When everybody is in their place John cries out "Ready for some nostalgia?"
The crowd answers "Yes! Yes!" and the group goes into "Ready
Teddy" 2:03. Then John cries out "I think I got the shakes!"
"Us too!" the crowd answers, and the group goes into "The Hippy Hippy
Shakes" 1:50. "Ooh! That felt good!" John cries.
"Now I think I need a bath!" "Splish splash!" the audience
cries, "Splish splash!" And the group goes into "Splish Splash"
2:05. When they're done John cries out "That's better! Now
it's time for bed." "You'll be dreaming!" the audience cries.
The band goes into "Chick-A-Boom" 2:46. When they get
done this number John asks "What do you want next?" "Some sugar!"
the crowd cries, "Some sugar!" The group goes into "Sugar,
Sugar" 2:52. This is George Harrison's and Mary Queen
Of Scots' number. They sing back and forth to each other
and the crowd just eats it up! They really love seeing the affection
between the two.
When they get done John goes "Hey Queenie, what do you really think
of this guy?" Queenie and the girls go into a modified version of
"Mickey"
3:25 in which they substitute "Georgie" for "Mickey".
Again the crowd just eats it up. John then asks George "Hey, man, do you
think you can get this girl?" George goes into "Got My Mind
Set On You" 3:50. The crowd is screaming when he gets done,
and begins to cry out "Who do you really wanna see besides her, George?
Who do you really wanna see besides her?" George goes into "My
Sweet Lord" 4:43. When he gets done the crowd starts hollering
"Where can we find Him? Where can we find Him?" And John goes
into "Spirit In the Sky" 3:56.
When he gets done with this he asks the crowd "Who will we see when
we get there? Anybody we know?" and the crowd answers "Abraham,
Martin and John!" Abraham, Martin And John!"
John goes into this number. 3:18. When he gets done with this
he asks "Are all the girls we know skinny?" "No!" the crowd
answers, "Some of them are fat!" John goes into "Fat Bottomed
Girls" 4:16. "Are these women French?" John asks, when
he gets done. "No!" the crowd cries, "They're American!" John
goes into "American Woman" 3:48. "Where do we meet
these women?" John cries when he gets done. "On the road," the crowd
answers, "on the road!" and John goes into "Chevy Van" 2:56.
"What do you see on the road?" John asks. The crowd answers,
"Signs! Signs! Everywhere is signs!" John goes
into that number. 3:25. "Is everything on the road nice?"
John asks. "No!" the crowd answers. "Some things on the road
really stink!" John goes into "Dead Skunk In The Middle Of
The Road" 3:09. "You know," John cries, when he gets done
with that number, "After you've been out all night sometimes, you still
have to go to work. When do most of you have to work?" The
crowd cries "From 9 to 5! From 9 to 5!" Queenie
and the girls go into this number. 2:47. When that number's
done John says "Hey, girls! Things have changed a lot. What
do you have to say about things now?" The girls go into "I
Am Woman" 3:11.
"Well," John comments after that, "I guess we're getting down there!
We're running out of time. What would you like us to go and do 'til
we sing for all of you again?" "Go bust them ghosts!" the crowd
cries. "Go bust them ghosts!" The group goes into "Ghostbusters"
4:06
which has become very popular for them to sing since John defeated the
dark forces attacking The White House. When they get that done John
says "That's it folks! We gotta go! We had a good time, did you?"
The crowd answers "Yes! Yes! One more! One more!" John
calls the group out that did the middle sets, and when everybody is on
the stage they do one last number, usually something appropriate for the
area they're in, and when this number is concluded they leave the stage
with the crowd clapping and cheering.
Well, that's the best as we can describe it! That's what you'd
see if you went to a performance of Beatles & Friends,
and that's what you'd hear. It varies a little bit from location
to location. The promoters in different locations sometimes ask for
some different songs. But these are the ones that the band likes
to play the most, and that the audiences almost insist upon. We are
often asked why don't they play any Beatles music, only a
few of George's numbers? John doesn't particularly like doing The
Beatles' music. That's why the middle groups most of the
time do The Beatles' songs. John prefers his new music,
and other peoples'. I guess they just sang them too much in their
lifetimes and prefer something different. But what do you think?
If you went to a performance of Beatles & Friends would you have a
good time? I would!
SEXLESS PEEPIANS
One of The Peepian Races, I can't remember its name at the moment, had a very strange way of life. Shortly after birth the girls' ovaries and the boys' testicles were removed and stored, allowed to mature artificially. Children were raised by a male/female partnership that did not know if the children they were raising were their own, or, produced from someone else's eggs or sperm. Our friend Jesse asked "How did They survive without the intimate contact necessary to cleanse each other's Souls?" They evolved to the point where simple hugs or the touching of each other's hands was the equivalent to intimate relations. They touched each other a lot! The fact that They had male/female groups was probably the only reason the race survived. If They had seperated Themselves into seperate gender groups They would have certainly, in a short time, died out, as the Souls would have become nonfunctional. It is hard for us to conceive how such a people could exist.