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MrRobinsonsFather
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Concerts the Wilsons attended
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Thought it’d be interesting to discuss concerts Brian, Carl and Dennis attended as audience memebers. I’ll start it off, see if you guys can add to anything:
Brian
-The Four Freshmen (during 50s)
-Beatles Hollywood Bowl (64 or 65)
-Andy Williams Hollywood Bowl (during 60s ?)
-Elvis Presley (69)
-Peter Frampton (76 or 77)
-Carl Wilson (1981)
-George Michael (during 80s)
-Moody Blues (during 80s)
-Stevie Wonder (1986)
-Dylan (88)
-Fleetwood Mac the dance (1997)
-McCartney
-Rolling Stones
-The Four Feshmen (during 2000s)
-Elton John (2007 60th birthday concert, can see Brian a few times in audience)
Dennis
-Elvis Presley (69)
-Wings (think it was the rockshow 76)
-Queen (70s)
-Fleetwood Mac (70s)
-Carl Wilson (1981)
Carl
-Beatles (65 or 66)
-The Flame (69)
-Elvis Presley (69)
-Rolling stones (think it was early 70s where Carl had a complaint that it was too loud)
-Queen (70s)
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I was at a 1972 show in College Park, MD and Bruce asked the crowd if anybody was at the Moody Blues concert in Baltimore the night before. I had been at that Moody Blues show. They played the Surf's Up lp as the lead up to the Moody's appearance, so there must have been some interaction.
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Brian saw the Four Freshman a second time, later in life, at Newport Beach. He talks about both concerts in his book.
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There are pictures of Brian and Elton backstage at a George Michael concert in the late 80's.
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I believe Brian saw Chicago once or twice in '80s.
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All those BBs shows where BW watched and didn’t take the stage with them....
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Carl was with Dennis at the Queen concert. I believe it was in Mike's book. Dennis was drunk and the members of Queen didn't want to meet him. I think it was 75 or 77.
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Quote from: SMiLE Brian on October 01, 2017, 12:27:08 PM
All those BBs shows where BW watched and didn’t take the stage with them....
Good one, SB! I'm sure I was at a few of those. Reportedly, he was backstage at one of the Carnegie concerts I attended. From what I understand, they were coaxing him to walk on for a couple of songs but failed to do so. If only, huh?
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From what I've heard, the Beach Boys were invited to see one of Elvis Presley's 1969 comeback shows in Vegas and attended. So, Dennis and Carl saw him as well. Brian probably wasn't there.
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Does Mike at the Trump rally count?
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Brian was at the August 1969 Elvis show with his wife Marilyn. The guy that took them to the show was road manager jack Lloyd, who I interviewed for my book
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Quote from: B.E. on October 01, 2017, 06:12:50 AM
Brian saw the Four Freshman a second time, later in life, at Newport Beach. He talks about both concerts in his book.
Ah yes I remember, I think it was a new Four Freshmen band, none of the original members.
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Quote from: Ian on October 01, 2017, 04:26:23 PM
Brian was at the August 1969 Elvis show with his wife Marilyn. The guy that took them to the show was road manager jack Lloyd, who I interviewed for my book
Yea Lloyd mentioned he took both to the yellow submarine premiere as well.
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Good idea for a thread. I would bet between them they've seen 100's of shows, especially Dennis and prob carl. It's just too bad there isn't direct proof thats easy to find.
In Mike's book he talks about going to see Richard Pryor at the Troubadour at least a few times in the late 60s. Not sure if that counts since hes comedy not music.
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Mike attended a Barry Manilow performance in the early '80s. He went there with Marvin Gaye (p100).
Oops! I now see it's a Wilsons-only topic. I do apologize.
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Quote from: Ian on October 01, 2017, 04:26:23 PM
Brian was at the August 1969 Elvis show with his wife Marilyn. The guy that took them to the show was road manager jack Lloyd, who I interviewed for my book
Cool! I didn't know Brian was there (without the Beach Boys?). It's been said that Elvis introduced the Beach Boys but as of yet no recording surfaced. The August engagement were the very first Presley concerts since 1961 and they are probably among the finest Rock'n'Roll shows of all time. Some of the shows were recorded by RCA on multitrack for what became the live half of the double album
"From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis"
which was later separately released as "In person".
Through the years a couple of full shows were released both on the main label Sony/BMG and the Elvis collectors label "Follow that dream" and of course bootlegs with audience recordings.
All of them were dynamite. Here's but one example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChCSPY2gpo
Is the exact show known that Brian attended? And was he introduced to the audience by Elvis? Here's a
listing of all the '69 shows
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When I met Al in 2005, he mentioned he had just seen The Eagles in concert.
Al also in the last year or two posted a bunch of pics of a Moody Blues show he had attended.
Peter Frampton mentioned in a chat, when I prompted him if he had any weird Brian Wilsons stories, that Brian took Carnie and Wendy to a Frampton show circa '76 or '77 when they were kids. However, the twist in the story was that when Brian went back stage to meet Frampton, Frampton told Brian what a big fan he was, etc., and that he hoped he would enjoy the show, and Brian told him bluntly "Oh, I'm not here to see the show. I just brought my daughters to see you."
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Jeez that was a pretty intense month for Elvis.
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Quote from: Rebel on October 01, 2017, 12:56:34 PM
Carl was with Dennis at the Queen concert. I believe it was in Mike's book. Dennis was drunk and the members of Queen didn't want to meet him. I think it was 75 or 77.
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Quote from: Rocker on March 20, 2017, 01:47:04 PM
Got this from someone of another forum. Thanks to him!
I would be surprised if Brian hadn’t just, or was about to, see Chuck Berry going by this shot.
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Quote from: HeyJude on October 02, 2017, 07:06:31 AM
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Peter Frampton mentioned in a chat, when I prompted him if he had any weird Brian Wilsons stories, that Brian took Carnie and Wendy to a Frampton show circa '76 or '77 when they were kids. However, the twist in the story was that when Brian went back stage to meet Frampton, Frampton told Brian what a big fan he was, etc., and that he hoped he would enjoy the show, and Brian told him bluntly "Oh, I'm not here to see the show. I just brought my daughters to see you."
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I don't think Elvis knew they were there. Allegedly when they tried to meet Elvis afterwards they were rebuffed by his people and no meeting took place
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How about Dennis attending Carl's solo show in the early 80's! As the story goes DW had too much to drink and was a bit rowdy!
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Both Dennis and Brian were at the 1981 show
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