Steve, Here are two sets of comments about the Mike Smith benefit from Barbara Wright from Maryland: Frank, you can most certainly use anything I said about the concert! Feel Free! I should have written down what the bands played but I was having such a great time and having fun talking to the guys next to me and looking around the room at celebrities...I can't remember!!! I know Peter and Gordon played "Woman", "Lady Godiva", "I Won't Stay in a World Without Love", .... THe Zombies only played a couple tunes since they got in so late... The Fab Faux were tremendous...they need to play here in DC/Balto. Sid Bernstein is their manager and I know him so I bugged him about it!! :) Barb Denny Laine sounded good but looks ancient! This was being filmed for a DVD so it will be double fun!
Update (8/5/05)
Just wanted to pass this along in case you hadn't heard it. Dave Letterman rescued the British band, the Zombies, on Tuesday night. The Zombies were scheduled to appear at BB King's in New York on Tuesday as a headliner for the Mike Smith Benefit and Tribute Concert. The group was flying in via Toronto. As you remember earlier on Tuesday afternoon there was a terrible incident with an Air France plane running off the end of theToronto runaway and burning. This closed down the entire airport and stranded the Zombies in Toronto. Late Night host David Letterman came to the rescue and chartered a private plane to fly the group to New York for the benefit show. Dave's Late Show bandleader, Paul Shaffer, was the musical director and main coordinator of the Mike Smith show. The show must go on and tho' they arrived late, 11 p.m., they reportedly put in a great set for the first show and the second sold out show rocked on til 4:30 a.m. Three cheers for Dave Letterman, still one of rock music's best friends! Take care,
Sean
Update (7/21/05) This report on the concert also includes info that an eBay auction in conjunction with the show will feature an item donated by Ringo.
(7/1/05) A concert to benefit Mike Smith, former lead singer with the Dave Clark 5 who is afflicted with extensive paralysis after his neck was broken in an accident, will feature several British Invasion stars, topped by a reunion of Peter & Gordon. The show, to take place at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 2 at New York City's B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, will feature the Zombies, Peter & Gordon (in their first show together in 35 years), Denny Laine, Billy J. Kramer, the Faux Fab and other guests to be announced. Host will be Paul Shaffer from "Late Night With David Letterman." Tickets are $75 and are available online from the club. The club, by the way, is located at 237 West 42nd St. in New York City. Phone: (212) 997-4144.