The Beach Boys - Back Home - from 15 big ones CD

[paul7703]

Brian really does it for me on this track! Genius.

[JuxtaposeMystery]

please post the original video

[jwild611]

The beginning reminds me of California Girls

[IainB1511]

Oh man,

playing this in an open top sports car blasting down the highway in Summer is sublime

[Helen25243]

Regarding ML supposedly playing the keyboard, In an interview, ML said they started off carrying and setting up their own instruments at concerts etc. and that was one of the reasons he didn't play an instrument-lazy git!!

[ericebryan]

Mike Love playing organ!

[gregormann7]

@ericebryan If anyone thinks ML is actually 'playing' that keyboard (as is producing coherent music) you probably also think he played the saxaphone solo on Kokomo! ((Directive from ML: keep the camera off my hands so no one can see that I am faking it.))

((So fire the cameraman, the screw-up!)) ha ha ha

[ericebryan]

@gregormann7 He's playing chords with his right hand in the same shuffle time that Brian is playing the piano in -- can't see if he's using his left hand. Other than the two-note honks on "409", I think, and tho' he sometimes did that live, I've never known Love to pick up a saxophone. Theramin, yes. During a '60s performance of "GV" when Love was struggling with it, he called it a "woo-woo machine" and said "It's ridiculous." That prompted Carl to say gently into the mic, "Yeah, it really is."

[gregormann7]

The video quality is so poor it's hard to see for sure. I may have to reluctantly concede based on observing the other guys (BW & AJ)--I doubt they are faking it just for ML's sake. ((But that doesn't mean that I believe he is playing sax on Kokomo!!! LMAO!))

[11jupitercowboy8]

@ericebryan Man, I hate to be such a hater, but Mike Love is such a flake.

[alienhuman]

@11jupitercowboy8 That is simply a terrible injustice to FLAKES all over the world!

[alienhuman]

@ericebryan correction: ML standing in front of an organ.

[ericebryan]

@alienhuman That's funny. To be fair, he is playing chords. I've only ever known of him honking on a sax and playing an electro-theramin live, so it was a surprise to see him playing chords on a keyboard.

[IainB1511]

@ericebryan more like Mikey Loveless playing with his organ

[tla1270]

I have always loved the Beach Boys! This album was pretty damn good!!

[BeachBoysGuy1]

This was one of the three songs Brian performed on Sat Night Live August 1976.

Love Is A Woman and Good Vibrations ( the worst pick they could've made for poor, nervous Brian to do at the piano by himself) were pretty terrible, but Back home came cross musch better with the SNL band and background singers.

JHP

[bchbys]

I remember watching it that night when I was 12. I didn't know then much about BW. I just remember thinking, this is The BB's?!?! But now I love it!

[dannqc]

One of the best song ever !!! I love this song since 1980 (I was 8), although I'm french !

GREAT , GREAT songs in this "15big ones" album ! Love it !

[snoops71]

Never heard this song before. I really like it a lot! Great beat, great sound. I think I need to buy this CD sooner of later. Every song I hear from it, I like;-)

Thanks for posting!

[ClubViking63]

snoops you did not say "great beard"? Brian and the other really let their hair grew at that time! I recommend the double CD "15 big ones/Love you"!!! A must for all BB fans!

[snoops71]

I forgot to mention the beard! Yeah, they really did let it run pretty wild;-)

I'm going to have to pick that album, or I mean CD, up.

[jadorebri]

Love this song, makes me happy.

[avth76]

Bri bri!! it's my Bri Bri!

[caiovolcoff]

wow! do you have the original audio?

[traderfiles]

I do. Maybe I'll post it up one of these days.

[caiovolcoff]

YEAH!

Please!!!!

Great rare video! Thanks

[Okiemom50]

@traderfiles So, there is an audio to this? Never heard it. Thanks for posting.

[barney906]

Ooohhhhhiiiiiiiiioooooo!

[colindominy]

Thanks, traderfiles, for this great clip - very rare indeed - and also for this sweet little BW song. Question : what the heck is Mike Love doing in this clip, trying to play organ ? He never could master the sax .. so how could he possibly play organ half-well (except 'for show' or for 'image' in front of the cameras, perhaps ?) Carl once said that Mike was originally lined up to play sax in the band when it first started out - but that Mike never practised. Love that BW grin at the end !!

[gamoonbat]

@colindominy - I think that is Al Jardine on the organ. ML has a guitar around his neck but he is not playing it.

[Okiemom50]

@gamoonbat nope. It's Al beside Bri on guitar, and Mike on organ. Sure wish we had the audio to this. :-)

[gamoonbat]

@gamoonbat - You are right. I stand corrected.

[Yaggsionhimen]

haha He does look like Deniro when he's lookin over at Mike.

[colindominy]

Brian has always been able to write this kind of catchy song off the top of his head. Simple, but gloriously and brilliantly addictive to listen to - again and again and again ....

[spacepatrolman]

al jardines family is from ohio

[thatluckyoldsun]

f#cking good song, Brian shows here in some simple way his genius.....

[EricGodClapton]

gonna seek out all my friends i've always known..word.

[AGD55]

Song was originally written and recorded in 1963, and again in 1970.

[colindominy]

Such a simple song - for the great B.W. that is !! But what a sweet little gem. Dig that bass line - a classic B.W. trademark.

[akovia]

rare!