Stating the obvious first. You can't have a bad night with The Beatles.
On this evening the band consisted of 9 musicians including a cello, 2 violin/viola players, mandolin, bass, acoustic rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass and drums along with 3 main vocalists: Karen Mal, Tameca Jones and Darin Murphy.
They played Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the first set and Abbey Road the second.
Even with a steady rain most of the night this was tremendous fun. Great musicians covering the greatest band.
I spent half the night looking around at all the people, various age groups from little kids to folks older than me, really! No other music elicits the reactions The Beatles do. Joyous grins, singing every word...The Beatles music is everybody's music.
I'd rather hear a band like Will's, with the strings and at times, different arrangements, than The Beatles sound and look alike bands. They really give the songs a fresh dressing. The lead guitarist, Glenn Rexach, was fantastic. Just killer solos!
The songs were presented with such soul by this band. The Abbey Road set, especially, was fired up. When they broke into "Here Comes The Sun" followed by "The Medley" there weren't many people still sitting.
A great, great night with the perfect ending to it: "And, in the end, the love you take/Is equal to the love you make."
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