shainhouse Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 It's $30 or $40 and tickets are still available. I don't think I can afford it concerning A Silver Mount Zion and Rose Garland are playing the same night. Anywho, here's a press release. For Immediate release – Tuesday, December 9, 2003 THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE IS COMING TO HAMILTON Location: HAMILTON PLACE Date / Time: SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2004 – 8:00PM Tickets: Tickets available at Copps Coliseum Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, on line at www.ticketmaster.ca, or charge by phone at 905-527-7666. Cost: $29.50 / $39.50 Limited number of Gold Circle seats available On sale: Friday December 19, 2003 at 10:00 am Pink Floyd is rarely discussed without using words like “psychedelic”, “conceptual” and “provocative”. Their shows are described as being theatrical with mind-blowing lights and unsurpassed sound. And their music cannot be referred to without making mention of their record breaking status. Without question Pink Floyd remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time. No easy feat to bring such a story to the stage… Annerin Productions has endeavored to bring fans the show they never thought they’d see. They searched the continent for committed and talented musicians who could really do it justice. This was a project that was not going to happen if it could not be done right. The vision was not to produce a stadium show. In fact, in an effort to create the true Pink Floyd experience it would be just the opposite. Two key factors were at the core of the plan… • Keep it intimate. Put the legendary combination of music, sound and lights in a theatre atmosphere. • Ensure the sensual attack of Floyd. Give it top a priority along with the music. They nailed it. They found the band, the lights and the sound to create THE show for the ultimate Floyd fan, and it’s called: Comfortably Numb – The Pink Floyd Experience The world premiere shows open in Calgary and Edmonton this fall and will include: 270,000 watts of light, 20 tons of full quadraphonic sound, 6 amazing musicians … ONE EPIC CONCERT. Floyd Facts Nearly 1,000,000 Pink Floyd catalog albums are sold each year worldwide. On average, more than 8,000 copies of “Dark Side of the Moon” are scanned each week in the U.S. alone. Among all artists, Pink Floyd ranks #7 in number of albums sold in the U.S. (68.5 million) Pink Floyd has two albums in the Top 20 of the biggest selling albums in the U.S. With the October 13, 2001 edition of Billboard, “Dark Side of the Moon”, released March 17, 1973, celebrated its 1,278th week on either the Top 200 Pop Album or Top Pop Catalog Album chart. No other album has stayed longer on any chart in history. ”Dark Side of the Moon” broke all chart records when it stayed on the Billboard Top 200 Album charts for 741 weeks. It stayed there from 1973 to 1988. In 1991, “Dark Side of the Moon” returned to the charts after Billboard instituted its Pop Catalog category. The album not only went to #1 and established residency on that chart for the past 10 years, but has remained almost entirely in the Top 10. ”Dark Side of the Moon” was one of the first albums to popularize CD technology, and has been available on compact disc since August 1984. In fact, its EMI CD label number is EMI001. The disc is one of the Top 10 best-selling CDs of all time. THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 - 8:00 PM Tickets available at The Copps Coliseum Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, on line at www.ticketmaster.ca or charge by phone at 905-527-7666 A Press Release from Jeff Parry Promotions For further information, contact Patti MacNeil 403-208-4120 patti@leftbrainpromotions.com *For venue information contact Debra Vivian at 905-526-7666 *For ticket information contact The Copps Coliseum Box Office at 905-527-7666 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\/\/illy Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 I've got my tickets. I'd like to upgrade them though; I'm pretty far back. Oh well, it's not like there's a bad seat in Hamilton Place anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 i read about this shit in the spec this morning,,,, the guy even looks like gilmour. if i wasnt working i might check it out, let me know how it was willy, sounds like theyve got a HUUGE lightshow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze-0 Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 Who's bustin out the LSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shainhouse Posted January 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 I think I'm gonna do A SILVER MOUNT ZION and ROSE GARLAND instead. I can't afford $30 for a cover band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezy Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Spudly wrote this hilarious review on the Upstream board of the Pink Floyd Experience show in Vancouver. Proceed with caution... _________________________________________________________ Baaaahaaaaa haaaaa haaaaaa....ahem....on with the review, then..... Ticket cost - $45? $50? somewhere around there.... Venue: Orpheum Puff down?: difficult, but possible Sound: Huge.....stadium sized Lights: Intelligent lighting wasted on dumb band. Notably Absent: The Pig (the origninal pig on the Animals cover was apparently in a deflated state back stage and did not emerge) Overheard: "Thanks Christ I didn't dose for this" Bass & Keys: Technically profficient studio musicians who looked like they were having fun. Drums: HUGE sound.....but possibly the worst drummer I have ever seen....you kept hearing his sticks click together when he tried to do a fill....unbelievably horrible. Don't even get me started.... Sax player: Average, played it just like the records. (Welcome to the machine.....*meh*) Roger Waters - poodle haired 80's guy with Seinfeld "puffy shirt" who had a white strat around his neck for most of the show, but never struck a chord. Kept picking up a tamborine and gyrating it out of time with the music. Annoying like fuck. Something positive.....let's see.....his back-up vocals were all right....between him and the keyboard player's drone, they eliminated the need for the bands mgmnt to hire a chorus of back up singers....thus increasing their overall profit margin....(standard business practice). David Gilmore: Possibly the only reason this stunned crowd didn't rise up in a "smash & grab" frenzy to derive some value from the horrendous ticket price. Kinda looked like him. (old, puffy, bald). Same tone. Voice synthesized to kinda sound like him. His chops were.....OK..... Sorry for the lame review, but this show was so boring it left me feeling empty and humourless. Shoulda stayed home, put on one of my old Floyd mixed cassettes and flicked the light switch on and off in time to the music...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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