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Here is my finished product. I wasn't sure what direction I was going until a few songs in, so missed out on some I may have wanted. But I think it came together well.
Mine is a very special Valentine's Day concert, taking place in Detroit on V-Day. A concert for lovers. I decided to dedicate this draft to my parents, who have been married for 49 years. I took them to see a Beatle's tribute band around Valentine's Day in 2019. It was a few months after my mom had been diagnosed with dementia, and she was clearly becoming a different version of herself. She enjoyed herself, bopping her head and singing outloud to the songs. My dad, who is not especially tender with her, kept taking her hand and looking at her lovingly and crying during certain songs. I remember that "In My Life" was the song that really brought on the intense emotion for him. Like most loves, their's has not been easy, so I have songs that reflect that side of love, too. Hard times, letting go.
Whether you are bringing your sweetheart or are just a lover at heart coming alone, this show is for you. Set in Detroit, The Beatles have tapped into the best of Motown for this night. Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder* will join the band on-stage for select songs! Diana has covered The Beatles multiple times solo and with The Supremes. There were even rumors in the 70's of a "Diana Ross Takes On The Beatles" album, which never got off the ground. And who can forget Stevie's dynamic cover of "We Can Work It Out". This is a can't miss night for love and great music!
Setlist: All You Need Is Love And I Love Her Girl When I'm Sixty-Four Dear Prudence Blackbird Her Majesty*
Diana Ross comes on-stage to great applause I Saw Her Standing There w/Diana I Will w/Diana Michelle w/Diana
Diana leaves stage to a standing ovation Stevie Wonder is announced (clap clap clap) We Can Work It Out w/Stevie You Really Got A Hold On Me* w/Stevie Any Time At All* w/Stevie Stevie leaves stage
Two of Us If I Needed Someone* I'll Follow The Sun* Here,There and Everywhere Diana and Stevie return together Long, Long, Long w/Diana and Stevie
Fin
Encore Real Love* In My Life
Diana and Stevie return to stage for remaining songs The Long and Winding Road w/Diana and Stevie Don't Let Me Down w/Diana and Stevie Good Night w/Diana and Stevie
*Denotes free agent pick ups
This shouldn't get buried at the bottom of a page! Great stuff.
Set I: "Black & White" Helter Skelter (extended) Eleanor Rigby I Feel Fine Your Mother Should Know I've Just Seen A Face It Won't Be Long Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey* It's All Too Much*
8:22-minute setbreak (Revolution 9* plays on tape over the house PA. doobs provided)
Set II: "Technicolor" I Am The Walrus Mean Mr Mustard* Michelle Piggies* Octopus's Garden Don't Pass Me By* Paperback Writer Happiness Is A Warm Gun Strawberry Fields Forever (extended)
Encore I: "Paul & George" Yesterday (Paul only) Within You Without You (feat. Ravi Shankar; extended) ->Tomorrow Never Knows
Encore II: "Ringo & John" (aka Octopus & Walrus) All You Need Is Love Good Night (John and Ringo only)
Visual Program
This is meant to be a U-shaped arena show with a stage at one end. I wanted at least that level of intimacy, as opposed to a festival- or stadium-sized show.
The stage setup will be sparse with fully white risers, meant to be evocative of the Ed Sullivan set but on a larger stage so a little larger than the original TV appearance, with the band clad in clothes either matching or merely reminiscent of the white lab coats and black pants from the scuttled Butcher album cover. The mostly-white outfits will be beneficial when the show starts incorporating more colorful lighting elements before the set break, especially in It's All Too Much, the set closer, as opposed to the men-in-black look that the lads are best known for. It also felt a little on the nose to make a bunch of (as I imagine them here) forty year-old men wear the outfits they wore on TV as teenagers. The first five or six songs of the first set will use only white/full-spectrum lighting, and colorful lighting effects will ramp up in those last two songs in particular.
During the set break the white risers will be replaced with giant coral-, fungal- and plant-like installations coated with LEDs and other lighting elements. These elements will be so towering that they form an interwoven canopy over Ringo Starr. This is the octopus's garden. Most of the visual elements that will dominate the rest of the show will be introduced right away, starting with I Am the Walrus. So, these intense on-stage elements, colorful lighting, lasers. The whole deal. Not gonna resurrect the Beatles and let Tool or Roger Waters outdo the visual production. So whatever the coolest thing you ever saw was, it's like that, but more.
And then we get to the visual climax of the show. The world's largest hologram ever constructed, a giant octopus, forms overhead of Ringo during the performance of Octopus's Garden. Its tentacles sprawl out over the crowd. People are absolutely losing their shit like the train from the nickelodeon is coming right at them. Drum pads form and the holo octo starts playing the fucking drums and droplets of holo water splash everywhere in the most psychedelic cumshow you've ever seen in your life. The octopus throws his sticks in the crowd at the end of the song and they dissolve before landing in the audience. Holo effects continue in a more abstract way for the rest of the set, except of course there will be some strawberries in the set closer.
Just want to say Paperback Writer is my favorite Beatles song and even though Helter Skelter gets so much credit, this one is heavy for its time as well and beat HS to release by a couple years. It also was a number one hit and their heaviest/rockiest #1 by a bit, and it was the only song released in 1966 that they featured in setlists for their infamous 1966 US tour that basically ended their live career.
Visuals in the first encore will be ramping up from zero again. I really love the idea from the Love Cirque de Soleil of doing a WYWY/Tomorrow Never Knows thing, but instead of doing a medley (I don't think theirs fully works, based on the soundtrack) I think having George and Ravi jam out on WYWY for about ten minutes and then gracefully landing with Tomorrow Never Knows would be a hell of a closer.
In encore two, the holo octopus comes back for All You Need Is Love. And then a monkey, which we haven't seen yet, and a walrus. And piggies. And the lads are all singing, and so are the animals. And of course the entire audience. Paul and George leave the stage, and so do the monkey and the piggies. And Ringo sings Good Night while John plays french horn or some shit.
The Beatles ('68) Revolver ('66) Single ('64) Magical Mystery Tour ('67) Help! ('65) Meet the Beatles! ('64) The Beatles ('68) Yellow Submarine ('69)
Magical Mystery Tour ('67) Abbey Road ('69) Rubber Soul ('65) The Beatles ('68) Abbey Road ('69) The Beatles ('68) Single ('66) The Beatles ('68) Single ('67)
Help! ('65) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ('67) Revolver ('66)
Single ('67) The Beatles ('68)
Pretty solid mix with a heaping helping of White album. Wasn't necessarily the plan but the White album had too many flexes that went undrafted and is the best Beatles album.
Post by thebluebus on Feb 13, 2023 17:16:29 GMT -5
I was initially going to go for the biggest stadium event I could think of but I think intimate shows are almost always better, so I changed it to the small, yet cool venue in L.A, The Troubadour. Only seats about 500, so good luck getting a ticket. So...
Surprise show at The Troubadour! One night only... The Beatles. "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make"
Setlist: Intro: (Clips of the following video plays which I believe is one of their first interviews as a band. At the end, they say their first single is going to be "Love Me Do" which leads perfectly into the start of the setlist.
Love Me Do Ticket to Ride Help! Two of Us Here Comes the Sun I'll Be Back Get Back (with special guest Bruce Springsteen) Magical Mystery Tour (with special guest Bruce Springsteen) Norwegian Wood You've Got to Hide Your Love Away Lovely Rita Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Here, There, and Everywhere (with special guest Billie Eilish) Something (with special guest Billie Eilish) The Long and Winding Road (with special guest Billie Eilish) Hello, Goodbye
Encore: I've Got a Feeling Let It Be Hey Jude Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
Can't Buy Me Love Ob La Di Ob La Da Penny Lane Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Oh Darling!
Mid crowd stage: Please Mr Postman Roll Over Beethoven Anna (Go To Him)
Rocky Raccoon Sexy Sadie I'm So Tired Happiness is a Warm Gun Revolution
Encore 1: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Tomorrow Never Knows (w Sean Lennon)
Encore 2: Dear Prudence Let it Be (w Brian Wilson)
start off with a banger youre at a beales concert hit, obladi to keep the good vibes, penny > kite > Lucy 👌, oh Darling an excellent song, a nice psych break and lead into the more early influence pop rock songs, early covers maybe at a nice small intimate mid crowd side stage, Rocket (an amazing Ringo performance) kicks off a White album cuts and hits run, ending with the fun mix of Rev 1. Sgt Pepper's is a fun encore song and lead that into a mammoth tomorrow jam featuring Sean. encore 2 brings the heat with Prudence > a once in a life sing-along Brian Wilson and the Beatles and you.
The Beatles ('68) Revolver ('66) Single ('64) Magical Mystery Tour ('67) Help! ('65) Meet the Beatles! ('64) The Beatles ('68) Yellow Submarine ('69)
Magical Mystery Tour ('67) Abbey Road ('69) Rubber Soul ('65) The Beatles ('68) Abbey Road ('69) The Beatles ('68) Single ('66) The Beatles ('68) Single ('67)
Help! ('65) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ('67) Revolver ('66)
Single ('67) The Beatles ('68)
Pretty solid mix with a heaping helping of White album. Wasn't necessarily the plan but the White album had too many flexes that went undrafted and is the best Beatles album.
If you feel like doing this for mine, I wouldn’t fight ya.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Post by Jeremy Fragrance on Feb 14, 2023 13:08:31 GMT -5
I wasn't going for anything in particular, just trying to build a setlist with a fun flow that lets you hear the songs you wanted to hear and the songs you didn't know you wanted to hear. Also Billy Preston is the guest, which really can't go wrong.
I focused my set heavily on John and George songs, because those are the Beatles who are no longer with us, and whom most of us never got to see. For similar reasons, I have also highlighted The Beatles’ later material, because those are the songs they never played live (and also because it’s their best work). After The Beatles stopped touring, they began experimenting with sounds that couldn’t be easily replicated live; however, modern audiences are more accustomed to sampling and synthesisers, which were a nascent technology in the mid-1960s, so I don’t foresee any issues with playing these late-career songs in concert. Klaus Voormann will join in for some of these tracks to help flesh out a fuller tone. As Klaus has had a long friendship with all four Beatles and has played on solo albums by John, George & Ringo, I have no doubt that he would have an electric chemistry playing with the entire band.
01. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 02. Long Long Long 03. Something 04. Julia 05. I’m a Loser* 06. The Word* 07. It’s All Too Much* 08. Help! 09. While My Guitar Gently Weeps^ 10. I’m Only Sleeping 11. Fixing a Hole 12. Across the Universe 13. Glass Onion^ 14. Savoy Truffle^ 15. Money (That’s What I Want) (Barrett Strong cover)*^ 16. Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)*^ 17. Hey Bulldog^ 18. Because 19. Love You To* 20. The Fool on the Hill 21. I’m So Tired
Encore:
22. Yesterday 23. Hey Jude
* indicates free agent selection ^ with Klaus Voormann
This concert will take place on a vineyard similar to the one where I saw the Stones. The rolling hills create a natural amphitheatre that holds 20,000 people, yet it feels far more intimate than a similarly sized arena show - and you get to appreciate a gorgeous natural backdrop at the same time. The set will begin with Happiness Is A Warm Gun, which starts slowly but explodes in the second half, creating an excitable energy in the audience. Then a few slower but beloved songs like Something and Julia, another burst of energy with Help! and While My Guitar Gently Weeps (feat. Klaus Voormann), followed again by a run of more subdued but legendary tracks, including I’m Only Sleeping, Fixing a Hole, and Across the Universe. Klaus Voormann will retake the stage, and the setlist will again crescendo in energy with the high-octane run of Glass Onion > Savoy Truffle > Money (That’s What I Want) > Shout > Hey Bulldog. This segues into the psychedelic 1-2 punch of Because > Love You To, followed by the introspective Fool on the Hill and I’m So Tired to close out the main set.
But wait, there’s more! The house lights aren’t on, the PA isn’t playing pre-recorded music, the attendants aren’t sweeping the aisles. It’s a trap! Paul comes out on stage alone and plays Yesterday on his Epiphone acoustic with the Red Wings sticker. There isn’t a dry eye in the audience, but there is hardly time to wallow in one’s emotions before he launches into the opening D chord of Hey Jude. Spotlights come up on the rest of the band who join in on the track, culminating in 27 minutes of “naa, naa, naa, nanana naa”… or maybe it’s only 7 minutes, but in that moment it feels infinite. All stage techs and security come out behind the band to join in the chorus. Paul wishes everyone a safe trip home, and John drops his classic “I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition” line. The crowd shuffles out, clutching their t-shirts and posters and embracing their loved ones, wondering if what they just saw was even real… but y’know, I know when it’s a dream.
