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Enough guessing. Here it is!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TefY7mb13bA


Ok. On first watch. FFF auto tuned to death and a lot of crowd shots in 2 plus minutes.

I think it looks and sounds pretty good, polished and professional as expected. I like the cameras getting right in there with the band. I agree that there are too many shots of the audience, but hopefully that's just for the trailer. I definitely wouldn't want an hour of them cutting to a different camera every 2 seconds like that. It would likely give me a seizure. I will purchase the item at the appropriate time and give a fair and accurate review.

all that crowd cheering is annoying,I hope it isn't that way throughout the dvd.. :-\

I'm pretty sure the audience shot was in benefit for the trailer.  Let's hope.

Aside from that, it really looks fantastic.  I'm sure it would look sparkling on BluRay.  The vocals are definitely dipped in fairy dust, hopefully it won't be a huge distraction.  I'm looking forward to it.

the lead vocals sound pretty processed, but the visual aspect of this is great. this made me really excited for this DVD actually.

So it's all from Grand Canyon University - Phoenix, AZ July 7th concert !?!  ???

Yes.

TOTAL SHITE -95/100 I WILL NEVER GO TO SCHOOL

I hope they have a "multiple angles" option so we can watch all audience shots, all day!

Who the f*** keeps putting autotune on them?

My worst fears have been realized - clearly this will be chop job, cut after cut after cut with no apparent purpose except to keep up a sense of false excitement, when the music itself is exciting enough...I suspect the trailer and the film will be similar in style. Audience shots should be in the beginning and end of a song only, or for an occasional  cutaway, not a performer/audience/performer/audience/ dialectical montage. Ugh. Can't watch it. Like McCartney's BS concert editing.

It's a trailer! It's quite probably not even edited by the same person who edited the DVD itself.

I'm not that worried about the fast edits - movie trailers and movies are two different things. But the vocals do sound a tad too processed, and what about the backing tracks? Unbeliveably wimpy! I know, it's the Beach Boys and vocals should be up front, but this is rock music, played at stadiums and arenas, make at least the drums sound like it!

Hey judging how gorgeous looking some of the ladies in the crowd are I just want audience shots  :lol

Sheesh that trailer is annoying.  :-\ What PS said, basically. Sure hope that editing style, vocal processing and amount of audience shots doesn't really represent what the DVD's main content looks and sounds like. But yeah... I'll buy it anyway.  :-X

You can hear Brian in the vocal stack - that's what he must have been doing in the studio right after the tour commenced.

WTF is that?

Autotuned to death, likely overdubbed. Worse than Peter Gabriel Plays Live :-(

Given that the crowd shots appear to be synched to the appropriate song (we see audience members singing along with "Fun, Fun, Fun" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice"), I'm pretty sure what we're seeing is actual clips from the final edit. The thing is with a Beach Boys show is that neither the performers nor the audience are particularly interesting visually; it's all about what we hear. For this reason, trying to create false excitement through fast cuts becomes a distraction. All the same, it looks like it will be a slick product and no more offensive than McCartney's more recent live DVDs (not that I enjoy watching those much).

Sounds like the "Doin' it again" special. Well, no matter what reasons they had, I can't say that I'm not disappointed with this as it looks.

Unlike nearly every other live concert DVD release in history, right?

Autotune! Overdubs! Oh no! How dare The Beach Boys violate the long standing musical tradition of releasing live albums/concert videos totally raw with no studio overdubs!

What did you expect? For them to roll it out onto the Walmart shelves with Brian singing off-key?

Seriously, I think some of you people are living in a world of fantasy or something.

Bubba, you're treating it like this sounds like every other concert DVD ever. That's not true at all. Even compared to other beach boys / brian releases (It's OK, Knebworth, Pet Sounds Live, BWPS), this sounds radically different. So yes, i expect brian to be singing offkey. He's been doing it publicly for the past 37 years and they only started really trying to hide it on this tour.

Well, at least they know me there.

We'll have to wait for the final product, but *if* the actual full content is like that trailer, then it is indeed unfortunately very similar to McCartney DVD's and other concert productions that emphasize quick cuts, tilted shots, crane shots, and most annoying of all copious amounts of awkward audience shots.

You don't have to sell us on how much the audience likes the Beach Boys! We bought the DVD, we like them too!  :lol

Some awkward shots of part of the audience standing while the other half remained seated...it's weird in person when that happens and looks even worse on camera.  Bad form!

doesn't look that impressive. I want to think of this band as the band of legendary stuff that was and never was. Although I digged my concert, I know that I will never experience the true Beach Boys. Watching a polished film showing rednecks dancing to a faded Myke Luvh vocal won't do much for me.

Yeah. Thank God we have the Concert! LP to remind us what they really sounded like live without any studio trickery or overdubs.  ::)

Seriously folks, I think it's great to have this. To hear the guys' voices and blend one more time. Did we dream of this a year ago?

hilarious!  :lol

Live In London is, to me, their best live album by leaps and bounds. There are no studio overdubs on it.

That version of Wake The World is so great,

Darlin' on that album is my favorite.

The whole album just knocks me on my ass, and it's such a huge testament to the skills of the other guys. Denny couldn't drum? They needed session musicians because they weren't very good by themselves? They were worthless without Brian? My fucking ass.

The only thing that bothers me about that album is how Wouldn't It Be Nice and California Girls are cut down a little bit, I guess for time.  They're not bad performances but they feel a little incomplete.  I wonder if that's the way they played them in the concert or if they were just edited for the album.

The "California Girls" intro was edited because Mike sings an "amusing" high note and then says "Thank you, music lovers" during that part. Why they couldn't just leave it or pot Mike down (it'd still be somewhat audible, but come on) is beyond me.

I can't recall any edits to "WIBN" offhand, but I will say the whole "HURR DUR THE NAME OF THIS SONG IS... !!!!!!!" intro thing was dumber than a football bat. I wish someone would have given Bruce acid before the show so he would have introduced every song like that (that's what you do when you're on acid, intro songs).

Whoa. I just noticed WIBN is track number 15 on almost every album it appears! In Concert, Concert/Live in London twofer, Pet Sounds (stereo), Radio Two concert... What's going on here?!

AFAIK they omitted the live ritardando at least until their March '71 appearance on David Frost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHm65GM5l08

Of course, Wikipedia knows best...

-In the Hebrew numbering system, the number 15 is not written according to the usual method, with the letters that represent "10" and "5" (י-ה, yodh and heh), because those spell out one of the Jewish names of God.

-The number corresponding to The Devil in tarot cards.

-The number of guns in a gun salute to Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force Lieutenant Generals, and Navy and Coast Guard Vice Admirals.

-The atomic number of phosphorus.

-In some countries it is the legal age for sexual intercourse.

Finland?  ;D







Oh, er.. what was this thread about again? (Right, the DVD.. still no PAL/RC2 DVD listed on German or UK amazon..  :-\)*



*same goes for Doin' It Again DVD...

Try this:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/Beach-Boys-Live-In-Concert-50th-Anniversary/hnum/3187144

I think it's pretty interesting that there seems to be a 2 disc version, at least for the DVD, with some bonus footage (Doin' It Again doc I guess).

Sounds like the worst thing ever.

Just canceled my order

The live version of "Aren't You Glad" just shows how badly the "Wild Honey" album was produced. While the versions of older songs are good, but not quite as good as the studio versions, "Aren't You Glad" makes the studio version seem pale and lame.

Thanks, but I already knew JPC.de and it doesn't offer any information on RC or PAL whatsoever (which probably means it's the same NTSC DVD listed on amazon).  :-\ And I can't find that 2-disc DVD there, either.  :-X

My cash is short and Christmas is coming so i'll be waiting on the Smiley Smile verdict before buying this. The trailer sounds terrible., Mike especially on Fun Fun Fun , vocals tampered with to disastrous effect. Not hopeful.

The YouTube video from the first row at Albert Hall is much better, real and atmospheric !

:ahh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAj_KGlsiNE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAj_KGlsiNE) :ahh

Yeppers. This is awful.

I think the production is pretty good. The problem is that they didn't have/use a proper studio. Same production but recorded at Western would've done better imo