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Post by OldFred on Aug 10, 2013 9:06:28 GMT -5
Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck are touring together with Al Jardine and David Marks as part of the package. I already got my tickets to see them at Westbury on October 12th, the day after my birthday. Check Ticketmaster and Live Nation for dates and tickets in your area. Take that, Mike Love!
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Post by sayne on Sept 11, 2013 21:33:33 GMT -5
Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck are touring together with Al Jardine and David Marks as part of the package. I already got my tickets to see them at Westbury on October 12th, the day after my birthday. Check Ticketmaster and Live Nation for dates and tickets in your area. Take that, Mike Love! Glad I saw your post. Got mine right away for the Greek Theater in LA.
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Post by mikev on Sept 12, 2013 7:34:21 GMT -5
Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck are touring together with Al Jardine and David Marks as part of the package. I already got my tickets to see them at Westbury on October 12th, the day after my birthday. Check Ticketmaster and Live Nation for dates and tickets in your area. Take that, Mike Love! Glad I saw your post. Got mine right away for the Greek Theater in LA. Wilson and Jardine got Jeff Beck. Mike Love would be lucky to get Jeff Goldblum ("must go faster....")
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Post by OldFred on Oct 14, 2013 9:38:59 GMT -5
Saw Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck at Westbury on October 12. The show began with Brian Wilson and his band which included Al Jardine and David Marks, so we had three of the five surviving Beach Boys, and with Brian's band, this was more of a real Beach Boys concert than anything Mike Love and Bruce Johnston could possibly present. Brian and company did all the great Beach Boys classics, with Al and David handling some of the lead vocals and Jeff Foskett from Brian's band taking over the high falsettos Brian unfortunately can't do anymore. Brian sat at a white grand piano for most of his set and sang lead on songs like 'God Only Knows', allowing Al, David and Foskett take most of the load off his shoulders, which I think Brian preferred. The vocal harmonies and musicianship from the band brought the Beach Boys classics to life. Brian finished his set with 'Good Vibrations' then after an intermission the stage was set for Jeff Beck. I'll admit that I'm not that familiar with most of Beck's material, and he's a virtuoso guitarist so he doesn't need to sing, but I was very impressed by his amazing guitar skills. His band which included a violinist were incredible, making Beck's set a memorable musical experience. He also did a nice version of the Beatles 'A Day In The Life' on just his guitar which blew the audience away. Then Jeff brought Brian Wilson and the rest of his band back on stage and they performed 'Surf's Up' from 'Smile' with Beck doing the vocal parts just on his guitar while Brian and the rest of the band just did the background harmonies and it was amazing. Jeff Beck also did his tribute to Les Paul, recreating on his guitar the classic Les Paul sound. And Jeff Beck playing 'Danny Boy' on guitar was very emotional. The entire show was fantastic and it was wonderful to enjoy an evening with these two great musical legends.
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Post by markc on Oct 18, 2013 9:40:41 GMT -5
They did a great performance of Danny Boy on Fallon last week.
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Post by sayne on Oct 19, 2013 15:36:54 GMT -5
Saw Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck at Westbury on October 12. The show began with Brian Wilson and his band which included Al Jardine and David Marks, so we had three of the five surviving Beach Boys, and with Brian's band, this was more of a real Beach Boys concert than anything Mike Love and Bruce Johnston could possibly present. Brian and company did all the great Beach Boys classics, with Al and David handling some of the lead vocals and Jeff Foskett from Brian's band taking over the high falsettos Brian unfortunately can't do anymore. Brian sat at a white grand piano for most of his set and sang lead on songs like 'God Only Knows', allowing Al, David and Foskett take most of the load off his shoulders, which I think Brian preferred. The vocal harmonies and musicianship from the band brought the Beach Boys classics to life. Brian finished his set with 'Good Vibrations' then after an intermission the stage was set for Jeff Beck. I'll admit that I'm not that familiar with most of Beck's material, and he's a virtuoso guitarist so he doesn't need to sing, but I was very impressed by his amazing guitar skills. His band which included a violinist were incredible, making Beck's set a memorable musical experience. He also did a nice version of the Beatles 'A Day In The Life' on just his guitar which blew the audience away. Then Jeff brought Brian Wilson and the rest of his band back on stage and they performed 'Surf's Up' from 'Smile' with Beck doing the vocal parts just on his guitar while Brian and the rest of the band just did the background harmonies and it was amazing. Jeff Beck also did his tribute to Les Paul, recreating on his guitar the classic Les Paul sound. And Jeff Beck playing 'Danny Boy' on guitar was very emotional. The entire show was fantastic and it was wonderful to enjoy an evening with these two great musical legends. Thanks. I shall be seeing them on Sunday at the Greek in LA. Blondie Chapman will be joining them for this one. That should be nice.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Oct 19, 2013 17:13:27 GMT -5
Saw Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck at Westbury on October 12. The show began with Brian Wilson and his band which included Al Jardine and David Marks, so we had three of the five surviving Beach Boys, and with Brian's band, this was more of a real Beach Boys concert than anything Mike Love and Bruce Johnston could possibly present. Brian and company did all the great Beach Boys classics, with Al and David handling some of the lead vocals and Jeff Foskett from Brian's band taking over the high falsettos Brian unfortunately can't do anymore. Brian sat at a white grand piano for most of his set and sang lead on songs like 'God Only Knows', allowing Al, David and Foskett take most of the load off his shoulders, which I think Brian preferred. The vocal harmonies and musicianship from the band brought the Beach Boys classics to life. Brian finished his set with 'Good Vibrations' then after an intermission the stage was set for Jeff Beck. I'll admit that I'm not that familiar with most of Beck's material, and he's a virtuoso guitarist so he doesn't need to sing, but I was very impressed by his amazing guitar skills. His band which included a violinist were incredible, making Beck's set a memorable musical experience. He also did a nice version of the Beatles 'A Day In The Life' on just his guitar which blew the audience away. Then Jeff brought Brian Wilson and the rest of his band back on stage and they performed 'Surf's Up' from 'Smile' with Beck doing the vocal parts just on his guitar while Brian and the rest of the band just did the background harmonies and it was amazing. Jeff Beck also did his tribute to Les Paul, recreating on his guitar the classic Les Paul sound. And Jeff Beck playing 'Danny Boy' on guitar was very emotional. The entire show was fantastic and it was wonderful to enjoy an evening with these two great musical legends. Thanks. I shall be seeing them on Sunday at the Greek in LA. Blondie Chapman will be joining them for this one. That should be nice. It's a bummer that Tal Wilkenfeld isn't playing with Jeff. She is amazing in more ways than one.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Oct 19, 2013 21:00:23 GMT -5
This is what I was referring to about Tal Wilkenfeld not playing with Jeff Beck. Watch this and see her amazing performance. (And John, stay seated!)
By the way, she was only 20 in this (it was 2007).
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Oct 20, 2013 20:30:59 GMT -5
John, are you sleeping? I can't believe you didn't say something about Tal Wilkenfeld!
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Post by sayne on Oct 21, 2013 20:38:45 GMT -5
Saw the concert last night. No major changes to what they've done during the tour. I have to say that Brian was terribly awful in his vocals. Way out of tune. I think the vocals of Brian's touring band helped hide a lot of the flaws in the 3 Beach Boys singers' harmonies. There were times when the harmonies were heavenly sublime (dominated by the Wondermints) and times when it was not (dominated by the Beach Boys). Al Jardine was good in his solo singing. It was good hearing Blondie Chaplin singing Sail on Sailor and hearing it sound like the song we've heard so long on the radio.
Jeff Beck was, er um, Jeff Beck. What else would one want? It was really cool, though, when both bands came out to play Surf's Up, Barbara Ann, and Surfin' USA. Jeff, again, did his version of A Day in the Life.
Here's the set list for Brian:
California Girls Their Hearts Were Full of Spring Sail On, Sailor Wild Honey Wouldn't It Be Nice You Still Believe in Me That's Not Me Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) I'm Waiting for the Day Let's Go Away for Awhile Sloop John B God Only Knows I Know There's an Answer Here Today I Just Wasn't Made for These Times Pet Sounds Caroline, No Good Vibrations Help Me, Rhonda I Get Around Fun, Fun, Fun
(Later with Jeff Beck) Our Prayer Child Is Father of the Man Surf's Up Barbara Ann Surfin' U.S.A.
I like how he went deep into his catalog.
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Post by OldFred on Oct 21, 2013 20:54:30 GMT -5
Brian and his band didn't do 'Pet Sounds' at the show I was at, so you got a bit of a treat.
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