Louisville’s Dark Side of the Wall returns Saturday for its annual interstellar journey into the heart of Pink Floyd’s music.
One of the country’s most acclaimed Pink Floyd tribute bands, Dark Side of the Wall is once again at the Iroquois Amphitheater, where the band will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Floyd’s legendary album “Dark Side of the Moon” by performing the album in its entirety. In honor of Pink Floyd’s 1973 tour for “DSOTM,” Dark Side of the Wall will use surround-sound and dig deeply into Floyd’s 1970s catalog.
“Dark Side of the Moon” was a landmark of progressive rock and catapulted the already much-admired Floyd to superstar status. The album debuted in March 1973 and spent 736 consecutive weeks on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, finally falling off in 1988. It later returned to the Top 200 chart and then spent an addition 750-plus weeks on Billboard’s Top Pop Catalog Albums chart.
In all, the album has been on the charts nearly 2,000 total weeks and has sold an estimated 50 million copies. Writer Glenn Povey has speculated that one in 14 people under the age of 50 in the United States has owned at least one copy of “Dark Side of the Moon.”
The band is led by Allen Needham and Steve Katsikas, with Brian Knopf, Antony Szaraz, Mark Whobrey, Myron Koch, Caroline Petrik, Jennifer Lauletta, Sarah Smith and production manager Tony Wilson.
Tickets for the Coors Light Summer Concert Series show are $31, $39 and $54, and the $54 VIP ticket includes reserved seating and a commemorative poster. Showtime is 8 p.m.
– Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal
