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... by Joanne Corsano ... joanne@picturelake.com

Studio Two, Chatham (MA) First Night
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of the concert

First Set

She Loves You - I Want To Hold Your Hand - I Saw Her Standing There - I'm Down - Don't Bother Me - Do You Want to Know a Secret - All My Loving - Anna (Go to Him) - Till There Was You - Tell Me Why - What You're Doing - A Hard Day's Night - Any Time at All - Honey Don't - Ticket To Ride - Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby - Can't Buy Me Love

Second Set

Rock and Roll Music - She's a Woman - From Me To You - All I've Got to Do - Please Please Me - The Night Before - Wait - I'm Happy Just To Dance With You - You Can't Do That - If I Fell - Boys - Doctor Robert - Taxman - I Feel Fine - Roll Over Beethoven - Twist and Shout

Encore

Scroll to below videosfor a review of the show.

Tell Me Why / What You're Doing / A Hard Day's Night

From Me To You

I'm Happy Just To Dance With You

Birthday

This is the second time we have seen Studio Two, early Beatles tribute band, at this excellent outdoor concert series at Abington High School. Twin brothers Stephen and Robert Murray are again the leaders of the band, as John and George. The Paul was the same as we saw last August in Quincy, and the Ringo was the younger of the two Ringos we have seen during our four times seeing this excellent Beatles tribute band. This Paul looks a bit like the real McCartney, and he does the real Paul's somewhat irreverent personality well. Adopting the on-stage personalities of the real Beatles is one of this foursome's real strengths, and John and George were both doing the accent really well tonight, too.

Being a band that plays tribute to the early Beatles carries with it certain requirements. The band not only has to play and sing really, really well, they also have to have the right instruments, costumes, hair, stage mannerisms, and attitude. These four young men are very good at all of those things, and they are very capable of playing a run of 3 minute pop songs at a breathtaking pace, totalling thirty-five songs in just about 2 hours, with just a short intermission. This fab foursome began their career doing strictly songs of the very early Beatles, but recently have extended their timeframe a little to include two numbers from the Revolver album and even one from the White Album -- crowd pleasers all.

The audience, as is usually the case with these outdoor shows, consisted of all ages. There were a number of dancers who were enjoying themselves immensely for just about the whole show. One of the dancers was a woman who happily reported that she had seen the Beatles once, back in the day, and said she could actually hear them a little bit; and she was suitably impressed when I said that I had seen George at the Boston Garden on his 1970s solo tour.

The weather was perfect, a comfortable spot to put down one's beach chair was easy to find, and there was a food truck with hamburgers, hot dogs, and snacks, and there was also an ice cream truck. I can't begin to imagine a more fun way to spend a summer early evening if you're a first-generation Beatles fan like me.