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I've just spent 2 evenings throughly enjoying a televised concert by Dutch musical collective 'The Analogues', a group who specialise in doing exact recreations of Beatles material that was never perfomed live after they decided to stop touring in 1966.
Firstly a documentary about how the band spent more than a year in preparing to perform the entire 'Sgt Pepper' album using precisely the same instrumentation and arrangements as on the original. This meant that they scoured the globe to get hold of obscure keyboards, vintage guitars and amps. Then they locked themselves in a studio and microscopically dissected the album to get every note, inflection, effect and mistake and work it into their performance.
As someone who is fascinated by how recordings are put together, this really appealed to the muso in me and I got drawn into the obsessive way in which, out of deep love and respect for the music, they painstakingly pulled it all together.
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(Don't know if the following link will work outside Holland)
Sgt. Pepper 50 jaar later: Live in Concert
Then the concert performance. In front of an enthusiastic (and mainly middle-aged) audience, the band was augmented by a brass section and string section and the whole of Sgt Pepper was played with a couple of encore extras. I truly admired the dedication and perfection that everyone involved put into this and as a technical exercise it was stunning in its accuracy and faithfulness. Only drawback was that the band was so focussed on getting every note exactly right that they forgot to get down and enjoy themselves, no room for spontaneity - unfortunately.
But the love for The Beatles shone through and the crowd went wild(ish). Great fun !
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