Brian Wilson Taping Soundstage Special With Special Guests

[CenturyDeprived]

For those searching your local listings, keep in mind that different PBS stations air these types of things on different dates at different times. An “air date” usually gives a good frame of reference for the week or weekend that it will air in most markets. But some stations will sometimes take several extra weeks to air something like this (or will re-air it again within a few weeks). Folks following the “Doin’ It Again” PBS airing from back in 2012 will probably remember that different areas/stations got different air dates in some cases.

My recollection is that my local stations usually premiere episodes of things like “Soundstage” and “Austin City Limits” on weekends, so I’m not sure April 9th (a Thursday) will be the date here.

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[John Manning]

This is going to air April 9th, per the ESQ facebook page.

… and from Blondie's FB page:

Yesterday at 00:34 · :
We're hearing that the Brian Wilson PBS Soundstage show that was filmed in Las Vegas in December, with Blondie Chaplin as a guest, will air April 9th.

[GoodVibrations33]

Here's a couple videos:

Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GGmDPtrpWE (Includes clips of: Our Prayer, Saturday Night, Runaway Dancer, Half Moon Bay, On The Island (in studio), Sail Away, Wild Honey, Sloop John B., Hold On Dear Brother, and Good Vibrations)

The Right Time:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ZOilWHcYI

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

Jesus christ Carry me home...

[Rocky Raccoon]

Here's a couple videos:

Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GGmDPtrpWE (Includes clips of: Our Prayer, Saturday Night, Runaway Dancer, Half Moon Bay, On The Island (in studio), Sail Away, Wild Honey, Sloop John B., Hold On Dear Brother, and Good Vibrations)

The Right Time:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ZOilWHcYI

Here's Runaway Dancer too!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FgQQKnT0hv4

I'm so excited for this!

[Pretty Funky]

Looks like a pretty good show. 'Sloop' seems to be a bit processed for my liking though.

[the professor]

well, I suppose that I deceived myself in thinking that Dave would be there playing the parts he recorded in the studio, but unfortunately I do not see Dave playing on this video, so I remain deeply confused about why he is not there on a song that is billed as featuring him.

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Here's a couple videos:

Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GGmDPtrpWE (Includes clips of: Our Prayer, Saturday Night, Runaway Dancer, Half Moon Bay, On The Island (in studio), Sail Away, Wild Honey, Sloop John B., Hold On Dear Brother, and Good Vibrations)

The Right Time:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ZOilWHcYI
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[Mendota Heights]

These live recordings sound great. Can't wait for the official release.

[stack-o-tracks]

well, I suppose that I deceived myself in thinking that Dave would be there playing the parts he recorded in the studio, but unfortunately I do not see Dave playing on this video, so I remain deeply confused about why he is not there on a song that is billed as featuring him.

Isn't it obvious? David Marks is on Team Mike Love now.... He's going to be touring with MIKE LOVE AND HIS BEECHWOOD BOYS in the near future, not BRIAN WILSON AND HIS BAND OF MORE ACTUAL BEACH BOYS.... He's got the matching baseball cap and everything.... He's turned to the dark side, "once you go black", etc. Goodbye, David Mark, enjoy your days with the traveling jukebox.




Nah, but for real, if Ricky freakin' Fataar who isn't even on the album is at this show but David Marks who IS playing on the album isn't there, that's definitely a whatthefuck moment. But outside of us weird ass freaks who actually care who's playing with Brian Wilson..... Nobody is going to give a damn that David Marks isn't at this Soundstage or whatever it's called taping.... Sad, but true! Let's all get really uppity about it, because nobody else aside from the members of the SmileySmile.net message board are going to!!!



Aside from that, I got the goosebumps during the last 1/3rd of that trailer or so, and they didn't go away until after the whole thing finished. There better be a DVD of this show, because it was obviously a very special night, with great guests and great performances. And they would rather take my money than have me download it illegally. Which I WILL be doing, unless they offer me the opportunity to give them money for it.  


And just so they know, Brian Wilson's people who read this board, if Brian Wilson's people who read this board don't make him do another "fuckyou, Mike Love, look at all these people who will work with Brian Wilson on his album but aren't working with Mike Love as he tours the county fair and casino circuit" album, it's going to be super disappointing. Blondie Chaplin is an ASSET. Ricky Fataar is an ASSET. Al and Matt Jardine are ASSETS. The clips of this "let's all pretend it's actually recorded live" stuff sound killer, and if you don't get 'em to play on BW2017, you'll be doing a disservice to the people who have stood in wait for the next chords, melodies, & harmonies from BDUB.



Any Brian Wilson solo album that's just a Brian Wilson solo album after this one isn't going to be able to hold a candle to what's about to be unleashed on the world.


Just keep that in mind, Brian Wilson's people who read this board.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Let's all get really uppity about it, because nobody else aside from the members of the SmileySmile.net message board are going to!!!

Entirely, if sadly, true. 

[stack-o-tracks]

Let's all get really uppity about it, because nobody else aside from the members of the SmileySmile.net message board are going to!!!

Entirely, if sadly, true. 

No sadly, this place is an outlet, a form of self-help, that allows us neurotics to feel even just a modicum of what the outsiders call "normalcy". 

[Custom Machine]

What a day!  First blasting out Runaway Dancer and The Right Time on the car stereo on the way too and from work, then to come home and catch these videos of Brian Wilson and Friends live at the Venetian in Las Vegas -- this is all just stunningly great stuff!

[Micha]

Here's a couple videos:

Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GGmDPtrpWE (Includes clips of: Our Prayer, Saturday Night, Runaway Dancer, Half Moon Bay, On The Island (in studio), Sail Away, Wild Honey, Sloop John B., Hold On Dear Brother, and Good Vibrations)

The Right Time:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ZOilWHcYI

Al, if you don't know the chords, you can put away your guitar! Hearing this again now, I think The Right Time will not be my favorite track on NPP...

Still, my favorite record store reopens on Saturday after renovation and enlargement (!), so that's going to be when I preorder NPP!

Creepy: Just when I had written that, I received a mail from Amazon in which they advertise all their Brian Wilson CDs... they didn't read I was planning to go to a real record store, did they? DID THEY??!?

[Nicko1234]

Al does a good job with the vocals...considering he looks like he had never seen the lyrics before. 

[Mendota Heights]

Al does a good job with the vocals...considering he looks like he had never seen the lyrics before. 

Al came up with the lyrics on the fly right there on that stage.

[phirnis]

Trailer really reminds me of Stars & Stripes.

[HeyJude]

Trailer really reminds me of Stars & Stripes.

In what way, other than having guest stars? Most of the guest starts were singing new music, not BB covers; other than “Hold on Dear Brother”, which regardless of who is singing it, is about a million times more inspired of a song choice and performance than hearing Toby Keith sing “Be True to Your School.”

But maybe you dig “Stars and Stripes”, so maybe the comparison is favorable.

Just seeing the two full songs and the extended “trailer” with many clips, this show and presentation looks and sounds a million miles ahead of anything to do with the “Stars and Stripes” project, even if one is inclined to not be into any of the guests. Frankly, I’d rather hear even a potentially kind of douchey guy sing “Hold on Dear Brother” with Blondie Chaplin than Brian and Al run through “Barbara Ann” (which, for all I know, is *also* on the TV special!). 

[HeyJude]

The PBS Soundstage thing is looking (and sounding) much better than I had anticipated. Al sounds great. Cool to see Matt and Billy and Ike on stage. Cool to hear multiple tracks with Blondie. And, while I doubt we’ll get it on tour, I have no qualms saying that Ike and Matt singing easily trumps Foskett even in his heyday, and I say that having nothing to do with Foskett’s new band choice. I’ve been saying since 1999 that I thought Matt would work well with Brian’s band. Ike also sounds good (it sounds like we get to hear them both doing falsetto over the course of those clips), and a bit more Brian-esque (as Matt is) compared to Foskett.

If they can somehow afford both Ike and Matt on the upcoming tour, please do it!

Al sounds quite good on “The Right Time.” Yes, he’s clearly reading off the lyrics. I don’t mind. The guy still messes up “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” nearly fifty years later. It’s a new song that he probably hadn’t touched on since cutting the vocal in the studio in, for all we know, 2013.

[Amy B.]

The Soundstage show looks great, and Brian looks very comfortable on stage.
 The only quibble I have is that the vocals sound way too perfect, to the point where I was wondering how much was actually live. I guess they fixed too much in post-production for my taste. Our modern age. But I will definitely be watching.

[HeyJude]

The Soundstage show looks great, and Brian looks very comfortable on stage.
 The only quibble I have is that the vocals sound way too perfect, to the point where I was wondering how much was actually live. I guess they fixed too much in post-production for my taste. Our modern age. But I will definitely be watching.

Brian often sounds kind of flown-in or processed on the live video stuff. Most of the footage on YouTube sounds pretty normal to me, though. Al sounds great, not processed, and it looks and sounds genuinely live. All of the stuff, including the guest spots, has pretty beefy backing vocals anyway.

Al sounds really good on “The Right Time” here, less processed (whatever the processing/double tracking/mixing heard on the studio version). The guy is freaking barreling towards 73 and he still sounds like he did 30 or 40 years ago. Any of the BB camps that don’t do whatever it takes to add him on are crazy.   

[Rocker]

Blondie looks like Darian's stoned uncle.... love it!  So good to see Blondie, Ricky, Matt and Billy Hinsche and of course Al with Brian

[ontor pertawst]

I need to see the whole special, but other than "On the Island," it sounds like the Vegas show and rehearsals to me, not overly processed and ridiculous like the C50 live releases. Glad there aren't too many stupid audience shots either... and gee, look at all that gray hair. Remember when some people were worried about evil forces filling the place with hep young things?

[guitarfool2002]

I need to see the whole special, but other than "On the Island," it sounds like the Vegas show and rehearsals to me, not overly processed and ridiculous like the C50 live releases. Glad there aren't too many stupid audience shots either... and gee, look at all that gray hair. Remember when some people were worried about evil forces filling the place with hep young things?

Don't expect any of those making those claims before a single note was played on the stage or a single frame of the video recorded to come back and say "man, I was wrong, my bad...". Or maybe they will! 

[the professor]

I am enjoying everything and I agree with all of the positive comments here. I will be wanting to watch this over and over again in its entirety for all the good reasons given here and simply because it's so exuberant and musically excellent. concerning Dave, his story has always been of the Lost beach boy, and to see that YouTube video and this performance without him even though we know he is on the record and is billed as a featured artist, is just another crazy chapter in his unfortunate invisibility. I wish that Brian and whatever powers that be had made a special effort to make sure he was present as an artist on the two songs that bill him as such on the upcoming album. also because this looks so great, imagine that Mike and Dave and Bruce were there, with this band, and with Matt singing, and with this vibe and production. It would be one of the best products one could have hoped for from the Beach Boys. Maybe there is still time for them to do it but not today.

[guitarfool2002]

One aspect of the show that was special for me to see was Brian, Al, Blondie, Ricky, and Billy lined up across the front of the stage playing music together. A lot of fans have a special affinity for that early 70's live lineup that could play the heck out of a live show, and bringing those musicians back together in 2014 was a pretty special thing. Having Blondie there especially, man the guy just brings it every time he plays live and it's wonderful to see him there, and with Ricky on drums...that's the good stuff.