Hello Modern Drummer magazine voyeurs. Rich Pagano here to talk briefly about what has been happening and a couple of nice events that I am honored to be a part of in the near future. I haven’t checked in with the MD community in a while and a quick glance at recent online periodical shows lots of friends who are busy performing on some wonderful music and playing beautiful kits in cool rooms. Glad to see it thriving.
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Introducing...The Fab Faux, five of the hardest working musicians in New York City who bring the Beatles’ records to the stage—note-for-note. Anyone who has seen and experienced their stellar performance wouldn’t dare call them a cover band. For live music fans, audiophile fanatics, music history students and everyday music consumers, The Fab Faux is on our Top 10 List of Must-See Live Events.
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Most of us never saw the Beatles in concert, but the Fab Faux faithfully recreate some of the most extraordinary music ever written, and are, arguably, the next best thing. Five of the hardest-working musicians in NYC tackle the Beatles’ most demanding material, live. Now in their 20th year performing together, the Fab Faux’s members are Jimmy Vivino (from Conan), legendary bassist Will Lee (Late Night with David Letterman), drummer Rich Pagano (Rosanne Cash, Roger Waters), keyboardist Jack Petruzzelli (Joan Osborne, Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright) and guitarist Frank Agnello (Phoebe Snow, Marshall Crenshaw), often aided by the Hogshead Horns and the Creme Tangerine Strings to achieve an uncanny recreation of the Beatles’ complex orchestral sound.
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It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play,” sang Paul McCartney on The Beatles’ groundbreaking 1967 album. The title track from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band may have been a fictionalized account of the Fab Four’s formative years in Liverpool, but it wasn’t before too long that the world was celebrating that record’s twentieth anniversary.
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"We're disciples of the music," laughs guitarist Jimmy Vivino during a wide ranging hourlong conversation that touches on nearly every style of music of the modern era. The "we" is The Fab Faux and his quartet has explored all aspects of The Beatles for over two decades. Actually music has been a lifelong occupation for the band since he and his talented mates "speak in a vocabulary based on 45's."
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Guitarist Jimmy Vivino has been a member of Conan O'Brien's late-night band since the host's first television broadcast in September 1993. Vivino has followed O'Brien from Late Night to a short-lived run on the Tonight Show and the showbiz limbo that followed. For the past eight years, Vivino has been the bandleader of Conan's Basic Cable Band, and for 20 years he's also made time to tour consistently with the Fab Faux, a wildly popular Beatles tribute act.
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The most musically satisfying Beatles tribute band and State Theatre audience favorite returns to Easton performing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in its entirety plus a mixed set of favorites! The Fab Faux will perform accompanied by The Hogshead Horns, The Crème Tangerine Strings and Erin Hill.
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