I'm also starting to wonder if there could be another major box set for the 60th anniversary.

1980/83= The Capitol Years 6 LPs / 4 CDs (20th anniversary)
1993 = Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys (30th anniversary)
Nothing in particular around the 40th anniversary, then
2011 = Smile Sessions + 2013 = Made In California (50th anniversary)
2020 = Feel Flows

Is there potential for another "career spanning" box set sometime between 2021-2023?

Yep - the much needed live retrospective.

Ricky lived in Australia for a number of years mainly doing session work and his name still pops up as the fortunes of artists he worked with get recycled.

1964 - As an 8 year old I just gotten a crystal set (remember those?) and in bed one night listening with the old ear plug when this song came on with soaring falsetto and that was it? Song was Wendy. HOOKED FOR LIFE!

7.00am Friday in Sydney - nothing on itunes or spotify yet

Friday.

or tomorrow (Thursday - US time zones) in New Zealand and Australia!

- someone was adamant that this is a Christmas song!

Somebody's addicted to Love Actually.

There is something new about this. I have two boots of this concert and both have a break in the recording at around the 3.40 mark of Feel Flows - both boots have a different way it breaks down but this recording doesn't - I'll be using this recording of Feel Flows in future. Best live version out there.

Is this legit official? A bootleg of this show has been circulating online for over a decade now.

Decade?! Good lord I can remember buying the boot in Milan, Italy sometime in the mid 90's at a market being held in a park while on my way to the San Siro to see the Milan derby ... AC Milan won of course.

Honestly, I would do anything to be able to go back in time and see Carl live.  Preferably in the late 60s or early 70s but honestly, anytime, anyplace.  My biggest Beach Boys regret is that I never saw him perform.  

...  and I'd love top see Australia.

Don't get too excited these days were basically a satellite suburb of LA .......

Something from the Ricky and Blondie era ... randomly I'll go with Nassau Coliseum August 1973

http://members.tripod.com/~fun_fun_fun/8-73.html

I selected this concert because it says the Cal Girls and We Got Love recordings from the wonderful In Concert album were recorded at this show ... which gives hope that possibly ... possibly ... possibly ... (pray and beg) ... that one day we may get to hear a soundboard recording of the band doing River Song live.

An abomination ...

Interesting. I got to spend a week in Nash's house on Weke Road near Waioli Beach Park, Hanalei Bay in the late 90s - it was stunning home and the influence of it haunts me today as I am renovating and fitting out my new property where there will be some pretty strong Nash house influences. At the time I was working as a senior executive of a large surfwear company and we were holding a global design conference and wanted to get everybody in the groove to be creative so we rented three houses on the beach front at Hanalei Bay. Having flown in from Australia to Oahu and then island hoped to Kauai we arrived to find our surfboards still on Oahu so we had to kill time waiting for the previous tenant to vacate the Nash house so we just hung around the property and beach and eventually got chatting to the guy and his family that were renting it, a really nice guy called Matt who told us the trick to get access to the locked cupboard that held Nash's music collection. On getting into the property somebody was looking at the visitors book and the last entry was a drawing of the Simpsons naked and waving from a bathtub ... yep ... Matt was Matt Groening ... and the previous visitor was David Crosby with the Nashs. The place has been sold now and no longer for rent. Oh yeah ... the music collection was great and mostly CSN ... it was pretty special to sit on the lanai staring across the vast manicured lawn with ebony dolphins jumping out of it while watching waves pour across Hanalei Point and downing a beer and listening to Suite Judy Blue Eyes. Hanalei Bay is easily one of the most beautiful places on the planet!

UPDATE: Having written the above I did a quick google and came up with the following info - interestingly the article says the Nash's built the house and I recall a well known Hawaiian surfer telling us about the hurricane that wiped out Hanalei Bay a few years beforehand and that he and his friends experienced with tripping on LSD so maybe it was a rebuild. BIZARRE! Anyhow, so maybe not the property one of the Beach Boys was looking at unless they were looking at the land.

Here's the link: http://islandermagazinehawaii.com/nash.html

The 1968 European Tour Documentary was included in the "His Masters Choice" bootleg (HMC007) "The Beach Boys Live in London" set  - a fine little package for a bootleg ... not that I would ever have bought one.

I despise the train wreck of the Summer In Paradise album but don't mind the live version of the song.

Some of those comps look like the result of someone pulling song titles out of a hat - random to say the least.

But isn't the point of compilation to be random song collection? Why people expect famous song titles, nice sequencing/ segue, things like this when discussing comps? The random, the better.

Yeah Summer Crush was the name of the Starbucks release ... on the link you provided it says distributed by Starbucks.

Comps can be bizarre ... and then one done you stumble on one that is GOLD!

From day 1 I've considered the Starbucks compilation the gold standard of doing it right ...

Tracks
      1   I Can Hear Music  Barry, Greenwich, Spector    
       2   Don't Worry Baby  Christian, Wilson    
       3   Sail on Sailor  Almer, Kennedy, Rieley, Wilson    
       4   God Only Knows  Asher, Wilson    
       5   Surf's Up  Parks, Wilson    
       6   Wouldn't It Be Nice  Asher, Wilson    
       7   Friends  Jardine, Wilson, Wilson ...    
       8   Add Some Music to Your Day  Knott, Love, Wilson    
       9   Sloop John B  Traditional, Wilson    
       10   Cool, Cool Water  Love, Wilson    
       11   Disney Girls (1957)  Johnston    
       12   Good Vibrations  Love, Wilson    
       13   Caroline No  Asher, Wilson    
       14   Do It Again  Love, Wilson

[DID NOT]

To help put some things into perspective - I know big wave legend Greg Noll has spoken openly about the surfing communities disdain for Beach Boys records in the sixties - I think his quote was they "threw them in the bin" when given promo copies - I used to have quite a bit to do with 4 time World Champion, Lisa Andersen and Lisa would only agree to do TV interviews provided they DID NOT use Surfer Girl as the background music. Lisa's reaction may not have been so much a reaction to the Beach Boys music but to the media's stereotyping of women's surfing which tended to be cliched and misogynistic.

From my Beach Boys and surfing memory file comes this one: It was November 28, 1992 and the Beach Boys were in Australia promoting the recently released Summer In Paradise album and playing at a football field at North Narrabeen (the same Narrabeen featured in the Surfing USA lyrics) - as most people know 1992 was not a particularly good period for the band and I had a conflict of interests so opted instead to attend a meeting also at North Narrabeen, but at the local surf lifesaving club, where a meeting was to be held to decided the future development of professional surfing in Australia. While sitting in the meeting  which was rather heated and ended in the then APSA (Australian Professional Surfing Association) being disbanded and the then amateur body, Surfing Australia, taking over the running of all levels of competition in Australia ... anyhow ... I'm sitting in the meeting and there is the sound of a helicopter very close by and I look out the window to see Carl and Mike walk past and board the bus that was to take them a short ride to the concert venue. That was it for me seeing the band live in 1992!

I'm a surfer. I have been for close to 50 years (that's the first time I've said that and its scary!!). Started when I was about 13 or 14. Grew up on the southern beaches of Sydney. I discovered the Beach Boys music around that time as well but never saw the two as particularly connected. The Boy's surfing songs always seemed kooky, rather it was the harmonies and Brian's falsetto that set off some magical chemical reaction in my mind and soul. I'm a sucker for harmonies. My Beach Boys world really kicks off around the time of the Today album. The only time the two worlds of the Beach Boys and the surfing lifestyle ever really crossed paths was in the early 70's when tracks from the Surfs Up and Holland albums were featured on the MacGillivary Freeman epic surf movie Five Summer Stories and the the Beach Boys In Concert album was a constant at parties around that time ... sadly the band decided to go in another direction after Holland/In Concert and that brief period of surf credibility evaporated. The surfing world took me on a wonderful life journey - I spent 10 years advancing the sport through competition and moving administration from a kitchen table operation to a commercial basis, I then spent 5 years working in the surf industry traveling the world working, surfing and being present at some of the sports seminal moments in the 80s and 90s and along the way the Beach Boys were on that journey with me but on a personal basis as I know a lot of surfers just don't rate the Beach Boys and I know this through personal conversation with some of the world's best surfers.

I used to live on the island of Bali ... where I was living when I first got my hands on the Wondermint's Bali CD ... the day I got the CD i was amazed at how authentically Balinese the cover was until later that day I went into my local supermarket to find the exact same artwork on the packaging of a local cigar box.

The summer of 1976, Sydney, Australia, long days on the beach, daytime surfing sloppy beach breaks and longing for cyclone swells, sunset heading to to Darlinghurst and the Oxford Tavern - Beach Boys and Jan & Dean on the jukebox - RADIO BIRDMAN! FUNHOUSE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8E7jRKAnYk

I watched the film & Gary in it. I just wondered who of the Wrecking Crew he played.

Al Deloray

Last night was a triumph. Brian and the band nailed it!

It looks like the day's rest ... and a little bit of motivation from the Bernard Zuel article - really did the trick.

Last night was a different experience from the night before for me. The first night I was three rows back from the sound board but last night I was second row right in front of Al and Blondie.

First off I want to say how much Al adds to the show and how much vocals work he does and to be honest the more the better. The sound was fantastic - at least where I was - and talking with others in attendance throughout the theatre it was agreed the sound was much better. For example on night night one the bass harmonica was absent in the mix but last night it was loud and clear.

While last nights set list had less depth than the first show it was still a great mix of Brian's career.

The first Opera House show was not Brian's best - as previously stated clipping and missing words and at times he did seem to be in a hurry to get the show over with - and at this stage of the tour Al & Matt can't cover for Brian's mistakes in the same way that Foskett could. On the plus side Al, Matt and Blondie really add a new dimension to the show - Al's in great voice and I'm in the camp that prefers Matt's vocals over Jeff Foskett's (please Brian let Matt do Hushabye). I really liked the first set, it opened with Prayer/H&V then had a run of 8 or 9 hits - moved on to a mini set of more obscure tracks as far as the meat and potatoes crowd were concerned then on comes Blondie and gives a swaggering taste of what the Beach Boys were live in the early 70's - something we in Australia never got to witness (and I'd love to see H&V moved from the opener to closing the set with a more rocking 70s take on the song).

I struggled with the Pet Sounds set, at times to me it felt like performing Pet Sounds is an ask too much for Brian and the tour may have been better off sticking to a broader selection of songs and letting the rest of the band carry more of the vocals without diminishing Brian's presence. I'm off to the second show tonight and will be happy to be proved wrong. The encore rocked ... even Barbara #$%^in' Ann.

I felt the crowd was broader that previous tours with a distinct "Love & Mercy' film influence about the attendees. I'm not a fan of the sound quality at the Opera House - its generally too muddy and not loud enough for my taste - it diminishes the live experience.

Having said all of the above about Pet Sounds I had a chance last night to hear a recording of the first Sydney show and Brian sounded much better than I (and others in attendance) could remember. Perhaps I've been over exposed to Brain and Pet Sounds - so perhaps it really is time for a Love You tour 

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