Saw the Fab Faux tonight
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:41 am
For anyone who doesn't know, they're a Beatles tribute band including Will Lee on bass (Letterman show) and Jimmy Vivino on guitar (Conan O'Brien), among other great players. http://www.thefabfaux.com/
They're doing two shows this weekend - tonight, they covered The White Album front to back, and tomorrow night will be Revolver + other songs. The sound wasn't great and the general admission crowd were...annoying, but MAN - they nailed everything.
What was really staggering was the amount of guitars they used as a whole. At some points, there were four guitar players, along with Will on bass. Almost every song had a change of guitars. Jimmy Vivino used everything from a Casino to Sonic Blue Strat to Les Pauls to SG's to acoustics and probably more that i'm forgetting!
Will used a late 4001v63 FG (short headstock, pickguard covered in small stickers) for most of the night, but when the song called for it, he switched to a late 60's/early 70's Fender Jazz (block inlays, sunburst, just like Paul's) and even an old Fender Bass VI on Rocky Raccoon.
They also had an excellent piano player, a very versatile four piece horn/woodwind section (trumpet, sax, clarinet, trombone & flutes, depending on the song), a violin player & a cellist, and a harp player for "Good Night".
They didn't do the whole wigs & accents thing, just played every song to-a-tee (pun intended, blech) and were a lot of fun. They even tossed green apples into the audience throughout the show! I highly reccomend anybody check them out if given the opportunity.
And yes, they did Revolution 9 too!
They're doing two shows this weekend - tonight, they covered The White Album front to back, and tomorrow night will be Revolver + other songs. The sound wasn't great and the general admission crowd were...annoying, but MAN - they nailed everything.
What was really staggering was the amount of guitars they used as a whole. At some points, there were four guitar players, along with Will on bass. Almost every song had a change of guitars. Jimmy Vivino used everything from a Casino to Sonic Blue Strat to Les Pauls to SG's to acoustics and probably more that i'm forgetting!
Will used a late 4001v63 FG (short headstock, pickguard covered in small stickers) for most of the night, but when the song called for it, he switched to a late 60's/early 70's Fender Jazz (block inlays, sunburst, just like Paul's) and even an old Fender Bass VI on Rocky Raccoon.
They also had an excellent piano player, a very versatile four piece horn/woodwind section (trumpet, sax, clarinet, trombone & flutes, depending on the song), a violin player & a cellist, and a harp player for "Good Night".
They didn't do the whole wigs & accents thing, just played every song to-a-tee (pun intended, blech) and were a lot of fun. They even tossed green apples into the audience throughout the show! I highly reccomend anybody check them out if given the opportunity.
And yes, they did Revolution 9 too!
