’s Joey Molland and several other name musicians of a certain vintage are teaming up to go out on tour playing one of the Fab Four’s most controversial projects, the two-LP, four-sided White Album.
Rundgren has some impeccable cred with Beatles fans. He and George Harrison did the production duties on a Badfinger album for Apple Records in 1971, “Straight Up” — featuring current tour mate Molland, of course — even if the “collaboration” had more to do with Rundgren taking over after Harrison split. In 1997, Rundgren wrote and recorded “Up Against It!,” an album of his demos for the musical theater adaptation of a stage show originally written in 1967 by Joe Orton for the Beatles.
When it came to Dolenz, the singer and drummer had just came off a rare tour with fellow Monkee Michael Nesmith and was anxious to relive the moments of his youth where Beatlemania and Monkeemania intertwined. When McCartney turned around after that dinner and asked Dolenz if he wanted to stop by the studio at Abbey Road where the Beatles were recording “Sgt. Pepper’s,” Dolenz said, “I just about wee-ed myself right there. I was a huge Beatles fan. It was all I could do to not ask for his autograph the whole time.” The first tracking session that Dolenz attended was for “Good Morning, Good Morning,” with “A Day in the Life” following.
, became part of Badfinger in 1969 and “missed the White Album by a hair,” he says, with a laugh. “But I had been a fan of theirs since early Liverpool days; even saw them at the Cavern, once or twice, though I was more of a blues guy. Every one of their albums was a knockout, and each one is so different than the last.”
Like Dolenz, Rundgren — still a novice at that time — had heard about the Beatles’ issues with each other, and assumed there were growing pains much like he would experience with his band , but that they wouldn’t affect the recording process. “Once you learned how the album was made, you realized that it was three solo albums, plus Ringo’s songs, which was the down side. On the plus side, though, you got more George Harrison songs than ever before.
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