Tx, that was a great interview, Carl just so honest and genuine. Miss him.

SouthBay.....SPOT ON! Agree 100%

Great thread. I'll add a couple of later day Tunes where Carl really shines. Where I belong from Beach Boys 85 possibly the most overlooked greatest Beach Boys song of the latter part of their careers. Carl's vocals are magnificent as are the counter vocals by al. And if we're going to talk Summer in Paradise I would say Carl really shines the most on Lahaina aloha. His vocals carry that tune. What a great singer Carl Wilson was

Interesting concept, I like it. What would you suggest they do for the songs from that era and release that were never perfrmed live then...i.e. Let Him Run Wild, Girl on the Beach, and a couple others I think. Like the idea though.

This doesn't really excite me much. Seeing a bunch of bands, probably current and from yester year, performing classic BB songs. With or without whosever left, this strikes me as a worse effort that the 25th anniverrsary special from Hawaii...which wasn't really that good. We shall see. Maybe they can have that obnoxious guy play Do It Again, and have him strut around the stage with Mike screaming "DO IT"...or have Stamos mug for the cameras "playing" a guitar that isn't even plugged in. Would have been better to just have whose left, with Blondie and Ricky too, play a few classics...just that alone would have been enough IMHO.

I'm also inclined to think if there is another big box set, it will likely and should focus on the live shows, from the early to mid 70s. All of the albums recorded after Holland were mostly EHHHHH....some worse. Don't think there would be a market for it, and not sure of the quality hat might exist there either.

I agrree about why not including another bonus track or 2. I also have 3 other copies, one signed by Al in Big Sur. I would have bought my 4th if there ere a couple more bonus tracks.

Thanks for posting. I thought the orchestra was the best part of the show. The drums were mixed way too loud....completely overpowered the vocals. You could barely hear the guys singing, especially Mike and Bruce. I guess they fixed the sound a bit in the 2cd half, but damage done. Cowsil sounded fine o Darlin, but just not a fan at all of Christian Love. He just sounds so "BLAH" and bland to me. to me the worst part of the show was......Stamos. I know lots of folks love the guy, the fans sure seemed like they do cheering for everything he did. But I find his "I'm a rock star" posturing and posing just plain annoying. Oh well, thanks again for posting.

Tx, I forgot about 1971. Surprising lack of SOS, but oh well. I love Only With You, but don't share your sentiments with regards to Christian Love's voice performing it. I find him to be extremely Bland with very little tone and nothing at all like Carl's voice which is not to say anything because no one seems like carl. It's just his voice seems like nothing to me. Very Bland very boring don't see him singing this song at all

Tx for the review. Really surprised nothing from SOS box....strange considering the 50 year anniversary.  One thing a bit strange Bruce talking about being at Carneghie 50 years ago,  he wasn't touring with them at that point and wasnt at those shows as far as I know.

Saw them live on the Today show. Not sure what everyone was expecting but Mike is 80 now and it is what it is. Bruce is really looking his age too. 

Very much enjoying the Box set. My favorite part is the Carnegie live discs though. They were just such a great live act during this period. If I had to compare the feel flows and sail on Sailor box sets I think of the two I prefer feel flows. Just happens to be that sunflower is my favorite recording of theirs next to pet sounds. But this one is really good too. I'm not sure what they would do for the next box release but I'm thinking it would probably be some sort of a live set. They were such a dynamic touring  group live during this time and even mid to late 70s

Awesome

 I always found make it good to be difficult to listen to too many strings too much overpowering of the vocals. I think removing the strings makes this song brilliant. The same to some degree with cuddle up. Though I never had as much trouble listening to cuddle up as I did listening to make it good.

In the US and just received confirmation from Amazon that mine  has shipped and will be delivered tomorrow! Woohoo

Love it! Very cool, right down to Dennis cupping his ear and Ricky drumming on SOS! Nicely done!

OMG, I can just here it now....."I was the driving force behind the hole SOS era, I had to be, cause The Wilsons, were all zoned out on drugs and alcohol, and Al didn't have enough talent. So I had to take control, and keep Blondie and Ricky in line as the new members". Can't you just here him saying this?

Big improvement over the booted version.  Sounds great.

I remember years ago, late 80s when Kokomo hit and gave their career a real shot in the arm, they tried the Club Kokomo restaurant thing. Probably Mike's idea, it flopped quickly and died a quick death. Wonder what will happen with this attempt.

Great decision Howie mess of help rocks live at Carnegie

Or even more so Drnnis' vocal, likely also lost orvrecorded over

If nothing else Mike is a fairly sharp business man. He knows that the only real success he could ever have or will ever have is the associated with using the name the beach boys. Mike love as a solo artist would never and will never succeed

Last week I heard Surfer Girl played 3 x in a 4 hour span. Love that song, but just shows the laziness aspect of the channel if nothing else to monitor the songs played.

It was pretty much a very lazy effort. Other channels, like E street and the Beatles, take much greater care with content. But the Beach Boys channels almost takes the same auto pilot approach that the band took in the 90s. Sad,

Interesting. Based on how he sounds, I would havevthought 1977 or later for the vocal.