Show 52: Festival Musicos en la Naturaleza - Avila, Spain 7/21/12

[Shady]

I hope they bring the full stage over for the non-festival shows..

Maybe it's a money thing, I don't know

[Alex]

Cool concert story. On Live in London (1969,) Mike introduces Bluebirds Over the Mountain, en espagnol, as well.   

You mean "español"? I'm assuming "espagnol" is the Itailan way of spelling it...

[Jacopo88]

Still no setlis/report from this show?!?

[AndrewHickey]

Still no setlis/report from this show?!?

I think we only have one board member who was going, and he was then going to travel to the other Spanish show. I suspect we'll get reports of both tomorrow.

[filledeplage]

Cool concert story. On Live in London (1969,) Mike introduces Bluebirds Over the Mountain, en espagnol, as well.   

You mean "español"? I'm assuming "espagnol" is the Itailan way of spelling it...

My bad! Mea culpa!

Detention and Spanish 101 review, for me!

(en français) - I have my ipad set for English and French and am still quite a beginner. 

Thanks for the heads up!   

[mabewa]

There is a setlist up on setlist dot com now.  It's a pretty conservative setlist--nothing from Sunflower, only All This is That and Sail On Sailor from the entire early 70's period, no Pet Sounds, no I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, no Isn't It Time.  Maybe the Spanish fan base isn't too deep.  I'm thinking/hoping that they may shake things up more as they hit other parts of Europe.

[STE]

Cool concert story. On Live in London (1969,) Mike introduces Bluebirds Over the Mountain, en espagnol, as well.   

You mean "español"? I'm assuming "espagnol" is the Itailan way of spelling it...

Just for the record, that's not the Italian spelling either.

[Cabinessenceking]

Hope the vid tribute shows up for Oslo. Even if it's pre-recorded I want to hear CW sing GOK. Brian cant sing it anymore it seems, perhaps only in accustic setting.

[Lowbacca]

Hope the vid tribute shows up for Oslo. Even if it's pre-recorded I want to hear CW sing GOK. Brian cant sing it anymore it seems, perhaps only in accustic setting.

It's in the nature of those video tributes to be pre-recorded..  

And I think Brian still is capable of singing GOK (his live performances reaching from 'okay' to 'channeling carl-inspired'). I'm content with 'okay' any day.

[AndrewHickey]

Hope the vid tribute shows up for Oslo. Even if it's pre-recorded I want to hear CW sing GOK. Brian cant sing it anymore it seems, perhaps only in accustic setting.

The Youtube video from this show has him singing it very well, actually...

To be honest, I don't particularly want to see the videos -- I can watch video of Carl and Dennis at home. It's the living members I've paid to see.

[EgoHanger1966]

Hope the vid tribute shows up for Oslo. Even if it's pre-recorded I want to hear CW sing GOK. Brian cant sing it anymore it seems, perhaps only in accustic setting.

The Youtube video from this show has him singing it very well, actually...

To be honest, I don't particularly want to see the videos -- I can watch video of Carl and Dennis at home. It's the living members I've paid to see.

I can understand where you're coming from but it's really different once you've experienced it in person. It's not just watching the video, the whole band, incuding BB's, are performing WITH them. I watched Brian watching Carl on the big screen, missing his brother, it's something I'll never forget.

[Aegir]

To me, it didn't even seem like I was watching a video. I was watching Carl and Dennis singing in front of me.

[Rocker]

Source: http://www.elnortedecastilla.es/multimedia/fotos/ultimos/102948-concierto-beach-boys-festival-musicos-naturaleza-gredos-0.html

[Rocker]

Don't back down + Surfin' safari:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyo2_xFWiQ

[The Real Barnyard]

Back home from the two spanish shows.
Soon setlists and impressions!!

[NightHider]

Don't back down + Surfin' safari:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyo2_xFWiQ

What's that Brian interjects with at 5:28 when the crowd starts getting noisy...."Mike, c'mon let's....."??

[EgoHanger1966]

Don't back down + Surfin' safari:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyo2_xFWiQ

What's that Brian interjects with at 5:28 when the crowd starts getting noisy...."Mike, c'mon let's....."??

"Mike, c'mon, lets do Surfer Girl".

[Lowbacca]

Don't back down + Surfin' safari:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyo2_xFWiQ

What's that Brian interjects with at 5:28 when the crowd starts getting noisy...."Mike, c'mon let's....."??

"Mike, c'mon, lets do Surfer Girl".

Yap. I guess anybody on stage would have preferred Mike to shut up and continue with the set by that point.  They were kinda losing the crowd there for a moment. I'm curious to see what Mike's going to pull in Berlin. 

[Justin]

Ahahahah Mike speaking Spanish and saying that their country's team will lose.  That's classic. 

[The Real Barnyard]

Ok, this is the setlist:

01 Do It Again
02 Little Honda
03 Catch A Wave
04 Hawaii
05 Don´t Back Down
06 Surfin' Safari
07 Surfer Girl
08 You're So Good to Me
09 Getcha Back
10 Then I Kissed Her
11 Please Let Me Wonder
12 Come Go With Me
13 Why Do Fools Fall In Love
14 When I Grow Up
15 Cotton Fields
16 Be True to Your School
17 Don't Worry Baby
18 Little Deuce Coupe
19 409
20 Shut Down
21 I Get Around
22 In My Room
23 All This is That
24 Sail On Sailor
25 That's Why God Made The Radio
26 Darlin'
27 Heroes And Villains
28 California Dreamin'
29 God Only Knows
30 Sloop John B.
31 Wouldn't it Be Nice
32 Good Vibrations
33 California Girls
34 Dance Dance Dance
35 Help Me Rhonda
36 Rock and Roll Music
37 Barbara Ann
38 Surfin' USA

39 Kokomo
40 Do You Wanna Dance
41 Fun Fun Fun

2 hours 4 minutes with no intermission and no big screen. The venue had no time restriction, but the outdoor location (placed in a beautiful mountain landscape) and the standing audience didn't help to include some deeper cuts I think.

Before the show I was able to get into the backstage with a friend, and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life as I talked with all five Beach Boys and got signed my tour program.
Mike asked me if I knew the words for the spanish version of Kokomo (which of course I knew) and suddenly I was singing with him face to face while he was remembering the lyrics!! Then he sang one line in spanish at the show. He also joked with us about the Spain-USA basketball match in Barcelona and then made the same joke in front of the audience. So cool!!
Bruce chatted about surfin', we thanked Alan for his vocal in From There To Back Again on the new album, and David told us about his guitar playing on the song TWGMTR.
With Brian we only could shake hands as he wasn't too talkative.
Then we got off the backstage and enjoyed an incredible concert.

The day after the show we traveled to Barcelona by train and, what a coincidence, the band was in the same train!! We couldn't believe!! (There are some pictures in Mike's Facebook)

We were ready for the next show in Barcelona.



Me on the right with the tour program.

[Zach95]

Awesome story! Did you talk to them at all on the train?

[Justin]

Nice one Barnyard!

[The Real Barnyard]

Awesome story! Did you talk to them at all on the train?

No. We were told by some tour manager to not bother on the train. But I saw Mike, Jeff, Nelson and Mickey in the cafeteria.

[Micha]

and David told us about his guitar playing on the song TWGMTR.

And what did he say?