We All Live In A Yellow Submarine

Me and Will Lee (Late Night w/David Letterman)

My great friend Doug Osborn treated my brother Bill and I to a great concert last night at the Warner Theater downtown in DC. Ever hear of the Fab Faux? It’s a Beatles tribute band made up of pretty well known musicians for the New York area. There spin on the tribute band is that they use the exact instruments, speakers, amps, and microphones. They play the songs EXACTLY as the were originally recorded including the exact sound effects, you know the Beatles always added little sounds on their songs.

The group was started by Will Lee and Jimmy Vivino. Will is the blond bass player for The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy is the guitarist for Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The rest of the band has a resumes a mile long and has played and recorded with just about everyone. The also had a horn section that included Tom “Bones” Malone who was the trombonist for the Blues Brothers in the movies and on tour in the Blues Brothers Band which Paul Shaffer lead with John Belushi & Dan Ackroyd which I saw at Merriweather Post back in the early ‘80s.

I got to meet the band at a Meet & Greet afterwards since I had VIP tickets. All of the musicians were great to talk with and were ready to spend the time to actually have a conversation. All in all, a pretty cool night.