No good vibrations for Beach Boys fans..Lip Synch Claim

[Pretty Funky]

The author can't even get the lead singer right.

http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=530273&articleID=

No good vibrations for Beach Boys fans
Updated: 03:49, Monday October 25, 2010
The Gold Coast 600's inaugural concert has been rocked by claims headline act 'The Beach Boys' lip-synched.

Organisers insist it was a live performance but that didn't stop dozens of fans from walking out in disgust.

'The Beach Boys were a fraud, they were miming everything,' said one fan.

'You could tell they weren't even singing, he was barely even moving,' said another about legendary front-man Brian Wilson.

Industry experts were unable to determine if the performance was live, saying it was too close to call.

[rab2591]

The author can't even get the lead singer right.

http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=530273&articleID=

No good vibrations for Beach Boys fans
Updated: 03:49, Monday October 25, 2010
The Gold Coast 600's inaugural concert has been rocked by claims headline act 'The Beach Boys' lip-synched.

Organisers insist it was a live performance but that didn't stop dozens of fans from walking out in disgust.

'The Beach Boys were a fraud, they were miming everything,' said one fan.

'You could tell they weren't even singing, he was barely even moving,' said another about legendary front-man Brian Wilson.

Industry experts were unable to determine if the performance was live, saying it was too close to call.

Jeesh, I thought you just cut and pasted an excerpt from the article. Nope, that's the whole thing!!! Wow, great article Sky News! 

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Brian Wilson was there? Ha ha!

[smile-holland]

Now wait a minute... did the reunion already take place?

[Pretty Funky]

I think this concert came at the end of a long day of racing. Most of the dozens 'leaving' would have been there for the racing only.

Nice job!

[Andrew G. Doe]

The attendance for the race was somewhere between 100,000 and 145,000. 

[18thofMay]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLADiXpd94s

Kokomo

[bgas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLADiXpd94s

Kokomo

Yep, after watching , I can see they were definitely lip-sinking. 

[Don_Zabu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLADiXpd94s

Kokomo

I dunno, Mike sounds just as worn-out and lifeless as ever, so...

[Bill Ed]

And these folks are sometimes compared favorably with Brian Wilson's band?

[oldsurferdude]

And these folks are sometimes compared favorably with Brian Wilson's band?

Yep, and right here on this board, too. But watch out-the unwritten law here is you can do hard time if you make comments about them but haven't wasted bucks on a ticket to see them first.

[Mike's Beard]

Mike sounds like he slipping into a coma on Kokomo. Summertime Blues is much better.

[18thofMay]

yeah its amazing how his voice suddenly picks up when he is not singing a Beach boys tune..In this concert anyway..Maybe he is singing Smiley Smile style?

[The Shift]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLADiXpd94s

Kokomo

Okay, so you can't see his lips move but I've gotta say that if Mike & Co were gonna lip-sync, they'd've done so to a better vocal track. Suspect Mike wouldn't've been happy putting that out.

[filledeplage]

The author can't even get the lead singer right.

http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=530273&articleID=

No good vibrations for Beach Boys fans
Updated: 03:49, Monday October 25, 2010
The Gold Coast 600's inaugural concert has been rocked by claims headline act 'The Beach Boys' lip-synched.

Organisers insist it was a live performance but that didn't stop dozens of fans from walking out in disgust.

'The Beach Boys were a fraud, they were miming everything,' said one fan.

'You could tell they weren't even singing, he was barely even moving,' said another about legendary front-man Brian Wilson.

Industry experts were unable to determine if the performance was live, saying it was too close to call.

There is something very wrong with this picture; and enormous flaws in the report.  I was not at that show... However, I have seen no fewer than a dozen in the last year, up front, and they were using the Surfin' track to come on stage...then swing into the live stuff...It resonates in the speakers while they are going onstage. 

If anyone cares to check YouTube's  Dancing With the Stars Beach Boys performance, from last spring, Mike's voice was strained from bronchitis or pneumonia or something and did not seem to be a track they were using.  [Although I am sure there is some lovely "magic" along the line.]  Mike pulled himself through the performance, sick or not.  Mike is a pro.  I have seen him "hold the note" for Be True to Your School..."Whennnn" and they incorporate that into the skit.  I expect a few mistakes...it makes them human like the "rest of us" and keeps it real.  I have heard a "sound check" and those are "real voices" (a cappella) coming out of those speakers. 

Now, that said, I know zero about how stage sound systems work...but first, this makes no sense to travel all that distance and lip-synch, and second, the whole "front man" Brian Wilson thing is evidence of no authentication of the story and less homework done. 

And, I see little glitches now and then but I go for the "live-flaws and all" deal, or I could save my money and would stay home and listen to a "perfect and sanitized" studio version.  It sounds more "media staged" to me after listening to all this hysteria.  JMHO   

[Mike's Beard]

Did anyone spot Brian?  ;

[filledeplage]

Did anyone spot Brian?  ;

Good point...but that does not put the "best foot forward" having a story covered by someone who does not know the members of the band, and even if the person was very young, doing the reporting, it would behoove them to read up on the history of the band, before they covered the event.  It says more about the reporting than it does about the band. No journalistic credibility is a bad thing in that business. 

[joe_blow]

The article has apparently been edited as it now states Mike Love insead of the previously reported Brian Wilson.

[filledeplage]

The article has apparently been edited as it now states Mike Love insead of the previously reported Brian Wilson.

Very sloppy work...it was an apparently well-promoted and heavily attended event...and unfortunate reporting.

[Emdeeh]

Sheesh! Now it's been mentioned on BBC2.

After viewing the YouTube video, I don't see how anyone could think that's lipsynching.

[filledeplage]

Sheesh! Now it's been mentioned on BBC2.

After viewing the YouTube video, I don't see how anyone could think that's lipsynching.

Too bad someone did not send them a copy of a recent and still brilliantly executed "a cappella" of  "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring."



 

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Mike sounds like he slipping into a coma on Kokomo. Summertime Blues is much better.

Kokocoma!

[Pretty Funky]

From the BBB site.

Lip-Synching Vocals In Concert?
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 06:12:01 AM by Bruce Johnston

Whenever people suggest that we might be lip-synching our concert vocals instead of singing them live, to me it means that all our band and vocal rehearsals plus the daily sound checks before our concerts must really be paying off!
I don't think the band wants to fly 15,000 miles round trip to a great country like Australia just to move their lips!

Bruce Johnston
Monteito
October 25, 2010

Good answer!

However!....6.22  

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

[drbeachboy]

However? Lip-syncing for a TV show and doing it in concert are two different animals. Some shows required it, while others like The Ed Sullivan Show required live or live to tape performances. The Beach Boys bread and butter have always been their live shows and lip-syncing is not a road that they would ever go down.

[filledeplage]

However? Lip-syncing for a TV show and doing it in concert are two different animals. Some shows required it, while others like The Ed Sullivan Show required live or live to tape performances. The Beach Boys bread and butter have always been their live shows and lip-syncing is not a road that they would ever go down.

If you see a lot of live Boys shows, you know they are not lip syncing.  You can see that is not so.  And the touring thing  has been their strong suit.  And that is why this story seems so bizarre, to me, notwithstanding what some TV shows might require.  I know nothing about TV production, or production in general. 

As a fan, who attends a number of these shows, they do a cappella without instruments, which is extremely rare for performers these days, and numbers which require some real vocal intensity, and they don't sound exactly the same at each show.  That is the attraction in seeing them in different venues.  They sound a little different outdoor than from an inside venue and work hard to ensure that the last row can hear as well as the first.

They are both "live" and "alive" in their performances...