Abbey Road Live to play hits from The Beatles
A chance to hear The Beatles perform live hasn’t been an option for decades. The chance to hear one of the nation’s top cover bands perform the legends’ music is upon music fans.
Abbey Road Live, a four-piece band from Athens, Ga., that has perfected the Fab Four’s sound, plays shows at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday at The Orange Peel in Asheville, N.C.
Touring the country to play the Mop Tops’ favorites wasn’t what the members, Michael Wegner (guitar, keys), Chris McKay (guitar), Andrew Hanmer (drums) and Dave Domizi (bass), thought when they first played the famed album live that gave the band its name in 2002. Now they’ve performed it — and they can play more than 100 Beatles songs — more than 500 times.
“We got asked to do it more times and built this whole band out of that whole idea,” Wegner said.
Several members of the group were once in an original music band called Fuzzy Sprouts. Now, each member is involved in other projects, including a Grateful Dead cover band called Cosmic Charlie, and chose to play The Beatles’ music because of their shared influence.
When they started, they noticed they “had four band members who stylistically mirrored The Beatles’ personas,” Wegner said.
“Looking at it now, The Beatles are still, in my mind, the most diverse and interesting band, probably ever,” he added. “If I had to pick a band out of all of the available bands to play their music and to be in a cover band, it would be The Beatles. I love The (Rolling) Stones, but it’s so much of the same thing and could get old quickly. The Beatles, there’s always something different about their music.”
As the concerts continued, one thing the band members noticed at some of their all-ages shows were the number of parents who brought their kids — teenagers and younger — to the concerts.
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