‘Rumors’ resurrected
Toronto’s Classic Albums Live has earned a solid reputation based on the collective’s ability to re-create, with painstaking attention to detail, some of the most revered recordings in the history of popular music.
The CAL group has tackled the likes of Led Zeppelin’s “Led Zeppelin IV,” Van Halen’s eponymous debut, AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” the Beatles’
Classic Albums Live
“The Beatles” (aka “The White Album”) and even Pink Floyd’s epic “The Dark Side of the Moon.” What separates CAL from the flock of tribute bands currently making the rounds is the group’s singular emphasis on the music, rather than stage show, lighting effects, costumes, impersonations and the like. Most of these classic recordings were ambitious studio projects, often employing considerable overdubbing, orchestral scoring, layering of vocal harmonies and so forth. This means that even the artists responsible for creating them in the first place never really re-created the studio recordings note for note, harmony for harmony.
On Saturday, Classic Albums Live will arrive in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts — the same venue the group brought its performance of “Led Zeppelin IV” to last year — for a run through Fleetwood Mac’s multi-platinum pop masterpiece “Rumors,” from soup to nuts.
The show starts at 8 p. m. Tickets are available at the Center for the Arts box office or through Ticketmaster. — Jeff Miers
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