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Is this really show number 50?  I can't wait!

The weather forecast looks good for the weekend, let's hope it helps pack our tiny amphitheatre.

Lookin' forward to this one! It's my lady's 40th B-day, the weather looks great, and we're going to go see the frickin' Beach Boys! If you want to say Hi, I'll be the guy with the red Jan & Dean Bel-Air Bandits T-shirt on. I'll report back after the show...

Define "tiny"...

I'm going to this show tonight with my dad. Our first concert together ever--and that's in 32 years! 50th show on their 50th anniversary? It sounds like a lucky night--I'm hoping for 50 songs as they have sometimes done. The oldies station in town is playing all Beach Boys all day to celebrate their arrival and anniversary. I'll be wearing my black Brian Wilson shirt, from the Smile tour.

It holds 5000 people.

I'll be rocking my Brother Records logo shirt with a Hawaiian shirt.

that's very original. A hawaiian shirt. You must have put some thought into that. :lol

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I didn't mean you, Bud.....I meant the other 4999 people going to that show.  ;)

Your good. Just don't expect anyone to 'pick you out' based on that costume.

Have a smashing time and be sure to tell us about it.

It all sounds fantastic!  A summer night, the radio, family, The Beach Boys...have a great time!

Originally, I didn't think I was going to be able to go.  Long and bizarre story there.   But then plans changed, freeing me up and then....get this!....I got a call from one of my old high school buddies.  He's got an extra ticket and wanted to know if I might be interested in going!  Well....uh, yeah, sure!  :)

As far as what to wear, I know it may be a little dorky, but I can't NOT wear my Hawaiian shirt!

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Me and my five-head.   

Amazing show. 47 song set list. No DW or CW reference or tribute.

Do It Again
Little Honda
Catch a Wave
Hawaii
Don't Back Down
Surfin Safari (first big rise from crowd)
Surfer Girl
Getcha Back
Wendy
Then I Kissed Her
Please Let Me Wonder
Come Go with Me
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)
Kiss Me, Baby
Isn't It Time
Disney Girls
Good Timin'
California Saga 
Be True to Your School
Don't Worry Baby
Little Deuce Coupe
409
Shut Down
I Get Around

Intermission:
Pet Sounds
Add Some Music to Your Day
Heroes and Villains
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Sloop John B
Wouldn't It Be Nice
All This Is That
That's Why God Made the Radio
Sail On Sailor
Darlin' (Great version with Darian on lead)
In My Room
God Only Knows
Good Vibrations
California Girls
All Summer Long
Help Me Rhonda
Rock and Roll Music
Barbara Ann
Surfin USA

Encore:
Kokomo
Do You Wanna Dance?
Fun Fun Fun


Anyhow, we had some nice treats. Maureen Love and Stan Love were in attendance. There was a lot of Kevin Love references. I hope to post more tomorrow.

I felt lucky to be there and just wish I could see them again soon.

WAT.

I wonder if the technical issues with the video happened again?    Who sang GOK?   My guess is Brian.

No Our Prayer ?? 

I was pretty disappointed. I was looking forward to the emotional tributes and to hearing Forever. Brian sang God Only Knows and did a very good job. A stronger vocal than many of his performances tonight. It seemed like the Cuthbert didn't have a built in drop down screen for projection, but I couldn't help but think they could have gotten around this. Everything was otherwise awesome so I am trying not to dwell on this disappointed part but...It seemed like they did the tributes at almost every show, right? Maybe I haven't read all other 49 closely enough...

I would be disappointed  too after hearing and seeing You Tube videos.  So there was NO VIDEOS at all playing ??? 

Nope. It would have been amazing but didn't happen. My Dad was hoping for Disney Girls (which they played) and Surfin' (which they did not). The latter song he remembers coming out when he was a kid in SoCal.

Darlin' was fantastic!  No video wall so no tributes, but a great show nonetheless.  I swear I was the only guy dancing in the place...luckily the folks behind me didn't seem to mind.  I have videos and photos to post later... :smokin

There was zero multimedia. Maybe a Cuthbert expert can explain why. Are the tributes on youtube? I'll have to look them up. I am so lazy when it comes to watching internet videos. Thanks for the tip.

Yeah I was very impressed with Darian' vocals and the band was rockin'. I'm a lazy concert goer and was sitting on the front of the upper lawn. I definitely danced for fourteen of the songs though--you weren't the only one!

Brian introduced Darlin' and Darian and said the song was dedicated to Bob Hanes (EDIT: who died a couple years ago and had friends in front of me). I don't know if people know him but the local paper wrote a Beach Boys article and he was one of the fans mentioned. I haven't finished reading it.

Bud, I am glad you have photos and videos - can't wait to see them!

Also, kind of humorously, I was commended for my fandom. While I was using the restroom during intermission some guy from 15 feet or so behind us came up to my Dad to say he was impressed by my enthusiasm (for someone young I guess?) and that I seemed intelligent. I was taking notes the whole time...I guess my Dad raised me right!

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Please provide us with the  link on the article you mentioned..  I bet a lot of us would love to read the article... Well known fan and  good friend Bob Hanes from Eugene died 2 years ago . Darian and  Bob were close friends.,  so I'm thinking Darian dedicated Darlin' to him.  I wonder who was the guy sitting in front of you??? 

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Bud,

Thanks for the terrific pics... What's the capacity of Cuthbert ?? 

I don't know if this has been happening for a while, but Foskett, and maybe Mike, sing the missing couple of words at the end of the 2nd verse in GV..."we find" I think it is. The show was great...By the second half of the set most of the audience where I was danced, or at least stood up, which surprised me since 85% of the folks there were over 60!
Lame that there was absolutely no mention of Dennis or Carl, but both Stan and Maureen did the stand-and-wave thing.
    The only other lame thing was the terrible sound during the whole second set. Often there were almost no vocals heard at all, and the sound was quite thin.
   Dave sang Getcha Back better than ever and intrigued me the most. My lady also seemed jazzed by Dave.
   Bruce was a wild man, running around and clowning.
   Mike was exactly Mike. A buddy I ran into at the show said his banter was lame, but I really enjoyed Mike's weirdness.
   BW was acting kinda put off at first, but got more into it and even looked kinda happy 'playing' bass.
   I think Al is the guy that is trying to tell the fans that he understands that we love them, and he wants us to understand that they love us back.
   Cowsill really gets a good Denny vibe on the drums. He doesn't seem like the typical pro drummer at all.
   One guy who didn't look happy ever was Toten.
bed time...

God Only Knows: http://youtu.be/CD2fV6y7O-k

I'm sorry it's so shaky.

I found the article  regarding Bob Hanes :

http://www.registerguard.com/web/livinglifestyles/28333760-41/beach-band-thomas-music-layton.html.csp

I Get Around: http://youtu.be/extocXkmOqA

They say it holds 5000 people.  Got to agree that the sound was hit or miss at times.

My third (and final) video -- Rock and Roll Music, Band Intros, Barbara Ann (Cut): http://youtu.be/V1YlRAePbW8

Goodnight!

If the beachboysdoc insider on twitter is anything to go by, the big rigs bypassed the two smaller shows on went straight on to Harvey's lake..

Possibly to cut costs which makes sense

Budshaver, you look exactly like H. Jon Benjamin, the guy who voices Archer!

Looks as if they're playing in my backyard.

Wow- I love the video wall, chronicling the immense history, first, for the LP buyer to remember the great corpus of work over time, and second, for the newbie fans, to get BB 101, but the teacher in me in me wonders whether the video wall might be projected on on simple stage screen, obviating the transport of that beautiful monstrosity except for locales which might more easily lend themselves to the set up and break down.  And, I don't read twitter or the other stuff, so this is my "information superhighway." (Al Gore )

Thanks for the photos, all... ;)

It was a great show!  Brian looked like a statue behind the grand piano during the first few songs, but after awhile he seemed to loosen up, waving his arms at the band and such.  I, thought the vocals could have been brought up quite a bit.  Where I was sitting (bottom of the upper grass area), the instrumentation sounded great, but I had a hard time hearing the lead vocals and sometimes the harmonies.

I really enjoyed hearing some of the lesser known (to the general public) tunes.  My friend asked me a few times, "When are they gonna get to the good stuff?"  I answered, "This is the good stuff.  You just haven't heard it 50 million times!"  It didn't take long for him to get hooked, though. 

The end of the show was just amazing!  The cheering of the crowd (and it was a crowd, the place was packed) was deafening.  Great times!

Btw, I was a pretty good friend of Bob Hanes.  He shared inside stories, memorabilia, videos, tracks, etc with me.  Any newer folks on this board can do a search, and you'll find that he was an occasional contributor here.

This is pretty cool, I would have loved to see them in a venue like this. Mike wearing a t-shirt certainly adds to the casual nature of it all too!

Foskett sings FLAT FLAT FLAT all the way through.

(oh, no, Mr. Farm, it's just the video that makes it seem that way. Jeff has perfect pitch!)  :lol :lol :lol

Otherwise, nice video. Thank you.

He was flat the whole show. I was disappointed as he kinda brought down the vocals consistently.

Darian Sahanaja just killed on lead vocals! He really can do Carl justice. Also, the vocal parts I thought were Bruce on 'Radio' are Darian.

And Bruce's falsetto on Disney Girls sounded alot better to me than Jeffs.

My first time seeing The Beach Boys. I was on the upper lawn section with my gf (tall blonde wearing a white sailors cap and Hawaiian shirt. I was very disappointed in the sound last night. VERY thin, almost no bass, and the vocals were barely audible for most of the 2nd set (couldn't hear Brian at all on Do You Wanna Dance). Super bummed there were no Carl/Dennis tributes. This was something I was looking forward to the most. Brian sounded really great and was moving around just fine. The audience was a bit unresponsive until the middle of the 2nd set when about 85% of the crowd stood up for the rest of the show. Too many people yelling out for Kokomo.

Darlin' sounded amazing. Was hoping to hear Our Prayer and This Whole World, but I'm not going to dwell on it. All in all, I couldn't stop smiling throughout the entire show. If they tour again with Brian though, I will travel wherever to see them at a better venue than this one.
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I very rarely agree with your posts, but I agree here. Seems like Jeff was having a hard time hitting that next register in his falsetto in that video. I'm usually a big Jeff-backer, but the shows are taking a toll on his voice, might be wise to give the falsetto duties to Scott, Bruce or someone else for a couple shows.

Cool seeing the Kevin Love tee on Mike. Also good to know that Mike and Stan still get along since apparently Mike and Steve don't.

Have to agree on the sound!  David played all the leads and sometimes it was mixed too low.  Which he mentioned to me backstage, "Could you even hear me?".

Yeah, Mike did one of his crazy "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame style rants" against the Oregon Ducks for 5 minutes that did not go down well with the crowd and stopped the momentum of the show.  The band seemed befuddled. Started an anti-Mike chant of "Go Ducks".  Not his best intro of "Be True to Your School".

In this pic Mike looks younger than he did 30 years ago

I was thinking the same thing, Rob.  I was struck when I saw that pic.

Yeah!! Also, Dave started playing the guitar intro for Fun Fun Fun, but the band actually started playing Do You Wanna Dance. Seemed like the set list got mixed up a bit. The band definitely seemed awkward as Mike was ranting on and on.

Yes, somebody sang "we find" at the end of the 2nd verse of GV at Red Rocks too.  It sounded like one person, more like Jeff than Mike.

I noticed it the first time at Bonnaroo.  Jeff did it and Mike was pleasantly surprised with the addition:

http://youtu.be/eXVNsTr9QPY?t=1m15s

Not sure if they both do it now.

 :-D I don't recall you disagreeing with my posts - but that's ok, I like good debate. I am glad that we do agree on something like this, however.
I've stated in other threads that Jeff  doesn't sound much like Brian or Carl and doesn't sing very well very often. So it's nice to get some confirmation. Most people here assume that I dislike him just because I'm critical of his performances. I'm certain he's a very nice person. He behaves well on stage and seems to understand Beach Boy music in a respectable fashion.

My bottom line has always been - The Beach Boys are a top dollar, top draw, entertainment machine, and as such, deserve to have top quality employees.
The rest of the band is tops, so why not the 'falsetto' position that Foskett currectly fills?

He has some really nice guitars and obviously knows how to play, but I don't really know why they need another guitar strummer. With all the other guitars ...there's Dave, Al, Scott and the guy who stands behind them near the bass player...that's FIVE guitars without Jeff.

To me, their stage sound is overloaded. Drums are over-mic'ed, too many guitars. If they'd cut back some and get some competent sound guys, they'd have the most incredible stage sound in history.

OK... that's all for now.

I thought maybe they were going for the 'Wall of Sound'!

That's the very definition of a subjective opinion. Jeff sounds perfectly fine 99 percent of the time. Very much like Brian and Carl. Sadly no one sounds precisely like a 20-year old Brian, because no one is a 20-year-old Brian.


It's not confirmation. Just someone saying something that vaguely lines up with what you do.


Jeff is the very definition of top quality. No one else does what he does, as well as he does, for as long as he has. And you are aware that if Jeff isn't onstage, Brian isn't onstage? That if Jeff wasn't around, the CD wouldn't have been done?


No, that's four guitars without Jeff.

The "guy" is named Probyn Gregory. And he also plays trumpet and bass and theremin. And the fact you don't know his name suggests very strongly that you have much less knowledge of this group than you assume.
 

Have you actually been to any shows?

It would be too annoying to quote every quote response  Wirestone just did, so I'll just summarize.

First off, "no, that's a subjective opinion. subjective opinion = wrong." then Wirestone proceeds to give his own subjective opinion that Jeff does sound like Brian and Carl. but then he says that no one can sound like Brian.

then "Jeff has been doing this for awhile which must mean he's good." and then "also, Jeff needs to be there for political reasons", which has nothing to do with whether or not he's talented.

I think I dislike people jumping through hoops to defend Jeff far more than I actually dislike Jeff.

That's OK, I forgive Wirestone (whoever HE is)  8) He says those things because he loves the Beach Boys so much that he hates anyone who doesn't love them as much as he does. Twisted, but forgivable.



SPECIAL NOTE FOR Mr. Wirestone.... I love your one-upsmanship effort, accusing me of "much less knowlege about this group than you assume" ...that's forgivable too...cause it doesn't matter at all to me.

I'm aware of Mr. Gregory, and his history with Brian and the Wundermynts, a band I've seen many times.

If I learn their names, that's fine. If not, you can't make me feel guilty, like some pathetic groupie who has to make a lifes work out of Beach Boy trivia.  :smokin How many Beach Boy 'sidemen' have there been? *yawn* They're sidemen.

You seem overly concerned with details. Ok, here's a detail for you, Gregory doesn't really play a Theremin. It's a modern instrument that is completely different from a theremin, but sounds similar. It doesn't matter to me, really, but I thought you'd like to know. Trust me, I know. I've played the original Theremin, believe it or not.

ehhh....That band you have seen many times?

They were called The Wondermints.

Its not as glamorous as it sounds. :brow

Couple daytime shots from the show, courtesy of a friend of mine who drove down from Seattle. He's a confirmed Eagles fan (pretty serious, in fact) and now considers last night's show superior to his last Eagles show (which had previously held the title of 'the greatest show he's ever seen).

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Well, if a guy's being scholarly and productive with it, that's all well and good.  :)

Maybe I should have phrased it like this:
"...like some pathetic groupie who uses facts and minutia to lord it over others, in an effort to make himself look better."

That's what I said, mr. undesirABLE.

THE WUNDERMYNTS.

Gawd you Beach Boy people are a fussy uptight bunch of old men. :lol

Actually, they're called the Brian Wilson band, which includes members of the Wondermints and also OTHER PEOPLE. If we're talking about details here.

There ya go.  8)

btw, I make a habit of mis-spelling things on purpose on the internet. It amuses me and helps me flush out all the people with their nose in the air and their undies in a bunch.  :smokin

So don't be offended.  :lol

Not to press the point, but I have seen 'The Wondermints' as 'The Wondermints' as well as the Brian Wilson Band.
My feeling is that they sound best indoors. Now, let's see who takes offense at that.   :afro

If I get inspired I will try to write a long-winded review.

Jeff is extremely consistent and competent. He probably had an off night, which can be understandable considering he sings all the time during the tour. Not to mention watching over Brian and keeping it cool. He has a difficult job and does it well. Falsettist for the BBs will always take a lot of heat, they'll be hated anyway because they're not Brian and certain fans think they could do it better.

It's nice to give suggestions to the EXTREMELY PROFESSIONAL sound crew, who've done a great job in the most assorted venues. But it'd be cool if you heard them live before jumping all over them.

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Well stated. But I don't see how you can say  because he sings all the time during the tour explains why he goes flat. If anything, the more he sings the better shape he should be in. And it's not just one night. It's a lot of nights (and days).

As far as that last comment...who are you to say I haven't seen them live?

And I'm not jumping all over them. They are great. I'm just reporting what I hear. Jeff needs some voice training, and the sound engineers are blowing it. Obviously you are satisfied with it the way it is. I'm not.  I want them to sound fabulous.

Saw Jeff before the show, when he came out to get his daughter and son-in-law VIP area (they had brought some VooDoo doughnuts) and he looked very tired. According to our hostess, they had bussed down from Seatlle and there were some traffic problems and they were running late. And he does do a good job of keeping Brian on track - he had to remind him to dedicate "Darling" to Bob Hanes. Also the sun was brutal for the opening of the show, it was near 90 and they were looking directly into it. If they'd had the big screen it wouldn't have been seen. But having the trees as a back drop was a plus, and by the end of the evening a nice cool breeze was blowing in. As an added bonus, Al gave me his pick at the end of the show.  ;D All in all, a good show.

I am not sure where to start with the comments on this thread. 

I saw both the soundcheck and the show in Dallas (beginning of tour) and Red Rocks (end of tour).  Jeff was fantastic at both shows.  His plays an extremely important role vocally, as the falsetto parts on the early Beach Boys are difficult and vital to the song, and the principals can't do them anymore.  His pitch was perfect at both shows.  I was really amazed that he could sing such difficult parts so well for so long. (51-song sets in a 51-show tour) I agree that he's flat at times in the video of I Get Around from the Cuthbert.  After seeing photos from this show, I believe that he had difficulty hearing the band.  Mike, Bruce, and Dave use in-ear monitors (they look like hearing aids). Al uses a foldback speaker directly in front of him.

Brian can't use an in-ear monitor as he's deaf in one year, so he has some sort of speaker contraption under the piano.   His vocals have actually improved as the tour has gone on.  He sang out of tune at the soundcheck in Dallas, probably because his speaker wasn't working.  At this show, he was fine.

I'm not sure what Jeff uses - he has a wire loop in the back of his left ear, so I assume he has some sort of listening device. My guess is that it wasn't working. The foldback speakers at the front of the stage were much closer to the band at this show than they were at other shows due to the small stage, so it's possible that it was at a bad angle for Jeff to hear it.  At this venue, there would be little or no echo off the back of the building (as there is no building or ampitheatre wall), so you would hear nothing but noise if you're on stage.

There is no way the current make-up of the band would work without Jeff. His relationship with Brian is the glue that holds this together. Without somebody that was as good with falsetto vocals, the Beach Boys could not perform their early hits.

The Beach Boys are extremely challenging for the sound engineers.  There are 14 musicians, all of whom need to be miked for both their instrument and their vocal (except Mike).  Balancing the vocal harmonies of so many people is nearly impossible, yet I think they've done a terrific job most of the time.  Couple that with the crappy sound systems at most venues, which are designed to boom out the bass on rap songs  As I've done some sound work in the past, I came away really amazed that the sound was as good as it was, given the circumstances.

Although they intentionally keep the natural beauty of the trees at this venue, it must really suck acoustically. The pictures look like the band is performing at some outdoor birthday party in somebody's back yard.  As it sounds like everybody was late due to traffic from Seattle, the sound crew probably didn't have sufficient time to set things up.  Despite the problems, everybody said it was a great show, which means the Beach Boys at their worst are still great.

I actually really liked Mike's rant. Unlike the RnR Hall of Fame speech this one wasn't arrogant or clueless. I was actually complaining about the Kevin Love controversy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Love (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Love)) before the show. Fans were angry he didn't go to the same college as his dad and left obscene messages on his phone, made fun of his family (including Mike), and threw garbage at Kevin during the dame. As a quasi Eugenian (lived there five years, now I just visit family) I think it's embarrassing that one of Mike's big Eugene memories is of this game. He said it was the "worst sportsmanship" that he'd ever seen and apologized for venting.

Don't get me wrong, it definitely slowed down the momentum of the show, but I thought it was pretty cool that he risked provoking the audience like that. He also seemed genuinely proud of his nephew, bringing him up a few times. He mentioned that Kevin was paid 62 million to move to Minnesota and play with the Timberwolves. Mike said he "would live in an igloo at the North Pole for that kind of money." He also mentioned that Kevin is on the Olympics team.

There was also a pro-Duck moment when Mike proudly introduced brother Stan to the audience and bragged about Stan's super successful Ducks career. Stan stood up and flashed the Ducks/vagina sign (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/sports/ncaafootball/american-sign-language-program-attracts-oregon-football-players.html?_r=1 (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/sports/ncaafootball/american-sign-language-program-attracts-oregon-football-players.html?_r=1)) at the audience and everyone gave him a big cheer/flashed it back.

Mike was way less smarmy than I thought he would be – I've never seen him, only BW, live.

I really thought David Marks was amazing during the show. Loved his guitar, especially during Sail on Sailor and Pet Sounds. Also enjoyed his vocals on "Getcha Back." It really made me hope he'll be more present when/if they do a new album. DM was blazing away during Surfin' Safari and Mike called him the King of the Surf Guitar, and described one lead as the "original sh!t."

I think people are entitled to their opinion that they just plain don't like Jeff's voice.  Put me in that category.  But it is what it is and for a number of reasons people have cited Jeff will be there.  There aren't many men who sing a good falsetto and while I don't like his tone, I've heard way worse than Jeff.  The non-falsetto singers have off nights, too, including the lead vocalists. It just happens sometimes.

Well stated. I totally agree that there aren't many men who sing a good falsetto. Far and few between. But they are out there. Jeff's voice, to me, just sounds very undisciplined.

Somebody defended Jeff by pointing out that nobody will ever sound like Brian Wilson. While this is true (and that's a good thing) it is not a good excuse for off key singing in a band as famous as the Beach Boys. That's ok, maybe for Papa Do Ron Ron or Surf City Allstars etc., but the Beach Boys is the big time.

The Beach Boys themselves have had their fair share of off-key singing throughout their career. The band can have a bad show. Between his first stint with The Boys', and with Brian's band, Jeff has been a pretty steady singer.

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OKAY....fine. I'll end this by saying that Jeff, bless his heart, is a better high voice than Dean.  8)

You act like Jeff sings off-key at every show and that just isn't true. I feel bad that he wasn't up to par for your show, but sh*t happens sometimes. Out of all of the shows that I have attended, I have heard Mike, Brian, and Al have bad shows. Carl is only one that I never experienced a bad show, but we know that he too had a few, as well.

*whew* this is getting tiring..  :lol...

I started off noting that he was flat all the way through 'I Get Around' as witnessed on the above You Tube link, rendering that song (IMO) virtually unlistenable..unless one has a tin ear.

Whereas it is true that some people don't have listening skills, many people do.

But I appreciate your concern. I just won't listen to that link anymore. It's too painful.

It is worth pointing out, however, that I'm not the only person who objects to off key singing.  :smokin At least according to many of the posts I've read here.

I like Jeff's voice, but I highly respect your opinions and like that keep with your own ideas like Mike Love would. 8)

May I suggest diagramming a few sentences. It could assist you in their construction.  ;)

Show me professor. :lol

Well, we're here having a substantive , albeit somewhat charged, debate about the quality of the Beach Boys high singer, and then you come in with this unresponsive non-sequiter that starts out sympathetic, and then becomes a train-wreck  Mike Love put down; or at least that's what it seemed like after trying to make heads of tails of it.

So what do you expect?

By the way, I think the professor is another bloke.

ROCKER ---- Nice pictures. You were close to the stage. Too many shots of Dave Marks though...get some of Al next time. *hehe*

Hell I give up, I didn't mean to make a Mike Love put-down. I just was trying to comment positively that you keep your ideas on the band strong like Mike Love has for 50 years. :thud

*shrugs*

Well, that's a problem isn't it.

Too much Mike bashing around here.

If I misinterpretted, I'm sorry. Not used to being compared to someone as reviled around here as Mike Love.

Hey, you could have Adrian Baker and he'd suck for the whole tour. ;)

I think this thread needs a picture of Brian's pre-show foot:

(http://i47.tinypic.com/f9pgh.jpg)

What is the owner of the other shoe doing? ;)

Serving cake, of course...

Here's a link to some of my photos:  http://flic.kr/s/aHsjAHrfej

Enjoy!

Al looks so great in these photos....  :) And 10-20 years younger.

I don't think anyone's denied that Jeff is flat on that recording. What they've said is that he isn't *usually* flat. I've seen Jeff live with Brian's band eight times and on his own once, and have never heard him sing flat in person. The closest I've heard is that sometimes, on the highest part of his range, he starts maybe a quarter-tone flat and then pulls up to the note, which is something Brian used to do sometimes as well and which may well be a deliberate technique (it makes it sound like more of an effort to reach the note, and thus more exciting).

You may not personally like the timbre of his voice, but he's at least as competent and professional as any of the other falsetto singers the band has featured and is a better all-round vocalist than most of them. Given that Brian can't sing those parts any more, he's as reasonable a choice as any I know of to sing them on purely musical grounds.

As stated, I only took them from Facebook (Al's links). I haven't been to a show yet (that'll change in august)

What exactly did he say ? And about what was he talking ? Something with Kevin, right ?

I Get Around from another perspective:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hccaHpIMB6g


Surfer Girl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-a7sdtbcok&feature=related

Here's the 'rant':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvnI57XCJ2k

Thanks. Um... I can understand him. On the other hand....well...wtf


The user has more videos up. Here's Don't Worry Baby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbdNKf2S2t0&feature=channel&list=UL

Agreed, he looks much younger than his actual age of 130.

And good for Mike.

Mike looks great, not a day over 60

Not sure why some people seem to think these continual age "jokes" even approach being funny or clever; in my opinion, the comments themselves got old really fast. May have something to do with my age, I suppose. In any event, I couldn't care less how any of them look.  As has been continually stated, Al still sounds great every night. His presence in the tour has been invaluable.

How is noting that Al looks younger than his age a JOKE ?
What jokes? I don't see any.

Sorry, I didn't realize the statement "he looks much younger than his actual age of 130" was FACTUAL, rather than an attempt at humor. Thanks for pointing out my error.

I'd love to know what Mike is saying to Al in this picture:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7256/7589157280_f19aaf8ebe_n.jpg)

This is one of my favorite pictures:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7115/7589158660_3a2eb68e49.jpg)

So, you're saying that Al is not 130?

"...and then I called him chickensh!t"


Seriously, thanks for the pictures !

"She's 24 and totally down for it"

Seeing them on stage and backstage up close:

Mike Looks 60 onstage, 70 backstage
Al looks way younger onstage and much older/wrinkled up close.  Real nice guy though. Talked to me alot.
David looked good on stage and late 50's in person, he looked great!
Bruce looked older onstage but much younger face to face.
Brian looked the same both - he looked tired.

I stood right next to Mike when I was getting my pic taken with the group, and his face didn't look old to me. Nary a wrinkle to be seen on his face. You are right on with all the others, though. :)

Has Mike lost weight too?  He's been looking pretty slim lately as well

Al would look good if he had only used sunscreen.  He looks like a guy who spent a lot of time outdoors without a hat or high SPF.  His face is youthful but weathering gives him very deep lines. I have a vague suspicion that Mike has had some work done in the past few years.  He looks younger than he did a few years ago.  If not some type of lift, maybe a skin peel. His skin has that shiny type of appearance.  I don't think he should mind someone saying that because if he did have something done, he should be glad someone noticed he had it done, because it's good and subtle if something was done.  If he didn't, then he can congratulate himself for looking naturally what other people have to pay for. 

"These are hard working, salt of the earth, simple Americans.... You know, morons."

I was pretty close to Mike and bent down talking to him and his skin looked pretty normal. It didn't look tight or anything like that. So, if he did have anything done, he had a damn good plastic surgeon who didn't go overboard. He looks quite natural.

Al is the only member of the band I've met, and that was back in 2005. Based on my recollection as well as looking at the photos I took and had taken at that time, Al in recent 2012 interviews seems to have aged quite a bit between 2005 and 2012. He didn't seem to have so many of those deep lines in 2005.

I kind of lost touch of paying a lot of attention to Brian on TV or in concert between 2007 (when I last saw him in concert prior to the reunion tour) and now, and he seems to have aged more than five years would normally seem.

They kind of all have, and that's probably because, well, they're old dudes. It's cool, it's how it's supposed to be. They all seem pretty energetic and in good voice for a group of five who collectively have almost 350 years.

I'm not sure if it makes him look older or younger, but in the last few years Al has also let his hair grow longer. I think it kind of makes him look older and slightly more unkempt.  :lol  Al's cool in my book. He put down his chocolate ice cream cone in 2005 to talk to me and take pictures!

At least he dispensed with the awful ponytail from the mid 90's.  :lol

Mike just might look younger from shaving off the white beard, come to think of it.  His face is less saggy compared to say, Brian's, but the difference could be higher cheekbones holding things up better and less weight fluctuations over time.  Brian is proof that facelifts don't last forever, especially with up and down weight.

Mike letting 'Little Mike' have the mic.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8294/7589159460_b1b899b05a_z.jpg)

oh god  ;D  :lol

Through his life, Mike's looked older than he was... Up until around the time he turned 65. He started to -handsomely- looke his age. And now that he is 70s, not being wrinkled and having lost some weight, he is starting to look even younger.

Al, even if wrinkled, has kept a somewhat youthful appearance that nicely matches his ageless voice.

Bruce is always jovial. David agile and younger.

And Brian... looks his age, I think, but then all of a sudden he appears to be a giant teenager or kid. I had this impression when I saw him appear on stage a couple months ago. Suddenly this bear of a man appears 20 feet from me and in his eyes and appearance you could ser the guy in those GV videos. He defies age in his own peculiar way.

At Bonnaroo I think Mike said something like "we'll never grow up, and neither will you". He's onto something.

First-time poster here... I'm a long-time BB fan who lives in Eugene, and having the opportunity to see them here in my town last Saturday night was one of the most unexpected, mind-blowing musical highlights of my life. A huge thank you to the local posters who took the time to post photos, videos, and other info here. I never dreamt that I would ever have the opportunity to hear Brian sing IJWMFTT and God Only Knows live with all the surviving members. Found myself getting tears in my eyes many times throughout the evening. Just pure magic! I would love to connect with any local Eugene fans who were at the show, feel free to send me a private message.