If Brian/Al/David/Blondie continued after this year...

[Phoenix]

To keep up the good press and make people feel like this is a must see show, Brian and the Boys roll out another theme: Taking the audience on a chronological tour through the Beach Boys' entire history by playing something from "virtually all of the band's studio albums". 

California Girls
Sloop John B
Cottonfields
Hawaii (Dave & Jeff)
In My Room
Sail On Sailor

Introduce the theme, starting with the first album

Summertime Blues
Farmer’s Daughter
Surfer Girl
Little Deuce Coupe (Al)
Don't Worry Baby (Jeff)
All Summer Long
Little Saint Nick  (if the tour runs through the holiday season)
Do You Wanna Dance?
Then I Kissed Her
There's No Other (Like My Baby)
God Only Knows
Our Prayer
Surf's Up (Brian & Jeff)
Heroes And Villains (single version)
Darlin'
Wild Honey
Little Bird
Do It Again
Add Some Music To Your Day
Forever (Dave)
'Til I Die
Marcella
Hold On Dear Brother (or Funky Pretty)
California
Rock and Roll Music
Susie Cincinnati
Honkin' Down The Highway
Come Go With Me   ("Give it up for the GREAT Alan Jardine!")
Good Timin'
School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)
Getcha Back
California Dreamin'
Isn't It Time (with Dave on Mike's part and Jeff on Bruce's)
From There To Back Again

Brian asks the audience if they liked that.

Wouldn't It Be Nice
Surfin' USA
Good Vibrations

I Get Around
Help Me Rhonda
Barbara Ann
Fun, Fun, Fun

...Or something like that. 

I think it would be a lot of fun and something interesting the press could latch onto and promote.

[baseball95]

This I kinda a side note but I recall Al saying several times he refuses to do Susie Cincinnati, does anybody know why?

[Andrew G. Doe]

He's a non-smoker.

[drbeachboy]

He's a non-smoker.

Isn't it already an anti-smoking song? "... You know she stopped and she lit it and everybody in the back seat suffocated." I cant see where that promotes smoking in a positive way. Just saying...

[doc smiley]

I'm going to represent the Elephant in the room by saying this.. but


you wonder why Al isn't doing more leads?  Could it be that Al has a lot of trouble remembering lyrics these days... I've seen a could of quotes and reviews that make it sound that Al's memory (at 70+ years) just isn't what it once was...
This would explain the small number of leads he's doing...

[Nicko1234]

I'm going to represent the Elephant in the room by saying this.. but


you wonder why Al isn't doing more leads?  Could it be that Al has a lot of trouble remembering lyrics these days... I've seen a could of quotes and reviews that make it sound that Al's memory (at 70+ years) just isn't what it once was...
This would explain the small number of leads he's doing...

If that were the case then I'm sure they could use an autocue as they have at times with Brian.

[Pacific Coast]

The Little Girl I Once Knew
Good to My Baby
Kiss Me Baby
She Knows Me Too Well
In The Back of My Mind
You're So Good to Me
Wouldn't It Be Nice
You Still Believe In Me
That's Not Me
I'm Waiting For the Day
Wild Honey
Aren't You Glad
Time to Get Alone
This Whole World
All I Wanna Do
Our Sweet Love
You Need A Mess of Help to Stand Alone
Let us Go On This Way
The Night Was So Young
Marcella
Wonderful
Cabinessence
Surf's Up
Isn't It Time
Nothing But Love
Good Kind of Love
Goin' Home


Encore:
The Girls on the Beach
Surf City

[Jonathan Blum]

you wonder why Al isn't doing more leads?

Because it's a Brian Wilson show with special guests, not a tour by The Ex-Beach-Boys?

Cheers,
Jon Blum

[Eric Aniversario]

I'm going to represent the Elephant in the room by saying this.. but


you wonder why Al isn't doing more leads?  Could it be that Al has a lot of trouble remembering lyrics these days... I've seen a could of quotes and reviews that make it sound that Al's memory (at 70+ years) just isn't what it once was...
This would explain the small number of leads he's doing...

I say this with utmost respect to Al...he is by far my favorite vocalist of the remaining beach boys. But he has been forgetting lyrics since the 60s...I don't think it has anything to do with his memory going, it's just not a strength of his. I think that Jon is on point when he says that it's because it's z Brian Wilson tour, and I'll also add that it's a co-headlining tour with Jeff beck. Al and Dave get second billing here unfortunately, and their leads are limited due to just having one full set.

[Gabo]

This I kinda a side note but I recall Al saying several times he refuses to do Susie Cincinnati, does anybody know why?

Thank god, it's a terrible song...

[Wirestone]

I'm going to represent the Elephant in the room by saying this.. but


you wonder why Al isn't doing more leads?  Could it be that Al has a lot of trouble remembering lyrics these days... I've seen a could of quotes and reviews that make it sound that Al's memory (at 70+ years) just isn't what it once was...
This would explain the small number of leads he's doing...

If that were the case then I'm sure they could use an autocue as they have at times with Brian.

At times? Try every solo show the man has done since 1999. With the exception of one or two where the prompter broke. (Of course, it turns out he could remember them perfectly fine on those occasions ...)

[Jim V.]

He's a non-smoker.

Isn't it already an anti-smoking song? "... You know she stopped and she lit it and everybody in the back seat suffocated." I cant see where that promotes smoking in a positive way. Just saying...

I think Andrew was attempting a dirty joke. "Ya know, why didn't Al do Susie Cincinnati?"



....get it?

[drbeachboy]

He's a non-smoker.

Isn't it already an anti-smoking song? "... You know she stopped and she lit it and everybody in the back seat suffocated." I cant see where that promotes smoking in a positive way. Just saying...

I think Andrew was attempting a dirty joke. "Ya know, why didn't Al do Susie Cincinnati?"



....get it?

Got it! But she's the city's number one sinner. Ya gotta do that!

[Phoenix]

He's a non-smoker.

Isn't it already an anti-smoking song? "... You know she stopped and she lit it and everybody in the back seat suffocated." I cant see where that promotes smoking in a positive way. Just saying...

I think Andrew was attempting a dirty joke. "Ya know, why didn't Al do Susie Cincinnati?"



....get it?

Got it! But she's the city's number one sinner. Ya gotta do that!

Just as long as you get your shot afterward.

[The Shift]

I'm going to represent the Elephant in the room by saying this.. but


you wonder why Al isn't doing more leads?  Could it be that Al has a lot of trouble remembering lyrics these days... I've seen a could of quotes and reviews that make it sound that Al's memory (at 70+ years) just isn't what it once was...
This would explain the small number of leads he's doing...

I say this with utmost respect to Al...he is by far my favorite vocalist of the remaining beach boys. But he has been forgetting lyrics since the 60s...I don't think it has anything to do with his memory going, it's just not a strength of his. I think that Jon is on point when he says that it's because it's z Brian Wilson tour, and I'll also add that it's a co-headlining tour with Jeff beck. Al and Dave get second billing here unfortunately, and their leads are limited due to just having one full set.

Spot on. All's forgotten lyrics on stage and in the studios since at least 1966. It's part of the charm! I hope he gets to forget the odd opening line in the UK soon…

[Micha]

This I kinda a side note but I recall Al saying several times he refuses to do Susie Cincinnati, does anybody know why?

Thank god, it's a terrible song...

It's a fantastic song! Al's best ever, with Brian on bass on the studio version.

Does Al really refuse to play SC? Why? Source?

[Nicko1234]

At times? Try every solo show the man has done since 1999. With the exception of one or two where the prompter broke. (Of course, it turns out he could remember them perfectly fine on those occasions ...)

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