Bubble - Strawberry Fields Forever (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
• Strawberry
• Fields
• Forever
• Rock
• tribute
• Bubble

[DAYD111]

Wow, I don't remember hearing the sound of a Harp in this song.

It was Sitar you idiots. Get it right.

[alubman]

@DAYD111 First of all, if you're going to call someone an idiot, at least get your facts straight: The Beatles used a swarmandal (a type of Indian zither) on the original recording. We played the individually sampled notes of a zither for our performance. Nobody played the harp on this song.

[beatlesfan525]

Strawberry Fields isn't on Sgt Pepper's it is on Magical Mystery Tour LP in America not sure if it is on anything in the UK

[alubman]

We decided to do "Strawberry Fields" and "Penny Lane" as encores at this show. The two songs were originally released as a single in the US and the UK prior to the release of the "Sgt. Pepper" album. Later on, Capitol Records decided to use those songs (along with "Hello Goodbye", "Baby You're A Rich Man" and "All You Need Is Love") to fill out the songs from the "Magical Mystery Tour" EP and make an album out of it.

[skf89]

damn good cover, sounds like the original, drum is kind of loud but really good!

[IndependentHealthX]

After a few years of this being posted, I the drummer finally looked at the footage and some of the comments. I was too loud in the mix. Watch my movements. I wasn't playing too loud—the mix wasn't easy for the engineer due to all the pieces acoustic and electric. While I wasn't playing loudly, I do agree the drums are too overhearing for a Beatle song.

[a7threvolution]

This guy can't sing.

[carsonovaproductions]

@alubman Don't worry about ignorant people on You Tube, they try to point out any flaw, even if they're inaccurate, in a flawless performance such as this.

[paviglianiti]

Keep the Hi-Hat dead, please!

[onir27]

@alubman thats correct... gr8 vid...

[0086JASG]

Brilliant cover, i like the replication of the brass track a lot!! Everyone whos nit picking with this performance needs to get a grip, this song was never meant to be played live, it was a highly produced studio track, and you guys have dont a great job to replicate it.

[Doleafol]

An excellent cover. A few remarks, however: The guitar needs to be louder (in the few instances were it is even played by the lead singer). And, the strings need to be more prominent too. Otherwise, very well done. Not an easy song to reproduce live (especially, when you are literally going for a note for note reproduction). By the way, the Indian zither is mimiced very well.

[Beck436]

This song should have been left alone. The band wrote this and a few others with the intention of creating "songs that couldn't be done live, and could only exist in the studio"

[arturborucfan]

@DAYD111 hahahahahahaha get it up ye u got done. I could even tell there was no harps

[DAYD111]

@alubman

I wasn't sincerely talking about this video. Some nutcase said he can hear a harp in the video. I guess he deleted his post. Sorry about all of that.