For anyone that has never seen The Classic Rock Show

[tm4tj]

These guys are the real deal. I have seen them three times and they are probably the greatest thing you will ever see live on stage playing all of the Classic Rock tunes. Absolutely brilliant. This is all you need for your own rock concert in your own house from all your favourite bands all rolled into one.  Crank up the volume...

 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

A hair-raisingly accurate take on the live version of Highway Star from Made in Japan.  Except that Blackmore would never have had another guitarist on stage with him

Going to see the real Purps in November.  A few days after I see Caravan.  Can't be many more chances to see these guys now.

I saw The Story of Guitar Heroes once, and would recommend them if you're really into guitar music.  Everyone from Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly up to Slash and Steve Vai.  All the usual suspects in there, and they even included Rory Gallagher when i saw them.

https://www.storyofguitarheroes.com/

https://www.setlist.fm/stats/average-setlist/the-story-of-guitar-heroes-63fa1a13.html?year=2024

[+Gringo]

They a superb band and I'd love go see them at some point. I've listened just lots of their covers and all are spot on. Best of the bunch, for me, has to be their cover of Pink Floyds - Comfortably Numb. The female backing vocal is quite outstanding and the riffs too, especially the one that kicks in at 4.45.

I go as far as saying that this track is probably better than original.

 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

The only tribute band that I've ever seen, playing the music of one band only, is Think Floyd.  Have seen them twice - the last time they did "The Wall" in its entirety.  Without any animations, puppets, and the wall itself, it's not the easiest thing to sit through!

I generally avoid such bands because if I wanted to hear slavish renditions of album tracks, I'd play the album.  Having said that, Think Floyd had a female singer - I don't know if she's still with them - who absolutely nailed "The Great Gig In The Sky".  Live versions of it by later Floyd and by Gilmour's band - I've never heard Waters live - never quite sounded right.  It starts at around 6:48 in the video below.

 

[+Gringo]

Liking that .... a lot. She's smashed it. I saw a tribute Floyd band a while back in Coventry. I'm not too sure what they called themselves. The young lady also smashed it. Not the easiest think to do.

Anyway...try this...

 

[tm4tj]

This one is as good as any...

 

[tm4tj]

Saw the UK Pink Floyd experience recently at Eden Court. Very slick. Not a big fan of single band covers unlike CRS who will cover any classic rock band and usually spot on. Two women singing with them and one was doing brass as well.

 

[Yngwie]

The Australian Pink Floyd are doing some Scotland gigs next month. Saw them about 20 years ago and was very impressed.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

4 hours ago, Yngwie said:

The Australian Pink Floyd are doing some Scotland gigs next month. Saw them about 20 years ago and was very impressed.

Going to see them on 10th October.  I know I said I didn't go to see single band tributes, but they always sounded like fun.  I first saw the ads for their tour early this year, or maybe even last year, but they were already sold out near me - Milton Keynes and the Royal Albert Hall.  But then they added an extra date, at the London Palladium. 

(Some bloke called Gilmour is clogging up the RAH that day.  I missed the announcement for that, and there just aren't any returns to the RAH - normally you can pick up good seats at the face value of the tickets.  Turned out that I wasn't overly impressed by his new album, anyway.)

Will let you know how the Aussies do.

[The Mantis]

5 hours ago, Yngwie said:

The Australian Pink Floyd are doing some Scotland gigs next month. Saw them about 20 years ago and was very impressed.

I was with you and this got me doing a quick search but it was inconclusive. They played the Edinburgh Playhouse in November 2003 and May 2008. I still have my old diaries but no sign that I was at these gigs. The 2003 one was a Friday but my diary only tells me I was off work with a flu-type virus.

[Yngwie]

1 hour ago, The Mantis said:

I was with you and this got me doing a quick search but it was inconclusive. They played the Edinburgh Playhouse in November 2003 and May 2008. I still have my old diaries but no sign that I was at these gigs. The 2003 one was a Friday but my diary only tells me I was off work with a flu-type virus.

22 April 2007 I reckon. I recall the show as being at the Playhouse on a Sunday (which this date was) and a search of my emails just now reveals me telling someone a couple of weeks afterwards that Aussie Pink Floyd were superb!

[The Mantis]

12 hours ago, Yngwie said:

22 April 2007 I reckon. I recall the show as being at the Playhouse on a Sunday (which this date was) and a search of my emails just now reveals me telling someone a couple of weeks afterwards that Aussie Pink Floyd were superb!

Yip, that’s it. 

[tm4tj]

 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

On 9/29/2024 at 6:23 PM, snorbens_caleyman said:

Going to see them [the Australian Pink Floyd Show] on 10th October. .....

Will let you know how the Aussies do.

The good:  immaculate playing  and singing, incredibly close to the sound of the records.  Great sound.  Decent effects.

The not-so-good:  I saw a show, not a band playing.  Virtually no communication with the audience (who were very enthusiastic).  No attempt to build a rapport with the audience.  Maybe one or two smiles all night between band members.  No enthusiasm.  Otherwise it was just a bunch of people very professionally going through the motions.  Not the slightest touch of spontaneity.

So, it depends on what you are looking for.  In a live band, I look for spontaneity, audience interaction and the building of a rapport, deviation from studio recordings, improvisation.  This wasn't my idea of a live band - this was actors going through their script, which just happened to be music.

So I have concluded that single band tributes are just not my cup of tea!

Edited October 11 by snorbens_caleyman

[tm4tj]

Nonetheless, I'll be at the Usher Hall on 22nd January to see them again and get most of my favourite songs played brilliantly in one gig.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

On 11/11/2024 at 2:54 PM, tm4tj said:

Nonetheless, I'll be at the Usher Hall on 22nd January to see them again and get most of my favourite songs played brilliantly in one gig.

Good - as I said, not my cup of tea, but their perfomance of the songs was faultless.

And having said all that, I am going to see another PF tribute band next year - What the Floyd. 

The difference is that they will be performing The Dark Side of the Moon - and others - under a gigantic model of the Moon, by candlelight, in my local cathedral.  They've already done a number of cathedrals this year, so this is obvlously a continuation.  A little bit different from the usual gigs.