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Wishing one week, Harvesting the next

If you go …

WHO: River Rock at the Amp — Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd tribute) and Morrison Hotel (The Doors tribute)

WHEN: 5:30 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: Warren Community Amphitheatre, 321 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren

HOW MUCH: $12 with children 12 and younger admitted free with paying adult. For more information, go to www.riverrockattheamp.com.

Regular River Rock at the Amp attendees might think they’re seeing double the next two weekends.

Three of the members of the Pink Floyd tribute band Wish You Were Here will be back on Aug. 27 as part of the Neil Young tribute Harvest, which is opening for the Led Zeppelin tribute ZOSO.

Eroc Sosinski, bass, guitar and vocals; Jim Tigue, guitar and vocals; and Peter Telari, drums, play in both groups. Sosinski and Tigue have been playing together for decades and also are bandmates in the Classic Rock Duo, Tie Dye Harvest and Colin Dussault’s Acoustic Side Project. Sosinski worked with Michael Stanley in both the Resonators and the Midlife Chryslers until Stanley’s death last year.

All those bands keep Sosinski working several nights a week. Wish You Were Here only plays about a dozen shows a year, but Warren has been a regular stop for the band since 2008. Now it plays the city twice a year at the Warren Community Amphitheatre in the summer for River Rock and the Robins Theatre in the winter.

“We have the biggest Pink Floyd stage production of any American tribute,” Sosinski said. “The international touring bands might have a bigger show, but our is the biggest production in America.”

The large inflatable pig that’s been a part of Wish You Were Here’s shows for years now is joined by an inflatable teacher similar to the one Pink Floyd used on its tour for “The Wall.”

“We’ve added more lighting effects, more videos, different stage elements and are always adding new songs while playing the favorites people want to hear,” Sosinski said.

The pig will have a prominent role in Saturday’s show, which will feature Pink Floyd’s “Animals” album in its entirety.

“It’s definitely a fan favorite,” he said. “It’s one of the four iconic Floyd albums — ‘Dark Side (of the Moon),’ ‘Wish You Were Here,’ ‘Animals’ and ‘The Wall.’ It features some of David Gilmour’s tastiest guitar work, and it’s an aggressive album, probably their most aggressive album.”

The pig may be featured on the “Animals” album cover, but “Dogs” is Sosinski’s favorite track from the album to play.

“It goes from quiet to spacey to aggressive, and its some of David Gilmour’s best work too,” he said.

While Pink Floyd and Neil Young were staples on album-oriented rock radio in the ’70s and remain popular with classic rock fans, the two acts don’t share much in common musically, but Sosinski said he’s played both in many different musical acts over the years.

“Neil Young’s material is pretty much ingrained in me as a full-time musician,” he said. “He’s a very prolific artist that runs the gamut from acoustic to electric, so there’s a variety of styles. It keeps it interesting for the musician.”

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