Good Timin’ w/ Dennis on lead?

[Mikie]

Scorch!!   

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Dennis told a joke during the Beach Boys concert on August 24, 1973 at Dillon Stadium in Hartford, Connecticut. Dennis was very vocal that day, standing up front on the stage, interacting a lot with the crowd and generally having a good time. Jack Reilly introduced the band at the beginning of the show.

Richard Nixon was President of the United States at the time. Henry Kissinger was the Secretary of State. Tricia Nixon was Nixon’s daughter.

Dennis: "Hey, I’m tellin’ a joke! He (Nixon) was walking on the beach by his San Clemente home and he was walking and looking down at the sand going, “Ah poo, what next?" Ya know, and he looks and it said in the sand…..somebody urinated in the sand and it said, “Richard Nixon is a Prick”. And he was outraged; he called all his aids, called the FBI, the CIA, he called everybody in. He said, “I want a urine analysis.” (Dennis interrupts the joke with “Are you listening?”, and the crowd responded with, “Yeeeeeeeees!”). Awright. And I want a handwriting analysis within two days! So….two days later his big aide comes up and he says, “Sir, I have some very bad news to tell you." He said, “The urine analysis….it’s.…well.…it’s Dr. Kissinger’s urine. But the bad thing is…..it’s in Tricia’s handwriting”.

Huh huh huh huh huh.       Huh.

So, OK. There's the urine in the sand, but what does that have to do with handwriting? 

Think long and hard.




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Pardon the pun.

[Jay]

I like Mike's deadpan "That joke left a bad taste in my mouth". 

[Mike's Beard]

Dennis told a joke during the Beach Boys concert on August 24, 1973 at Dillon Stadium in Hartford, Connecticut. Dennis was very vocal that day, standing up front on the stage, interacting a lot with the crowd and generally having a good time. Jack Reilly introduced the band at the beginning of the show.

Richard Nixon was President of the United States at the time. Henry Kissinger was the Secretary of State. Tricia Nixon was Nixon’s daughter.

Dennis: "Hey, I’m tellin’ a joke! He (Nixon) was walking on the beach by his San Clemente home and he was walking and looking down at the sand going, “Ah poo, what next?" Ya know, and he looks and it said in the sand…..somebody urinated in the sand and it said, “Richard Nixon is a Prick”. And he was outraged; he called all his aids, called the FBI, the CIA, he called everybody in. He said, “I want a urine analysis.” (Dennis interrupts the joke with “Are you listening?”, and the crowd responded with, “Yeeeeeeeees!”). Awright. And I want a handwriting analysis within two days! So….two days later his big aide comes up and he says, “Sir, I have some very bad news to tell you." He said, “The urine analysis….it’s.…well.…it’s Dr. Kissinger’s urine. But the bad thing is…..it’s in Tricia’s handwriting”.

Huh huh huh huh huh.       Huh.

Zing! 

[TdHabib]

It's also the same night where people were smoking...er...things and Dennis shouts out "Anything but the head of Ed Carter!"

[Ed Roach]

It's also the same night where people were smoking...er...things and Dennis shouts out "Anything but the head of Ed Carter!"

I thought I had a board recording of Radio City Music Hall '79 somewhere in my piles of tapes and discs...not gonna sift now. Hey Ed Roach...you were there...give us some insight.

Jon, that Dennis quote above is a perfect reason why I'm not one to ask about songs from those shows...  That week, (which turned into more like 2 weeks at The Plaza), was a total mad-hatter, down-the-rabbithole adventure in the Apple with Dennis.  Christine was along for the ride; in fact, she blew the floodgates open, and laid the city at our feet.  We had round-the-clock limos, so Dennis spent a bunch of times in Brooklyn, eating with my parents & spending time going through the room I had grown up in - it was virtually untouched, since I'd left & gotten married at 18.
I have memories of my brother, sitting at the Radio City pipe organ with Brian during rehearsals, of Dennis dedicating a show to my Mom, ( and calling her "Mom"), as my parents sat in the audience with their granddaughter Brianne...  But my memories also involve trying to keep Karen Lamm invisible on another floor at The Plaza, the fights at The Garden, with Dennis' Golden Glove champ, the early morning TV interviews Dennis so memorably did(!), and so, as far as songs, I'd love to hear the tapes, too!