It's eh....not good.

I think it was around 2005 when Brian started doing the "walking down the path of life" song towards the end of his sets. He was really on top form then IMO. Saw him in Dublin and then Cork a day later. Great times!

There was also a Q&A, I think on the night before the Dublin gig. Brian trying hopelessly to decipher what Irish accents were saying was quite funny 

Just a quick throwback:

Beach Boys Family & Friends on Regis and Kathie Lee (1998-11-23)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn1nKcKO5fY

That's an interesting clip. Not surprised Al got in touble after this. It's very cheeky and seems like they are the only Beach Boys band......with their new single "Darlin"? 

Tbf, Fullpage was way ahead of her time. Would be accused of using AI these days but she's an original 

These aren't "Storytellers" shows, so I think it'll be mostly music. Plus, if he's truly using a lot of Brian's backing musicians, and especially if Darian is on board, they'd have a solid musical director keeping things on track. If he really has Darian and a bunch of the other Brian band, Al can pretty much call out whatever song he wants.

I hope so. We wiil see I guess. The storytelling is obviously much more suited to a 3 piece in small venues.

That thread about Mike, Bruce and Al writing new words for SMiLE at their current age is pure gold. One for the BB Messageboard HOF.

Great news to see Al performing with Brians band. I think it will take some time to refine the show. People who want to hear rarities, also don't want to hear Al half remembering old stories told a hundred times so hope they find the right mix.

New version of Waves of Love please...

still talking about sitting around that piano...

Am I the only one to think that this song is simply fantastic. And a special middle finger to the ........ers able only to bitch about autotune etc, even in such a circumstance (not here, bless this forum).
And I know the (great) original version. This new one is my favourite. Not being perfect can be a plus, and here it is. So emotional, in the best sense.

I love it! Perfect song choice for Brian.

David Leafs eulogy from Tuesday March 5th is towards the bottom of the page here https://www.brianwilson.com/melinda

It may have been set to no longer access sites that use http instead of https (which costs extra for websites, and some of us site owners can't afford to pay extra). There may be a setting in the browser you can change to let you access "unsecured" http sites.

So that's the reason why the board doesn't use https?  I never knew that upgrading would cost extra.  Theoretically (Emdeeh, I know you aren't responsible for the board, but as a site owner), would it be possible to upgrade to https if many of us contributed a one-time donation or once-per-year donation?  I'm asking just because everything I've read/heard is that https websites are safer/more protected than HTTP websites.  Thanks!!

Most hosts offer free SSL. There are options like Lets Encrypt that also offer free SSL but with a need to update every 3 months. Cloudflare has a free option as well.

I'd imagaine there would be issues with how old the software this board uses when it comes to making all pages secure. The software is now 9 years out of date.

Shots fired  - It takes good timin...

Anyone heard this https://www.discogs.com/release/27729141-The-Pranks-The-Warner-Demos-Collection

The Pranks were a band Jeff was in with Randall Hirsch among others. John Cowsill sometimes I think. Maybe there was a plan to try officially release some of this stuff?

Such sad news. Jeff was such an amazing part of those wonderful touring years with BW. Must have seen him 10 times or more.

Re: the RS article https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jeffrey-foskett-beach-boy-brian-wilson-dead-obituary-1234924498/amp/ - I hadn't heard this part before "Foskett reached out to his buddies Darian Sahanaja and Nick Walusko in the L.A.-based band the Wondermints, lifelong Beach Boys fanatics who Foskett knew would be perfect for the job." - Thought it was Brian and Melinda who saw them at a BW/BB tribute show?

Fullpage is the greatest Beach Boys poster of all time #bringherhome mods

A lot of these songs make me think of Kids American TV shows from the 80s, 90s....California Dreams/Saved by the Bell style. Clumsy lyrics with bad production values.

Not sure about CD but it's getting a regular black vinyl release this month

It's Fairy Tale off GIOMH

Hope it's day filled with great steaks, burgers, ice cream and of course oldies but goodies 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldR6_S8v6K4

Opened my 5LP + 7" set about an hour ago. Listened to CATP and about half way through Holland. Really impressed with the pressing quality so far. Proper anti static sleeves too not paper as I've seen mentioned on discogs.

A complete concert from Hollywood 1973 appeared on Spotify, but the tracks are not clickable. What is this?

It was working yesterday but sadly not today. I listened to half of it and it sounded great. Probably another copyright protection move.

Finally a BIG PRICE DROP on this for UK/Europe for the 5 LP + 7" Set

£84.10 on Amazon UK https://amzn.to/3UWUvmY
€89.03 on Amazon DE https://amzn.to/41JljJh

Probably be back to normal price again by the time anyone sees this 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yj8Yc9A7u8

A "sort of" cover of I've got a Friend. A bit karaoke I suppose but seeing as no studio vocal exists (and the live audio is so low quality) I thought it might be interesting to try put something together.

I took the track off the Feel Flows set and edited so it would fit all the lyrics from the live version.

I then added my own vocal taking the lyrics from here - reddit.com/r/thebeachboys/comments/vregct/lyrics_for_ive_got_a_friend

[Big Star playing #1 Record in the studio for Carl Wilson and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys]

Speaking of the Box Tops, anybody heard about this?


Big Star playing #1 Record in the studio for Carl Wilson and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjsPl9A4Tiw

Wow! that's news to me. Thanks for sharing.