AfterFab flying solo on post-Beatles hits
While the Beatles officially broke up in the spring of 1970, that didn’t stop more music coming from John, Paul, George and Ringo.
In fact, according to Adam Boc, the founder and one of the driving forces behind the tribute band, AfterFab — The Beatles Solo Years, if anything, there was even more to be heard from the Fab Four after they went their separate ways following a decade spent together as a group.
AfterFab, who specialize in the post-Beatles era works of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are one of the 30 groups scheduled to appear in the Forest City between Sept. 23-25 at The London Beatles Festival.
“The solo Beatles actually had more Top-40 hits than they did as a group,” said Boc. “There’s a large number of songs that were popular and penetrated people’s memories, but weren’t kept alive by oldies and classic rock radio, so sometimes there is a little gap in their memory and we fill that.”
Based out of the Boston area, Boc started putting the group together in 2012 but it wasn’t until the fall of 2013 when they actually played their first gig.
Referring to themselves as a tribute or ‘reverence band,’ and not a cover band, Boc said a lot goes into getting the music just right. “We spend a lot of time and effort into breaking down the studio tracks and matching what’s on the record.” Even though it may not be 100 percent accurate to what’s on the recordings, “That’s acceptable as long as what you’re doing doesn’t violate anyone’s memory or expectation of what’s on the record,” he said.
By: Mike Maloney
Source: Our London
