Beach Boys...

NME has the first, very brief online report of Brian's "Smile" concert in London.
Here's the reported setlist:
Part 1:
Our Prayer
Heroes & Villains
Worms
Barnyard (with lyrics)
Old Master Painter
Sunshine
Cabinessence

Part 2:
Wonderful
Look
Child Is Father Of The Man
Surf's Up

Part 3:
I'm In Great Shape
I Wanna Be Around
Vegetables
Holidays (with lyrics)
Wind Chimes
Mrs O'Leary
Water chant (with extra lyrics)
Our Prayer (brief reprise)
Good Vibrations

2 Slavik- смотри - http://www.beachboys.com/films2.html

Спасибо, все понял!

Beach Boy premieres late 1960s tunes

Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson received a five-minute standing ovation as he performed his lost masterpiece Smile for the first time ever.

The singer, who worked for months on the album in the late 1960s but never released it, brought the house down at London's Royal Festival Hall as the forgotten work finally received its world premiere.

Grown men wept as the 61-year-old performed a set of around 20 songs, including classics such as Wouldn't It Be Nice and California Girls.

Wilson, who suffered a mental breakdown during the arduous recording of Smile, opened the sell-out concert with an intimate unplugged set accompanied by his 11-strong band.

They then performed a selection of tunes including Sloop John B and Dance Dance Dance.

Fans had flocked from around the world to hear the first ever performance of Smile, which Wilson played in its entirety in the second half, displaying his trademark combination of lush harmonies and creative percussion.

Smile was to have been the follow-up to the 1966 album Pet Sounds as Wilson attempted to outdo The Beatles and their album Revolver.

Wilson, who was dressed in black and sat behind a piano he played only occasionally, adopted ever more bizarre methods in his painstaking quest for perfection as he recorded the album, using huge orchestral arrangements.

Famously, he even dressed musicians in firemen's helmets to create the perfect ambience for a grandiose "elements suite", a move he repeated at the show with the eight-strong string and brass section.

Other highlights included an instrumental section featuring electric screwdrivers, football rattles and loudhailers.

http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_868744.html?menu=entertainment.music

Пятничный концерт Брайна посетила Olivia Harrison

Да, у бичевых фанов, что называется, настал field day - компы накалились, люди обзоры SMiLE-концерта строчат, стишата на слух сводят, бутлежню с полок повынимали. Пожалуй, стоит наведаться на несколько смачных сайтов этак через месяц, чтобы картина понятнее стала.

A review of the first Brian Wilson "Smile" concert in the UK
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/226briansmile.html

Отцы-сестры,
Купил на Амазоне этот фильм 1964 года
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303625703/103-6500397-7203817?v=glance

А там помимо Фрэнки Авалона, Аннет Фуничелло, Донны Лорен и The Deltones еще 6 песен написаны Браяном Вилсоном, Роджером Кристианом и Гари Ашером, а двое последних еще и в эпизодах снялись в роли... Beach Boys!! Названия песен мне незнакомы

Donna Loren

Mini biography
Born in Boston, Donna was a child performer: she won an amateur talent show, sang a jingle for Meadowgold Ice Cream, performed on radio shows, appeared as a guest on the "Mickey Mouse Club, The" (1955) and recorded several singles all before she was 10 years old. She went on to record songs under the names Donna Dee and Barbie Ames. In 1963, she was chosen after a nationwide talent search to appear in ads as the 'Dr Pepper Girl'. For five years, she was on billboards, in magazines and on television as a teenage spokesperson for the soft drink. For her personal appearances, she sewed some of her own costumes, a talent which would come in very handy later in her career. The Dr Pepper gig led to a role in the second Frankie Avalon / Annette Funicello beach movie Muscle Beach Party (1964). Originally assigned a non-speaking role holding a soft drink bottle (guess which soft drink?), the producers decided to let her perform a song instead. She performed the Brian Wilson penned "Muscle Bustle" with 'Dick Dale' and the success of the song led to her appearing in a featured musical number in later beach movies.

The Beach Boys Endless Summer “Best of The Beach Boys” features great performances by America’s band, The Beach Boys. Includes concert and campfire appearances. Tracks include:

Surfin’ USA
Surfin’ Safari
Surf City
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Help Me Rhonda
California Girls
Little Deuce Coupe
Little Old Lady
Shut Down
GTO
In My Car
Love & Mercy
I Get Around
Be True To Your School
Surfer Girl
God Only Knows
Kokomo
Sloop John B.
Good Vibrations
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Surfer Girl
Rock and Roll Music
Darlin
Help Me Rhonda
Fun Fun Fun
The Instruments
Surfer Girl
Hawaii Stories
Be My Baby
Mike’s Car
Surfin’
Smokey Joes Cafй
In My Room
Barbara Ann
Campfire Medley
Bird Dog / Dream
Graduation Day / Still Cruisin’
Barbara Ann with Jan & Dean

А в другом фильме из этой же серии Beach Blanket Bingo 65 года
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303471528.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

помимо песен Браяна Вилсона, Роджера Кристиана и Гари Ашера, уже и сам Браян снялся в эпизоде. У меня этот фильм тоже есть

Кстати - новый релиз от Бич Бойз!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000DJYQ2/qid=1078131634/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1...

Beach Boys - Surfing USA (2003)
Media: DVD
Manufacturer/Publisher: Koch Vision Entertai
Release Date: 09 December, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: 01 January, 2003
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Sales rank: 9,719
Department: DVD

New book goes behind scenes of recording classic songs (9/9/99): An email I received from author Rich Buskin (thanks, Rich!)


I'm writing to inform you about my new book, which features some great in-studio anecdotes and observations about - among many others - The Beatles and the Beach Boys. The title is 'INSIDE TRACKS: A FIRST-HAND HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST RECORD PRODUCERS AND ENGINEERS', the publisher is Spike/Avon Books, and included are interviews with Sir George Martin, Norman Smith, Geoff Emerick, Glyn Johns, Eddie Kramer, John Kurlander and Alan Parsons, talking about their experiences with the Fab Four and Bruce Botnick and Van Dyke Parks in which they talk about Brian and The Beach Boys. Brian Wilson also wrote the foreward to the book.

Brian Wilson Smiles Again
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=19462

Послушал тут давеча альбом Sunflower - очень сильно! Особенно: All I Wanna Do.

Это моя любимая пластинка

Как-то раз я в машине целый месяц слушал Sunflower и Surf's Up и слушал бы еще, если бы пленку не зажевало. Супер!!!

А я так тащусь от Carl And The Passions / So Tough (1972). Он у них чуть ли не самым выморочным считается, но я когда услышал, подумал, "Если это выморочный, каковы же тогда хорошие?", и крепко подсел.

А мы сегодня с Brother_J смотрели фильм посвященный гастролям Beach Boys по Европе в 1968 году. Очень сильная штука, жаль только без кадров с выступления в Чехословакии, которые впринципе входят в American Band.

Я читал в заслуживающем доверия источнике очень крутую байку о том, что когда они в Чехословакии выступали, у них электричество вырубилось, и им несколько солдат приперли аккумуляторную батарею с советского танка. Майк Лав говорил, что на этой батарее они несколько дней могли бы рубиться. В общем, Майк Лав по сцене скакал козлом и на виду у кагебешников орал всякую ересь типа "Fucking commies!" и все такое. После таких историй мне что-то совсем не верится в байки про то, как мы их жестоко оккупировали.