“Barbara Ann” at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction

[Rocky Raccoon]

If any of you have been following the official YouTube page for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they’ve lately been putting up a ton of cool and sometimes rare performance clips. And they just put up one of The Beach Boys I’d never seen before. Pretty sloppy and not the best audio quality but still fun to see, especially with all the talent on stage. Almost removes the bad taste left from Mike’s acceptance speech. https://youtu.be/OEAZZ0jrV8w

[Rocker]

Yeah, you wonder why they did THAT song and not one of their own. Ok, after Mike's speech no one was probably into "Fun, fun, fun", but why not "I get around" or something like that.


Anyway, a while ago I made a screenshot of probably this performance (by another youtube user, probably it was a TV report, I don't remember), because you have so much legend and talent in that one shot:




Bruce Springsteen, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, John Fogerty, Paul Shaffer and Mick Jagger

[CenturyDeprived]

That was interesting to watch, yes a trainwreck from a sloppiness perspective but interesting to see all those people onstage together.

It just dawned on me, that this infamous Mike speech happened several months *before* Kokomo. Kokomo hitting #1 is often used as a benchmark for when the ego stuff really took off to the next level. I hesitate to think what Mike's speech would have resembled if the induction had happened after Kokomo hit.

[roffels]

Wait, did Mick Jagger get on stage? Guess he's not so chickenshit after all.

[Rocky Raccoon]

From what I understand, these sort of performances in the early days of the Hall were pretty unrehearsed and spontaneous so I think they just started playing something simple that everyone could follow along with.  It wasn't the slick HBO production it is nowadays.

[All Summer Long]

Is this probably the last time (and maybe the first since 1971-ish) that Carl played lead guitar on Barbara Ann (since Ed Carter, Blondie, Jeff Foskett, etc aren’t there)?

[Lonely Summer]

From what I understand, these sort of performances in the early days of the Hall were pretty unrehearsed and spontaneous so I think they just started playing something simple that everyone could follow along with.  It wasn't the slick HBO production it is nowadays.

I liked it better this way. Now days, it's like they get inducted, then they're expected to show WHY they were inducted.
but the less said about that sorry institution, the better.