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Show C-5 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 7-9, 2008 1 Beatles tribute band to play Egyptian get into character," he explains. "But we're always going over performing songs like what we're doing, making it "Yesterday," "This Boy," "All sound right. It's too easy when My Lovin"" and "Day Tripper," you are trying to be someone they ofisn elicit the same leg- else's character to slip out of endary "Bcatlc mania" from John and become Bill." audiences. Kropinak remembers when he "It's so much fun to be on first heard The Beatles on televistage having people think you're sion. The Beatles - it jkind of gives all "They we're on the Ed Sullivan of us a orief little'glimpse of what Show in 1964. Paul started it off they went through," says Bill with "All My Lovin," if I'm not Kropinak. the founder of the mistaken." he recalls. "It was band who plays John Lennon. mind boggling. There was a lot of "It's not uncommon for the the- hype prior to their performance ater to be up dancing out of their about these guys coming over seats and screaming during the with long hair and I -- quite songs. It's the whole Beatle hys- frankly - was an Elvis fan. I was teria - it still goes on, which is thinking to myself. l i don't know. hard to comprehend, but we're Elvis is the man." But after seeing happy it does." The Beatles play, I was blown Tlie transformation officially away. They wrote their own begins for Kropinak on the day songs, played their own instruof the performance, putting on ments - they re-wrote rock 'n roll their wigs and buttoning their history." suits. 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"I was amazed at how many door and she was in front of me," people actually recognized it, he says. "I got an autograph and because they would come up and say, 'Well, you know Paul was said, 'Hello.'" 1 Kropinak mostly just enjoys left-handed," he explains. "So I the finer points of the band's said, 'That's it. I'm going to teach songs. "I Feel Fine" is hismyself to play bass with my left favorite. "They released it in hand so I don't have to hear it August of 1965 and what's so anymore ... It was a very slow unique about it is that little feed- process and it was rough: You back intro which was done know how to play it, but your almost by accident with John's hand doesn't want to move the acoustic guitar feeding back way you want it to at first." when Paul hits a bass note and it Saylor says he rarely tires of rattles a little," he says. "There's The Beatles' songs. The meaning something about that moment, of the lyrics still shines through where I was in life and where I and the band's influence on rock was when I heard it." bands continues, he explains. So when, at the age of 36, Though it's been more than 40 Kropinak, a body-building years since The Beatles first Harley-ridcr, decided to play on American performance, the stage for the first time, it was a music still matters to audiences, Beatles review at a Beatles trib- according to Saylor. ute show. l i t was something I did "The Beatles had this raw for the fun of it, but here we are, energy and broke all the rules, 20 years later, and we're making and to be able to go back and crea living out of it," he muses. ate that, it's just amazing," he The band arrived al its current explains. "I think people come to configuration in 20(J0 with James our performances because it Willaman as George Harrison makes them feel young again. 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