ESQ referring to this as an upcoming 5 CD set

The BBs have always been more raw, dangerous and interesting live without 20 session musician bods stood behind them.

The live sound benefits from the struggle to fill the sound. Less is more.

I'd never heard of a bass harmonica before Beach Boy stuff but just listening to one here you can hear where that distinctive Pet Sounds bass sound comes from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUh5xX783c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KqMQ8hziH0

[#2 I can hear music (the BB version beat Spector on the charts etc)]

 

#2 I can hear music (the BB version beat Spector on the charts etc)

Honourable mention for Freddie Mercury's early version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzA4OyalTuI (with Brian May and Roger Taylor, so one bass player away from being a Queen song)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hqt9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hqt9



Spotted in the Radio Times

The one I really like (not shown here) is the really swirly script Beach Boys logo

If anything, a lost year might invite the prospect of a bumper money-earning anniversary year more than not. So there is that....

Cue Brian Wilson ‘Rocky’ montage

Live at Chelsea/London gig cancelled.

In a shocking turn of events, these 80 year olds will not be playing in a hospital for centenarian war veterans....

Message from AXS, one of the ticket providers:

Hello,

We are contacting you to let you know that Live at Chelsea 2020 planned to take place this June has been cancelled.

Statement below:
It is with great sadness that we have to announce the cancellation of Live at Chelsea 2020 due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

It is an incredible honour that we are able to host the concert series at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the famous Chelsea Pensioners, but having this honour does mean that extra consideration has had to be taken in to account when making the decision to cancel the event. Along with our customers, event staff and artists, our top priority is the health and wellbeing of the Chelsea Pensioners, the Royal Hospital staff and all of their families. Being an operational retirement home that houses and cares for over 300 army veterans it is extremely important that the Royal Hospital can continue its role in the daily lives of those who live there without any interruption.

We look forward to returning to The Royal Hospital with Live at Chelsea 2021, where we will be sure to have an extra special celebration, and we hope you will be there alongside us.

In the meantime, we wish everyone the best of the health.

The Live at Chelsea management team.

Due to the large number of shows that are being postponed and cancelled at this time, all ticket matters for this show are being dealt with by the organiser in the first instance. To see what your options are, please visit www.myticket.co.uk/account and register your ticket booking. You will need the details of your booking in order to do so.

Your friends at AXS

And from the organisers:

This too shall pass.....like a gallstone.

Here's a safer link to the ESQ review with Facebook's tracking removed (everything from the question mark onward):

https://esquarterly.com/2020/05/01/mike-love-offers-this-too-shall-pass/

Sounds to me like Mike wrote the words and Scott wrote the music, but Mike is credited as the only writer on it.

There's a lawsuit for a couple decades time then

Now there's a method actor

What instrument would Mike write on? Not aware of him ever playing any chordophones :-)

"let's get back to having fun fun fun.... in the sun"

Don't f*** with the formula, boys

Thought the keyboard player in top left was Carl Wilson for a moment

Would a reunion include shows in the UK so soon after a solo tour? We shall see I guess.

I know it's not quite the same thing, but the London BB and BW dates were about 2 weeks apart this year

Well that restricts the 20-30 gig ‘reunion’ Al mentioned.

Nothing to stop them doing it in 2022 though; 10 years after the last

Just checked my Albert Hall London tickets... they've automatically rolled over to 2021.

And the very American, 4th of July

BRIAN WILSON: GOOD VIBRATIONS – GREATEST HITS LIVE UK & EUROPE TOUR
WITH AL JARDINE & BLONDIE CHAPLIN

Brian Wilson will return to the UK and Europe with Al Jardine & Blondie Chaplin in 2021. Brian will deliver his greatest hits and fan favorites from his career with The Beach Boys and as a solo artist.

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Bruce has the easiest gig in music; likely very well paid, for little to any real work....0ther than constantly being on the road. He will never kill the cash cow(ML).

Mike Love's book has a funny (and possibly true? who knows) anecdote about Bruce's hiring in 1965.  According to ML, Bruce was making $87 a week as a staff producer at Columbia.  When Carl asked him how much wanted to perform with the group, Bruce told him $250.  He meant per week, but Carl assumed that he meant per show and paid him as such.  Well, with the group playing a dozen shows over 3 weeks, Bruce was shocked to receive a $3,000 check.  And the rest is history.

Wonder if he's still on that contract? If he sold up his shares in the 70s, then...

Better than TWGMTR...

I wish I had Brian's head of hair

2021 is long enough for virus concerns to possibly go away (here's hoping) and for a bit of musical personal training to take place, where desired...

Amazing that that interview has been online seemingly since the 4th of March and it's only been picked up here nearly 2 months later

I can see it now


ML :Hey Brian lets get in a room with just a piano like in the old days and write a hit
BW: Can’t. Coronavirus.
ML: But Brian that was last year
BW:Coronavirus
(Bruce adjusts face mask nervously)
ML: But Bri-
BW: CORONAVIRUS!!!

Reunion ends, Mike and Bruce give interview with Rolling Stone saying it “felt like being quarantined “ then tour with Eric Clapton.

Mike: See, I wrote the words "I'm picking up Coronavirus, I like Norton Anti-Virus"

There's a scene in the recent Elton John film Rocketman where Elton is offered a chance to meet 'half the beach boys'... shame they didn't show any!