Come Together: WMNF's Tribute to Abbey Road, Yellow Submarine and The Beatles

Saturday Sep 26 03:00PM Add to Calendar
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Plenty of tickets at the door for $17. Bring the whole family. Kids under 12 free

WMNF/BAAMO Present COME TOGETHER: a Tribute to Abbey Road, Yellow Submarine and the Beatles.

It’s the 40th Anniversary of the Beatles "Abbey Road" album and to celebrate WMNF Community Radio and the Bay Area Arts and Music Organization (BAAMO) will mark the 40th Anniversary of with another multi-faceted mega-event. WMNF Music Director, Flee, warns: "Our last Beatles show (The White Album) sold out by 8:00 p.m., so we’re starting the show earlier (3pm) but you still might want to get your tickets in advance just to be sure.”


COME TOGETHER: a Tribute to Abbey Road, Yellow Submarine & The Beatles will feature 22 bands each doing three songs each of the Beatles PLUS a re-creation of Beatles’ album Yellow Submarine and two re-creations of Abbey Road—one acoustic, one electric.

SCHEDULE ~ Doors open at 2pm
(Times and bands subject to change)
Start ~ END
3:00 ~ 3:12 Danny and Alex
3:20 ~ 3:32 Chicken Chasers
3:40 ~ 3:52 Parson Brown
4:00 ~ 4:12 Soul Purpose
4:20 ~ 4:32 Juniper
4:40 ~ 4:52 Women's Blues Revue
5:00 ~ 5:50 Ditchflowers--Abbey Rd
6:00 ~ 6:12 Chorus Angelorum
6:20 ~ 6:32 Rich Whiteley Band
6:40 ~ 6:52 Gumbo Boogie Band
7:00 ~ 7:12 Lance Rowland
7:20 ~ 7:32 Phillip and Mike
7:40 ~ 7:52 Crabgrass Cowboys
8:00 ~ 8:30 Captain Obvious & The Duh Patrol-Yellow Submarine Side 1
8:30 ~ 8:42 Sandy Atkinson & The Revelations
8:44 ~ 8:56 Mark C and Joe Reina
9:00 ~ 9:12 Bob Anthony w/ Natty Moss-Bond
9:20 ~ 9:32 Have Gun Will Travel
9:40 ~ 9:52 boon
10:00 ~ 10:12 Sons of Hippies
10:20 ~ 10:32 Hat Trick Heroes
10:40 ~ 10:52 Tribal Style
11:00 ~ 11:40 Ditchflowers--Abbey Rd
11:40 ~ 11:50 Ditchflowers et all Encore

Abbey Road, the last recorded album by the Beatles, may have been their best. Abbey Road had the intense production work of Sgt Pepper with the songwriting fitting of Rubber Soul, plus great contributions from the then underrated guitarist George Harrison. The group was still growing in all facets of its craft, from some of the best harmonies since the Beach Boys in rock and roll (especially on "Because"), to experimenting with the Moog synthesizer, and pre-heavy metal guitar rock ("The End," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Come Together"). George Harrison blossomed into a major force, with "Here Comes the Sun" and the ballad "Something," the latter of which became the first Harrison written Beatles’ hit.

The Ditchflowers will perform an acoustic re-creation of Abbey Road song by song in its entirety about 5:00 p.m., as well as amped-up electric re-creation at 11pm.

But, as always, there's more! Another 1969 release, "Yellow Submarine," will be performed around 9pm Captain Obvious and the Duh Patrol, with Freight Train Annie on vocals, will play side 1. Jerry Outlaw (of Bogus Pomp) will tackle side two.


The soundtrack to the popular movie Yellow Submarine features songs from the movie and songs written for Sgt Pepper and songs intended for singles. Along with the orchestral side 2 they combine to make one of the more interesting Beatles’ releases. Although not one of the Beatles’ best selling albums it includes some of the songs that now rank as favorites among Beatles’ fans.

In between The Beatles’ classic album re-creations, 20 other bands/performers will perform other songs from the Beatles’ catalog. Hear your favorites and, except for Abbey Road, there will be no songs played twice! Each band/performer will do about 3 songs each--that’s over 60 Beatles’ songs in one show. Final line-up and schedule TBD.

Tickets are $12 Advanced & $17 at the Door...