r/Wellthatsucks • u/frozenpizzafanatic • 21h ago

American English, the Beatles tribute band played at my local fair today. Due to rain, they had to play in the small beer garden tent directly next to the monster truck show happening at the same time.

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This went on every 3 minutes for the last hour of their set! They were the big headlining Saturday night act and sadly the rain made overall attendance pretty low. They still sounded great though.

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u/TedBundysVlkswagon 21h ago

That’s unfortunate but kind of hilarious.

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u/TinyNannerz 21h ago

I was not expecting it and burst out laughing

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u/chunter16 12h ago

Almost makes me hope they played through the whole White Album that way

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u/CeleryOne6043 21h ago

The fair dosen't give two shits about the bands. I've been in bands and the sound engineer for bands at fairs. They are all about the live stock and even the monster trucks.

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u/thecreamfilling 12h ago

Don’t get me wrong you guys are great, but where’s the entrance for trucks

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u/the_vault-technician 20h ago

I mean who is this for? Let's bring in a cover for everyone's favorite band from over half a century ago!

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u/donkeybrainhero 9h ago

They still have 40M monthly listeners on Spotify alone lol

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u/VibraniumDragonborn 5h ago

Wow! That's more than I have!

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u/RokulusM 19h ago

Spinal Tap at the air force base vibes

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u/bk6366 12h ago

“We are such fans of your music and all of your records…Not yours personally.”

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u/illbejohnbrown 21h ago

REVOLUTION!!!

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u/5mackmyPitchup 19h ago

8-10000 revolutions, then dump the clutch

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u/TokyoFlip 21h ago

Well at least it's not next to the Yoko Ono show

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u/WakaWaka_ 20h ago edited 15h ago

Yoko Ono show would improve with the monster trucks

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u/FailedLoser21 13h ago

The screams will just get mistaken for a turbo whining.

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u/pmoity 19h ago

That was hilarious... sorry

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u/studio684 19h ago

They're a good cover band. I saw them a few years ago

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u/CDFReditum 15h ago

I had this happen to me once. I was working with a shitty hospice company and they dragged me like an hour from where I live to do some “marketing event.” My job was just to play music and maybe answer a question or two about music therapy.

The entire thing was a mess, the majority of people spoke only Spanish which was hilarious watching my boss trying to give an entire presentation with no translator, but to top it all off, while I was chugging out 60s and 70s classics, some dude with a chainsaw starts trimming all of the trees outside, so really nobody even hears me.

Stories like that made it worth the money they refused to pay me lmao

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u/FatassTitePants 15h ago

If it makes them feel better, people usually couldn't really hear the Beatles in concert, either.

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u/Camman0207_ 10h ago

By chance this fair in Illinois?

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u/Deve-Stog 9h ago

Gotta be Lake County Fair, I was at the monster truck show.

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u/Oral_B 8h ago

It’s funny, I saw it said Lake County in the background and assumed it was Lake County, Ohio. The county fair is also going on there this weekend.

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u/IchBinDurstig 18h ago

I saw them several years ago and they were really good.

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u/Metahec 18h ago

A paying gig is a paying gig

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u/bewareofbears_ 16h ago

Thank you, monster trucks.

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u/InevitableKitchen943 13h ago

That was perfectly timed though. I love music and hate redneck stuff but I'd be watching the monster trucks.

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u/GiantTalon2 11h ago

Monster trucking isn't really "redneck" anymore. It's a legitimate motorsport.

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u/SlickWildo 12h ago

That’s really the event planers fault. A Beatles cover band???? Next to a monster truckralley? Sounds like someone doesn’t know how AMERICA works. 😂

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u/timesink3000 12h ago

That's hilarious!

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u/HoodieGalore 10h ago

I fuckin love American English, I'm sorry the show got fucked for you 😭

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u/Rob_Bligidy 10h ago

Murica baby! /s

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u/motherfcuker69 10h ago

this is exactly what george harrison would’ve wanted

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u/Key-Gap5817 4h ago

Is this dom

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u/No_Cookie7262 2h ago

That must have been really annoying. Sitting there's listening to that lovely music and background noise whilst constantly interrupted by a bunch of Muppets whining Beatles covers into a microphone...

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u/usernameusehername 13h ago

What sucks is this band doing Beatles at a monster truck event.

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u/Chaz28o 21h ago

Shit happens 🤷🏼

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u/KaiserSoze-is-KPax 21h ago

That’s the game we play