Eighteen year old plays Pink Floyd's Echoes. By himself.
January 24, 2017 6:05 AM Subscribe
Eighteen year old Ewan Cunningham covers Pink Floyd's Echoes by playing every instrument. His video pays homage to Pink Floyd's famous Live at Pompeii version of the 25-minute long masterpiece.
Link to the Ewan Cunningham YouTube channel.
Well, I thought it was pretty cool. Don't have time to fall down a Floyd-hole at work this morning, but I skipped through it and he definitely nails all the beats, and the look of the video. Good stuff!
posted by Roommate at 6:13 AM on January 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Roommate at 6:13 AM on January 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
I think it's especially hard to multi-track yourself without headphones on, and I didn't notice any.
Wonder which part he laid down first.
posted by MtDewd at 7:12 AM on January 24, 2017
Wonder which part he laid down first.
posted by MtDewd at 7:12 AM on January 24, 2017
Top skills my man.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 7:21 AM on January 24, 2017
posted by GallonOfAlan at 7:21 AM on January 24, 2017
Well done.
He wasn't even born yet when I first lost my shit to this song in a dorm room 23 years ago.
posted by chillmost at 7:35 AM on January 24, 2017 [3 favorites]
He wasn't even born yet when I first lost my shit to this song in a dorm room 23 years ago.
posted by chillmost at 7:35 AM on January 24, 2017 [3 favorites]
Holy shit he plays it well, it sounds almost exactly like the original. It's not just the playing, it's the music production. His YouTube description goes in to how he did it. And then the video. He made all that himself. It's quite clever in the way it recalls the Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii visuals without just redoing it.
Echoes is one of my favorite bits of music ever, but I'm left wondering, wow, an 18 year old playing such ancient prog rock? Is he a historian or something? He sure does deliver though.
posted by Nelson at 8:24 AM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
Echoes is one of my favorite bits of music ever, but I'm left wondering, wow, an 18 year old playing such ancient prog rock? Is he a historian or something? He sure does deliver though.
posted by Nelson at 8:24 AM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
Oh man, he even has Nick Mason's butterfly shirt. No pornstache or headband though, he's got more of a cleancut thing going on.
Nick Mason approves and promotes.
posted by Nelson at 8:41 AM on January 24, 2017 [3 favorites]
Nick Mason approves and promotes.
posted by Nelson at 8:41 AM on January 24, 2017 [3 favorites]
an 18 year old playing such ancient prog rock?
I never think of Pink Floyd as prog rock, although I guess you could call it that, at least some of their material. I Can't really unleash a list of rules for this, but "art rock" seems more apt to me for Echoes etc.
posted by thelonius at 9:51 AM on January 24, 2017
I never think of Pink Floyd as prog rock, although I guess you could call it that, at least some of their material. I Can't really unleash a list of rules for this, but "art rock" seems more apt to me for Echoes etc.
posted by thelonius at 9:51 AM on January 24, 2017
"Eighteen year old plays Pink Floyd's Echoes. By himself."
I can do that too!
/pushes the play button on his music player
Fuck, I'm awesome.
posted by I-baLL at 10:10 AM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
I can do that too!
/pushes the play button on his music player
Fuck, I'm awesome.
posted by I-baLL at 10:10 AM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
Well that was impressive. It's impossible to actually sound like Pink Floyd but he did as well as could hoped for I think. Nice work.
posted by Liquidwolf at 12:13 PM on January 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Liquidwolf at 12:13 PM on January 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
I'm sure it's impressive and great and I love that Nick Mason approves, but can somebody tell the feckers at Warner to not block this video because they seem to think they own the music in this?
posted by MartinWisse at 11:25 PM on January 24, 2017
posted by MartinWisse at 11:25 PM on January 24, 2017
He wasn't even born yet when I first lost my shit to this song in a dorm room 23 years ago.
You weren't even born yet when us geezers first lost our shit to this song in our dorm rooms 45 years ago.
posted by fairmettle at 3:30 AM on January 25, 2017 [4 favorites]
You weren't even born yet when us geezers first lost our shit to this song in our dorm rooms 45 years ago.
posted by fairmettle at 3:30 AM on January 25, 2017 [4 favorites]
Now get him to do Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict .
posted by arzakh at 3:42 AM on January 25, 2017
posted by arzakh at 3:42 AM on January 25, 2017
"This video contains content from Warner Chappell, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. Sorry about that."
Lots of other Pink Floyd covers are available, only not this one :-(
posted by RobHoi at 6:36 AM on January 25, 2017
Lots of other Pink Floyd covers are available, only not this one :-(
posted by RobHoi at 6:36 AM on January 25, 2017
Hmmm, the main video link is working for me right now in the US.
posted by Nelson at 6:54 AM on January 25, 2017
posted by Nelson at 6:54 AM on January 25, 2017
Just clicked and the main link is working for me, in the US.
posted by The Deej at 11:01 AM on January 25, 2017
posted by The Deej at 11:01 AM on January 25, 2017
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