This view of Scott Chasolen of The Machine on the Coke stage shows the Tennessee Aquarium and the riverfront in the background.As the first warm strains of Pink Floyd’s “Breathe” resonated over the Riverbend crowd Sunday night, you could hear the long, collective exhale from the audience.
An almost full moon shone down for The Machine and the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera’s cover of Pink Floyd’s entire classic “Dark Side of the Moon” album on the Coca-Cola Stage.
The Machine brought Connor Blevins, 16, and his girlfriend Taylor Crump, 17, from Flat Rock, Ala., to Chattanooga. Both donned “Dark Side of the Moon” T-shirts. Blevins even had shoes painted with the album’s logo.
Though both were born decades after the classic album came out in 1973, “It’s the sound of their music I love more than anything,” said Blevins, who got into Pink Floyd three years ago. “It’s just different.”
“I don’t know how to describe it. It’s alien,” Crump echoed.