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Coming up next on Adventurer, the lead singer of a world famous rock band from Jersey.
Hint, it's not Bruce Springsteen.
Don't go away.
James Clash.
Welcome to Adventurer, the show with guests who truly push their lives to the limits.
No talking heads here, just the real deals.
I'm Jim Clash.
Pat D'Anaisio and three fellow New Jersey friends founded the world famous band,
The Smithereens, in 1980.
Since they've produced a dozen [G#] top-selling albums with original [D#] songs like
Blood and Roses, A Girl Like You, and Behind the Wall of Sleep.
But D'Anaisio's always been a big Beatles fan, and this month he releases a tribute
to the Fab Four covering B-sides of 12 hit singles from the 60s.
I've heard it, and let me tell you, it's fantastic.
Welcome, Pat.
You know, I've been listening to The Smithereens since 1986, okay?
And what I think you've done now, we put people on the [A] show who take risks.
You guys have gone out and done 12 Beatles [E] songs, covered 12 Beatles songs,
and the B-sides.
That's risky, just covering one.
What was your thinking?
My thinking was that we hadn't done an album in about 10 years,
and I needed to find [F#] the best possible [E] way to [D#] reintroduce the world at large,
the new people, and also the kids that had grown up with our music who were now
[C] middle-aged [E] with children of their own that are now in college.
[C#] A lot of [E] them just thought we'd stop playing, you know, so I needed to find
a very interesting and [D] marketable way [D#] to [C#] reintroduce the band to the [F] world.
And I came across a [D] copy of a [Cm] magazine, I think it [D] was called American Heritage.
It said [D] 1964, the year that changed everything, and it dealt largely with the Vietnam War,
student protests, it dealt with the Lyndon Johnson's, what was it [F] called,
the New Society or something like that?
I can't remember.
Well, anyway, it dealt with NAMM, it dealt with everything, the assassination of JFK,
but it dealt largely [D] with Beatlemania and the profound impact that it had upon
[E] the youth of America.
When I Want to Hold Your Hand was [G#] released as a single in 1963
and then followed in January of 64 with Meet the Beatles, [F#] which [D#] we agreed as a band
was the most [D] influential album in our lives.
Now, that album [C] had become a bit of a [F#] holy grail
in that [C] it had not been available for over 20 years.
So you're looking at a generation
of music lovers that weren't even [A#] aware that this album had been [F] released.
So we rather lovingly [C#] recreated it from [D] the bottom up, [D#] done in our own style.
And the way that we recorded it was much like a classical orchestra [D#] would sit down
and read the notes of something Beethoven had written and they'd play [D] the notes as written.
But if they're worth anything at all, that aggregation of musicians or symphony
will have their own sound and you'll know who it is immediately.
And you guys kept your sound.
Absolutely.
You did a loving remake and the first one was called Meet the Smithereens,
which you guys did.
Now you're doing the next one, which is the B-sides of the Beatles' tunes.
And I'll tell you, you did my favorite Beatles song on the first one, Don't Bother Me.
Yeah, the very first solo [C#] George Harrison composition.
Tell me about that one because I [N] love that song.
It's a great song.
It's just evocative.
It started off side two of Meet the Beatles.
And it's got that minor key thing that if you like the Smithereens
I love the minor key.
Yeah, you'll like Don't Bother Me.
It's just a great song.
And Mike, not Mike, but Jim Bobchack sang it, right?
Yeah, well we wanted to do something neat for the first Beatles tribute album
that Jimmy [F#] sings [E] George's song [D] and Dennis, our drummer, sings Ringo's [A#] song,
which is I Want to Be Your [C#] Man.
And then [E] I had to come up with a kind of [D#] hybrid blend [D] of John and [D#] Paul.
I was singing both their things.
But the difference between what we do, [Fm] it's the Smithereens with the Smithereens' guitar tones
and attitude and me singing [C#] in my own voice, which is hopefully [C] distinct and somewhat memorable.
The problem I have with the Beatles [C#] bands, [B] as good as some of them are,
the Beatles tribute bands, [D] is that they are trying to recreate the vocal sound
[D] as well as the [E] guitar sound.
And [F] there's nothing more [D] boring to me than someone trying to sound [C#m] like John Lennon.
It's like I'd rather listen to the Ruttles.
Right, but you guys stayed true to the Smithereens sound [N] and you covered the songs lovingly.
Have you ever had any reaction from Paul or Ringo, the two members who are still on the album?
Well, we have friends who are, you know, we have connections to them personally.
I haven't heard from Paul or Ringo, but we did hear from Olivia Harris and George's widow
that,
[N] in her words, we did a very nice job with it.
She enjoyed listening to it.
That's a great tribute.
Again, the Smithereens' frontman, Pat D'Anaisio.
I'm Forbes Adventure Jim Clash.
To read my column, pick up Forbes magazine or click on Forbes.com slash ToTheLimits.
And thanks for watching the Forbes.com video network.
Clash, James Clash.
[F#]
Hint, it's not Bruce Springsteen.
Don't go away.
James Clash.
Welcome to Adventurer, the show with guests who truly push their lives to the limits.
No talking heads here, just the real deals.
I'm Jim Clash.
Pat D'Anaisio and three fellow New Jersey friends founded the world famous band,
The Smithereens, in 1980.
Since they've produced a dozen [G#] top-selling albums with original [D#] songs like
Blood and Roses, A Girl Like You, and Behind the Wall of Sleep.
But D'Anaisio's always been a big Beatles fan, and this month he releases a tribute
to the Fab Four covering B-sides of 12 hit singles from the 60s.
I've heard it, and let me tell you, it's fantastic.
Welcome, Pat.
You know, I've been listening to The Smithereens since 1986, okay?
And what I think you've done now, we put people on the [A] show who take risks.
You guys have gone out and done 12 Beatles [E] songs, covered 12 Beatles songs,
and the B-sides.
That's risky, just covering one.
What was your thinking?
My thinking was that we hadn't done an album in about 10 years,
and I needed to find [F#] the best possible [E] way to [D#] reintroduce the world at large,
the new people, and also the kids that had grown up with our music who were now
[C] middle-aged [E] with children of their own that are now in college.
[C#] A lot of [E] them just thought we'd stop playing, you know, so I needed to find
a very interesting and [D] marketable way [D#] to [C#] reintroduce the band to the [F] world.
And I came across a [D] copy of a [Cm] magazine, I think it [D] was called American Heritage.
It said [D] 1964, the year that changed everything, and it dealt largely with the Vietnam War,
student protests, it dealt with the Lyndon Johnson's, what was it [F] called,
the New Society or something like that?
I can't remember.
Well, anyway, it dealt with NAMM, it dealt with everything, the assassination of JFK,
but it dealt largely [D] with Beatlemania and the profound impact that it had upon
[E] the youth of America.
When I Want to Hold Your Hand was [G#] released as a single in 1963
and then followed in January of 64 with Meet the Beatles, [F#] which [D#] we agreed as a band
was the most [D] influential album in our lives.
Now, that album [C] had become a bit of a [F#] holy grail
in that [C] it had not been available for over 20 years.
So you're looking at a generation
of music lovers that weren't even [A#] aware that this album had been [F] released.
So we rather lovingly [C#] recreated it from [D] the bottom up, [D#] done in our own style.
And the way that we recorded it was much like a classical orchestra [D#] would sit down
and read the notes of something Beethoven had written and they'd play [D] the notes as written.
But if they're worth anything at all, that aggregation of musicians or symphony
will have their own sound and you'll know who it is immediately.
And you guys kept your sound.
Absolutely.
You did a loving remake and the first one was called Meet the Smithereens,
which you guys did.
Now you're doing the next one, which is the B-sides of the Beatles' tunes.
And I'll tell you, you did my favorite Beatles song on the first one, Don't Bother Me.
Yeah, the very first solo [C#] George Harrison composition.
Tell me about that one because I [N] love that song.
It's a great song.
It's just evocative.
It started off side two of Meet the Beatles.
And it's got that minor key thing that if you like the Smithereens
I love the minor key.
Yeah, you'll like Don't Bother Me.
It's just a great song.
And Mike, not Mike, but Jim Bobchack sang it, right?
Yeah, well we wanted to do something neat for the first Beatles tribute album
that Jimmy [F#] sings [E] George's song [D] and Dennis, our drummer, sings Ringo's [A#] song,
which is I Want to Be Your [C#] Man.
And then [E] I had to come up with a kind of [D#] hybrid blend [D] of John and [D#] Paul.
I was singing both their things.
But the difference between what we do, [Fm] it's the Smithereens with the Smithereens' guitar tones
and attitude and me singing [C#] in my own voice, which is hopefully [C] distinct and somewhat memorable.
The problem I have with the Beatles [C#] bands, [B] as good as some of them are,
the Beatles tribute bands, [D] is that they are trying to recreate the vocal sound
[D] as well as the [E] guitar sound.
And [F] there's nothing more [D] boring to me than someone trying to sound [C#m] like John Lennon.
It's like I'd rather listen to the Ruttles.
Right, but you guys stayed true to the Smithereens sound [N] and you covered the songs lovingly.
Have you ever had any reaction from Paul or Ringo, the two members who are still on the album?
Well, we have friends who are, you know, we have connections to them personally.
I haven't heard from Paul or Ringo, but we did hear from Olivia Harris and George's widow
that,
[N] in her words, we did a very nice job with it.
She enjoyed listening to it.
That's a great tribute.
Again, the Smithereens' frontman, Pat D'Anaisio.
I'm Forbes Adventure Jim Clash.
To read my column, pick up Forbes magazine or click on Forbes.com slash ToTheLimits.
And thanks for watching the Forbes.com video network.
Clash, James Clash.
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Coming up next on Adventurer, the lead singer of a world famous rock band from Jersey.
Hint, it's not Bruce Springsteen.
Don't go away.
_ _ _ James Clash.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Welcome to Adventurer, the show with guests who truly push their lives to the limits.
No talking heads here, just the real deals.
I'm Jim Clash.
Pat D'Anaisio and three fellow New Jersey friends founded the world famous band,
The Smithereens, in 1980.
Since they've produced a dozen [G#] top-selling albums with original [D#] songs like
Blood and Roses, A Girl Like You, and Behind the Wall of Sleep.
But D'Anaisio's always been a big Beatles fan, and this month he releases a tribute
to the Fab Four covering B-sides of 12 hit singles from the 60s.
I've heard it, and let me tell you, it's fantastic.
Welcome, Pat.
You know, I've been listening to The Smithereens since _ 1986, okay?
_ And what I think you've done now, we put people on the [A] show who take risks.
You guys have gone out and done 12 Beatles [E] songs, covered 12 Beatles songs,
and the B-sides.
That's risky, just covering one.
What was your thinking?
My thinking was that we hadn't done an album in about 10 years,
and I needed to find _ [F#] the best possible [E] way to [D#] reintroduce the world at large,
the new people, and also the kids that had grown up with our music who were now
[C] middle-aged [E] with children of their own that are now in college.
[C#] A _ lot of [E] them just thought we'd stop playing, you know, so I needed to find
a very interesting and [D] marketable way [D#] to _ [C#] reintroduce the band to the [F] world.
And I came across a [D] copy of a [Cm] magazine, I think it [D] was called American Heritage.
It said [D] 1964, the year that changed everything, and it dealt largely with the Vietnam War,
student protests, it dealt with the _ _ _ Lyndon Johnson's, _ what was it [F] called,
the New _ _ Society or something like that?
I can't remember.
Well, anyway, it dealt with NAMM, it dealt with everything, _ _ _ the assassination of JFK,
but it dealt largely [D] with Beatlemania and the profound impact that it had upon
[E] the youth of America.
When I Want to Hold Your Hand was [G#] released as a single in 1963
and then followed in January of 64 with Meet the Beatles, _ [F#] which [D#] we agreed as a band
was the most [D] influential album in our lives.
Now, that album _ [C] had become a bit of a [F#] holy grail
in that [C] it had not been available for over 20 years.
So you're looking at a generation
of music lovers that weren't even [A#] aware that this album had been [F] released.
So we rather lovingly [C#] recreated it from [D] the bottom up, [D#] done in our own style.
And the way that we recorded it was much like a classical orchestra [D#] would sit down
and read the notes of something Beethoven had written and they'd play [D] the notes as written.
But if they're worth anything at all, that aggregation of musicians or symphony
will have their own sound and you'll know who it is immediately.
And you guys kept your sound.
Absolutely.
You did a loving remake and the first one was called Meet the Smithereens,
which you guys did.
Now you're doing the next one, which is the B-sides of the Beatles' tunes.
And I'll tell you, you did my favorite Beatles song on the first one, Don't Bother Me.
Yeah, the very first solo [C#] George Harrison composition.
Tell me about that one because I [N] love that song.
It's a great song.
It's just evocative.
It started off side two of Meet the Beatles. _ _
And it's got that minor key thing that if you like the Smithereens_
I love the minor key.
Yeah, you'll like Don't Bother Me.
It's just a great song.
And Mike, not Mike, but Jim Bobchack sang it, right?
Yeah, well we wanted to do something neat for the first Beatles tribute album
that Jimmy [F#] sings [E] George's song [D] and Dennis, our drummer, sings Ringo's [A#] song,
which is I Want to Be Your [C#] Man.
And then [E] I had to come up with a kind of [D#] hybrid blend [D] of John and [D#] Paul.
I was singing both their things.
But the difference between what we do, [Fm] it's the Smithereens with the Smithereens' guitar tones
and attitude and me singing [C#] in my own voice, which is hopefully [C] distinct and somewhat memorable.
The problem I have with the Beatles [C#] bands, [B] as good as some of them are,
the Beatles tribute bands, [D] is that they are trying to recreate the vocal sound
[D] as well as the [E] guitar sound.
And _ [F] there's nothing more [D] boring to me than someone trying to sound [C#m] like John Lennon.
It's like I'd rather listen to the Ruttles.
Right, but you guys stayed true to the Smithereens sound [N] and you covered the songs lovingly.
Have you ever had any reaction from Paul or Ringo, the two members who are still on the album?
Well, we have friends who are, _ you know, we have connections _ to them personally.
I haven't heard from Paul or Ringo, but we did hear from Olivia Harris and George's widow
that, _ _
[N] _ in her words, we did a very nice job with it.
She enjoyed listening to it.
That's a great tribute.
Again, the Smithereens' frontman, Pat D'Anaisio.
I'm Forbes Adventure Jim Clash.
To read my column, pick up Forbes magazine or click on Forbes.com slash ToTheLimits.
And thanks for watching the Forbes.com video network.
Clash, James Clash.
[F#] _ _
Hint, it's not Bruce Springsteen.
Don't go away.
_ _ _ James Clash.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Welcome to Adventurer, the show with guests who truly push their lives to the limits.
No talking heads here, just the real deals.
I'm Jim Clash.
Pat D'Anaisio and three fellow New Jersey friends founded the world famous band,
The Smithereens, in 1980.
Since they've produced a dozen [G#] top-selling albums with original [D#] songs like
Blood and Roses, A Girl Like You, and Behind the Wall of Sleep.
But D'Anaisio's always been a big Beatles fan, and this month he releases a tribute
to the Fab Four covering B-sides of 12 hit singles from the 60s.
I've heard it, and let me tell you, it's fantastic.
Welcome, Pat.
You know, I've been listening to The Smithereens since _ 1986, okay?
_ And what I think you've done now, we put people on the [A] show who take risks.
You guys have gone out and done 12 Beatles [E] songs, covered 12 Beatles songs,
and the B-sides.
That's risky, just covering one.
What was your thinking?
My thinking was that we hadn't done an album in about 10 years,
and I needed to find _ [F#] the best possible [E] way to [D#] reintroduce the world at large,
the new people, and also the kids that had grown up with our music who were now
[C] middle-aged [E] with children of their own that are now in college.
[C#] A _ lot of [E] them just thought we'd stop playing, you know, so I needed to find
a very interesting and [D] marketable way [D#] to _ [C#] reintroduce the band to the [F] world.
And I came across a [D] copy of a [Cm] magazine, I think it [D] was called American Heritage.
It said [D] 1964, the year that changed everything, and it dealt largely with the Vietnam War,
student protests, it dealt with the _ _ _ Lyndon Johnson's, _ what was it [F] called,
the New _ _ Society or something like that?
I can't remember.
Well, anyway, it dealt with NAMM, it dealt with everything, _ _ _ the assassination of JFK,
but it dealt largely [D] with Beatlemania and the profound impact that it had upon
[E] the youth of America.
When I Want to Hold Your Hand was [G#] released as a single in 1963
and then followed in January of 64 with Meet the Beatles, _ [F#] which [D#] we agreed as a band
was the most [D] influential album in our lives.
Now, that album _ [C] had become a bit of a [F#] holy grail
in that [C] it had not been available for over 20 years.
So you're looking at a generation
of music lovers that weren't even [A#] aware that this album had been [F] released.
So we rather lovingly [C#] recreated it from [D] the bottom up, [D#] done in our own style.
And the way that we recorded it was much like a classical orchestra [D#] would sit down
and read the notes of something Beethoven had written and they'd play [D] the notes as written.
But if they're worth anything at all, that aggregation of musicians or symphony
will have their own sound and you'll know who it is immediately.
And you guys kept your sound.
Absolutely.
You did a loving remake and the first one was called Meet the Smithereens,
which you guys did.
Now you're doing the next one, which is the B-sides of the Beatles' tunes.
And I'll tell you, you did my favorite Beatles song on the first one, Don't Bother Me.
Yeah, the very first solo [C#] George Harrison composition.
Tell me about that one because I [N] love that song.
It's a great song.
It's just evocative.
It started off side two of Meet the Beatles. _ _
And it's got that minor key thing that if you like the Smithereens_
I love the minor key.
Yeah, you'll like Don't Bother Me.
It's just a great song.
And Mike, not Mike, but Jim Bobchack sang it, right?
Yeah, well we wanted to do something neat for the first Beatles tribute album
that Jimmy [F#] sings [E] George's song [D] and Dennis, our drummer, sings Ringo's [A#] song,
which is I Want to Be Your [C#] Man.
And then [E] I had to come up with a kind of [D#] hybrid blend [D] of John and [D#] Paul.
I was singing both their things.
But the difference between what we do, [Fm] it's the Smithereens with the Smithereens' guitar tones
and attitude and me singing [C#] in my own voice, which is hopefully [C] distinct and somewhat memorable.
The problem I have with the Beatles [C#] bands, [B] as good as some of them are,
the Beatles tribute bands, [D] is that they are trying to recreate the vocal sound
[D] as well as the [E] guitar sound.
And _ [F] there's nothing more [D] boring to me than someone trying to sound [C#m] like John Lennon.
It's like I'd rather listen to the Ruttles.
Right, but you guys stayed true to the Smithereens sound [N] and you covered the songs lovingly.
Have you ever had any reaction from Paul or Ringo, the two members who are still on the album?
Well, we have friends who are, _ you know, we have connections _ to them personally.
I haven't heard from Paul or Ringo, but we did hear from Olivia Harris and George's widow
that, _ _
[N] _ in her words, we did a very nice job with it.
She enjoyed listening to it.
That's a great tribute.
Again, the Smithereens' frontman, Pat D'Anaisio.
I'm Forbes Adventure Jim Clash.
To read my column, pick up Forbes magazine or click on Forbes.com slash ToTheLimits.
And thanks for watching the Forbes.com video network.
Clash, James Clash.
[F#] _ _