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We became acquainted with PF during the Ummagumma / Atom Heart / Meddle stage, and Syd was already gone by then. But his influence was definitely there.

When we went to the Dark Side Of The Moon concert, it was "What's this?! PF doing rock 'n roll??" IIRC they did the entire album, start to finish.

A unique PF innovation: this was an outdoor concert, and there were huge speaker banks L/R at the stage, L/R at about mid-audience, and one at the very back of the audience. PF had a great deal of fun "spinning" the music around those speaker banks in different directions and at different speeds, something like a Dolby 5.1 trick but this was in 1973 (??).

Unfortunately it made a certain out-of-control segment of the audience even more out-of-control. It was just too much for them.

I saw the same tour. At Roosevelt Stadium in Bayonne.

PF played the whole album start to finish, with Meddle as the encore.

I went with a girl who was very cute and I thought, very straight. She kept up with me pretty well, tho...

Behind me was a guy way high on something. As the band played "Speak to me," the guy started complaining that, "If this was a Zeppelin concert, man, people would be screaming 'Turn it up, man!' Zeppelin fans wouldn't stand for it, man!"

Then "Breathe" came in at full volume, front and back, so your hair would be physically moving back and forth. And this was an outdoor venue.

Anyway, I never heard anything like it. And neither, apparently, did the dude behind me. When PF finished "Breathe," all the guy could say was, "Oh, wow, man."

One of the best concerts I ever went to.