2009 ~ Thursday, May 14, "THE GROUP "RAIN"

After spending a full day with my granddaughter in Montevallo, I went to Huntsville to watch the group RAIN.

I registered to win tickets to see the Group Rain with one of the television stations and I won. 

My husband and I rode to Huntsville, stopping in Madison at Thomas Pitt for a rib plate and 

Walgreen’s, where we bought five cases of Mountain dews and some domes pills.

We drove to the Civic Center,  parked in the parking deck, we walked to the concert hall and waited for the Rain to begin performing.

At first, I was not too impressed with the first half of the show, but the last half was great.

RAIN  A tribute to the Beatles VBC concert Hall Thu May 14, 2009, 7:30 P.M.

Rain dressed just like the Beatles did when they were performing.

They changed clothes and hairstyle as the group aged as they performed.

They did thirty years of Beatle style performance as well as the different instruments that the Beatles used.

It was an older crowd but they really got into the music by waving their phones, dancing in their seats and just singing along. 

The performance was over by 9:30 P.M. I enjoying the show very much and I did not want it to end. 

The four women sitting in front of us were drinking beer and wine and by the end of the show, they were feeling very good.

One of the women had called a friend on her cell phone and was holding her phone up to her friends could hear the band play. 

At one point she misplaced her phone but she soon finds it. 

Here is some history that I copied from the Internet net about the group.

February 9, 1964, was a Sunday night that would change the course of popular music, popular culture—and history, forever!  Millions of Americans tuned into The Ed Sullivan Show to watch a group of four mop-topped Englishmen in dark suits that called themselves The Beatles. What they witnessed was a new and exciting brand of melodic, guitar-and-harmonies-driven rock 'n' roll that was as infectious as it was original and unique.  Little did the members of RAIN know that they would themselves come together in a band, forging a career that would keep them together longer than The Beatles! All this while raising the bar for professionalism and preserving the legacy of the immortal band's recorded music on stage to wildly enthusiastic audiences. Spanning the generations, their audiences include the vast majority of older fans that never got to see The Beatles perform live, and fans that were not yet born when The Beatles hit America.

The story of RAIN actually begins in the mid-1970s when keyboardist Mark Lewis joined forces with four other local musicians who together formed the band that was originally called “Reign” and played throughout the Los Angeles/Orange County, CA area. With their mutual love for the music of The Beatles, Reign was in demand to play Beatles music and rode an enormous wave of nostalgia for the band that had broken up in 1970. Before long they had built a strong devoted following in and around Los Angeles. Following numerous misspellings in the media and advertising, “Reign” became RAIN (also the title of a 1966 Beatles single). A big break came for RAIN when Dick Clark hired them to record the music for the 1979 made-for-TV movie Birth of the Beatles.

Rain’s intention was not just to cover Beatle songs, but also to take it to a new level. To do songs that The Beatles had never performed live, and do them note-for-note, just like the records. At this time, ‘tribute bands’ were non-existent.