The Gilmour Project - Explores Darkside of the Moon

The Gilmour Project - Live from Sweetwater Music Hall

8pm Thursday, February 23, 2023

You can catch the live stream at the Band’s facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/thegilmourproject/about

At Sweetwater Music Hall in downtown Mill Valley, Join The Gilmour Project as it explores and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the iconic 1973 Pink Floyd album, The Dark Side of the Moon. Featuring Jeff Pevar, Kasim Sulton, Prairie Prince, Mark Karan, Scott Guberman, let the KGGV River Theater Radio livestream transport you to The Dark Side of the Moon.

Originally recorded at EMI Studios in London, now Abbey Road Studios, the album's cover artwork features the now iconic image of a single thin beam of white light dispersed into the colors of the rainbow through a triangular prism on a solid black background.

There's talk that the album compliments the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz when both are played simultaneously. For example, the beginning of the song "On the Run" sounds like a tornado.

Tune in Thursday, February 23 at 7PM, and Friday, February 24 at 8PM.

There are Pink Floyd tribute bands … and then there is The Gilmour Project. The 5-piece, All-Star ensemble, quickly gained a reputation for flipping the ‘Tribute Band’ script on its head, with exploratory performances of iconic and deep cut Pink Floyd classics, David Gilmour-centric and solo compositions, and pulling other surprise classic rock masterpieces out of their hats. Their version of (David Gilmour ‘discovery’) Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ appeared nightly in their sets, weeks ahead of its ‘Stranger Things’ buoyed resurgence to the top of the charts and worldwide press … making the band appear spookily prescient. Not satisfied with laurel resting, they immediately began adding geographic / historically prerogative selections … Grateful Dead’s ‘Dark Star’ in San Francisco … Patti Smith’s (Van Morrison’s actually) ‘Gloria’ in Detroit … The Band’s ‘The Weight’ in Ontario … The Allman Bros. ‘Jessica’ in Atlanta … Tom Petty’s ‘Breakdown’ in Florida … Santana’s (Peter Green composition) ‘Black Magic Woman’ in Mexico City.

Their original multimedia, ‘Floydian’ spectacle, eschewed poaching Floyd/Gilmour production assets and imagery – relying instead on visuals created by acclaimed (Blondie and Todd Rundgren) LD Hans Shoop and quadraphonic sound design and special audio FX by The Duke of New York (producer of Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland – The Remixes’). Each show was live streamed, modernizing a page from Grateful Dead’s nihilist marketing playbook, and making the performances available for free around the world for those unable to attend due to Covid concerns, or just unable to attend by being on the other side of the planet.

The Gilmour Project is 
⦁    Jeff Pevar (lead guitar with CSN, David Crosby/CPR, Joe Cocker, Ray Charles, Bette Midler, Blue Floyd, Phil Lesh & Friends, Ricki Lee Jones, Marc Cohn), 
⦁    Kasim Sulton (bass & vocals with Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Meatloaf, Blue Oyster Cult, Hall & Oates, Cheap Trick & Joan Jett),
⦁    Prairie Prince (co-founder of The Tubes, original drummer with Journey, drums with Todd Rundgren, Blue Floyd, Jefferson Starship, Phil Lesh & Friends, XTC, George Harrison, Chris Isaak, Dick Dale), 
⦁    Mark Karan (guitar & vocals with Bob Weir, RatDog, The Other Ones, The Airplane Family, Live Dead ’69, Tom Constanten
⦁    Scott Guberman keyboard & vocals with Phil Lesh & Friends, Live Dead ’69, Keystone Revisited, Englishtown Project