Pete Best - 2006 US Tour Dates
What Goes On has posted a list of the dates for the 2006 US Tour by Pete Best And The Pete Best Band.
Performing the songs the Beatles were playing from 1960-1962, the Pete Best Band delivers the raw, thumping intensity of the Beatles’ savage sound of the early sixties. During the show, Pete also comes out from behind the drum kit to treat the audience to anecdotes about those early days with John, Paul, George and Stu Sutcliff.
The tour dates are as follows:
- Friday 7/28 and Saturday 7/29 - Royalty Theatre - Clearwater Florida
- Monday 7/31 - Smith’s Olde Bar - Atlanta Georgia
- Tuesday 8/1 - Greene Street Club - Greensboro NC
- Wednesday 8/2 - Jammin Java - Vienna Virginia
- Thursday 8/3 - Legends of Waldorf - Waldorf MD
- Friday 8/4 - Laugh Factory - Times Square NYC
- Saturday 8/5 - Elks Lodge - Latham NY
- Sunday 8/6 - Hartwood Acres Outdoor Concert - Pittsburgh PA
- Wednesday 8/9 - Club Infinity Buffalo NY
- Thursday 8/10 - Winchester Tavern and Music Hall - Lakewood Ohio
- Friday 8/11 - Sunday 8/13 - The Fest for Beatles Fans - Chicago IL
July 27th, 2006 at 5:25 am
You can find an ‘up to the minute’ list of shows for personal appearances for Pete Best and shows for the Pete Best Band at http://www.bestyearsofthebeatles.com. This website was created as an offshoot of the recent petition to have Pete Best acknowledged as the drummer for the Beatles during the Hamburg Days. A proposed tribute to the Beatles in Hamburg (supposedly to be unveiled in the near future) just ‘happened’ to make an attempt to rewrite history. The hundreds of people from all over the world who supported the mission statement of the Beatles Hamburg Statue petition that Pete Best WAS a Beatle and should be acknowledged…thought differently. We ‘won’….whatever that means….the creators of the tribute statue are going to put up a plaque with an obscure acknowledgement of Pete. I would not have accepted that token acknowledgement, but, I didn’t have the support to pursue other avenues. I will always know we did the best we could have and that plaque shows that you just can’t ’settle for’….you have to ‘fight for’ your place in history. Looking forward to seeing you on the website. Thanks for all you are doing. Cheers!
July 27th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Hi there - thanks for reading the blog and the kind comments. In fact I was one of the people that signed the on-line petition plus mantioned it on my personal Live Journal blog when I first heard about it. Glad to hear that it produced some sort of “result,” even if it wasn’t an ideal one. I had the privilige of meeting Pete a couple of years ago and am looking forward to the opportunity to shake his hand again at the upcoming Beatlefest in Chicago.