CD REVIEWS
"...Much of the success of this tribute is due to Rob LaVaque and his Pink Floyd tribute band, Dark Side Of The Moon. Respectively, (solo and band) they perform amazingly honest covers of the two songs I felt would be the most difficult, "On The Run" and "The Great Gig In The Sky". LaVaque successfully emulates the VCS3 synthesizer for "On The Run" and uses samplers to fill out the atmosphere, while singer Joan Burton accurately (to an amazing degree) conveys all the subtlety and nuance of Clare Torry's wordless wailing on "The Great Gig In The Sky". There are few devoted Pink Floyd fans who don't know by heart the details of Torry's performance and they will be ecstatic to find that Burton misses very few of them. EVEN PINK FLOYD THEMSELVES DON'T REPLICATE THE ORIGINAL THIS WELL, AS EVIDENCED BY THEIR RECENT LIVE PERFORMANCES CAPTURED ON PULSE. These two covers on THE MOON REVISITED were easily the highlights of the album."
· Mike Taylor - Independent Reviewer
Mike@plato.museum.tulane.edu
"...On The Run by Rob LaVaque, co-leader and keyboard player for the American Pink Floyd tribute band called, appropriately enough, Dark Side Of The Moon: Performed with alarming accuracy, if I didn't know any better, I'd say this is the original song direct form Dark Side. Further startling is that Rob performs it completely live and with samples and sound bites he created."
"...The Great Gig In The Sky by the Floyd tribute band DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: As if to say "Hey, we can do that!", DSOTM and vocalists extraordinaire, Joan Burton and Terry Hand-Smith whine, moan and scream as if possessed by Clare Torry herself! In what I previously thought to be an unreproducible track, it must have been a sight to watch me listen with my jaw on the floor!"
· Jeff Jensen - Brain Damage Magazine International
BDMag@AOL.com
". . . Participating artists are from Magna Carta's roster. They are: Cairo, Shadow Gallery, Magellan, Enchant, World Trade (part-time Yes sideman Billy Sherwood's group), Robert Berry, and a professional touring Floyd tribute band also called Dark Side Of The Moon; whose leader, Rob LaVaque also contributes his version of 'On The Run'. On the closing 'Eclipse' there is a round robin of singing from the vocalists from each of the bands to tie it all together."
· DP, Music Uncovered
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