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Post by Kapitan on Jan 8, 2021 19:09:38 GMT
I'm not sure how this has escaped me after all these years (although I never really was interested in Dino, Desi, and Billy, and so I guess I just didn't care to look), but the recently-linked interview with Billy Hinsche referenced their final single, "Lady Love," cowritten by Hinsche and Brian Wilson.
When the band struggled for new material, I'm surprised they didn't turn to this one. It's a nice little song.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2021 23:24:40 GMT
That's a great song and it's wonderful to see Dean Martin with such forthright pride in his son and in the band They must be playing over a backing track but it looks like they were really playing to and certainly Desi was really playing the drums so what's going on there from a technical standpoint Interesting to think that Dean Martin is buried about 200' from Carl Wilson. I'm not sure how this has escaped me after all these years (although I never really was interested in Dino, Desi, and Billy, and so I guess I just didn't care to look), but the recently-linked interview with Billy Hinsche referenced their final single, "Lady Love," cowritten by Hinsche and Brian Wilson.
When the band struggled for new material, I'm surprised they didn't turn to this one. It's a nice little song.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 8, 2021 23:39:25 GMT
Yeah, with no microphones and instruments unplugged, it's certain that the audio we're hearing is the recording. It does look like the drummer is playing, so I'd guess he's just playing along (also un-mic'd) to the playback. Presumably the audience would've been able to hear some live drumming, but I'm guessing we can't at all and it's purely the studio audio for us.
The others do look like they're playing and singing along, as well, which is nice for watching it, anyway. I really hate when it's pretty obvious the musicians on stage either have no idea how to play "their" song, or can't be bothered to fake it. (Was it Johnny Rotten who intentionally did an awful job lip syncing to undermine the whole idea?)
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Post by kds on Jan 9, 2021 13:07:39 GMT
Yeah, with no microphones and instruments unplugged, it's certain that the audio we're hearing is the recording. It does look like the drummer is playing, so I'd guess he's just playing along (also un-mic'd) to the playback. Presumably the audience would've been able to hear some live drumming, but I'm guessing we can't at all and it's purely the studio audio for us.
The others do look like they're playing and singing along, as well, which is nice for watching it, anyway. I really hate when it's pretty obvious the musicians on stage either have no idea how to play "their" song, or can't be bothered to fake it. (Was it Johnny Rotten who intentionally did an awful job lip syncing to undermine the whole idea?)
Sounds like something he'd do, but I know Syd Barrett stood stone faced for much of Floyd's "performance" on Bandstand in 1967. And, in 1986, I'm not sure what show Iron Maiden were on, but they completely took the piss out of miming Wasted Years, swapping instruments and taking turns "singing."
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Post by B.E. on Jan 10, 2021 16:13:31 GMT
Here's a live performance of "They Can't Take That Away From Me" from Australia, 2010. Brian's in great spirits and fine form. There's a nice vocal flourish/improv from Brian that's not on the album (at about the 2:30 mark). This put a smile on my face. And, of course, the band is great! I recommend subscribing to his official YouTube channel if you haven't yet. Now, I'm thinking I might listen to the album today. lonelysummer - I think you'll enjoy seeing Brian and the band enthusiastic about their new material and promoting it pretty hard at the start of the video.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 10, 2021 22:02:16 GMT
It's funny how much things have changed since then. At that time, he had toured three studio albums in full (BWPS, TLOS, Gershwin), with a pair of other studio albums released in that same time frame (GIOMH and Xmas). The live shows were interesting because there was a constant shuffling of material.
Since then? Disney, which wasn't toured probably because they were working on TWGMTR with the Beach Boys. (Disney was released in Oct '11; TWGMTR was released in June '12, but in Feb. '12 Brian and Mike said the new album was half done, and its wiki page says recording began in May '11. And then of course we got NPP.
But what it feels like is a decade of Pet Sounds shows, frankly.
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Post by kds on Jan 10, 2021 22:32:09 GMT
I can't help but wonder about how Foskett leaving Brian's band changed things. It seems like Brian's sets have become more predictable than Mike's in recent years.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 10, 2021 23:22:43 GMT
It's funny how much things have changed since then. At that time, he had toured three studio albums in full (BWPS, TLOS, Gershwin), with a pair of other studio albums released in that same time frame (GIOMH and Xmas).
Changes in the band, too. Many of the musicians in the above video left the band - Jeff Foskett, Jeff Simon, Scott Bennett, and Nelson Bragg. Not sure about the drummer.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 10, 2021 23:30:29 GMT
It's funny how much things have changed since then. At that time, he had toured three studio albums in full (BWPS, TLOS, Gershwin), with a pair of other studio albums released in that same time frame (GIOMH and Xmas).
Changes in the band, too. Many of the musicians in the above video left the band - Jeff Foskett, Jeff Simon, Scott Bennett, and Nelson Bragg. And of course Taylor Mills left around then; Darian Sahanaja has been in and out on various tours; the drummer's seat has changed hands a few times; and Nick Walusko passed away.
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Post by kds on Jan 11, 2021 1:34:14 GMT
It's funny how much things have changed since then. At that time, he had toured three studio albums in full (BWPS, TLOS, Gershwin), with a pair of other studio albums released in that same time frame (GIOMH and Xmas).
Changes in the band, too. Many of the musicians in the above video left the band - Jeff Foskett, Jeff Simon, Scott Bennett, and Nelson Bragg. Not sure about the drummer. True, but I think Foskett was the MD, a role that I believe Paul Von Mertens now fills.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 11, 2021 23:05:35 GMT
Unavailable to stream in the U.S., but even seeing its existence is pretty cool.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 14, 2021 16:55:45 GMT
Not quite the Beach Boys, but a few Brian Wilson band members (Probyn, Nelson, and Scott) backing Paul Steel on "Surf's Up" at a tavern in 2012. I vaguely recall the name Paul Steel as I watch: I think he was a onetime poster on SMBB, in fact, though I might be hallucinating that. But I seem to remember him publicizing his music somewhere online in the BBs universe.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 15, 2021 21:58:04 GMT
I have watched very, very few live Beach Boys performances from roughly when Dennis died (but even the earlier 80s to some extent) through, well, I guess the Scott Totten era (as a band member, not leader). So when YouTube decided I should watch this clip from '87, I decided to give it a shot.
I'm all of 1 minute, 10 seconds in. Mike's voice when he comes in makes me queasy. He's got the nasal thing going and his pitch is pretty sketchy as he's holding notes (for no reason, by the way). Quite a shirt he's got, too...
One thing I want to know is, did the crowd really cheer like that when Mike took the lead vocal? Or was that just a matter of a different mix, with audience noise being more prominent? Because wow. It's funny to me that they'd think, "YEAH! IT'S A LOVE THANG!"
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 16, 2021 1:08:41 GMT
I have watched very, very few live Beach Boys performances from roughly when Dennis died (but even the earlier 80s to some extent) through, well, I guess the Scott Totten era (as a band member, not leader). So when YouTube decided I should watch this clip from '87, I decided to give it a shot.
I'm all of 1 minute, 10 seconds in. Mike's voice when he comes in makes me queasy. He's got the nasal thing going and his pitch is pretty sketchy as he's holding notes (for no reason, by the way). Quite a shirt he's got, too...
One thing I want to know is, did the crowd really cheer like that when Mike took the lead vocal? Or was that just a matter of a different mix, with audience noise being more prominent? Because wow. It's funny to me that they'd think, "YEAH! IT'S A LOVE THANG!"
I saw The Beach Boys in 1987, and I remember it because it was the only BB concert where I was actually bored. Obviously Dennis had passed and Brian wasn't there, so that was a letdown. You didn't have that shifting from instrument to instrument, you know, Brian from one piano to another and maybe bass, and Dennis from drums to the piano to the front/center of the stage for a ballad. You just had the five of them in a row doing that little dancing in place and going through the motions. As I recall they sang well, but there wasn't much energy. A few obscure songs I think...but mostly a typical set.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2021 3:46:54 GMT
I see Jeff asking for more volume on his microphone....
I love Bruce's voice but there's something very special about Allen and Brian when they do that signature part from the album and thankfully we have hundreds of videos of the 2 of them singing that beautiful part in sloop John B together
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