THE BEACH BOYS - TEXAS 2012
May 17, 2012 – 4:28 am
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THE BEACH BOYS
Texas 2012 [no label, 2CD]
Live at Verizon Theater, Grand Prairie, TX; April 26, 2012. Very good audience recording.
Fifty years of Beach Boys… Beach Boys fans from South-east Asia might want to make a beeline for Hong Kong for the band’s concert on August 25. And for many others, they will have to rely on fan recordings like this, so a big thank you to whotapes, who shared the show at The Traders’ Den. This is what whotapes noted:
I went mostly because who knows if you will ever get these hit makers perform together again and especially because of Brian Wilson being there. Just a fun all-round show. There was a 20-minute intermission so each set will fit nicely on a single CD. The show started almost without warning. I was not completely ready so you do hear a bit of rustling as I position my mics at the start. But it is finished before the real music starts.
And this is what Mike Powell of Rolling Stone commented on the group’s opening show at Tuscon, Arizona on April 24:
It’s not until a band like the Beach Boys runs through their hits back-to-back in rapid succession that you realize just how many hits they’ve had. Over the course of nearly two and a half hours, they played an astonishing 42 songs, many of them medley-style, with nearly no banter in between. Amid the most familiar stuff – “California Girls,” “Surfin’ Safari,” “Good Vibrations” – were a healthy number of deep cuts and covers, including “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” and Phil Spector’s “Then He Kissed Me,” which Jardine probably wisely rephrased as “Then I Kissed Her.”
There were also two uncanny video appearances by Carl and Dennis Wilson, both of whom died years ago. (Dennis “sang” “Forever,” while Carl took on “God Only Knows,” a song Brian wrote for him on 1966’s Pet Sounds.) And about halfway through the second set, something new showed up: A reflective midtempo ballad called “That’s Why God Made the Radio” – a moment that, like so much of the band’s best music, elevated the adolescent to the divine.
And thanks to epresley for the artwork.
Lineage:
SP Core Mics> Battery box with Bass Rolloff at 16Hz>
Zoom H4n 16 bit 44.1htz >HDD>Goldwave to split the file >
traders little helper flac level 7
Recorded from section 105
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Disc Two will be shared on May 18, 2012.
Disc 1 (1st Set)
Track 101. Do It Again (6.3MB)
Track 102. Catch A Wave (3.6MB)
Track 103. Don’t Back Down (3.2MB)
Track 104. Surfin’ Safari (4.1MB)
Track 105. Surfer Girl (4.9MB)
Track 106. The Little Girl I Once Knew (5.1MB)
Track 107. Wendy (4.3MB)
Track 108. Then I Kissed Her (3.9MB)
Track 109. Your So Good To Me (4.3MB)
Track 110. Why Do Fools Fall in Love (4.1MB)
Track 111. When I Grow Up (3.8MB)
Track 112. Cottonfields (7.5MB)
Track 113. Be True to Your School (5.8MB)
Track 114. Disney Girls (7.MB)
Track 115. Please Let Me Wonder (4.9MB)
Track 116. Don’t Worry Baby (5.0MB)
Track 117. Little Honda (4.7MB)
Track 118. Little Deuce Coupe (2.8MB)
Track 119. 409 (2.9MB)
Track 120. Shut Down (2.7MB)
Track 121. I Get Around (4.3MB)
Disc 2 (2nd Set)
Track 201. Sloop John B
Track 202. Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Track 203. California Dreamin’
Track 204. Forever
Track 205. Sail on, Sailor
Track 206. Heroes and Villains
Track 207. In My Room
Track 208. All This Is That
Track 209. God Only Knows
Track 210. That’s Why God Made the Radio
Track 211. California Girls
Track 212. Dance, Dance, Dance
Track 213. All Summer Long
Track 214. Help Me, Rhonda
Track 215. Rock and Roll Music
Track 216. Do You Wanna Dance?
Track 217. Barbara Ann
Track 218. Surfin’ USA
Track 219. Kokomo
Track 220. Good Vibrations
Track 221. Fun, Fun, Fun
Beach Boys:
Brian Wilson
Al Jardine
Bruce Johnston
David Marks
Mike Love
Backing band:
John Cowsill
Scott Totten
Scott Bennett
Nelson Bragg
Mike D’Amico
Jeffrey Foskett
Probyn Gregory
Paul Mertens
Darian Sahanaja
Nick Walusko
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