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Whenever I'm prepping for a tour, I like to compile a "dream set list" of the band or artist I'm going to see, and then see how close it turns out after the show...of course I've been following the set for this tour, so I'll keep the formating the same, but here is my dream set list...share your own! 8)

1.Do it Again
2.Catch a Wave
3.Hawaii
4.Surfin' Safari
5.It's OK
6.Please Let Me Wonder
7.Surfer Girl
8.The Lonley Sea
9.The Warmth of The Sun
10.Be True To Your School
11.Dance, Dance, Dance
12.When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
13.Getcha Back
14.Disney Girls
15.Don't Worry Baby
16.The Ballad of Ole Betsy
17.Our Car Club
18.Little Deuce Coupe
19.Still Cruisin'
20.I Get Around
INTERMISSION
21.Wouldn't It Be Nice
22.Sloop John B
23.I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
24.God Only Knows
25.Forever
26.Surf's Up
27.Heroes and Villains
28.This Whole World
29.Sail on Sailor
30.In My Room
31.Surfin' (Just the five boys!)
32.That's Why God Made The Radio
33.Barbara Ann
34.Help Me Rhonda
35.All Summer Long
36.Kokomo
37.Surfin' USA
ENCORE
38.Good Vibrations
39.California Girls
40.Fun, Fun, Fun

Mine would be a combination of the setlists for Brian's 2002 summer tour and Mike, Bruce and David's 2008 UK tour, with a few spots for Al. I'm not too keen on the early hits (I've heard them too much) but I'd keep a few of them in for David, and to stop the crowd . I'd also give a few of the backing band a song each, so we'd get a longer set without tiring the principals.

1 You're Welcome
2 Do It Again
3 Don't Back Down
4 Hawaii
5 Little Honda
6 Surfer Girl
7 When I Grow Up To Be A Man
8 Good To My Baby
9 Forever (David on vocal -- no videos)
10 Darlin' (Darian lead)
11 Warmth Of The Sun (Foskett lead)
12 Kiss Me Baby
13 Let Him Run Wild (Totten lead -- seriously, he's *staggering* on this)
14 Summer In Paradise (seriously. You need one late Mike track to cover all of their career, and far rather this than Kokomo)
15 The Night Was So Young
16 Busy Doin' Nothin'
17 California
18  Don't Worry Baby (Al lead, like on the In Concert album)
19 Honkin' Down The Highway
20 409
21 Shut Down
22 I Get Around

INTERMISSION

23  Friends (around the piano, like they do Add Some Music)
(mini Pet Sounds set, starting with hits so as not to startle people)
24 Sloop John B
25 God Only Knows (Bruce lead)
26 Wouldn't It Be Nice
27 I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
28 Here Today
29 You Still Believe In Me (Al lead)
(mini acoustic set)
30 Til I Die
31 In My Room
32 All This Is That
34 Disney Girls
35 Please Let Me Wonder (mini acoustic set ends)
36 This Whole World
37 Breakaway
38 Sail On Sailor (Cowsill lead)
(mini Smile set)
39 Our Prayer
40 Heroes & Villains (Smile version with cantina and Bicycle Rider, Al lead, Cowsill sings Bicycle Rider, Mike on the cantina)
41 Vegetables (Al lead)
42 Cabinessence
43 Wonderful
44 Surf's Up
45 Good Vibrations
(hits to finish)
46 California Girls
47 Do You Wanna Dance (Dave Marks lead vocal)
48 Rhonda
49 Surfin' Safari
50 Surfin' USA

(encore)
51 Barbara Ann (I loathe it but people will want it)
52 Fun Fun Fun (ending the way Brian's band do it with Scott Bennett playing Rhapsody In Blue)

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We aren't really trying to guess the set, since it is obviously avaliable...we're just pondering on what would be the best possible one in our minds, with no real expectations behind it.

Btw- love the set Andrew! A bit deeper than I would care to go at times, and probably a bit longer than the boys would care to go, but it would make a great "This one's for the fans!!!" night!

My dream set would never happen. Although Brian's Pet Sounds and SMiLE tours came close.
But I would love to see Mount Vernon and Fairway performed live!

They have to do Kokomo, people would be really pissed if they didn't
One thing that surprised me about finally seeing the show is that the songs I didn't think I would be into (or the ones I don't love in their recorded forms) come to life in their live versions and are really cool and engaging. I'm looking at you, Why Do Fools Fall In Love and Rock N Roll Music.

I'd agree if the versions of the latter songs were not excellent. But they are. Which is surprising in the case of RRM given that it's been a historically dull live number for me.

WEll, that is good to hear! I don't care for either of them myself...or Do You Wanna Dance. I like Al's covers for some reason tho! ???

They can't NOT play Kokomo, and it is just unrealistic to think it possible. I don't liket his self-proclaimed fact, but I bet more than half the people that hear about this tour wouldn't know who The Beach Boys were if it wasn't for Kokomo.

I don't dislike Do You Wanna Dance, but dude, if Brian sings it ANYTHING like he sang it last night, you're gonna love it.
Tempted to say it was his most powerful vocal of the night!

Well, I'll remember that! Dennis sang on the original, correct?

I was doing a dream set for a gig I'd be able to attend, so for a UK audience. Kokomo only got to number 25 over here --  Friends charted that high -- and has been largely forgotten. I've actually heard Sumahama on the radio more often than Kokomo.They do do that one when they come over here, but it usually doesn't get the crowd excited, and Bruce often semi-apologetically introduces it saying it was a big hit in lots of other places.

As for the length of the set I posted, yes it would be long -- but it's exactly as many songs as Mike & Bruce did in 2008 and fewer than Brian did in 2002, and other than California Saga they're all songs I've seen one or (usually) both bands perform live, so it would be just about possible, though I agree it's not *actually* going to happen.