S. Bumblebee,” or so the guys thought
One of the odder tracks played that night was a complete surprise to the audience
They recreated the idea which gave The Mods instant credibility when they covered Lennon and McCartney’s “It’s For You” back in the sixties. This time, they covered another obscure Beatles track titled “L. They found out later that it wasn’t The Beatles at all.
“We found this song on a Beatles bootleg tape,” Bullock explained, “but it turned out to be not by the Beatles at all but a really great ‘parody’ song by Dudley Moore. It was one of the coolest songs The Beatles never wrote.”
The response to the show was enthusiastic and the guys were somewhat elated, but Claudia Wilson saw the other side. Even at the Caravan, decades after the Epic album, the band put enormous pressure on themselves.
“I think Brett was just happy that they’d gotten through it,” she said. “They wanted to be perfect. They didn’t want anything screwed up. I don’t know that it was obsessive or to that point, but they had very high standards for themselves and when you have those standards and you want to do it live, it takes a lot of work. They always recorded their live gigs and went back and listened and said, okay, what do we need to change. What do we need to do to make it better. When they played Caravan of Dreams, it was like, wow, they still have the chops. (more…)