early Dark Side concert...???

[halloweenfiend666]

Hey guys

I was wondering, has WYWH ever done or thought about doing a 1972 style show? Like with an early version of Dark Side (Eclipse) performed in it's entirety, plus encores that were played in '72. I think it would be a really awesome idea, I personally would love to see you guys do it, and I'm sure you could pull it off too. Getting to hear you guys bust out a jammin' 'Travel Sequence' or a an early version of 'The Great Gig in the Sky' would be killer!

Anyway, just an idea to think about (if you guys haven't already). I think a lot of die-hard Floydians would really really dig a show like that, especially by WYWH.

-Jon

[PLPFJunior]

I've heard some live versions of "the Travel Sequence"....and they remain to this day some of my favorite jammy grooves Floyd has laid down.............

[halloweenfiend666]

plpfjunior said:

I've heard some live versions of "the Travel Sequence"....and they remain to this day some of my favorite jammy grooves Floyd has laid down.............

Agreed!!!... I think the best jammin' version I've heard has to be from their show at the Hollywood Bowl from 9/22/72. Awesome guitar work, thumping basslines, and some jazzy drummin and keyboards really make it an enjoyable piece.

-Jon

[Eroc]

An interesting idea.
Well, last summer we recreated the 1973 Dark Side show at Blossom Music Center (where they performed it), which of course many people enjoyed, although you could tell when we were doing the openers of "Obscured By Clouds > When You're In", many people just kinda looked at us like, "huh?", lol...
The Eclipse show of '72, while it would be fun to play (even tho we would have to actually un-learn some tunes lol) and the hardcore fans like yourselves would enjoy it, it would 'go over the heads' of most of the audience, even more than the '73 show.
Seriously, I could see, based on my knowledge of our audience, that maybe 1 in 20 would 'get it' and the all the others would be scratching their heads saying "this doesn't sound like the Floyd tunes we know", lol. (And of course we want people to leave the show thinking we sounded like Floyd!)

And part of the challenge of successfully tributing Pink Floyd is, as our bio states, 'to perform the crowd favorites that all rock fans recognize, interspersed with the show-stoppers that appease even the most ardent Pink Floyd fanatics'... So, to be honest with you, I will consider this along with the many other suggestions we get for tunes - put it in the queue and maybe one day we'll get to it!

Personally, I agree that the Hollywood Bowl Travel Sequence is outstanding... but I wouldn't want to be the one to tell the girls that we're taking them out of The Great Gig, lol...

Eroc

[halloweenfiend666]

eroc said:

An interesting idea.
Well, last summer we recreated the 1973 Dark Side show at Blossom Music Center (where they performed it), which of course many people enjoyed, although you could tell when we were doing the openers of "Obscured By Clouds > When You're In", many people just kinda looked at us like, "huh?", lol...
The Eclipse show of '72, while it would be fun to play (even tho we would have to actually un-learn some tunes lol) and the hardcore fans like yourselves would enjoy it, it would 'go over the heads' of most of the audience, even more than the '73 show.
Seriously, I could see, based on my knowledge of our audience, that maybe 1 in 20 would 'get it' and the all the others would be scratching their heads saying "this doesn't sound like the Floyd tunes we know", lol. (And of course we want people to leave the show thinking we sounded like Floyd!)

And part of the challenge of successfully tributing Pink Floyd is, as our bio states, 'to perform the crowd favorites that all rock fans recognize, interspersed with the show-stoppers that appease even the most ardent Pink Floyd fanatics'... So, to be honest with you, I will consider this along with the many other suggestions we get for tunes - put it in the queue and maybe one day we'll get to it!

Personally, I agree that the Hollywood Bowl Travel Sequence is outstanding... but I wouldn't want to be the one to tell the girls that we're taking them out of The Great Gig, lol...

Eroc

Yeh, lol... it would be pretty funny/entertaining/ cool if you guys did a re-creation of the first ever performance of what would be come Dark Side (Eclipse). Including the malfunction during the beginning of 'Money' and then them going straight into 'Atom Heart Mother' and their second set. That would be awesome, ha.

-Jon

[Eroc]

Personally, I would love to recreate the early appearance where Syd Barrett, who was having trouble getting his hair arranged to his satisfaction just as the band was due to go onstage, crushed up a heap of Mandrax pills, mixed them in with a full jar of Brylcreem and then slopped the whole lot on his head. (On stage, under the heat of the lights, the coagulated gloop began to melt, slithering down his face, to give the impression his features were somehow melting apart.)
Now that would be cool lol!



Eroc

[JC]

I've gotten close to that look a couple of times . . . damn hair gel