Rain

For those of you who don’t know who Rain is don’t feel bad, I hadn’t the slightest clue till the other night. My friend had a couple of free tickets for the show and invited me to go. He told me it was a Beatles cover band. However it was more like the ticket stub said, “The Beatles Experience”. Basically Rain walks you through the ages from the start of the Beatles up until the final years. As they progress through the albums they have small intermissions where they play music from the specific era as well as show images to bring you into the age. They ended the show playing a few songs the Beatles never had a chance to play live. Of course during the entire show they never did say the Beatles, but instead had reworked all the Beatles memorabilia to say Rain on it, even with a few fake interviews to boot.

I was pleasantly surprised with Rain, it was a really entertaining evening and was really excellent to hear the Beatles songs live. It was quite uncanny how similar they sounded, especially the guy who was suppose to be Paul. During Blackbird it was ridiculous how similar they sounded.

I also gained a further appreciation for how much the Beatles were a full band effort. I never realized how much of the singing was shared between them. It was also cool to hear the Harrison songs live as they really take on the sound/feel of the seventies.

Anyway I am glad I ended up going and who can beat the price? While this is no substitution for the Beatles it does give you a small taste of what it could have been like to have actually gone to Beatles concert.