Bubble - Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite (Beatles cover)

On January 19th, 2008, the band Bubble http://www.bubbleland.com performed to a sold-out crowd of over 800 people at New York's Symphony Space. The program consisted of an all-out re-creation of the entire Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," complete with all the orchestral and Indian instruments.

To properly represent the Beatles' work of this period, the songs "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were performed, with "All You Need Is Love" providing an appropriate encore.

The performers are:

Dave Foster - guitar, vocals
Mark Rinzel - vocals
Chris Guice - bass, vocals
Roger Lipson - guitar, sitar, vocals, percussion
Erin Hill - harp, keyboard, vocals
Bill Malchow - keyboards, vocals, orch. transcriptions
Andrew Lubman - guitar, keyboards, vocals, woodwinds, orch. transcriptions
Tom DeVito - drums

violin:
Claudia Chopek
Victoria Paterson
Jane Kittredge
Olivia De Prato

viola:
David Fallo
Brian Lindgren

cello:
Anik Oulianine
Theo Zimmerman

double bass:
Nick Cudahy

trombone:
Rob Susman
Bill Finnerty

french horn:
Karla Schonbrun
Amie Margoles

trumpet:
Justin Mullens (trumpet and french horn)
Dave Smith
Mike Kobrin

woodwinds:
Matt Cowan
Claude Rozier

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Beatles
• Sgt.
• Pepper
• Pepper's
• Being
• For
• The
• Benefit
• of
• Mr.
• Kite
• Rock
• tribute
• Bubble

[MagicalMysteryTube]

Nice job on the lead guitar near the song middle. A lot of folks overlook that part. The guy on keys is doing a good job, too... though it sounds like you've overlaid the actual carousel track from The Beatles' recording.

[alubman]

Thanks for the compliments. At the end, I am triggering samples of the sound effects used in the original recording (playing chromatically up the keyboard). There are two other keyboardists (off-camera at that point) that are playing the organ melody and the chordal organ part. For the intro (as well as the short interlude before the 2nd verse and the backing part during the "waltz" part) we played samples that we recorded of a Hohner 48-chord harmonica, as well as bass harmonica and Mellotron.

[MagicalMysteryTube]

@alubman Well, in that case... very impressive. I believe it was George Martin who said of this song in particular that it had so many random elements that it could not be reproduced in a live show. Of course, George was still working with 4-track tape at the time! You guys did an excellent job of covering this Beatles classic.

[eclipse66666]

excellent, great, magic, congratulations

[robingonzalezvalero]

wow great cover!!!

[arthurvanfroh]

woow!!! very nice!

[cyberdems]

super!

[KennethKaniffFromCT]

But what's with overdubbing the sound effects from the recording at the end? you guys should have just came up with something. great cover nonetheless.