What shall we expect from the GRAMMY performance?

[Awesoman]

Jardine said there will be some surprises to be had when the 70-year-old "Boys" take the stage at the GRAMMY reunion performance.  My guess will be a greatest hits medley (duh) featuring "Do It Again", "California Girls" (with Katy Perry somehow involved...*shudder*), "Good Vibrations" and "Kokomo".  Somehow I don't think the GRAMMYs would be the right venue for them to perform something with a little more depth like SMiLE.  My guess is that whatever they end up doing, the performance will go either really well or really awful.  Here's hoping the former.  

[Shady]

Jardine said there will be some surprises to be had when the 70-year-old "Boys" take the stage at the GRAMMY reunion performance.  My guess will be a greatest hits medley (duh) featuring "Do It Again", "California Girls" (with Katy Perry somehow involved), "Good Vibrations" and "Kokomo".  Somehow I don't think the GRAMMYs would be the right venue for them to perform something with a little more depth like SMiLE.  My guess is that whatever they end up doing, the performance will go either really well or really awful.  Here's hoping the former.   

Oh, now I'm afraid

I'm expecting some speech's from famous fans, then the Boys come out and rock the joint

[Justin]

I'm hoping it's short and sweet...much like Simon and Garfunkel's reunion on the Grammy's about 8 years ago.  Hopefully, they start off the show and get it out of the way.  A short intro from a famous fan worthy of the introduction and then BAM..the opening chords to "California Girls" the crowd sings along and we're out. 

If they can restrain from going too overboard...it can also work as the final performance of the night with a longer set of songs..."California Girls" "Surfin' USA" and "Fun, Fun, Fun."  A nice party as the show wraps up.

[guitarfool2002]

I'll be OK with whatever songs they do - to some degree - as long as there are no surfboards or beachballs on that stage. I'm 100% serious...this is a band whose music can speak for itself without props or a schtick.

[Summertime Blooz]

They will probably be joined on stage by younger, more commercially relevant acts- that is what the Grammys like to do. I just hope it's someone more respectable than a Katy Perry. Fleet Foxes would be good.

[guitarfool2002]

They don't need help with their performances, I'd say. I can't see a group like Fleet Foxes or anyone else adding much to a Beach Boys stage reunion that the BB's couldn't do on their own. It might look a bit too contrived. And I'm going to search for an old bowling ball at a thrift store to have on hand and ready to throw at the screen if they have the BB's with the Glee cast or something along those lines.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Jardine said there will be some surprises to be had when the 70-year-old "Boys" take the stage at the GRAMMY reunion performance.  My guess will be a greatest hits medley (duh) featuring "Do It Again", "California Girls" (with Katy Perry somehow involved...*shudder*), "Good Vibrations" and "Kokomo".  Somehow I don't think the GRAMMYs would be the right venue for them to perform something with a little more depth like SMiLE.  My guess is that whatever they end up doing, the performance will go either really well or really awful.  Here's hoping the former.  

Say what you will about Katy Perry's music (and I'd be inclined to agree) but she DID name-check the Beach Boys (before The Beatles) as an example of her discovering what REALLY good music was on Letterman a while back!

[Shady]

They will probably be joined on stage by younger, more commercially relevant acts- that is what the Grammys like to do. I just hope it's someone more respectable than a Katy Perry. Fleet Foxes would be good.

Yes!! That would be so amazing..

Al Jardine is close to the Fleet Foxes, maybe he'll make that happen

[Justin]

Did people start putting Fleet Foxes on their "Good" lists even before they were featured prominently in the documentary on Brian's That Lucky Old Sun DVD?

They're alright and their connection to the BB would do well for the young demographic but outside of that...I personally wouldn't want too much involvement from them.

[Myk Luhv]

Wait, they're on the TLOS DVD? Doing what? Praising Brian's music or something more... robust?

[Andrew G. Doe]

Say what you will about Katy Perry's music (and I'd be inclined to agree) but she DID name-check the Beach Boys (before The Beatles) as an example of her discovering what REALLY good music was on Letterman a while back!

OK, so if this is so, then why is her music such unrelenting sh*t ?

[Alan Smith]

Say what you will about Katy Perry's music (and I'd be inclined to agree) but she DID name-check the Beach Boys (before The Beatles) as an example of her discovering what REALLY good music was on Letterman a while back!

OK, so if this is so, then why is her music such unrelenting sh*t ?

She was born in late '84, so her earliest audio memories may include Kokomo or Still Cruisin' 

[stack-o-tracks]

The Grammy performance is going to be like this without the dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L4fdO7Wgak

[stack-o-tracks]

Also Brian Wilson will be there instead of John Stamos.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Say what you will about Katy Perry's music (and I'd be inclined to agree) but she DID name-check the Beach Boys (before The Beatles) as an example of her discovering what REALLY good music was on Letterman a while back!

OK, so if this is so, then why is her music such unrelenting sh*t ?

She was born in late '84, so her earliest audio memories may include Kokomo or Still Cruisin' 

Ahhhhhhhhh... gotcha.

[stack-o-tracks]

Katy Perry is old news. All the cool kids are listening to Skrillex now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgFwE13g

[phirnis]

They're going to play the Spanish "Kokomo" followed by their upcoming new single "Skatetown USA" (A side of "Do It Again").

[Summertime Blooz]

Did people start putting Fleet Foxes on their "Good" lists even before they were featured prominently in the documentary on Brian's That Lucky Old Sun DVD?

They're alright and their connection to the BB would do well for the young demographic but outside of that...I personally wouldn't want too much involvement from them.

When I named Fleet Foxes as a group that might be good IF the Grammys wanted to pair the BBs with some young blood, I had no idea there was any formal connection between the two (I've never seen the TLOS DVD). It just seemed to me that, having heard some of their stuff, Fleet Foxes were probably Beach Boys fans and might mesh well with them musically. No bandwagon-jumping here.

[Justin]

Fair enough. 

Out of all the current acts out there they would be the most fitting to join them on stage but I hope they  stick with the core band and skip guests join them.  If anything...Brian and Al are the special guests of the occasion since they've been absent from the band so long!

[guitarfool2002]

Yeah, I'll say again the core band doesn't need help or a young, hip cache attached to their performance to deliver that performance and let the music stand on its own. And I'll have the bowling ball ready just in case it gets out of hand...

As far as Katy Perry, I don't have a problem with her personally, and if you're into pop music and its production, there is a guy named Dr. Luke who used to play guitar in the Saturday Night Live house band who crafted a lot of her tracks. Put it this way, I'd take Katy Perry *any day* over a pretentious act like Maroon 5 because her music is fun and I don't think she takes it too seriously, again in a good way.

Just curious: Were her pro-Beach Boys comments on Letterman before or after she was sued by Mike?

[Mr. Wilson]

I agree with Justin ..No guests

[Mr. Wilson]

Is it OK if BW wears bowling shoes..?

[Justin]

Yeah, I'll say again the core band doesn't need help or a young, hip cache attached to their performance to deliver that performance and let the music stand on its own.

Absolutely.  I can totally see it now.  The audience will be singing along and dancing to "California Girls" or "Barbara Ann"...totally digging the music...and whatever guests they put up there would totally get lost in the shuffle.  

I'm not saying the BB themselves will outshine anyone at the ceremony (we all know Joe Public would take a Kanye West over a Brian Wilson at the drop of a hat) but even a Kanye or a Katy Perry can't topple the power of those wonderful songs.  In the end, the songs will win and outshine anyone on that stage.

[guitarfool2002]

Yeah, I'll say again the core band doesn't need help or a young, hip cache attached to their performance to deliver that performance and let the music stand on its own.

Absolutely.  I can totally see it now.  The audience will be singing along and dancing to "California Girls" or "Barbara Ann"...totally digging the music...and whatever guests they put up there would totally get lost in the shuffle.  

I'm not saying the BB themselves will outshine anyone at the ceremony (we all know Joe Public would take a Kanye West over a Brian Wilson at the drop of a hat) but even a Kanye or a Katy Perry can't topple the power of those wonderful songs.  In the end, the songs will win and outshine anyone on that stage.

I remember a Letterman performance leading up to the BW tribute concert shown on TNT some years ago, and Brian was there to do Sail On Sailor...and the stage was crowded with guests like Darius "Hootie" Rucker and Matthew Sweet along with Brian's own band, and the performance was neat but something got lost with that many cooks in the same kitchen. It's like those "jam sessions" they try to concoct which end up sounding pretty bad no matter how many legends are on the stage...overkill.

[SMiLE Brian]

Katy wouldn't work with the group because her nice "upper torso" would make the group perform "rolling up to heaven"