Think Floyd's Halloween night show at Davenport's Capitol Theatre will be closer to the norm for the Lisle, Ill.-based celebration of Pink Floyd's music.
"In terms of doing costumes onstage and stuff like that, no, we're leaving that to the audience," lead singer and rhythm guitar player Mitch Blumfield said. "It's a little tough up there, putting on makeup with all the lighting. It ends up melting on your face."
Blumfield eschews the term "tribute band" as a description, opting for "celebration" instead.
"There's a fine line between calling yourself a tribute band and calling it a celebration," he said. "The way we handle our show is a celebration of the music that we've all been around since 1967."
The six-man band is joined by two female singers.
"We're kind of presenting our own interpretation of Pink Floyd, the way it should be celebrated with a group of people," Blumfield said. "(We) get the audience involved, get them singing all the songs."
During its Saturday night show, the first half will be Pink Floyd hits and the second half will be the entirety of the "Dark Side of the Moon" album.
Think Floyd has been together for six years and was previously a cover band called Igneous Biscuit. ("Igneous is a rock, biscuit is a roll, rock 'n' roll," Blumfield explained.) When its Pink Floyd songs proved the most popular, the band shifted its focus.
The band has been the only tribute/celebration act to headline Milwaukee's Summerfest, and Blumfield says it outdraws national acts there.
"We all thought of Pink Floyd as being on their own plane. There's not a lot of other bands you can name that solidifed their own genre of music," he said.
Posted in Music on Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:00 am Updated: 9:42 am. | Tags: Think Floyd, Pink Floyd, Music, Capitol Theatre, Mitch Blumfield