THE ENDLESS SUMMER WILL CONTINUE AFTER THE BEACH BOYS 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR WRAP

[CarlTheVoice]

Some pics just in.....

http://instagram.com/p/P9mwIVCRIl/

http://instagram.com/p/P9o9OcCRJq/

Thoughts anyone?

[J.G. Dev]

Mike was taking the picture, and Bruce was bussing tables

Bruce is just out of camera shot wiping his snots on the table linen

[Rocker]

Some pics just in.....

http://instagram.com/p/P9mwIVCRIl/

http://instagram.com/p/P9o9OcCRJq/

Thoughts anyone?

They obviously hate each other ! 


Thanks for the links, CarlTheVoice

[Justin]

Brian looking pretty cool in the group shot there.  And just a little slimmer? 

[D409]

Some pics just in.....

http://instagram.com/p/P9mwIVCRIl/

http://instagram.com/p/P9o9OcCRJq/

Thoughts anyone?

My only thought is  : couldn't they have given the task of interviewing The Beach Boys to someone with weightier music knowledge, broadcasting gravitas and insight than Jo Whiley, e.g. Bob Harris, Mark Radcliffe, Johnnie Walker, Paul Gambaccini or even (at a push) a long term fan like Mike Read ?

[D409]

Mind you, on second thoughts re: the above, we could take Mark Radcliffe out of the running - much as I've always admired him and liked his broadcasting style, he earns negative points for this recent gaffe : words to the effect of "Townes Van Zandt, he did some great work with Brian Wilson, didn't he ?"    

Mmm...Van Dyke Parks sounds a lot like Townes Van Zandt, doesn't it ?

[filledeplage]

Some pics just in.....

http://instagram.com/p/P9mwIVCRIl/

http://instagram.com/p/P9o9OcCRJq/

Thoughts anyone?

Maybe I'm the holdout, and that does not phase me in the least, but, I read that press release/statement very differently.

I read it to mean the shows already booked.  Or, until such time as there is committment all around and some type of accord.  And not anything else.  I did not see animus (ill will) at all.  They performed fabulously.  What stars!

What I was thinking about is assuring those previous engagements as a "go" and not reneging on those contracts.  It is just being responsible in business.

The promoters, venues could be very anxious.  I would be if I had a ticket to see them as the Touring Band.  I read the release as the assurance that the contract holders were going to get the Touring Band.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Does that make them bad guys?  Does that prevent them from working together after the shows are fulfilled or at some point in the future?  I hope not.  And someone mentioned that Beachboysband.net had the disclaimer about who would perform to obviate any confusion.  True.

The pics look great and Brian continues to look better and better.  

They obviously hate each other ! 

I don't think so.

[Rocker]

Some pics just in.....

http://instagram.com/p/P9mwIVCRIl/

http://instagram.com/p/P9o9OcCRJq/

Thoughts anyone?

Maybe I'm the holdout, and that does not phase me in the least, but, I read that press release/statement very differently.

I read it to mean the shows already booked.  Or, until such time as there is committment all around and some type of accord.  And not anything else.  I did not see animus (ill will) at all.  They performed fabulously.  What stars!

What I was thinking about is assuring those previous engagements as a "go" and not reneging on those contracts.  It is just being responsible in business.

The promoters, venues could be very anxious.  I would be if I had a ticket to see them as the Touring Band.  I read the release as the assurance that the contract holders were going to get the Touring Band.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Does that make them bad guys?  Does that prevent them from working together after the shows are fulfilled or at some point in the future?  I hope not.  And someone mentioned that Beachboysband.net had the disclaimer about who would perform to obviate any confusion.  True.

The pics look great and Brian continues to look better and better.  

They obviously hate each other ! 

I don't think so.

I wasn't serious about them hating each other. Hence the smiley, but maybe I should've used another one...

[filledeplage]

Some pics just in.....

http://instagram.com/p/P9mwIVCRIl/

http://instagram.com/p/P9o9OcCRJq/

Thoughts anyone?

Maybe I'm the holdout, and that does not phase me in the least, but, I read that press release/statement very differently.

I read it to mean the shows already booked.  Or, until such time as there is committment all around and some type of accord.  And not anything else.  I did not see animus (ill will) at all.  They performed fabulously.  What stars!

What I was thinking about is assuring those previous engagements as a "go" and not reneging on those contracts.  It is just being responsible in business.

The promoters, venues could be very anxious.  I would be if I had a ticket to see them as the Touring Band.  I read the release as the assurance that the contract holders were going to get the Touring Band.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Does that make them bad guys?  Does that prevent them from working together after the shows are fulfilled or at some point in the future?  I hope not.  And someone mentioned that Beachboysband.net had the disclaimer about who would perform to obviate any confusion.  True.

The pics look great and Brian continues to look better and better.  

They obviously hate each other ! 

I don't think so.

I wasn't serious about them hating each other. Hence the smiley, but maybe I should've used another one...

I wish people, band and crew, could get a good rest, let Mike (or Al and Brian) take care of unfinished business and revisit it in a timely fashion, if it is in the cards.  We got (as fans) an amazing season.  Historic, really.  I feel nothing but gratitude.  Wow!  The audiences just validated all those years of hard work that went unrecognized and underevalued. 

People forget that Mike just works continuously.  I never fault people for hard work.  Apparently, he takes the commitments seriously.  For example, a two nighter in Biloxi next month.  I'd take it seriously, too.  75 monster BB production shows since April, with all the other commitments hanging over his head?  That was always clear (to me)at the outset. 

Maybe this will morph into something different.  It is not for us to tell them how to do business, I don't think.  But I'm trying to look at all sides, having seen all three bands anytime I could get the great BB music!  I'm not surprised if the non Touring Band members want this extended.  Mike raised the bar with Totten and Cowsill.  It is hard to argue with success.  And those people who constantly called the Touring Band a joke, now might have softened their stance.  Pull the YouTube from Holmdel.  Watch Mike's response to the WIBN long applause.  I find he looks really humbled by the response.

Hopefully it will all work out.  They are all big boys.

[pixletwin]

3 posts in a row with messed up quotes. I need an aspirin.

[Awesoman]

Some pics just in.....

http://instagram.com/p/P9mwIVCRIl/

http://instagram.com/p/P9o9OcCRJq/

Thoughts anyone?

Whew! That looks tense!

[SamMcK]

I wish I could interview the Beach Boys.

[I. Spaceman]

Mike's Facebook page was updated to say that he is excited to write and collaborate with Brian an "a rockin' new Beach Boys album".

[Rocker]

Mike's Facebook page was updated to say that he is excited to write and collaborate with Brian an "a rockin' new Beach Boys album".

He better come up with something good (that goes for Brian as well of course)

[Shady]

Mike's Facebook page was updated to say that he is excited to write and collaborate with Brian an "a rockin' new Beach Boys album".

wow, well there ya go!

[filledeplage]

3 posts in a row with messed up quotes. I need an aspirin.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa...if that was my fault...I'm blaming the ipad with its' intuitive thing going on.  

[filledeplage]

Mike's Facebook page was updated to say that he is excited to write and collaborate with Brian an "a rockin' new Beach Boys album".

wow, well there ya go!

Yes!

[Shady]

23 pages comes to a grinding halt with one non-childish facebook update 

[TimmyC]

I just spent three hours at work going through this thread (I'm going to get fired, no question about it - thanks Beach Boys). What a roller coaster!!! Sounds like the new album is going to happen though. It better dammit!!!! Would love a tour too, but I'll settle for an album.

[Rocker]

23 pages comes to a grinding halt with one non-childish facebook update 

And interestingly that comes from Mike  

[Justin]

Well that was fun.

As you were, everyone.

[TimmyC]

23 pages comes to a grinding halt with one non-childish facebook update 

Yup  

[HeyJude]

What other choice is there? The reunion had an end date. Venues booked the non-reunion group. Is the promoter to take a loss by sending a more expensive group for a smaller group contract or are the Boys supposed to take a loss? I don't really know how it works. I suppose they could do whatever they agreed/agree to do.

Again it's kind of all semantics, but the "50th Anniversary Tour" had a end date, not the "reunion." The "reunion" was kind of open ended apart from vague comments about either possibly doing more things after the tour or this being "one final time" (how long that "one final time" would be is open-ended too of course, one final time for five more years?).

As I've said elsewhere, Mike's own camp stated Mike chose to cancel the "Nutty Jerry's" show, so Mike can apparently cancel gigs if he really wants to (which may include some financial loss, we don't know). But the statement that set this all off did not read like "Mike and Bruce just have a few previously-scheduled engagements with their touring lineup." It wasn't a firm in never doing reunion stuff again either, but it seemed like a "forseeable future" sort of statement to me.

[drbeachboy]

23 pages comes to a grinding halt with one non-childish facebook update  

And interestingly that comes from Mike  

That Mike, he's such a nice guy!

[ontor pertawst]

It's just repeating his "sure, another album would be nice but I have to cowrite it" thing. I wonder what the specifics of his demands are. No JT? Write it from scratch, no Brian working for months without him with other collaborators?  Brown M&Ms removed? When would they actually work on it if that were the case if he's immediately back to touring?

It sure gives him the power to put things off indefinitely, stay in the catbird seat and dictate terms.