Show 3: New Orleans Jazz Fest- New Orleans, LA 4/27/12 (SETLIST/PICS/REVIEWS)

[Justin]

Placeholder for tonight's show.  All setlists/pics/videos/reviews shall be posted in this thread.

[Justin]

SETLIST (with thanks to mammy blue!)

Do It Again - no soundcheck, so there were problems hearing the vocals early in the concert. Mike's first line or so was completely inaudible.
Catch a Wave
Don't back Down
Surfin safari
Surfer Girl - as Brian sang the bridge Mike started dancing with some woman... kinda cheezy and distracting
Then I Kissed Her - Al sounds like the record... in very fine voice
You're So Good To Me
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
When I grow up to be a man - this went over really well
Cottonfields
Be True to Your School - w/ Stamos
Don't Worry Baby - Jeff
Little Deuce Coupe
409
Shut Down
I get around
Sloop John B
Wouldnt It Be Nice
Sail On Sailor
Heroes and Villains
God Only Knows: no Carl video, sung by Brian who did fine on it
That's Why God Made the Radio: sounded good but Brian kept missing his cues on the verses
California Girls
Help Me Rhonda
Barbara Ann
Surfin' USA
Kokomo - Stamos on bongos
Good Vibes
Fun Fun Fun - Stamos returns again

[Justin]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/the-beach-boys-at-jazz-fest-20120428

[Heysaboda]

WHASSSSSUP?

I think it's 5:00 now in Nwaluns

[Justin]

We got about five board members at the show apparently and they expect a shorter set because it's a festival..no intermission.  Bicyclerider agreed to provide us the final set but probably whent the show is completely over.

[Runaways]

i like the numbering by the way.  fun to keep track.

[Justin]

Cool Runaways, It seems to be working right now...we're all pumped for the tour and these threads seem to be working pretty well at the moment.  Not sure if the buzz will still be there by the time we reach the end of the tour (the excitement always dissipates--it's natural) so we'll see how much these threads are really needed then.

[hypehat]

A rolling tour thread might be a way to do it. It'd get massive, but hey.

[Justin]

Yeah hypehat, I was thinking that once these types of threads begin to waiver (meaning that each thread gains no more than 3 pages each) by the middle or tail end of the tour, I'll maybe go into just one rolling thread for the remainder of the tour and simply update the title to reflect the new show.  Right now, there's a lot of hype and each thread is going at about 10 pages each (with the exception of the "first gig" thread which morphed into a big dicussion about Autotune) and that would be really, really hard to keep track if it were in one big thread.

But I don't want to be unfair to each city (and country) later in the tour by bunching all those later shows just into one thread when these first shows each got their own!

[stack-o-tracks]

ISN'T BLONDIE CHAPLIN GONNA BE AT TONIGHT'S SHOW?!?!?!?!?

Stoked to hear them play Sail On, Sailor together.

[Justin]

Is he??  Very cool! I missed that news.  That'd be great to see him up there.

[hypehat]

Aquarium Drunkard (blog whose opinion/criticism/taste/whatever is usually spot on) just tweeted

watching the Beach Boys. Depressing #sorry

 

[The Real Barnyard]

A friend who is at the show has told me that John Stamos is there. But he hasn't especified if John is performing onstage.

[Justin]

Aquarium Drunkard (blog whose opinion/criticism/taste/whatever is usually spot on) just tweeted

watching the Beach Boys. Depressing #sorry

 

I'd like to get their in in-depth review.  If it's more of that "It's so sad to watch a bunch of 70 year old dudes on stage playing rock and roll" BS--then I don't need to hear it.

Keep us posted what they have to say!

[stack-o-tracks]

Is he??  Very cool! I missed that news.  That'd be great to see him up there.

...Maybe not.  Icould have sworn it was posted in one of the threads that he would be there. I just checked out his Facebook page and saw this: This Friday April 27, Blondie will be in Lüchow Germany at the Rolling Stones Fan Museum!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[hypehat]

Er, he just tweeted he's off to a crawfish boil. Unless it's over, I think he's voted with his feet....

[Justin]

Er, he just tweeted he's off to a crawfish boil.

HA...gotta love Twitter. 

[Justin]

Is he??  Very cool! I missed that news.  That'd be great to see him up there.

...Maybe not.  Icould have sworn it was posted in one of the threads that he would be there. I just checked out his Facebook page and saw this: This Friday April 27, Blondie will be in Lüchow Germany at the Rolling Stones Fan Museum!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Maybe they hollogrammed him in?

[Wirestone]

There will be a sizable percentage of reviewers of both the tour and CD who will dismiss them because they are the products of a reunited Beach Boys. That is, a bunch of nearly-70 somethings rocking out in a high profile way.

We will also see a lot of "Brian obviously doesn't like it / doesn't want to be there" talk. First of that was in the LA Times review.

It's irritating, because none of these reactions have anything to do with what the band or Brian is actually doing. But such is the nature of rock criticism.

[Justin]

It's irritating, because none of these reactions have anything to do with what the band or Brian is actually doing. But such is the nature of rock criticism.

Absolutley.

But at the same time, people shoot off such comments simply because they have no idea what exactly they're watching.  If they happen to catch The Beach Boys playing "Don't Back Down" a song they probably don't know instead of "Fun Fun Fun" or "Surfin' USA"...they take that exact moment to criticise the band all together and write them off: "Eh, they're old and this song sucks.  I'm going to go get a BBQ turkey leg."  

[Shady]

Stamos introduced The Beach Boys...

I wonder how many people chose The Boys over Bon Iver

[Shady]

A lot it seems

[Shady]

Show ended a little while ago..

Can't wait for the videos, apparently they went over really well (as expected)

[Wirestone]

Stamos onstage for Kokomo in the encore:

[hypehat]

Well, I suppose he'd show up SOMEWHERE. The git.

Brian looks a bit cool in shades, btw.