From time to time many people ask what are Weeklings? Why Weeklings? Ugh, Weeklings, how did the name arrive? So we will tell you. It came in a vision – a man appeared on a flaming pizza and said unto them ‘From this day on you are THE Weeklings with an ‘E’. An alternate theory is that not a Week goes by that the band doesn’t write, record or perform their music. –ZW
Zeek is lying. I think it’s pretty obvious from our Hulk-like appearances that we met at the gym. At the beach really, in Venice Beach in California, where we were all four working out. We thought it’d be funny, calling ourselves The Weaklings, since we are such buff, pumped up wham-a-jamas. But we are bad at spelling. So, we hadn’t realized we spelled our name wrong until the first record was already out. So we stuck with it. We thought about changing it to The Weeklongs, The Zeeklings, The Wing Dings and The Changelings, but we kept changing our minds and figured it’s easier to just go with the flow, ya know. – LW
2. There’s a lot of rock n roll history in your member’s roots. How did you all manage to all come together to form this band?
Lefty and Zeek have been a song writing team for many years. The members of the band also worked together for years in different situations, including the Glen Burtnik ‘BeatleBash’ shows. At one point we did a show of all very early Beatle material and discovered how great it was to perform that music as a simple quartet. We then did several quartet shows and the band just fell together. – ZW
I can’t believe what a liar Zeek is. The true story is Rocky & Smokestack met at a convention for Supercomputing engineers (hackers really). Smokestack, being a software engineer at Intelligent Medical Objects and Rocky being a graphics programmer for Android development at Talas Analytics, Inc, they paired up, first recognizing each other as competitors but eventually getting to like each other’s arm wrestling finesse. In time this led to rock music, as it does, and they found both Zeek and Lefty strung out in a bar of ill repute. – LW
3. How long have you been together? And where is your band based?
2+ years now. We are based in Asbury Park, NJ. – ZW
Wrong. We’ve been together since 1956 and are based in Sofia, Bulgaria. I cannot believe Zeek’s insistence on misrepresenting the facts! – LW
4. Your website refers to you as “a Beatles inspired power pop”. According to your history, two out of four of your members have actually played with Paul McCartney and your bass player has played Paul McCartney on Broadway. Any other brushes with the Fab Four you’d like to mention?
Lefty also met both McCartney and Ringo. We also connected with Ken Scott and Alan Parsons (both were engineers on Beatle sessions), as advisor before recording at Abbey Road. – ZW
Finally, Zeek makes some sense. Rocky’s played with Billy Preston & Klaus Voorman. Pretty much everyone’s played with Denny Laine. There are lots of über talented Beatle-affiliated cats around which Rocky & I have musically crossed swords with. Steve Holley, Denny Seiwell, Laurence Juber, Joey Molland, Father MacKenzie, Lovely Rita, etc. – LW
5. Listening to your first album, released in March 2015, is like stepping back in time… as if listening to a transistor radio in the 1960’s! Are all the songs originals by The Weeklings?
No, but we’re glad you asked. Six songs are original, and six are Lennon/McCartney/Harrison songs that were not released by the Beatles. Our goal was to mix the material together to create the excitement of an early Beatle recording. – ZW
Zeek’s right for once, as much as I hate to admit it. – LW
6. You’ve got a new album coming out called “Studio 2”, named after the now famous studio at Abbey Road where the Beatles did most of their recording. Where did you come up with idea to go to London and record there? Is there a Beatles vibe being in that studio?
It was Lefty’s bucket list idea to record at Abbey Road. But it made sense, since we recorded several more very rare Lennon/McCartney/Harrison songs, that to our knowledge have never been covered. What more appropriate studio could there be to do that? There is a distinct Beatles vibe to being in the real Studio 2. You could hear the sound of the records just being there, and we were constantly pinching ourselves. Hopefully, you’ll hear it on our “Studio 2” record. – ZW
It was Zeek’s idea. –LW
7. The new album will contain four rare Lennon/McCartney tracks. How did you discover these tunes?
“Because I Know You Love Me So” – is from an off-the-cuff demo sung by Lennon and McCartney that appears on the Let It Be “Fly On The Wall” album. We liked it and decided to write an arrangement. “You Must Write” and “Some Days” – these are taken from a 1960s Beatles rehearsal tape recorded by McCartney. We became aware of this tape via Mark Lewison’s book (“Tune In”), where the original songs were mentioned. The tape was actually previously released on CD but is now out of print. We found the songs by trolling YouTube.
“Love Of The Loved” – this is really not so “rare”. It was recorded by Cilla Black and was a minor hit in the UK. It is known to most Beatle freaks. Our arrangement of course is very different from the original Cilla Black version. – ZW
What Zeek said. – LW
8. While recording in London, did you get the opportunity to play in any clubs? Or have you played in the U.K. prior to this trip?
We didn’t play any clubs (no time!). The individual members have played in the UK, but not The Weeklings as a band. – ZW
We DRANK in the pubs, but didn’t play music in any, as we were too intoxicated. – LW
9. Will there be any touring to support the new album?
As much as possible. We are currently planning our 2017 schedule to support the album. – ZW
I plan on touring local condos and other available dwellings in the next year. Yes, there’ll be much touring ensued and libations imbibed. – LW
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