Rush’s vocalist, bassist and keyboardist even attended the band’s show at the time of the album in question, being moved by what he saw
One of the greatest rock bands of all time, Pink Floyd concentrated their period of success in approximately half a decade, with four albums. They are: The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), animals (1977) and The Wall (1979).
Therefore, when you ask a fan what the group’s best album is, they usually mention one of these four. However, for Geddy Leethe answer is different.
In a 2012 interview with The Quietus (via Igor Miranda website), the vocalist, bassist and keyboardist of Rush revealed his predilection for Meddle (1971). The work in question anticipated sound elements to be explored in The Dark Side of the Moonbut brought different characteristics, the result in particular of experiments that emerged after the musicians realized that there was no direction.
Lee comments:
“Meddle was Pink Floyd’s last album before they entered the classics sequence. Before his big albums. But it was their show in Toronto that captivated me and fired my imagination. They opened by playing this album in its entirety and I could immediately feel that the possibilities were immense for the band.”
Geddy Lee’s emotion with Meddle
The Rush frontman said he was even moved by the tour show in question. In addition to feeling that “something unique was happening”, it generated anxiety about what they could do in the following years.
“Meddle was a great precursor to The Dark Side of the Moon. There were already genuine echoes of this. It remains my favorite because of that timing. That moment when an artist really starts to reach their peak. I already knew Floyd from Syd Barrettbut, in a musical sense, it was a different time, a different band.”
Pink Floyd’s sixth album
Pink Floyd was far from being a debut band when it broke out with The Dark Side of the Moonher eighth studio album. Meddlecited by Geddy Lee, is the sixth on the trajectory. Until then, they had achieved relative prominence in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, but I was unable to
am entering the American market.
Many fans see Meddle with affection for representing a still very collective phase of Pink Floyd. In the future, the vocalist and bassist Roger Waters would assume creative control of the band, until his departure in 1985, when the guitarist and singer David Gilmour took the reins.
It is in this work that songs like “One of These Days”released as a single, and “Echoes”considered by many to be one of the great classics of the pre-Dark Side. As a result, they were even more successful in the United Kingdom. However, the lack of publicity in the United States caused sales to suffer there.
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Source: Rollingstone
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