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This band gives Pink Floyd the bluesBlue Floyd is a conglomeration of former/current members of the Allman Bros, Gov't Mule and the Black Crowes doing blues interpretations of Pink Floyd songs. Blue Floyd started out with a pair from the Wish You Were Here album: the instrumental "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" with Neel taking a bluesy harp solo, and then "Have a Cigar" featuring Oakley on vocals and Neel on a great keyboard solo. And of course, when he got to the "Which one's Pink?" part of the lyrics, he sang, "Which one's Blue?" Neel then played a little piano boogie woogie while some of the others cracked a cold one. Song number three, "Seamus", went way back to the Meddle album. Neel sang this one, with a cool, gruff delivery, and Ford played a mean slide guitar. That one went into another one from Meddle, "Fearless", which Ford sang. Ford and Woody switched guitars on nearly every song; quite an ax arsenal was visible through the open door to the room next to the stage. The next three songs were all from Dark Side of the Moon. Woody played a pedal steel on "Speak to Me/Breathe in the Air" (Oakley sang), and "Money" was set to a blues groove and would have been almost completely unrecognizable were it not for the words. The section where the song speeds up seemed to be the turning point of the night: suddenly most heads in the crowd started to bob and thrust forward, and the tune started to become more familiar. "Us and Them" rounded out the trio of songs, with Neel playing an interesting synthesized "sax" solo. The set ended with "Echoes" - not quite as long as the original, but Ford and Woody teamed up for a fantastic Allman Brothers-style dual guitar lead |
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