Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Brit Floyd Immersion Concert at Radio City Center - Pink Floyd Thrives in Older Concert Goers' Lives

The rock group Brit Floyd was formed in Liverpool in 2011.  The group appropriates the music, sound and visual effects of the iconic rock group Pink Floyd for a virtual incarnation of the original group's concerts.    Brit Floyd's psychedelic, progressive rock experience was an indistinguishable audio, visual & visceral performance complete with special effects & similar aromas.  Radio City Music Hall was an excellent venue to revisit some of the most sophisticated rock music of the 20th C.  The subversive anti-war, anti-establishment content still resonates with clanging decibels.   Pink Floyd's founding 5 formed in 1965.   The videotron posted the year & album cover for the number about to be performed.  The years spanned 1971 - 1994.  "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973)  and "The Wall" (1979) were predominately featured with fan favorites "Another Brick in the Wall," "Money," and "Us and Them." The haunting & dystopian storytelling with combined music & video were eerie & hypnotic.  The video for "Us and Them" contained footage of the Viet Nam Conflict & protests along with news footage showing political leaders from the US & UK including the Bushes, Reagan, Thatcher, Blair, May, Assad, Putin & Kim.  Two of the original band members passed away not long after a reunion performance at the Live 8 Benefit Concert in Hyde Park in 2005.  The band had a decades long contentious (litigious) split but came together, if not awkwardly, at least significantly and for the final time.  Sadly, 2 original band members have since passed away in their 60's.  The revolutionary Pink Floyd Band & their music will continue to thrive & legacy survive with their recordings & touring of Brit Floyd.  The audience's average age had to be in the mid 60's.  It was a time warp again to see an older crowd rocking out & having a great time.

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