It's just a state of mind--I can show you...

On Tuesday night Jason and I were given the awesome opportunity to go see RAIN: The Beatles Experience live at the Morrison Center in Boise and what a phenomenal show. They absolutely paid every respect and tribute and did justice to the Beatles. I have to back up and explain a few things to make the significance of this post a little easier to understand. I am a HUGE Beatles fan. I have been since I was 10 and have never wavered with them as my favorite group of all time. I have posters, t-shirts, dolls, socks, books, plates, bobble heads, newspaper clippings, old CD boxes from my CD purchases of the early 90's, records, drawings I did myself... the list goes on and on. I have read every book I could get my hands on regarding my Beatles, I've seen Paul McCartney in concert twice (I am so lucky) Ringo at least three times and have all the movies and other videos. I was obsessed. Being so I had taken quite a snooty air about seeing any Beatles cover band, no matter HOW good they were considered to be. My thought was if I couldn't see THE Beatles I was not going to listen to someone play out their interpretations on my most beloved songs.

So RAIN came to town. My mother-in-law (knowing my obsession) bought me two tickets to the show for my birthday and THEN asked me what I thought about seeing a cover band. Of course I was a total stinker and voiced my non-desire to see them (I had no idea she had gotten tickets.) Well she still gave me the tickets for my birthday, I told her I was just being a hard-ass and we went.

THE SHOW WAS FABULOUS. It was so well done and so respectful. They had them mastered. Right down to the accents, their motions and movements on stage, their instruments and attitudes. They started the show with a brief clip of everything that happened up until the Beatles arrived in the US on 2/07 1964 and opened with them on the Ed Sullivan show (set replica and everything) and a pretend Ed Sullivan. The show then goes through the four or five distinct eras of the Beatles reign complete with costumes, video clips, stage sets. And every video clip was of Rain reenacting a significant video that was taken of the Beatles, so the Beatles images were never in the show. Every picture, every video, everything was remade with Rain. It was AWESOME. The place was jumping, the crowd were on their feet, people were dancing. What a fabulous night.

I come to find out that Rain has been around since the mid-seventies and is the longest running tribute band out there. And they are perfect. "Paul" isn't actually left-handed, but that's easy to get over. If you ever get the chance to see them, even if you don't consider yourself a Beatles fan or connoisseur of the Beatles please GO. You will be so glad you did.

Rain's website photos are copy restricted so please visit and check it out. In the meantime enjoy this young shot of the real deal. And also a shot from my cute little pink RAZR phone of us waiting for the show to begin.