No costumes. No wigs. No pretending to be someone else. Classic Albums Live takes the most ambitious double album ever recorded and plays it note for note, cut for cut, with a full live band on the San Diego waterfront — and the whole point is that the musicians are themselves, not impersonators.
The White Album is the Beatles at their most fractured and most brilliant simultaneously. From the noise-collage chaos of “Revolution 9” to the heartbreak of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” to the deceptive simplicity of “Blackbird,” this is 30 songs that span every genre the sixties touched. Hearing it performed live, outdoors, with the harbor behind the stage, strips away fifty years of familiarity and makes you hear it again for what might be the first time since you first heard it.
Saturday, August 30 at 7:30 PM. The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, downtown San Diego waterfront. Bring someone who knows every word.