fearless ?!

[Mark Smart]

> > Listen to the end of Pink Floyd's "Fearless" (on Meddle), and you'll hear 
> it -
> > it's like an endlessly rising pitch.  In reality, it's a clever 
> interleaving
> > of
> > crossfaded pitch rises, together in such a way that it gives the "barber 
> pole"
> > effect.
> 
> Hey, I'll put in Meddle as soon as I come home tonight!
> Never noticed this before!
> Do you know of any other such tricks of the Floyd?
> Well, I know their albums are full of tricks, but I mean
> the not-so-obvious ones ...
> 
> JH.

I think the sound is at the end of "Echoes", not "Fearless". I don't know
if it is a synth, or vocal sounds with the tape speed changing. They might
have done it manually with overdubs!

"Fearless" ends with a crowd of kids singing "You'll Never Walk Alone"
with, I beleive, backwards echo on it.



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