bron: web-site van Gemeeente Coevorden)
Coevordenaren organiseren Beatles-gala
29 Mar 2007
De legendarische elpee Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band van The Beatles kwam 40 jaar geleden op de markt. De exacte datum was 1 juni 1967. Dit is voor twee Coevordenaren aanleiding om een Beatlesgala te organiseren, waar alle nummers van deze plaat ten gehore zullen worden gebracht. De uitvoerenden zijn muzikanten, die het leuk vinden op hun eigen wijze een stuk van deze LP te vertolken. Dit kan in de vorm van een koor, fanfare, band, solo, orkest of anderszins. De bedoeling is dat, in onderling overleg, alle nummers worden vertolkt. Hoe het gala er precies uit komt te zien is nog niet bekend, de initiatiefnemers laten dit afhangen van de aanmeldingen. Daarom is de locatie ook nog niet bekend. De datum staat wel vast: 1 juni. Wie mee wil doen kan een mailtje sturen naar sgtpeppergala@home.nl.

1964 . . . The Tribute will twist and shout in Abravanel Hall on Friday. You know them, you love them, they’re the Fab Four . . . from Akron, Ohio? If seeing is believing, then it must be 1964.
    Hailed by Rolling Stone as the “best Beatles tribute on Earth,” 1964 . . . The Tribute is the real, fake deal. But you won’t find any Sgt. Pepper here.
    “And that’s because unlike all the dozens of Beatles tribute bands out there, we focus on everything from 1964 and earlier, you know, the stuff the Beatles themselves were playing when they were touring,” said Gary Grimes, who plays Paul McCartney in the band.
    Songs like “Twist and Shout,” “Love Me Do,” “Do You Want to Know a Secret,” “A Hard Day’s Night” and other hits on the frontier of the British invasion.
    The band – Grimes, Tom Work as George Harrison, Terry Manfredi as Ringo Starr and Mark Benson as John Lennon – has been together 23 years. The members went to the same high school in Akron, which could explain their synergy and chemistry.
    “Whenever they do interviews and they’re asked to introduce themselves, they do things like, ‘Hi, Paul, I’m George; hi, George, I’m Paul,’ and the audience just loves it,” said Mark Johnson, promotion director for the band.
    One other crucial ingredient is that the group stays true to what audiences would have seen at a real Beatles concert – specifically, the performance at Carnegie Hall in 1964.
    “We only use the same equipment the Beatles used when they performed live – a few amps, Ringo’s little drum set – which is incredible when you think about how much technology is used for any live band now,” Grimes said.
    Everything from wigs to accents is maintained for authenticity. Grimes, who is right-handed, even learned to play left-handed bass to emulate McCartney.
    “When you’re looking at us from the crowd, the look has to be the same. It doesn’t work if Paul’s guitar is pointing the wrong way,” Grimes said.
    “You know, to say that we are the Beatles is a joke, because we’re not and no one will ever be again,” Grimes said. “But it is such an incredible feeling [to] bring people that much pleasure and enjoyment and have that be my job.”
    Love, love me do
    *1964 . . . THE TRIBUTE, a Beatles tribute band, plays Friday at 8 p.m. at Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City.
    *TICKETS are $20 to $34 at www.arttix.org or 801-355-ARTS.