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1964...The Tribute 2008-02-10 Norman, OK
By Peace Call (Rastacruz) on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 12:42 pm: Edit Post1964...The Tribute
February 10, 2008
Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
Set One:
01. I Want To Hold Your Hand
02. Please Please Me
03. From Me To You
04. Thank You Girl
05. Do You Want To Know A Secret
06. All My Loving
07. This Boy
08. Act Naturally
09. Eight Days A Week
10. A Hard Day's Night
11. I Should Have Known Better
12. Till There Was You
13. Merchandise Banter
14. Nowhere Man
15. Can't Buy Me Love
16. Twist And Shout
Set Two:
01. I Saw Her Standing There
02. Roll Over Beethoven
03. Got To Get You Into My Life+
04. I Feel Fine
05. She's A Woman
06. And Your Bird Can Sing
07. Taxman
08. 24 Years/Cell Phone Banter
09. If I Fell
10. For No One*
11. Eleanor Rigby&
12. Yellow Submarine+
13. Yesterday*
14. Help!
15. Day Tripper
16. She Loves You
Encore:
17. I Wanna Be Your Man
18. I'm Down
+ - with horns
* - with stings
& - with strings and Eldon Matlick on French Horn
1964...The Tribute returned to the Sooner State last weekend for a three-show run. They play every year and I try to see at least one show. They've really turned it into a "BeatleFest" weekend with a couple of collectors showing their Beatles memorabilia, Andy Babuik who authored "Beatles Gear" and an "Apple Scruff" who went to London and stalked the Beatles. She has great photos that have never been published.
Another guest is Johny Barbata. Barbata drummed for The Turtles, CSN&Y and Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship. He now lives in Ada, OK and has written a book. He was on hand to sign copies of his book. I found out his high school football coach was John Madden!
Barbata sat in with MidLife Crysis, the opening band, and played drums and sang "Big City" which he wrote for the the Jefferson Starship album, Spitfire. He also gave us a nice drum solo.
1964 was without their usual fake Paul. He was ill so they had to have a stand-in. I guess there is a circuit of Beatles tribute bands and people are ready to stand in when needed. The fake fakePaul wasn't as strong a vocalist or bass player as real fakePaul.
A special treat this year was some musicians on horns and strings backing 1964 on some second set songs. The players were OU music students or music teachers. The songs with the strings and horns were fantastic! "Got To Get You Into My Life" and Eleanor Rigby stole the show!
1964 does a good job recreating a Beatles concert. They don't play anything post-Revolver. I'd love to see the Fab Faux sometime but they don't come to Oklahoma like 1964 does!
http://www.1964thetribute.com/
http://johnybarbata.com/
http://web.mac.com/crath/1964atOU_Site/Intro.html
http://www.beatlesfabgear.com/
http://www.beatlesuits.com/