Beach Boys - Beach Boys Concert / Live London
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Artist: Beach BoysEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-04-10
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
- Little Deuce Coup
- Long, Tall Texan
- In My Room
- Monster Mash
- Let's Go Trippin'
- Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow
- The Wanderer
- Hawaii
- Graduation Day
- I Get Around
- Johnny B. Goode
- Darlin'
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Sloop John B.
- California Girls
- Do It Again
- Wake The World
- Aren't You Glad
- Bluebirds Over The Mountains
- Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring
- Good Vibrations
- God Only Knows
- Barbara Ann
- Don't Worry Baby
- Heroes And Villains
Music reviews of Beach Boys Concert / Live London
Music Review: '64 Curio...and a swell late 60s concert outing
Rating: 3 Stars
This twofer CD pairs a 1964 Sacramento, CA concert with post-Pet Sounds Beach Boys outings: "Live in London" was actually from an August 12,1968 Finsbury Park show and a December 1,1968 London Palladium show according to David Leaf's liner notes. If you've seen footage of early Beatles performances (suit era), you have a good idea what to expect on the 1964 show. Lots and lots and LOTS of hormone-fueled teen girl screaming (the notes point out that some vocals were re-recorded in studio because the singing was drowned out at times..). The sound quality on the London set is much better. I'll repeat another reviewer's critique of the sequencing...the 1964 bonus cut of "Don't Worry, Baby" would make more sense at the end of the 1964 material....instead of after the London set with the other bonus track.
HIGHLIGHTS:
"In My Room" comes out well in concert and the girls are more subdued making it one of the more listenable tracks. Surprisingly, a surf number I didn't find that interesting on the studio album COOKS here:"Let's Go Trippin'" is a tour-de-force for Carl and the band. "Fun,Fun,Fun" sounds near studio quality live, but for whatever reason (mastering error?) Mike Love sounds VERY nasal and highpitched.
On the English set, the live "Sloop John B" is reinvented with some frenetic energy into the 2nd chorus. Once you get past the annoying Mike intro, the live version of "Wake the World" is nice, keeping the harmony and melody while investing it with more energy than "Friends" studio version. If you ever doubted that the Beach Boys are great pure singers, the acappella rendition of the Four Freshmen's "Their Hearts were Full of Spring" should lay that to rest. The live "God Only Knows" succeeds thanks to an especially wonderful Carl vocal. "Barbara Ann" reminds us that the band can be a GREAT rock and roll act instead of just clever studiocraft.
LOW POINTS:
A completely over-the-top Mike Love on "Long Tall Texan". Did we NEED to hear the BB sing "Monster Mash?" (though they were clever enough to change the line about the "Crypt Kicker Five" to the "Beach Boy Five"). Their version of Jan and Dean's "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" is tepid. "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" is sabotaged by a bad vocal mix (WAY too much Mike) although Brian's high "papa-papa-ooooooh" nearly salvages it. "The Wanderer" won't make anyone forget Dion's version (I have to believe the girls are screaming for Dennis himself..and not his singing here...though that would improve down the line). Where on EARTH did the guitar solo go in "I Get Around"? Vocal mix on "Johnny B. Goode" REALLY sucks on my 1990 version (You can hardly HEAR the vocal, though I've heard it's cleaned up on the 2001 reissue).
The version of "Wouldn't it Be Nice" on "London" besmirches a classic.
BOTTOM LINE:
The first part of the disc is definitely diehards only...or for someone who actually saw them live at the time to recreate the experience. It's not for everyone. The London show holds up much better with the sound quality decent most of the time and some of the performances genuinely wonderful. If you find it at a good price, it's worth having, but if you're only getting ONE live show from the band, get the 1973 "In Concert" (ASIN B00004U66Q) instead.
Description of Beach Boys Concert / Live London
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Like virtually every band in the mid-'60s, the Beach Boys were expected to deliver their hits in person--no mean feat considering the ever more baroque concoctions that Brian Wilson was constructing in the studio. Tellingly, at the time the 1964 Concert was recorded in Beach Boys hotbed Sacramento, the band had but a few hits of their own and so they padded their set with Jan and Dean's "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (cowritten by Brian), Dion's "The Wanderer," "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" by the Rivingtons, Bobby Pickett's "The Monster Mash," and, of course, Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode." The instrumental backing here is sparse and simplistic; it's the band's vocal interplay that carries the day before a throng of screaming fans. By the time the year was out, Brian suffered his first nervous breakdown and gave up touring to concentrate on his studio productions.
Live in London was culled from live shows recorded at a time (1968) when the band were virtual pop-cultural outcasts in their home country, but still enjoyed an enthusiastic following in England. These recordings document the Beach Boys' remarkable resilience in the face of Brian's deliberate distancing and their frigid American career prospects; when the going got tough, the tough got spectacularly professional. Augmented by a horn section, the band locks into a powerful groove, giving energetic, largely note-perfect versions of the expected hits along with some key album cuts. Digitally remastered, this long out-of-print twofer edition features commentary by David Leaf (The Beach Boys and the California Myth), as well as two bonus cuts: a 1964 concert rendition of "Don't Worry Baby" and a 1967 live version (from the unreleased Lei'd in Hawaii album) of the challenging "Heroes and Villains" that features a rare appearance by Brian Wilson performing with the band. --Jerry McCulley
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