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Mark Lowe
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| MARK LOWE Piano, Organ, Synth, & Vocals Mark has been playing music since age ten and grew up in Uniontown, Pennsylvania in a family where music was a part of every day life. There was a big music room with a huge stereo and tons of records to listen to the latest hits, plus a piano, Farfisa organ, drum kit, bass, 6-string acoustic, 6-string electric, 12-string electric/acoustic, several amps, an autoharp, clarinet, flute, microphones, two reel-to-reel tape decks and an encouraging atmosphere for friends to drop by and listen, play and create music. His very first band came about in 1964 with best friends Larry Boyd on guitar and Dean Riggar on drums, learning songs by The Beatles and anything they could figure out from the British invasion. In August 1966 the 3 teenagers took the train alone from Connellsville to Philadelphia (were our parents CRAZY ?) to see The Beatles in concert at JFK stadium during the Fab Fours final year of touring. Mark's influences have always included The Beatles.....plus....The Rolling Stones, The Mama’s & The Papa’s, The Byrds and the many artists of Motown. During high school, Mark was the bass player for The Ovations and later while at Penn State, the lead singer and keyboard player for United and United 2. He went on to Salem College to major in music before moving to San Diego to jam around southern California during his "hippie" phase. Returning to Pennsylvania he taught private music lessons for beginner piano and guitar students and also worked with the Kawai Piano Company in Pittsburgh. His current equipment list includes a Roland Digital Piano, Previa Keyboard, Alesis Synthesizer, Fender Stratacoustic Electric Guitar, Yamaha Acoustic Guitar, Ukulele, Crate Amp and Alesis Keyboard Amp plus a Cello, Console Piano and a Baby Grand Piano at his home. Mark has jammed and played with a number of local bands including The Airplane Graveyard, Stereo Vibe and Crossroads that preceded the creation of The Woo Hoo Band. mark@thewoohooband.com woohoocrew@yahoo.com www.MySpace.com/markrlowe |
The fifth date of The Beatles' final tour took place in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where they performed one concert before an
audience of 20,000 at John F Kennedy Stadium. I was there with my
two best friends Larry Boyd and Dean Riggar.
The concert began at 8pm. The stadium had 60,000 seats available,
had previously played at Philadelphia's Convention Hall on
September 2, 1964.
Support acts for the entire tour were The Remains, Bobby Hebb,
The Cyrkle and The Ronettes. The show took place during the
beginning of a thunder storm with near-constant lightning, but the
rain held off until shortly after The Beatles left the stage.
The Beatles' standard set throughout the tour consisted of 11 songs:
Rock And Roll Music, She's A Woman, If I Needed Someone,
Day Tripper, Baby's In Black, I Feel Fine, Yesterday, Nowhere Man,
I Wanna Be Your Man, Paperback Writer and I'm Down. During the
tour they occasionally substituted the final song with Long Tall Sally.
After the show The Beatles and their entourage immediately boarded
their Greyhound tour bus and were taken to Philadelphia
International Airport, where they flew to Toronto, Canada.
| Yesterday And Today Released June 20, 1966 The original controversial "Butchers" cover by photographer Robert Whitaker, was pasted over after 750,000 copies were recalled by Capitol Records. |
| 2012 My Golden Anniversary Playing the Piano |
| A rare image now headed for auction is one of just six taken during a 10- minute photoshoot of the Fab Four outside Abbey Road studios in St. John's Wood, northwest London. The photo is expected to fetch up to $14,000 when it's offered on May 22, 2012. In the original image, photographed in August 1969, John Lennon (in his white suit) leads the group from left to right in a crosswalk. A Volkswagen Beetle sits in the background. Ringo Starr follows Lennon. Behind him is a barefoot Paul McCartney and George Harrison brings up the rear. (Want to read more than you ever cared to about why McCartney being barefoot and out of step with the others is actually a clue to his covered-up 1966 death? Do an Internet search of “Paul is dead.”) |
| ~ June 2012~ Peter Blake, pop artist who created the original cover, remakes his artwork 45 years after the 1967 release of The Beatles iconic "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" LP. |
| New famouse faces (above) include: Amy Winehouse, Francis Bacon, Alfred Hitchcock, Kate Moss, Mick Jagger, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, Vidal Sassoon, Paul McCartney, Agatha Christie, David Bowie, Twiggy, Stella McCartney, Mary McCartney - (both Sir Paul's daughters), Vivienne Westwood, Helen Mirren, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Shirley Bassey, Noel Gallagher, Richard Rogers, Elvis Costello, Peter Blake and the Monty Python "foot"......plus............... plenty of other British Lords, Sirs, Dames & Ladys. |
| Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - cover artwork: The Grammy Award-winning album packaging was art-directed by Robert Fraser, designed by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, his wife and artistic partner, and photographed by Michael Cooper. It featured a colourful collage of life-sized cardboard models of famous people on the front of the album cover and the lyrics printed in full on the back cover, the first time this had been done on a rock LP. In the guise of the Sgt. Pepper band, the Beatles were dressed in custom-made military-style outfits made of satin dyed in day-glo colours. The suits were designed by Manuel Cuevas. Among the insignia on their uniforms are: MBE medals on McCartney's and Harrison's jackets, the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom on Lennon's right sleeve and an Ontario Provincial Police flash on McCartney's sleeve. In the centre of the cover, the Beatles stand behind a drum on which are painted the words of the album's title; the drum was painted by fairground artist Joe Ephgrave. The collage depicted around 60 famous people, including writers, musicians, film stars, and (at Harrison's request) a number of Indian gurus. The final grouping included Marlene Dietrich, Carl Gustav Jung, W.C. Fields, Diana Dors, Bob Dylan, Issy Bonn, Marilyn Monroe, Aldous Huxley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sigmund Freud, Aleister Crowley, T. E. Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Karl Marx, Sir Robert Peel, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Marlon Brando, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and Lenny Bruce. Also included was the image of the original Beatles' bassist, the late Stuart Sutcliffe. Pete Best said in a later NPR interview that Lennon borrowed family medals from his (Best's) mother Mona for the shoot, on condition that he did not lose them. Adolf Hitler and Jesus Christ were requested by Lennon, but ultimately they were left out. A photo also exists of a rejected cardboard printout with a cloth draped over its head; its identity is unknown. The final cost for the cover art was nearly £3,000 (equivalent to £40,606 today) an extravagant sum for a time when album covers would typically cost around £50. |