Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to the White Album, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-28-2015

The Wild Honey Orchestra (WHO) tribute shows I've been posting seem to be going over well, so I'm posting some more. I have three more to go. (There are many more I don't have, so if anyone has them in good sound quality, please let me know). This is the earliest one I have, from 2015. The target of the tribute is the Beatles' classic 1968 double album popularly known as "The White Album." (Technically, it's real name is just "The Beatles.")

If you've seen the other WHO posts I've made, you should know the deal. Basically, once a year, a group of mostly Los Angeles-based professional musicians put on a concert to benefit an autism charity. Some of the musicians involved are fairly well known, but there usually aren't any really famous stars. Some of those who performed in this one but generally not the other ones include Gary Wright, Jules Shear, Christine Collister, and the Muffs.

For this show, it just happens that I stumbled across an article in Goldmine Magazine that reviewed the show. So instead of me having to explain a lot, if you want to know more, I suggest you read that article. Here's the link:

Wild Honey Orchestra Does the White Album - Goldmine Magazine: Record Collector & Music Memorabilia

Most of the show consisted of covers of "White Album" songs. But near the end of the concert, other Beatles songs from 1968 were performed, such as the hit singles "Lady Madonna" and "Hey Jude," and the White Album outtake "Not Guilty." 

The sound quality of this bootleg recording is excellent, the same as the other WHO shows I've posted. However, like those, I generally only had the songs and not the talking between songs. There are a few exceptions, such as a long explanation about how they played to perform the sound collage "Revolution No. 9" before it started, but they're very few.

This album is two hours and six minutes long.

01 Back in the U.S.S.R (Chris Collingwood with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
02 Dear Prudence (John Cowsill, Vicki Peterson & Billy Mumy with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
03 Glass Onion (Thomas Walsh with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
04 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (John Wicks & Debbi Peterson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
05 Wild Honey Pie (Wild Honey Vocal Group with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
06 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (Dirk Hamilton & Debbie Shair with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
07 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Gary Wright & Lyle Workman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
08 Happiness Is a Warm Gun (Django Haskins with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Martha My Dear (Iain Matthews & Brett Harris with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
10 I'm So Tired (Nick Guzman & Susan Cowsill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
11 Blackbird (Rob Laufer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
12 talk (Cosmo Topper with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
13 Piggies (Cosmo Topper with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
14 Rocky Raccoon (Syd Straw & Willie Aron with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
15 Don't Pass Me By (Keith Allison, Kaitlin Wolfberg, & Ryeland Allison with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
16 Why Don't We Do It in the Road (Damon Fox with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
17 I Will (Muffs with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
18 Julia (Susan Cowsill & Vicki Peterson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
19 Birthday (Damon Fox & David Goodstein with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
20 Yer Blues (Translator with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
21 Mother Nature's Son (Brett Harris with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
22 Everybody's Got Something to Hide... (Steven McDonald & David Goodstein with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
23 Sexy Sadie (Jules Shear with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
24 Helter Skelter (Alain Johannes with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
25 Long, Long, Long (Skylar Gudasz with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
26 Revolution No. 1 (Cindy Lee Berryhill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
27 Honey Pie (Steve Stanley with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
28 Savoy Truffle (Three O'Clock with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
29 Cry Baby Cry (Iain Matthews & Christine Collister with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
30 talk (Jim Mills with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
31 Revolution No. 9 (Jim Mills with Heidi Servey, Debbie Shair & Darian Sahanaja with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
32 Good Night (Rachel Haden & Anna Waronker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
33 Hey Bulldog (Chris Collingwood & Thomas Walsh with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
34 Revolution [Single Version] (Mitch Easter with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
35 Not Guilty (John Easdale with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
36 talk (Morty Coyle with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
37 Lady Madonna (Morty Coyle with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
38 Hey Jude (Christine Collister with the Wild Honey Orchestra)

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For the cover, I just used a promotional picture for the concert, with a few modifications. In case it isn't obvious enough, the cover is a nice parody/homage to the "White Album" cover. I cropped it and resized some things to make the text on it larger and easier to read.

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  2. The concert is two hours and six minutes in length, in case anyone was wondering. :)

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    1. Oops, I've gotten in the habit of adding a sentence like that, but I forgot it this time. Thanks for reminding me. I just added that in.

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    2. As I listen to a lot of music while at work, it is nice to have a general idea of just how long one will be, to make sure it fits within the time I have.

      What was funny was I initially commented to comment on the fact you hadn't, and initially guessed a running length of maybe an hour and 40 minutes, then realized all I had to do was load it into VLC and it gave me the 2:06:02...only off by 26! LOL

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  3. Thanks so much. I am really enjoying these.

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  4. Thanks a lot. This is a really really nice one (again)

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