Show 2: Verizon Theatre - Grand Prairie, TX 4/26/12 (SETLIST/PICS/REVIEWS)

[Justin]

Placeholder for tomorrow night's show.  Like the first thread, this thread should hopefully consolidate all setlist/pics/videos/reviews/autotune info etc into one thread for easy viewing!

[Justin]

Soundcheck/Meet and Greet

First update by Shadownoze of the soundcheck:

Posted notice outside saying this concert is being filmed.
Jardine being interviewed by merch table. Chatted with us for a moment.
The VIP host, "Stix," is a very nice young guy who travels with the tour. He takes the photos at the meet&greet.
Six or seven different t-shirts available, four hats, program, poster, hoodie, coffee mug, maybe more. VIP group will get first crack at it after sound check.
Sound check: Wendy (inst only)
Bruce thanked us for coming.
Catch a Wave/Don't Back Down/Surfin' Safari.
Not sure if this is different from Tucson, but Foskett is smack in front of Brian's piano, just behind Al.
Brian plays piano constantly, but didn't sing.
LDC/409/Shut Down
Sail On Sailor: Brian on lead, sounded good, messed with the melody a bit.
You're So Good To Me
That's Why God Made the Radio: nice!
California Dreamin'
After several stops and starts, Jardine addresses us early admitted: "Have we sucked all the glamor out of this for you guys yet?"
All Summer Long/Rhonda
Do You Wanna Dance
All this is that: band only

Lots of funny lines during sound check, which I'll try to recall.
At one point, Scott T. said, "Does anybody need more Darian?..that's a rhetorical question, Darian." Someone else said, "I got enough of Darian YEARS ago."
Rehearsing the ending of Sail On Sailor, Scott demonstrated what he wanted. Darian then asked, "Scott, do you wanna hear how Brian's been doing it?" After it was demonstrated, Brian's way won out.

Regarding the VIP goodie bag, it's not very impressive. The limited edition shirt is a plain White tee with the 50th logo  in a metallic gold. Tote bag is okay, poster is nothing special (but you could get I flat or rolled), souvenir lenticular ticket is pretty cool, lanyard with meet/greet pass is blah.
Saw Melinda at sound check, without glasses. Also, Billy Hinsche.





SHOW SET LIST

Second update from Shadownoze


First half:
Do It Again
Catch a Wave
Don't back Down
Surfin USA
Surfer Girl
Little Girl I Once Knew
Wendy
Then I Kissed Her
You're So Good To Me
Why Do Fools
When I grow up to be a man
Cottonfields: Al in great voice
Be True to Your School
Disney Girls: Bruce hoarse, but this was beautiful and well received... And his falsetto at the end very strong
Please Let Me Wonder: Brian on lead and nobody doubling him...sounded good.
Don't Worry Baby: Brian introduces "our boy Jeff"
Little Honda
Little Deuce Coupe
409
Shut Down
I get around

INTERMISSION

2nd half:
Sloop
Wouldnt It Be Nice
California Dreamin': Al started, Brian did 2nd verse and seemed really engaged
Forever: very effective
Sail On Sailor: Bri very good on this, too
Heroes and Villains: great, w/ a Capella ending!
In My Room
All This Is That: loved it
God Only Knows: video of Carl was a couple beats behind the audio
That's Why God Made the Radio: goo, still a bit shaky, but after a few more dates this will be a big spot in the show.
California Girls
Dance Dance Dance
Help Me Rhonda: green bra tossed onstage, Mike hung it on Al's mic stand
Rock & Roll Music
Do You Wanna Dance: lead by Brian, no doubling...and I could not detect any auto tune tonight.
Barbara Ann
Surfin' USA (song in part one was actually Surfin Safari...but it was wrong in the stage lists, too
Usual encore: audience actually YELLING for Kokomo
Good Vibes
Fun Fun Fun

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

Pray for no B-Pain haha

[hypehat]

Hahaa, B-Pain. At least I can laugh at that.

[runnersdialzero]

Pray for no B-Pain haha

lolololololol. +1

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

I wouldn't count on the autotuning to cease.

It might be out of The Beach Boys hands. As a musician myself it is a nearly impossible task to try and prevent all the tech-perfection minded folk in the racket to not impose the latest-greatest magic bullet potion for whatever human flaws might creep their way into any situation.

[37!ws]

Wait, why is the placeholder here and not in the concert sub-forum???

[Justin]

All these concert threads will eventually go to the Concert subsection.  For now, because of the high traffic on this board (unlike the concert subboard), the threads will be started and discussed here and once we get three or four concert threads here in this section, I will ask the moderators to move these out. 

[Aegir]

Let's not keep up the numbering trend for too long though. I think it'll be silly for it to be like "The seventh gig: boston!" and "show #37: Tokyo!" (those cities were examples and not indicative of actual tour locations. in fact just for the hell of it, show 63: newcastle! show 64: wolverhampton! show 67: surrey!)

[Justin]

haha yeah...I was gonna stop numbering after the third one.  Not sure why I picked three,per se,  but...meh...something about the "The First Three Shows" seemed special.

[John Manning]

The hread's already hijacked by discussion about the thread rather than the gig!

[Aegir]

and you're adding to it! I bet you're just feeling burned from those British towns I mentioned!

[Justin]

Anyone here going to tonight's show?

[SamMcK]

Show #88: Bromley, location: my living room

[Justin]

Show #88: Bromley, location: my living room

Make sure to turn off Brian's autotune!

[Rob Dean]

Show #88: Bromley, location: my living room

Make sure to turn off Brian's autotune!

In the words of Kraftwerk AUTOBAHN , and if anyone else mentions Auto 'Frigging' Tune on here , they are in for an AUTO BAN BAN BAN 

[sheknowsmetoowell]

In the words of Kraftwerk AUTOBAHN , and if anyone else mentions Auto 'Frigging' Tune on here , they are in for an AUTO BAN BAN BAN  
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Such a good album.

[Paulos]

Can someone Please Make me aware of this show, I desperately neeed to cry about how much autotune is being used. I know the show doesn't even start for 7 hours but surely someone has a link already?









 

The above smiley is intened to show that I am not serious. Seriously.

[shadownoze]

I'm going to the show tonight, sitting in the front row. I've got two hours before I report to the lobby at 4:00 for the VIP experience. Did not sleep much last night; this is like Christmas when I was a kid...and that's been a long, long time (since we've been strung out on love).

[SG7]

Shadow please let us know how your VIP experience goes and who you got to meet!

[Justin]

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[stack-o-tracks]

Somebody should PM me the mp3s and video of this show as well.

Also I'm going to need to borrow your time machine.

[Rocker]

There's already a lot of garbage posted in this thread. I don't want to go through six pages to read the first post about the actual topic so please keep the other stuff to a minimum if possible

[Justin]

Well just like the "first gig" thread, once the setlist and pictures were made available, I inserted them into the first page of the topic for anyone who didn't want to sift through the entire thread.  I will do the same here.  So, if you don't want to follow the converstaions as it unfolds, just check this first page and see Post # 2 for the set list.

[Rocker]

Well just like the "first gig" thread, once the setlist and pictures were made available, I inserted them into the first page of the topic for anyone who didn't want to sift through the entire thread.  I will do the same here.  So, if you don't want to follow the converstaions as it unfolds, just check this first page and see Post # 2 for the set list.

Great. Thank you. Didn't realize it in the first thread