The Beach Boys - "Concert" (1964) - Capitol Records
Hello Friends and Happy Spring!
Its been a long, cold, lonely Winter and we're getting ready for some longer days, warmer nights and colder drinks! HALLE-FUCKING-LUJAH!!!
Tonight we've got The Beach Boys first # 1 LP-- and first "live" album-- on the turntable. Hopefully it helps us melt some snow off the tiki bar!
(We say "live" because we suspect there's a fair amount of overdubbing and roller coaster-style crowd noise included as enhancements, but who are we to bicker?)
Its a great, fun live set with their harmonies and instruments sounding in fine form. The album would mark one of the last live performances that Brian Wilson would play with the group as he would go cuckoo-bananas shortly thereafter and concentrate more on songwriting and production. He does a great job singing his ballad, "In My Room"-- which, in hindsight, ends up being sadly prophetic.
In addition to "In My Room", they perform their early classics, "Fun, Fun, Fun", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Hawaii" and "I Get Around". They cover Dick Dale's seminal surf-instrumental, "Let's Go Trippin", Jan & Dean's "Little Old Lady From Pasadena", The Rivington's "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow", The Four Freshmen's "Graduation Day", Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" and Dennis Wilson sings a great version of Dion's "The Wanderer".
And holy crap, they do "The Monster Mash"!
Tonight we've got The Beach Boys first # 1 LP-- and first "live" album-- on the turntable. Hopefully it helps us melt some snow off the tiki bar!
(We say "live" because we suspect there's a fair amount of overdubbing and roller coaster-style crowd noise included as enhancements, but who are we to bicker?)
Its a great, fun live set with their harmonies and instruments sounding in fine form. The album would mark one of the last live performances that Brian Wilson would play with the group as he would go cuckoo-bananas shortly thereafter and concentrate more on songwriting and production. He does a great job singing his ballad, "In My Room"-- which, in hindsight, ends up being sadly prophetic.
In addition to "In My Room", they perform their early classics, "Fun, Fun, Fun", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Hawaii" and "I Get Around". They cover Dick Dale's seminal surf-instrumental, "Let's Go Trippin", Jan & Dean's "Little Old Lady From Pasadena", The Rivington's "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow", The Four Freshmen's "Graduation Day", Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" and Dennis Wilson sings a great version of Dion's "The Wanderer".
And holy crap, they do "The Monster Mash"!
Thanks to Shelby & Bobby for finding this for us!
RATING: 4.5 Worlds Where I Can Go And Tell My Secrets To out of 5
