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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 1, 2022 2:17:35 GMT
Locash introduce The Beach Boys to the Grand Ole Opry:
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Post by kds on Jun 1, 2022 12:53:38 GMT
I actually feel like The Beach Boys might have more country cred than this LOCASH thing.
Interesting thing about these guys, one of them is apparently from Kokomo.....Indiana.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2022 17:25:37 GMT
Beach Boys added a show here in town at the Greek Theater for which I bought a ticket upcoming August 7th. I've heard from other members that Brian is having a show somewhere that day maybe Alan is playing with him I don't know. Wonder if there's any chance that Dave would show up and play with the Beach Boys here in town.
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Post by kds on Jun 27, 2022 12:37:20 GMT
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 27, 2022 12:59:36 GMT
Included in the setlist:
- Wouldn't It Be Nice - You Still Believe In Me - Sloop John B - God Only Knows - Here Today - Caroline, No
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Post by kds on Jun 27, 2022 13:02:37 GMT
Along with All I Wanna Do, which makes an occasional appearance in US setlists, but seems to be a mainstay overseas.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 3, 2022 13:35:49 GMT
Opry Live broadcasted last night. The Beach Boys come on at around 24:00. Great sound!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 3, 2022 14:28:56 GMT
The Beach Boys' music sounds so good over the 4th Of July weekend, in much the way Christmas music does in winter/December. It's such a great fit. I wish that Opry Live show would've been broadcasted on a more major network. The country could use those Good Vibrations right now.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 3, 2022 16:53:15 GMT
Opry Live broadcasted last night. The Beach Boys come on at around 24:00. Great sound!
The band sounds great. I can't help but notice that Mike doesn't. Not awful, mind you! But just another sad example of time's inevitable victory. He's hanging in there, but he, too, is clearly diminished even from C50 (as you'd expect, a decade passing, him now in his 80s). And Bruce, bless him, can still clap and adjust a mic stand like nobody's business.
Joking aside: this band can put on a great performance of this great music.
And it really is interesting that they're embraced by the country music audience. I've got all kinds of different thoughts on that, all for another time.
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Post by carllove on Jul 3, 2022 17:08:09 GMT
Opry Live broadcasted last night. The Beach Boys come on at around 24:00. Great sound!
The band sounds great. I can't help but notice that Mike doesn't. Not awful, mind you! But just another sad example of time's inevitable victory. He's hanging in there, but he, too, is clearly diminished even from C50 (as you'd expect, a decade passing, him now in his 80s). And Bruce, bless him, can still clap and adjust a mic stand like nobody's business.
Joking aside: this band can put on a great performance of this great music.
And it really is interesting that they're embraced by the country music audience. I've got all kinds of different thoughts on that, all for another time.
Mike sounded much better in February when they hadn’t been touring as much. Heck even at my age, there is no way my voice could make it through the sort of schedule they keep. I hope he still can sing by the time I see them again in September! 🙏
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Post by Emdeeh on Jul 3, 2022 21:08:24 GMT
The band sounds great. I can't help but notice that Mike doesn't. Not awful, mind you! But just another sad example of time's inevitable victory. He's hanging in there, but he, too, is clearly diminished even from C50 (as you'd expect, a decade passing, him now in his 80s). While we were watching Opry Live last night, my husband noted the very same thing about Mike's voice having noticeably aged. He can still sing, but his voice is not the same. Happens to most of us, I suspect.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 3, 2022 21:22:17 GMT
The band sounds great. I can't help but notice that Mike doesn't. Not awful, mind you! But just another sad example of time's inevitable victory. He's hanging in there, but he, too, is clearly diminished even from C50 (as you'd expect, a decade passing, him now in his 80s). While we were watching Opry Live last night, my husband noted the very same thing about Mike's voice having noticeably aged. He can still sing, but his voice is not the same. Happens to most of us, I suspect. Unfortunately, exactly. In my family, I've witnessed it with my grandpa and my dad, both of whom were really good tenor voices. (Not Beach Boys talents--I'm not insane!--but I mean good singers. Church choirs, local groups, etc.) In both cases, in their 70s, their strong tenors became shaky tenors, which became something more like the staccato bursts of Brian and (slowly but increasingly) Mike, showing an inability to really hold those notes. In The Music Man, Prof. Harold Hill calls singing nothing but sustained talking, and unfortunately as one ages, it seems singing goes back toward regular talking.
Not that I'm usually accused of being optimistic, but to lean that way, Mike is in his early 80s and still going relatively strong. Al is getting there, and, ditto.
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Post by kds on Jul 4, 2022 4:11:59 GMT
Thats par for the course for Mike, these last few years, but Christ that LOCASH is fucking terrible
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 4, 2022 11:04:09 GMT
I was surprised at the negative reaction to Mike's vocals on the Opry Live performance, so I went back and listened/watched it again - twice. Not to be contrary, but I didn't think Mike was THAT bad, or should I say he sounded like he usually does for the last...several...years. Really. Mike's voice has been weaker and raspy as far back as the mid-2000s. While his vocals during the 2012 50th Reunion, both on record and in concert, were passable, I wouldn't call them especially strong. They got the job done but they weren't a highlight. I don't hear THAT MUCH regression now. I think Mike has settled into his "old(er) voice", and hopefully without any serious physical problems, he can continue like this until retirement.
One thing that makes it easier for Mike to continue singing these Beach Boys' songs is that he only has to sing a line or two and then there's some kind of break in the song before he has to come in again. Think about it, or listen for it. He'll sing a line or two of the verse, then there's a chorus or an instrumental part. There are exceptions, of course, but not many. That's just the way those BB songs are constructed.
One other thing I noticed. When you are at the concert and listening to Mike sing, he sounds fine. Then when you see/hear him on YouTube or some other filmed source, he doesn't sound as good. A few weeks ago I saw The Beach Boys live in Hershey, PA, and I thought Mike was impressive. I must've said to my BB buddies at least three times, "Mike sounds strong tonight." Then, the next day I saw a YouTube video of the same concert, and Mike sounded significantly weaker. Go figure. I also think there is correlation between the sound quality or the clarity of the video and how Mike sounds. The clearer the source the worse Mike sounds. Maybe the echo or the speakers or the mix in a concert hall hides the flaws that surface on a filmed/recorded video - such as Opry Live.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 4, 2022 11:37:49 GMT
Sheriff John Stone, you didn't call me out, but I was criticizing his voice. So I'll reply to that: and I don't really disagree with you. I wasn't so much saying Mike was newly awful, an in fact I didn't even think he was awful at all (and said so, specifically). It just stood out to me that with that great sounding group, he was a (the?) musical weak link. And weak is exactly the word: Murry Wilson is shouting up from below, "come on, ya got any guts?"
I'm 100% convinced that live performances often sound better because we're in the moment. The clarity of hindsight--or really the clarity of tape, once any adrenaline or serotonin or whatever has worn off--is quite a reality check. Or cold shower.
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