Wonderful review Sherrif! I still have to wait for more than two months, but reading about the shows nearly every morning surely builds up my anticpations.

IMO 'Ballad of ole Betsy' would be a great addition to the live repertoire. Scott sings it great and if Jeff gets a lead, well, Scott deserves one too. :-). I hope they'll keep up with rotating songs every night to keep things fresh. Hopefully other early tunes to add will be Custom Machine and Drive-In. As for more recent material I'm hoping for You Still Believe in Me, Break Away or California Saga (Hey, Al deserves more leads too). In Europe Tears in the Morning is very popular so it might get in there instead of RnRM or California Dreaming. Til I Die or Surf's up are probably the stuff of dreams I'd say.

This whole tour has been a dream come through already!

Well done both of you. I was under impression the location of the houses had never been discovered. You must have been the first ones. Which 'gracht' is it?

Cuddle Up

O wow. Just read his review on David Beards site. No joke....

Quite a lot of Joe Thomas co-writes... 

Hi, Loaf, what's your source for this info?

I bet this was a joke from a board member.

Hey Sound of Free, thanks for your excellent review. It's Darian who sings Carl's parts during All This is That.

Only for TWGMTR as far as I know: Joe Thomas, Brian Wilson, Jim Peterik, Larry Millas.

You still believe in me (sung by Alan)
Breakaway
Surfs up

And apparently Chris Ethridge, original bassist of the Flying Burrito Brothers, is about to join them soon as well 

NO NO NO

Got home form work today and found Postcard From California in the mail. Nice addition to my collection, no masterpiece by far, but pleasant.

We got love.

Breakaway
Time to get alone
Cool cool water
This whole world
Forever
Til I die
Allt his is that
Sail on sailor
The night was so young
Where I belong

Beach Boys
Beatles
Byrds
Crowded House
John Lennon
George Harrison
Gene Clark
Split Enz
Zombies

That really was Jeff singing the first verse.... no Brian to be heard AT ALL.

This was good! Maroon 5 were acceptable, Foster the People: hated the guys voice, all Fender guitars, striped shirt on the drummer: nice touches though.

The Beach Boys: sounded just great... Slightly awkard arrangement with and extra chorus tacked on up front. Was this to lift pressure from Brian (for singing right on the first note)?

The musicians:
David Marks, Al Jardine, Jeffrey Fosket, Scott Totten, Probyn Gregory: all on guitar and vocals (Probyn also tannerin)
John Cowsill on drums, Nelson Bragg on percussion and vocals
Paul Mertens; flute, saxophone and vocals
Brett Simons: bass and vocals
Brian Wilson on piano, Darian Sahanja and Scott Bennet


No Nicky Wonder...

So... the Grammy ceremony should start... 5 AM Central European Time???

What a great story! Thank you very much for sharing it with us.

I read about the meeting at Derek Taylors house a few weeks ago in the new Byrds Biography Requiem for the Timeless by Johnny Rogan. Ill look it up later tonight.

Weird, huh? He told about this on the BBB-board. No room for a keyboard, but to have something in his hands, he chose to strap a guitar on. He wasn't plugged in...

Bruce was miming during that show, there wasn't enough room onstage for his keyboard, so he took a guitar to save room.

Ive done this so very often... but I never get bored of it.

01 California girls (Mike)
02 Catch a wave (Mike)
03 Hawaii (Mike)
04 Please let me wonder (Brian, Mike)
05 Surfer girl (Brian)
06 Then I kissed her (Alan)
07 Do it again (Mike / Brian)
08 -new song- (?)
09 When I grow up (Mike / Matt Jardine)
10 Dance, dance, dance (Mike / Matt Jardine)
11 Darlin (Brian)
12 Cottonfields (Alan)
13 Add some music (Mike, Brian, Alan, Bruce)
14 Heaven (Brian)
15 God only knows (Brian)
16 Wouldn't it be nice (Brian, Alan, Mike)
17 I know theres an answers (Mike, Alan, Mike)
18 Caroline, no (Brian)
19 You still believe in me (Alan)
20 Sloop John B (Brian, Alan, Mike)
21 Sail in sailor (Scott Bennett / John Cowsill?)
22 Marcella (Brian, Mike)
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23 And your dream come true (Brian, Alan, Bruce, Mike, Matt Jardine)
24 Don't worry baby (Brian)
25 I get around
26 Little deuce coupe (Mike)
27 409 (Mike)
28 Be true to your school (Mike)
29 Come go with me (Alan)
30 Getcha back (Mike)
31 -new song- (?)
32 This whole world (Brian)
33 Forever (David)
34 Don't fight the sea (Alan, Brian)
35 Disney girls (Bruce)
36 Breakaway (Brian, Alan)
37 Kokomo (Mike)
38 California saga: California (Mike, Alan)
39 Kiss me, baby (Brian, Mike)
40 The warmth of the sun (Brian)
41 Wonderful (Brian)
42 Heroes & villains (Brian, Alan)
43 Surfs up (Brian)
44 Our prayer / Good vibrations (Brian, Mike)
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45 Do you wanna dance (Brian, David)
46 Help me, Rhonda (Alan)
47 Surfin safari (Mike)
48 Surfin' USA (Mike)
49 Fun, fun, fun (Mike)
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50 Love & mercy (Brian)

Smokey Robinson and The Miracles.

Smokey is in there already as a solo artist. The other members who were essential to their success, co-arranging and writing with Smokey, deserve being inducted. They are Warren Moore, Bobby Rogers, Claudette Robinson and the late Ronnie White and Marv Tarplin.

And what about David Marks and Bruce Johnston? I mean, when Metallica were inducted it was the current four and three previous members (Burton, Newsted and Mustaine)? The Temptations included the classic five plus Dennis Edwards.

Its Jeffrey Foskett in the last vocal booth.

To be clear; the musicians involved in the session presumably were Brett Simons (bass), Darian Sahanaja (keys), Nick Walusko (guitar), Scott Bennet (keys/guitar?) and Jeff Foskett (vocals) from Brians band, John Cowsill (drums) and Scott Totten (guitar) from Mikes band plus Gary Griffin (keys) who sometimes plays with Brian band live and on record. He used to be in the Beach Boys live band in the 90s I think. I believe David Marks was filmed for this promo video on a later date, I'm not sure he is on the actual track.

I hope more guys from the old days will contribute to recordings in the future (Carli Munoz, Ed Carter, Bobby Figueroa, Matt Jardine!!!, Billy Hinsche!!!)

(Sorry pixletwin!! )

  Whahaha... Al is standing on a box in the video Couldnt hey have lowered the microphone???