pink floyd

[demonsurfer]

pink floyed on bbc four now plus sound of thunder concert best topping to a cider binge

[Guest]

Watching it now

[demonsurfer]

sounds great when your half cut

[grumpyhack]

Recorded to watch later

[grumpyhack]

Recorded to watch later

[The Nal]

Was this a Rogerless performance?

[alframsey]

sounds great when your half cut

[grumpyhack]

One benefit of being an oldie is that I've seen the real thing a good few times.

For those not so lucky, Australian Pink Floyd or their spin off Brit Floyd are touring at present. Musically, visually and sound-wise they are about as close as you'll get to a Floyd experience.

I appreciate they are a tribute and some people have mixed feelings about tribute bands but highly recommended.

[demonsurfer]

ive seen the australian pink floyd tour before and the are as good as the real thing .plus i do believe they played at dave gilmore's 50th birthday bash

[glasto-worker]

One benefit of being an oldie is that I've seen the real thing a good few times.

For those not so lucky, Australian Pink Floyd or their spin off Brit Floyd are touring at present. Musically, visually and sound-wise they are about as close as you'll get to a Floyd experience.

I appreciate they are a tribute and some people have mixed feelings about tribute bands but highly recommended.

[Wanderlei]

I would've loved to have seen them at Live 8. I got the feeling most of the people in that crowd didn't appreciate the moment.

[pothead pixie]

ive seen the australian pink floyd tour before and the are as good as the real thing .plus i do believe they played at dave gilmore's 50th birthday bash

[GlastoSimon]

I'm just confused as to how a friggin' covers band can sell out the Royal Albert Hall.

A covers band.

Granted, they're very very good at what they do, but even so... it confuses me a little. Even the shite covers bands end up playing academy venues.

[GlastoEls]

Just a 'show' isn't it, like a West End play. Actors playing Pink Floyd.

Best of luck to them I say!

[jeffie]

I'm just confused as to how a friggin' covers band can sell out the Royal Albert Hall.

A covers band.

Granted, they're very very good at what they do, but even so... it confuses me a little. Even the shite covers bands end up playing academy venues.

[GlastoSimon]

Just a 'show' isn't it, like a West End play. Actors playing Pink Floyd.

Best of luck to them I say!

[Guest]

Are orchestras just cover bands? You don't see many of them playing their own material

[Morse Code]

Bands with almost entirely new line ups get away with it. At least these guys are up front about it...

[gibbin82]

While the real credit should go to the original bands that evolved and produced the music, some of these bands who cover the material now do it so well that it is almost like seeing the real thing. Also they give people who weren't around the first time a chance to experience older music played live, that they have only discovered recently. Also many of the bands study the original material and live performances to minute detail to try to recreate the sound as authentically as possible. Take the French Canadian early Genesis tribute band The musical Box who cover the Gabriel period of Genesis, they even go as far as using the exact same equipment and lighting that Genesis used in the 70's. They are so good they have received endorsements from Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett and Phil Collins, and in fact Peter Gabriel is quoted on their web site as taking his children to see them "to see what their father did back then" http://themusicalbox.net

Edited March 2, 2014 by gibbin82

[guypjfreak]

were off to see the aussie Pink Floyd on thurs seen them before and there good but def not the real thing

[ICGenie]

The other advantage the Floyd cover bands have is that the members of Floyd were always pretty anonymous on stage.

Edited March 2, 2014 by ICGenie

[ghandi]

Having missed them the last time they were at Glasto i would love them to make a reappearence, and being a big fan of the Gabriel Genesis era i would love to see Musical Box as well. Dosn't look like this year but you never know, with the dirth of headliner on the friday and saturday for me so far this year i'd be there. I believe they were on in the Acoustic tent in 2010 or 11 ?

[YetAnotherOldHippy]

Last time I saw the Aussie Floyd their back drop was pretty much identical to the one Pink Floyd used at Wembley on the Delicate Sound Of Thunder tour...

...although I probably wasn't at my sharpest either time

Edit: But with more kangeroos, obviously

Edited March 2, 2014 by YetAnotherOldHippy

[gibbin82]

The Australian Pink Floyd are very good and we'll worth seeing, I have been going to see them since 1994 and they have always been very impressive. But there are now really two versions of the band worth seeing as the North American Aussie Floyd touring band led by one of the Aussie lead guitarists, broke away from the original Aussies in a acrimonious Roger Waters type split a few years back and took the name Brit Floyd. It has resulted in a bit of competition and resulted in both bands getting tighter each time I see them, a double bonus. Have a look at the couple of YouTube clips below and I think you might be impressed.

[grumpyhack]

The Australian Pink Floyd are very good and we'll worth seeing, I have been going to see them since 1994 and they have always been very impressive. But there are now really two versions of the band worth seeing as the North American Aussie Floyd touring band led by one of the Aussie lead guitarists, broke away from the original Aussies in a acrimonious Roger Waters type split a few years back and took the name Brit Floyd. It has resulted in a bit of competition and resulted in both bands getting tighter each time I see them, a double bonus. Have a look at the couple of YouTube clips below and I think you might be impressed.

Edited March 2, 2014 by grumpyhack