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New England got a warm taste of vintage Pink Floyd Sunday, when a group known simply as Australian Pink Floyd pounded out classic Floyd tunes spanning throughout the entire catalog of arguably one of the best bands in history, to satisfy the capacity crowd at the Verizon Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. Led by Damian Darlington (rhythm and lead guitar, vocals) and Ian Cattell (bass, vocals), the band accurately re-constructs the stage magic produced by Pink Floyd with their "dead nuts" renditions of "Time," "Shine on you Crazy Diamond," and "Comfortably Numb," - combined with the finest lightshow in town (now that U2 has headed west).
Aussie Pink FLoyd predominately play entire album sides one at a time, introduced by a humongous video of a tie die wearing kangaroo selecting his favorite tunes. Starting with "Dark Side of the Moon," followed by "Wish You Were Here," then "Animals," and "The Wall," they showed no sign of leaving anything to be desired. Though the show was packed with first rate musicianship, knowledgeable sound technicians, and a stadium style lightshow with lasers, 3-D graphics, smoke, mirrors, trippy time travel vids, and a thirty foot inflatable pig with red light up eyes to complete the experience, there was a lack of material from later works like the last Roger Waters collaboration "The Final Cut," and sans Waters albums like "Meddle," and "The Division Bell." It was at this time that the giant animated kangaroo decided to pop in a mixed tape of favorites which contained, it seemed, like a song off of every Pink Floyd album. Satisfaction radiated from the audience, and a standing ovation of true joy was laid upon the musicians after the show stopping performance of "Run Like Hell."
Bottom Line
If you were lucky enough to see Pink FLoyd originally, you would see countless props, memorabilia, crazy lightshows, and costumes that would bring you back to the heady days of Floyd in their prime, brought forth by this Aussie crew. Ian Cattell successfully conjures Roger Waters right down to the cracks in his voice, psychotic high pitched laughing & screaming, and facial expressions -meanwhile Damian Darlington does a great David Gilmour. These guys really know how to keep classic music alive - if you don't posses the means to hop on a plane and hunt down the remaining members of Pink Floyd, the Australians tour yearly and good seats will only cost you $40 or so.
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