You want to go down a rabbit hole with me? You think you're listening to the Beatles, don't you? It's not. It's not even a studio.
It's a live performance in Europe by a band called The Analogues. We're going to talk about Beatles tribute bands today on The Daily Grateful. Have you ever been to one of those shows? I haven't.
I have no desire to go see a Beatles tribute band ever, because here's what they generally do. And there's a bunch of them out there. One's called Rain. There's a bunch of them, but they come out and they play all the early hits.
Yay, here we are. And all my loving, all this good type of stuff. And then they come back dressed up differently with wigs on for the different eras and all of that and the Sergeant Pepper's era and all, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And the closest thing I ever did is I went with my in-laws in Orlando, just some bar in Orlando.
And there was an Elvis tribute guy. I wouldn't have gone, but I went with the in-laws. And off we went. Now the band that accompanied him played a set first and boy, they were really good.
They weren't playing Elvis music. They were playing rock and roll. And they were really, really, really good. And then comes out the Elvis impersonator show, starting off with the young Elvis, then going to the, you know, middle.
Then going to the Elvis, it came back in 1969 on television with a member of the Black Leather outfit, and then working our way to the Las Vegas Elvis with the scars. Okay. I did not enjoy it. I, you know, I did not enjoy it.
My mom and my sister went and saw Elvis at the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg. Had a great time. Same thing with these Beatles tribute bands.
I don't want to see them. I don't want to see the act. I don't want to see the show. I want to hear the songs.
I really do. Now I have been to three, I have been to three Paul McCartney concerts. And Paul McCartney does an excellent, excellent job of reproducing a lot of the Beatles hits that we never saw the Beatles perform live. And he does a really, really, really good job of it.
But you know, you can't go to two main Paul McCartney concerts these days and he's in his 80s. Don't know if the voice is still there. But let me tell you a little bit of history about the Beatles. If you do not know.
The Beatles were about to start their very last live concert. They can't hear themselves over the deafening screams of the frenzied crowd. This is a candlestick part in San Francisco. Everything happens in San Francisco.
After over 1400 shows, they decided that enough was enough. And from that moment on, the Beatles became a pure studio band. Abbey Road was subsequently the explosion of creativity and innovation and songwriting you can tell that I'm reading this. All of these really cool albums that came out, really cool albums, Revolver, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Let It Be.
And the last one that they ever recorded, well, not the last one released, but the last one that they ever recorded, Abbey Road. This was just some of the most memorable music we ever heard, but we never got to see it live. Because it was, how are they going to do it back then? How were they going to do it?
We didn't get to hear this music live until, well, I still haven't, other than going to some Paul shows. But in 2015, a Dutch group, I guess they're called a tribute band. They're called the analogs. They started out on a mission to perform all of this music for us live, and they weren't using electronic stuff to do it.
That's why they called themselves the analog band. They had, when they tour, and what you just heard was them on a tour, they bring a string section with them. They bring a horn section with them. They've got all these obscure little instruments that they use to totally reproduce the songs.
And they, they have not come to America. They play all, they play all over Europe. They, they play just about everywhere else. I'm looking at their tour dates right now, and they're going to be in Amsterdam.
And some of these towns, I can't even pronounce Rotterdam, Apple Durem, Edendowven, Drucken, Edemann, all of these places. And they have different shows that they do. They do the White Album, they do Abbey Road. Oh, what I love to see this.
If you want to take yourself down a most wonderful, stress relieving, artistic, beautiful rabbit hole, go to the YouTube. Now I can't suggest doing this just on your computer unless you've got a really good, like I do, a really good sound system that you can run with you. I've got a wonderful audio interface. But if you've got good speakers and you've got a good, you know, go there and look up the analogs and just start playing the music.
They don't look like the Beatles. By the way, English isn't even their first language. They do this all, you know, they, they reproduce the Beatles records, all of those ones that I just told you about. Okay.
The ones that the Beatles came out with after they, you know, after Sergeant Peppers, the White Album, Abbey Road, all of those things that they came out with after they started touring or stopped touring. I had a stressful week this week. I've had a very, very stressful week. And the way I get rid of my stress is instead of doing drugs, I come in here and I put on my headphones.
And I listen to music. And today was the analogs playing the Beatles. It is just wonderful to see a live performance of these, you know, wonderful Beatles music by these people. And again, you know, they don't wear the silly outfits.
They, if they ever come to America, I don't care where the hell they going, I'm showing up. I'm buying tickets and I'm going to sit in my happy ass in the audience and I'm going to watch this. And I don't know if they ever will, but if they do, I'm going to do it. And I hope that you do it also and I hope that you will just just listen to the music and enjoy yourself.
I might even get in trouble. You know, I might get in trouble for playing the music I just played. I don't know. I do not know.
So I won't play anymore. But music is so soothing. So grateful. I'm so grateful.
I'm so mindful. I'm so demiura. I'm so calm. I'm gonna bowl of ice cream, vanilla, vanilla bean ice cream with just a touch, just a touch of hot chocolate on it.
You know, maybe like two tablespoons of hot chocolate on vanilla bean ice cream and just one scoop. Just one scoop. Have a terrific day. We'll see you tomorrow.