TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Inspires Flashback Tour
August 25, 2008, 16 years ago
The following story is courtesy of Mitchell Peters from Billboard.com:
Music by JIMI HENDRIX, PINK FLOYD, LED ZEPPELIN, THE DOORS, JANIS JOPLIN and DEEP PURPLE, among others, will be performed live by the Mystical Orchestra as part of Flashback - the Classic Rock Experience. The nearly 50-date U.S. arena tour launches Wednesday (Aug. 27) at the Mobile Civic Center in Mobile, Ala.
Inspired partly by Paul O'Neill's TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA (TSO), which features a full rock band, a string section, multiple vocalists and a laser/light show, Flashback boasts 14 musicians and singers, along with an 11-piece string and horn section. The concert's approximately 30-song set features such classics as Hendrix's 'Purple Haze', Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway To Heaven', Pink Floyd's 'Money', and the Doors' 'Light My Fire'.
"I don't think there's ever been a large-scale arena event produced like this," veteran promoter and Flashback producer Rick Bowen tells Billboard.com. "I tried to pick artists that were either not going to be able to tour, or were touring very little."The idea to create Flashback came after seeing a TSO concert in 2006, Bowen recalls. "In a lot of ways [TSO has] plowed the ground for us, because we combine rock music and orchestra music together," he explains. "We've just taken it to the classic rock platform and tried to play the very best of the music in the era of the late '60s and early '70s."
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