For this outing, the band is playing Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” in full since the album celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Decades later, that interest would blossom into an opportunity for him to front The Australian Pink Floyd Show, a tribute band formed in 1988 in Adelaide, South Australia, that has gone on to perform the music of Pink Floyd for audiences all over the world. While Barnes recalls the terror at his introduction to Pink Floyd, he also remembers being fascinated by them. I was about five or six years-old when this was happening, and it scared the hell out of me.” Then all these beeps, squeaks, whistles, strange drums and weird noises were happening. “The second track was ‘Interstellar Overdrive,’ which is like this nine-minute space rock instrumental from the first album, and my brother turned the light off. “It was absolutely terrifying, actually,” Barnes said during a recent phone interview. When Chris Barnes, lead singer of The Australian Pink Floyd Show, first listened to Pink Floyd’s 1971 compilation record, “Relics,” he wasn’t immediately mesmerized by the psychedelic and progressive music of the iconic English band.
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