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Imagine a talented cover band attempting to interpret songs that defy interpretation, and you'll have some idea what to expect from
An All-Star Lineup Performing the Songs of Pink Floyd. It's vaguely similar to the idiosyncratic renditions of Floyd classics as performed separately by Roger Waters and David Gilmour during their post-Floyd concert tours, and it's guaranteed to leave you comfortably numb as you contemplate praiseworthy detours from the songs you know and love. It's easy to tune out the world while listening to
any interpretation of the Floyd, especially since these all-star recordings are accompanied by cheap, cheesy graphics and video images that serve as useless on-screen filler. (You won't find any concert or studio coverage here, which is just as well since even
faux-Floyd is best accompanied by one's own mental meanderings, or the self-generated equivalent of a '70s-vintage laser show.) The all-star lineup consists of respected session players and alumni from Kiss, Styx, Toto, Yes, Deep Purple, King's X, and others, and each track is (surprise, surprise) fairly well-executed and cleanly mastered in 5.1-channel stereo. As tribute recordings go, this isn't bad or good, it's just different (with no vocals to jar your familiarity, the guitar jam on the instrumental "Any Colour You Like" is arguably the DVD's highlight), so you'd have to be a
really hardcore Floyd fan to give this thing a spin.
--Jeff Shannon
Product Description
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Guitar & Vocals - Steve Lukather (Toto), Bass - Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy/Ted Nugent), Drums - Vinnie Caliuta (Sting)
2. Money Vocals - Tommy Shaw (Styx), Guitars - Ritchie Kotzen (Mr. Big/Poison), Bass - Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel/Pink Floyd), Drums - Mike Baird (Journey), Sax - Edgar Winter
3. Comfortably Numb Guitar & Vocals - Billy Sherwood (Yes), Bass & Vocals - Chris Squire (Yes), Drums - Alan White (Yes)
4. Welcome To The Machine Vocals - Doug Pinnick (King s X), Guitars - Gary Hoey, Bass - Mike Porcaro (Toto), Drums - Greg Bissonette (Santana), Keys - Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater)
5. Have A Cigar Vocals - Bobby Kimball (Toto), Guitars - Bob Kullick & Bruce Kullick (Kiss), Bass - Mike Porcaro (Toto), Drums - Greg Bissonette (Santana)
6. Us And Them - Vocals - Jeff Scott Soto (Yngwie Malmsteen), Bass - Jimmy Haslip (Bobby Caldwell), Sax - Scotty Page (Pink Floyd), Drums - Pat Torpey (Mr. Big)
7. Run Like Hell Jason Scheif (Chicago), Guitars - Dweezil Zappa, Bass - Tony Franklin (Whitesnake), Drums - Aynsley Dunbar (Whitesnake)
8. Any Colour You Like Guitars - Robben Ford (Yellowjackets), Bass - Tony Franklin (Whitesnake), Drums - Aynsley Dunbar (Whitesnake), Keys - Scott Walton (Dream Syndicate), Keys - Steve Porcaro (Toto)
9. Breathe (In The Air) Vocals - Robin McAuley (Grand Prix), Guitars - Jeff Baxter (Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers), Bass - Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne), Drums - Eric Singer (Kiss)
10. Young Lust Vocals - Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple), Guitars - Eliot Easton (Cars/Credence Clearwater Revival), Bass - Tony Franklin (Whitesnake), Drums - Aynsley Dunbar (Whitesnake)
11. Another Brick In The Wall Pt. II Vocals - Fee Waybill (Tubes), Guitars - Ronnie Montrose (Gamma/Montrose), Bass - Mike Porcaro (Toto), Drums - Greg Bissonette (Santana)
