Wednesday, March 16, 2011

RAIN, The Beatles Tribute Band

I fall for this shit every time, getting all excited whenever they pop up on PBS, until about 8 seconds into their performance, and I'm reminded:

1) it's incredibly easy to pull up clips of the actual Beatles, so a facsimile is superfluous at best, and embarrassing at worst. In this age of YouTube, you are no longer merely competing against other Beatles tribute bands, you are competing against...THE BEATLES.  Take a wild guess at how good you look in that little contest.

2) if you're gonna be a Beatles tribute band that's so successful that it becomes a Broadway play and a show on PBS, then your bass player needs to be fucking left-handed!!!!!! 

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