What is your favorite Beach Boy concert that you have heard?

[junkbondtrader]

What is everyones favorite BB concert? It could be your favorite because of setlist or playing or both.

[summerinparadise.flac]

the 1993 disney concert.

[Fun Is In]

The first one I ever attended, which was also the first rock concert I went to.
Great experience.

That'd be this one

Dec 13 1974 - Memorial Coliseum, Portland OR* [w/Honk]

(w/ thanks to AGD)

[Emdeeh]

Heard and experienced live in person:

March 30, 1972, Alexander Memorial Coliseum, Georgia Tech U., Atlanta, GA -- touring behind Surf's Up

September 2, 1978, The Omni, Atlanta, GA -- six Beach Boys, plus Jan & Dean

November 19, 1993, Centre Stage Theatre, Atlanta, GA -- unplugged box set show in an intimate setting

[rogerlancelot]

Here are a few worth seeking out:

November 13, 1971: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
December 3, 1971: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA
1972/03/16 NYSU Albany, NY
1972/11/23 Carnegie Hall, NYC
1974 Nassau, Orlando & Tampa
Anything from 1973

Enjoy searching!

[MBE]

I like all of what I have heard from 63-73 and most from 74-76. I also did the 1993 fall shows a lot.

[astroray]

Im sticking to Emdeeh for the most part ,I was there at all of em!

[summerinparadise.flac]

the 1993 disney concert.

Err..Paramount..

[oldsurferdude]

Without a doubt-Carnegie Hall-

[Jay]

Nassau and Tampa from 1974, Carnegie Hall 1972, Hartford 1973, the show that was part of the It's Ok program(I can't for the life of me remember what it was...anybody?) Philly 1980.

[PS]

In person, has to be September 24, 1971, Carnegie Hall, 11:00 p.m. show, sitting right in front of Carl as he did Surf's Up at the front lip of the stage. My first of some two dozen BB shows, and the most unforgettable because of the excitement in the air from recently released Surf's Up lp (and therefore some SMiLE re-buzzing). I still have the Carnegie Program from that show. It's About Time rocked the rafters:

1. GOOD VIBRATIONS
2. TAKE A LOAD OFF YOUR FEET
3. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER
4. WOULDN'T IT BE NICE
5. DARLIN'
6. STUDENT DEMONSTRATION TIME
7. COOL COOL WATER
8. LONG PROMISED ROAD
9. GOD ONLY KNOWS
10. SLOOP JOHN B.
11. IT'S ABOUT TIME
12. MIKE'S TM POEM
13. FEEL FLOWS
14. DISNEY GIRLS
15. LOOKIN' AT TOMORROW
16. CAROLINE, NO
17. BARBARA
18. SURF'S UP
19. HEROES AND VILLAINS

On tape, the Paramount rehearsals and performance.

[hypehat]

I HATE the Paramount performance - i dl'ed it thinking that it was going to be a classy, respectful, well performed show and it's just chintzy, horrific synths with the small blessing of Carl still being alive (although his voice isn't great) and the acoustic bit. Oh, and it's a soundboard.

Best - the '72 Carnegie Hall show. Dennis' vocals on GOK are wonderful. Only problem is the constant tuning and snare-drum changing.... And that it's not a full gig. Hopefully they release it someday, they found the tapes recently didn't they?

[Alex]

The 1978 Australian tour!!! 

[Ian]

Personally- I love the tapes from Chicago-March 1965. Brian joined them and was in excellent form. The version of "Don't Worry Baby" from this show-absolutely destroys that sorry,out of tune, outtake (from Aug 1964) released as a bonus on the Concert LP CD.  The band had great energy and just played really well.   Of course I have heard that-as with all the tapes the BBs ever recorded for live release-some monkey business went on in the studio afterwards to "fix" it-but I can't tell if that is true on the tape I heard.

[junkbondtrader]

thanks for all the input!
 
are there any concerts available where they play less "surf" tunes?

i know the majority of shows have them, but i didnt know if there was rare occassions were they didn't play as many.

[the captain]

Many early '70s shows didn't have many surf songs at all, featuring set lists like the 1971 Carnegie Hall one PS posted above.

[tpesky]

What an interesting set at Carnegie,  heavy doses of Carl and Al for sure. That's my biggest complaint of 80s and 90s show, Carl and Al seemed to have less and less leads with the exception of the 93 tour.

[Mikie]

I attended pretty much all of the Beach Boys concerts in the Bay Area and Sacramento between Nov. 17, 1973 (Winterland, San Francisco CA) through the mid 1990’s. The first concert with Ricky & Blondie sticks out in my mind, but the concerts that were REALLY great were May 24, 1975 (Beachago Tour “Day on the Green”, Oakland CA) and July 2, 1976 (“Day on the Green”, Oakland CA). The ’76 concert was the first full concert that Brian attended since 1970, so it was special. To me, out of all of the Beach Boys concerts that I saw over the years, the 70’s Beach Boys concerts were definitely the best. Sure would have liked to have seen the ’71 and ’72 shows!

As far as the live recordings I've heard on tape/CD, that's hard. Again, many of the audience tapes from the 70's concerts (and the "In Concert" album) the '93 acoustic stuff (i.e. Paramount/NY/Valley Forge) in addition to a bunch of other shows that I'm probably forgetting right now.  Check Eric Anniversario's site - there's a LOT of good ones there.

[donald]

My favorite live recording is the 93 boxset tour /Paramount.   Mostly because I've heard so many poor recordings and this one is soundboard quality.

In fact, each time I listen, I can't help but wonder why it hasn't been officially released.

 Favorite shows, personally, that I've attended, would be the shows shortly  following Carl's return in the early eighties.
Performing Heaven and singing the oldies, full tilt Carl.  And I made a point of getting seats near the stage.  Priceless.