Bubble and Friends reprise their Revolver and White Album shows

BUBBLE (AND FRIENDS) REPRISES THEIR SOLD-OUT, NOTE-FOR-NOTE "REVOLVER" & "WHITE ALBUM" SHOWS ON THURSDAY, JUNE 9TH, LIVE, FREE & OUTDOORS AT HOBOKEN’S FRANK SINATRA PARK -- 7 TO 9PM!

Summer’s here and the time is right for a free, summery Beatles show - with the glittery Manhattan skyline as backdrop! On Thursday, June 9th, the New York City-based power-pop band BUBBLE -- with an all-star cast of friends -- will present a live, note-for-note, strum-for-strum tribute to two of the greatest rock albums ever made: the Beatles’ 1966 single LP REVOLVER and their 1968 double LP THE WHITE ALBUM. This performance will take place at Hoboken’s Frank Sinatra Park, from 7 to 9 pm, as part of the city’s free and outdoors "Summer Enchanted Evenings" series.

Frank Sinatra Park, which has a breathtaking view of the downtown Manhattan skyline, is located on Sinatra Drive between 4th & 5th Streets. (REVOLVER will be presented in its entirety; due to time constraints, much -- but not all -- of THE WHITE ALBUM will be performed). These shows are actually reprises of the band's sold-out winter/spring 2005 gigs at Arlene's Grocery and the Baggott Inn, which have been packed with East Coast Beatlemaniacs - appreciative of the obsessive care the band and its guest singers takes to get every note just right.

Bubble -- led by Beatle fanatic guitarist/vocalist Dave Foster -- will get a little help Thursday from friends Dennis Diken (The Smithereens), Glenn Mercer (formerly of the Feelies), Glenn Morrow (Rage to Live, Bar/None Records), Perry Serpa and Jim Santo (The Sharp Things), Amy Speace, Cathy Cervenka, Chris Rael (Church of Betty), AJ Azzarto (co-producer of Nancy Sinatra’s latest CD -- and Frank Sinatra’s granddaughter!), Julian Maile, Jed Parish, Lianne Smith, Erik Paparozzi, Courtney Lee Adams Jr., Serena Jost, Claudia Chopek, Mark Rinzel, and Royce Peterson. (Of special note will be Brian Dewan's now-legendary performance of REVOLUTION 9 - presented as an absurdist, accapella radio play.)

Bubble also features guitarist/keyboardist Jon Spurney (HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH, PLANET BANANA, LOSER’S LOUNGE), guitarist Rich Feridun (TAMMY FAYE STARLITE, ROGUE’S MARCH), bassist Alec Cumming (THE SHARP THINGS, BITE THE WAX GODHEAD), drummer Tom DeVito (PROFESSOR & MARYANNE, COURTNEY LEE ADAMS JR.) and percussionist Bill Gerstel (PIÑATALAND, THE MAD SCENE). Claudia Chopek and Andrea Dovalle plays the violin and Serena Jost the cello; Mike McGinnis, Andrew Hoglund, Mike Kobrin and Tony Salva are on the horns.

Why take on REVOLVER and THE WHITE ALBUM? Well, one could make good arguments that either album is the band's best - and therfore rock's best. REVOLVER is a band at its peak: John, Paul, George and Ringo all at the top of their game, in fighting shape, coming off of 5 to 6 years of relentless touring, yet still friends. Brian Epstein was still alive, their brains weren't too scrambled on LSD (yet), Yoko and the Maharishi were in the wings, and Brian Wilson's PET SOUNDS had just come out to give the lads a competitive kick in the ass. Wheras THE BEATLES (aka THE WHITE ALBUM) is a much messier affair, and a real heartbreaking work of staggering genius. In mid-'68, the boys were spiraling off in different directions, yet still Beatles, still locked into creating groundbreaking music with each other, and understandably quite uncertain of what fate had in store for them behind the newly painted walls of Apple Records. Whatever the boys took away from their months with the Mahri shi in Rishikesh, they certainly brought home armloads of unspeakably great and fresh songs. THE WHITE ALBUM stands today as a snapshot of a band at an uneasy crossroads -- four musicians sowing the seeds of their group’s inevitable demise. Yet it’s also one of the most beautiful, breathtaking, moving, rocking, and brilliant works of art ever made.

Why play these songs? Because they still bring such unbelievable and unending joy to its players - and to its listeners - and it always will. For more information about Bubble and its Beatles performances, contact Dave Foster at dave@bubbleland.com.

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Published June 3, 2005

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