This is followed by a repeat of the opening piano 'pings' and a Farfisa organ solo from Wright, with a backing influenced by the Beach Boys' ' Good Vibrations' (1967). Drummer Nick Mason later clarified it was an accident, and their experience with working with Ron Geesin had taught them to embrace experiments and try anything if it would work on a song.

Gilmour plays a high-pitched screeching noise, which was created by plugging a wah-wah pedal in back to front (the guitar was plugged into the output of the pedal, and the input of the pedal was plugged into the input of the amplifier). The middle section of the song features Waters using a slide and a Binson Echorec. This is followed by a guitar solo from Gilmour, played on a Fender Stratocaster through a Fuzz Face effects box, before repeating the previous riff. The verses are sung in harmony by Gilmour and Wright, and joined by a riff played by Gilmour and bassist Roger Waters in unison. After several 'pings', a slide guitar played by David Gilmour gradually joins in. 'Echoes' begins with a 'ping' that was created as a result of an experiment very early in the Meddle sessions, produced by amplifying a grand piano played by Richard Wright, and sending the signal through a Leslie speaker and a Binson Echorec unit. Problems playing this file? See media help. The group's members have mixed views of the track, but it was a particular favourite of Wright's. Several publications have remarked it as one of the best songs by the group. 'Echoes' has been regarded by critics as an important song that transitions between Pink Floyd's early experimental material as a cult band, and later mainstream success. The studio recording was used in the film Crystal Voyager (1973) while an edited version is included on the greatest-hits album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001). David Gilmour revived 'Echoes' for his 2006 On an Island Tour, which featured Richard Wright, but retired the piece after Wright's death in 2008. It was used for the opening shows on the 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour but subsequently dropped. The song was performed live regularly by Pink Floyd from 1971 to 1975, including a performance in the film Live at Pompeii (1972). The music was written by the group, while Roger Waters' lyrics addressed themes of human communication and empathy, which he returned to in later work. The track evolved from a variety of different musical themes and ideas, including instrumental passages and studio effects, resulting in the side-long piece. It is 23 and a half minutes long and takes up the entire second side of the original LP. ' Echoes' is a song by the rock band Pink Floyd, and the sixth and last track on their 1971 album Meddle.

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