Rocktober Music Fest - 2019 - and other October Oddities - The Fab Four

I am going with The Fab Four for today's Rocktober Music Fest.  I wish that I had been able to see the real Beatles but I was not of concert going age at the time.  Plus, pretty sure even if I was old enough my parents wouldn't have let me go. 

Anyway, making up for that we've seen The Fab Four a few times now and they really do a great job of impersonating John, Paul, George and Ringo.  

They even have someone to come out and address the crowd pretending to be Ed Sullivan.  He is pretty funny and has the movements of Mr. Sullivan down very well. 

Then the Fab Four come on stage and sing the songs they sang on that first appearance.  The girls scream.  Everyone sings along - you just can't help it.    

For each set they change their clothes and dress as the Beatles did when they sang those songs. 

My favorite has to be the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band set.  

I just love the bright colors in these costumes.  

I also have to say that this is one group who encourages picture taking during the show.  They hang around after each performance to sign autographs too.  Kinda cool.  If you get a chance to see them I'd highly recommend it for a trip back to "the good old days." 

Here's some Sgt. Peppers for you.  Check out "Ed Sullivan."

Playing along with the Stream of Consciousness Saturday group too, where the prompt for today is "dress."  Congrats again to Shelley for winning the badge contest.

    

December Reflections - 2017 - Favorite photo of 2017

This is a tough one!  We've done so much stuff this year and I have taken some pretty good photos, if I do say so myself.  I'll try to narrow it down to my top 5, in no particular order:

The shot I got of the eclipse through double welder's glasses.  This was as close as we got to the total eclipse.  

The "new" drummer for Scorpions, Mikkey Dee.  This was during his solo and he really put himself into it.

I saw these legs sticking out from the window on Haight (or maybe Ashbury) Street when we went to see the Summer of Love in San Francisco.  I made my husband drive around the block so I could get a better view.  He's so good to me.

The splash of the San Francisco Bay on the rocks on one of my walks.  I'm a Pisces so I'm drawn to the water and this is an easy spot for me to get to.  It's pretty cold out now but I may get back out there.

The Fab Four.  I love the colors in their outfits.  If you have never seen them, I highly recommend it.

I know there are more photos that I love, but I am going to try my hand at a slideshow of the 365 picture project I did this year so I don't want to double up too much.

Do you have a favorite picture this year?  Tell us about it!

August Adventures - I made it

August definitely was a month of adventures!  We saw two concerts (Fab Four and Pat Benatar and Toto), took a trip down memory lane at the Summer of Love exhibit and I successfully completed all the August Break picture prompts.

In addition to all that, I managed to be pretty busy in my craft room too and made these goodies to put up for sale on my Etsy shop:

Cake shaped gift card holders

Ice cream cone shaped gift card holders

Mug shaped gift card holders

Wedding card

Thinking of you

Christmas

Masculine birthday

Christmas two sided gift card holder

Christmas

Christmas

Male birthday or anniversary ticket/gift card holder

Christmas

Purse shaped birthday/Just Because tag/gift card holder

September promises to start out with a bang as well.  Tomorrow I have a JOB INTERVIEW!  I have been working for myself from home for the last 17 years but the majority of my medical transcription has dwindled and if I want to continue going to my concerts, I need to find a way to supplement the income.  The interview is at Michael's Crafts so I am thinking it will be a good fit.  Still, not only have I worked for myself for so long, even when I was out in the job force I have never worked in retail.  I'm going to think positively.

Over the weekend we have concerts:  Foreigner, Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham on Saturday and Nickelback and Daughtry on Sunday.  Then things settle down somewhat until the end of the month when we go to Boulder Creek for the annual golf tournament my husband golfs in.  We've been doing that for over 20 years!  I'm glad we have some time because I just realized that I need to get the pictures from last year put together for the scrapbook!  

How about you?  Manage to come through August okay?  Big plans for September?  Love to hear about it.

August Adventures - The Fab Four

We had two adventures this weekend!  Friday night we went to The Mountain Winery and saw the Fab Four, a Beatles Tribute band.  They were pretty darn good.  They were very accommodating and allowed pictures so I was able to get some very nice shots.

 Of course we took the "Concert Photo" that we always take at our concerts.

They were introduced by "Ed Sullivan."  This guy was pretty funny as an impersonator.   

They really try to make you feel like you are listening to the Beatles, complete with period appropriate costumes.  

While the performers (Ron McNeil (John), Ardy Sarraf (Paul), Gavin Pring (George) and Joe Bologna (Ringo)) play all their own instruments and actually do the singing, I think that Gavin looks very close to George Harrison and Ron McNeil is a pretty close John Lennon.  Ardy Sarraf has Paul's mannerisms down pat and at times resembles Paul.  Joe Bologna (IMHO) does not look at all like Ringo but he does a pretty good job of playing those drums and getting into the act.  

I had never seen this at the Winery before but there was a "signer" for some hearing impaired people in the audience.  She was really good at getting the energy into her signing and was almost as much fun to watch as the show itself. 

Here is "With Love from me to you."

I tried to get some pictures of each of their costume changes.

"Ringo and John"

"Paul and George"

"Ed Sullivan" making a reference to Richard Nixon not looking so bad these days as a President.  

I think my favorite of their costume changes is the Sgt. Pepper's Band.  The costumes are so colorful.

You can see here that "Paul" has on two pairs of pants to be able to make the quick changes.

Here's a bit of Sgt. Pepper:

Very moving rendition of "Imagine," complete with the lighting of the crowd's cell phones.  Perfect message for the things going on in this world.  

"George" did a moving rendition of "Here Comes The Sun."  Don't you think he looks a lot like the Beatle?  My husband was disappointed he chose that song as opposed to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

If you like the Beatles and have never seen the Fab Four, I would definitely recommend the experience.  It was the perfect intro for our next adventure, a trip to San Francisco to see the Summer of Love Expo at the De Young Museum.  That post coming soon!  

How about you?  Like the Beatles?  Got a favorite song?  Share!