2012 Tour fantasy setlist

[Eric Aniversario]

Baby Blue (Bruce sings Carl's part, Brian sings Dennis' part)

I'd love to hear Baby Blue, but I seriously doubt that Bruce could handle that lead...he is a great singer, but his voice just doesn't match that vocal.  If Christian Love were involved, I think he'd do great on that.  And instead of Brian on Dennis' part, I'd put Alan there.

[Sound of Free]

Maybe I am giving the guys too much credit, but I was trying to get them all involved vocally in the tribute to their "brothers, friends and cousins" instead of giving the parts to Christian Love, Matt Jardine or Jeffrey Foskett. I put Brian down for the falsetto on "Forever" based on the posters on this board who say Brian can still sing falsetto when he feels like it.

[The Shift]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYD-8rdh4c&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Original 80s Beach Boys on-stage cheerleaders rehearsing for 50th reunion tour?

[Phoenix]

Trying to make a realistic guess, I'd be happy with (in no real specific order):

California Girls
Sloop John B
Do It Again
Break Away
Come Go With Me
In My Room
Little Deuce Coupe
God Only Knows *
I Can Hear Music (Jeff) *
Do You Wanna Dance (Bruce) *
Forever (David) *
Heroes And Villains
Wouldn't It Be Nice (Jeff?)
Disney Girls
Sail On Sailor (David)
Rock And Roll Music
Cotton Fields
I Get Around
Don't Worry Baby (Jeff)
Darlin'
Surfer Girl
Help Me Rhonda
Kokomo
Surfin' USA
Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring
Good Vibrations
Barbara Ann
Fun, Fun, fun

...Along with a small number of new songs to plug the new album.

* "Tribute" portion of the show

[Cabinessenceking]

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Trying to make a realistic guess, I'd be happy with (in no real specific order):

California Girls
Sloop John B
Do It Again
Break Away
Come Go With Me
In My Room
Little Deuce Coupe
God Only Knows *
I Can Hear Music (Jeff) *
Do You Wanna Dance (Bruce) *
Forever (David) *
Heroes And Villains
Wouldn't It Be Nice (Jeff?)
Disney Girls
Sail On Sailor (David)
Rock And Roll Music
Cotton Fields
I Get Around
Don't Worry Baby (Jeff)
Darlin'
Surfer Girl
Help Me Rhonda
Kokomo
Surfin' USA
Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring
Good Vibrations
Barbara Ann
Fun, Fun, fun

* "Tribute" portion of the show
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This setlist is my worst nightmare!

[Phoenix]

Oh, come on now.  I could come up with MUCH worse.     Sherry?  Duke Of Earl?  At least all the songs I listed are Beach Boys songs.  And sticking with the catalogue, I think my list would be more of a nightmare if we included Wipe Out, Still Cruisin', and a heaping helping of Summer In Paradise  

[hypehat]

That setlist reads like a normal BB's or Brian setlist. Which isn't far off what we will get, I guess.


It's curious to think what we would realistically get from the 'solo' efforts, if anything? Brian and Mike (and Al, if they're doing it) would probably want a song of their own in there, compounded by the fact you have most of Brian's band there. Love & Mercy? Cool Head, Warm Heart?

[MaxL]

That setlist reads like a normal BB's or Brian setlist. Which isn't far off what we will get, I guess.


It's curious to think what we would realistically get from the 'solo' efforts, if anything? Brian and Mike (and Al, if they're doing it) would probably want a song of their own in there, compounded by the fact you have most of Brian's band there. Love & Mercy? Cool Head, Warm Heart?

Brian said on the bloo when asked if they'd do L&M that people would have to wait till 2013 since this tour is a celebration of BB's music, so I doubt any solo efforts will be included. Then again Brian's word isn't necessarily law, so let's just see how things go.

[PrayForSurf]

My Top Ten List for the Beach Boys' 50th Anniversary Tour


Beach Boys 50th Celebration Concert Tour - My Top Ten List

By Phil Miglioratti

None of the Beach Boys have asked me, but if they did, here are a few suggestions for the upcoming tour celebrating their 50 year anniversary as a band:

1) Open with "Meant For You"
It is a perfect way to set the stage (pun intended) to send out the core message of the Beach Boys: peace and love. They can play "California Girls" later in the show.

2) Followed by "Friends"
A reunion for the fans but more importantly may this tour be a measure of reconciliation for the group that started with brothers, a cousin, a neighbor and a friend. All the lawsuits, power struggles, tarmac fist fights, stolen royalties and more than we fans will never know of, may each be forgiven. Maybe not forgotten but no longer standing in the way of giving the world joy of a live concert by a band of friends.

3) Then rock on with "Do It Again"
This was the perfect tune to re-record. The lyrics beg for a reunion. The texture of the song straddles the surf & street era and the progressive stage of the Beach Boys career.

4) Reprise the band intro from the Beach Boys' Concert album.
"And now, from Hawthorne, California, to entertain you tonight, with a gala concert and a recording session, the fabulous Beach Boys!" Fred Vail, back then a teenager brash enough to promote a concert and bold to couple it to a recording that became the first live concert album of a rock group to hit #1 on the charts, is the perfect choice to bring them onstage.

5) Honor David Marks
Give him a guitar solo on "Break Away" so we can hear what the original 6 would have sounded like had he not been dismissed from the band. The guitar solo inserted for the single version of this song sounded forced and unrelated to the feeling and flow of this great Brian Wilson song. Maybe David can fill that break with a Beach Boys inspired sound. Murry Wilson may have been greedy (when he engineered David's departure) and David may have been immature in his too-quick reaction to Murry's taunts but it is not too late to make the song a more complete Beach Boy tunes.

6) Keep the break in "Little Girl I Once Knew"
No general managers worrying someone may change from their station when you go into that glorious break - Give us the full song, silence and all! Every second of it! Just like Brian imagined it.

7) "'Cassius' Love vs 'Sonny' Wilson"
Few listeners realize this album-filler, though not an example of a Beach Boys classic, is a grand example of Brian Wilson's understanding of humor and how it can augment the rock ethos. And now, almost a lifetime later, our naivete when first listening to "Our Favorite Recording Sessions,'' and "I'm Bugged at My Old Man" has given way to the realization of how revealing the Love vs Wilson banter was and how painfully accurate was the "I'm Bugged" story-line. I'm not suggesting they perform this cut onstage .. I'm hoping Mike, who has identified his humor as sarcastic, will stay away from anything that sounds sarcastic or causes Brian to feel fear or hurt. I'm not picking sides, just hoping everyone stays with the positivity that Mike preaches in his interviews.

8) Dennis and Carl, please
Bring more than their memory by reminding us of how "Do You Wanna Dance" was a great Dennis lead and how Carl's voice on "God Only Knows" is considered one of the best in rock and roll history. Let their recorded voice take the lead while they are shown bigger than life on a video screen and as the band plays and sings live. They did it for Elvis; why not the most energizing rock band of our time?

9) The Alan Jardine Album
Most of the night will be Brian Wilson - Mike Love tunes (Amen!) but how about a set of songs on which Al sang lead or pushed to the forefront? "Help Me Rhonda" (a #1 hit), "Sloop John B" (Brian took his good idea and turned it into greatness), "The Times They Are A-Changin" (...yet, here are the Beach Boys on world tour!), "Cotton Fields" (Alan's version, please), "Then I Kissed Her" (his lead helped Brian out Spector, Spector), and "Susie Cincinnati" or "Come Go With Me" or Heroes & Villains, or ...

10) "Love & Mercy"
What would it be like to end the concert with the Beach Boys semi-circled behind Brian at the piano singing "Love & Mercy" as the closing hymn, I mean song. A fitting benediction to what will be an amazing live experience and what was an unparalleled career bringing joy to millions across the globe and generations.

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[Andrew G. Doe]

Maybe I am giving the guys too much credit, but I was trying to get them all involved vocally in the tribute to their "brothers, friends and cousins" instead of giving the parts to Christian Love, Matt Jardine or Jeffrey Foskett. I put Brian down for the falsetto on "Forever" based on the posters on this board who say Brian can still sing falsetto when he feels like it.

... which isn't in public, usually.  

And of course, it's not the same falsetto he could crank out without thinking back in 1970. Best call for that today would be Jeff, Matt or Christian.

My #1 wish for this celebration is very simple - that no-one is in any way embarrassed of discomfited. These guys are all (David excepted) pushing or past 70.

[Mikie]

And of course, it's not the same falsetto he could crank out without thinking back in 1970. Best call for that today would be Jeff, Matt or Christian.

Agreed on Jeff and Matt, but best call for falsetto is Christian??  I thought Randall Kirsch was doing the falsettos for the Mike and Bruce band these days. And another guy that's long gone that use to do a pretty good falsetto (except for the Queen Mary gig in 1981) and I thought I'd bring him up now because nobody mentioned him here at all lately - Adrian Baker. Think the "Happy Birthday Brian Wilson" record.

[filledeplage]

And of course, it's not the same falsetto he could crank out without thinking back in 1970. Best call for that today would be Jeff, Matt or Christian.

Agreed on Jeff and Matt, but best call for falsetto is Christian??  I thought Randall Kirsch was doing the falsettos for the Mike and Bruce band these days. And another guy that's long gone that use to do a pretty good falsetto (except for the Queen Mary gig in 1981) and I thought I'd bring him up now because nobody mentioned him here at all lately - Adrian Baker. Think the "Happy Birthday Brian Wilson" record.

Randell's falsetto impresses me as "effortless and unstrained" and closest to Brian's on the early work, especially the doowop stuff.  I think Brian's voice was amazing on Gershwin.  I imagine Brian will have a full plate of leads.  After all, his and Mike's voices are the signature voices.  The voice is a delicate instrument, subject to irritation from bad air in an airplane, or poor indoor air quality in a venue.  I would suspect that the falsetto voice would suffer the most quickly.  Tricky.

Christian's voice seems to have that "serene" quality that Carl's had. I'm not familiar with his work with his own band and non-BB music. 

[Rocker]

Some other ideas:

I'd love to hear Brian and Mike doing "It's just a matter of time" with just a piano.
I think it'd be ok if they do Surf City as it's one of Brian's four no. 1 hits. But except for that they should keep the covers to a minimum

All in all I guess we'll hear the "Sounds of summer" and "The warmth of the sun" CD's. Maybe not everything from the latter. In fact I'd be very excited to hear 409 with David playing the solo

[tpesky]

I'll be interested to see how they divide Brian and Al's leads as Al usually covered Brian's leads during BB concerts. When they toured in '06, they split a number of leads WIBN, Sloop etc.  and it sounded really good! One of the highlights for me was them on the tag of I Just Wasnt Made for These Times and together on the first chorus of Sloop.  I would like to see Sloop, You're So Good To Me, Breakaway , You Still Believe with Al and Brian switching off on verses which would take some pressure off Brian as well. They did WIBN in a lower key which they would have to do here as well. I can understand why people want to hear original keys and obviously Dont Worry Baby and Warmth of the Sun you'd have to have others sing them but I'd rather hear a song like WIBN dropped in key so Brian and Al can sing it as opposed to Jeff Foskett singing it. It's  BB reunion., the BB should do as many vocals as possible.

[Rocker]

BTW,
I really can't decide what I'd like better as an opening. The way Mike & Bruce used the original "Surfin'" recording and then going live into it or "California girls", which - although used many, many times - still is a heck of an opening song ! Maybe they'll do "Do it again" though

[Rob Dean]

Figuring there would be an intermission in the show, I would like to see them close out the first set with a full-fledged Dennis and Carl tribute, with the boys sharing thoughts on them in it. Brian would speak before the last one. The songs would be:

Baby Blue (Bruce sings Carl's part, Brian sings Dennis' part)

Damn it , if there are guests allowed can Sean Macreavy and I please do Baby Blue again with Surfs Up  ( we haven't done it for a couple of years), PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8vdYbpyBgA

Hey Barbara and Annie were at this Stomp gig , and they loved it - Surely that makes us family 

[Autotune]

I have a hunch they'll open with an a capella short number like And Your Dream Comes True

[SamMcK]

BTW,
I really can't decide what I'd like better as an opening. The way Mike & Bruce used the original "Surfin'" recording and then going live into it or "California girls", which - although used many, many times - still is a heck of an opening song ! Maybe they'll do "Do it again" though

What would be great would be if someone placed an old retro record player on the stage for the opening and started playing a vintage copy of the Surfin'record on the original Candix label!

[Aegir]

BTW,
I really can't decide what I'd like better as an opening. The way Mike & Bruce used the original "Surfin'" recording and then going live into it or "California girls", which - although used many, many times - still is a heck of an opening song ! Maybe they'll do "Do it again" though

What would be great would be if someone placed an old retro record player on the stage for the opening and started playing a vintage copy of the Surfin'record on the original Candix label!

after 50 shows the record would be ruined, I bet.

[Rocky Raccoon]

Our Prayer/Gee
Heroes and Villains
I Get Around
Help Me Rhonda
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
In My Room
Kiss Me Baby
Please Let Me Wonder
Don't Worry Baby
California Girls
Darlin'
Do You Wanna Dance?
Sloop John B
Wouldn't It Be Nice
God Only Knows
The Night Was So Young
All Summer Long
Good Vibrations
Do It Again
Marcella
Sail On Sailor
'Til I Die
Surf's Up
Time to Get Alone
The Little Girl I Once Knew
Forever
Southern California
Good Timin'
Cool, Cool Water
Caroline, No
Barbara Ann
Surfin' USA
Fun, Fun, Fun
Love and Mercy

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

Our Prayer/Gee
Heroes and Villains
I Get Around
Help Me Rhonda
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
In My Room
Kiss Me Baby
Please Let Me Wonder
Don't Worry Baby
California Girls
Darlin'
Do You Wanna Dance?
Sloop John B
Wouldn't It Be Nice
God Only Knows
The Night Was So Young
All Summer Long
Good Vibrations
Do It Again
Marcella
Sail On Sailor
'Til I Die
Surf's Up
Time to Get Alone
The Little Girl I Once Knew
Forever
Southern California
Cool, Cool Water
Caroline, No
Barbara Ann
Surfin' USA
Fun, Fun, Fun
Love and Mercy

Add in "Vegatables" and this may be the perfect setlist!

[Shady]

Our Prayer/Gee
Heroes and Villains
I Get Around
Help Me Rhonda
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
In My Room
Kiss Me Baby
Please Let Me Wonder
Don't Worry Baby
California Girls
Darlin'
Do You Wanna Dance?
Sloop John B
Wouldn't It Be Nice
God Only Knows
The Night Was So Young
All Summer Long
Good Vibrations
Do It Again
Marcella
Sail On Sailor
'Til I Die
Surf's Up
Time to Get Alone
The Little Girl I Once Knew
Forever
Southern California
Cool, Cool Water
Caroline, No
Barbara Ann
Surfin' USA
Fun, Fun, Fun
Love and Mercy

Add "Honkin' down the highway" and "All I wanna Do"

 

[SMiLE Brian]

Love You album set.

[Aegir]

I know the setlist is going to disappointment no matter what. It'll be the same old Surf Hits + Today + Pet Sounds stuff.

This is a cool setlist, I'd be really happy with it.

[drbeachboy]

What, no car songs? You can bet that at least Little Deuce Coupe, 409 and Shut Down will be part of the set list.