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A Short Review of RAIN and BRUNO MARS

Bruno Mars appeared on Saturday Night Live October 20 2012 Mars was surprisingly good at comedy, participating in a number of SNL scripts and I would say he is funnier than most of the people who appear on Saturday Night Live. Bruno sang a couple of his numbers, the first Locked out of Heaven was up tempo and featured some very good synchronized dancing and synchronized music performance. I am not really a fan of Mars; style but he was good.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Where I found Bruno Mars incredibly talented was in his imitation of a number or artists and bands. Bruno imitated Green Day, Aerosmith, Katie Perry, Louis Armstrong, Justin Bieber and Mars did a succession of Michael Jackson songs incredibly accurately and right on pitch every moment.

                                                                                                                                                                

The performance by Rain, reproducing live, Beatle’s tunes. The performance is clearly labelled as not containing any pre-recorded music.

I enjoyed listening to their live performance just as much as if I was listening to one of the records by the Beatles, except I think the sound was better. The music was accurately reproduced and even the studio contributions of such great guitarists as Eric Clapton were re-created.

The accents and the nuance of vocal performance were perfect, the same charming British sound as the Beatles of long ago. There was a fabulous vintage guitar show. To the best of my knowledge the tribute band Rain is acknowledged and supported by former Beatles band members.