Long time fans will find Echoes a pleasure to read as well as to look at. Given the massive amount of touring various incarnations of the band have done, you could almost say it’s owed to them. But a band like Pink Floyd, whose reputation and creative power depended so much on their live performances, deserves this kind of attention. Some might see this sort of archival minutiae as only useful for the most fanatical of fans. So detailed are these descriptions that, for example, if you want to know why Pink Floyd cancelled several shows in the Netherlands in mid-May of 1969, and the exact venues where they cancelled them, this book will tell you (it was because of work permit issues). Images of concert posters and band merchandise provide marginalia for thumbnail descriptions of literally every live and taped performance in the band’s history. Rare (and some well-known) photographs of band performances meet you on every page. While his first book dealt primarily with the band’s concertography, this new work includes all of that information while giving fans an almost bewildering array of goodies. Rock writer Glenn Povey builds here on his previous work Pink Floyd: In the Flesh in Echoes. In an oversized edition, lavishly illustrated, this is a book that will put Floyd fanatics over the dark side of the moon. Given what this says about my uber-lameness, I’m at least pleased to get to review the outstanding new Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd. I am possibly the only person in history to have watched the 1982 film Pink Floyd’s The Wall in a state of stony sobriety.
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