"I vaguely remember that show," said Martes, a 45-year-old Eastsider. "That was a good 13 years ago. My memory is not what it used to be.
" But he remembers those pigs, those two fat pink pigs with flashing lights for eyes that flew above the Sun Bowl that cool April night. "I also remember the laser lights and the clamlike stage they played in," he said. "That stage was huge.
You know, I remember more about the show now that I'm talking about it." Martes and other Pink Floyd fans will have the opportunity to re-live that stage extravaganza -- well, sort of -- Saturday when the The Pink Floyd Experience comes to the Pan American Center "This is the experience of being at a Pink Floyd show," said Bobbie Welch, the special events coordinator of booking and marketing for the Pan American Center. "It's not a laser light show like people are so fond of.
It's not just a tribute band, which people are also really fond of. It tries to encapsulate a really good band playing the music of Pink Floyd, plus part of the overall experience enhanced with the sound, and the lights and getting the feeling that you're at a show." According to The Pink Floyd Experience Web site -- www.
thepinkfloydexperience.net -- The Pink Floyd Experience is much more than just a re-creation of hits. It's a celebration of the music, the themes and the innovation that Pink Floyd brought to fans around the world.
way to look like each band member," Welch said. "In that, it's not like Beatlemania (the Beatles tribute band). They are really good musicians, and they really do justice to the songs.
But they don't try to be each individual member of Pink Floyd." The Pink Floyd Experience's North American Premiere Tour in 2004 sold more than 40,000 tickets and earned nearly $1.5 million in gross box-office receipts.
The two-hour show, performed live with six musicians and more than $2.5 million worth of production equipment, is a must-see show for true Pink Floyd fans. For fans who get goose bumps when they hear the whirring of a helicopter before "Another Brick in the Wall" or the cash register ka-ching before "Money" or the clocks in "Time," this experience will have all of that and more.
"It's a theatrical setup, so it's only set up for 3,200 people," Welch said. "It has a lot of stuff, so they make it tight like we do a theater show." Victor R.
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