Estonut

[secondchance]

Brain Damage - Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon) - I'm going to see a PF tribute band Friday night. I've seen the Australian Pink Floyd show twice, and it is awesome. I'm not familiar with the guys doing tomorrow's show. At least I'll know the songs.

Have fun tonite, Esto - I think you'll really like this group. The keyboardist is a good friend of the family, and I've seen them dozens of times over the years. My husband used to provide their audio equipment when they were still playing backyard parties and small bars, and my daughter has sung onstage in the kids chorus for "The Wall."

The lead singer is terrific, as are all the musicians, and they usually have an incredible female vocalist. Their manager is a riot - he'll stand quietly onstage through entire songs, just to step forward to provide a maniacal laugh, a pig snort, the pudding rant, etc. I'll probably go next Friday when they play "Animals" in it's entirety at the Canyon Club. I hope you'll report how you liked the show.

[elwoodblues]

I have seen Australian Pink Floyd perform The Wall, and it is outstanding.

[Estonut]

Brain Damage - Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon) - I'm going to see a PF tribute band Friday night. I've seen the Australian Pink Floyd show twice, and it is awesome. I'm not familiar with the guys doing tomorrow's show. At least I'll know the songs.

Have fun tonite, Esto - I think you'll really like this group. The keyboardist is a good friend of the family, and I've seen them dozens of times over the years. My husband used to provide their audio equipment when they were still playing backyard parties and small bars, and my daughter has sung onstage in the kids chorus for "The Wall."

The lead singer is terrific, as are all the musicians, and they usually have an incredible female vocalist. Their manager is a riot - he'll stand quietly onstage through entire songs, just to step forward to provide a maniacal laugh, a pig snort, the pudding rant, etc. I'll probably go next Friday when they play "Animals" in it's entirety at the Canyon Club. I hope you'll report how you liked the show.

Thanks for the info, 2C! They are playing at a small theatre (the Orpheum) in downtown L.A. which was refurbished and re-opened last summer. I saw 3 shows there last year and really liked the theatre. Up along the sides, they have private boxes and I wondered how one reserves one of those. When I bought tickets for this show, the "best available" from TicketBastard were "left box 1," so I got 'em. I didn't know if this group would be projecting films onto the back screen like the real PF and the APFS do. Other than possibly missing that, they seem like pretty cool seats.

[secondchance]

Brain Damage - Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon) - I'm going to see a PF tribute band Friday night. I've seen the Australian Pink Floyd show twice, and it is awesome. I'm not familiar with the guys doing tomorrow's show. At least I'll know the songs.

Have fun tonite, Esto - I think you'll really like this group. The keyboardist is a good friend of the family, and I've seen them dozens of times over the years. My husband used to provide their audio equipment when they were still playing backyard parties and small bars, and my daughter has sung onstage in the kids chorus for "The Wall."

The lead singer is terrific, as are all the musicians, and they usually have an incredible female vocalist. Their manager is a riot - he'll stand quietly onstage through entire songs, just to step forward to provide a maniacal laugh, a pig snort, the pudding rant, etc. I'll probably go next Friday when they play "Animals" in it's entirety at the Canyon Club. I hope you'll report how you liked the show.

Thanks for the info, 2C! They are playing at a small theatre (the Orpheum) in downtown L.A. which was refurbished and re-opened last summer. I saw 3 shows there last year and really liked the theatre. Up along the sides, they have private boxes and I wondered how one reserves one of those. When I bought tickets for this show, the "best available" from TicketBastard were "left box 1," so I got 'em. I didn't know if this group would be projecting films onto the back screen like the real PF and the APFS do. Other than possibly missing that, they seem like pretty cool seats.

Wait a minute esto, I've crossed the wires here. I ASSumed you were going to see Which One's Pink at the Anaheim House of Blues tonite! I had no idea there was another PF cover band in town! Sheesh, sorry. Still, hope they're good too - I'd love to hear how it went.

[Estonut]

What are the odds of competing two PF cover bands playing 40 miles apart on the same night?

I am going to see The Pink Floyd Experience, who I hadn't heard about before this show. I have heard of "Which One's Pink" over the years, but had no idea they were playing the Anaheim HoB tonight, too.

[Estonut]

I saw "The Pink Floyd Experience" in Los Angeles on Friday night. The show was exactly as I expected it would be. It was like seeing a very good Pink Floyd cover band, but it was nowhere near the SPECTACLE that "The Australian Pink Floyd Show" is. That show, which I've seen twice, is a BIG SHOW like Brian Setzer Orchestra's Christmas Extravaganza or Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas show, but with Pink Floyd music, lights, projected images, puppets and helium-filled characters. This show was much smaller in a much smaller venue and for a much smaller price. I loved the music, but the vocals were a bit muddy, perhaps intentionally. They don't quite have the singers that TAPFS has.

I made 2 completely meaningless, yet funny/interesting to me, observations about this band:
1) The 3 younger guys all looked like they seek out the hotel gym wherever they are playing. The 3 older guys looked like they are very familiar with the locations of the hotel restaurants and bars.
2) This band had representatives for every style of rock and roll haircut I could think of (at the time):
bald/shaved - check - keyboardist
afro - check - drummer
long, wavy & frizzy - check - bassist
Mohawk (kind of a fauxhawk, actually) - check - saxophonist
long & tightly curly (kind of like Kenny G) - check - guitarist
balding old guy (long on the sides and back, but missing atop) - check - lead vocalist

[secondchance]

I saw "The Pink Floyd Experience" in Los Angeles on Friday night. The show was exactly as I expected it would be. It was like seeing a very good Pink Floyd cover band, but it was nowhere near the SPECTACLE that "The Australian Pink Floyd Show" is. That show, which I've seen twice, is a BIG SHOW like Brian Setzer Orchestra's Christmas Extravaganza or Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas show, but with Pink Floyd music, lights, projected images, puppets and helium-filled characters. This show was much smaller in a much smaller venue and for a much smaller price. I loved the music, but the vocals were a bit muddy, perhaps intentionally. They don't quite have the singers that TAPFS has.

I made 2 completely meaningless, yet funny/interesting to me, observations about this band:
1) The 3 younger guys all looked like they seek out the hotel gym wherever they are playing. The 3 older guys looked like they are very familiar with the locations of the hotel restaurants and bars.
2) This band had representatives for every style of rock and roll haircut I could think of (at the time):
bald/shaved - check - keyboardist
afro - check - drummer
long, wavy & frizzy - check - bassist
Mohawk (kind of a fauxhawk, actually) - check - saxophonist
long & tightly curly (kind of like Kenny G) - check - guitarist
balding old guy (long on the sides and back, but missing atop) - check - lead vocalist

lol.

Glad you had a good time. How do they compare to W.O.P.?

[Estonut]

I saw "The Pink Floyd Experience" in Los Angeles on Friday night. The show was exactly as I expected it would be. It was like seeing a very good Pink Floyd cover band, but it was nowhere near the SPECTACLE that "The Australian Pink Floyd Show" is. That show, which I've seen twice, is a BIG SHOW like Brian Setzer Orchestra's Christmas Extravaganza or Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas show, but with Pink Floyd music, lights, projected images, puppets and helium-filled characters. This show was much smaller in a much smaller venue and for a much smaller price. I loved the music, but the vocals were a bit muddy, perhaps intentionally. They don't quite have the singers that TAPFS has.

I made 2 completely meaningless, yet funny/interesting to me, observations about this band:
1) The 3 younger guys all looked like they seek out the hotel gym wherever they are playing. The 3 older guys looked like they are very familiar with the locations of the hotel restaurants and bars.
2) This band had representatives for every style of rock and roll haircut I could think of (at the time):
bald/shaved - check - keyboardist
afro - check - drummer
long, wavy & frizzy - check - bassist
Mohawk (kind of a fauxhawk, actually) - check - saxophonist
long & tightly curly (kind of like Kenny G) - check - guitarist
balding old guy (long on the sides and back, but missing atop) - check - lead vocalist

lol.

Glad you had a good time. How do they compare to W.O.P.?

Actually, I have heard the group name for a while, but have never seen "Which One's Pink?" I'm usually not that into seeing cover/tribute bands, outside of seeing "Rain" in the 70's. When TAPFS came around, the quick research I did made them sound pretty good, and I thought the likelihood (sp? - doesn't look right) of ever seeing Gilmour and Waters together again was minimal, so I went to see it.