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(with thanks to JesusUK)

First Set:

Do it Again
Catch a Wave
Hawaii
Don't Back Down
Surfin' Safari
Surfer Girl
You're So Good to Me
Wendy
Then I Kissed Her
The Little Girl I Once Knew
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
When I Grow Up (to be a Man)
Cottonfields
Be True to Your School
Disney Girls
Please Let Me Wonder
Don't Worry, Baby
Little Honda
Little Deuce Coupe
409
Shut Down
I Get Around

Second Set:

California Dreamin'
Sloop John B.
Wouln't It Be Nice?
This Whole World
Forever
Sail on Sailor
Heroes & Villains
In My Room
All This is That
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
God Only Knows
That's Why God Made the Radio
California Girls
All Summer Long
Help Me, Rhonda
Rock & Roll Music
Do You Wanna Dance?
 Barbara Ann
Surfin' U.S.A.

Encore:
 Kokomo
 Good Vibrations
Fun, Fun, Fun

Anyone going?

Few clips can bee seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mookieguy/videos?query=beach+boys
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THEY TOOK IT OFF! THEY REMOVED AUTOTUNE, LISTEN TO HEROES! YEAH!

Either that or it's done MUCH more tastefully. Brian sounds no where NEAR robotic.

Umh.. I still hear it..  but maybe a bit less

Just wondering...where? I've listened to this at least five times just waiting for it and I don't pick it up. The chorus is usually wobbling and metallic and awful. Not the case here.

Let's wait for California Dreamin' from this show. :p
Brian sounds great on Good Vibrations though!

Will give a more detailed report when I have time.  But I can tell you they added "Hawaii" to the set and David sang lead, with Jeff (obviously) on falsetto.  As well as I can remember, nothing was sacrificed.  It was slotted 3rd between "Catch A Wave" and "Don't Back Down."

Fantastic show! 

bill

ahhh I wish they had added Hawaii for the night before! I've heard Mike sing it a dozen times but it's one of my favorites.

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An Interview with Brian and Mike before the tour started but here used as a promo for the Tampa show. Another Brianism at the end ?


http://www.tampabay.com/features/music/beach-boys-brian-wilson-mike-love-say-reunion-tour-will-dig-deep-into/1228081 (http://www.tampabay.com/features/music/beach-boys-brian-wilson-mike-love-say-reunion-tour-will-dig-deep-into/1228081)

I really, really hope he meant that as a joke.

That could be anything on Brian's side, but definitely not a joke.

My guess is that Brian's family shields him from any info about mental diseases in case it makes him paranoid about himself.

Dave sang a lead? Ask here and the band delivers it seems. Nice ;)

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You think so? Time to start begging for some Love You material to be played.....

Name your tune and you never know? ;D

The autotune was MUCH WORSE at this show. 

nah, at least for heroes and villains, the autotune isn't nearly as bad as that last show. if that was a brian joke, then wow lol.

Sounds like there is too much Foskett and not enough Al on WIBN.  The recordings from earlier in the tour had more Al and a little Foskett covering. Seems like that's switched. Any thoughts from those there??

Rocker,

whose Facebook do you keep getting these from?

Why doesn't Al just sing lead on H&V? And no "Toca la guitarra!"?

Brian has to be able to sing on something. And they took away GOK, which is arguably his best single lead these days.

Best dressed gig all round so far IMO.

A comic I heard several years ago said a woman wants her man to look smart and well presented for her friends, up to the point they get married. After then, without him knowing it, she encourages him to dress down so he does not appeal to other woman.

Every time I see pictures of the Mike and Bruce show I think 'there goes 2 married men'. ;D

After all the press of Brian finally conquering the demons of Smile, I think they all see it as "his" again.  Of the songs they're playing, it's the one most associated with Smile and Brian's been singing it since the 2001 tribute concert.

I guess I have a soft spot for the way they did it in the 70s.

The only place on H&V that I really hear ithe autotune on is during the words "I've been in this town". In fact, when it kicks in it throws Brian off key.

No fair! I was hoping for Hawaii at the Hollywood show!  >:(

Is Jeff doing ALL of the falsetto leads??

Here, in this part of the world, auto tuning means car tuning.
So I have no problem with auto tuned car-songs.
But not for the other songs please.

OMG, I think I ate a clown for breakfast.

Scott Totten's doing the insanely high parts of All This Is That, Why Do Fools Fall In Love has a dual lead by what sounds like Jeff and Scott T (with Jeff higher in the mix) and Bruce is takng the falsetto on the end of Fun Fun Fun, but otherwise yes -- which in effect means he's taking one full lead (Don't Worry Baby) plus a bunch of partial leads (chorus on I Get Around,  "Will I joke around" on When I Grow Up, etc). Jeff also takes Carl's part on Kokomo.

Mike and Bruce's band always do H&V IIRC so I'm not sure that Brian has ownership. Mike could claim that he was preserving the song for decades in Brian's absence.

I don't think anybody's suggesting there's a legal ownership claim, they're just saying that it's identifyable as a Brian Wilson song; if he's on stage, he should be the one singing it since it means so much to his legacy. 

OK, I agree. Did Brian have any say in which 1966-67 version of H&V to use here?

It's almost a hybrid of Brian's band and Mike's band arrangement.  I would rather they either use 'in the cantina', or else leave out the 'You're under arrest'.  It's a minor quibble, though.  I'm happy they're doing ascending bass lines in the chorus.

Mostly I just see the note when Al was tagged in a picture. I don't have Mike, Bruce or Dave in my list but I would see them as tagged as well.

Purely rhetorical question: If you're the mother-friggin' Beach Boys, and you have a catalog that includes more top 40 hits than just about anybody ever, then WHY the mother-friggin' H-E-double hockey sticks do you open a set with California Dreamin'? Again, this is purely rhetorical- please don't try to answer the unanswerable. <smiley emoticon>

Because "California Dreamin'" is a great song, was a hit for the BB's in the 80's, still often heard on the radio here BTW, and is so Beach Boys, too bad they didn't write it.

Anyone who uses the expression "H-E-double hockey sticks" is all right with me!

I agree though, California Dreamin' is a bizarre choice for this tour.  Replace it with Honkin' Down the Gosh Darn Highway.   ;D

What evs.

Yeah, me too. I mean, I love the Brian/Mike split lead from 1967, but when it comes to a live performance of the song it's hard to beat Al. I think it would be cool if Brian and Al doubled each other on the lead.

So I see someone alluded to the structure of Heroes And Villains on this tour. No cantina section it sounds like? I apologize for living under a rock, but I've missed exactly what the structure is... could someone kindly save me the trouble of scrolling through 50,000 pages of posts and summarize how it's being done?

Essentially the standard single arrangement with 'You're Under Arrest' thrown in after the acapella section/before 'My Children Were Raised' and the ascending 'AAAAA' at the end, like wot Brian did at the tribute gig in 2001.

The split lead would be awesome in 2012, but could Brian and Mike sync properly in doing it?

Thanks. Yes, very odd that YUA! made the cut when the Cantina section didn't. Funny, I would have thought for sure they would have incorporated Swedish Frog just for old times' sake.  :lol

Also Bicycle Rider lyrics in the second chorus.

Sarcasm noted.

Brian sounds fine singing it when he's not being B-Pained to death. He's also the d00d who sang the lead on the original (although is Al singing the chorus on this tour as he did on Smiley Smile?)