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zipp:
Thanks for the news Joost.
I'd have loved to see the tour but I'm going to pass on the live album etc.
Somehow the Beach Boys always maka a mess of live albums. (Except for Party! - but how live was that?)
Ovi:
--- Quote from: Joost on May 21, 2013, 06:22:38 PM ---Some Beach Boys news:
After the 50th Anniversary Tour, Mike Love & Bruce Johnston returned to touring with their own version of The Beach Boys, as everyone who cares will know by now. But an interesting development is that Al Jardine & David Marks have now joined Brian Wilson and his band. They'll be playing a few US dates this Summer. Check brianwilson.com for details.
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And that ought to be a hard choice for the fans. ;D
--- Quote from: Joost on May 21, 2013, 06:22:38 PM ---The live double cd 'Live: the 50th Anniversary Tour' was released this week. It's got 41 songs, including most of the greatest hits but also a few more obscure fan favorites such as 'Marcella', 'Add Some Music to Your Day' and 'All This is That'. Reactions from Beach Boys fans have been overwhelmingly negative because the recordings sound very fake. Many of the vocals have been very obviously autotuned (some so heavily that they just sound robotic) and some people even believe that vocals from the original albums have been mixed in here and there.
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It's kinda painful to realize that some people in the BBs camp still care about things like commercial appeal or new production techniques. Every time I read something like this I automatically think of 80's or 90's Beach Boys and how dark those times were for the band.
--- Quote from: Joost on May 21, 2013, 06:22:38 PM ---The career spanning 6 CD box set 'Made in California', has been announced for August 27. The tracklisting has not yet been released. It's likely going to be something of a revised version of 1993's 'Good Vibrations' box set (with the hits, important album tracks, alternate versions and unreleased songs), but with "new" rarities.
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Now this is the real deal. Already onto it.
Ovi:
--- Quote from: zipp on May 21, 2013, 08:05:47 PM ---Somehow the Beach Boys always maka a mess of live albums.
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How about 'In Concert' from 1973, zipp?
Joost:
--- Quote from: zipp on May 21, 2013, 08:05:47 PM ---Thanks for the news Joost.
I'd have loved to see the tour but I'm going to pass on the live album etc.
Somehow the Beach Boys always maka a mess of live albums. (Except for Party! - but how live was that?)
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'Party' was recorded in the studio, the "party" sounds were overdubbed afterwards.
I don't agree with you though that all their live albums are a mess. 'Concert' was indeed bad: partially live, partially recorded in the studio with artificial crowd noises, and a lot of cover songs that were inferior to their own material. But 'Live in London' and 'In Concert' are really excellent. They sound great, they didn't mess with the recordings afterwards and the final albums are cool mixes of hits and fan favorites. Nothing wrong with those two albums. And 'Live at Knebworth' is not that bad either, is it?
zipp:
I knew that you wouldn't agree but for me The Beach Boys are, like The Beatles, first and foremost a studio band.
The live stuff is nearly always a disappointment.
Now I've really put the cat among the pigeons!
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