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Presenters alike are raving about this epic concert.
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PROMOTERS
"One of our most requested return shows! " Reif Center (Grand Rapids, MN)
"The new light show is definitely worth it! Thanks for making this easy on us!" Palace Theater (Albany, NY)
Ranked #74 of Top 100 Grossing Acts World Wide 1st Quarter, 2009 – Pollstar
"Fantastic on every level...musically right on the money!" – Sunrise Theatre (Ft. Pierce, FL)
"The show was fantastic and the crew was great to work with!" – Arts Center (Williamsport, PA)
PRESS
“The band was smooth, even euphoric on ‘Us and Them’ and people literally danced in the aisle during ‘Comfortably Numb’, giving a standing
ovation and tossing glow sticks on stage like approving roses for a matador.” – Coast Magazine (Orange County)
“[PFX] creators, Annerin Productions, crafted the finest Floyd show possible – minus, of course, Gilmour, Water et al.” – City Weekly (Salt Lake City)
PEOPLE’S POSTS
"To hear this music performed live and up close by such a talented group of musicians is truly a privilege, and indeed an experience." – Chuck
“My mind was put into an elevated state as I sat in amazement at the incredible concert by The Pink Floyd Experience.
What an absolutely thrilling and exceptional set of six ultra talented musicians.
This cover band of the original, revered Pink Floyd band might even be better than the original.” - Joel
“Excellent musicianship. Not only was the guitarist right on the money, but you should have heard the sax player!
The band are fans & have a cool web site. Highly recommended for Floyd & progressive rock fans.” – Pink Floyd Fan
“Guys were amazing last night. The set list blew me away and the sound was great!” - Anton
"The sound was great, the lights were true Floyd lighting and the show just rocked! You guys were true Floyd last night!" – C.Valcik
“If you’re a PF fan you’ll soon be drawn into the music and later cheering this group on.
A tight keyboardist, accomplished lead guitarist, ever present drummer and bassist and a showman vocalist should get your head swaying.
A real extra gem is the saxophonist who at times just rips the wall of sound apart.” - Ashcroft
“Wow! Incredible! It is real Pink Floyd 100 %. Amazing band, amazing show, amazing music. Great professionals
with high quality performance! They are different! Thank you guys to share with us such an enjoyable evening.” – Guinol
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Ranked #74 of Top 100 Grossing Acts World Wide 1st Quarter, 2009 Pollstar
“A great show, loved by the audience, everyone was very nice to work with. We would like t re-book at the first opportunity."
Count Basie Theater (Red Bank, NJ – 1 show – 1494 tickets – $61,563 gross)
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Gross
$41,880
$44,452
$77,806
$45,114
$60,499
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$62,320
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$101,247
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$51,679
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$58,248
$32,843
$76,170
$56,653
$61,690
$43,216
$61,050
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$77,545
"Like going to see an orchestra perform Mozart...The band's performance of Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety underlines that.
Bass player Gus Beaudoin and saxophonist Jesse Molloy were standouts, but the whole band was nearly flawless."
TheDailyPage.com/Isthmus Publishing (Madison, WI)
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Pink Floyd can never be re-created. The PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE is a re-interpretation of the concert
that changed live performance forever. It is a concert in a theatre setting that echoes everything that made
Pink Floyd one of rock & roll’s greatest icons. It is a celebration of the music, the themes and the innovation
that this great band brought to fans around the world. It is Pink Floyd, up close and personal without losing
the scope and power of their performance. It is the PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE in a new way !
The PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE is much more than just a flawless recreation of the legendary songs that
spanned decades in their appeal. Fans can expect the surreal video that supported their memorable lyrics.
With over $2.5 million worth of lighting equipment on stage, the PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE should come
with a warning for potential “retinal damage” ! But fans can’t seem to turn their heads away as the massive
light show brings the show right onto their laps. Even the icons that Pink Floyd have made their own, from
the blinking eye to the marching hammers have all been translated into clever hooks along the ride. Imagine
a 45-foot wall crumbling to the stage to reveal six musicians. Or have your hair literally swept up by the
helicopter that introduces their next song. Hear the cash registers in Money or the clocks in Time run
around the room in full quadraphonic sound. And not to leave the fans wanting for more, the show finishes
with a 12 foot long Pig blimp that flies over the audience and balconies in final homage to Pink Floyd’s most
familiar image ! There’s much, much more from the classic airplane crash to floating eyeballs in the crowd –
but we better leave a few surprises for the actual show.
Don’t be fooled by imposters ! It is truly an unforgettable re-interpretation of a classic.
It is the full Pink Floyd Experience !
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"Sensational! The audience of roughly 1450 loved it…Excellent sound and a terrific lighting package. A most satisfying evening. "
Curtis Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (Gainesville, FL – 1 show – $33,440 gross)
THE IDEA
Pink Floyd is rarely discussed without using words like “psychedelic”, “conceptual” and “provocative”. Their
shows are described as being theatrical with mind-blowing lights and unsurpassed sound. And their music
cannot be referred to without making mention of their record breaking status. Without question Pink Floyd
remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time. No easy feat to bring such a story to the stage…
ShowBox Productions has endeavored to bring fans the show they never thought they’d see. They
searched the continent for committed and talented musicians who could really do it justice. This was a
project that was not going to happen if it could not be done right.
The vision was not to produce a stadium show. In fact, in an effort to create the true Pink Floyd experience
it would be just the opposite. Two key factors were at the core of the plan…

Keep it intimate. Put the legendary combination of music, sound, hooks and lights in a theatre
setting.

Ensure the show is an assault on the senses including everything that is Floyd.
They nailed it. They found the band, the lights and the sound to create THE show for the ultimate Floyd fan.
The world premiere opened in the fall of 2003 and included 270,000 watts of light, 20 tons of full
quadraphonic sound, 6 amazing musicians in ONE EPIC CONCERT.
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FAN FARE
“To be able to hear this music performed live and up close by such a talented group of musicians is
truly a privilege, and indeed an experience.” – Chuck
“It was much better than I expected, really enjoyed it! I would have loved to hear some songs from the
Animals album, that would have been icing on the cake!” – Customer review on ticketmaster.com
“That blew me away… totally awesome… I love Pink Floyd… that was Pink Floyd if I’ve ever seen
Pink Floyd” – Brian H.
“I thought I was great… you had more ideas than the main Pink Floyd !” – Dan F.
“Absolutely fantastic… I went to Edmonton in 1994… this was our reunion 10 years later… it was
fantastic… absolutely” – Jim H.
“There are no words to describe how amazing it was” – Julie V.
“It was awesome… comfortably numb… incredible… it was great.. it was fantastic” – Kerry L.
“Just a duplicate of the real Pink Floyd” – Mark G.
“That was wicked awesome… I was freakin’ out… it was sooo amazing… I love how they bring the
pig right down…” – Erin P.
“It was awesome… it was amazing… I saw Momentary Lapse of Reason… Pink Floyd is timeless… it
was a beautiful show” – John P.
“The lights were freakin’ amazing… it was super great… the lights matched the music
perfectly…holy smokes !” – Raj S.
“Fantastic !” – Michelle W.
“I loved the pig !” – Sheldon P.
“It’s just like seeing the real thing !” – Greg B.
“Come and see’em – these guys are awesome !” – Steve S.
“I just closed my eyes, and it was all there… it goes way back.. it was beautiful” – Mel D.
“Comfortably numb is … ooo yeah !” – Steve H.
“Wicked show… were going back… too good !” – Barry B.
“I’ve been to Ozzy… this concert was so much better than any other concert I’ve been too !” –
Gerald T.
“I thought it was Pink Floyd out there” – Don T.
“Ahhh…. Brings back the feeling !” – George S.
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“Fantastic on every level...musically right on the money! [PFX] delivers the essence, and the feel, and the environment
and the mood of the original with total success.” Sunrise Theatre (Ft. Pierce, FL – 2 shows – $56,653 gross)
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The music of Pink Floyd is more than simply an echo of days past. Pink Floyd continues to gain new fans.
Nearly 1,000,000 Pink Floyd catalog albums are sold each year worldwide. On average, more than 8,000
copies of Dark Side Of The Moon are scanned each week in the U.S. alone, and Wish You Were Here and
The Wall are also stalwarts on the Billboard Top Pop Catalog chart. Since the band's contemporary fans
have long since replaced, or added to, their vinyl Pink Floyd collections with CD versions, clearly new
generations are discovering the intense, cinematic, epic rock of Pink Floyd.
Here are other echoes continuing to be heard today...
* Among all artists, Pink Floyd ranks #7 in number of albums sold in the U.S. (68.5 million), behind The
Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Garth Brooks, Elvis Presley, the Eagles and Billy Joel.
* Only Pink Floyd, The Beatles and the Eagles have two albums in the Top 20 of the biggest selling albums
in the U.S. Pink Floyd is represented by the #3 The Wall (23 times platinum) and #19 Dark Side Of The
Moon (15 times platinum, approximately 29 million copies worldwide).
* With the October 13, 2001 edition of Billboard, Dark Side Of The Moon, released March 17, 1973,
celebrated its 1,278th week on either the Top 200 Pop Album or Top Pop Catalog Album chart. No other
album has stayed longer on any chart in history.
* In 1991, Dark Side Of The Moon returned to the charts after Billboard instituted its Pop Catalog category.
The album not only went to #1! and est ablished residency on that chart for the past 10 years but has
remained almost entirely in the Top 10.
* Dark Side Of The Moon is tied for the fourth biggest selling album in Capitol Records history, behind only
The Beatles, The Beatles 1967-1970 and Garth Brooks' No Fences.
* Available on vinyl and cassette since its release, Dark Side Of The Moon was one of the first albums to
popularize CD technology, and has been available on compact disc since August 1984. In fact, it's EMI CD
label number is EMI001. The disc is one of the Top 10 best-selling CDs of all time.
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The Pink Floyd Experience @ Electric Factory
8 MARCH 2012
The Pink Floyd Experience
2/22/2012 @ Electric Factory
Philadelphia, PA
Photos/Review by James Kelly
Your odds of ever seeing Pink Floyd live
again or even for the first time are not very
good. Years of legal battle and creative strife
have created a world in which the “real” Pink
Floyd has not existed in almost thirty years,
at least in a literal sense. Sure, David
Gilmour may still get out on tour and
perform some of your favorite classics as one
fourth of the Floyd and of course there is
always Roger Waters’ elaborate “Wall” at
which to gaze. But with all due respect, is
that really a Pink Floyd experience? Also adding to the improbability of a reunion was the 2008 death of keyboardist and original
member Richard Wright and the inevitable and continuous process of aging should also be considered. So, you can either spend your
time lamenting the fact that you will never have the chance to see Pink Floyd live and in its purest form (like I do), or you can get out
and appreciate the myriad of Floyd “cover bands” that exist all over nowadays in an attempt to somehow fill that hole. Definitely worth
seeing among these bands is the appropriately-named The Pink Floyd Experience .
Like its name implies, The Pink Floyd Experience is indeed a Pink Floyd experience and not just
another ninety minutes of mediocre musicians playing some of your favorite songs at a mediocre
level. The music (which you are there for in the first place) is almost outshined by the elaborate
Floydian light show by which it is accompanied. Bright colors sure to enhance any acid trip, stream
from front and back of the stage, slightly obscuring the band but ultimately enhancing the music.
The projection screen behind the band also adds an appropriately trippy element. Flickering images
ranging from eyeballs to the all-significant moon add visual depth to the show, rivaling any
presentation I’ve ever seen. Also, before the show even starts, the screen behind the stage displays
Pink Floyd trivia questions to keep even the most impatient of audiences entertained until
showtime. The questions range from the obvious ones which any true Pink Floyd fan should know,
to the truly obscure and puzzling. If the lights, projection screen, and fun trivia questions succeed in
entertaining you, great, but they pale in comparison to the band itself.
http://stubblemusiczine.com/2012/03/08/the-pink-floyd-experience-review/
“Cover band” has a negative
connotation, and it would be unfair to
judge the Pink Floyd Experience (or
PFE) solely on them being one. This is
a collection of six immensely skilled
musicians and although they are not
playing their own material, this band is
not trying to impersonate the almighty
Floyd either in sound or in look. They
play Pink Floyd music with energy and
more than random precision and in
seemingly the unlikeliest of
possibilities, they make it their own.
The band is led by singer/guitarist
Zachary Throne whose stage presence
has the ability to make up for a mediocre singing voice; though his singing voice is much better than mediocre. Also fronting the PFE is
guitarist/singer Tom Quinn whose veteran presence tacitly implies that he’s probably been playing Pink Floyd music longer than you’ve
been listening to it. It is rounded out by John Cox on the keys, Bob Sale on drums, “The Legend” Gus Beaudoin on bass, and Jesse
Molloy on saxophone/guitar whose killer sax solos just may have stolen the show.
On the current tour, the band is beginning each show with Floyd’s classic
“Wish You Were Here” in its entirety, and their performance at Philly’s Electric
Factory showed why this was an excellent decision. Opening with the Syd Barrett
tribute “Shine on You Crazy Diamond pt. 1″ is no easy task to say the least, but their
precise execution of the over thirteen minute epic set the tone for the entire show. The
PFE’s faithful yet refreshing set continued with the rest of the 1975 album before a brief
intermission. After the intermission, the band rocked out their own versions of more
instantly recognizable tunes such as “Time” and “Money” off of “The Dark Side of the
Moon” and “Comfortably Numb” and “Hey You” off of “The Wall” respectively.
However, the longer and more obscure Pink Floyd epics are what made the show for me. After veteran bassist Beaudoin’s touching
shoutout to late original Pink Floyd members Syd Barrett and Richard Wright, the band performed “Astronomy Domine”, an early cut
off of Floyd’s super-psychedelic debut “Piper at the Gates of Dawn”. A slightly condensed version of the over twenty minute ethereal
“Echoes” and the infamous instrumental threat “One of These Days” from 1971′s “Meddle” followed shortly thereafter. The show came
to an end with a fusion of two “Wall” perennials, “Run Like Hell” and the song you’ve heard a billion times “Another Brick in the Wall
pt. 2″. Energetic Crowd participation on the infamous “We don’t need no education” made up for the fact that no Pink Floyd fan should
ever want to hear that song again and ultimately ended the show on an upbeat note.
http://stubblemusiczine.com/2012/03/08/the-pink-floyd-experience-review/
The Pink Floyd Experience: Concert Review
By NORAH SWEENEY
Published: February 21, 2012
I was sour on cover bands. I was one of those condemnable rockists who took every opportunity to spout my “I will listen
to nothing but the original” treatise in blog posts and opinion piece. This was until Wednesday February 15, when The
Pink Floyd Experience knocked me from my annoyingly high horse and into the sweet psychedelia and power of Floyd.
To qualify, The Pink Floyd Experience is far from the typical music listener’s conception of a cover band. Each of the
musicians in PFX (their preferred abbreviation) has been playing music since their teens, and has had a long, varied
professional career. But like the army of Floyd cover bands that rocked garages across the nation in the 1970s, the guys
from PFX came together for the love of Pink Floyd’s music, which bassist Gus Beaudoin described as “some of the
greatest music ever written.”
PFX began the show by playing the entire Wish You Were Here (1975) album, which obligatory extended jam sessions
aside, runs 44:28. The band members made no introduction until Wish You Were Here was finished. In true prog rock
fashion, the audience’s presence wasn’t recognized until they were encouraged to sing along to the iconic chorus: “How I
wish, how I wish you were here, we’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year...”
This was exactly as it should have been. Pink Floyd, through the varying decades and lineups, maintained an alien
seriousness about their art, which sometimes clashed with the expectations of fun-loving concertgoers (i.e. the Spitting
Incident of 1977).
The venue undoubtedly helped to fuel the genuine nature of this particular Pink Floyd experience. The State Theatre,
located in Downtown Ithaca, makes the quiet, intimate performances of the past possible once again. There truly isn’t a
bad seat in the house (although, I must say, being 5 rows from the front of the stage was more than awesome), and the
energy of the musicians can be felt from the top of the highest balcony (where I sat when I saw Joan Baez 2 years ago).
Upon the successful completion of Wish You Were Here, vocalist and guitarist Zachary Throne said, “That was Wish You
Were Here… in its entirety…” with a comical shake of his head and a look that signified both disbelief and amusement.
PFX launched into a nonstop list of popular Floyd songs from a variety of albums afterward. They began with “Time” and
“Money” from The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).
Other spectacular performances included “Sorrow” and “Learning to Fly” from A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and
an early favorite, done in memoriam of deceased band members Syd Barrett and Richard Wright, “Set the Controls for
the Heart of the Sun” from A Saucerful of Secrets (1968).
The Pink Floyd Experience is the perfect cover band. They strive to provide the Floyd fan with an evening of his or her
favorite music. They immersed us in “Welcome to the Machine” and “Have a Cigar” from Wish You Were Here, songs that
are entirely about atmosphere, and took us to the amazing (albeit somewhat dystopian) world that the music creates.
http://www.imprintmagazine.org/music/pink_floyd_experience_concert_review
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The Pink Floyd Experience shines bright at
Bergen Performing Arts Center
Arts & Entertainment > Music | February 19, 2013 | Rating: 
The music of Pink Floyd roared back to life this weekend in
Englewood, NJ, as tribute act The Pink Floyd Experience
delivered a night of hits and rarities backed by a stunning light
show for their appreciative suburban audience.
Few rock bands have had the lasting influence of Pink Floyd,
and the array of tributes playing in 2013 attests to the love
fans and musicians alike have for the genre-defining
psychedelic rock music. But while most tributes and cover
bands focus on the radio singles, the San Diego-based Pink
Floyd Experience stood out by intentionally playing as many
deeper cuts as possible in addition to the Q104 standards.
In fact, the night’s first three songs all predated the megasuccessful Dark Side Of The Moon, as guitarist/vocalist
Randy McStine explained before starting Fearless, one of
three tracks that would be played off the Meddle album during
the band’s two set performance.
A brilliant light show and projection screen (see photos above) added a visual emphasis to the throbbing rock music, which was lovingly and fastidiously recreated by the
six man band. Playing Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Echoes back-to-back, the group proved their chops with the pair of epic multi-part songs, a highlight of which
was saxophonist Jesse Molloy, who dazzled the crowd with his brass tone and stage presence.
Molloy also enjoyed the saxophone spotlight for Money, a track on which the band took their own liberties when they stopped in unison for a single beat, before jumping
back into the song at full speed. It was just one of a number improvisations on the night, as the group made each song their own even while paying spectacular tribute to
songwriters Waters, Gilmour and Barrett.
Money also proved to be the only chart-topper played during the night’s first set, as the band channelled the Animals record with Pigs On the Wings (I & II) and Sheep.
Dogs would make an appearance during the second set as well, giving fans 4/5s of the album, a rare treat for Animals fans in this day and age.
While the audience clearly enjoyed themselves, singing along and standing up and dancing on occasion, as well as offering a stereotypical holler of “Welcome to freakin’
New Jersey!,” it was obvious that the band was having just as much fun inside the ornate Englewood theater. Guitarist Tom Quinn was never without a smile on his face as
he played electric, acoustic, and even steel pedal guitar. After an intermission, the second set opened with an instrumental jam on the opening tracks of soundtrack
album Obscured By Clouds, riding throbbing, distorted guitar riffs right up to the edge of modern heavy metal.
The second set of the night was also a chance for bassist Gus Beaudoin to shine, first on the crunchy, bass-led Have A Cigar, and then on an epic solo breakdown during
One Of These Days. Tapping his way up and down the fretboard, the song was easily the most immersive and head-spinning of the night, as Beaudoin and the band
expertly blasted their way through the blistering instrumental.
The show wrapped up with the platinum radio hits, first with Brain Damage/Eclipse from Dark Side of the Moon, followed by a gentle, theater-wide sing-along on Wish You
Were Here. The foreboding verses and soaring guitar solos of Comfortably Numb brought the audience to their feet, and while this reviewer didn’t love the improvisation
Quinn took on the second solo, arguably one of the most definitive and classic leads ever written, judging by the wild cheers and applause I might have been the only one
there to think so.
Run Like Hell was the night’s final song, and it featured the famous flying pig floating above the heads of the crowd, as well as the defiant chorus to Another Brick In The
Wall Part II slickly improvised in and sung loudly by every ticketholder and even venue staffers hovering by the exits.
Every Pink Floyd show should be judged on its own merits, and there were many to enjoy at Saturday night’s performance. All six band members beautifully harmonized
on songs like Echoes and Eclipse, and the saxaphone work of Molloy was especially impressive when he took the final solo of Wish You Were Here as well. It’s worth
saluting the band for their insistence on bringing out pre-Dark Side songs, as well as hitting a pair of post-Roger Waters tunes with High Hopes and On The Turning Away.
However, it would have been nice to hear at least one less deep cut in exchange for a favorite like Hey You, Time, or even a full rendition of Another Brick In The Wall. But
Pink Floyd’s discography is simply too vast to give every fan everything they want to hear in a single show, and it’s admirable that the members of The Pink Floyd
Experience are dedicated enough to tour behind a ‘Rarities’ package.
While not regular visitors to the East Coast, The Pink Floyd Experience offers a high end show and overpowering love for the music that is guaranteed to satisfy. Short of
Roger Waters returning for a third round of The Wall shows (read my review of his summer Yankee Stadium stand right here), this is as close as fans can get to the real
thing, and hopefully it won’t be too long before the boys in the PFE return for another night of Floydian fantasy.
http://www.examiner.com/review/the-pink-floyd-experience-shines-bright-at-bergen-performing-arts-center
The Pink Floyd Experience, Palace Theater
Albany, NY : February 16, 2012
Posted in NEWS, SHOW REVIEWS by PHANART on FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Good cover bands are hard to come by, as seen by the local acts that fill bars and clubs around the
country each weekend, singing the songs of the past. The bigger names – Dark Star Orchestra and
The Fab Faux are notable because they accurately recreate the music of the Grateful Dead and The
Beatles, respectively, without donning costumes or trying to make the music their own. They have
simply learned the music and play it as close to the original as possible and in doing so, fill a void left
by the absence of the bands they cover. Some would call them tribute bands, but that distinction is
reserved for the groups that take on the style and exact lineup of the original band (i.e. The Fab Faux
has five members) and leaves little room for error or interpretation.
For a band as complicated as Pink Floyd, both in terms of music and history, the number of cover
bands is akin to The Beatles; there’s The Machine, Australian Pink Floyd, Brit Floyd and the band I was
fortunate to see, The Pink Floyd Experience from San Diego, California. Opening up with the entire
album ‘Wish You Were Here‘ and nailing all five epic songs (Shine on Your Crazy Diamond I-V,
Welcome to the Machine, Have a Cigar, Wish You Were Here, Shine on You Crazy Diamond VI-IX)
without skipping a beat. For my favorite album of them all by Floyd, I was impressed.
Then a brief intermission where the lights revealed family night at The Palace Theater. Many fans are
older now and brought their kids, mostly teenagers but a few tweens as well. Families were milling
about, grabbing concessions and ignoring merchandise with mellow aplomb; surely this is the exact
opposite of Floyd when they played Wish You Were Here at venues like this back in the 1970s. But a
mixed crowd leads to a new generation or two with the ability to enjoy some of the greatest music
ever written. Ranging from the psychedelia of the 60s to the rock anthems of the 70s to the rock
opera of The Wall in the 80s and the scraps left over in the 90s when David Gilmour toured and Roger
Waters didn’t, Pink Floyd spans 6 decades of music and returns to stadiums this summer (and The
Times Union Center June 28th) with The Wall once again. The light show isn’t the same with The Pink
Floyd Experience, but they make a great effort to recreate the entire experience, nailing the music and
sound but lacking with the lighting.
Set 2 started out with On the Run->Time from Dark Side of the Moon before mellowing out into the
spooky vibrations of Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. An extended sax solo front stage
recreated the ‘Careless Whisper’ feeling from 1984, forgetting that the extended sax solo should
remain in the 80s. Learning to Fly, the lone 1990s Floyd offering was anthemic and ensured that all
eras were covered tonight. The group announced that they would play a song for Syd Barrett but
sadly, no Bike but Interstellar Overdrive instead. Money and a short version of Echoes (minus the
spaciness) followed, along with another sax solo before a random guy in a jacket adorned with light
bulb took the stage for the stormy intro to Hey You. The surround sound effects were at their best
here, getting fans to turn their heads as the sound traversed throughout the audience and segued into
Comfortably Numb. A packed sandwich of Run Like Hell -> Another Brick in the Wall Part Two -> Run
Like Hell got the audience singing along with the band while the giant pig took to the space between
the audience and the stage, drifting up and down until fans had left the show shortly before 10pm.
The members of The Pink Floyd Experience lauded Albany for providing a great turnout once again.
This was a show that is very worth seeing, although I would have liked another 45-60 minutes of
some more obscure songs. But I can’t complain, good cover bands are hard to come by.
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THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE
– ELECTRIC FACTORY
The Pink Floyd Experience played for the first
time in Philadelphia at The Electric Factory on
February 22nd, 2011.
A full crowd of all ages attended the powerhouse Pink
Floyd cover band’s concert Tuesday night. The Pink
Floyd Experience, comprised of John Staten (Drums),
John Cox (Keyboard), Jesse Molloy (Saxophone), Gus
Beaudoin (Bass), Howard Pattow (Guitar/Vocals) and
band leader Tom Quinn (Lead Guitar), produces a pitchperfect recreation of the iconic English rock band’s
catalogue. Of course, one would expect a high caliber of
instrumental ability from a major touring cover project.
What makes The Pink Floyd Experience such an
enjoyable show to attend, is the level of enjoyment each
band member takes while playing.
During every musically memorable moment, The Pink
Floyd Experience is mirroring the exact emotions Pink
Floyd fans love to accentuate. Tom Quinn’s facial
expressions make his flawless David Gilmour guitar riffs
that much more impressive when fans are acting along
with him via air guitar, and Howard Pattow’s vocal
abilities create Pink Floyd’s chilling laugh tracks while
donning an extremely appropriate psychotic grin.
The band played two long sets covering the entirety of
the Animals album and much more. Noteable tour props
were used, such as the flying pink pig and the light-bulb
covered business man. If you are a Pink Floyd fan of any
age, The Pink Floyd Experience is a must see.
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The Pink Floyd Experience
Was A True Experience!
Written by Kevin Pollack :: Last modified on Monday, 14 March 2011 12:16
They call themselves The Pink Floyd Experience, and what an experience it was. From the
moment you step into the theater, you can see the haziness on the stage, as if it were a
Pink Floyd concert. I have seen The Australian Pink Floyd Show and Think Floyd USA, and
in my opinion, these guys did what those other two tribute bands can't do. The Pink Floyd
Experience is made up of 6 guys. Tom Quinn on lead guitars and vocals, Howard Pattow on
lead vocals and guitars, Gus Beaudoin on bass and vocals, Jesse Molloy on saxaphone,
keyboards and vocals, John Cox on keyboards and vocals, and John Staten on drums.
Wait, there's no female backup vocalists? That's right. These 6 guys did all the vocals
themselves. These guys showed those other Pink Floyd tribute bands what you can do
when you have 6 guys doing everything. Besides, less is more. The only drawback I had
was I was waiting for the lasers, but they had a cool light show, and the videos were
phenomenal. They started off the night playing the entire album of “Animals” from front to
back. Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of that album. I've always been a “Dark Side of the
Moon” fan. But the guys really pulled it off. The best song they performed off that album in
my opinion was “Dogs”. There's just so much emotion in that song. After they performed the
entire album, they took a 15 minute intermission.
The second set was unbelievable. The guys played all sorts of Pink Floyd songs from their
catalog. They were playing everything from “Time” and “Money” to “Run Like Hell”. The
performances of each of these players was very unique. Howard Pattow on lead vocals was
a pleasure to listen to. His vocal range is unbelievable! He was able to mimic Roger Waters
perfectly. To be honest, it's hard to find good vocalists who can sound like Gilmour and
Waters. But these guys were able to do it really well. Jesse Molloy on saxaphone really blew
me away! I've seen other sax players playing Floyd, but this guy outdid them all. He blasted
through “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” and “Money”. The lead guitarist Tom Quinn looked
and sounded like Dave Gilmour. The biggest highlight of the night was “Comfortably Numb”.
These guys rocked the hell out of that song! With the disco ball whirling and the dazzling
light show, everyone was cheering, because they knew the words. There were about 1,500
people at this concert. All Pink Floyd fans. It felt like you were at a Floyd concert. There was
the stench of marijuana and alcohol everywhere, screaming fans and audience sing-a-longs.
It was like being at a huge party. By the end of the night, they closed with “Another Brick in
the Wall Part 2” from “The Wall”. All topped off by a giant inflatable pig being thrown into the
audience, which was very cool. Overall, The Pink Floyd Experience lived up to its name and
was a great experience.
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Show Review
THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE –
Hard Rock Live, Biloxi, MS, 2/12/11
By Leslie Michele Derrough :: March 07, 2011
There are very few bands that could get away with just being quite simply, a
cover band and make a career out of it. To pull this off for the long haul, the
original band has to be kaput, with no chance for any kind of a reunion. The
cover band has to know the songs top to bottom and be willing to play said
songs night after night after night with the same enthusiasm as if they had
created them from scratch. It might be a hard pill to swallow for a musician
who may want to burst from the chrysalis. In other words, you have to love
the band, the music, the fans, the pure power of a legend to be able to
spend the better part of your life pretty much being someone else.
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The Pink Floyd of yore is often spoken of in the hushed worshipful tones of
martyrs. Roger Waters spilled his inner turmoiled guts out for The Wall while
Syd Barrett laid bare his tortured psyche before the delusions of his mind
took over and he ran for the land between four walls. How does one
replicate the angst, the absolute surrealism, of Dark Side of the Moon? How
do you capture the spirit of “Comfortably Numb” and the cynicism of
“Money”? Do you become Waters or Barrett? Or can you simply turn them
off once you have walked off a stage, like an actor in a Broadway play.
Walking into the ambiance of a Pink Floyd Experience show creates a lot of
hope. The crowd is stirring about in anticipation of moody prozac moment
illusions, of lights and lasers flashing in hypnotic rhythms, of a pink curlytailed pig flying above their heads. All these factors may be enough to make
them believe that this IS Pink Floyd and not someone pretending to BE Pink
Floyd. You may kid yourself that these guys are the real deal but reality will
come and you will eventually realize you’re just at a glorified light show like
the ones you tripped at back in college.
However, that said, give these guys their due. It is not easy being Pink
Floyd. David Gilmour is a guitarist of unequaled expertise and trying to
duplicate intricate machinations with the fingers is not to be taken lightly.
You have to feel the music to be the music. And the Pink Floyd Experience
has done a spritely job of weaving you into its British hallucinogenic lair …
for a few hours, at least.
This PFE tour is focusing on the 1977 album Animals. With only five songs,
three of which swirl over ten minutes each, some in the crowd were getting a
bit anxious for something they knew much better, like “Another Brick In The
Wall” and “Money”, which would eventually come to roaring cheers. But if
Pink Floyd was anything, they were cerebral. Ditties were not necessarily in
their quadrant. Their music flowed with an inertia of almost biblical
proportions. You sit and dream, not bang your head and scream.
This band, all talented musicians, created a head trip world by starting out
with the aforementioned album: “Pigs On The Wing 1”, “Dogs”, “Pigs”,
“Sheep” and “Pigs On The Wing 2”. Then started vividly springing to life with
such classics as “Learning To Fly”, “Have A Cigar”, “Run Like Hell” and
“Money”. Those in attendance loved it. And at the end when the proverbial
piggie took flight high above their heads, you would have thought that a
great Greek God was in their presence.
I will say this much: we have forgotten what its like to be intellectually
stimulated by music. Bands in the vein of Pink Floyd have become virtually
obsolete in this maddening world of Gaga pop. We want to be spoon fed fluff
that causes our hips to sway and our minds to turn off. Thus going to see
something like this show is almost like attending a class at Oxford where the
professor spellbinds you with knowledge. We have to keep bands like Pink
Floyd alive. They are our stem cells. And so while Pink Floyd is no more, the
Pink Floyd Experience is here to fill that void … for the time being.
Concert Review: The Pink Floyd Experience
at The Cotillion Ballroom :: Wichita, KS :: 23-March-2011 :: By Jeb Wright
Set I:
Pigs on the Wing |Dogs | Pigs (Three Different Ones) | Sheep | Pigs on the Wing Past Two
Set II:
Learning to Fly | Have a Cigar | Time | Money | Shine On You Crazy Diamond | Let There Be More Light | Echoes |
Any Colour You Like | Brain damage/Eclipse | Comfortably Numb | Run Like Hell/Another Brick in the Wall Part II/Run Like Hell
The world of Classic Rock continues to grow and change in 2011. The music is kept alive by the classic bands still willing to get out
on the road for the summer concert circuit and the Native American casino stops. Other bands that are not longer touring, or even
together, are seeing their music kept alive with the help of tribute bands. The most successful contain great musicians who are
first, and foremost, fans of the band they are paying tribute to. Some go the distance and dress up in costume, while others prefer
to let the tribute be based on one’s audio senses alone. The Pink Floyd Experience is one band that have found a balance
between the sonic of sound and creative expression of visualization.
Instead of dressing up like Floyd, they prefer to have a light show that, on a small scale, contains many elements of a classic Floyd
show. They stake their reputation on their ability to recreate the music, something they do well. They also replicate the background
noises and conversations often contained in Floyd music by placing several speakers around the venue, creating a surround sound
effect.
On this night, the band took the stage without introduction, as Howard Pattow strapped on an acoustic guitar and began the
melancholy “Pigs on the Wing” from Animals. The rest of the band soon joined in and performed the classic 1977 album in its
entirety. Vocally, Pattow does not do a 100% spot on Roger Waters, however, he is more than competent. The band, however,
play the part to perfection. Bandleader, and guitarist, Tom Quinn has a love of Pink Floyd that runs deep in his soul and psyche.
The rest of the band shares his respect of Pink Floyd, and his passion for keeping the music alive.
“Dogs,” “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” and “Sheep” are diehard Floyd fanatic favorites. While Animals did not sell as well as Dark
Side of the Moon or The Wall, and was not as commercially palatable as Wish You Were Here, Floyd freaks have come to hold the
album in high regard. Waters’ sarcasm was never more biting and his dark persona never more sinister. David Gilmour played
some of the best guitar of his career, and it can be argued that Animals was the crème de la crème performance from keyboardist
Richard Wright. The Pink Floyd Experience recreated both the subtle nuances of the album, and the bashing anger, with
excellence.
After Pattow ended the set with the reprise of “Pigs on the Wing Part 2,” the band took a break. They returned with a lackluster
performance of “Learning to Fly,” which was the low point of the show. They did, however, quickly redeem themselves, and
recapture the crowd, with "Have a Cigar" from Wish You Were Here" and amazing renditions of “Time” and “Money” from the
classic Dark Side of the Moon. Jesse Malloy became the darling of the Wichita crowd when he took center stage and blasted out
the saxophone solo to “Money.” Smiles abound from the stage as the crowd was eating out of the band’s hand.
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” was a highlight of the show and allowed the band to flex their musical muscle. The group took the
crowd way back to the album A Saucerful of Secrets and the tune “Let There Be More Light” before surprising the crowd with the
classic tune “Echoes.” Next the band performed a musical trifecta of tunes from 1973’s Dark Side, from the instrumental “Any Color
You Like” to “Brain Damage” and “Eclipse.”
The crowd, who had waited patiently for music from the iconic album The Wall, were rewarded with "Comfortably Numb," “Run Like
Hell” and “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” which featured an impressive crowd participation sing-a-long on the chorus. The song
segued back into “Run Like Hell” before the band took a bow and left the stage.
The Pink Floyd Experience is an example of a tribute band done for the right reason. Watching the band interact with each other
was fun. Watching the precision in which bandleader Tom Quinn played David Gilmour’s guitar solos was impressive. These guys
may get a paycheck at the end of the evening, but one can be pretty certain that even if money were not available, this band of
brothers would be together in a basement bar somewhere doing the exact same thing.
By Jeb Wright
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Concert Review: The Pink Floyd Experience
at the Old National Centre…Quite the Experience (Posted by Crystal on Mar 08, 2011)
Pink Floyd was one of the greatest bands to ever grace the stage. Floyd was said to be an experience, obviously I never had the
opportunity to attend a Floyd concert. In 1997 bassist Gus Beaudoin and Tom Quinn (lead guitar) started playing Pink Floyd music
throughout California. The group quickly gained ground as people jumped for a chance to experience the greatness of Floyd all over again.
Now the band tours nationally and consist of the founding members Quinn, and Beaudoin along with, Howard Pattow on vocals, John Cox
on keyboard, John Staten on drums, and Jesse Molloy on well, everything from guitar to saxophone.
The night with Pink Floyd Experience started out a little slow. Floyd’s greatness however was felt, as audience members came flooding in,
some as conservative as most grandmothers, and some as young as 8. The Floyd Experience brought out everyone from all walks of life,
just for a taste of something similar to Floyd. The first half was good but it wasn’t great. The audience was feeling the music but not quite
pulled in just yet. The night started off with “Pigs on the Wing,” then into “Dogs,” the first half of the show was the rest of Pink Floyd’s
Animals album. Which was quite a treat, and something the band doesn’t play often. The lights were subtle and just beginning to come into
effect with the music in the first half of the show. The music was good, but it wasn’t quite where it could be….the thing I noticed the most
during this was the young guy in the band. Jesse Molloy who was hopping from, acoustic to electric guitar, running what looked like a small
keyboard attached to the computer, and doing backup vocals.
After the first set of songs was played it was time for a brief break. As fans ventured around, grabbed a bite to eat and headed back to their
seats, the last few stragglers came shuffling in. As the laser lights began to gleam, and the visual screen transformed into a familiar wall
and then planets, you could feel the audience’s excitement began to rise, for they knew the second half was going to possess some of the
best Floyd songs known to man, and some of the best rock songs to ever exist. The second half of the show started off with “Learning to
fly” which was sung by Guitarist Quinn. Next up was “Have a cigar,” the band really started to get a groove going during this song. Mind
you most of these men have to be well into their 50’s or older, they were amazing and played their instruments like they weren’t a day over
20. Next song up was “Time,” images of clocks raced across the screen as the lights flowed with the music accordingly. This show was
starting to turn into an experience. I finally understood why PFX isn’t just some run of the mill cover band. They’re a tribute band who
wants you to find a groove and feel the way you would have, if you were given the chance to see Floyd themselves live. Floyd isn’t music
you just hear, its music you feel. It is one of the few types of music where you can genuinely close your eyes and just feel the music. With
so many great songs playing I was itching to hear my favorite Floyd song “Money,” suddenly I heard the familiar drop of coins, as the
screen transitioned into raining coins, I screamed with excitement. Not only did I, but the crowd did….apparently I wasn’t the only one
waiting for “Money.”
You know that moment when you’re at a concert and its fun and you’re really enjoying yourself, but then suddenly something happens and
the audience and the band connect, “Money,” brought on that connection and it was felt in the whole house. People were standing, they
were cheering, and to make it that much better the guy I had mentioned earlier, the one who was playing all the instruments, walks to
center stage with a saxophone in hand. Let me just say I have only seen a handful of people play a sax, and it’s always awe inspiring, but
this kid, WOOOOO man could he play the SAX! I said it that night and I will say it again, the boy made the sax, soo saxy! After Molloy got
through his first spurt at the sax the crowd was wooed. The lights and video and the song were so cohesive it was like a beautiful art form,
as “Money” played the lighting turned green, and money from around the world flashed on the screen. From “Money” to “Shine on you
crazy diamond,” the band was in full swing and so was the audience. From this moment on the band was in full groove and the show was
amazing. It was good up to “Money,” but there is always that moment when things change….they did for the better. The band was crazy
good, these men every last one of them were getting down and having fun, and best of all they were enjoying themselves. Each song had
visuals and lights that meshed perfectly with the song.
Now if Molloy hadn’t already wooed us with his crazy variety of instruments and his mad saxophone skills, he might as well make sure he
covered all the basses and why not sing a song too. As “A Saucerful of Secrets,” began to play Molloy began to sing, and during the
interlude bust out that lovely saxophone and have a little duel with founder guitarist Quinn, then went back and sang. AMAZING!
As “Echoes,” came on the lights changed and began to look like sun rays. Next up was “Darkside of the Moon,” the planets came blazing
across the screen, the wall gave a reminiscent look of rainbows. The band connected to Floyd on some other level and played beautifully.
Soon a man dressed in light bulbs came out as a pig was on the loose. That is right a floating mechanical pig was released into the
audience. “Comfortably Numb,” came across the speakers, and the audience was swaying. The band was rocking, if you didn’t know any
better you might have thought it was Pink Floyd themselves. A disco ball dropped from the roof and with the laser lights, the room became
a room of changing colors. To close out the night PFX pulled in the audience for a little participation. Many stood and began singing as
“Another Brick in the Wall,” came on. The band and the audience were one and sang together beautifully.
The concert all in all was an experience and I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the last forty-eight hours. It was slow to start but it was an
amazingly beautiful experience. My niece who is 13 attended the show with me and had only heard one Floyd song and she left there a
fan. The show over-all from the guitar solo to the saxophone solos, to the bass solo, to the drum solo; to the concert being mainly men
above the age of 50. The talent and the show was amazing, it has to be one of the best shows I have ever seen. If you didn’t get a chance
to attend, the next time the Pink Floyd Experience comes through you better reserve your tickets. AMAZING SHOW!
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Pink Floyd Experience plays amazing show at
Electric Factory
A flying Pig can be seen in a
video clip during "Pigs"
Credits: Alex Lloyd Gross
By Alex Gross, Philadelphia in Pictures Examiner
February 23, 2011 2:14 pm ET
By Alex Lloyd Gross
There is no chance of seeing Pink Floyd on tour anymore. Yes, Roger Waters and David Gilmour may, on occassion, tour
but by and large the Floyd is done. If you did not see them in 1994 at Veterans Stadium, you are SOL.. Almost . There are
tribute bands and club bands that play Pink Floyd covers. Some of these are okay and others are fairly entertaining. Then there
is The Pink Floyd Experience.
The Pink Floyd Experience takes a tribute band to a different level. While they don't really look like the Floyd, they sure
sound like them. They played a show last night at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia. and they were tight. The first clue that the
band was gonna amaze was the announcement that they were going to play the entire Animals album from start to finish.
Animals is , by far, one of the finest and most complex records that the Floyd has ever done. It's hard to play those songs
correctly.
When Waters made his rounds through the area, he played "Dogs" in his 1999 tour. In 2006/2007, he played "Sheep"
and that was it. It's also the reason that other cover bands that play bars wait until closing time before they start to play anything
from Animals. The crowd is too drunk or to sparse to notice how badly the band messed up the songs. On the other hand, the
Pink Floyd Experience nailed it dead on. Standing outside the Electric Factory on a cold night listening to the sound check just
solidified why this band is able to play larger venues. They are that good.
There were no special effects, except for some smoke and a video
screen. If you closed your eyes you could almost feel like you were seeing the
Floyd themselves. But, if you closed your eyes you might miss something on
the video screen.
After a short break, the band was back out on stage, playing Pink
Floyd songs that everyone would know. "Have a Cigar", "Money" and "Run
like Hell". Older material such as "Careful With That Axe Eugene" , or "One Of
These Days", were not played. Clearly, the crowd would have liked to hear
these gems.
The crowd was a mix of older people that saw the Floyd in the
Spectrum as well as young kids that never had the opportunity to see Pink
Floyd. Hopefully, the Pink Floyd Experience will return, with an even longer set,
that includes Animals. They are well worth the price of the ticket and die hard
fans will travel to see them.
The last song of the evening was Another Brick In the Wall Part 2, to which the chorus is "We don't need no
education", which must have been taken literally by the person that put up the Marquee at the Electric Factory, as it did not do
the band justice by misspelling Pink Floyd "Exprience".
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Wednesday, January 27,2010
Tuesday, Feb. 2
By Austen Diamond
Black-light Pink Floyd posters adorn many the wall of the band’s aging fans and concert-goers.
Those old black-light posters, illuminated by 75-watt bulbs, pale in comparison to an updated tribute
concert experience with a $2.5 million 200,000-watt light show, quadraphonic sound and special
effects, including a 20-foot-tall remote-controlled flying pink pig.
This touring production will fulfill those dormroom, smoke-hazed fantasies to a certain degree.
The Pink Floyd Experience’s creators, Annerin Productions, crafted the finest Floyd show possible
—minus, of course, Gilmour, Waters, et al.
They found six musicians to play the classics, especially ’70s Floyd—their prime—and added an
in-your-face sensory overload. This cover band nails the difficultly of Floyd’s technical tunes with
near-perfection. But, the dramatic lighting with puffs of billowing fog and harrowing, intriguing video
footage in the background is what people remember. If you’re a Floyd fan—or just tired of staring at
that old poster—you deserve to see this performance.
The Pink Floyd Experience @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Circle, 801- 581-7100,
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m. KingsburyHall.com.
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Pink Floyd Experience rocks NPAC
It’s been 40 years since Pink Floyd – or The Pink Floyd Sound, as the group was then
called – issued its first album: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
That the group’s music has maintained its popularity was evident from the diverse
crowd that showed up at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center on Saturday to hear
The Pink Floyd Experience reprise the group’s best-known songs.
While Pink Floyd – first led by Syd Barrett and, in its most successful years, comprised
of Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and David Gilmour – hasn’t played in
public since 1996, Saturday’s concert audience was the most diverse seen in the
NPAC to this point.
Pink Floyd Experience keyboardist John Cox and
fellow band members are bathed in blue light as
they perform in the Niswonger Performing Arts
Center of Northwest Ohio on Saturday night
-Dave Mosier
Those who showed up for the concert included white-haired grandmothers, 30-year-old
yuppies and a large number of young people, some of those decidedly unconventional
in both dress and demeanor. Audience members also likely included a large number of
people who purchased some of the more than 200 million albums and CDs Pink Floyd
has sold over the past four decades, including 40 million of one album (Dark Side of
the Moon) alone.
Saturday’s concert, which emulated Pink Floyd’s complex stage shows -- including amazing, psychedelic light shows and
demanding sound setup – also provided the Niswonger with its biggest challenge to date.
That both The Pink Floyd Experience musicians and the NPAC were successful in recreating Pink Floyd’s concerts was quickly
obvious in the enthusiastic response of the audience.
Songs performed during the concert came mostly from Pink Floyd’s 1973 album, Dark Side of the Moon – which spent a record
741 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 charts – and the 1979 album, The Wall.
The Pink Floyd Experience, made up of musicians Tom Quinn (band leader and lead guitarist), Gus Beaudoin (bass guitar),
Graham Heath (lead vocalist), Jesse Molloy (saxophone), John Cox (keyboards), and John Staten (drums) did justice to such
Floyd hits as “Money,” “Time,” “Us and Them,” “Brain Damage/Eclipse” and, of course, “Another Brick in the Wall.”
The concert included the trademark laser light show, glitter balls, giant floating pig and large circular projection panel called “Mr.
Screen,” while the sound was loud and pulsing. The musicians were faithful to the original Pink Floyd sound, although I felt
Beaudoin might be an even better bass player than Waters, who led the group during the
1970s and early 1980s.
The show included Pink Floyd’s giant pig, as well as other groundbreaking visual effects that
amazed fans of the original group’s stage shows.
The concert was likely the first time that a large portion of the audience was exposed to the
state-of-the-art sound and lighting equipment in the Niswonger. If so, they undoubtedly found
The Pink Floyd Experience a stunning technical achievement from the NPAC’s standpoint, as
well as an extremely entertaining show.
Furthermore, it wouldn’t be surprising to see some relatively big-name hard-rock bands
perform in the Niswonger in years to come.
While it was a success in its own right, Saturday’s concert also proved the Niswonger could
handle just about anything thrown at it. And let’s hope a lot of different things are thrown at it.
Pink Floyd Experience performs as multicolored
lasers flash in all directions on Saturday at the
Niswonger PAC.
-Dave Mosier
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The Pink Floyd Experience
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
The Pink Floyd Experience
Where: Tuesday at DeVos Performance Hall
Notable: In two sets covering 2 hours and 10 minutes, California's six-piece The Pink Floyd Experience
delivered all of Pink Floyd's classic "Dark Side of the Moon," along with healthy portions of "The Wall" and
"Wish You Were Here" (although the popular title track from "Wish You Were Here" was conspicuously
missing) amid an impressive light and video show. The band -- led by talented lead guitarist Tom Quinn and
singer/rhythm guitarist Graham Heath, with his authentic British accent -- also thrilled diehard Floyd fans by
playing "Sheep" from 1977's dark "Animals" and dusting off older band gems, such as "One of These Days"
from 1971's "Meddle."
Highlights: The small audience of 1,200-plus, ranging from teenagers to graying baby boomers, deservedly
erupted after Quinn's more-than-credible re-creation of David Gilmour's dynamic guitar solo on
"Comfortable Numb" and gave a standing ovation to the band after its convincing cover-to-cover rendering
of "Dark Side of the Moon." Jesse Molloy offered up tremendous saxophone work all evening and Heath
pitched in some stunning falsettos on "Great Gig in the Sky," which originally was sung by a woman. Only
the first two songs of the night, from "The Wall," were a disappointment.
Best imitation of Pink Floyd: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Have A Cigar" in the second set were
nearly flawless, as were "Comfortably Numb," "Us and Them" and "Brain Damage." And hearing Gus
Beaudoin's bass work on the psychedically scary "One of These Days" was a treat.
Concert-goer quotable: "That was great," said Jim Bottema, 53, who bought tickets at the last minute and
ended up in the fifth row. "These guys are puttin' in a good effort."
How this stacked up to April's "Music of Pink Floyd" show with the Grand Rapids Symphony: No contest.
Tuesday's PFE concert blew that production away after the first hour alone with more rock bite, better
visuals and more accurate representation of Pink Floyd's music. No, it wasn't Pink Floyd, but it's as close as
anything I've seen to the real thing.
-- John Sinkevics
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Experiencing Pink Floyd -- at Overture Hall
Linda Falkenstein on Saturday 01/20/2007 09:01:40,
I'm not sure why there should be something thrilling about seeing a giant
inflatable radio-controlled pig emerge from the back stage of Overture Hall and then float out, almost beatifically, over
the crowd, hovering in front of the elegant balconies, but there is. Or maybe "thrilling" is the wrong word. It's kind of
cool. At the same time, you feel kind of silly for thinking, "Cool, here comes the giant pig."
Enjoying The Pink Floyd Experience -- essentially an elaborate tribute band -- could be seen as a guilty pleasure.
Which is too bad, because the music is completely deserving of being called thrilling –- much more so than the pig, or
the light show.
While watching the show at Overture Hall Friday night (Jan. 18), as Floyd's ominous, rumbling, reverbing, thwacketing
bass lines filled the hall (and they really did fill it), it occurred to me that this is music that is meant to be performed. It's
music that can't be contained in an iPod or properly conveyed via earbuds. It is music that wants to be heard, seen and
felt, preferably through the balls of your feet and up through your spinal cord. And so the amplified sound of helicopter
blades whanging and the world's loudest cash register ka-chinging are not merely overkill; they're as much a part of the
texture of the performance as the cannons are part of the 1812 Overture.
If the most authentic kind of rock and roll experience is, say, catching a pre-Nevermind Nirvana at an O’Cayz Corral,
then this is manufactured... but if rock is, like the rest of entertainment, a spectrum of choices, then The Pink Floyd
Experience is more like going to see The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra perform Mozart: "The Pink Floyd Experience
performed selections from Pink Floyd's The Wall, Wish You Were Here, The Dark Side of the Moon, and other works."
The band's performance of Dark Side in its entirety underlines that.
Overture Hall as a venue underlines it too, makes it more "music being performed" rather than "a rock concert" –- an
event where you can't see, the sound sucks, people stand the whole time, and security guards keep dragging the
dancers out of the aisles and telling you not to stand on your chair. (Of course, there's also a kind of participatory frenzy
at a great rock concert that really can be transforming.)
No danger of that here. Everybody sat nicely. Everyone could see. It was comfortable. It's a tradeoff. And it's a tradeoff
that the crowd, largely in their 40s and 50s, seemed ready to make. Many had their teenage kids in tow, and while you
would hate for them to think that is is what a rock concert is, they'll figure it out soon enough.
Bass player Gus Beaudoin and saxophonist Jesse Molloy were standouts, but the whole band was nearly flawless. A
few years back, another group, "the Australian Pink Floyd," played the Overture Center and brought along three female
backup singers who really kicked Dark Side of the Moon up a notch, but PFX made do with the sax.
The songs were the hits –- from "Have a Cigar" to "Sheep" to "Comfortably Numb" -- save for an early song,
"Astronomy Domine," that the band played as a tribute to founding Floyd member Syd Barrett, who died last year.
And Overture Hall was packed. Long live Pink Floyd.
© 2007 Isthmus Publishing Company, Inc.
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Subject : RE: Pink Floyd Experience
Date : Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:17:00 -0500
Linked to : The Ritz Theatre : Tiffion, Ohio
From : "Michael Strong"
To : 'John Schimmelman'
The show was awesome. The entire gang was a pleasure to work with.
Attendance was better than I thought it would be.
I will tell you that this was one of the best amplified performances we have
had in our space. The music was loud without being overbearing or
disrespectful of the room...subwoofers were especially percussive, but very
smooth.
…It was a spot-on reproduction of a Pink Floyd performance with some
very talented musicians.
…The show was well worth it.
Michael
Michael Strong
Executive Director
The Ritz Theatre
p-419.448.8544 f-419-448-7410
www.ritztheatre.org
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Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:11:00 -0500
Sunrise Theatre, Ft. Pierce, Fla.
"David Jenkins"
John Schimmelman
Dear John,
At long last here are some comments on our recent booking of the Pink Floyd Experience.
First my reaction as a venue director and the show's promoter.
We sold 1270 seats for a gross of $56,653 which I consider to be astonishing figures for the first appearance of what is
technically a tribute band.
It was not an easy sell to the public for obvious reasons. Pink Floyd fans, especially those of a certain age, are VERY hesitant to
buy tickets to a "tribute." This is literally sacred music to millions of people, and bands like PFX are seen to be treading on very
hallowed ground.
Placing the PFX video on our website was what did the trick, as well as our creating a great 30 second TV spot from Annerin's
master. I'd advise anyone booking the act that their's must first and foremost be a visual campaign. TV and heavy website video
is what sells the tickets.
Here's my reaction as a fan, and from the artistic side of my responsibilities as a promoter.
The first concert I ever worked on was Pink Floyd at the Boston Music Hall in 1971, even before Dark Side of the Moon was
released. I saw that work performed for only the third or fourth time in London that next year, and have seen every Pink Floyd
tour since. I probably saw the "real thing" over thirty times in venues big and small.
While not what I'd call an obsessive fan (I don't own any Pink Floyd lunch boxes, so to speak) there's no doubt that Floyd have
been an important part of my life - they're in my cultural DNA next to the Beatles and no one else.
... So I went into this booking skeptically and hesitantly, not just in terms of dollars but ethically. I really didn't want to present
something that wouldn't come off with respect and the very highest quality.
To put it simply, I thought PFX were fantastic, on every level. As a fan I thought they were musically right on the money, not
trying to match each note perfectly but instead delivering the essence and the feel and the environment and the mood of the
original with total success.
Even on our somewhat small stage the lights were breathtaking and the video superb. I would never have thought that an arena
feel could be brought to a historic theatre but they pulled it off.... and blew away the audience in the process. Our customers
have come back with nothing but rave reviews.
I must note that it takes a very brave guitarist to take on David Gilmour's two solos in Comfortably Numb, arguably the most
famous solos in rock history... solos that every person in the audience knows note by note. Well, your man soared and scored a
hole in one... twice.
Professionally the band and crew couldn't have been nicer to deal with, great guys, real gentlemen.
All in all as a promoter and a fan it was a great pleasure.
If you ever have a promoter hesitate in booking PFX give them my phone number. I'll assure them that they can't do better that a
date with PFX.
Honestly, they were a tremedous hit.
Best wishes,
DAVID JENKINS, Executive Director
Sunrise Theatre
Ft. Pierce FL
QUOTES
(North American Premiere Tour - 2004)
“PFX might be the closest thing
to capturing the real deal!”
- Toronto Sun
“They don’t simply play the music:
their presentation is elaborate!”
- Montreal Gazette
“Among the highlights were a
mock SS officer, the wall and
a giant inflatable pig!”
- The National Post
The Pink Floyd
Experience
Box Office
History
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE TOUR - Q1/2004
$1,451,538 Gross Box Office
40,137 Tickets Sold
Toronto, ON
(2 SOLD-OUT SHOWS)
$230,590 Gross
Montreal, QC
(2 SOLD-OUT SHOWS)
$188,534 Gross
Vancouver, BC
(1 SOLD-OUT SHOW)
$95,033 Gross
TWO HOURS OF
CLASSIC FLOYD LIVE
PFX echoes everything that made
Pink Floyd one of rock & roll’s greatest icons.
It’s a celebration of the music, the themes and
the innovation that this
great band brought to fans
around the world.
Hamilton, ON
(1 SOLD-OUT SHOW)
$87,351 Gross
Bookings:
Management & Marketing:
SRO ARTISTS, INC.
North America
Phone: (608) 664-8160
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.sroartists.com
North America
Steve Furze
Phone: (403)265-2666
E-Mail: [email protected]
It is Pink Floyd,
up close and personal
without losing the scope and
power of their performance.
It is the Pink Floyd Experience in a new way!
www.thepinkfloydexperience.net