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Wow. Thanks to the Blue board for this find....

Carl and Billy H at what looks like a wedding or private function.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAKG-hKdhM

This is incredible !!! What a clip !!!

Very nice.

Looks like Mike Kowalski on drums too.

Thanks.

YEah.  That or from the You Tube Thread in Media where it was posted last night: 

Some things are just too good to be hidden in that thread.

Any video of Tues Dodgers appearance will be front and center on the 'General On Topic Discussion' site I suspect, however board admin may think otherwise.

Thanks for posting, that was great to see!

As you see  it.
I don't see them as being hidden, tho; they're easy to find, one just has to look.

THAT...will be missed this summer

This very much deserves its own thread.

Ahh lovely.   Thanks for posting.

Ooh - That puts shivers down my back.  It just reminds me how much everyone lost 14 years ago. Can it really be that long ago. An angels voice for certain.

I posted this in the YouTube thread, but it might as well go here too. I wonder when that Carl Wilson clip came from? I would give a semi-educated guess and say 1994. Carl seemed to be really struggling to hit some of the higher notes. Perhaps he was just having an off day. Other than the 1977-78 period, you rarely hear or see a film or recording of Carl not sounding his best. Even in the few recordings I've heard from 1997, he still sounded amazing

Wow.  That almost felt like he was here in the room with me.  Amazing clip.

Thanks, that was awesome! 

Still missed; never forgotten. 

Made my day. Thank you.

And thank you Carl for singing it so well in 1966 that it was released with your voice on lead and making this truly beautiful song your own.

His teeth don't look too good...  :lol

jokes over, this is just amazing - makes me wish I had been born earlier to see him myself!

Off day?  Are you serious? It's 1993. In 1994 he was coloring his beard.

I'd go earlier on the date of that performance, around 1990, based on Carl's physical appearance.

But -- wow!! What a find!!

Thats fantastic. wow.   

I didn't realize though Carl  had to sing falsetto on this song. Always thought his voice was higher.  Unless its just  age?    That of course takes nothing away from Carls talent.

yeah, could be around 1990/91. I should have simply said pre-94

Cigarettes, man. They start wrecking your body as soon as you wrap your lips around the evil things.

Oh thats right,  he smoked like a factory.   with all the stress, probably needed to.   The more and more i find out about what  really went on,  I have no idea how they did it. 

And for Carl to do this,  it had to be bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE9xv-VcH3w

Finding out Dennis was homeless after the Holland (financial) disaster and and how much they must of lost by BUILDING A STUDIO in Holland and the record being rejected.   Man.
I am sure they made it up by heavy touring.  But still.  I think the Beatles fights are nothing to the Beach Boys problems.   Watching let it be (and the outtakes), I have seen much heavier fighting
in bands i have been in. :) :)   But, I know, i wasn't there. 

Glad I got out of the music business early in life. 

the other jay

I think it has to do with not having warmed-up his voice for this. Or maybe this was during the morning. Or he had a sore-throat. I heard him sing efortlessly his high and soft part in Under the Boardwalk. Now singing that is difficult as hell, and nailed it every single time. Same with his other leads.

Carl had quit smoking well before this video was taped.

A relative of mine was classmates with Carl and he said as young as 14 or 15 years old he would come into class reeking of cigarettes. He definitely smoked long enough to have his teeth stained.

Why are we even talking about this? It's not like the way his teeth look detract from the beautiful performance we're very lucky to be able to watch.

Did your relative know Brian as well?

This doesn't seem to be an actual Beach Boys show. The only member of the group I see is Carl. Also, note the absence of a lot of the backing vocals near the end.

I'm sure he had seen him around, but I only know for sure that him and Carl were in some classes (or maybe just one) together.

Beautiful performance. I think that's Billy on the keyboards, can't see the drummer. Hope there is more where this came from. Even older, with grey in his beard, a very handsome man.

This performance is just stunning, I wish there was more because this footage is just amazing to see one of rock's greatest vocalists in such an intimate setting.

That's Mike Kowalski on drums

Carl certainly got better looking with age. As a pudgy, bearded man, it gives me hope. I just wish he hadn't started buttoning the top buttons on his collared shirts. That never looks good without a tie, and is only fashionable in certainly parts of Utah and Colorado.

The Wilson brothers knew what was up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIYFmG7HbBc Compared to Mike & Bruce. I'm so glad that terrible decade is over and here in 2012 we don't have to witness Bruce wearing tiny shorts dancing behind his keyboard.

Perhaps I'm blind but I don't see that something would be wrong with his teeth here.
When I was 15 I had classmates with much darker teeth then Carl here.

What I really wanted to post: Great performance!

Not trying to get off topic and turn this thread into talk about Carl's dental history, but earlier in the thread somebody had made a comment about his teeth. I personally don't think they look too bad, but it makes sense that they might be stained from years of tobacco use regardless if he had stopped smoking years before the video was filmed since he apparently smoked from a young age. Smoking obviously had more deleterious effects on his health, but again, that's not what the thread is about.

BEAUTIFUL performance. I wish somebody would come forward with information about where and when it was filmed. It's truly a shame that his voice will not be present during the 2012 tour because after Brian's disinterest and Dennis' passing, he was the only shining light in a sea of mediocrity.

If that's what a vocal off day sounds like, I'll take a few dozen off years, please...

I think he was great, but maybe he was just "cold". You know, he only sang one song or two and his voice was not warm yet.

 This video is simply amazing! Having a clip like this turn up gives me hope for what still might be out there.

Yeah! What he said!

Probably not a big factor, but that's a really shitty mic he's singing through in that video.

Nice catch. Yeah, doesn’t appear to be the industry standard SM-58 mic. The event is clearly some sort of wedding-type function with a presumably nice but still modest (compared to a “real” concert) setup. The whole thing is actually kind of surreal. Carl singing an amazing song in an intimate setting; we’re watching on an intimately-shot video, yet there are banquet/catering dudes in the background milling around getting ready to pull out the spiral-cut ham or whatever it is they had going on back there. 

I know a lot of people understandably would like to see the whole “set”, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Carl didn’t do a lot of songs. May have been a quick setup for the small band to do a few songs. It would be interesting to know how much they played, and how much Carl was involved in their set.

Except for the Australia gigs in the 70s I think every other video/audio of GOK is absolutely flawless. That is such an amazing thing if you think about it. Carl just had something that made every performance great. Yes his voice was angelic but it's the passion that makes it reach another level.

I think he sounds absolutely fantastic! Playing for the chefs might not have been exactly inspiring, but we need to realize just how easy it ISN'T to sing such a song perfectly each and every time. When singing, each little emotion one feels in the moment can dictate where the notes go. It takes intense concentration to pull anything off 100% like the record every time.

What was this for, BTW? Did Brian drag Carl along to some restaurant as his personal entertainment while he scarfed down steaks and cake?

From the youtube uploader...


Uploader Comments (rothoklo )

Thank you for all the comments. The performance took place at a private function and I would like to keep it that way. This was the only song Carl performed. I feel blessed to have been there and I can't say enough about what a nice person he was.

Gorgeous clip. Reminds me of the clip of Carli Munoz & co rehearsing you are so beautiful on Christine mcvie's lawn before Dennis serenaded her. Clips of such intimacy... what are they doing even existing?!?!

It's icing on an already rich cake for this fan.

Forgive me if it's uncool to revive this thread, but I just ran across this video and was absolutely blown away! It was like seeing that rare, special dream where Carl shows up in my living room (or kitchen, in this case) and sings God Only Knows right in front of me. Absolutely amazing.

Here's the link again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAKG-hKdhM&feature=g-vrec

Just watched this again, and so impressed, not only with Carl's singing, but his guitar playing. Those unusual chord voicings, and you can really hear them in this stripped down version.

I love the wordless bridge in the middle where you can only hear Carl's voice stripped of all others. Beautiful and angelic.

Yes, I wonder if there is more from this performance?

Agreed. I've always marvelled at Carl's unique guitar chord shapes, particularly the way he transitions from D to Bm6.

COMMENT     What a joy to see Carl again in such a personal setting. Like being there.  Thank you so much for the posting and to the person who shot this wonderful video.  ~swd

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAKG-hKdhM&lc=iqAfYPMykfDVgwBjReCHNFMcW6hUxAGax8gdQ72PnM0
"TheCraig87541 year ago
 
For those of you who are commenting on where he is playing. Billy Hinche, Carls ex brother in law was playing at the grand opening of one of Dennis' sons restaurants Carl stopped in and played just this one song.Having met Carl several times I for one can tell you he was a very humble and sweet man. He made it seem as if he was honored meeting you rather than you meeting him. That's why you'll NEVER see an unkind post about him. R.I.P. CARL AND DENNIS" (http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e94/jend80/2_zpsafefcc4c.gif)

I've been watching this YouTube video for going on three years now, and I doubt I'll ever grow weary of it.  It's beautiful and, at the same time, sad.  I simply can't watch this man perform that song in that setting without coming to the sudden and sad realization that the passing of Carl Wilson effectively signaled the end of the Beach Boys.

Amen.

I was fortunate (and blessed) to have my daughter surprise me at her wedding in 11/12 with this as our father/daughter dance.  Only 100 people at the reception in a small setting, but the entire place sang the sang as we danced.  Shortly after the wedding, I found this You Tube link and listen to it quite often.  So neat reading everyone's posts about Carl.  Yes we lost a fine fine gentleman.