One of my favorite jokes revolves around the success of tribute bands. For example, there's a plethora scheduled to play at B.B. King's just this month alone - Trippin' Billies (Dave Matthews), Strawberry Fields, Badfish (Sublime), The Machine (Pink Floyd). 

So I predicted we will soon see tributes to tribute bands. Zonked Out Billies (Trippin' Billies), SF 4ever (Strawberry Fields), Worsefish (Badfish) and The New Machine (The Machine).

I was in Las Vegas, and the Fab Four were playing in a shopping mall called the Desert Passage, or so I thought. I was not so naive to think that the Beatles were resurrected, but I did have some hope to see a well-respected tribute band. But instead I got to see Fab Four Mania, in effect, a tribute to the Fab Four tribute band. So The Fab Four is now a franchise operation!

I enjoyed the show immensely, although it could be improved. The sound was amazingly accurate for a four piece, "Paul" had a sweet voice but could not match the real Paul's power. 
"George" was played by Liverpudlian Gavin Pring, who looked so uncanilly like George that he should search his family tree for a relationship. In honor of the impending 25th anniversary of John's death, "John" played "Imagine" and gave a self-eulogy, it was weird seeing him go out of character. And "Ed Sullivan" needs a better make-up job, although he had the mannerisms down perfectly.

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See ya,
Sherman