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From tvguide.com:

The Beach Boys perform; Chris Evert and John McEnroe discuss Wimbledon; and Nik Wallenda, Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott preview "Megastunts - 'Highwire Over Niagara Falls - Live!'"

Looking forward to the show. Hopefully we'll see a interview with the group since they are celebrating 50 years.

Omg Hannah Storm!

I live near Niagara Falls.  Saw the set up going on tonight at the Falls. Gonna be a huge event. Excitement building here in anticipation.  Also saw Nik Wallenda talking to the local media.  Of course I have to try to watch The Beach Boys. Did not know about their appearance till reading it here on this thread.
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So, once more: please someone, record this !


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Make sure to tune-in tomorrow to ABC and watch The Beach Boys LIVE from 7AM - 9AM on Good Morning America! http://gma.yahoo.com/

Also, per FB Brian and Mike on O'Reilly factor tomorrow night

Fantastic

Sure thing! I might have trouble getting it online, but I'll try!

I know we've already had enough of the political/O'Reilly/Johnston debates. I just wish they'd book a better place to do an interview. It's one thing if there's on a show that's a talk show which happens to have a host with some known political views or whatnot. But other than the clueless Larry King, there has never been much non-political crap on these cable stations.

I've seen the other O'Reilly bits that Love has done, and O'Reilly strikes me as someone who feels he's an expert on the band because he can name the members and knows some of the personnel changes from over the years. He didn't seem particularly respectful of anyone in the band other than those who are in front of him at the moment. He totally didn't challenge anything when Love came on a few years go during the "Smile" related lawsuits. He just let Mike say what he wanted to say. It was kind of odd.

I can't believe Brian's handlers are letting him on this show. I say this objectively, whether I like the show or not, this show doesn't have the format, style, or politics that would be ideal for Brian. I guess he'll just let Mike do most of the talking.

Do you guys think Brian will wear his Full House Dukakis shirt?

The BB's have some cross-town competition for early morning music fans -- Justin Bieber is playing the Today Show outside of the 30 Rock studios.

I watched GMA's coverage this a.m. live, what there was of it. They hyped up the Beach Boys quite a bit, but didn't show much of them. They showed far more/too much of the audience and other things going around -- and when they did show the band playing, no one could get a camera on whoever was singing lead. I'm sure the folks at Central Park got a whole lot more of the BBs than the TV audience did.

The guys sounded good, especially for so early in the morning. One cool thing I noted was someone in their 20s singing along with "That's Why God Made the Radio." Other songs shown were part of "Help Me Rhonda," part of "Good Vibrations," and "California Girls."

Other notes:
* At the end of the group interview, one of the guys (sounded like Al) told Robin Roberts off-camera, "I hope you're feeling better," very classy
* Mike and Brian wore matching shirts
* Nick Walusko absent
* Great Brianism moment: when asked about what's different about touring fifty years later, Brian deadpanned, "Well, we've had a lot of practice."

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Emdeeh,

Thanks  for the info.  Did the Beach Boys perform during the last 30 mins of the show or was it much earlier???  I don't need to sit through the entire show if I know.

Thanks,

Les

This is brutal.  80 minutes in and no actual beach boys.  A lot of worthless coverage of Niagara Falls for a tightrope walk taking place in the evening.  More news that we all heard yesterday.  GMA sucks.

I just got home and haven't seen the footage yet, but it could've been me haha. Mike seemed to notice that I was singing all the words during the soundcheck. I swear I felt like I was the only hardcore fan there! I overheard the girls behind me say "Aren't they too old to be singing about girls? They should be singing about bingo." Mind you, they showed up at 6 am with everyone else who wanted to get close to the stage. Consider me baffled. There were various other instances where it was made clear that these were mainly just casual fans.

Anyway, it was awesome to be so close to the stage during soundcheck. Made eye contact with Mike, Al, and a few of the guys. BW was doing his eyes closed, weird mouth movements routine. Couldn't help but feel bad for the guy, at first. He perked up when Foskett went over and talked to him for a few minutes, then Al went over and asked Brian about the chord changes for Graduation Day. Al seemed to be going over it while everyone was setting everything up.

The vocals were next to impossible to hear live.

Songs performed:

Soundcheck/Rehearsal

1) California Girls (just band)

Enter the principle members. Al suggests they play "Custom Machine". Totten says he'd love to do it, but Mike refuses.

2) That's Why God Made The Radio x2
3) Good Vibrations
4) Help Me Rhonda (snippet)

Actual performance (the order may be off)

1) Help Me Rhonda (snippet)
2) California Girls
3) That's Why God Made The Radio
4) Good Vibrations x3 (1st time was a snippet for the TV show, 2nd was a false start, 3rd was a full performance for the internet)


And that was it. It was cool to see them together in the flesh. Band sounded great. Brian nailed the vocal on GV on the 3rd take. He adlibbed his way into the slow section, which was pretty cool, but again it was VERY hard to hear the vocals live. Foskett was essentially inaudible. Al and Mike were the only ones that I could hear cutting through.

Was hoping for a longer show a la Central Park '71, but overall a very cool experience.

I noticed that guy singing along, too; was that you with this curly hair, bopping up and down, seltaeb? ;D

Sounds like a cool little concert!

Ahh, nope. I was wearing a NYC T-shirt and a black beanie.

Good to hear there were was someone else who knew the words though.

Just to note, although I sang through TWGMTR, it was mainly because I couldn't hear the vocals.

However, when everyone was singing Good Vibrations, I casually yelled "LET BRIAN SING IT!". They shut up.  ;D

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The empty stage

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Darian enters, sets up his keyboard

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Scott joins Darian on stage to set up his keyboard

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Oh sh*t, it's a Beach Boy. Rockin the shorts, like the Bruce we all know and love. Funny thing, he walked up to the audience right where we were and asked us if anyone had any breakfast (for him).

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Brian arrives, assisted by Jeff.

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Al arrives. Starts noodling on Graduation Day

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Al then walks over to Brian and they talk for a few minutes. It seems Al's inquiring about the chords for Graduation Day

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Mike arrives on stage

Love the shots--keeping them coming.

Pretty cool if they do the first time performance of "Graduation Day" live on TV...

Just got back from this. What an interesting experience. Seeing them soundcheck, being able to pick out each guy's part (haven't been able to do that to the degree I could today), seeing how the band interacts to build this music...

The best part, though, was watching these fascinating men we're all here because of interact on a personal level. Al really seems to be soaking up being with these guys again. He hung around Brian a lot. They poked around the keys together, sang a bit together, he brought his guitar over, these guys care for each other immensely. Brian seemed to perk up the most when Dave would come 'round to the keyboard to play some chords and have a laugh. Al and Mike shared some laughs as well. When all the guys would go around Brian's keyboard (before interview segments), Bruce, Dave, and Mike would all give Brian back rubs simultaneously and individually. Attached is a picture of just that. Brian particularly seemed to enjoy his back rub from Bruce.

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When Brian called for the audience to quit with the beach balls, he said, "some people are trying to watch, and it's distracting for them," which is how I was feeling about the beach balls (being so fixated on all the things I stated above). In my head, Brian called for the beach balls to stop so that I could delve into my fascination with the process, and spend those moments watching and learning. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but either way, he helped pave the way for a truly unique and enjoyable experience (though, the beach balls came back with a vengeance later on). Despite the constant yelling around me for Kokomo and Barbara Ann, the crowd, made up of many vacationers who seemed to mostly be there for the tv show experience, were very respectful and patient. The Beach Boys are truly unique in that they are loved by so many. Even though large portions of the populace only know the big, big hits, The Beach Boys transcend the stigmas attached to all walks of life. The name itself, The Beach Boys, means something so massive. It was a real joy to watch them make these people of all walks of life happy and content in the moments they were in their presence.

Though, I'll never quite understand the utter joy people get from thinking they may be seen for split seconds on television, but such is the nature of a camera in the face I guess.

Yeah, the beach balls were terrible. Now I see why people have complained about them in the past.

Even Brian picked up on how much everyone hated them.

It's a health hazard, imo. Babies, elderly people, etc. I got hit in the head a few times, as did a lot of folks. Very annoying.

Even after it was clear that we didn't want the beach balls, the producers insisted on having them present for the final performance of Good Vibrations. It got to the point where people were catching them, and placing them on the ground.

Some video segments of today's performance are up online now:

"California Girls":
http://gma.yahoo.com/video/music-26594262/beach-boys-sing-california-girls-on-gma-29674883.html

Beach Boys interview with Robin Roberts:
http://gma.yahoo.com/video/music-26594262/beach-boys-discuss-50-years-of-music-on-gma-29674915.html

The full performance of "Good Vibrations":
http://gma.yahoo.com/video/music-26594262/good-vibrations-performed-by-beach-boys-29675150.html

The full performance GV footage is much better than the rest of the concert footage from the show. They actually show Brian singing and playing, as well as footage of the rest of the band.

Nice thanks for the review.  Good to know that everyone's still looking out for Brian.  Nice moment you described.

HA! And what do you know?! The videos are not available in my location...

Will have to try with a proxy later or wait for kind YouTube souls..

Good review.  Good clips. Brian's looking great.  David with a Les Paul.  Nice way to start the morning.

I Was There!!  ;D, I Got some photos and footage.
The concert was amazing, David gave this girl his guitar pick and While the Beach boys i think were performing Good Vibrations, Brian said to the crowd to stop playing with a beach-ball. It was fun i really i get to see them perform again.

Photos I took from the show:
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(Brian and some aid whose also the guitarist)

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(Al, Brian and Dave)

I'll post the video's once i'm done uploading them to my Youtube account.

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Few vids up. Here's a link: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgma.yahoo.com%2Fvideo%2Fmusic-26594262%2Fcalifornia-girls-live-29674883.html&h=9AQH8fkASAQHYtz0b1jlaC0-xLnNNxEXNeBjjKXXrfMKjBw

My opinion: Sounded great on "California Girls," but Brian sounded off-key pretty badly on "Good Vibrations." Maybe I'm wrong, I'll listen again. They did a short group interview and it seemed like there was a lot of Brian love in the crowd. Every time the interviewer mentioned his name or he spoke a word it was instant raucous applause. Oh yeah, and Bruce is a great hypeman for Brian. He's the Beach Boys' Flava Flav...

I Thought he sounded good on GV. On California and the new song were great as well. It was an amazing concert! ;D

And yea whenever Brian came back on stage, everyone was cheering.

Here are footage i shot of the band performing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL83AUAEEzs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL83AUAEEzs)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJU4lQFcQWo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJU4lQFcQWo)

Thanks for the vids..

How was the turn out

It was good!! ;D

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Here are some videos as well (couldn't find TWGMTR and Help me, Rhonda)

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/beach-boys-sing-california-girls-gma-central-park-nyc-16576475

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/beach-boys-celebrate-50-years-16576082?tab=9482930&section=1206852&playlist=16576627

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/good-vibrations-performed-beach-boys-16576513?tab=9482930&section=1206852&playlist=16576627

Thanks for the links Rocker - what a great performance and interview - everyone on top form.

Now now, somebody didn't read their wardrobe memo correctly earlier this morning! :p

Brian's actual quote re: the beach balls was that it was distracting for those trying to "WORK" -- not watch (meaning, of course distracting to HIM while HE worked).
It should be pointed out that GMA supplied beach balls and announced via an A.D. or stage hand that they wanted beach balls flying around prior to one of the tunes (so much for Brian's request...)

Brian does indeed sound incredibly ropey on Good Vibrations. Out of tune and when he sings `through the air` he looks visibly pained because he knows that he can`t hit the notes. Sounds similar to how he did in 1981 sadly.

Wow, I guess not watching a lot of TV lately and having a DVR, I don't have to sit through this stuff normally. What utter crap these shows are. I think the issue of "Entertainment Weekly" I thumbed through last week was more interesting and intellectually stimulating than this show. I'm quite glad I have a DVR, as I didn't have to sit through anything I didn't want to.

The band sounded good. Too bad they got about 2 1/3 songs on TV, and the camera work was horrendous (yeah, we get it, there are people in the audience).

For those who heard the exchange about "Custom Machine", can you describe it more? Did Mike really just shut Al down (no pun intended, seriously) and literally say "No", or was it just a sort of "meh", disinterested reaction? As I alluded to in another thread, I sense Al is puposely being passive in this reunion to make it run as smoothly as it can. It just seems odd that Al 50 years later can't get a song he wants in the setlist. He's an original f-ing member and he owns the band's name and corporation with Brian and Mike. I can only guess he chooses not to push these issues. I guess he thought better of negotiating a tour agreement that said "once in a while, being an original freaking Beach Boy and all, I get to pick a song or two for the setlist."  :lol

The takes that didn't make the cut were much worse.

Know what? I watched that Supes/Lois video instead. Great stuff!  :)

Mike wasn't actually on stage to respond. Totten said he brought it up to Mike in the past, but he doesn't want to do it.

Ahhh, okay. I can't imagine why "Don't Back Down" is a favorite of his apparently, but not "Custom Machine?" Reading that "Rolling Stone" article and the discussions about setlists among the guys, I'm still even more amazed that we're hearing them do something like "Marcella."

I do reiterate my original point, which is that Al should have enough swing in this thing to pick a few songs he wants, regardless of what the figs those songs are. "Looking at Tomorrow", or "Hey Little Tomboy", or "Skatetown USA", or whatever. If he wants to bring his horse out on stage for a song, whatever. He should get a little spot to do whatever he wants. It sounds like even the songs he sings in the show were picked by others, with the exception of presumably "California Saga."

I doubt whether Al, Bruce or David have much say in the setlist whatsoever.

Definitely. That always kind of seemed to be the case, and it's becoming more and more apparent as we hear little bits of setlist discussion. My point is that I'm surprised it is this way, to this degree at least. Al's different than David or Bruce. Al is an equal shareholder in the group with Mike and Brian. I'd be curious to know to what detail the agreements were drawn up for this tour. Al just seems to be too kind of easy going and passive to have his lawyer draw up a "Jardine gets five setlist picks" clause. Seems like he could have done this, or could yield a tiny bit more power on this tour, and he seems to be choosing not to.

Then he could have been fired again like in the early 1990s. This tour and album is about Brian and Mike getting back together and they are essential to this. Brian is the leader in the studio and Mike is the leader on stage. Al is still an excellent singer but he doesn`t have the clout to start issuing ultimatums.

I would also say that much as I love him, Al is a fruitloop at times. He has made so many statements over the past 14 years about playing rare songs on stage that never happened or about reunions that were never on the cards. Allowing him to pick 5 songs for the setlist would be like giving the kids the key to the gun cabinet.

"Seems" being the operative word here.

Pure speculation, but something I've thought about concerning the reunion concerts....I think the powers that be are trying to involve Al as much as possible as far as lead vocals are concerned. But, let's face it, in regard to U.S. hit singles, Al sang lead on only one - "Help Me Rhonda". So, I think then Mike or Scott or whoever went down to the next tier - songs that were singles and had some chart success, maybe overseas, including "Then I Kissed Her", "Cottonfields", "California Saga", and "California Dreamin". There really weren't much more there. They might get away with "Come Go With Me" but that's about it. The days of "Lady Lynda", "Buzz Buzz Buzz", and "Runaway" are in the past. 

It could be that, if Al wasn't the lead singer on those above songs, they might not have even been included in the set. What I'm getting at is that maybe they feel that Al was already thrown a bone, and he should be grateful for that. Forget about trying to get even MORE input into the setlist.

I found it interesting that surely Al knew they were only gonna be playing a few "hits" today, but all he could think about was "Custom Machine" and "Graduation Day". He must constantly be pressing for his ideas, also supported by the Rolling Stone article regarding "Waves Of Love". The guys should show him a little more love, he's more respected by fans than they apparently know. He's truly thinking of us right now. What a solid thing to do. I'd love to hear some more Al in the sets, as well as the rarities he's proposing. Mike's the man, but c'mon dude! Imagine if Brian and Al ran the set lists?  :o

Btw, even though he only sang a few notes of Graduation Day, it sounded amazing. At 6 in the morning.

I think I'm probably going for too much of a theoretical point. Al legally does have the same clout as Mike and Brian. As a matter of practicality and functionality for the band on a day to day basis, this doesn't mean much in many cases,  and I think Al realizes this. His comments in the RS article seem to suggest he's resigned to Mike running the band and carrying the torch. He seems to be simply bemused about it at this point. The guys are old now, so stuff probably doesn't bother them as much, at least Al anyway. His comments seemed to suggest Mike insists on carrying the torch, and he seems to have the demeanor of "I'm too flippin' old and too much crap has happened and Mike isn't going to change anyway."

Al could have been stubborn about the reunion and made more demands, I'm guessing. And I know, this is a major guess. We can either say "it doesn't matter, he didn't have any clout to begin with, and he wanted the reunion more than Mike or Brian", or we can say "Al should be thanked a bit for not being another ego in the room that could have prevented the reunion from going as well as it has."

I don't see how Al's picks for a few setlist inclusions would hurt anything. To your point, he has at least spoken about "rarities" in setlists more than the other guys. He often hasn't been able to do them, but that gets us back into the 2000's debate about Al's inability to regularly tour and build up a setlist due to the lawsuits and all of that business.

Interesting points. It doesn't seem like all of Al's suggestions for the setlist even involve him as the lead singer, though. The songs he mentioned before the tour that we haven't heard are tracks like "Farmer's Daughter" and "Our Prayer", and now we see "Graduation Day", "Custom Machine", and so on. Al wouldn't be doing a solo lead vocal on any of those.

In other words, his picks don't seem to be ego-driven or driven by pandoring to the beach ball-bouncing fans at the shows. He seems to be into the obscure tracks not terribly unlike us fans. He apparently back in 2000, before a sheer lack of tour dates made it impossible, attempted to start doing "The Trader" at his shows, for instance. He mentioned to a fan once that he loved "Steamboat." This guy likes the music, he doesn't love that he sang these songs.

He mentioned in one appearance that he might bring up "Lookin' at Tomorrow" to Mike, but who knows if that even happened.

I would guess any songs Al was pushing to rehearse this morning were not intended to perform this morning. It sounds like they use their soundchecks as testing grounds for new setlist inclusions.

It is kind of astonishing that an actual BB has to start a political action committee and hire a lobbyist when they want to get a song in the setlist.  :lol

I was exaggerating slightly and some of the songs that Al has suggested I would be happy to hear but they would have to be at the expense of other rarities (Mike and the promoters won`t want to drop the hits). To drop a couple of songs that Brian has trouble singing and to include a couple of Al chosen songs might not be a bad idea but I`m sure that many would be unhappy if Brian were doing less.

Al`s song ideas are completely random though. He was talking about them playing a couple of songs from his solo album not so long ago (not a good idea) and if they were to play Farmer`s Daughter then Jeff would surely be the singer making it a dubious choice.

I think Al's discussion of doing his solo stuff in the reunion tour was a lot more like "yeah, that would be cool if we did that" rather than insisting it would happen. He was often asked specifically that question in interviews revolving around his solo album and the tour.

Al's picks are often random, and I love that.

I understand that under the loose "rules" we've seen for this tour's setlist, any new song does bump another one. But they haven't always bumped one raritiy for another song of the same raritiy. I love "Wendy" for instance, probably as a song more than "Farmer's Daughter", but just to hear something new, I wouldn't mind if the latter bumped the former.

I love Brian, but on live TV his leads should be doubled and his vocal placed way down in the mix (which I guess was the approach at the Grammys).  He's the weak link vocally, with unpredictable results.  TWGMTR here was better than on other live shows, but Brian was still noticeably flat here and there.

Just to get you up to speed on the supporting cast, Ethan -- that's Jeff Foskett, who also sings Brian's old falsetto parts (including on the new album).

Cheers,
Jon Blum

I think Mike NEEDS to be pushed to do certain songs in the setlist. Scott Totten has been able to do a great job of this. Not sure if it's the way he suggests things or explains them, but it's worked in many cases obviously not all.  I think if he's not pushed, you end up with the setlists we got in the late 90's.
I'm shocked Graduation Day can't get into the setlist! but freaking Why Do Fools Fall in Love...which the BB in their original touring band days never touched and features a backing band member is one that CAN'T be left off the setlist? Seriously?? If you want do wop roots, you had Come Go With Me which was something like a top 20 hit for you guys not the back of a single in 1964 that really isn't that interesting. It's not like Al is pushing for his songs to be included specifically either. It's too bad there can't be some tweaking here and there but Mike's stubborn on those setlists. Witness every BB show since 1981. Carl gave into it unfortunately but that's water under the bridge now. Still would be nice to listen to some of Al's setlist suggestions. They are good!

Al, Bruce, Dave, didn't you get the message? Oh well, 2 out of 5 isn't so bad. Next step: striped shirts!

no, this is the wrong idea. why would you want to watch Brian lipsync? dumb.

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BTW were all songs broadcasted or just Cal. Girls, GV and the interview ?


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And another interview:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/backstage-pass-beach-boys-16580985

Because I would think casual fans would be less likely to see a concert or buy a CD after hearing cringe-worthy vocals.    Although maybe the heavy sales of the CD disprove this, so what do I know?  Another alternative would be to hand over songs that are hard to sing (e.g., "GV") to someone who can dependably hit the notes when playing on live TV.

Nice! 
It seems that Brian liked the interviewer :D :D

Damn, Brian is lucid here......  :)

It also looks like he did the world's biggest imaginary bong hit 5 minutes earlier.  0:46 to 0:52 is one of the oddest Brian moments on film, since he lip-synced to Mike's cue-card-reading on the 25th anniversary Hawaii special.
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