Clare Torry — the original and best Gig. One of the most amazing pieces put to record, imo.
I’m listening to “Echoes” now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBca3xf-j3o&frags=pl%2Cwn
The funky-bluesy middle section (starting at 7:00) was inspired by George Harrison’s little-known “Out of the Blue” from his first solo release, All Things Must Pass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDV_JKCfQ68&frags=pl%2Cwn
An all-instrumental jam with with Clapton, Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Bobby Whitlock, Billy Preston....
I never knew that but it is a distinguishable feature of echoes
I met Whitlock as a college student when I was at Ole Miss when he played there around 1977
Famous from Derek and Delaney and Bonnie
The girls loved him...he had a bevy of them at his hotel room
This was of course the powder era