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Does anyone Know exactly what concerts this is from and what songs are from what concerts? I have heard rumors that its from a lot of different concerts from 1972-1973 but then I also heard its just from two concerts. Just wondering if anyone knows what songs go to what concert. Thanks

Side One.

SAIL ON, SAILOR
Pine Knob Ampitheatre, Clarkston, MI, Monday September 3, 1973


SLOOP JOHN B.
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale/Long Island, NY, Sunday August 19, 1973


THE TRADER
Pine Knob Ampitheatre, Clarkston, MI, Monday September 3, 1973


YOU STILL BELIEVE IN ME
Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA, Friday August 31, 1973


CALIFORNIA GIRLS
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale/Long Island, NY, Sunday August 19, 1973


DARLIN'
Century Theatre, Buffalo, NY, Saturday September 1, 1973


Side Two.

MARCELLA
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, Tuesday November 19, 1972


CAROLINE, NO
The Mosque, Richmond, VA, Saturday August 18, 1973


LEAVING THIS TOWN
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale/Long Island, NY, Sunday August 19, 1973


HEROES AND VILLAINS
The Mosque, Richmond, VA, Saturday August 18, 1973


Side Three.

FUNKY PRETTY
Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA, Friday August 31, 1973


LET THE WIND BLOW
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, Tuesday November 19, 1972


HELP ME, RHONDA
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale/Long Island, NY, Sunday August 19, 1973


SURFER GIRL
Pine Knob Ampitheatre, Clarkston, MI, Monday September 3, 1973


WOULDN'T IT BE NICE
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, Tuesday November 19, 1972



Side Four.

WE GOT LOVE
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale/Long Island, NY, Sunday August 19, 1973


DON'T WORRY BABY
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, Tuesday November 19, 1972


SURFIN' U.S.A.
Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA, Friday August 31, 1973


GOOD VIBRATIONS
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, Tuesday November 19, 1972


FUN, FUN, FUN
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Mixed at Sound City Studio B, Van Nuys, CA - Mix Produced by Carl Wilson and Ricky Fataar

Very interesting!! Thanks c-man!

Indeed, many thanks indeed.

There's y'r next archive release, right there - every gig, every song. I AM being greedy…!

Good info. Would love to see a reissue including selections from SURF'S UP & SUNFLOWER plus "Jumpin' Jack Flash"!

Would be amazing with a live box with a ton of shows, especially if they're from the 70's. I don't care if it's got Surfer Girl 5-6 times, so do all their other material. Just give me all that live sh*t, with CCW, SU, JJF, WH, etc etc etc.

Damn that would be fun to listen to...

Just listening to Live in Nassau Coliseum 1974 just serves how much energy and exuberance there is in these performances!

Side one they dedicate the album "To Brian with love and gratitude".
It's scratched into the album by the label I always thought that was pretty cool!

Agree. You could fill up an entire second disc with great stuff!

If they ever wanted to reissue/remaster it again, and stay with a single disc, they COULD add "Jumpin' Jack Flash" or another classic from Surf's Up or Sunflower. The album clocks in at a little over 75 minutes, so there's room for one more song; I guess it would be close.

One thing that always stood out and I guess confounded me was the erratic transitions between the songs. Even on the remastered CD the applause is choppy, fades fast, and is different volumes from song to song. I'd like to see some good overdubbing and mastering of applause to make it sound a little more smooth and...consistent.

Agree with the transition between songs. Take a listen to the start of WIBN. It sounds like a audience of 10 year old kids.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AFRD-VJgjxU

As I recall, that was the fashion of the time to keep the applause low and fade out quickly. Also, I always thought that Sloop John B. was recorded in Tucson, Az.. It sounds like Dennis says something like "Arizona away" or something to that effect, at song's end.

this is clearly a mystery why this period has been kind of 'forgotten'.  other bands get royal treatment, but not The Beach Boys.
It was also the period where Dennis really came to the front with the others that is also not documented well enough.
A grand ol boxset with a DVD would be amazing!  The footage is out there as well as the tracks.

I was there at Pine Knob for Sail On Sailor. I remember Jack Reilly jumping around the stage before the concert. Also saw Daryl warming up and Toni checking Mike's mic. Wonderful show with everybody there except Brian to finish the Summer. What a fine night it was in the Motor City.

You must be thinking of two different Pine Knob shows - Daryl and Toni left at the end of '72, after the November tour, and "Sailor" wasn't added to the setlist 'til the following year.

And this, gentle posters, is why I cherish this forum as no other: solid, new information on this band that we love and no fuckwittery or shitweasledom. Let us go on this way.*

[* you see what I did there ?]

You're thinking 9/4/72 if Jack, Daryl & Toni were there. But "SO,S" wouldn't be recorded for another three months...

So, I'm sitting down with my first cup of coffee this dreary Maryland morning, perusing the Board, and my eye catches a post about In Concert. 

Well, that is my favorite period of the Boys' career (apart from, well, you know . . . ), so I click on and see the inquiry from The_Beach.  Great question!  Yeah, I'd like to know that, too.

I'm not sure if that information is available or where one would even begin to look for it.  Then, a short time later -- a mere 2 hours, 12.5 minutes, and 45 seconds, to be precise -- there's the answer.  Clear, concise, neatly presented, easy to print out, and opening the door to oh so many fantastic possibilities. 

And my very next thought is, "This Board is, quite frankly, amazing.  A fairly complicated question gets a thorough, authoritative response in about two hours. It's like having your very own Beach Boys History Hotline.  Where else could that happen?"

So, thank you C-Man for always raising the bar on this Board's potential and magic.

And thank you, Andrew, for the added bonus . . . two new favorite words . . . .fuckwittery and shitweasledom.  But the night is so young.   

         

Indeed, this board is the best for information, no doubt about it. I love this kind of stuff. :) It's all the other crap that gets posted in here that keeps me away or more importantly, not as involved.

I've been listening to this album non stop since 1976.  One thing I've observed over the years... the bg vocal blend seems fuller, more lush on the 1972 cuts (Wouldn't It Be Nice, Good Vibrations, Don't Worry Baby).  On the August / September recordings, the bg vocals seem less prominent, almost buried.  California Girls, Surfin' USA and Sail on Sailor are prime examples.

Anyone else notice this?

Funny how Mike says releasing archive material is barrel scrapping, yet we get the party! Unplugged. Makes sense...

It's 2016.. Doubt were gonna any early 70s live shows released. Somebody dropped the balls on that one. Whoever releases the stuff for the dead and Dylan bring them over to us!

Never noticed this myself, but possibly this could be because the 1972 songs were mastered differently because they were intended to be part of the earlier, single-disc version of the album before it got rejected and turned into a double album with songs from the summer 73 tour.

I may be misremembering, but I don't think any of the single disc versions made it to the released version.

I was lucky enough to have attended the August 19th show at the Nassau Coliseum in New York with my then girlfriend Jacquie. It was a great time to be a BB fan and we had a marvelous time. Thanks for the great info C-Man

Hmm, that's interesting. Would Ian or Jonathon perhaps have any more information of this subject?

I just listened to each  of the songs from the single disc and the double release and I concur that none of them are the same

Exactly, thank you. And c-man, thanks.

while I love this period of the beach boys, I gotta say I may be the only person here unimpressed with the album.
I like the newer tunes of the day, but thought they butchered the old hits with new arrangements and weak vocals.
Al Jardine particularly.  this is an album that could use some autotune dare I say  ::)

Hahah ! Just threw that one in there nonchalantly, didn't ya !!

Of course, I forgot that the version of "H&V" on Hawthorne, CA is the original, single disc, version.

Which ones, may I ask? Heroes & Villains is probably (tempo-wise) the best version of the song that I have ever heard. Darlin' is as good or better than the original. I'll take this version of Fun Fun Fun over anything live that I have heard since the late 80's. Personally, I don't want the live songs sounding verbatim of the studio versions. I can stay home and put a record or CD on if I want to listen in that context.

Didn't know whether to quote you or the ever witty Andrew in giving a nod to C-Man.  Can't tell you the # of these shows I either photographed or filmed parts of, or how many different versions of these songs I listened to Carl work on mixing.  But I never would have been able to identify which shows which songs came from - you're the best, C-Man!

I'll just add that the individual dates and venues were also put forth in Jon Stebbins and Ian Rusten's simply excellent "Beach Boys In Concert" book (the noted research at hand of which I'd assume was also excellently provided by C-Man there). I don't buy many BBs books these days, but I've never regretted purchasing this one for a single second. So much great info in there!
 
http://www.amazon.com/The-Beach-Boys-Concert-Complete/dp/1617134562

And thanks for putting up the list again here, Craig. I must've combed over that section of the book a dozen times trying to figure out why *only* the date/venue for "Fun, Fun, Fun" seemed to be missing! Even posted a query about it to one of the sub-forums here to no avail. Good to know I'm not completely blind...lol.


Now...hopefully that last one will turn up as well at some point.

Thanks for the plug. I think I got that info from Alan Boyd but c-man helped a lot with the book too! Both very generous

Here is a truly trivial question that doesn't deserve it's own thread:
On this LP, right at the beginning of "Sail on Sailor" someone with a deepish clear voice says something like "Everybody". Do you know who said it and what it is he says?
For some reason ever since I was 4 or so I hear that "Everybody" (or whatever) in my head about a dozen times a day.

Always believed it was simply Dennis (but I may be wrong) encouraging the audience to clap along with the beat...

Yeah, I always assumed it was audience encouragement. Had no guess who it was though and was not positive about the word, but pretty sure.
Thanks for answering!

<<Jon Stebbins and Ian Rusten's simply excellent "Beach Boys In Concert" book>>

I couldn't agree more.  One of the great things about this book are all the shared experiences.  It's rare to read a historical tome like this and be able to point to a specific place, a specific day and a specific hour and say... "I was there that day."

The first time I heard this LP was when someone at school gave me their mums's copy.  I was excited, having loved Beach Boys Concert.  However, I was a little confused by it and slightly disappointed as I didn't think it sounded like the Beach Boys and didn't have the loud cheering etc.

Later on I got to love it for the wonderful album it is.  Great musicianship, fresh arrangements and a document of a band at the top of their game.  This was a great period for the group.

Of course since it came out I've found many updates

... which are noted at 10452.

Yeah Dennis to me. He wasn't drumming then and as Bruce was not in the band at the time, someone had to do it.  :lol

here are my thoughts, but its just my opinion of course browsing through the tracks:
Some of the 70's tunes are awesome.  And very fitting.
sloop john b sounds like a 'rock n roll music' type of performance. kinda heavy on the 'rock' style.
I understand it was the early 70's of course, but it's tempo drives me silly.
you still believe in me, is a terrible.  the backing sounds out of tune and sounds to me Al is struggling with the lead.
California Girls always sounds pretty good live.
but dont worry baby, grinds me to this day! surely they had a better version of it recording multiple shows.
Carl is great as nearly always, but Al to me on this, sounds strained, weak, and nothing in memory or feel to Brian's vocal.
there is even a live version from 1980 or so where Brian sang the vocal, while not in a great state, still held a candle to anybody.
So maybe I understated the album a bit, a few choice performances, as a young kid, really turned me off that I still carry with today.
My definite taste in a live album is definitely 'live in london' and then 'concert 64'.  let's not go there haha.

Thanks c-man for that breakdown.  That CD (yes, I had the vinyl) is in my top 3 of BB stuff and listen to it still a lot, in the CD 6 pack in my old car.  Saw Toni Tennille in the early spring of 1972.  

Love the live work, even if it is not all from one show.  YSBIM is a gem because it was so rarely done, live and Leaving This Town, Trader, SOS, DWB - OMG.      

:thewilsons

Thank you so much C-man!!! That was very helpful! In my opinion I love to hear the stuff live that wasn't normally done! Hearing some of these songs are very nice! Leaving This Town was only played live about 5 times. I would love to hear a Live CD pack full of songs that were rarely played live with songs from the 70's and 80's!

Thanks Dave...I was wondering when reading this thread if folks had forgotten that Ian and my Beach Boys In Concert book had provided the majority of this info several years ago in nicely published form. I appreciate the credit where credit is due. I know Ian was adamant about trying to solve that particular riddle among our thousands of concert dates in the book.

I have always heard the beach boys did Brown Sugar once in 1975 but I believe that is a false rumor anyone have an opinion on that? or knows if its ture or not?

Funny, if you read reviews of the album online from William Ruhl, etc., they loved the new interpretation of YSBIM and especially, DWB. I'm with you on YSBIM, but I love Carl's vocals on DWB. I also like the arrangement of Sloop, as well. I always thought the studio version a bit slow in tempo. The early to mid-70's is the era I grew up in, so I am kind of partial to the updated arrangements of the older songs.

For me, totally subjectively, this is the Beach Boys album. Not because of an artistic evaluation or, obviously, commercial reasons, but simply because I listened to it straight-through at least four times a week from before I can remember until I was 12 or so. Most of the songs have been supplanted in my head by the studio versions, but the three that I still vastly prefer the "In Concert" versions to are Sail On Sailor, Funky Pretty and Marcella (of course We Got Love, but that's not really fair). It's probably not coincidental that those are songs that originated about this time; they played them in the spirit they were recorded and written but with a little extra oomph, I feel. Trader is close: the studio version has a really interesting and powerful Nordic men's chorus-like "oh-oh-oh" behind the verses but Carl's vocal live is fantastic. I've also always loved the live Caroline, No and You Still Believe in Me, though I've come to like the studio versions a bit better.
Eta: Dr. Beach Boy brought up Sloop, another excellent one from this album.

ah yes Dr, Carl Wilson was really at his creative and singing peak during these years.  Carl's vocals on DWB makes me wonder why he didn't sing
the whole damn thing! he is beautiful on this.  His voice is magic over this whole album. 
just off topic to this, Carl's beautiful live version of 'only with you' from 72' on Made in California, is magic.
would be great to get an expanded version of 'in concert'. 

Are you reading this Alan Boyd and Mark Linett?