Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times: "Coachella … is the king of the American alternative rock festivals. … Coachella has broadened the rules of its game, booking acts that, the longer you think about them, aren’t indie in the slightest. But what’s indie? For instance: Coachella is awash with festivalgoers walking around the stages and art installations wearing T-shirts that they’ve carefully selected. … But because so much of the audience is educated, grown up and employed, with a little scratch in their pockets and a healthy sense of leisure time, they have an acute sense of irony and pluralism. What kind of brand, slogan or cultural entity on a T-shirt would be thoroughly uncool, unalternative, at Coachella? Budweiser? Metallica? James Taylor? Bell Biv DeVoe? All acceptable. … As go the shirts, so go the bands. Roger Waters closed the festival’s main stage on Sunday night, playing Pink Floyd’s entire 'Dark Side of the Moon' album, as well as his own post-Floyd songs in the first half. (For 'Dark Side' he left most of the absent David Gilmour’s singing and guitar parts to his band; the lyrics, though, are Mr. Waters’s.)" (4/29/08)