The Beatels - Revolver Live - Side Two (excerpts)

[skopserman]

excelente trabajo

[mege8524]

best tribute band of beatles music..this guys get feel..quality musicianship..good voices..good vibes..style..no machines..with instruments like beatles..peace..

[spacenovra]

fabulous!..i love how live it sounds.

great work guys.

[636117]

Very nice set. Great sound. BTW, as an engineer/musician which strings is your bass player using, and amp setup please.

I use a custom 4003S Ric Bass, with either vintage Bassman 100 or Vox amp. I'm suspecting some flatwounds?

Cheers!

[alromas]

Awesome! Any US dates planned?

[npspec34]

fake

[Soadownz45]

@npspec34 troll

[blacklightvortex]

This blows me away. I watched several of your videos on YouTube and have to say that you guys leave few stones unturned. Great Job.

[kbassy]

very impressive.

[paucarmelbea]

Good stuff guys.....those backing tracks are very good....aren't they actual samples from the records your playing with ??

[thebeatels]

The backing tracks are actually mostly hand-crafted by our "Paul" & "George", though there are the odd samples mixed in...TNK has some samples looped & mixed in with our own sounds, for instance, but mostly it's our own handywork...

[waldomtomais]

Its very hard to play this songs alive, congrat from brazil!! Beatles or die!

[msie821]

they're good but oh so goofy..all these beatles cover bands who try to look like them are silly

[chiliberten]

they are awesome...congrats from mexico!!!

[InspectorFoley]

Damn you guys are good hope you come to NYC some day, do you have a Across The Universe posted on you tube.

[pfresty]

Where is the keyboard player?

[thebeatels]

Hi pfresty, Bruce here from The Beatels.

To cut a long story short, all the singing is live, and all of the instruments that we take on stage are played live.

"But where's that piano coming from" I hear you ask...here's the deal:

[thebeatels]

Our Ringo has an mp3 player containing the stereo backing tracks that we use. One track of the backing contains a click that our drummer listens to (to keep us in time) via earpieces. The other track of the stereo mp3 file contains the backing track audio & it goes to the front-of-house - ie, it gets heard by the audience.

[thebeatels]

The backing tracks are handmade by our Paul and George (AKA Steven Shipley & Marcus Phelan).

Steven & Marcus attempt to recreate exactly the additional orchestration parts that The Beatles added to their recordings. Performing the live "band" parts that the four Beatles played note-for-note, and then adding the additional parts note-for-note via a backing tape allows us to present the music of The Beatles AS IT WAS RECORDED - and the recordings, after all, are what we all know and love!

[thebeatels]

If The Beatles tried to recreate their recordings live on stage today, they would need to supplement their instruments and voices somehow - they couldn't recreate it live themselves because you can't play guitar and other instruments at the same time! "Tomorrow Never Knows", for instance, is mostly a collection of tape loops against Ringo's unique drum beats, so our backing for that track consists of a mix of homemade sound effects loops, with our George playing the backwards guitar solo live :)

[thebeatels]

If Academy Awards were handed out for backing tracks, then the tracks that Steven & Marcus have done would have to be up there in the nominations. Those tracks are a work of art in themselves, given that the holy grail of what we do is to get it exactly right in all aspects. We do not pretend to play - period! If anything, we take pride in being able to understand the minute specifics of each song that we play, and hopefully you enjoy it too. :)

[allyk2]

That guitar solo sounded so great at the Request show on Saturday. Well done Marcus!

[bowiedj]

Bruce, I have always been wondering, how on earth that you found the source for the loop sounds of the TNK, sounds so real... =) thanks

[thebeatels]

Steve did all that...he's very good at getting the backing tracks just right :)

[bowiedj]

thanks.. say hi to Steve and the others as well... Do you have altest videos to put here? Would you upload the Let It Be footage, that should be fun... =)

[thebeatels]

Do you mean the Let It Be Naked footage, or the song Let It Be? ...We will be getting more up here soon...promise :)

[spikelet24]

hi bruce. neil here from blackpool england 50 miles up the coast from liverpool,, am a hard taskmaster as far as beatles music is concerned being a pianist and singer myself but have to say your music grts full marks from me as a faithfull and extremely skilled representation of the - forever 'magical' music of those guys includind all those important passing notes and other nuances vital to any song.. so - ten out of ten from me to you! love and thanks to all you guys neil x

[thebeatels]

Hi Neil, we always appreciate the feedback, particularly from 'a local' :) We've been invited to Liverpool for the 2007 festival in August...hopefully we can make it to your side of the globe for that one!

[allyk2]

I hope you guys come! I'm going (booked my tickets last month) and my sister and I would love to see you there. We have seen you guys a few times, including at this particular show at the Vanguard.

[bowiedj]

Bruce, did you go to Liverpool? I am now trying to make it there next year.. with the Indonesian Beatle Tribute bands... we had a show last july, hope to be able to put some footages here... cheers

[thebeatels]

We went there in 2004...lots of fun...great people. We were asked back again this year, but for various reasons it didn't happen...you'd love it, I'm sure!