Celebrate the Beatles: Mostly Moptop on March 20, 2010

DHPAC/Dix Hills Performing Arts Center and The John Lennon Center for Music & Technology present Long Island’s top, Beatles tribute band…

Mostly Moptop: “Let It Be(fore & After)”

This premiere program marks the 40th Anniversary of Let It Be, as Mostly Moptop performs “Wake-Up” to “Break-Up” to “Make-Up” in buoyant song celebration. In 1970, the Beatles released their final studio album, Let It Be. In 2010, on Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m, you can relive the experience with musicians devoted to the cause, and masterful at recreating the sounds of the Beatles.

The band is comprised of John Tabacco–also, a favorite host on WUSB radio (drums, piano, and vocals); Anthony Pomes (rhythm and lead guitar, bass, piano and vocals); Edward Franz (lead and rhythm guitar, bass, and vocals); Paul Michael Barkan (bass, keyboards, miscellaneous instruments, vocals). Barkan, a Professor of Recording at Five Towns College, wrote his PhD thesis on techniques the Beatles employed on their Magical Mystery Tour album.

The show will see Mostly Moptop performing not only key songs in the
development of each Beatles’ course as singers and writers, but also doing a
special live “track by track” 40th-anniversary recreation of the Let It Be album (released along with the film originally on May 8, 1970).

Far from being just the last Beatles album before the band broke up that year, Mostly Moptop band member Anthony Pomes feels the Let It Be album played a pivotal role in the growth and evolution of the four artists who comprised the “Fab Four.”

“It is my feeling,” says Pomes, “now that decades have gone by and we have lost both John Lennon and George Harrison, that there’s a rich tapestry of
relationship, camaraderie, communication, and love that continues to spring from the music of The Beatles. We will show in our performance that the band was still cosmically and musically ‘together’ even in the immediate months following the breakup.”

“We hope to show the audience,” he continues, “that even though separated in name, these four young men from Liverpool continued on together in spirit and especially in the music — something that, through the combined commitment of The John Lennon Center for Music & Technology and the continued evolution of Apple Records Ltd., still brings the finer messages of Beatles music into sharp and wondrous focus.”

Mostly Moptop will perform two sets. The first will convey the great “Wake Up!” of Beatlemania and the songwriting trajectories exemplified by Lennon alongside Paul McCartney, with the emergence of both George Harrison and Ringo Starr in both the songwriting and the singing of favorite Beatles songs.

Set Two will not only include the entire Let It Be album—so often associated with the creative friction inside The Beatles before the “break-up” of 1970—but also with a “Make-Up” medley of songs that the solo Beatles did in the early ’70s, after their split.

Joined in the show’s big finale by five additional musicians, Mostly Moptop hopes to show what has really come true after all these years—that even when broken up on paper, the music and soul of The Beatles always continued to entwine and dance together amongst the members of the group themselves.

For Pomes,  “It doesn’t even feel to me now like The Beatles ever broke up in any final and lasting way—both time and conceptual devotion seems to have all but rubbed it away.”

Since 1995, Mostly Moptop has been playing Beatles music and other rock ’n roll covers from the 1960s to ’80s. Mostly Moptop performed with The Beatles’ Magical Orchestra conducted by noted American composer David Amram. They have played in many NY area venues, and are always sure to bring a smile to the audiences’ faces with there faithful renditions of Beatles favorites as well as some solo work recorded by the Fab Four after the band broke up in 1970.

DHPAC/Dix Hills Performing Arts Center is located at Five Towns College. 305 North Service Road, Dix Hills, New York, 11746-5857. Tickets to this Long Island music event are $25. You can reach the Box Office at (631) 656-2148 or visit online at www.dhpac.org