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Is this and the Hong Kong show going to be the only show not attended by a Smiley Smile member? I thought about it but opted for a couple of Australian shows instead. Looks like a fabulous venue too.

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Brian and Al with B. S. Ong (Promoter and "the Richard Branson" of Singapore)

Just realized that this is on David's birthday. Happy birthday, young guy !

Anybody back from the show yet???  Or did anyone on this board even go?

I can't find one single picture of the Japanese shows or this one. Ok, it's quite early for the Singapore show but still weird about Japan.

Anyway I could find this:

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Damn cool poster!


But people are gonna be pissed when the BB don't play "Surfin, US"!

Those are some new pictures of the guys...I've never seen those particular shots....

Same here. Bruce's picture looks like it was taken at the house and the grand piano at which Brian is sitting. Same shooting where they also ate and Al feeded Brian. The others I don't know

I like that Brian and Al are wearing the same shirt.

David was tagged on FB (via his wife):

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Well, it seems the show is over. Crazy time difference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EekoCQK7tgc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EekoCQK7tgc)

More videos here

http://www.youtube.com/user/mutt0n/videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/mutt0n/videos)

I think they're all from that same shoot. Brian, Al, and Dave are wearing the same shirts as in some of the previously released press photos.

Very good videos here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/linggaresineta (http://www.youtube.com/user/linggaresineta)

Brian's vocals on "Sail On, Sailor," just keep getting stronger with each show. Am I the only one who joins in on the "choreography" while watching the vids? The band's a bad influence. ;D

So why was no video wall in Singapore ? I'm confused ?
Anyway, very nice version of GOK by Brian. Thanks for the links !

I''m totally digging the sound on a lot of these Asian shows...sounds great.

I'm hearing some wonderful new piano fills on "All This Is That"...sounds wonderful @ 1:50

http://youtu.be/-LcsCOPEvmc?t=1m45s

How about Brian at the end of the second verse on "Add Some Music".... "to your DAY"?  What a great ascending vocal I've haven't heard on this song before. Just terrific!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HO6aT120I&feature=plcp       at about 1:05. He looks lost at the start, and then this comes from out of nowhere.

Yeah it's a nice one.  I haven't watched one clip of "Add Some" from this tour where Brian does NOT keep his eyes glued on Al when Al is up to sing the bridge "Muusiiiiiic, when you're alone....."  He keeps his eye on him, hoping he hits those notes...every single time. 

I see some insense burning at the end of Brian's keyboard....never saw that before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsmyJuprHfg&feature=plcp

Mid to late 70's Brian!!

Definitely sounds like a great show...would've been nice to have "Marcella" on that night.

This might very well be Brian's best performance of the entire tour. He is really singing great in these clips!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy-wbtB_3P8&feature=plcp

Sometimes I feel velly saad!! :lol :lol :lol

I get the feeling that Brian performs better when he can hear himself and the music better.  The sound in this venue sounds really great...I'd bet the sound on stage is equally great.

This + accounts from band members that say Brian can really dazzle vocally when he feels like turning it on = such a tease. I feel like it's a rare peak into his vocalist intuition. Usually it just sounds like he's just thinking about saying the right words in the right key.


Awesome! I love hearing him tear it up like this. Do you think this kind of singing has been discouraged by vocal coaches? You can hear him slipping into that 80s/90s nasal quality at points.


I really wonder about the Sail on Sailor choreography.  Is Brian laughing at the song or is this his honest-to-goodness shot at a good performance? Is the band laughing with him or at him (not in a vicious way, but in a "oh that goofy guy" kind of way).

The setlist is up on Setlistsfm--looks like they got a nice long set in--49 songs.  No "Forever," tho.  Wonder why the video screen makes it to some countries and not others? 

I don't know, but one possibillity is that the movements help to sing the notes... in better pitch. Jeff supports Brian vocally, and now and then others join in.

From Mike's Australian interview, I gathered that the video wall is only being used when the venue has the equipment. They didn't bring it with them, but if the venue has one, they use it.

The "this whole world" video contains some of the best live vocals by Brian from the last 20-30 years. I'm in awe.

I am watching these videos  :hat and they are so fantastic. They aren't Brian's best vocals on the tour, but I think the reason we think they're amazing because Brian isn't "rote" - it seems like he's actually aware and TRYING to do a great vocal and do a little something different with his lead voice. These days, you kinda know what you're getting fron Brian in concert, but these were fresh and exciting takes on the songs they've been doing for three straight months If my head wasn't so cloudy I could do an in depth analysis of each video just based on watching and listening to Brian in those clips.

"I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" - he actually looks like he's crying (I know that's just his facial expression due to meds or something), but I feel the emotion and the yearning in that song coming out of him,  watching Brian in the clip, the same emotion that was there in '66 but was absent for a long time......And he really goes for the "when my fairweather friends cop out" falsetto - he blends in unison with Jeff! The second time, it must have taken a lot out of him because he dropped real low for the "what's it all about?." section. And then he sings the next line as "sometimes I feel velly sad", doing an accent and you see a glimpse of a SMiLE on his face. So fantastic.

I don't exactly hear Brian doing "velly" but rather "verrrrry" with a rolling r.  Still funny though.

When I heard that rrrolling 'R' (a little too much) I thought he might just have done some exercises with a vocal coach, in between the busy schedule. Anyway, Brian looks good and sings good.

Wouldn't It Be Nice - great atmosphere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bes3YoiTr5o

Quick question: At about the 3:30 mark on the IJWMFTT, does Mike sing "I guess he just wasn't made for these times"? I've listened a couple times and it seems like it but not entirely sure. Nice touch if he does...

Yes, but that's Al.

Thanks for checking and the correction!

Costs too much!

Looks like a fake to me!

I noticed this too.

I thought he was saying "very" in a stereotypical way to poke fun of the Asians. "Sometimes I feel varry sad". He probably wasn't doing that, but if he was that's pretty damn funny (if politically incorrect).

The ways he sobs "sometimes I feel very sad" is similar to his mock emotion in "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" film when he cries out "My house is gone!".  

Brian seemed to be annoyed by something during "Add Some Music". Maybe someone with a flash camera.

He's definitely having some fun up there. Good for him.

I was watching "Frank Sinatra Live in Tokyo" on DVD a few weeks ago and during "Luck Be A Lady" Frank sang the lyric as "Ruck be a Rady."   :lol

From Brian's Facebook page:


http://blogs.straitstimes.com/2012/08/23/on-the-beach-boys/

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Had Mike attempted something like that, we would be backslashing the guy.
Had Bruce attempted something like that, we would have a new hate thread.

I dig that Brian did it, though. And, I say it again, TWW is some of te best live vocals from him I've heard. This tour so far has been his best with the BBs since -- what? 1965?

Looks good for my gig in Melbourne then! ;D

Screens must come with the venue as seen here at 'Flight Of The Concords' last month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkMmcKL2l2s

Review:
http://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/blogs/singapore-showbiz/beach-boys-beaten-battered-still-rockin-033217656.html
The Beach Boys beaten and battered, but still rockin’


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That article refers to songs called "Isn't She Lovely" and "Sitting on Top of the World."  What songs could the author be referring to?

"Sitting on top..." = "Catch a wave" (...and you're sitting on top of the world)

Don't know what "Isn't she lovely" should be. It's certainly not the Stevie Wonder song and since they are talking about new songs in the next part of the sentence it also might not be "Isn't it time".

Oh, come on guys, Brian wasn't making fun of Asians. he just has a funny singing voice.

Worst review I've ever read. A show that includes both singing off-key and lip-synching should be deemed as terrible. Yet he ends up saying it was great. What a mess!

I kinda think he was. Maybe an inside joke. You did see that sly smile on his face as he was singing it like that, didn't you? That's one of those looks that you make when you're getting away with something.  :-D

Can you direct me to this Australian interview? I have not come across mention of it until now.

I doubt he was, although I concur that it's possible.  If he really was, though, he picked the wrong country:  Singapore is technically an English-speaking country, although it's multilingual and their variety of English can be quite different from American or British.  The most common native language these days there is probably Mandarin Chinese, which unlike Japanese and Korean distinguishes between "l" and "r," although their R sounds are quite different from those in English (but sound nothing like "l"). 

I could see the movements helping him hit the notes.  But as for vocal support, when he was doing that at the Nagoya show, there didn't seem to be anyone supporting him vocally on SOS--in fact, Jeff was watching him and making the movements back at him, so his back was turned to the mic. 

Here you go

http://blogs.abc.net.au/sa/2012/08/getting-the-good-vibes.html

This is such a sight to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=---rzu0JRL4

Hi, here is a review I found of Singapore which suggests....LIP SYNCHING!!! Say it isnt so -

http://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/blogs/singapore-showbiz/beach-boys-beaten-battered-still-rockin-033217656.html

Thanks. He sounds pretty tired, but it's not a bad listen.

This is probably the first known live recording of the actual single version of "Isn't It Time":

http://youtu.be/r_XGVJmXEWM (http://youtu.be/r_XGVJmXEWM)

Note the different (Al's) and the different bridge.
Also note that is different both from the album version AND the live version they use to play towards the end of the US tour.

It's a stronger arrangement than the album's. Really wish it hits big.

Oops, nevermind.

What does John Cowsill's shirt say? Looks like a take off of the Pet Sounds font.

I'm not feeling the new lyrics. Even more generic than before! And...say what you will, but I miss Jeff on the bridge.

I do, as well.

Wow this version of "God Only Knows" is impeccable.  Strong vocals by Brian...and he sticks every high note.  The "what good would living do meeeeeee" is dead on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt5RuosEbDg&feature=relmfu