Beatles Tribute Band: Mixing, Touring, and Marketing
I joined IMAGINE: Remembering the Fab Four! in 1997 as their audio engineer and marketing specialist. My first gig with them was at the Galvan Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Shortly thereafter I built the band’s first website, the first of many updated versions that would follow. In the summer of 1998, we toured for two weeks across the U.S. from Newport Beach, California to Richmond, Virginia and many cities in between.
Mixing Front of House
As audio enginer for Imagine: Remembering the Fab Four!, I accessed and managed the band’s sound, lights, stage, and some aspects of the performances.
Touring with “The Beatles”
We took time out for fun during our 1998 summer tour across the US. Here, we posed lying on the ground and playing guitars near Grand Island, Nebraska.
From Early Beatles to Sgt. Pepper
Imagine went on to perform for many more years after I departed as audio engineer, adding live symphonies to songs such as Eleanor Ribgy and A Day in the Life.
Checking out the mixing console and outboard gear before an Imagine show at Big Bear Resort, California.
At Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah (Red Hot Fourth of July – 2001) with audio equipment for 3 bands: Chicago, They Might Be Giants, and Imagine: Remembering the Fab Four!
Having a pre-show meal with the guys in the green room before a show at the Portland Doubletree Hotel for a convention.
Posing with the guys before a show in Cheyenne, Wyoming for Lion’s Clubs International.
This small tour-ready audio mixing system was the main system I used during our Summer 1998 tour. This was taken before a show at an outdoor show at Newport Beach, California.
Promotional poster for a show featuring Imagine and other local entertainers.
Somewhere in Nebraska in the motorhome that took us to each show on our Summer 1998 tour. It was run the first few days, then it was hard work!