I'm curious what's going to happen as far as these songs making the upcoming setlists. Mike clearly isn't going to drop "The Beach Boys" for any amount of time to tour under his own name but I'm sure he'll be trying to talk up this album at shows to create sales. BRI would clearly limit him to how much solo material he can perform while touring under The Beach Boys name. Hopefully no more than a song or two. Correct?

It's a real shame Honkin' got cut so early on. I was hoping it would stay in the setlist throughout the tour.

'Mr. Love goes out of his way to diss Carl and ignore his contributions to the group, both musical and diplomatic, whenever he can."

Now I'm pissed off.

I was there too and the setlist was exactly the same as the 16th.

Another stray observation from Baltimore's concert last night. 

Nobody sang Mike's lyrics on the coda of WIBN ("Good Night / Sleep Night / etc"). 

Has this occurred on other shows on the tour? 

The coda was not sung at the Asheville show either.

I'm disappointed to see songs like Wake the World, Add Some Music and especially Honkin' getting cut already. Hopefully they are not cut permanently. Aside from the Pet Sounds portion, the first set and the encore having nothing new from the No Pier Pressure setlists except Honkin' and Funky Pretty. That's why I really hate to see Honkin' already being cut.

 * I know Add Some Music didn't make it's way into last years set until late in the tour.

I'd prefer it if they gave Blondie all four songs with Leaving This Town taking place of Shut Down or Little Deuce Coupe.

I wonder if the live tracks will be the Michigan 1966 concerts. This would cover the copyright extension release for the year.

That's what I assume it will be.

Does anyone know if the rerelease of this is going to be identical to the first release? Maybe a different box or outfit for this release?

I would have liked Brian or Al to sing the second verse on Sloop John B. I've never liked Mike's vocal on this song.

Sunday - August 10, 1980

The Beach Boys were playing a show at the State Fairgrounds in Louisville, KY.

There is an 11x11 inch print (of the front cover) on the inside that is autographed. I think it's a good idea. You can have the jacket w/lp on your shelf and have the print framed.

Sheriff, reference the set-list friction.  I SAW it firsthand prior to the C50 Cleveland Ohio show in middle of June 2012.  My wife bought us M&G/Sound check tickets for the show. Fantastic experience. After 7 or 8 songs Brian yelled over to Mike, lets do Marcella.  Mike responded "we" don't know Marcella.  Brian says, "Mike, my guys know Marcella". So...then everyone stops for a moment and the principals make their way, along with Totten, over to Brian's piano.  A lively discussion went on for a minute or so, not yelling, but it seemed opinionated to me with Mike saying a lot during that short time.  It wasn't a yelling match by any means and even being in the first row, I couldn't make out what was being said. But observed alot of tension. 

Also during the sound-check, Mike was on the phone ALOT when he wasn't part of a song being practiced. I thought this was strange at the time and have thought about it alot since, as I've read all the threads since the breakdown of C50.  No way of ever knowing but one just wonders if by June 2012, the breakup at the end was already in the cards.

One final event from the sound-check. Totten kept Al over at the end to practice the end to Help me Rhonda.  Somehow the previous night at the Cincinnati show, Al screwed up his ending and Scott wanted him to practice. A disagreement between the two occurred on how it should be played at the end. Finally Scott says to Al.  "Al, this is how we play it NOW" and he walked away.  Al stayed, practiced it a few times....took off his guitar....looked down at everyone and just shook his head and walked off.  Again in retrospect, it was just very sad to see in person knowing what we all know now.

I did get to shake Al's hand at the M&G.  Mike was very personable to my wife as we had the picture taken.  He also wanted to know at what show I had bought my Beach Boys hat.  Kind of strange in retrospect, but I think he knew could tell it was from an M&B tour. 

It was a great evening but looking back, did I see stuff that, now having 3+ years of reading these threads, that was the beginning of the end.

Reading that really rubs me the wrong way. It's ok for Brian's band (who made up most of the entire C50 band) to learn songs like Still Cruisin', Kokomo and Ballad of Ole' Betsy but Marcella shouldn't be played because Mike's two band members don't know it? Tough sh*t. Learn it. There were five surviving members of The Beach Boys on that tour and each and every one of them deserved to have a say in what songs should be performed. To have a reunion celebrating 50 years of music only to perform a greatest hits show (mostly consisting of a songs from 3 or 4 years) wouldn't have made sense and would have been a HUGE wasted opportunity.

No offense but who is Scott to tell Al how the end of Help Me Rhonda will be performed? He may have been the musical director but Al is a Beach Boy. He should show more respect for a Beach Boy. If the Beach Boy who sings the lead of that song wants to end it a certain way, then end it Al's way. Change your way of doing things for one tour. Then when the touring version of Mike's band goes back on the road, go back to how you end it. I just think that's absurd and it's a shame that fans who paid to sit in on that soundcheck had to witness crap like that. I would have been livid.

RubberSoul, I'm sorry to hear about your loss and I hope you enjoy Brian's show.

I attended the Durham show last night as well and will just back up what NickandthePassions said. This was the third show of Brian's I've seen this year (Fox Theatre in Atlanta and The National in Virginia being the other two) and it was great for some different songs to show up in the set. Brian seemed to enjoy himself most singing Drive In and Add Some Music. Anytime I can hear Wake The World live is a plus in my book. I really hope with the Pet Sounds tour next year Brian keeps Blondie on tour with them. At all 3 shows I've been amazed out how much Blondie's rock&roll attitude and sound bumps the show up a notch.

For anyone interested, the set list last night in Virginia was exactly the same as the Charleston set list Hey Jude posted a link to.

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/bob-dylan-cutting-edge-bootleg-series.html

Yes, it is, but if the Boys did it, you'd get people whining about the price.

Most Dylan fans are complaining about the price. If you don't believe me, go over to the Hoffman board and read the 100+ page thread on this release.

It's hard to say if a BB release like this would do well. I don't think it would considering they've released session boxes behind their two most popular albums already. If they did a release like this of Friends I'd buy it in a heartbeat but I don't think many people other than board members here would be into it. I do think the BBs could release a multiple cd box set of live shows that would sell well. Either a collection of full live performances from '65 - 95 or a multiple show collection from the '73 "In Concert" recordings.

The reason the Dylan release works is because the '65 - 66 period covers material from three great albums (Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde) AND he recorded live in the studio including vocals. So if you have 6 versions of "I Want You", you have 6 different performances of "I Want You" usually with Dylan trying different arrangements, tempo changes, etc. on the song. It's not your typical, "let's try this again but have the bass come in earlier" or "let's try this again with the drums not so loud", etc.

True. I had 10th row center seats at both C50 shows I attended and they were great seats. I wouldn't bother going through the hastle of spending more money on better seats and hoping to sell off what you already have.

Just got 2nd row center seats for the Virginia show with Blondie. The month after that I'll be going to the Raleigh show.

It's great to get to see them again so soon after the Atlanta show.

I'm very happy to see Wake The World and Busy Doin' Nothin' back in the setlist after being dropped for the last few shows. Looks like Please Let Me Wonder took place of Surf's Up.

I'll be going to the show in Raleigh and wonder if Wild Honey will be dropped without Blondie. If so, I hope they give Al Honkin' Down The Highway.

ghostly mentioned the Dead.   Wouldn't It B Nice if the Beachboys would have encouraged taping like the Dead?   We could have had a treasure trove to explore like the dead heads do........maybe even a Beachboys satellite radio program..

That would have been nice but it was a completely different scenario with The Dead. Their setlists changed every single night and they would improv making the same song sound different from one night to the next. That is why they gained such a loyal following that would record and attend as many shows as possible. It would be great to have more live recordings from the late 60s - early 70s but recording every show during the late 70s to present would have been rather pointless. I personally don't need 50 different live recordings of Barbara Ann and Be True To Your School from the 1985 tour. With those later shows, it's best to just hand pick some of the standout shows (like a '93 box set show, an '88 show with This Whole World and Forever, etc.) Having said that, I do think if they had recorded every show of the C50 that it would have been worthwhile. I think if they would have released them for download or on cd (like Pearl Jam) during 2012 or shortly after, a good amount of people would have bought those as souvenirs of the show/shows they attended.

It would be nice if anyone on this board who has contact with Brian Wilson's camp could let them know that there is an issue with NPP on vinyl so it could be fixed. The noise during Last Song is clearly a pressing issue since everyone who has bought the album on vinyl and listened to it has the same problem. It seems like something someone would want fixed.

I agree as well. The "buried in the mix" theremin in Wild Honey (from Made In California) was rather lame.

I'm not expecting anything but I've always wondered what happened with the Carnegie Hall shows. Here's a small bit posted by Howie Edelson back in 2009:

"The Beatles aren't the only '60s icons preserving their legendary catalogue and vault; the Beach Boys' team is hard at work cataloging the thousands of tapes which make up their archive. The team -- chief archivist Alan Boyd and producer/engineer Mark Linett -- has recently collected all of the known elements of the band's unfinished 1967 album Smile, and have now uncovered the multi-tracks for the Beach Boys' two historic concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall on November 23rd, 1972.

For years, only half of one of the shows has been available in pristine stereo on the underground market. Boyd says that the band's company Brother Records is in possession of all of the multi-track masters of the shows, and is now collecting appropriate film and video footage which could be included on a potential project."

300 were made according to Jon Stebbins.

Oh yeah the handwritten DW promo of the POB LP is definitely rarer than the 91 CD, only 300 of those LP's were pressed (most also have "advance copy" on the label which is different from the regular white label promo), at least a few thousand of the 91 CD were distributed.

I think he sounds fucking fantastic and makes everyone else in the band up their game to keep up. Glorious noise!

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