California Beaches Blog

House of Floyd is as good as Pink Floyd, say some, who are fans of the Bay Area band that provides the look and feel of the original British band. Nowadays it’s hard to even find a Pink Floyd concert, much less pay the fee to get to it and watch the awesome music that created a whole commentary on the excesses of modern society.

Pink Floyd, one of the most popular rock bands of all time, will be receiving a postage stamp in the UK in 2010 to honor their popularity. Several Floyd tour dates remain for the US 2009, but your best bet and best price for seeing Floyd music in California is House of Floyd.  See House of Floyd Schedule (houseoffloyd.com)

Upcoming, they will be performing the Pink Floyd tribute music with full stage lighting and shows that are darned close to the Pink Floyd experience. Talented, seasoned musicians and singers in their own right, if you’re looking for an experience to bring to life those songs that run through your head–Pink Floyd isn’t dead!

Rolling Stone reader’s poll asked fans to vote for their favorite songs by Pink Floyd. Here’s what they said:

• 1. Comfortably Numb - The child is grown, the dream is gone. But I have become comfortably numb.

• 2. Wish You Were Here - So, so you think you can tell heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? And cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year, running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

• 3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond -  Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond. You were caught in the cross fire of childhood and stardom. Blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

• 4. Time - Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town waiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain and you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

5. Echoes
6. Dogs
7. Us & Them
8. The Great Gig in the Sky
9. Money
10. Another Brick In the Wall, Part II
11. Welcome to the Machine
12. Astronomy Domine
13. Have A Cigar
14. Learning To Fly
15. Sheep
16. Run Like Hell
17. Brain Damage/Eclipse
18. Summer ‘68
19. Fearless
20. In The Flesh?