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Post by Apex777 on Jul 27, 2004 11:38:20 GMT -5
Being relatively new to listening to the band and to this forum, I looked through previous posts for the answer and didn't see anything on the subject. . .so. . .my question is, How or why did you choose the name "Wish You Were Here" for the band? Were there any other names you tossed around, or was this the one that really seemed to fit best?
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Post by Eroc on Jul 27, 2004 14:10:00 GMT -5
Good question.. Actually, our former guitarist/vocalist Jim Tigue, who founded the band with me, picked it out.... BEFORE I co-founded it with him. He and I had performed a "Pink Floyd Revue" for years under the moniker of Harvest, then Tie-Dye Harvest (just doing 1 set of Floyd). I left the band in '93 and he kept it going. Around summer of '95, he and I started talking about seriously doing an all-Floyd tribute together, and at that time he had a bunch of promo posters printed up with WISH YOU WERE HERE as the name.... so while I didn't really have a say in choosing it, if I HAD thought of a better name, then I could've made a case for it & maybe we would've had a different name. We DID want an album or song title that people would recognize, and the name kind-of implies a yearning for the real thing, so it's not like we're saying WE ARE FLOYD, you know? Again, if I would've thought of something better... but I still can't, and it's been almost 9 years....  Eroc |
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