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Brian Wilson had the secret concert at Moscow club The Apartment 10 december. It was "Esquire" magazine (russian edition) party. There were 200 guests and it was free.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/sosomoon/IMG_5163.jpg)

Set List:

California Girls
Catch A Wave
Dance Dance Dance
Surfer Girl
In My Room
Then I Kissed Her
All Summer Long
Please Let Me Wonder
Don`t Worry Baby
Do You Wanna Dance
I Get Around
Wouldn`t It Be Nice
God Only Knows
Do It Again
Good Vibrations

Johnny B.Goode
Help Me Rhonda
Barbara Ann
Surfin` USA
Fun Fun Fun

Article on russian but with foto
http://www.zvuki.ru/R/P/19269

Video "California Girls"
http://www.openspace.ru/music_modern/names/details/6462/

Privet!
Ya ne znau chto Brian puteshestvie - Moskva. No, ochen horosho!
Spasibo za video.
Poka!

Cool!


And I totally agree!!

But, seriously, help us out here, our knowledge of the Russian language is below average here...

Welcome on this board, btw

Speak for yourself! ... OK, and for me. I don't know anything outside of vodka and, how patronymics work and the fact that diminutives of people's names end in ya a lot of the time. And the latter ones just come from Dostoevsky translators' notes.

Wow that's a cool gig, though Brian looks terrified. I don't think they'd play too many shows with the audience so close & and in your face. Be interesting to see/hear the whole performance as the band is a "stripped down" version.  Notice Scott Bennett on drums too!

I know Scott was on drums in the stripped down (casino?) shows a while back, too ... last summer, maybe? I forget when. Also, is that Probyn playing bass? It certainly isn't Brett Simons.

Yes it is! It didn't even click to the fact that he was playing bass. Tallented bunch eh? haha

Band:

Scott Bennett - drums
Probyn Gregory - bass
Nick Walusko - guitar
Jeff Foskett - guitar
Darian Sahanaja - kb

I know this concert was shot, but I`m not sure that it will be easy to find.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/sosomoon/brian3winter.jpg)

Brian came to club.

He was in Moscow 5 days, but there are no information about his visit.

Brian looks rough :(

We all have our days.  ;)

he seems to me to have had a pretty rough go of it on this tour

That's one of the saddest pictures of Brian I've ever seen  :'(

Brian's days just happen to last for 40 years...

"I've seen nights that seem to last for years." (Most likely involving piano, a mountain of cocaine, Danny Hutton and Shortenin' Bread.)

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/sosomoon/brian3winter.jpg)

Sure this isn't a still out of 'Gorky Park'?

Brian looks pretty good for a guy in his 60's in Moscow in the middle of Winter  ;D

"I don't like Russians but I like their vodka." - Brian

On a related note....the Beach Boys almost played in Leningrad, USSR back in 1978 with Santana as a co-headliner, but the gig was cancelled. The Iron Curtain was starting to shred in 1978 but it didn't rip yet.

sure does ...

(http://i44.tinypic.com/126bdwm.jpg)

Thanks for sharing the pic. Good to see Brian happy...  :)

And to all who still believe in the "cold war": Look, no soldiers pointing at Brian and Scott... ;-)
I believe Brian's home town, Chicago, is a lot more dangerous...  :-(

"We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
What might save us, me, and you
Is that the russians love their children too"
(Sting)

Hometown, Chicago?  :shrug That Lucky Old Wind's got nothin' to do but blow around the lake all day...

As I understand, he hasn't lived in Chicago since the Joe Thomas years.

Brian sold his Chicago residence years ago.


Since it was a private show, there was no reason for publicity.

Brian to play in Moscow again in August

It's nice to see Brian playing for our comrades in Russia! Workers of the world unite! Solidarity!   :lol