Reflections from the Coral Caves

Do you know that Pink Floyd "song," "Echoes?" Yeah, the one that was on the second side (back when there were sides) of Meddle. It wasn't just on Side Two, it was Side Two. It is an epic, some might say a masterpiece, that from the first "bing" of Richard Wright's keyboard has certain listeners captivated all the way through to the end.

And I, ever the fool, am trying to work up a version of it on solo acoustic guitar. I don't think the problem is that I have some illusion that I'll be able to pull it off; I think the problem is that I don't know any fellow musicians that would want to play music like this with me and thus make it a heck of a lot easier: so I sit around and, not knowing what else to play by myself for my 4-month-old son, try to play "Echoes." (It does take up some of the time needed to get him to go to sleep.)

I just don't know how to emulate the seagulls, the squishy funk sounds, the haunting space-y vortex, or the triumphant "1812-esque" recapitulation, on my Yamaha FG-335.

Any suggestions?