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For while there are dozens of quartets faking the Fab, i venture to guess that only one contained former gang members of Puerto Rican heritage from the mean streets of the South Bronx. Consisting of brothers Benjy, Robert and Victor Melendez, and supplemented by friend Manny Cortez, Street the Beat’s instrumental lineup consisted of three acoustic guitars and a “drum kit” made up of cardboard boxes (shades of Michael Clark in the more blatantly Beatley pre-Columbian Byrds). They sang — and spoke — with Liverpool accents, when, suffice to say, they likely never had even ventured as far as Liverpool Street in Queens! (via Fake Beatles No. 19: Street the Beat’s Amazing Journey From Gangbangers to the Nuyorican Fab Four - WFMU’s Beware of the Blog)

For while there are dozens of quartets faking the Fab, i venture to guess that only one contained former gang members of Puerto Rican heritage from the mean streets of the South Bronx. Consisting of brothers Benjy, Robert and Victor Melendez, and supplemented by friend Manny Cortez, Street the Beat’s instrumental lineup consisted of three acoustic guitars and a “drum kit” made up of cardboard boxes (shades of Michael Clark in the more blatantly Beatley pre-Columbian Byrds). They sang — and spoke — with Liverpool accents, when, suffice to say, they likely never had even ventured as far as Liverpool Street in Queens! (via Fake Beatles No. 19: Street the Beat’s Amazing Journey From Gangbangers to the Nuyorican Fab Four - WFMU’s Beware of the Blog)

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