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Post by Kapitan on May 5, 2021 22:49:54 GMT
Watching the most recent Beach Boys Talk episode where this performance was mentioned. It reminds me, this should have been a Beach Boys song. Not that this performance lives up to its promise either, but it certainly makes the mind wander.
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Post by Kapitan on May 8, 2021 14:22:24 GMT
The below 1994 show from Berlin crossed my recommended video feed this morning, and while I'm not in the mood to watch much of it, I did check it out and skip around. A few things.
1. I didn't realize they kept the cheerleaders out there. I always knew there was such a practice, but I figured they'd bring them out for "Be True to Your School" or a few of the other relevant old tunes. But they were out there for about 20 minutes up front and a similar duration at the end. I guess once you're paying them to be there...
2. Someone in the audience 20-something minutes in looks a lot like the character Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys. This is unfortunate for that person.
3. The keyboard sounds are just terrible, and the tempos vary wildly at times--worse than many things I've heard with Dennis drumming, which is something. Vocals get sketchy at times, too, though there are also really good moments.
4. Matt Jardine is wearing a pirate shirt and has his long hair. Quite a look!
5. One of the comments says this was the golden era of the Beach Boys, and it doesn't seem ironic.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 8, 2021 14:31:31 GMT
Watching the most recent Beach Boys Talk episode where this performance was mentioned. It reminds me, this should have been a Beach Boys song. Not that this performance lives up to its promise either, but it certainly makes the mind wander.
Yes, "Heaven" would've made a great Beach Boys' song. I think it's a great song anyway. I've always thought it was Carl's best-written song, either that or "Where I Belong". It's a shame "Heaven" didn't jump-start his first solo album, but that album was weak. On a side note, Brian's cover of "Heaven" is among his best solo vocals...ever.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 8, 2021 14:40:14 GMT
The below 1994 show from Berlin crossed my recommended video feed this morning, and while I'm not in the mood to watch much of it, I did check it out and skip around. A few things.
1. I didn't realize they kept the cheerleaders out there. I always knew there was such a practice, but I figured they'd bring them out for "Be True to Your School" or a few of the other relevant old tunes. But they were out there for about 20 minutes up front and a similar duration at the end. I guess once you're paying them to be there...
2. Someone in the audience 20-something minutes in looks a lot like the character Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys. This is unfortunate for that person.
3. The keyboard sounds are just terrible, and the tempos vary wildly at times--worse than many things I've heard with Dennis drumming, which is something. Vocals get sketchy at times, too, though there are also really good moments.
4. Matt Jardine is wearing a pirate shirt and has his long hair. Quite a look!
5. One of the comments says this was the golden era of the Beach Boys, and it doesn't seem ironic.
A few quick comments:
- The band really cleaned up their live act by that time. It didn't necessarily possess the most energy or the best setlist, but the vocals were great.
- I liked Matt Jardine's YOUNGER voice/vocals.
- Hushabye!
- One of the cheerleaders is the future - and present - Mrs. Mike Love.
- I stand to be corrected, but I think I read somewhere that the cheerleaders were NOT paid for their appearances, that it was just an opportunity to build on their resumes. I'm assuming they rode the buses and/or airplanes for free.
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Post by Kapitan on May 8, 2021 17:34:30 GMT
Here's one I've never seen before, a 1983 interview with Carl from PBS Late Night, hosted by Dennis Wholey. Carl briefly discusses Brian's health and Landy, talks some about other music including both his influences and places he's seen the Beach Boys' influence, a little about his spirituality, and takes questions from callers, with the last one being about Holland.
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Post by Kapitan on May 8, 2021 17:44:52 GMT
OK--same channel, by the way: illinois Roy is a star--here is Brian from 1999 in Milwaukee.
First, this time period, very early in Brian's return to the stage, is exactly when I was getting into him and one thing that helped was a local feature and then review of his show around that time. So that makes me feel a little extra something seeing what I really could have seen.
But also ... check both the band and the setup. I have some questions. It's mostly the band you'd think, but the stage arrangement is a little off. In the back row on the left, from center outward after the drums, are Nick, Scott, Taylor, and ... some older, heavy guy with what looks like a press pass. Is this a journalist? Some old friend? Then in the front of stage on that side there is a guy I don't recognize on sleigh bells. Also a keyboardist who (during this first song, at least) I don't recognize, though for a second I thought maybe Billy Hinsche? (I guess I could have watched more before just spouting off about what might be clear in another minute.) Darian is off in the back row on the right side, where Nick usually was, on the edge after the Nelson/Mike (Mike in this case) spot.
The front row, L-R, is previously noted keyboardist, Probyn, Brian, Bob, Paul, Jeff. It's not familiar to me for Probyn to be up front and Darian and Scott to be further back! EDIT, though I should note Scott seemed to bounce around when I saw them. Sometimes he'd be back row with Taylor, other times, especially as time went on, he'd be on the main level with Darian.
EDIT - the mystery keyboardist is Joe Thomas. Got a clear look eventually. Funny, he's in the front row (where Brian often is now, since C50 and then with Al in his band) to the left, but no spotlight on him generally.
EDIT - I think the aforementioned sleigh bells guy might be Andy Paley?
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Post by Kapitan on May 8, 2021 17:58:58 GMT
Different video, same tour (yes, I'm digging myself deeper into a YouTube hole), look at Brian playing the keyboard when the vocal starts. He's just playing the same chord over and over, never changing chords. Great look at him playing "in the key of BW." It's honestly uncomfortable watching him sometimes in this.
Some of the comments say he sounds as good as ever, hitting every note just like the record, etc. LOL.
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Post by Kapitan on May 9, 2021 18:43:10 GMT
Not the Beach Boys, but I didn't see a thread of covers of Beach Boys songs, and I didn't want to start one just for this one video. But here are the Wondermints, circa '95, performing That's Not Me, This Whole World, Surf's Up, and Our Prayer live. (This after the two Darian singles, I Wanna Pick You Up and Do You Have Any Regrets)
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Post by carllove on May 22, 2021 20:39:33 GMT
Not the Beach Boys, but I didn't see a thread of covers of Beach Boys songs, and I didn't want to start one just for this one video. But here are the Wondermints, circa '95, performing That's Not Me, This Whole World, Surf's Up, and Our Prayer live. (This after the two Darian singles, I Wanna Pick You Up and Do You Have Any Regrets)
Sad that Nicki Wonder passed away in 2019. Wonderful covers!
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Post by Kapitan on May 26, 2021 17:16:01 GMT
Another 1983 Carl interview. Short but they cover quite a bit of territory including that Brian had "disappeared" a few weeks prior to this. I know he wandered off to San Diego and was playing piano in a gay bar there, and another time (I think?) he took a plane, or tried to, to Minneapolis. (Good choice!) One of these incidents?
It's also funny how Carl seems to talk about his solo records as being rougher, rawer, when they sound really polished to me. More rock and roll, but still really slick.
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Post by Kapitan on May 29, 2021 15:09:36 GMT
Here's one I hadn't seen before, from 2000: Brian Wilson band with Darius Rucker and Matthew Sweet doing "Sail On Sailor." Obviously the latter two did that song at the tribute to BW from around then, but I didn't realize they all got together and did it for Letterman's show.
Note the band, too: looks like Andy Paley in the old Mike D'Amico/Nelson Bragg vocal/aux perc role, and I don't see D'Amico at all.
Jeff and Matthew Sweet are singing something with the house band as they come out of a commercial break, too. I don't know that song, though.
Illinois Roy has really uploaded a lot of cool things to his channel.
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Post by Kapitan on May 31, 2021 22:30:06 GMT
Dennis in 1977 talking POB and the Beach Boys.
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Post by kds on Jun 1, 2021 13:13:34 GMT
Here's one I hadn't seen before, from 2000: Brian Wilson band with Darius Rucker and Matthew Sweet doing "Sail On Sailor." Obviously the latter two did that song at the tribute to BW from around then, but I didn't realize they all got together and did it for Letterman's show.
Note the band, too: looks like Andy Paley in the old Mike D'Amico/Nelson Bragg vocal/aux perc role, and I don't see D'Amico at all.
Jeff and Matthew Sweet are singing something with the house band as they come out of a commercial break, too. I don't know that song, though.
Illinois Roy has really uploaded a lot of cool things to his channel.
Magnet and Steel by Walter Egan is the song Jeff and Sweet are singing. I've heard that song a ton, but never knew who did it.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 3, 2021 13:14:34 GMT
In keeping with the theme of the day (and summer) for the band, here is a 1971 interview with Dennis and Mike. As an aside, I have to say, there have been a few YouTube channels recently (e.g. over the past year or so) doing heroic work uploading interviews and various appearances from over the years, many of which I'd never heard or seen.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 8, 2021 12:16:06 GMT
Here is Todd Sucherman, who has drummed for Brian Wilson in the studio on numerous albums and done some live work with him (and married former BW Band singer Taylor Mills), as well, in a late 2020 interview. It is wide-ranging, but I've cued up a 10-minute or so segment about working with Wilson.
I know we all ask the questions, over and over, about whether or how much Brian is really involved. Todd repeats what others have said of latter-day Wilson: yes, he's really the one making the decisions about parts, arrangements. (He also briefly mentions the "cymbals" topic, which we've got a thread on, but not in enough detail for me to add the interview to that thread.)
(40-minute mark)
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