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Hi. I'm new to the forum and I'll bet someone here can clue me in. A band called The Pink Floyd Experience is playing in nearby Paducah, Ky. next February. Has anyone here seen this band? Would they be worth a 150 mile round trip on a Thursday night and $40 ticket price? I've been to the venue before. It's a beautiful new theater called the Carson Center that seats 1,800. I'm just afraid that after seeing TAPFS I might be disappointed with any other band.

Andy,
show was 2 hours
I went to PFE last Thursday the 5th here in NJ
The face value for Tix here is $55 and I had to drive 1 hour and 20 min to see them.....
I think it was way too much money even more than TAPFS which are well worth it.
The show was pretty good the strong point is the sound which ranges from just OK to very good at times....But still well short of TAPFS, the lights were not anything special especially since they advertise a 70,000 watt light show....But at one point a band member comes out wearing a light bulb jacket and holding an umbrella in a thunderstorm from Wish You Were Here very cool.  The vocals were adequate to decent but knowhere near as good as TAPFS and the TAPFS light blow away theirs with the lasers and all.  They did play a fantastic (especially a few really old songs from Atom Heart Mother and Meddle etc. ) set  list but some songs fell way short of TAPFS quality such as PIGS. I did not get goose bumps or have hair stand up or anything like the whole entire TAPFS show does blow you away from beginning to end......
Let me know what you think  from the 26th

Andrew   

Well I decided to go ahead and attend when a good friend said he wanted to go too. I pretty much agree with what was posted before. We bought cheap ($25) upper level seats at the door but the Carson Center is a very well designed 1,800 seat theater so even sitting in the next to the last row we had a great view. I thought they were real good but no where near as good as TAPFS. The production values were good. The sound system, lights and videos were well done but they never swept me away or made me think "Wow, that's Pink Floyd!" like TAPFS does. They sounded like exactly what they are, a really talented band with an expensive stage show playing Pink Floyd covers. If you're a casual PF fan, but you wouldn't be here on this forum if you were that, you'd probably enjoy them immensely but hard core fans might be a bit disappointed. One point though, I really enjoyed their version of "Echoes". It was shortened quite a bit with an excellent saxophone solo added.

Thank you for posting that useful information.
    I now find myself trying to imagine what a sax solo on Echoes would sound like ? You describe it as being excellent. So well done to the band for being brave enough to give it a go.

I just can't imagine sax in Echoes. Hats off to them. These sax players have obviously been found wandering about backstage with nothing to do! Make em earn their money.

It's not really that awkward, isn't it? Dick Parry did have a sax solo in Echoes during the 1974/1975 tours. It suits in quite nice I think.

But still, it isn't like the original.