New Cover/Tribute Gig In January. Asking For Some Input.

[allan_evett]

Just picked up an established cover act gig, starting in mid January. It's a variety band - classic rock to current - with an intriguing twist: about ten dates per year, the band performs an entire evening of Pink Floyd. And my first gig is one of those dates. No problem there: PF, and Rick Wright's work have been one of my favorite listening pleasures for a long time.

 

Though I've been lifting tunes from recordings for a few decades, and can sketch out charts/learn parts fairly fast, this particular crunch-time is feeling rather tight - for a variety of converging circumstances right now. So charting and rig programming, from scratch, for a two and a half hour PF show seems a bit daunting - especially with a mid-January deadline. Once I figure out which 'boards are going out with me, programming the rig won't be a huge issue. However, the bandleader did inform me tonight that there's no book; and as far as he knows, no one in the act has any charts, cheat sheets, etc..

So I'm wondering if any of my brethren here would be willing to scan and email ( or copy and mail) any song charts/cheat sheets they've sketched out from the Pink Floyd catalog. I received a partial show list tonight, so will start in transcribing stuff tomorrow or Tuesday. But any help I can get to streamline the process, at this date, is greatly appreciated.

 

 

[Baldwin Funster]

Just wing it. Nobody but keyboard players knows or understands keys sounds or key parts anyway.

[Markay]

PM sent

[Joe Muscara]

Mcgoo plays in a Floyd tribute, I'm sure he can help you out.

[DanL]

I'm in a Floyd tribute too. Let me know what you need, I have some charts that I made. Sound design is the hardest part of PF, the songs are mostly pretty easy.

[Tonysounds]

What Dan said. Allen call me, I'm happy to share what I know about this stuff, patch and soundwise too. Did it for 8 years with different rigs.

[Tonysounds]

Aside from the Wall, you'll only need about 10 sounds.

[Ian Benhamou]

Hey Allen, if you're planning on using your PC3 I could send you a lot of my custom patches as well as setups I used for my Floyd tribute.

 

We're no longer active so none of that stuff I spent countless hours on is being put to good use.

 

I usually write Finale lead sheets for EVERYTHING but Pink Floyd was so natural to me that I didn't write anything out. But the stuff is rather straight forward. In fact, I'd say the sounds and the vibe are way more important (and more difficult) to pull off than the actual playing.

[synthizen2]

Yes, agreed - most of Floyd stuff isn't difficult to play, but requires more attention to sonic detail and "vibe". I'm not in a Floyd tribute per-se, but I am in a band that pays tribute to the whole of prog-rock. We do Genesis, K.Crimson, Floyd, Yes, ELP, G.Giant, UK, Tull, Rush. Out of all that stuff, the Floyd material is the easiest to play and the hardest to make "sound right" if you know what I mean.

 

So far, we've done "Dogs" and the last 3 tracks from DSOTM. "Dogs" is quite a challenge because it requires a lot of different sounds, including organ, EP, string-synth, lead-synth, synth-FX, and vocoder. I use the vocoder in my Alesis ION for the electronic dog-barking parts in the middle section.

 

Each and every part (in and of itself) is easy to learn and play... but the transitions between parts gets a little tricky, as well as getting the organ registrations, synth-voices and FX to sound spot-on. Usually requires a bit of programming or tweaking.