Great Moments in Vinyl plays tribute to The Beatles

July 14, 2017 • Martyrs', Chicago, IL

Featuring Phil Angotti, Packy Lundholm, Richard Pettengill, Dick Schmidt, Joe Camarillo, and William Lindsey Cochran with John Bowes, Jack Cassidy, and Tim McNamara, horns, and Myra Hinrichs, Gerel Tumur, Ariel Patkin, and Kat Tarko, strings, and Billy Oh, fiddle.

July 13, 2017 • Joliet Historical Museum, Joliet, IL

Featuring Phil Angotti, Packy Lundholm, Richard Pettengill, Dick Schmidt, Joe Camarillo, John Bowes, and William Lindsey Cochran.

The “White Album” is a remarkable accomplishment.  It’s the product of a band on the verge of breaking up.  John and Paul were rarely working as a songwriting team by this point.  George was coming into his own as a songwriter.  Far from being a cohesive band project, it feels more like excerpts from four different solo albums.  

And yet, it all works.  So much so that it has become a standard by which other bands’ albums are measured.  So much so that it has been widely praised as not only one of the best albums The Beatles ever released,...but also as one of the best albums any band ever released.

Here in the U. S., The Beatles new double record set was put on sale for $11.79.  That was more than twice the cost of a standard single LP release at the time.  But fans didn’t care.  In less than a month, the “White Album” sold more than 4 million copies worldwide.