Fab Four Live: Best CES Non-Gadget Experience
It's inevitable. After a day at CES your feet will hurt, your tote bag will be filled with brochures you'll never read, and your thoughts will turn to Vegas night life.
If you haven't been successful at the tables and are a fan of classic rock — make that Ultimate Classic Rock — put down your Audiovox Flo TV, turn off your XM Radio SkyDock, cancel your Google alerts for Project Natal and head over to the "V" Theatre in the Planet Hollywood Miracle Mile complex.
Unless overexposure to Beatles music in elevators and 80's FM radio programming has deadened your ears to the prolific craftsmanship that was produced by the original Fab Four, that's where you'll find a CES lithium battery-draining shock. No, not the crosstown Cirque Du Soleil Beatles Love extravaganza. That's a “show.
The secret hidden in plain Vegas Strip sight is the Fab Four Live performance, where, after a restless wait in line, you'll be treated to something derivative, imitative, unoriginal, unimaginative, anachronistic – and absolutely amazing; like catching the Beatles performing at an upscale night club on a late career world tour they never made.
The Fab Four Live have dared themselves to copy every nuance of the original band, and they succeeded – right down to Paul's left-to-right head bob, John's forward-leaning guitar stance, and, in the playing of “Imagine,” John's signature all-white suit.
The musicianship, and especially the vocals by Paul, John and George (performed by John Hepburn, Steve Craig, and Glen McCallum respectively) are dead on. The performances are so accurate and so effortlessly executed that it's clear why the producers feel the need to reiterate that everything is "live."
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