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http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/beachboys50bluray.php

This guy gives the disc a bad review but not for the same reason several of us have given it a bad review.  He goes out of his way to say how the tour's reviews were generally negative, how the tour was "cut short" because Mike Love fired three of the members, and that the performances were lackluster.  

And DVD Verdict is a site that I enjoy regularly usually full of great insight.  This guy obviously does not know his stuff.   :smash

Load. Of. Bollocks.  >:(

 :angry

"5 out of 13 readers thought our verdict was fair."

WHAT?

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I hope that's peanut butter coming out of the jar, and not baby poop going in!

(Okay, everybody, back to your breakfasts now!)

Better than it was!  When I cast MY vote it was 5 out of 10!

Probably just Mike-haters. They like everything that mentions how he bad he is....

Now 8 out of 29.

What a crock that was.

Perhaps the first couple of shows were "a little rough", but that's understandable.  it sure wasn't "rough" in Las Vegas.  Just the opposite, to quote Sherman Potter, it "put the "ooooh" in "smoooooth" and rocked all night long.

I took a minute to report the review as ridiculously inaccurate in every respect about the band and the show. Let's waste no more time on it, but please follow the Professor in taking a minute to report the review as rubbish; there is an email link to do this.

Holy Mother of Wilson...I had the same reaction!

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What would a child have to consume to make their turds turn that colour?

Peanut butter.

To calm everyone down, here is a little more balanced opinion of the year for ya!

http://www.classichitsandoldies.com/v2/2012/12/31/the-year-in-review-the-rolling-stones-and-beach-boys-celebrate-golden-anniversaries/

Nice little write-up.  Out of curiosity, has Mike explicitly stated that he would consider carrying on with the reunion line-up after the new year like the article states?  (Not trying to stir sh*t up - promise - just genuinely want to know if he has said that)

His letter to the LA times in part....

Near the end of the very last show in London, right as Brian started singing "Summer’s Gone" off the new album, I started thinking about our journey together. I’m wondering if we’ll all get to do this again or if this is it. I’m standing proud that we came together, put our differences aside and made this tour happen. I listen:

Summer’s gone,

Summer’s gone away…

Old friends have gone

They’ve gone their separate ways

Our dreams hold on

For those who still have more to say

And at the end of the song, I have an epiphany: The Beach Boys are bigger than those who created it. When all of us remaining founders have turned to dust, the band will live on in the hearts of those who relish the sounds of summer.  So you see, summer’s never really gone. And neither are the Beach Boys.



....You decide, but to me he does not rule it out but everyone has to understand most of these guys are over 70 now. In the future, even if the mind is willing, bodies may be weak. Time will tell.

Forget this verdict guy.  He wouldn't know a Beach Boy from a beech nut. Some folks just think they have to show how smart they are by shooting their mouths off like this. They have nothing of  value to add, so this is all they can do.

12/49

That picture of the kid with the peanut butter scares me, also this reviewers a twat! Let's burn him at the stake!

So once I remove Mikes comments, what part of my post got your panties in a twist?

I assumed he was talking about the review - nothing to do with you!

Fair enough.

This review almost has nothing to do with the DVD but everything to do with the reviewers personal agenda to rag on Mike Love's Beach Boys touring band.  He gets a few things wrong including how the tour had received a majority of bad reviews and that it was "cut short."  The tour was EXTENDED to accommodate for the huge demand and not "cut short."  There were very little negative reviews.  There's nothing to add regarding the New Orleans gig--it was indeed rough.  The tour picked up right when they hit the Beacon in NYC and they were on fire till the end in London. 

The reviewer is right to call out the very limited song selection on the DVD---just like we all did.  But for any fan of the Beach Boys---seeing Brian up on stage with everyone else is worth this DVD alone.  The DVD on its own, really struggles to stand by itself when you compare it to other well done DVDs done recently (Led Zeppelin's "Celebration Day") but the DVD does a wonderful job to complement the experience for any fans who attended a concert on this tour--it's a great way to relive the memories andthis  makes up for the DVD's many shortcomings.  Not really fair for the unbiased reviewer but that's just the way it is.

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I read that review, and it seems clear to me that the guy really didn't like the New Orleans performance. Which begs the question: whose fault was it that the Beach Boys gave a bad performance that day? He specifically cites the performance of "God Only Knows," which was sung by Brian in New Orleans, since the video screens weren't used as festival performances. The guy didn't like the Beach Boys' reunion for the reason of not liking Brian Wilson's performances as much as Mike Love's. The reviewer admires Brian's songwriting, but doesn't admire his performing skills. So, he shouldn't be unhappy that the Beach Boys reunion didn't continue. He doesn't like them either with or without Brian in the line-up.

Huh?  I was talking about the guy who wrote the New Orleans review.

Noted by mrmoustachioto on page one.  My bad!

The critic didn't even ATTEND the BB concert. He simply talked with one person who was negative.


Comments here   http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,12818.0.html   indicate there was no soundcheck that day, so it apparently took some time to get the sound right. Other comments indicated that the crowd was enthusiastic.

Conveniently not mentioned by the "judge"... it was the third show of the tour. And an abbreviated one, at that. "Rough" spots (if any) were quickly smoothed over, although the critic claimed
 "the reviews were generally negative at every stop along the way", which we all know is completely bogus. This guy clearly just does not like The Beach Boys or, more specifically, Mike. Why else would he reference a concert  that took place more than two months earlier in what was supposed to be a review of the dvd? 

No worries, friend.

Wait...the reunion tour did suck?  Well why didn't anyone tell us?!