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The Machine is a Pink Floyd cover band. My only real exposure to Pink Floyd is via The Wall, which I like, but this concert obviously exposed me to much more than I would be familiar with. In the end I learned that Pink Floyd songs are mostly instrumental, and not very interesting instrumentals at that. I don't want to knock The Machine, they seemed to do a good job and those in the audience who seemed to be familiar with the music looked to be enjoying themselves, it's just that I wasn't especially enjoying myself. I guess I just don't know loooong instrumentals. This is probably why I'm not so down with going to Dream Theater concerts anymore. The band itself wasn't all that talkative and didn't really relate with the audience much. The only really interesting thing the band did was toward the end of the show when, mid-song, the members of the four person band all switched places. The guitarist switched with bassist and the keyboardist and drummer switched, so they were each playing the other's instruments. I mean, that's impressive, right? I guess? Sure.