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Fantastic! Thanks for the link. "In just a few minutes" she says. Plug for Love and Mercy now. They are running a bit late.

opening with Heroes and Villains! Great quality stream.

In My Room...

"How do you like the concert so far?"

She Knows Me Too Well, Matt Jardine lead. BW in good spirits.

I Get Around

Runaway Dancer, sans Sebu

Sail Away "My favorite song on the album..." -- no Al or Blondie.

God Only Knows

Good Vibrations BW: "Oh... MYMYMY what a sensation elaaaation!" "STOP CLAPPING!"

Surfin' USA "I'm gonna try to sing it as good as he did!"

Fun, Fun, Fun

Love and Mercy

Brian VERY insistent that I Get Around is from 1963.  :lol

Big grins from Brian. This is really fun. Thanks for the heads-up, Debbie!  :)

BW's pantomiming on Runaway Dancer would make Cousin Mike proud! He's clearly having a blast.

God Only Knows knocked out of the park... Lovely.

In the middle of Good Vibrations, Brian to the audience:  "Stop clapping!"  :lol

Nice, BW is rocking!

Quite rough vocal-wise

No Probyn or Mikey in the band. Nelson on drums. Matt occasionaly on percussion and guitar.

Love and Mercy! First time in how long?

Long Beach, 11 October 2014

Beautiful.

Oh right, missed that show! Grr. Good to see it back in the setlists, makes sense. Now stop clapping, people!

BW needs a moog to jam on! ;D

This is very cool.

I haven't seen Brian THIS engaged an quite awhile. He's totally into it and looks happy to be there!  And Mertins playing the Theramin/Tannerin part to Good Vibrations on a flute/piccolo. A little different. And Matt with an acoustic in his hands in addition to percussion and the high parts. Good to see him back in the mix!

The camera angle, eh? Right there next to 'em on stage! Very cool.

Anybody know if this will be available for on-demand play?  I was teaching a class during this, unfortunately.

Wish I would have known about this when tickets were still available! I would have taken the day off work and went down. This is the first time since...I can remember...that information about a Brian appearance wasn't announced here well in advance of when it was happening.  :angry

Damn! Too late!


I hope so! But it might take a couple of days I guess.




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Brian rehearsing at Non Comm in Philadelphia for today's show!

Hoping someone can get this up on YouTube...... Anybody capture this on video on the first go-around? Would love to see and hear this.....

Here's a recap, but no recording that I've spotted so far.  http://thekey.xpn.org/2015/05/15/fan-brian-wilson-noncomm/

Some of the previous broadcast recordings are available, so we can hope and keep an eye out on the site.

Interested to hear Matt sing "She Knows Me Too Well." That seems to be the lead they toss the "falsetto guy" in the band now. Awesome song obviously, but I'm still hoping they spice up the upcoming tour setlist. 

It's also interesting that they did "Runaway Dancer." I figured they probably wouldn't do that one on the upcoming tour without Simonian there, but now perhaps it seems they might.

Who sang Sebu's part on Runaway Dancer?  Matt?

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Thanks!

Excellent! Thanks! Hope to check it out shortly.....

Really nice to see Brian looking so happy and animated.

The band sound a little under-rehearsed but that is only natural.

Band does sound a bit rusty, but par for the course for a scaled-down one-off show.

Matt sounded good on "She Knows Me Too Well." Kinda weird hearing him sing it, but cool.

That's also the most guitar I've ever seen Matt play. Not sure if I've ever seen him pick up a guitar at a Beach Boys or Al show.

I agree that Matt sounds good but I would hope that if they only add a limited number of rarities at shows (which with 1 or 2 support acts seems likely) that they will be songs sung by Brian, Al or Blondie. I know Brian has already commented about performing Funky Pretty for example.

Runaway Dancer should not be performed imo.

Can you elaborate?  What did he say?

"Yeah!"

When asked in a Q&A if he wanted to add songs like Funky Pretty to the setlist this year.

Brian's voice is pretty rough.  I hope he sounds better when I see him in July, we all know how good he can sound.  Very pretty rendition of "Love and Mercy" though, he sounded pretty good there.  And the band did oddly seem a little off too though they are missing a few players (Mikey, Probyn, Al and Blondie of course).  Nothing a little more rehearsal can't fix.  But overall a nice little performance even if far from great.  At least Brian seemed like he was having a great time, it's really something to see him so engaged, moving his arms around and introducing songs to the audience.  Glad you're happy Bri. :)

Pretty much my thoughts.

I`m sure they will sound much better when they have the full band with them.

Sorry to do it, but due to copyright claim issues the links posted here had to be removed. Similar YouTube links to the streaming video have already been removed from (and by) Youtube due to copyright.

I was at the show today.

Darn it. At least I saw most of it!

How did it sound live?

Like the Grammy performance in 2012, the sound live inside the room was better than the live feed that was broadcast, in my opinion. There were no seats on the floor, and I was front row, right up at the stage, so I could hear the amps and stuff "live" versus going through the house mix. Awesome to see Brian and the band that close.

Just another note: The band Calexico played the set before Brian, and they did a very cool thing: They dedicated their cover of Love's "Alone Again Or" to Brian. They have a trumpet player, and that song was/is a perfect match for them. Check them out too, they have a great Tex-Mex kind of hybrid sound going on. Oh, and they also played with less members than their usual live lineup, like a stripped-down version of the full stage band for this show/broadcast.

Just something that jumped out at me.  No disrespect meant to Howie.

Anyone know which model of Yamaha keyboard Brian is using here? Seems to be the same model he's primarily used since '99, but I've never been able to spot a model number on the thing, just the big Yamaha logo.

It's an older version of the Yamaha P200

Thanks!