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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Mac Date: May 15, 2012, 4:18 pm
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Our big radio station KSHE (which I haven't listened to since
Bob & Tom left) was known for their Pig Roasts. Free outdoor
concerts. Looks like it's back with a small fee... $9.95
I think I just may attend this... 3 of some of my fav bands
[glow=red,2,300]
Pig Roast 2012[/glow]
Featuring Boston, Kansas & April Wine
WHERE
· Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
WHEN
· Friday, August 31 @ 6:00 PM
AGE
· All Ages
PRICE
· $9.95*
STATUS
· Presale Soon
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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Mac Date: August 31, 2012, 3:34 pm
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[center][glow=red,2,300]Boston[/glow]
Kansas
April Wine[/center]
Tonight August 31, 2012 for KSHE's Pig Roast Birthday Bash
Yea, right
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So we in the midwest have been without rain in forever. Worst
drought in decades. This Boston headlining concert has been
announced since the beginning of summer. So bought tickets a
month back, never in my wildest dreams think it could be the
WORST night ever for weather.
No rain... oh no. Forecast calls for Hurricane.
And now Tornado warnings... WTF³
Can it get worse? I don't think so.
We're still gonna try and go. Bringing my slicker.
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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 31, 2012, 4:02 pm
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You can look at it one of two ways: Horrible night to see a
show.....or the ultimate Wet T-Shirt Contest! Bring a
muthaphuckin' camera and then post here!
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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Mac Date: September 1, 2012, 7:50 am
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It rained so hard we ditched the concert
One of my biggest disappointments this year. >:(
I hope Boston puts out a DVD concert.
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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 1, 2012, 8:39 am
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That sucks dude. Sorry.
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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Mac Date: September 18, 2012, 5:07 pm
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It's [glow=red,2,300]Australian Pink Floyd[/glow] time again.
[glow=blue,2,300]
Nov. 16[/glow]
Trying to wrangle up the folks. They be spread out all across
the country traveling. This sucks. Tickets go on sale tomorrow
at 10.
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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 18, 2012, 5:48 pm
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Dude, how many times have you seen these guys?
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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Mac Date: September 18, 2012, 7:36 pm
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3 so far...
Kinda making it my trek each year.
I tell ya it's such an amazing show. It's so much fun and the
sound reproduction knocks you on your ass.
It is truly an immersive show.
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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 18, 2012, 8:12 pm
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I had you pegged at 10+ shows.
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Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
By: Mac Date: October 6, 2012, 4:56 pm
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[quote]The Australian Pink Floyd Show’s Colin Wilson talks with
Pollstar about its unique journey in recreating the classic
British band’s music.
The last time the famous Pink Floyd lineup of Roger Waters,
David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason performed together
was at the 2005 Live 8 concert in London, the band’s first
performance with all four members since 1981.
Yet the band’s legacy lives on, accruing new fans every year, as
witnessed by Roger Waters’ very successful touring of The Wall.
Simply put, Pink Floyd has generations of fans that have never,
or will never, see their favorite band perform live.
Enter the Australian Pink Floyd Show, a band that formed in the
late 1980s. Existing solely to perform Pink Floyd’s music live
on stage, the group has moved far beyond its humble bar circuit
beginnings and become a must-see act for Pink Floyd’s fans
throughout the world.
The Australian Pink Floyd Show’s bassist/vocalist, Colin Wilson,
told Pollstar about the band’s unusual journey, saying he and
his bandmates are quite comfortable with being called a
“tribute” act. However, as Wilson points out, there’s a lot more
to playing Pink Floyd’s music than playing the right notes and
singing the lyrics.
How long were you playing professionally before you joined the
band?
I started in quite a few other bands in Australia. The one
immediately before this one was actually a Guns N’ Roses tribute
band, Appetite For Destruction. Prior to that, several different
original bands. Like anybody else we were writing our own music
and trying to get a deal but things didn’t work out for us.
So you were a seasoned musician before joining the Australian
Pink Floyd Show.
I played a lot of gigs but I was only a semi-professional. And I
had a day job. It was only when I joined this band that [I went]
full time.
When you joined the group, did you find Pink Floyd’s music
difficult to play?
Some Pink Floyd music is deceptively simple. I think you can
learn the chord structures and the arrangements pretty quickly.
But what I would say is, since I’ve joined, I’ve spent 20 years
perfecting it.
As I said, it’s deceptively simple if you can actually get the
correct feel in the music, the tempo correct and a lot of the
songs have a kind of laid-back kind of feel to them. That sort
of stuff takes a lot of discipline and a lot of practice to
adapt that style.
I had been playing in a Guns N’ Roses tribute band and playing
lots of rock stuff where a lot of the music is quite on the
beat, really pushing along. Whereas Pink Floyd stuff tends to be
the opposite, almost behind the beat a little bit. It’s between
the sound and feeling. If you don’t get that right, you’ll never
sound like Pink Floyd.
There has been a lot of bands over the years playing Pink Floyd
stuff. They play all the notes right … but it doesn’t sound
quite like Pink Floyd.
Do you and your bandmates try to use the same instruments Pink
Floyd used while recording and performing this music?
Yeah, for the most part. We’ve certainly studied what equipment
they’ve used. Whenever we can, we get [similar] equipment. It’s
pretty difficult because some of the things they used were
developed for them or customized by them. Nowadays, with the
digital stuff that’s available, some of that stuff is
technically amazing but doesn’t sound right. Other stuff, we’ve
managed to tweak and program … to get it pretty close to the
record.[/quote]
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[quote]
The Australian Pink Floyd show has been praised throughout the
world and is the only tribute band performing on a global scale
and pushing the envelope of what a tribute band can aspire to.
Are you comfortable with the “tribute” tag?
Yeah. When we started off, that phrase [tribute band] didn’t
exist. We were simply a cover band, I guess. Instead of playing
three Bad Company songs and one different song and one Pink
Floyd in a bar, we were playing all Pink Floyd. And the “tribute
band” sort of cropped up a few years after we started when it
became more commonplace for bands doing it. We’re pretty
comfortable with it. We always said that we’re kind of a tribute
to Pink Floyd and we’re playing the music as faithfully as we
can. The audience gets to hear the music that they love in an
authentic way wrapped up in a big show. So we don’t see it as
detrimental to be called a tribute band.
You’re creating your own Pink Floyd experience in that the band
is selecting the songs for the performance as opposed to
reproducing a specific Pink Floyd concert.
We haven’t done that [reproduce a specific concert] although
that’s not something we’d rule out for the future. We’ve done
complete album shows. And we’ve done “best of” kind of shows.
Most of the songs we do in these kind of shows are things that
we’re constantly bombarded with requests by the audience.
In a way this year is kind of Part 2 of what we did last year.
Last year there were a lot of songs people wanted that we
couldn’t fit into the two-and-a-half hour show. This year, we’re
doing some of those things. There’s so much music to choose
from, it’s hard, sometimes, to pick two-and-a-half hours of it.
Are you covering the entire catalog or are you focusing on one
particular era?
The majority is probably between Meddle and The Wall. But we
also do stuff from before Meddle and after The Wall. There’s at
least one Syd Barrett number in the set and there’s also at
least one song from The Division Bell. We try to do a broad
cross section of everything and keep it balanced and keep it
working as a concert set. The songs have to work together, slow
and build up when you want it to … and try to do what people
want us to do.
Has the band, at one time or another, played every Pink Floyd
song?
No. (laughs) There are songs we still have never played. Maybe,
one day, we’ll do those. If you put one song in that you’ve
never done before, and it’s a bit more of an obscure album
track, that means you’re leaving something out that the audience
might want to hear.
So your audience is likely to want to hear “Comfortably Numb”
more than they want to hear, say, “Careful With That Ax,
Eugene.”
Exactly. Although, last year, we did play “Careful With That Ax,
Eugene” because we absolutely love to play that song. It goes
down really well for conjuring that kind of psychedelic scene.
This year we’re doing “Set The Controls For The Heart Of The
Sun” in that similar kind of era, that early’ 70s era – ’69
through’71 – the pre-Dark Side sort of stuff. We try to get some
of that into the set every time.
This year we’re also doing “Echoes.” Not an “Echoes” show,
because it (the song) is so long, but we are doing “Echoes” as
well for the same reason as we’re doing “Eugene” and “Set The
Controls…” I think what we’re doing is right. If, for example,
we took “Comfortably Numb” out of the set and put “Corporal
Clegg” in, there would be some disappointed people. There are
songs that have to be in every set every time we play and
“Comfortably Numb “is one of them.
The Australian Pink Floyd Show doesn’t just play Pink Floyd
music, you and your band mates have intensely studied the
catalog. Do you have any insight as to what the band went
through when creating the music?
Yeah. Obviously we’ve read everything written that there is
about them – interviews, accounts of what happened in the studio
and how they did certain things. I think what we have learned is
that certain songs you can almost kind of feel what was
happening.
It was very much Syd Barrett’s band in the beginning. He left
when he couldn’t contribute any more. Roger Waters stepped up
and became, arguably, one of the 20th century’s greatest rock
writers. That kind of happened again when Waters left and it
became what some people say is David Gilmour’s Pink Floyd. …
It’s almost like three completely different bands.
Have you or your bandmates ever seen Pink Floyd perform during
its classic lineup of Waters, Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick
Mason?
No. We’ve only been playing Pink Floyd (music) since after
Roger. We’ve seen Roger Waters solo, but we’ve never seen Pink
Floyd with Roger Waters. That’s an unfortunate thing that’s
happened because of the age we are. I think they came to
Australia and did one concert in 1972 and didn’t come back until
1987. Living in Australia, I guess it’s similar to living in
Alaska. You don’t get a lot of the [big] bands.
Do you have more people on stage than Pink Floyd?
Certainly more people than they had in the 1970s. The last Pink
Floyd tour, they kind of had two of everything – two drummers,
two keyboard players, two guitar players. I think we’re similar
to what they had then. We only have one keyboard player and one
drummer. In the show there are 10 of us, that’s including our
sax player who’s only on for a couple of songs in the set.
Actually, it’s very hard to recreate all the stuff that they
managed to do on records with less people. If it wasn’t
prohibitive cost-wise, we’d probably have a couple of more
people.
Over the years your live show has grown in terms of equipment
technology and the number of people in the band. When did you
realize that the band was taking the tribute concept to another
level and be a career onto itself?
I think there were little moments along the way. Nearly 20 years
ago, we were playing really small venues and just trying … to
make anything out of it. The first time we played a reasonable
sized venue and sold a lot of tickets, we thought, “Hey, maybe
we have something here. Maybe this could work.”
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In 1996 we played for David Gilmour for his 50th birthday. That
was a massive [moment] for us. The day after that happened, we
were able to say we were the only Pink Floyd tribute band that
had actually played for a member of Pink Floyd. That kind of
unofficial endorsement. Not only did it make it easier for us to
promote ourselves to the venues, promoters and agents, but more
importantly, to the Pink Floyd fans.
A lot of Pink Floyd fans were very skeptical and didn’t want to
see a tribute band, suddenly thought if Gilmour had them play at
his birthday, they must be doing something right.
I think it took a lot of time to convert the mindset of Pink
Floyd fans. I think they’re the most fanatical fans on the
planet. A lot of bands would say that about their fans, but a
lot musicians are Pink Floyd fans and they’re very good at
standing in the back of the room with their arms folded waiting
for you to do something wrong. And we felt that very acutely,
that people were checking us out. “You say you can be Pink
Floyd, but we’re going to see if you really can be Pink Floyd.”
I think even today, even after this long, there are a lot of
Pink Floyd fans who haven’t seen us. And a lot who have seen us
once and thought, “Why didn’t I go earlier? This is great.”
What you said about Pink Floyd fans standing in the back of the
room waiting for you to make a mistake? They used to do that
during Pink Floyd concerts as well, and would notice if a note
was flat or if there was a lyric change.
We feel that every single time we step on stage. We know those
people in the front block know Pink Floyd as well as we do.
They’ve been listening to the band their whole life. They’ve
probably been listening to Pink Floyd the whole day and in the
car on the way to the theatre. We have to get out there and
absolutely do justice to it 100 percent. Otherwise they’re not
going come back and we won’t have a band anymore.
We’re lucky we realized that early on. It’s made us very
particular about everything. It makes us very self-critical.
We’re constantly recording ourselves and watching and listening
to it back and seeing what can be improved. We’re still learning
stuff about Pink Floyd as well. We’re still listening to a Pink
Floyd song and hearing what we missed. It’s incredible how some
of the music is so involved. Like I said, it’s deceptively
simple, but there’s a lot of stuff going on.
Pink Floyd wasn’t exactly known for recording short,
radio-friendly songs. Is it difficult to build a set list that
fits into a two-hour performance and doesn’t result in a four-
or five-hour show?
It’s very difficult. We do a two-and-a-half hour show and that
gives us a reasonable scope to put quite a few songs in there.
We did some festivals during the summer in Europe and we were
restricted to a one-hour set. We were literally playing six
songs.
We’ll be doing “Echoes” on some of the nights on the upcoming
U.S. tour and that takes, like, 27 minutes. We do two sets a
night and “Echoes” takes up half of one of those sets. We’re
doing it because so many people want us to do it. Unfortunately,
there are a lot of other people who may not want us to do it. So
we can’t do “Echoes” every single night.
We did “Dogs” all of last year. Basically, “Dogs” took up the
space that we now play “Pigs” and “Sheep.”
What’s next for the band?
We’re continuously analyzing what we’re doing, trying to improve
everything. Next year, 2013, is the 40th anniversary of Dark
Side Of The Moon, so we’re definitely going to be doing some
kind of tribute to that, whether it’s performing the whole
album, I’m not quite sure. Or maybe do something interesting
spread out over the two sets.
[The band] is one of these things where the audience still wants
us to do it. We’re going to keep doing it and keep trying to
make it better every year. It’s hard to say “bigger and better”
because it’s pretty big already. What we do is really dependent
on the audience. If we felt what we’re doing is not working then
we have to listen to what they are saying and try to tailor it
towards them a little more.
We’ve talked about reproducing Pink Floyd’s music, but what
about the visual? Have you and the band tried to reproduce the
special effects the band used over the years?
Yeah. We used to use some of their stage as a mode … at least as
a guide. Technology moves so quickly, it’s a question of looking
at what is [available] and how that fits into a Pink Floyd light
show.
One thing we’re doing this year, more than we’ve done before, is
to do a light show on a song-by-song basis. If we’re doing a
song like “Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun” we don’t
want it to be like a 2012 light show. We want it to look like a
1970s light show.
What would you like to tell the world about the Australian Pink
Floyd show that folks may not be aware of?
I think that the message we want to put out, really, is to come
and give us a go. I think once people see and hear us for the
first time, they’re [usually] blown away. Nobody ever expects a
tribute band to be as big or sound as good this band does. I’m
really proud to stand on stage with those other nine musicians.
They’re all amazing players. Even if you’re not the biggest Pink
Floyd fan in the world, you’ll be happy to watch good music and
a good stage production. So, come out and check it out.
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