The Beach Boys: 25 Years Together - A Celebration In Waikiki

[Wirestone]

The track was prerecorded, but Brian himself seemed to be singing at least bits of that live. Perhaps I wasn't watching closely enough.

[the captain]

I'm with Andrew -- no question. This is primarily lip synched. That's a lot of Brian-voices I'm hearing on different parts. There might be some live vox in the mix, but not enough to matter. And I don't think he looks or sounds all that great...his intro about Dennis reminded me more of an elementary school play than anything else.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

No joke. It was obvious he was reading from a script; it sounded like he was in a deep hypnotic trance or something. And jeez...did it HAVE to rhyme? It sounded liked doped up Seuss.

[SurferGirl7]

Shame David Leaf wrote all the lines for it   

[Jason]

They oughta call him David Leech.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Yeah, Brian definitely did look a little disturbed during that broadcast. Yet, because he looked so good physically - the cool hair, somewhat flat stomach, STANDING at a piano (probably inaudible), after watching that show, I was optimistic about the future.

[Aegir]

That was just weird.

Though I have to say, that version sounds a whole lot better than the Dylan duet version.

[I. Spaceman]

 

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

Per The Wilson Project, the original background voices were Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff, Tom Kelly and Gary Usher.  Just before the concert, Usher added the voices of Glen Campbell, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Brian Wilson and Jeff Foskett.  Al and Carl refused to be recorded.

I wonder if Gary Usher will get songwriting credit when the song is released on the Hallmark CD.

[Mitchell]

No joke. It was obvious he was reading from a script; it sounded like he was in a deep hypnotic trance or something. And jeez...did it HAVE to rhyme? It sounded liked doped up Seuss.

And then Carl comes in RIGHT after... was that just bad editing?

[Aegir]

Yeah.. if you listen to the audience cheering there's a skip.

And geeze, did they expect anyone to believe they were playing it live? Like eight people a foot apart each sharing one microphone.

[punkinhead]

watchin the clip of Spirit of rock and Roll and noticing brian messing some lyrics up....he says something about what i hear as" you know just harry and elvis?"" i thought it was buddy and elvis

[Rocker]

watchin the clip of Spirit of rock and Roll and noticing brian messing some lyrics up....he says something about what i hear as" you know just harry and elvis?"" i thought it was buddy and elvis

Actually "chuck, buddy and elvis" if I'm correct

[Andrew G. Doe]

watchin the clip of Spirit of rock and Roll and noticing brian messing some lyrics up....he says something about what i hear as" you know just harry and elvis?"" i thought it was buddy and elvis

Actually "chuck, buddy and elvis" if I'm correct

There are two recorded versions of that bit of the lyric -

"Chuck, Buddy & Elvis"...

and

"Chuck Berry & Elvis".

[Lorenschwartz]

WERE THE bb'S CAIPTOLIZING ON THE MONKEES RESURGENCE ALSO? CIRCA 86-88?

I was.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Pretty silly, but since we don't have much of the BBs with Brian in the 80's, it's worth having. Brian looks great, but you can't judge a book by the cover. His mouthing of Mikes lines was memorable. Ray Charles did a nice Sailor, but the other guests weren't that great.

Eh.

[Alex]

Carl singing Heaven was the only good part of the entire show.

[sunflower]

I bought this dvd a while back but haven´t watched it yet.
I guess now would be a good time 

[Peadar 'Big Dinner' O'Driscoll]

That was depressing.........must wipe from memory

[Sheriff John Stone]

While there were plenty of cringe-worthy moments, especially surrounding Brian, I was impressed by the quality of the vocals by the guests; they didn't just dial it in. I liked Ray Charles, the Everly Brothers, and Glen Campbell's "In Cars". I also enjoyed that little duet with Gloria Loring and Carl Wilson. But the most impressive performance was by Cory Wells and Danny Hutton; they exhibited some fine voices on "Darlin'".

While "The Spirit Of Rock & Roll" was partially lipsynched and Brian did look a little awkward, that might be my favorite version of the song. I'm not a musician so I don't know the term to describe what I mean, but, near the end of the song, Brian raises his vocal/voice up a notch (a key?); it really took the song to another dimension. I wish he would've done that on the recorded version(s).

I re-read this thread and my previous post (from 2006!), but I'll restate my opinion. I was optimistic after watching that TV show. Brian was looking better anyway, and I thought they would move forward as a group, with Brian contributing good, new rock and roll music a la "The Spirit Of Rock & Roll". Who knew what would happen would happen....

[the captain]

Holy sh*t, that was terrible.

And SJS, I'd say you've got your wish as to that version of Spirit of Rock n Roll being recorded: my guess would be that other than Brian's not very good doubling of his own pre-recorded lead vocal, about 95% of what we heard was pre-recorded in that song.

[Peadar 'Big Dinner' O'Driscoll]

After a restless night of beach boys scripted stage banter induced dreams, I have decided that the first minute and a half of Ray Charles doing sail on sailor was...........OK.

[JB Wilojarston]

After a restless night of beach boys scripted stage banter induced dreams, I have decided that the first minute and a half of Ray Charles doing sail on sailor was...........OK.

Ray looks like he thinks that the song is beneath him.

[MBE]

Boy this was when it really tipped over into complete self parody. Things had been heading that way for a long time, but this was the last straw. I am surprised they ever lived this era down. Thank goodness they did.

[the captain]

After a restless night of beach boys scripted stage banter induced dreams, I have decided that the first minute and a half of Ray Charles doing sail on sailor was...........OK.

Ray looks like he thinks that the song is beneath him.

Well, he's certainly not beneath it.