Those albums, brilliant as they are in their way, are still the sound of the Floyd finding their way, trying to escape from the shadow of their brilliant erratic insufferable genius ex-front-man Syd Barrett.
You couldn’t necessarily say the same about Atom Heart Mother or Ummagumma. In Meddle you can almost hear The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here and even The Wall. It’s a perfect opening, as iconic in its way as Elvis Presley belting out ‘ Well since my baby left me.’ at the start of Heartbreak Hotel, or death knocking at the door at the start of Beethoven’s Fifth.Įchoes is the centrepiece of Meddle, an album that is now widely regarded as the one where Pink Floyd got everything just right. The ’ping’ on the opening and close of Echoes was, as we all know, produced by Richard Wright playing a single note on a concert grand piano and feeding the signal through a Leslie rotating speaker. The Rush frontman chose back in 2019 for Amazon Music the 22 songs that inspired his bass playing consciously or subconsciously and one of them was Pink Floyd’s “Money” released on their classic album “The Dark Side Of The Moon” (1973).Or a heart monitor, measuring out a life. They really understood showmanship.” Pink Floyd’s famous track “Money” was an inspiration for Geddy Lee Not just because of their song structure in the atmosphere but the fact that they really put on an amazing show. They were impressive also into a young musician. I think the first set they played ‘Echoes’ from the previous album, you know, like a 20 minute extravaganza. In an interview with Sirius XM back in 2013 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage), Geddy talked about his influences and once again explained why Pink Floyd was so important, saying: “Pink Floyd, I remember seeing them in Toronto and I think ‘Dark Side of The Moon’ was just coming out or hadn’t come out yet. I am aware of Syd Barrett’s Floyd but, in a musical sense, that was a different time, a different band.” For Geddy Lee, Pink Floyd knew what showmanship was That moment when a band really starts to hit its peak. It remains my favourite because of that timing. There were genuine ‘echoes’ of that already in place. Where would they go next? Well, it was a great precursor to Dark Side of the Moon.
“It was really exciting because you could tell that something unique was happening. They opened that show with the whole of Meddle and immediately I could sense the possibilities were immense for this band.”
But… again… again… it was their show in Toronto that captivated me and fired the imagination. The bassist revealed that the 1971 album “Meddle” is his favorite Pink Floyd record, saying: “that was probably the last Pink Floyd album before they went into their run of classics. What is Geddy Lee’s favorite Pink Floyd album
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