Brian Wilson - No Pier Pressure (2015)

how good is brian wilson live these days, frankly? is it totally dependent on the surrounding band?

The latter has been the case ever since he started touring; luckily, his band is incredible. There's a reason the 50th Anniversary Beach Boys tour was Mike adding two of his guys to about nine of Brian's.

Saw Brian last night on the Pet Sounds plus more tour. His vocals varied from not so good to mediocre to kinda good. But he looked mostly happy to be up there onstage. He was helped by the great band with Al Jardine's son Matthew doing lots of the high note singing. Plus Al was there and Blondie Chaplin and the rest of that fine band.

I see online that on this tour Brian says every night to the crowd, Did anyone come here for bad vibrations,really s--tty ones? No, We're gonna give you good ones"....

But I guess lots of musicians repeat the same patter every night on tour

I saw him in Paris in the early 00s for the Pet Sounds tour (then again later for the Smile tour), iirc.
it wasn't very good and he was mostly a zombie (in pyjamas) but still I'm glad I saw him (which is not the case for other 60s legends like Macca, the Stones, etc who I don't really care seeing) !
As for musicians saying the same thing every night, I guess it's the only way to deal with the interactions with the crowd when you have very long tours...

I haven't listened to this album but I suppose it's bad (like all his other solo albums !). that said, I kinda liked the single from the latest BBoys album, surprisingly !

He varies from night to night. A few months ago, He was much more engaged and happier at Primavera than he was playing Glasgow the previous week.

Sweet Insanity is a better album than No Pier Pressure.

really ? I've never heard about it !
I'll try to find it... but I suppose it suffers from the same main flaw as all his other output since his first solo album for me : terrible sound/production...

Well, I'm not saying it's very good. It does have the very excellent Someone To Love on it.

I should track that down, I've never bothered with it either

He's been closing recent gigs with that 1988 solo song "Love and Mercy" and he seems really into it. I liked his rendition live last night, plus its references to seeing violence on tv makes it sadly relevant.

He was more zombie-like the first tie I saw in the 00s on a Smile tour. When he I saw him in New Orleans at Jazzfest a few years back during the brief period he was back with the Beach Boys, he often seemed like a bored sideman.

Love and Mercy also closed that biopic movie.

(also one of his best solo songs in general)

I kinda liked the single from the latest BBoys album, surprisingly !

that entire album was pretty decent, I thought. :)

have never figured out myself if this whole Brian on Tour forever thing, is doing him good, or bad. He certainly doesn't seem very happy, on the other hand, it might keep him goin' and enjoying himself MORE off stage.

I have no interest in seeing him live to be honest, he's a very damaged individual and performing live was never really his strong point even when his voice was excellent and he was at his peak, so why would he be any better at it now that his voice is gone and he's got decades of trauma and drug abuse under his belt.

I did like what I heard (surprisingly) off that last album.

Love and Mercy is great (the song, not the movie, which was only half great)

he loves performing and he loves his band. its good to see him in person. hes always been weird on stage.

oh and yah this album is shit.

When I saw him live on the Smile tour, he tried to exit off the wrong side of the stage at the end of the show.

"Love & Mercy" is a nice song but the production is atrocious with the all the 80s professional MOR sounds and effects.

that entire album was pretty decent, I thought. :)

The whole album was pretty good I remember

hum... it does seem interesting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That's_Why_God_Made_the_Radio
I might give it a try.
also, eheh : "Others accredited the album's low points specifically to Mike Love's contributions"

"Brian, we've got Brad Paisley's guys to do your album cover."

I have listened to the praised final suite on the album.
it's nice but not that good (and certainly nothing he hasn't done better before).
"Summer's Gone" is a bit disappointing considering it was supposed to be their final track.
I'll give it another try but so far I prefer "Isn't It Time"...
as for the rest, I'll see if I can manage !

Preview of the upcoming memoir: https://books.google.com/books?id=9CmiBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

yeah I read that earlier, paints about the picture I would expect tbh

yeesh. i will be wasting too much time comparing Brian's notes to AGDoe's timelines

http://esquarterly.com/bellagio/gigs65.html

session: I Hate Rock & Roll (=Let Him Run Wild)

bahahaha oh man I wish they had stuck with the original title

I wonder how much of this brian wrote on his own. the voice is certainly his.

seeing him next week doing pet sounds for the final time.

yeah it very much reads like how he talks. I assume a ton of editing was done to make it coherent/linear

is this the first time Brian admits the story that he freaked out on the plane in '64 in large part due to jealousy between Mike Love and Marilyn?

the way I read that was that that was the catalyst but not exactly the sole reason

yeah, i mean i've always read the 'jealousy' issue as rumor -- but Brian confirms that part. Not sure if I missed that, prior

being jealous of Mike Love is kind of unfathomable (Dennis, sure)

i'm jealous of Carl. Annie Hinsche was a hottie!

http://66.media.tumblr.com/0df5086f22449495bd847b6a6f12e944/tumblr_mpmp39Kz2A1sszfb1o7_500.jpg

still so jealous of the Loveman
https://cbswncx2.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/138852512_8.jpg?w=594

lol

well played

papa - i'd take this with a grain of salt as I mostly trust AGD and his timeline - but just a heads up a bunch of the fan community has "exposed" him lying about a ton of shit recently.

i think you're the 2nd ilxor to give me a clue on this -- so thanks for the heads up

what/who is AGD?

being jealous of Mike Love is kind of unfathomable (Dennis, sure)

Mike was an incorrigible skirt chaser as well though?

x-post-AGD posts on Brian Wilson community website toolbox forum

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