2012 DVD Live Trailer

[Pretty Funky]

Enough guessing. Here it is!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TefY7mb13bA


Ok. On first watch. FFF auto tuned to death and a lot of crowd shots in 2 plus minutes.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I think it looks and sounds pretty good, polished and professional as expected. I like the cameras getting right in there with the band. I agree that there are too many shots of the audience, but hopefully that's just for the trailer. I definitely wouldn't want an hour of them cutting to a different camera every 2 seconds like that. It would likely give me a seizure. I will purchase the item at the appropriate time and give a fair and accurate review.

[joshferrell]

all that crowd cheering is annoying,I hope it isn't that way throughout the dvd..

[Justin]

I'm pretty sure the audience shot was in benefit for the trailer.  Let's hope.

Aside from that, it really looks fantastic.  I'm sure it would look sparkling on BluRay.  The vocals are definitely dipped in fairy dust, hopefully it won't be a huge distraction.  I'm looking forward to it.

[Aegir]

the lead vocals sound pretty processed, but the visual aspect of this is great. this made me really excited for this DVD actually.

[DJole]

So it's all from Grand Canyon University - Phoenix, AZ July 7th concert !?! 

[SonoraDick]

So it's all from Grand Canyon University - Phoenix, AZ July 7th concert !?! 

Yes.

[runnersdialzero]

TOTAL SHITE -95/100 I WILL NEVER GO TO SCHOOL

[ontor pertawst]

I hope they have a "multiple angles" option so we can watch all audience shots, all day!

[puni puni]

Who the f*** keeps putting autotune on them?

[PS]

My worst fears have been realized - clearly this will be chop job, cut after cut after cut with no apparent purpose except to keep up a sense of false excitement, when the music itself is exciting enough...I suspect the trailer and the film will be similar in style. Audience shots should be in the beginning and end of a song only, or for an occasional  cutaway, not a performer/audience/performer/audience/ dialectical montage. Ugh. Can't watch it. Like McCartney's BS concert editing.

[AndrewHickey]

My worst fears have been realized - clearly this will be chop job, cut after cut after cut with no apparent purpose except to keep up a sense of false excitement, when the music itself is exciting enough...I suspect the trailer and the film will be similar in style. Audience shots should be in the beginning and end of a song only, or for an occasional  cutaway, not a performer/audience/performer/audience/ dialectical montage. Ugh. Can't watch it. Like McCartney's BS concert editing.

It's a trailer! It's quite probably not even edited by the same person who edited the DVD itself.

[Jukka]

I'm not that worried about the fast edits - movie trailers and movies are two different things. But the vocals do sound a tad too processed, and what about the backing tracks? Unbeliveably wimpy! I know, it's the Beach Boys and vocals should be up front, but this is rock music, played at stadiums and arenas, make at least the drums sound like it!

[Rob Dean]

Hey judging how gorgeous looking some of the ladies in the crowd are I just want audience shots 

[Lowbacca]

Sheesh that trailer is annoying.  What PS said, basically. Sure hope that editing style, vocal processing and amount of audience shots doesn't really represent what the DVD's main content looks and sounds like. But yeah... I'll buy it anyway. 

[EgoHanger1966]

You can hear Brian in the vocal stack - that's what he must have been doing in the studio right after the tour commenced.

[absinthe_boy]

Enough guessing. Here it is!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TefY7mb13bA


Ok. On first watch. FFF auto tuned to death and a lot of crowd shots in 2 plus minutes.

WTF is that?

Autotuned to death, likely overdubbed. Worse than Peter Gabriel Plays Live :-(

[Roger Ryan]

Given that the crowd shots appear to be synched to the appropriate song (we see audience members singing along with "Fun, Fun, Fun" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice"), I'm pretty sure what we're seeing is actual clips from the final edit. The thing is with a Beach Boys show is that neither the performers nor the audience are particularly interesting visually; it's all about what we hear. For this reason, trying to create false excitement through fast cuts becomes a distraction. All the same, it looks like it will be a slick product and no more offensive than McCartney's more recent live DVDs (not that I enjoy watching those much).

[Rocker]

Sounds like the "Doin' it again" special. Well, no matter what reasons they had, I can't say that I'm not disappointed with this as it looks.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

WTF is that?

Autotuned to death, likely overdubbed.

Unlike nearly every other live concert DVD release in history, right?

Autotune! Overdubs! Oh no! How dare The Beach Boys violate the long standing musical tradition of releasing live albums/concert videos totally raw with no studio overdubs!

What did you expect? For them to roll it out onto the Walmart shelves with Brian singing off-key?

Seriously, I think some of you people are living in a world of fantasy or something.

[Aegir]

Bubba, you're treating it like this sounds like every other concert DVD ever. That's not true at all. Even compared to other beach boys / brian releases (It's OK, Knebworth, Pet Sounds Live, BWPS), this sounds radically different. So yes, i expect brian to be singing offkey. He's been doing it publicly for the past 37 years and they only started really trying to hide it on this tour.

[ontor pertawst]

Seriously, I think some of you people are living in a world of fantasy or something.

Well, at least they know me there.

[HeyJude]

We'll have to wait for the final product, but *if* the actual full content is like that trailer, then it is indeed unfortunately very similar to McCartney DVD's and other concert productions that emphasize quick cuts, tilted shots, crane shots, and most annoying of all copious amounts of awkward audience shots.

You don't have to sell us on how much the audience likes the Beach Boys! We bought the DVD, we like them too! 

[Justin]

Some awkward shots of part of the audience standing while the other half remained seated...it's weird in person when that happens and looks even worse on camera.  Bad form!

[Cabinessenceking]

doesn't look that impressive. I want to think of this band as the band of legendary stuff that was and never was. Although I digged my concert, I know that I will never experience the true Beach Boys. Watching a polished film showing rednecks dancing to a faded Myke Luvh vocal won't do much for me.