01/02/07

See the Pink Floyd Experience at LMC's Mendel Center
The Pig Flies Again!

BENTON TOWNSHIP, MI - The Pink Floyd Experience … ONE EPIC CONCERT, with 270,000 watts of light, 20 tons of full quadraphonic sound and six amazing musicians, is coming to Lake Michigan College Mendel Center Mainstage Theater, Friday, February 2, at 8 p.m.

Pink Floyd is rarely discussed without using words like "psychedelic," "conceptual" and "provocative." Their shows were described as being theatrical with mind-blowing lights and unsurpassed sound. Their music reached record-breaking status for decades on charts worldwide. Without question, Pink Floyd remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time.

The Pink Floyd Experience echoes everything that made Pink Floyd one of rock & roll's greatest icons. The Pink Floyd Experience is much more than just a flawless recreation of the legendary songs that spanned decades in their appeal. It's a celebration of the music, the themes and the innovation that this great band brought to fans around the world. It is Pink Floyd, up close and personal, without losing the scope and power of their performance.

In this two-hour show, with over $2.5 million worth of lighting equipment on stage, the Pink Floyd Experience features a massive light show and moving truss that brings the show right to the audience. Even the icons that Pink Floyd has made their own - from the blinking eye to the marching hammers - have all been translated into clever hooks along the ride. Imagine a 45-foot wall crumbling to the stage to reveal six musicians. Or have your hair literally swept up by the helicopter that introduces their next song. Hear the cash registers in "Money" or the clocks in "Time" run around the room in full quadraphonic sound. The show finishes with a 12-foot long pig blimp that flies over the audience and balconies in final homage to Pink Floyd's most familiar image.

The North American Premiere Tour of the Pink Floyd Experience in 2004 sold more than 40,000 tickets and earned nearly $1.5 million in gross box office receipts, including sold-out shows in Toronto and Vancouver.

Floyd Facts:
*Nearly 1,000,000 Pink Floyd catalog albums are sold each year worldwide.
*On average, more than 8,000 copies of "Dark Side of the Moon" are scanned each week in the U.S. alone.
*Among all artists, Pink Floyd ranks #7 in number of albums sold in the U.S. (68.5 million).
*Pink Floyd has two albums in the Top 20 of the biggest selling albums in the U.S.
*With the October 13, 2001, edition of Billboard, "Dark Side of the Moon", released March 17, 1973, celebrated its 1,278th week on either the Top 200 Pop Album or Top Pop Catalog Album chart. No other album has stayed longer on any chart in history.
*"Dark Side of the Moon" broke all chart records when it stayed on the Billboard Top 200 Album charts for 741 weeks. It stayed there from 1973 to 1988.
*In 1991, "Dark Side of the Moon" returned to the charts after Billboard instituted its Pop Catalog category. The album not only went to #1 and established residency on that chart for the past 10 years, but has remained almost entirely in the Top 10.
*"Dark Side of the Moon" was one of the first albums to popularize CD technology, and has been available on compact disc since August 1984. In fact, its EMI CD label number is EMI001. The disc is one of the Top 10 best-selling CDs of all time.

Tickets for The Pink Floyd Experience at the LMC Mendel Center Mainstage are $30 and are available by calling (269) 927-1221. Students (kindergarten through college) and senior adults (60 and over) receive a 10 percent discount off single ticket prices. Special group rates are available to parties of 20 or more. These groups receive 15 percent savings on ticket prices. For further information about group rates and special arrangements, call the Group Coordinator at (269) 927-8109.

Rock 107 WIRX and Park Inn are sponsoring The Pink Floyd Experience.

The 1,517-seat Mendel Center Mainstage Theater offers state-of-the-art acoustics and comfortable seating in elegant surroundings. Other amenities include free, lighted parking; indoor and outdoor handicap accessibility; an array of special services; and friendly ushers and support personnel.

The Mendel Center is located within 30 minutes of Niles and 40 minutes from Kalamazoo or South Bend. Located on the Napier Avenue campus of Lake Michigan College, the Mendel Center is one mile east of I-94 on Napier Avenue (Exit 30) in Benton Township, Michigan.