Beach Boys - Live (Paris, December 1970) - Part 2 (of 2)

[peterp21]

Good stuff. Nice to see some of the Sunflower stuff played live. Is it me or did the Sunflower songs not get played much after 1970-71?

[dumbangel75]

Bruce didn't want to get in bed with the other Beach Boys!

[TheSom03]

I understand this is for French television but I wish I could hear what they were saying.

[AllenOption8]

The key is Carl's saying that Capitol Records did label and pigeonhole them. Here they aren't surfer boys no more.

[BigSheleighlie]

lol

I'm only 14, but

I love The Beach Boys in the end of 60's and early 70's, they're sick and awesome!

with albums like "Wild Honey", "Smiley Smile", "20/20", the best BeachBoy album, "Pet Sounds", and my favourite BeachBoy album, "Sunflower".

PURE ART, AND VERY GOOD AND SPECIAL MUSIC !!

[jwild611]

This is very very good. A top performance that was straight from the heart...a very underrated era of the BB's

[MrJeeples]

Aggghhhh!! I need to hear what Carl is saying!

Relimes, you can't say that about Al! He has a great voice, listen to him on All This Is That, Heroes and Villains and countless others.

[relimes]

Why was Dennis not singing on Hearts were full of spring?

[relimes]

Al Jardine is the Ringo Starr of the Beach Boys!

[Midnightman3741]

Beautiful rendition of "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring"

[POPAVIDEO]

ou se trouve ce doc  en entier ?

[Jasoniscool1]

was mike love doing bass?

[BeachBoysGuy1]

yes he always sang bass

[coachster1]

This is a fascinating piece of history. I saw them on the American leg of this tour....they didn't quite know who they were. Reprise was making them play the 'new stuff' from Sunflower. They didn't play the older hits till the encore, because they didn't know audiences were interested in hearing them. Cool to see.

[1ndi64]

A lackluster performance... back in '64 they were a great live act, but certainly not at this point of their career. They should have quit touring altogether. This is really bad. They just could not play their songs live on stage. They sound really thin.

[MrJeeples]

@1ndi64 I have to disagree with you. This seems (to me) to be an intimate performance in a small club rather than a stadium performance. I love it for its' rawness and would dearly loved to have been in the audience.

[PERSIAENT2009]

YES.

PERSIA ENTERTAINMENT.

[bigzach1000]

I have like a thousand things I want to say about this video. Talk about some rare performances. "Country Air"? "It's About Time"? I never thought I would see footage of those songs. It is so cool to see the band without their aces, like Ed Carter or Daryl Dragon, playing with them. And just Dennis drumming. Carl's guitar playing has always been underrated. His solo at the end of "It's About Time" rocks on this.

[RP50]

You can see Ed Carter playing bass right behind Bruce during "Cottonfields"

[stumptacular]

ok out of the four here singing hearts wer ful of spring: who was singing the highest falsetto? Bruce? Carl?

[bandontherun423]

Bruce is hitting the high falsetto, you can make out Carl's lower tenor hitting the mid section, most likely the 3rd of the harmony

[BeachBoysGuy1]

Jardine sang top also. Johnston was not a good vocal replacement for Brian;s big, thick falsettos. They tried many different arrangements to pull it off live, but eventually they did when they actualyl put together band. Nonetheless, thin as they were at times, I always got a thrill from seeing them and their different stages of development and survival in the tough world of Pop music. jhp

[PapillonJunkie]

French TV archives should ba raided.

Besides this great 1970 concert, they have the Unicef concert footage from December 1967, the FULL Olympia show from May 1969, the band rehearsing "Airplane" in 1977. And even a nice, unseen short film on the Beach Boys visiting Montmartre in 1964, just before shooting the "Age Tendre & Tete de Bois" program!

[TubeNumber1]

Breathtaking! As great as The Beatles were, they could never match Brian Wilson's jazz-meets-classical vocal arrangements and The Beach Boys' awesome harmony.

[Ricardodelamuerte]

@TubeNumber1 wait, I love the boys, but you can't disregard the beatles' ability to harmonize... paul, john and george could flat out sing together. but no contest, guys, without the bb's and the beatles to one-up each other, we wouldn't have had such great output from either of em..

[jammmon]

@Ricardodelamuerte

true yes

[jammmon]

@TubeNumber1

truth is Brian should have joined The Beatles in 1962.

imagine that

[TheSom03]

@jammmon ooooooohhhhhhhh ssssssshhhhhhiiiiitttttttttttt

[riv4life618]

@TubeNumber1 so true. the beatles couldn't touch the Wilson brothers' harmonies or individual vocals (no one could). Let's face it, it took both Lennon & McCartney together just to try and compete with Brian and that was before Dennis or Carl came into their own. IMO as good of writers as the Beatles were they could never touch the BBs when it came to recording or performing.

[MattHatter]

@riv4life618 They could NEVER touch The Beatles when it came to recording and performing?! Really?! Uh...no.

[Bluebird9021]

@riv4life618 thats bullshit. Lennon and McCartney did compete with Brian when they were solo and did better than any Beach Boys record in the 70s.

[riv4life618]

@Bluebird9021 Please, all it takes is a working set of ears to hear the difference. As far as record sales go since the 70s, well, if we went by that Taylor Swift is better than Patsy Cline. Pretty idiotic, huh? I seriously can't figure out why some Beatles fans are so threatened by the Beach Boys they come to THEIR videos and become so defensive if the Beach Boys are so "inferior", lol.I wouldn't be caught dead watching OR commenting on a Beatles video, but then again I HONESTLY don't like them

[Bluebird9021]

@riv4life618 Don't get me wrong man I like the BBs too. I know there are some gems on their albums that many people overlook but c'mon. The Beatles performed some pretty sweet harmonies on their songs and we all know the Beach Boys influenced most of that (yes most not all), but The Beatles ruled in the recording aspect. Maybe not the performing but that's due to them not being able to hear themselves due to the screaming girls.

[riv4life618]

@Bluebird9021 There weren't any screaming girls in the recording studios ; ) And try watching TAMI. The Beach Boys didn't have a hard time singing angelically, screaming girls and all. PS no Beach Boy OR Beatle got more screams than Denny Wilson. The screams never hurt the King either.

[odeonpacific]

Its funny how Mike love says one more time in Cottonfields, but here is no one more time hehehe !!!

[stumptacular]

"ONE MORE TIIIIMMMEEE!!!!" lol ... what a freaking idiot Mike Love proves himself to be... thats a perfect example of how he was NOT the band leader... even with Brian not present... the wilsons were leading the MUSIC.

[jonchapple]

@stumptacular He says "It's About Time", the title of the song.

[alienhuman]

Light crowd. Wonder if this was a 'for documentary' quasi-rehearsal with some fan club members admitted.

[weezadam]

yeah seriously, the crowd is pretty lame. maybe they're just in complete awe of how awesome the group is

[Crowsfan55]

umm..that's how they looked back then?...hell everyone looked different back then?

[mimiburnsband]

lovely~

[Crowsfan55]

Nancy Reagan's favorite BB song...I can see why...my parent's liked this song...I just learned harmony from the Beach Boy's...and if the 'rants liked it...they would let my band practice in the garage the weekend...:-)

[stumptacular]

I believe this was a four freshman song...

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[TimHuguet]

Awesome video! The richest period of the Beach Boys career creatively was the late 60s-early 70s. Proof of that is right here for everyone to see. Thanks for posting this...

[clarese76]

this is a perfect example of the level of talent they had. No instruments, all just well harmonized singing for that one particular song, and it was live, that is just pure talent.

[Motown65]

This is amazing. Living proof that not only were the Beach Boys still making great music beyond surf, but Brian wasnt the only talent in the band.

[horslipsrules]

Carl Wilson ruled! What a singer.

[red5986]

thats the best live beach boys ive ever heard

[BeachGirlLaw]

vraiment formidable d'en voir en interview...

les Garçons de la Plage! On vivent jusque'au fin du monde! On manque Carl Wilson et Dennis Wilson...La voix de Carl pleine d'esprit et douce en meme temps...Merci pour ce video clip!

[REDHAIREDMONSTER]

it's good to hear Bruce in there

[whotookaegir]

I guess Bruce wasn't allowed on the bed. Incidentally, this is one of the only live Beach Boys thing where I can hear his voice in the mix.

[Chrisdrumz]

The crowd is just standing there. Not even bobbing their heads to the music. "I heard a scream out there."

[FatherHula]

Cottonfields was #1 everywhere but in the US, and it's telling how Carl and Mike spoke about how Capitol refused to support their progression. This was an example, given that the song was about the 2nd to last single they put out on that label.

[whotookaegir]

Wow, not a surf song in the bunch! I love it!

[DAC027]

Wow, even Mike sounds honest here!

[shiftred]

love cotton fields great version

[ottawa1414]

Cool

[johnarthurknight]

I wonder if the Beach Boys hung out with Magma back then. I can picture Brian Wilson and Christian Vander totally bonding in the cosmic level.

[Facherty]

Wow, they were good then - a proper band, playing honestly...

[bunnyhead71]

Ijust saw someone at a record show this year selling this on dvd for about $50.00 thanks for the post, now I can finally see it, It is fantastic

[bb409]

I`ve just seen Part 1 but this is even more amazing. It`s about time live wow!! thank you again you`ve made my day!

[rockingsurfer]

Man, this is invaluable

[friendly76]

Wow...do you realize how rare this is????

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