Will Brian. Al, and David perform "Kokomo"?

[Rocky Raccoon]

When Still Cruisin' came out, I thought for sure it would be a top 40 hit - how could it fail as the followup to a worldwide #1?

I actually like "Kokomo" and can see why it was a big hit even if it's not one of my favorites but "Still Cruisin'" is a better example of a really terrible Beach Boys song.

[D409]

It's unlikely that they'll play Kokomo. Brian, Al and David are not trying to take the license to tour as The Beach Boys away from Mike & Bruce, Brian is just playing some shows with Al and David as special guests. There may never be another reunion between the two camps. Enough !

[leggo of my ego]

No, never enough...Next thread: Will Mike and Bruce perform "Monkey's Uncle" as a Annette F. tribute?

[Letsgoawayforawhile]

"I thought Kokomo was really great." - Brian Wilson

He liked Mount Vernon & Fairway too.

I listened to Kokomo this afternoon on GV boxset....I think I like Mount Vernon better.

I dont know, Kokomo gets you kind of groovin at first -- but before its over you wish it would end.   

Could you imagine Brian playing Mount Vernon?
I would die a very happy man.

[leggo of my ego]

"I thought Kokomo was really great." - Brian Wilson

He liked Mount Vernon & Fairway too.

I listened to Kokomo this afternoon on GV boxset....I think I like Mount Vernon better.

I dont know, Kokomo gets you kind of groovin at first -- but before its over you wish it would end.   

Could you imagine Brian playing Mount Vernon?
I would die a very happy man.

  Yes, and with Van Dyke as narrator. 

[Letsgoawayforawhile]

"I thought Kokomo was really great." - Brian Wilson

He liked Mount Vernon & Fairway too.

I listened to Kokomo this afternoon on GV boxset....I think I like Mount Vernon better.

I dont know, Kokomo gets you kind of groovin at first -- but before its over you wish it would end.   

Could you imagine Brian playing Mount Vernon?
I would die a very happy man.

  Yes, and with Van Dyke as narrator. 

My head would explode.
TOO MUCH AWESOME!

[Shady]

At the C50 show I attended Kokomo (and rock and roll music for that matter) brought the show to a screeching halt. It's pretty awful live.

For the reason alone it shouldn't be played. I'm pro Kokomo btw, it's a nice summer song.

[Rocky Raccoon]

At the C50 show I attended Kokomo (and rock and roll music for that matter) brought the show to a screeching halt. It's pretty awful live.

I agree, it felt awkwardly out of place.  If they put it earlier in the set, maybe it would sound better but it just doesn't work as an encore at all.  It's too mellow.

[Melt Away]

Yeah, I really doubt they'll play it. Honestly, I hope they don't as well lol. I want to hear some Love You cuts or MAYBE Don't Fight The Sea??

[leggo of my ego]

At the C50 show I attended Kokomo (and rock and roll music for that matter) brought the show to a screeching halt. It's pretty awful live.

sampled steel drums via Darien eh?

[Jason]

A substantial proportion of Brian's audience think Mike Love is the devil (in a couple of cases I think they actually think this literally) and that Kokomo is everything they hate.

A substantial proportion of Brian's audience are elitist schmucks who listen to nothing BUT the Beach Boys.

And then there's the substantial proportion of the Smiley Smile moderators who call Mike Love "Michael" all the time for some odd reason, even though he's only called that sparingly by friends or bandmates. Odd.

I'm sorry if it's the cause of any overbearing grief.

[Rocker]

Before C50 I had wondered and hoped that they'd let David do a surf instrumental like "Stoked" or something like that. Of course I was more than happy with "Pet sounds". And although I guess he'll more likely play "Pet sounds" with Brian and Al, I'd still think "Surf jam" - for example - would be great

[Jim V.]

A substantial proportion of Brian's audience think Mike Love is the devil (in a couple of cases I think they actually think this literally) and that Kokomo is everything they hate.

A substantial proportion of Brian's audience are elitist schmucks who listen to nothing BUT the Beach Boys.

And then there's the substantial proportion of the Smiley Smile moderators who call Mike Love "Michael" all the time for some odd reason, even though he's only called that sparingly by friends or bandmates. Odd.

I'm sorry if it's the cause of any overbearing grief.

I'll live. Hopefully.

[Awesoman]

Brian singing Kokomo would be like Slash's band performing November Rain. 

Except "November Rain" is actually one of their more worthwhile songs.

Also, no, I'm sure people who are not Al, Brian or David would prevent such a thing from happening.

Actually it might be interesting to hear Albriandavid perform "November Rain"...Marks could perform the "surf guitar" version of Slash's solo.

[lee]

The only thing I like about Kokomo is Carl's vocal so personally, I'd rather they not perform it. It's not a bad song but considering their catalog, there are at least 50 other songs I'd rather them play. It would be nice if they perform Forever with Dave on vocals.

[Cabinessenceking]

A substantial proportion of Brian's audience think Mike Love is the devil (in a couple of cases I think they actually think this literally) and that Kokomo is everything they hate.

A substantial proportion of Brian's audience are elitist schmucks who listen to nothing BUT the Beach Boys.

good generalization right there.


seriously how did this dude get his position?

[filledeplage]

At the C50 show I attended Kokomo (and rock and roll music for that matter) brought the show to a screeching halt. It's pretty awful live.

For the reason alone it shouldn't be played. I'm pro Kokomo btw, it's a nice summer song.

Shady - where was the show where Kokomo brought the show to a screeching halt?

The contrary was my experience...seemed they all grooved out where I was...

All that great percussion of C50 with Cowsill   

And Bragg? 

It rocked I thought!

[drbeachboy]

Kokomo went over fine with the audiences at the shows that I attended. Shady, are you sure that it was just your song hatred swaying your outlook when it was played?

[AndrewHickey]

Kokomo went over fine with the audiences at the shows that I attended. Shady, are you sure that it was just your song hatred swaying your outlook when it was played?

Shady's in Ireland, assuming that's an accurate profile, and so was probably at one of the UK gigs. Kokomo never goes down well here -- it was never a hit and no-one knows it -- and it did absolutely kill the momentum stone dead at Wembley when they did it as an encore. It worked far better the way they used to do it in UK shows, where it would come after a bunch of rarities and album tracks and before the rest of the hits, but even then it was never one the audiences over here went for.

[drbeachboy]

It is slower than the other songs in the encore, but over here people love to sing along to it, so it works. I agree though that it would be better as you describe how they did it for you guys in the past.

[Cliff1000uk]

I was at both The Albert Hall and Wembley gigs and people near where I was sat started leaving when they played Kokomo. The funniest sight, though, was seeing lots of people scurrying back to their seats when Brian came back out to do Summer's Gone at TAH.

I wonder if there is actually a good place to put Kokomo in the set. It definitely belongs there but just seemed out of place in the C50 set. Maybe they should have included Make It Big, Wipeout and Problem Child!!

[Lowbacca]

I was at both The Albert Hall and Wembley gigs and people near where I was sat started leaving when they played Kokomo. The funniest sight, though, was seeing lots of people scurrying back to their seats when Brian came back out to do Summer's Gone at TAH.

I wonder if there is actually a good place to put Kokomo in the set. It definitely belongs there but just seemed out of place in the C50 set. Maybe they should have included Make It Big, Wipeout and Problem Child!!

"Problem Child" is a cool song but (to me, at least) - like "Kokomo" - heavily relies on Carl's vocal for its charm and quality.
I think the "Kokomo" studio version is nice enough but played live it doesn't do anything for me.

[AndrewHickey]

I was at both The Albert Hall and Wembley gigs and people near where I was sat started leaving when they played Kokomo. The funniest sight, though, was seeing lots of people scurrying back to their seats when Brian came back out to do Summer's Gone at TAH.

I wonder if there is actually a good place to put Kokomo in the set. It definitely belongs there but just seemed out of place in the C50 set. Maybe they should have included Make It Big, Wipeout and Problem Child!!

I don't think the people leaving was because of Kokomo as such -- at Wembley I think the show was just longer than people expected. I noticed a lot of people leaving straight after very popular songs toward the end -- a *LOT* of people round me left after they played Wouldn't It Be Nice, for example, like they'd been waiting for that one song and could then go.

As for where a good place for Kokomo is -- while I don't like the song much, it worked well in the 2008 sets when it went:
40. All This Is That
41. 'Til I Die
42. Disney Girls
43. Kokomo
44. Cottonfields
45. California Girls
46. Help Me Rhonda

Coming out of the more meditative part of the set, and going into the hits, it made a decent transition, and certainly didn't sap the energy of the crowd the way it does in other places.

(One of the funniest things I can remember, actually, is seeing an outdoor Mike & Bruce gig in 2001, when there was torrential rain right through the early part of the set. The band hit the first notes of Wouldn't It Be Nice, and the rain stopped entirely as soon as the notes were played, and it stayed dry through that, Sloop John B, God Only Knows and Good Vibrations. Then Kokomo started and the downpour began again...)

[Cliff1000uk]

I was at both The Albert Hall and Wembley gigs and people near where I was sat started leaving when they played Kokomo. The funniest sight, though, was seeing lots of people scurrying back to their seats when Brian came back out to do Summer's Gone at TAH.

I wonder if there is actually a good place to put Kokomo in the set. It definitely belongs there but just seemed out of place in the C50 set. Maybe they should have included Make It Big, Wipeout and Problem Child!!

I don't think the people leaving was because of Kokomo as such -- at Wembley I think the show was just longer than people expected. I noticed a lot of people leaving straight after very popular songs toward the end -- a *LOT* of people round me left after they played Wouldn't It Be Nice, for example, like they'd been waiting for that one song and could then go.

As for where a good place for Kokomo is -- while I don't like the song much, it worked well in the 2008 sets when it went:
40. All This Is That
41. 'Til I Die
42. Disney Girls
43. Kokomo
44. Cottonfields
45. California Girls
46. Help Me Rhonda

Coming out of the more meditative part of the set, and going into the hits, it made a decent transition, and certainly didn't sap the energy of the crowd the way it does in other places.

(One of the funniest things I can remember, actually, is seeing an outdoor Mike & Bruce gig in 2001, when there was torrential rain right through the early part of the set. The band hit the first notes of Wouldn't It Be Nice, and the rain stopped entirely as soon as the notes were played, and it stayed dry through that, Sloop John B, God Only Knows and Good Vibrations. Then Kokomo started and the downpour began again...)

Andrew-you're probably right about people leaving-I just noticed it more during Kokomo. I was looking at the setlists and the only places I could think of it going was after Getcha Back in the first set or maybe after Summer's Gone in the second set but that would have been before Forever.
That 2008 set (Hammersmith Apollo?) was outstanding. I had 2 friends with me who knew the hits but went and bought Sunflower and Holland off the back of that gig.
That story is quite funny-reminds me of BW doing Glastonbury and it stopped raining almost the instant he started his set. Was it BW at Kenwood that it downpoured the entire set?

[Micha]

Before C50 I had wondered and hoped that they'd let David do a surf instrumental like "Stoked" or something like that. Of course I was more than happy with "Pet sounds". And although I guess he'll more likely play "Pet sounds" with Brian and Al, I'd still think "Surf jam" - for example - would be great

Surf Jam - Rocker, I'm 100% with you there! One of my all-time favorite surf instrumentals!






I want a Brian/David/Al live version of Kokomo on MIC instead of the studio version!