When I was in eighth grade myself, my favorite band, bar none without any other coming even close, was Pink Floyd. I had every album available except for the then-rare, then-almost-impossible-to-find More Motion Picture Soundtrack album, which, when I got it, was something of a disappointment. Of course I had and loved Dark Side of the Moon, but my favorite Floyd album was (and still is, I guess) 1971’s Meddle. The center piece of that album, of course, is the twenty-three minute epic “Echoes.”

Little did I know, until a friend sent me the link, David Gilmour played it in its entirety in a Gdnask concert in 2008. Ironic I discover this only days after I played the song for a class while they were doing group work…