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The Legacy Concert for the Children
We cordially invite you to join us for “The Legacy Concert for the Children” with The Beach Boys as they wrap up their 50th Anniversary world-wide tour. This exclusive event will take place at The Santaluz Club on Sunday, September 30th, 2012.
Santaluz Club
8170 Caminito Santaluz E.
San Diego, CA 92127


Anyone at this show? Info/Setlist?

Mike & Bruce. look at the picture on the website. if I lived in the area, I'd definitely go... it's the first Mike & Bruce show since the reunion!

they all look horrible in that picture, I think they're wearing makeup.

But the press release says they're wrapping up their 50th Anniversary worldwide tour with this show.

Well, someone should know by now :lol

Wasn't there an episode of Growing Pains where Kirk Cameron's character goes through all sorts of antics to score tickets for a Frank Sinatra show, and when he finally lands the prized tickets and gets to the show, it turned out his tickets were for Frank Sinatra Jr.?

Makeup and a Snooki-level spray-tan.

Mike and Bruce's band LOVE a glamourshot press photo.

The Santaluz Club is a golf course and country club, I didn't realize that:

www.thesantaluzclub.com (http://www.thesantaluzclub.com)

Hey tomorrow is Scott Totten's birthday.

That's really cool! Definitely a thread should be started tomorrow for birthday wishes. Great guitarist, and he does an amazing job playing those BB's tunes on stage - plus we went to the same school... ;)

LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE BEACH BOYS!!!!!

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I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. Thanks.

if you notice, on the website they edited out Tim Bonhomme's guido-hair.

Is that Christian on the far left, or did Scott Weiland secretly join the Beach Boys?

 :lol Scott Weiland  = not chickensh*t.

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Cue everyone's conniption fit, Stamos was there.

On twitter Stamos said Mike raised over a million for a children's hospital.

That's hilarious, I'll bet Stamos just couldn't wait to get back and hover.  Sounds like a worthwhile charity though, good for Mike, that must have been some nasty jetlag so close on the heels of the London shows.

Mike looks like he's lost some weight in the last few weeks. 

Everyone took so many bites out of his *ss that he probably dropped twenty pounds! You should see how he looks from the rear!!  >:D

WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE HE SHOULD OF CANCELL THAT SHOW

Too late, it happened!  He and Bruce flew straight back from the UK and the their BB cover band was ready and waiting? What a pair!

Actually, the only two members of the band that weren't part of the reunion entourage were Christian and Randell.

If they had to go back on the road immediately after the reunion tour then that's a way to go - bet even OSD can't knock the charity fundraising aspect!

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that that is a bag slung over Stamos' shoulder and not a suspender.

definitely looks like a single suspender. you can see that side of his pants pulling up a little.

I feel sick

I know.

Brilliant! No way you could ever accuse MikenBruce of being lazy.

Stamos tweet.

Grt 2 be back w/ @TheBeachBoys. M. Love home from London raised over a mil for children's hospital. http://t.co/oBwoqWqd

 :smash

Is there no end to this foul and base depravity, no relief from this unrelenting and torrid stream of fetid, putrescent horror, any respite, if only for an hour, a minute, nay, a second from the maddening corrosive bile forced upon our broken and decrepid souls, a light at the end of this colonic pit of sin where God's light no longer shines, no hope for the abominations that so offend our natures and beings to the very basic principles and truths we once held dear to cease? Is all lost?

NOT show #74... are Brian, Alan & David there ?

Jeez, when did this place turn into the Bloo ?  >:(

I thought guitarfool was trying to be ironic.

Show -1: Nutty Jerry's.  Setlist and pics don't go here.

Thank you Pixeltwin for getting it, yes I was being ironic (I do that often, maybe too often...), and I was trying to have a minor laugh with this topic, carried over from the much bigger thread about the dust-up which involved the next week's worth of Mike and Bruce shows. Definitely not literal, definitely not the "bloo". If you trace the links back to the websites advertising and selling tickets for this show, the promoters and venues (press releases) clearly billed it as the last show of the BB 50th  "Reunion" tour, yet also promoted it with the publicity photo of the smaller touring band, superimposed onto the landscape of the golf course/club and apparently modifying one band member's haircut in the process!

It's all funny in an ironic way, but also quite on-topic too, because it was the first Mike and Bruce show after the big brou-ha-ha about Mike's announcement, and very ironically it was mistakenly billed as a "Reunion" show! I wonder if anyone felt like they didn't get what they bought tickets for, or whether there was any similar misunderstanding about a "reunion" versus "non-reunion" concert.

Ultimately it was a positive thing for everyone who benefited from the show - if they raised a million dollars for charity and to help kids, they really deserve a pat on the back and a "thank you" for doing that. It was a great thing Mike, Bruce, Scott, and the rest of the band did to play and raise that kind of money, they should be commended.

But you can still have a bit of fun with it, too. I don't know how Mike did this, with jet lag and all...he didn't even have the time to unpack his steamer trunk full of hats from the European leg of the tour, and already he was back on stage! That's endurance and dedication.  ;D

Back to Stamos, the real ugly shirts and the woodies. But I agree that it is a real good  thing that they raised a million $.

It's interesting to see that it probably was Brian's people who kept Stamos (mostly) out of the tour. I'm still distressed when I think what could've happened with the reunion tour. Remember, there were guitar picks with the 50th anniversary logo and Stamos' name on the other side. I don't know if it has any meaning but just the thought of the Mike'n'John act as part of the reunion....grrr... :ahh

Bruce scares me in this picture...

There's a brief post on the BW board from someone who attended. Said they played for nearly two hours "and it was great". Nothing from "That's Why God Made The Radio" was played.  Overall, a very positive review.

A courageous act; writing something favorable about Mike on the Bloo.

The threads there about all the recent kerfuffle aren't much different from the ones here. 

In the picture with Stamos, is Mike wearing a 50th Anniversary BB's hat? If so, I think that's interesting....

Sunday = CANARY YELLOW. The First Rule of Mike Love Metaphysical Color Coordination

 Bruce scares me in every picture

Bruce is so fucking weird

Show 74:  The Legacy Concert for the Children, The Santaluz Club, 9/30

Try these first:

Sense of humor

Making a joke

Irony

Sarcasm

Not taking some of this stuff too serious

Trust me.

I've never taken anything about the Mike and Bruce show seriously!  ;)

I guess this show's number is around 2340 or so (13 years x 180 shows).

Here it is in all it's glory...

Mike, Bruce and John Stamos

http://vimeo.com/50584304


Hm, if they played "Summer's gone" afterwards?  >:D

I simply cannot get enough of his Sunday outfit. Altho that crazy paintball target shirt is pretty good too.

Kudos to Mike for jumping on stage to do a full show right after London. I'm sure he was as consistent and delivered with the same energy as he did during the Reunion tour.

Thanks for the video.  And just like that...we're back to how it used to be without even missing a beat.  Kinda surreal!

LOL....

Seriously, I'm really not trying to just pile on. But that video just makes me sad. It's not to disparage anybody on that stage. That didn't sound or look like the Beach Boys, and objectively, that smaller band just doesn't sound as powerful as what we saw this summer. What we saw this summer was the Beach Boys, both visually and sonically. I know, these are all obvious, self-evident things that don't even need to be said.

Please Mike (and the rest of the guys), put it back together again for a little while longer.

That I will agree with, very surreal! That's one of the words I was thinking when watching this. Aside from what should happen, just objectively this is a slightly weird, surreal thing happening.

It's not a fun video to watch but that's life.  There's a time and a place for everything and the band had their wonderful time together all summer long.  Mike is movng on for now and we'll get over it. They'll get together at some point and it'll be great all over again. 

"Love's version included his cousin Bruce Johnston"


Great reporting to go along with a great guest appearance.

These songs sound so hollow with M&B band instead of the full group.

Awful.

I know a lot of people on here defend Mike's band but IMO they are terrible. Even the vocals suck

I like how he put a copyright notice on the video. Snicker.

Historical "Cousin Brucie" Johnston.

I'm kinda gonna miss Cowsill's playing though. Damn he is an awesome drummer.

Cowsill drums for Michael and Bruce...you know that, right?

I think he meant he's gonna miss him in the sense he's not going to the shows.

I am a BIG fan of the M&B Band , BUT yeah totally agree with what you say

Thanks for the posting of the video. Reminded me of why people here dislike John Stamos so much...

Me bets (and I really don't know) that there will be a new album early next year / summer and a choice tour of some 20 US dates in 2013 - What odds would I get on that ?

I may go to a M&B show if the price is right though. So you never know. But you're right, I know who he drums for. I just mean after all these months seeing youtube performances and hearing his style... I am gonna miss it.

The second part seems mildly likely. The first part? I'd really doubt Brian can pull an album together that fast, unless Capitol really really wants one.

I wouldn't call that terrible. Hell, if I hadn't seen a reunion show, I would've called that pretty damn good. As it is, it sounded like a good Beach Boys cover band with a horrible sound system. Don't know one could say the vocals suck...Mike sounded the same (if not as powerful) and Scott sounded good... and that's all I could hear. Everyone else was inaudible vocally.

Yah, I see that; he's got that Liberace/Wayne Newton/  look  down pat

Well I think the BB's stock with Capitol (soon Universal) is probably quite high after the success of TWGMTR and the future G Hits Comp etc , and the fact that there are a number of tracks already in the can (possibly better tracks that didn't fit the ilk of TWGMTR) for the proposed 'Rock and Roll' album so who knows ? - Seriously I can personally see it as there appears to be too much still left in this band  

I was lucky enough to be at the show, which was a fund raising event for the Hospital Infantil De Las Californias, a free hospital located in Tijuana, Baja California.

This is an annual charity auction fundraiser event (last year's performer was Kenny Loggins), set in a positively gorgeous gated community resort setting in the Northern portion of San Diego County. This may be the beginning of the golf resort tour, a logical extension of their old MLB shows

The participants (not Mike Love) ante'd up a million plus in auction payments & donations to the hospital.
It was a very upscale, older crowd (avg. age probably 60) of boomers who generally didn't know that this was a different band than the 50th anniversary grouping.

Having seen the 50th tour in San Diego a few months previously (and the original group in the 60's), I must agree that this ain't the Beach Boys!

That being said they generated some fun and pleasant moments once the crowd became engaged, but....
The band sounded ragged at best, with bare-bones arrangements and vocals that sometimes made the beer-besotted boomers singing along sound like vocal doubling.
The band's vocals ebbed and flowed like the tide during the nearly two hour set, coming together for some out-of-the-ordinary tunes such as Getcha Back and Still Cruisin', but generally sounding like a bunch of guys that had not been performing or singing together for months.

Mike's vocals were sometimes weak and buried in the mix, but other times seemed to rise up in the mix, but he definitely has a softer timbre these days (though he seemed stronger just a couple of months ago with Brian, Al, & David).

Some odds n' ends thoughts...

The event participants were each given a commemorative blanket with the Beach Boys and Hospital logos embroidered  together. I happened to be sitting in the upper courtyard bar are when Mike and Bruce arrived, dutifully carrying their new blankets. That made me giggle.

Bruce came out before the show to visit with local (septuagenarian) friends at the table next to ours in the bar courtyard. Very down to earth

Mike's daughter, Ahmba Love, a local high school student (Mike lives in nearby Fairbanks Ranch, close to the Santaluz estates) is a competent vocalist in the Wendy Wilson mode, and did a creditable job on Darlin' and Sail On Sailor. I do wish they had let John Cowsill sing the former - he really nails that one.

Christian Love did a journeyman's job as usual.

John Stamos is a predictable feature of the Mike and Bruce shows. I don't resent him - He's like Mike's car songs patter...part of the show.

Bruce is a semi-audible presence most of the time, but I still get a kick out of hearing him perform a signature vocal part like the tag of God Only Knows or California Girls.

A final thought - The other couple that we joined for this charity event started out disappointed that it was not the true 50th anniversary group with Brian, Al, and Mike, but as we sat under a full moon listening to Cal Girls, Sloop John B, & Then I Kissed Her, the music had won them over.

I could relate - I've felt the same way since 1962.

Interesting to read that review and I guess after they've had the chance to rehearse a little the band should be back up to speed. I would be a little surprised if they didn't add TWGMTR to the setlist at some point as it must be fairly well known right now.

I thought Mike Love lives in Lake Tahoe?

rich people have more than one house.

Either he has a) two or more houses befitting his obscenely large bank account or b), befitting the several ex-wives and crippling legal fees, he is actually homeless and the rumoured 'benefits' of small venues that these dirty minded people jump to conclusions about are actually that small venue owners are more willing to put him up for the night after a gig, before he goes and eats a dollar breakfast at the local diner and hitchhikes to the next venue at the break of dawn. For 14 years, he has begged Bruce for a ride in the tourbus (even the luggage compartment would do), but Bruce equates that to 'a handout' and has repeatedly told him to work harder.

Has Bruce even changed his shirt since Wembley?

Gig looks good though… they do the business.

Justin, no!! Just no!





























 ;)

That's a very poor performance, yes. But it's far from a typical one. I've seen Mike's band five times, and since he got rid of Baker in 2004, and especially since he got rid of Kowalski as well, they've sounded superb. I suspect that it's due to Love, Totten, Cowsill, Johnston and Bonhomme all being jetlagged, Bonhomme, Kirsch and Christian Love not having played those songs in six months, and the members who've been with the reunion tour being used to playing them with different musicians.

Seeing Mike's band live is obviously no substitute for the real thing, but they're generally very, very good.

I agree. Obviously, no matter how you feel about Mike & Bruce's musical merit, we'll all choose the 5 Beach Boys Reunion Band anytime.

That being said, I could appreciate some of the "Fun, Fun, Fun" video posted above. The stripped, almost garage band-like feel was truer to the original record, and it even echoed the 60's band that included Carl, Dennis, and David.

It's interesting how so many people are putting down the Mike & Bruce performance in comparison to the Reunion Tour performance. My personal recollection of "Fun, Fun, Fun" this past summer in Bethlehem, PA had David's under-amplified guitar drounded out by the other 10 or so musicians, Al's playing couldn't be heard at all but I guess he sang "you shouldn't of lied, you shouldn't of lied" OK, and Brian stood in the front of the stage with a Fender bass strapped on, hands dangling at his side, not playing at all, and midway through the song, attempting to flee the stage, only to be cut off/intercepted by a waiting Jeff Foskett. Other than that, I guess it was a good version.

Yuck, Scott's guitar tone... Other than that I thought it was fine. That just doesn't sound like a Beach Boys guitar.

I think Scott was jjust compensating for The Stamos Presence.

The Stamos Presence.... :lol

Great band name

A little penicillin will clear that right up.

I wonder how Totten and Cowsill feel now after they played some big shows with Brian's guys and songs that they'll certainly never will play at Mike&Bruce's shows. Not saying they don't like their gig with Mike (otherwise they would just quit) but from a musician's point of view the Beach Boys tour was much more demanding musically. Plus you had the f*cking Beach Boys there.

I thought about that too.  Mike and his guys are like athletes, they push through regardless of the situation.  I'd imagine John and Scott are taking Mike's lead and not mulling over the summer but rather simply focusing on the present.  They play their tunes and they move on to the next town.  Some nights are better than others....they're there to do what they were paid to do and for a few of them (at least Mike)...theyve fulfilled their duty to entertain and bring joy to the masses 

I'm sure the thought "Hey, this is so weird!" had crossed their mind when they played their first note together but I'm sure they'll shake it off and play on....

Of all of this, I may be saddest at John Cowsill not backing Brian or whatever Brian/Al/David decide to do. I mean damn, that guy is fucking awesome.

Real talk - dude hit the drums like they'd slept with Mike Love.

:lol

I was actually thinking that too, it's gotta be pretty underwhelming for Scott Totten who just spent months working as musical director for such a big and lavish tour, selling out arenas and prestigious concert halls and now he's back doing something so insignificant as this.  And yet they're calling themselves the same band (in name, I mean).  And how long was it between the Wembley show and this?  I mean, that's just got to feel strange.

I wonder how the other M&B band members feel about being called back into service now that the real deal shows, for which they were overlooked, have ended?

Will there be rifts between those who were "real BBs" for the summer and those who just play the hayrides?

Will members of either faction need counselling somewhere down the line?

Did Mike pay the Unselected a retainer over the summer to assure their services from September 30?

Are Cowsill and Totten considering offers from BW or Al's Endless Summer Beach Boys Family and Friends?

If BW starts studio work on the nex BBs album while M&B are on the road, will JC and ST respond to any call for studio work and leave their stage places vacant, and M&B having to fill in with Kawolski and Baker?

So many questions…

M&B shows have never had as much coverage on this board -or the blueboard for that matter. Good for them.

But please stay together, guys. For fifteen years we thought it was Mike who was desperate to get together with Brian and now look at them.

As far as "songs that they certainly never will play", the bulk of the reunion tour was essentially the same set that Mike & Bruce's band play in theatre venues. On this tour the songs I'd not seen Mike & Bruce's band do live are Marcella, The Little Girl I Once Knew, the three songs from the new album, This Whole World, Pet Sounds, Add Some Music, California Saga, Our Prayer and I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (and three of those I didn't see on this tour either -- many of them were only in for a small number of shows). Songs I've seen them play live that they didn't play on this tour include Good Timin', Good To My Baby, Warmth Of The Sun, You Still Believe In Me, Here Today, Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring, Cool Head Warm Heart, Til I Die, Everyone's In Love With You -- so it's not as if they're suddenly saying "never again will we play a song that isn't about surfing!"

The forty-five-song or so shorter sets on the reunion tour were pretty close to identical to the shows they do normally -- the shows I saw in Italy, for example, only had This Whole World and California Saga as songs that aren't Mike & Bruce regulars.

And it may well be that they see playing a Mike & Bruce show as *more* demanding musically than a reunion show. Certainly for Cowsill he doesn't get the occasional break from drumming that he got on the reunion shows where Mike D'Amico took over, and he has to sing a lot of leads while drumming.

Not to be nitpicky, but they did play "Good Timin'" during this tour.

It might not be considered a break, but when Stamos is with them, Cowsill can do a lead without multitasking.  Cowsill really works hard.  I've seen others occasionally cover the drums, Dennis Diken, Mark Shulman...but usually one song.  And, he is an excellent singer.

I wasn't trying to get to the "surfing"-thing. I just am talking about stuff like "This whole world" "Marcella" "Add some music", etc. Mike & Bruce do a few "rarities" and stuff that is more interesting to work on from a musician's point than "Barbara Ann". But mostly they have their repertoire - including the rarities. What I mean is Brian's unpredictability, like when he said he wants to do "Add some music" or "Marcella" the next day. Just things he throws out without thinking about a program they have down. I think (and that's of course just my opinion) this is much more interesting and demanding than to go with a defined set from which you choose. That plus playing the big shows with the Beach Boys could be something a talented guy like Totten could see more fun in. I just wondered about that. For everyone it must've been a highlight to play with the Beach Boys and maybe what they're going back to now just doesn't seem as exciting to them.
It's a little different for Brian's band because they get some big gigs now and then (Live Aid, Glastonbury, etc.)

BTW iirc Mike & Bruce did play "The little girl I once knew"

You're quite right, I even saw them do it twice, in Italy. This is what happens when I post ill ;)

I just watched this video. It makes me sad. I'm not sad because it's a bad performance. In fact, it's a pretty energetic performance and I think they sound good. But I'm still sad. Sad because just a few days before this, these guys were on stage with Al, David and Brian wrapping up one of the greatest tours in pop music history.  It's such an amazingly stark contrast between these shows under a week apart. I really hope they get the reunion lineup back together at some point. And soon, because let's face it, they're getting pretty old.

Did they play anything from the new album?

jeez.....i never thought i would miss what we were given this summer so soon....wish i hadn't watched that video.. :(

No. I'd guess they will after they had a proper rehearsal. Remember that except for Cowsill and Totten no one ever played the new tunes before.