.

David Gilmour: double-tracked lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitars, acoustic and electric slide guitars, pedal steel guitar; Rick Wright: Hammond organ, piano; Roger Waters: bass guitar; Nick Mason: hi-hats.

A cloud of eiderdown

Draws around me

Softening a sound

Sleepy time, when I lie

With my love by my side

And she’s breathing low

And the candle dies …

When night comes down

You lock the door

The book falls to the floor

As darkness falls

The waves roll by

The seasons change

The wind is warm

Now wakes the owl

Now sleeps the swan

Behold a dream

The dream is gone

Green fields

A cold rain is falling

In a golden dawn

And deep beneath the ground

The early morning sounds

And I go down

Sleepy time, when I lie

With my love by my side

And she’s breathing low

And I rise, like a bird

In the haze, when the first rays

Touch the sky

And the night winds die

FEARLESS incl. You’ll never walk alone (Roger Waters/David Gilmour) in « Meddle » (1971)

David Gilmour: vocals, electric rhythm and lead guitar, acoustic guitar; Rick Wright: piano, organ ; Roger Waters: bass, fuzz bass, acoustic guitar; Nick Mason: drums, maracas, tambourine; Liverpool F. C. Kop: chanting.

This track was considered for the 2000 compilation «Echoes - The best of Pink Floyd» but was eventually rejected. Roger Waters resurrected the song for concerts in 2016.

in 201.

You say the hill’s too steep to climb, chiding

You say you’d like to see me try climbing

You pick the place and I’ll choose the time

And I’ll climb that hill in my own way

Just wait a while for the right day

And as I rise above the tree lines and the clouds

I look down, hearing the sound of the things you’ve said today

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling

Merciless the magistrate turns ’round, frowning

And who’s the fool who wears the crown?

And go down in your own way

And every day is the right day

And as you rise above the fear-lines in his brow

You look down, hearing the sound of the faces in the crowd

«Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart

And you'll never walk alone

You'll never walk alone

Liverpool! Liverpool!»

SAN TROPEZ (Roger Waters) • « Meddle » (1971)

David Gilmour: electric slide guitar, electric rhythm and lead guitar; Rick Wright: piano; Roger Waters: Lead vocals, bass; Nick Mason: drums.

Roger Waters:

«Nous l’avons écrite là-bas. Nous y avions donné un concert en plein-air»

« Les Pink Floyd en studio », PopMusic Superhebdo, April 1972

As I reach for a peach

Slide a rind down behind

The sofa in San Tropez

Breakin’ a stick

With a brick on the sand

Ridin’ a wave

In the wake of an old sedan

Sleepin’ alone in the

Drone of the darkness

Scratched by the sand that

Fell from my love

Deep in my dreams and I

Still hear her callin’

If you’re alone

I’ll come home

Backward and homebound

The pigeon, the dove

Gone with the wind

And the rain, on an airplane

Owning a home

With no silver spoon

I’m drinking champagne

Like a good tycoon

Sooner than wait for

A break in the weather

I’ll gather my far-flung

Thoughts together

Speeding away On the wind to a new day

If you’re alone

I’ll come home

And I pause for a while

By a country style

And listen to the things they say

Diggin’ for gold

In a hole in my hand

Open a book

Take a look at the way things stand

And you’re leading me down

To the place by the sea

I hear your soft voice

Calling to me

Making a date for

Later by phone

If you’re alone

I’ll come home

SEAMUS (Nick Mason, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Rick Wright) in « Meddle » (1971) | Produced by Pink Floyd.

David Gilmour: vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica; Rick Wright: piano; Roger Waters: bass guitar; Seamus (the dog): barking.

John Leckie (sound engineer):

« Dave Gilmour comes in on a Saturday morning and he had this dog with him. He goes, ‘Hey, listen to this.’ He starts playing the harmonica and the dog’s howling. ‘Quick! Mike it up...’ Seamus was done in minutes. But I can’t understand why they put that on the record,” Leckie adds. “I mean, what was the joke? I still haven’t got the joke, really. »

« Reflected Glory », Mojo, March 2022.

Well, I was in the kitchen

Seamus, that's the dog, was outside

Well, I was in the kitchen

Seamus, my old hound, was outside

Well, you know the sun was singing slowly

But my old hound dog sat right down and cried

Here is the actual dog.

ECHOES (Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, David Gilmour) in « Meddle » (1971)

David Gilmour: Lead vocals, electric rhythm and lead guitar, slide guitar, effects; Rick Wright: vocals, piano, organ, fuzz organ, effects; Roger Waters: bass, fuzz slide bass, effects; Nick Mason: drums, effects.

Rick Wright:

« The whole piano thing at the beginning and the chord structure fr the song is mine, so I had a large part in writing that. But it’s credited to other people of course (…) I still think Echoes is one of the finest tracks the Floyd have ever done. From the intro, it rolls into this incredible wind section, which was actually Roger with a slide on his bass. Then there’s David famous seagull sound, which was a mistake. One of the roadies had plugged his wah-wah pedal in back to front, which created this huge wall of feedback. He played around with that and created this beautiful sound. It was a glorious song to make in the studio, and it’s fantastic to play live»

« The Dream is Over», Mojo Magazine, November 2008.

Nick Mason

«I really like Echoes. That was the continuation of developing long pieces of music. Looking back, it’s a little overlong. We repeat ourselves in it because we knew that’s how classical music worked. Overtures reprise themes»

« Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason on ‘Early Years,’ Syd Barrett, Inter-Band Tension», Rolling Stone, 18 November 2016

John Leckie (Sound engineer):

«They were just back from the US. I remember Dave Gilmour had just got the same wah-wah peddle that Jimi Hendrix used. The seagull sound you hear on Echoes is that, the Cry Baby. Hendrix died in the middle of recording which I think affected them a bit»

«How Pink Floyd made Meddle», Prog Magazine Website, 13 October 2019

Nick Mason:

«The guitar sound in the middle section of ‘Echoes’ was created inadvertently by David plugging in a wah-wah pedal back to front. Sometimes great effects are the results of this kind of pure serendipity and we were always prepared to see if something might work on a track»

«Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd», Nick Mason, 2004.

David Gilmour:

«I think Echoes is the masterwork of the album—the one where we were all discovering what Pink Floyd is about».

«Careful with that Axe», Guitar World, February 1993.

David Gilmour:

« Echoes marked a real moment of clarity, the moment when we all realised we were getting somewhere, finding a direction. And Rick, who in many ways is the soul of Pink Floyd, was as much a part of that as anybody. If you're looking at who wrote what, I'd say that 80 per cent of the music on Echoes is either mine or Rick's."

« Blow up », Mojo 60’s, July 2017.

John Leckie (sound engineer):

« They came in and what you hear on the record is them playing it all through, really. There might have been one or two edits, but it’s not chopped together because they had play ».

« Reflected Glory », Mojo, March 2022.

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air

And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves

The echo of a distant time

Comes willowing across the sand

And everything is green and submarine

And no one showed us to the land

And no one knows the wheres or whys

But something stirs, and something tries

It starts to climb towards the light

Strangers passing in the street

By chance two separate glances meet

And I am you and what I see is me

And do I take you by the hand

And lead you through the land

And help me understand the best I can

And no one calls us to move on

And no one forces down our eyes

No one speaks, and no one tries

No one flies around the sun

Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes

Inviting and inciting me to rise

And through the window in the wall

Come streaming in on sunlight wings

A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabies

And no one makes me close my eyes

So I throw the windows wide

And call to you across the sky