The Beatles Costello

Produced by Joe Pope, founder of noted Beatles fanzine "Strawberry Fields Forever", Boston's The Beatles Costello were a band with a serious sixties bent. They released a 4 track EP called 'Washing The Defectives', which includes covers of "I Feel Fine", "Theme From A Summer Place" and "Out Of Limits". The band was Eric "Slowhand" Rosenfeld (lonesome guitar strangler), Andy Paley (background vocals, rhythm guitar), Jim Freeman (drums), Chuck Chaplin (piano) and Jim Skinner (vocalist). Eric and Andy were members of The Sidewinders, who released a self titled album in 1972, and both were also a part of the 1978 Paley Brothers' first album on Sire. Eric also appears on Erik Lindgren's 'Sells Out', from 2001,but perhaps more importantly that's Eric playing guitar on the Meco hit album 'Star Wars And Other Galactic Funk' from 1977. Andy played guitar with Jonathan Richman's 'Back In Your Life', and also has produced the likes of Brian Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis, NRBQ, Candye Kane and Madonna, as well as penning tunes for Solomon Burke, Take 6, Los Straitjackets and The Rubinoos just to name a few. Jim Freeman went on to do reissue production for dozens of albums from Nat King Cole to Sinatra. Meantime Chuck added his 88's to The Pousette Dart Band's 1979 album 'Never Enough', and Jim Skinner became an engineer of some reknown, with credits ranging from TownesVan Zandt's 1999 'Far Cry From Dead' to Jeff Carson's 2001 'Real Life'.