Release Date: November 26, 2020 NEW RELEASE UPC: 194690382086 Chuck Bari & The Shackers “Savoy Truffle” Featuring Featuring Joe Bithorn (George) from the Joe Bithorn, Beatles Tribute Band, ‘Rain’ world famous Beatles Tribute Band, Rain. Joe Bithorn Savoy Truffle, Chuck Bari & The Shackers Chuck Bari & The Shackers, 2020 • Joe Bithorn, Lead Vocal and Guitar • Jeff Tamelier, Lead Guitar • Prairie Prince, Drums • Bobby Vega, Bass • Tonee Ray, Keyboards • Jim Funk, Background Vocals • Chuck Hansen, All Saxes Produced by Jeff Tamelier Mixed & Mastered by Peter DeLeon Executive Producer, Jeff Tamelier, Courtesy Blindgym Productions, Engineer Peter De Leon, Recorded at The Track Shack Studios, Sacramento, California, USA, Website: www.TheTrackShack.com. Label: Doc Hansen Digital Publishing LLC. The Beatles White Album, 1968 Savoy Truffle, by George Harrison Recorded at Trident & Abbey Road Studios October 3, 5, 11, and 14, 1968 • George Harrison, Vocals, Lead Guitar (1957 Gibson Les Paul Standard) • Paul McCartney, Harmony Vocals, Bass Guitar, Tambourine, Bongos • Ringo Starr, Drums • Chris Thomas, Organ (Hammond RT-3 w/ Leslie 145 cabinet) and Electric Piano (Hohner Pianet C) • Art Ellefson, Tenor Saxophone • Danny Moss, Tenor Saxophone • Derek Collins, Tenor Saxophone • Harry Klein, Baritone Saxophone • Bernard George, Baritone Saxophone • Ronnie Ross, Baritone Saxophone (Soloist, Lou Reed song “Walk on the Wild Side”) Long time friends George Harrison and Eric Clapton. In his autobiography ‘I Me Mine,’ Harrison explained that Savoy Truffle was inspired by a box of Mackintosh’s Good News chocolates. Many of the lines came directly from the varieties of chocolate in the boxes, although Cherry Cream and Coconut Fudge were Harrison’s own inventions. With its reference to ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’, ‘Savoy Truffle’ was one of two White Album songs to refer to different Beatles tracks – the other being ‘Glass Onion’. Further inspiration came from Apple’s press officer Derek Taylor, who suggested to Harrison the name of a 1968 film, You Are What You Eat. ‘Savoy Truffle’ is a funny one written whist hanging out with Eric Clapton in the ’60s. At that time he had a lot of cavities in his teeth and needed dental work. He always had a toothache but he ate a lot of chocolates – he couldn’t resist them, and once he saw a box he had to eat them all. He was over at my house, and I had a box of Good News chocolates on the table and wrote the song from the names inside the lid. I got stuck with the two bridges for a while and Derek Taylor wrote some of the words in the middle – ‘You know that what you eat you are’. George Harrison I Me Mine, 1980 Chuck Hansen’s Studio Horn Wall Send All Recording Project Proposals to [email protected] Chuck Hansen aka Chuck Bari From left, Joey Curatolo (Paul), Ralph Castelli (Ringo), Joe Bithorn (George) – featured vocalist on Chuck Bari & The Shackers version of Savoy Truffle – and Steve Landes (John) in “Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway.” Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Chuck Bari & The Shackers • Joe Bithorn, Lead Vocal and Guitar • Jeff Tamelier, Lead Guitar • Prairie Prince, Drums • Bobby Vega, Bass • Tonee Ray, Keyboards • Jim Funk, Background Vocals • Chuck ‘Bari’ Hansen, All Saxes Executive Producer, Jeff Tamelier, Courtesy Blindgym Productions, Engineer Peter De Leon, Recorded at The Track Shack Studios, Sacramento, California, Website: www.TheTrackShack.com RECORDING SESSIONS Bobby Vega Prairie Prince Joe Bithorn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joe.bithorn Twitter: @jbithorn New York City native Joe Bithorn sits in with Chuck Bari & The Shackers to lend a very powerful vocal cover of George Harrison’s Savoy Truffle. The product of years of honing his talent, especially from his fantastic role as George Harrison the Beatles Tribute production by Rain, one of the most popu- lar and well-known Beatles tribute bands in the world. Raised with a steady diet of classical, jazz, blues and psy- chedelic rock influences, Bithorn has said that the Beatles catalogue served as a constant base, and that joining up with Rain in 1983 offered him the chance to pay tribute to work of the quartet. Talking with A.H. Goldstein of Westword, Bithorn talked about his background, his perspective on Harrison as a musician and the current interest in the Beatles catalogue that’s ac- companied the reissuing of their catalogue and the release of the new Beatles Rock Band game. “It actually all started for me when I was quite young, when I was 3 or 4 years old. My mom had been working in an office in New York City, where I grew up, for a fellow by the name of Alexander Schneider. He’s a contemporary of Isaac Stern, of Vladimir Horowitz and great opera stars. These were all like aunts and uncles to me when I was very young. I got to go to Carnegie Hall quite a bit at that age too. It was extraordi- nary. To grow up with that was something very special. I was rapt with attention. I was hanging on to the rails. There was something at that point that was really reaching out to me,” stated Bithorn. Bithorn started noodling around on the guitar at age 7 or 8, and around that time, kept hearing about the Beatles on the AM radio. “I wasn’t really relating the Classical world to the pop world at that point,” stated Bithorn. “I listened to pop music and all kind of early R&B and rock and roll, and then suddenly the Beatles came on the scene. It was like a little switch came on - you have to play and do something with this, not just because you like it so much, but because there are a lot of girls and a lot of attention being paid to those four guys on stage. It was a very cool thing. By and by, it was first and foremost learning a lot of Beatles songs as a kid.” http://beatlemaniaalumni.com/Joe_Bithorne.html Jeff Tamelier https://www.tamelier.com/ Born in Modesto, California, Jeff Tamelier started playing guitar at the age of 9, Joining his first band at age 11 with his then teacher and mentor Jim Phillips, aka “Blind Gym.” In fact, Phillips was born blind, but played all instruments, in addition to partici- pating on the track & field and wrestling team in high school. “He was a huge inspiration, no doubt about that,” says Jeff. Sports and music have played a huge part of Jeff’s life, from playing various sports, being an avid fan, and teaching guitar to legendary sports figures. In 1982, Jeff had his first brush with stardom when “Jefferson Starship” vocalist, Mickey Thomas, formed his own band “Little Gadget and the Soulful Twilights” and asked Jeff and several members of “Pacific Brass and Elec- tric” to join. The band played regularly from 1982 to 1984, when the “Starship” was off the road. In 1985, Jeff joined “Lydia Pense and Cold Blood,” another popular East Bay band from Bill Graham’s San Francisco label, along with “Tower of Power.” In 1991, Mickey Thomas put the defunked “Starship” back together and asked Jeff to join. “Starship” toured around the world for five years with other 80s icon bands such as “Cheap Trick,” “Kansas,” “REO Speedwagon,” “Survivor,” and Styx.” In 1996, Jeff joined his childhood idols “Tower Jeff Tamelier (Below) pictured by of Power” where he played with the band until his personal flag at the 2018 Clint 2006. While not touring around the world Eastwood Member’s Only Golf with TOP, Jeff made his first critically-ac- Tournament, Carmel, California. claimed instructional video, “Funk Guitar with Tower of Power’s Jeff Tamelier” and produced his first solo record “Strat Got Yo’ Tongue.” Jeff has also produced a number of records with “Doc Kupka’s” Strokeland Record Label and his own production company, “JT Funk- Guitar.” In April 2006, Jeff became General Manager of House of Hansen Productions, LLC in Jan- uary 2007, creating The Track Shack Studio for recording, mixing, editing, and mastering. A popular music producer, session musician, educator, and Bay Area performer, Jeff is the creative genious behind many of the projects understaken at the Track Shack Studios. Prairie Prince https://prairieprince.com Prince is a member of The Tubes and was a founding member of Journey along with Neal Schon and Gregg Rolie. Howev- er, he quit Journey after a few months, before they made any recordings. He has subsequently worked with Chris Isaak (on his first four albums), Todd Rundgren, Brian Eno, David Byrne, XTC, Tom Waits, Paul Kantner, George Harrison, Dick Dale, Glenn Frey, Richard Marx, Bill Spooner, Neil Hamburger, John Fogerty, Nicky Hopkins, Tommy Bolin, Phil Lesh, Singer at Large John- ny J. Blair, and former Tubes and Grateful Dead keyboardist Vince Welnick. Prince collaborated with Ross Valory, bassist and founding member of Journey, on a line of patented eco-friendly, USA made hoodie shirts called MouthMan- where graphic de- signs of jaws and teeth on the sleeves form a mouth when the wearer “hugs himself”. In 2006, he toured with The New Cars including Todd Rund- gren, bassist Kasim Sulton (Rundgren’s Utopia bandmate), and original The Cars guitarist Elliot Easton and keyboardist Greg Hawkes. He continues to play with The Tubes and Todd Rund- gren. He was an original member of the reformed Jefferson Starship, known as “Jefferson Starship – The Next Generation” in 1992, and appears on both that band’s studio albums (the 1999 release Windows of Heaven and the 2008 release, Jef- ferson’s Tree of Liberty), along with numerous live albums. Prince announced in early 2008 that he was leaving the band on amicable terms and remains available for international performances.