The sad news of the death of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright last week, brings to mind a three part video synchronization of the final scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, with Pink Floyd’s trippy Echoes track.
Roger Waters, yet to balk at the sci-fi association, went so far as to say his ‘greatest regret’ was that they didn’t do the score for 2001: A Space Odyssey,” the book explains, “parts of which, particularly in the long, mind-blowing hallucinatory sequence near the end, nonetheless sound remarkably Floydian.
I used to love driving late at night, preferably along a freeway, with Echoes blaring away… great driving music.
