Brian's Fall US tour ('new' old songs)

[Jay]

Damn it, who cares about Deuce Coupe and Shut Down. I want to hear The Night Was So Young, Roller Skating Child, and Airplane. Breakaway would be nice, too.

[SurfRiderHawaii]

Damn it, who cares about Deuce Coupe and Shut Down. I want to hear The Night Was So Young, Roller Skating Child, and Airplane. Breakaway would be nice, too.

Ditto!

[Aegir]

Brian does do Breakaway sometimes. Changed the ending, though.

[Alex]

How 'bout A Day In The Life Of A Tree??!!

[Chris Brown]

How 'bout A Day In The Life Of A Tree??!!

That would be killer with Brian's current voice...and the band would make the ending sound awesome. 

[Sciencefriction]

A Day In The Life Of A Tree would be wonderful, but I'd really love to hear Oh Lord.  I love Melt Away, so I'm excited about that especially.  I hope he plays When I Grow Up.   

I just found out he's play Pittsburgh!  I'm definitely going to that gig!  Finally an act I can go see.  Thank you Brian Wilson. 

[Andrew G. Doe]

Brian does do Breakaway sometimes. Changed the ending, though.

The one time I heard it - Hampton Court, 2005 - it was a complete and utter train wreck. Just... painful.

[Aegir]

How 'bout A Day In The Life Of A Tree??!!

That would be killer with Brian's current voice...and the band would make the ending sound awesome. 

I've wanted to hear modern Brian sing this since the first time I heard it.

[Sciencefriction]

His sets are pretty big aren't they?  I hope he throws in a few suprises.

[TdHabib]

I'm really excited for the Brian solo songs that are being added to the set. The only time I saw Brian, the only "solo" song he did (besides Good Vibrations with the Asher lyrics) was Love & Mercy.

I think he did that and 'Desert Drive' when i saw him. Stuff like Walkin' The Line would work great live, i have no idea why that hasn't gone in.Same with 'Meet Me In My dreams'

He did "Let it Shine" for a while.

[shelter]

His sets are pretty big aren't they?  I hope he throws in a few suprises.

I don't expect a lot of surprises. With "Custom Machine" and the four 'new' solo tracks he already added five songs that weren't hits... And since the upcoming shows are billed as "greatest hits" shows, he can't really afford to add much more obscure material.

[ReggieDunbar]

I'm more into the deal that Brian should decide which songs he'd like to perform!
Seems like I'm one of the few in this thread who actually would be disappointed if a BB/BW gig didn't include
Fun Fun Fun!

Take care!

//Henrik

[Sciencefriction]

I wouldn't mind if all he played was songs from 15 Big Ones and Love You, seeing Brian Wilson live is more than I can ask for.  He would probably rather be at home.  Thanks Brian. 

[Alex]

I'd love to hear him do Never Learn Not to Love! Or maybe a medley of Beatrice From Baltimore/Marcella/All I Want to Do!!!

[Mr. Cohen]

Here are some different songs I'd like Brian to do:

"No-Go Showboat"
"Don't Back Down"
"Salt Lake City"
"Kiss Me, Baby"
"You're So Good To Me"
"I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" (he did it on the PS Tour, I know, but it should be his theme song)
"You Need a Mess of Help To Stand Alone"
"Little Pad"
"Be Here in the Mornin'" (why do the BBs hate pronouncing their "-ing's" so much?)
"All I Wanna Do"
"I Went to Sleep" (followed by that bit of "Brian Wilson" they used to do)
"Cool, Cool Water"
"I'll Bet He's Nice"
"Roller Skating Child"

[Eric Aniversario]

I'd really like to hear "Rio Grande" done live.

There are some songs that have been in Brian's live repertoire for over a decade that should be dropped for a while to keep things fresh.  I may be in the minority here, but I think "In My Room", "Surfer Girl", and "The Little Girl I Once Knew" deserve a break.  These are all great live, but I think they'd be much more appreciated if they were gone for a while and returned after a few years.

All that said, I am very grateful that Brian continues to tour, and will take whatever I can get!

[shelter]

I was listening to Live At The Roxy again yesterday... Now that's a great setlist...

[Outie 315]

The Brian Wilson G.H. Tour

1) Who is in the G.H. band?
2) Does the G.H. tour have a money back guarantee?

[Sam_BFC]

AGD mentioned 'Breakaway' being painful when he saw it at Hampton (which I gather was not a great show overall) though I saw it done rather well at the Nov 06 Pet Sounds gig if I recall right.

And somebody mentioned 'Salt Lake City', welll that was a personal highlight for me where it really rocked at the RFH TLOS shows.

[PongHit]

Here are some different songs I'd like Brian to do:
"Don't Back Down"
"Salt Lake City"
"Kiss Me, Baby"
"I Just Wasn't Made For These Times"

I've seen them do all of the above, I believe.

[PongHit]

I think "In My Room", "Surfer Girl", and "The Little Girl I Once Knew" deserve a break.  These are all great live, but I think they'd be much more appreciated if they were gone for a while and returned after a few years.

I don't think you'll ever see a BW concert without "Surfer Girl" & "In My Room" in the set-list.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Brian does do Breakaway sometimes. Changed the ending, though.

The one time I heard it - Hampton Court, 2005 - it was a complete and utter train wreck. Just... painful.

I saw them play it three times during the Smile tour of '05...it was a highlight of the show for me. Brian did stretch his voice beyond the breaking point a couple of times during the song, though.....

I'd be more jazzed about more focus on Summer Days Summer Nights stuff. I loved hearing Girl Don't Tell Me and Salt Lake City last year. Girl From New York City would rock, I don't know why they dont' go for it.

[Pretty Funky]

I hope they play small venues like Lupo's  and it's  G..H . all the way!

Would you settle for big venues and small a small crowd? If so , you may be in luck!

No new product. To many tours. No interest I'm afraid.

[matt-zeus]

Shouldn't he do all solo work as a 'Greatest hits'? personally i'd love that, hearing some of the stuff off BW88 performed by a proper live band would be staggering.

[the captain]

Shouldn't he do all solo work as a 'Greatest hits'? personally i'd love that, hearing some of the stuff off BW88 performed by a proper live band would be staggering.

I agree: I'd be very interested to see such a setlist, with my thoughts as I (very occasionally) listen to BW88, Imagination or GIOMH* tending toward the "I wish the whole band had performed and sung this." No, the material isn't as consistently great as his 25 years or so of previous material. But there is certainly a very solid concert's worth. And I think it would be invigorating to those tunes to be heard in the context of live musicians and singers, stripped of the silliness of the 80s, of slippery ProWrestlerduction (tm) and wall o' bad Brians.

I'd be interested in a set including songs like:

Your Imagination
Good Kind of Love
She Says That She Loves Me
How Could We Still Be Dancing?
Morning Beat
Desert Drive
Melt Away
GIOMH
Midnight's Another Day
Walkin The Line
Goin Home
Where Has Love Been?
There's So Many
Cry
Oxygen to the Brain
Live Let Live
City Blues
Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight
Lay Down Burden
Rio Grande
Love and Mercy

And if he really wanted to make it even more interesting for hardcore fans, why not toss in some of the yet-unreleased material from Sweet Insanity, the Paley sessions or both?

OK, this wouldn't exactly draw wide crowds, mostly fanatics. But smaller theaters and higher ticket prices ... serious fans would pay quite a lot for that kind of show, don't you think? Plus, the obviously resulting live album (doesn't he do that every tour now?...) could well replace the first few solo albums for me.


*I know GIOMH was the current band, more or less. But not vocally. I've heard Desert Drive, Soul Searchin and the title track live, and they were really enjoyable.