Hi Everyone,

Anyone here like or love Pink Floyd? I never had the chance to see them performing live. Last year a friend of mine introduced me to TAPFS (The Australian Pink Floyd Show) and I went to see them. They came back this year and I went to see them again with some friends yesterday evening at The Bell Center in Montreal.

Wow, what an incredible evening!! These guys really are something As good as the real deal. Its no wonder David Gilmour invited them to his birthday party years ago! Nice surprises in the song lineup: a couple of songs from TDSOTM and an incredible groovy remake of "Careful with that axe, Eugene".

I was expecting that the audience would be pretty mixed, covering a fair span of generations but what was so cool was the sheer number of young people in the audience, touched and inspired by this music. The Floyd have left us a wonderful legacy and I'm really thrilled to see the younger generation discovering and appreciating their music. Of course, TAPFS has been at it for 23 years and they now have their own "cult following". Hopefully they'll carry on for many more years to come and keep the legacy alive

Anyways... Has anyone here seen them and what's your feelings about this band?

John

As good as the real deal?
Sorry, but they may well be good, but as a very loyal Floyd fan, from as far back as the Sid barrett days, I would plead the word "nearly" as in "nearly as good as the real deal"
Saying that, I have loved floyd from the days when they were not considered trendy or cool except to a cult fraternity of dedicated fans..!!!

Hi Rostosky,

Yes then, "nearly as good as the real deal". However, in their own right, they are excellent musicians, experienced and really take "replicating" Floyd's music quite seriously. And that is what, in my opinion, has made them so successful. It is difficult to find any cover band that has been so good at rendering the Floyd spirit in a new and different but still very soulful incarnation.

I agree with you that they can never replace the real hearts and souls of Gilmour, Wright, Waters and Mason and I still listen to the original recordings of Floyd daily (yes, daily!) because I love their music so much and still feel inspired when I'm under their musical spell. Lucky for you then, that you are English and they were close to where you are and you saw them perform since the very beginning - I almost envy you actually I wasn't as fortunate so in that respect TAPFS is a godsend for us fans.


As I write this, I'm listening to "Echoes" from the 2007 Royal Albert Hall concert - one of the best renditions of this old classic always gives me goosebumps!

John

It's magic to be in touch with another Floyd superfan!!
I am lucky , to have seen floyd, The one thing I havent done yet, and I really will do one day, is to actually go to Granchester meadows, I will sit there by a tree and listen to the ambient background that inspired the song of the same name.

There isnt a Floyd albumn that I dont like, Echoes is excellent, I love ummagumma, and have owned relics longer than any other albumn, I recently posted pigs on the wing on Rostosys serious thread from Animals of course. Atom heart mother is magic, and I may well post something off that next.

I have resisted Arnold layne, just in case any one was to take offence, but some of these songs of relics, like Julia dream, and see emily play, could be absolutely nothing except quintessentially english...

Wonderfull...timeless.

Is that where there is a bench with a plaque on it in memory of Syd ?



Yes, and lets not forget "Vegetable Man"



Indeed!

And actually, the whole reason why I took up learning the keys and why I'm on this forum is all because of Rick Wright. A wonderful musician. I hope some day, someone has the time and energy to write his biography. This is a project I would undertake myself, were I to be liberated from the doldrums of a working man's life.

John