To those of you who enjoy this, thanks. To the few who flame it, get a job. It's not a soundboard-the BB did not, like the Dead, give access to their concert tapes. Gimme a break-it's a 42 year old concert! I and a friend recorded this on an old Teac deck. The mics were hung with the lighting near stage front. We did the best we could. Despite some distortion through the levels, it had a good "live" sound overall. It was not for profit, but just for the listener's pleasure...
I made a couple of amateur recordings in early 70s. One was Grand Funk RR the other, BS&T on their BS&T 3 tour. You did a great job. Your recording sounds fine-much better than the machine I had. Plus, you captured an ever so brief moment before BB became an oldies act....nothing wrong with that but they had to not f@*k with the formula as Love once famously said. The whole general copyright thing became an issue later in the 70s. I had civic center personnel question me carring my SONY portable cassette recorder but never said "no taping" and never confiscated my machine. The quality wan't bad for a hand held cassette recorder. Ah, innocent times.
as a longtime, diehard Beach Boys fan, this stuff is the real deal. The early surfing era Beach Boys are amazing, don't get me wrong, but their progressive era (66-73) is by far the best the Boys had to offer. 1971/72/73 were definitely their best years in terms of live performances. I love discovering more bootlegged material from their early 70s shows.
I think you do have to say 66-68 are the best though because Pet Sounds and SMiLE are just, like, fuckin stupid amazing. But I really do agree. The surf stuff allowed Brian the time to do what he wanted.
@@peterthirdandthebridges it is to me because while I give the Beatles their due, when the general population talks about the best bands ever they tend to forget the Boys
oh please. now the Beatles are inferior? stop. The melody of the solo in Penny Lane dimwit. (im sure youll want to come back with something about how Martin or the soloist wrote it. wrong)
Hey oldsurferdude1, I realize your comment was 5 years ago, but a comment like that only gets better with time. Like a fine wine, really, to quote Paul McCartney, who has graced us with his presence here as well! 👋 I just would like to hear your memories of this show. Can you describe the vibe at all? Thanks friend. I hope you’re healthy, wealthy and wise. 🌊🥦🥕🌽🍅🌊
@@AndySalinger33 Hi Andy! 50 years ago has somewhat clouded the fine details but I just remember that they were amazing and right off the heels of the Surf's Up album. Their playlist featured the newer material which we all wanted to hear. It was an exciting time to see the band. I also caught them at Carnegie Hall which was a knockout! If there was a vibe it consisted of the fact that they were back and appeared to have a bright new future ahead of them if they would continue in this vein. Unfortunately, after Holland, the decay set in and they ended up an oldies band thank to Mike Love. Still a big fan of Brian and Al.
A tale of two acts. One with contemporary, sophisticated arrangements coupled with inspired, intimate performances and the other nothing more than nostalgic pep-rally dribble which is what the masses are most familiar with. Too long has little attention been paid to the Beach Boys live sets from the early 70's. Columnated Ruins Dominoe..
Thank you, Randy Smith!!!!! You’re a dear, for uploading this. CARL DEAN WILSON on lead vocal= the ONLY voice to do this masterpiece true justice!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have this bootleg. It is an awesome show. I saw them a week later at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit and they were unbelievable there. That was 19 November (a Friday, I remember it well) . We snuck in a cassette player and I still have that recording. I thought the Detroit show was better. The Surfs Up material was great. I miss Carl Wilson terribly. His guitar playing was magnificent.
Amazingly good...they weren`t that hot live back then but this is excellent...carl could handle the difficult melody and such a mood changing piece....hard to believe this is the same group who gave us little deuce coup and surfing safari.....a different type of surf song.
That's just it, Brian Wilson was evolving at comet speed in '65 and '66. Everyone who was anyone, from the Beatles to Bernstein, from the Stones, to Cream, to the Who, to Zappa, to the future members of Pink Floyd, all sat up and took notice. Unfortunately, his band (two brothers, a cousin, and a high school friend) was not ready then...and here is them finally attempting to catch up four years too late (dog years in time passage) where by 1971, the music scene had passed them by.
I saw the Beach Boys three times 1966-68. They were very, very good, especially the tour where Buffalo Springfield and Strawberry Alarm Clock opened the show. So I suggest you scrutinize your sources more carefully. I never found them lacking.
Oh I have to agree with everything you said here. There live shows were fantastic and the new material was great. I wish they would have continued in this vein. Surfs Up is still my favorite album by them.
The first time I heard this song was on an album titled Ten Years of Harmony. It was a compilation album but of the Brother Records years which I think were the most creative. Nothing against the early stuff, but the songs from that album gave me a new respect for The Beach Boys.
I bought SURFS UP about a year after its release, but lost it somewhere. I bought 10 YEARS OF HARMONY as well, to retrieve SURFS UP. It also covered songs from HOLLAND which gave it the edge. As well as songs from their 10 years of Brother Records. If I recall the distributor for Brother was Caribou Records, itself distributed by Columbia Records.
The Late-Great Carl Wilson was the only one who do justice--real justice to this masterwork. I heard him do this in Sept. '71, at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, & it was spellbinding. The Best years, hands-down, of The Beach Boys, the Early 70's. Those years, & The 90's with Matt Jardine, are, IMHO, The Best Ever of the group, & Carl was the Leader, unquestioned. Wolfsky9
Lil' story..... In 1969 I toured with beach boys in England for a few shows(London Palladium etc.)..One night back at the hotel around a piano, the guys (and Peter Noone) started singing this song and "God only Knows" and I actually said....... (I swear on my brother's memory this is true) "Hey guys why don't we try a different harmony , I think I got something!.... I got a look from everyone around the piano that I'll never forget and I thought to myself at that moment, as long as I live, this will be the f**k**g dumbest thing I've ever said!!)....true story.
Barry Ryan Yep, i reckon your right there Barry. Herman had the the good sense to keep quiet and listen. What a memory though. They were a bit special indeed. Eloise was on Radio 2 the other day and i enjoyed it whilst driving in the rare sunshine. Ta mate.
I like the drums on the end coda, it sounds like one of the Smile session outtakes for 'Child Is Father of The Man'. I wonder what the audience made of this one, they seemed to appreciate it.
@Wolfsky9 You are completely right about the early 70s years as the best for the Beach Boys. They were incredible live and they became like a popular underground band that was enjoyed by college students and had finally gained respect from the critics. Yet their mass popularity was still under the radar until the compilation album endless summer of 1974 basically threw them into a nostalgia act unfortunately. But they really were incredible from about 67-73
And thank Jerry Garcia for giving them his vocal support at that time. He used his status as "hippie guru" to validate their music. Because of jerry the Beach Boys were able to revive their career as performers.
During their swing East I saw them at Carnegie Hall performance It was incredible! Carl had to absorb a lot of brother Brian’s burden & never complained Carl had the voice and demeanor of an angel
Nice version. Live it must be one of the most difficult numbers to do justice to as I think the album version had so many legendary sequential parts, that it really wasn't put together with live performance in mind.
I agree totally! I didn't mean to make it sound like those early surfing songs weren't great. In fact a lot of those early albums like Shut Down, All Summer Long, Today and Summer Days and Nights are an example of some of the greatest produced creative songs that were ever made. Rivaled only by the Beatles and a few others. So I definitely don't want to take anything away from those early years. I just find some of the later weird stuff a bit more fascinating because it isn't as well known
Is it possibly 6% too slow though? Maybe a difference in calibration between your recorder and the unit you dumped it from? It seems a semitone down...
saw brian wilson live on his birthday at greek th. los angeles ca. 2015. he did this song and also busy doin nothin.. in interview short time later BW said he is not gonna sing those WORDY songs anymore.. to hard to sing.. crushed my hopes of a new smile tour replacing pet sounds tour. oh well
Leo Sim, no. I like The Beach Boys way more than The Beatles, but have you heard some of the stuff they put out in the mid to late '70s and '80s? They didn't have Brian for most of them, and there were not a lot of good songs. Summer Days, Pet Sounds, Smiley Smile, SMiLE, Holland, Friends, and Surf's Up were some of their best albums, and what I would say are as good (if not better) than The Beatles'. (SMiLE, Pet Sounds, and Surf's Up are definitely better.)
This recording was played back on a shitty recorder, I had to remix it back to it's original pitch. It was at least 2 steps too low, not to mention that soundboard-quality mix. I'm quite a bit happier with this after working on it. I'd rather Brian on vox than Carl for this one, Carl is too breathy in some parts, but a magical voice nonetheless.
It reminds me a lot of "Child is Father of the Man", another _Smile_ track which the coda takes elements from. Wouldn't surprise me if it were a deliberate nod to that song.
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To those of you who enjoy this, thanks. To the few who flame it, get a job. It's not a soundboard-the BB did not, like the Dead, give access to their concert tapes. Gimme a break-it's a 42 year old concert! I and a friend recorded this on an old Teac deck. The mics were hung with the lighting near stage front. We did the best we could. Despite some distortion through the levels, it had a good "live" sound overall. It was not for profit, but just for the listener's pleasure...
How did you that thing into a concert? Were you part of the crew or something?
To Mr. Smith, you did a great job ! Thank-you so much for sharing this ! ----------WolfSky9, 70 y/o
I made a couple of amateur recordings in early 70s. One was Grand Funk RR the other, BS&T on their BS&T 3 tour. You did a great job. Your recording sounds fine-much better than the machine I had. Plus, you captured an ever so brief moment before BB became an oldies act....nothing wrong with that but they had to not f@*k with the formula as Love once famously said.
The whole general copyright thing became an issue later in the 70s. I had civic center personnel question me carring my SONY portable cassette recorder but never said "no taping" and never confiscated my machine. The quality wan't bad for a hand held cassette recorder. Ah, innocent times.
sounds great man!
@@Wolfgangus_Theophilus Yes, we did the lights. A good time was had by all!
Carl’s voice is intensely beautiful
as a longtime, diehard Beach Boys fan, this stuff is the real deal. The early surfing era Beach Boys are amazing, don't get me wrong, but their progressive era (66-73) is by far the best the Boys had to offer. 1971/72/73 were definitely their best years in terms of live performances. I love discovering more bootlegged material from their early 70s shows.
I think you do have to say 66-68 are the best though because Pet Sounds and SMiLE are just, like, fuckin stupid amazing.
But I really do agree. The surf stuff allowed Brian the time to do what he wanted.
A broken man too tough to cry?
Not here. My heart just melted.
Beautiful live version.
Find me a Beatles' melody that touches this.
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Within you without you is stunning but it’s not a competition.
Funny, I was just going to instance "Without You, Without You". "Come Together" is perhaps a contender as well.
@@peterthirdandthebridges it is to me because while I give the Beatles their due, when the general population talks about the best bands ever they tend to forget the Boys
oh please. now the Beatles are inferior? stop. The melody of the solo in Penny Lane dimwit. (im sure youll want to come back with something about how Martin or the soloist wrote it. wrong)
It was an incredible show. I feel fortunate to have been there.
Hey oldsurferdude1, I realize your comment was 5 years ago, but a comment like that only gets better with time. Like a fine wine, really, to quote Paul McCartney, who has graced us with his presence here as well! 👋 I just would like to hear your memories of this show. Can you describe the vibe at all? Thanks friend. I hope you’re healthy, wealthy and wise. 🌊🥦🥕🌽🍅🌊
@@AndySalinger33 Hi Andy! 50 years ago has somewhat clouded the fine details but I just remember that they were amazing and right off the heels of the Surf's Up album. Their playlist featured the newer material which we all wanted to hear. It was an exciting time to see the band. I also caught them at Carnegie Hall which was a knockout! If there was a vibe it consisted of the fact that they were back and appeared to have a bright new future ahead of them if they would continue in this vein. Unfortunately, after Holland, the decay set in and they ended up an oldies band thank to Mike Love. Still a big fan of Brian and Al.
Those piano chords are heaven. My goodness.
Only the great Brian Wilson could have written such an ineffable and beautiful a composition as this. Pure genius.
The "Dove nested towers..." part is breathtaking. What a great singer Carl was.
This was the first Beach Boy bootleg album I ever owned. I loved it.
I wish they would have performed this song more often.......absolutely beautiful
A tale of two acts. One with contemporary, sophisticated arrangements coupled with inspired, intimate performances and the other nothing more than nostalgic pep-rally dribble which is what the masses are most familiar with. Too long has little attention been paid to the Beach Boys live sets from the early 70's. Columnated Ruins Dominoe..
Thank you, Randy Smith!!!!! You’re a dear, for uploading this. CARL DEAN WILSON on lead vocal= the ONLY voice to do this masterpiece true justice!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Surfs Up marked the point that turned the Beach Boys from being bloody good to being geniuses.
Wish this era BB live music would be released.
Thanks for sharing, Randy
oh man I do too!!!!!! I heard a bootleg version of River Song with Blondie singing lead.....it jammed!!!!!
Saw them in '73. Alas, they did not play Surf's Up. Brilliant.
I have this bootleg. It is an awesome show. I saw them a week later at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit and they were unbelievable there. That was 19 November (a Friday, I remember it well) . We snuck in a cassette player and I still have that recording. I thought the Detroit show was better. The Surfs Up material was great. I miss Carl Wilson terribly. His guitar playing was magnificent.
This music is forever
your courage is much appreciated. This is the best version of Surfs Up I've ever heard. Those piano chords are hauntingly beautiful.
Wish these guys would have been more encouraging of Brian when he was working on Smile. This song is nothing short of brilliant.
If anyone showed real support for Brian, it was Dennis.
Wow... a stone's throw from where I grew up and live........I could have seen it......but didn't.....
Wow, Carl, wow.
Amazingly good...they weren`t that hot live back then but this is excellent...carl could handle the difficult melody and such a mood changing piece....hard to believe this is the same group who gave us little deuce coup and surfing safari.....a different type of surf song.
That's just it, Brian Wilson was evolving at comet speed in '65 and '66. Everyone who was anyone, from the Beatles to Bernstein, from the Stones, to Cream, to the Who, to Zappa, to the future members of Pink Floyd, all sat up and took notice. Unfortunately, his band (two brothers, a cousin, and a high school friend) was not ready then...and here is them finally attempting to catch up four years too late (dog years in time passage) where by 1971, the music scene had passed them by.
Actually, in the early 70s (pre-Endless Summer), The Beach Boys were considered one of the best touring bands, along with The Grateful Dead.
@@ms8596 Prog was in full bloom in the early 70's, and this song is pure prog. As you said, Brian was way ahead of everyone.
I saw the Beach Boys three times 1966-68. They were very, very good, especially the tour where Buffalo Springfield and Strawberry Alarm Clock opened the show. So I suggest you scrutinize your sources more carefully. I never found them lacking.
I always took this title as the end of The Beach Boys. There is sadness and beauty in equal amounts unlike anything I ever heard.
Oh I have to agree with everything you said here. There live shows were fantastic and the new material was great. I wish they would have continued in this vein. Surfs Up is still my favorite album by them.
The first time I heard this song was on an album titled Ten Years of Harmony. It was a compilation album but of the Brother Records years which I think were the most creative. Nothing against the early stuff, but the songs from that album gave me a new respect for The Beach Boys.
I bought SURFS UP about a year after its release, but lost it somewhere. I bought 10 YEARS OF HARMONY as well, to retrieve SURFS UP. It also covered songs from HOLLAND which gave it the edge. As well as songs from their 10 years of Brother Records. If I recall the distributor for Brother was Caribou Records, itself distributed by Columbia Records.
The Late-Great Carl Wilson was the only one who do justice--real justice to this masterwork. I heard him do this in Sept. '71, at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, & it was spellbinding. The Best years, hands-down, of The Beach Boys, the Early 70's. Those years, & The 90's with Matt Jardine, are, IMHO, The Best Ever of the group, & Carl was the Leader, unquestioned. Wolfsky9
You might be forgetting one other guy, but I forget his name..
Lil' story.....
In 1969 I toured with beach boys in England for a few shows(London Palladium etc.)..One night back at the hotel around a piano, the guys (and Peter Noone) started singing this song and "God only Knows" and I actually said....... (I swear on my brother's memory this is true) "Hey guys why don't we try a different harmony , I think I got something!.... I got a look from everyone around the piano that I'll never forget and I thought to myself at that moment, as long as I live, this will be the f**k**g dumbest thing I've ever said!!)....true story.
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Barry Ryan
Yep, i reckon your right there Barry. Herman had the the good sense to keep quiet and listen.
What a memory though. They were a bit special indeed.
Eloise was on Radio 2 the other day and i enjoyed it whilst driving in the rare sunshine.
Ta mate.
LED1512 Cheers mate...Yeah...she's still sounds good after all these years.....bugger to sing though!!
:)
+Barry Ryan This is a wonderful anecdote, thank you so much.
You're welcome,,,,I still cringe when I think about it.....Bit like grabbing Picasso;s brush and saying "no.no.no...not like that like this!"
I like the drums on the end coda, it sounds like one of the Smile session outtakes for 'Child Is Father of The Man'. I wonder what the audience made of this one, they seemed to appreciate it.
Man, that was awesome!
How I would have loved to have seen this.
Sublime
Thank you, Carl!
@Wolfsky9 You are completely right about the early 70s years as the best for the Beach Boys. They were incredible live and they became like a popular underground band that was enjoyed by college students and had finally gained respect from the critics. Yet their mass popularity was still under the radar until the compilation album endless summer of 1974 basically threw them into a nostalgia act unfortunately. But they really were incredible from about 67-73
And thank Jerry Garcia for giving them his vocal support at that time. He used his status as "hippie guru" to validate their music. Because of jerry the Beach Boys were able to revive their career as performers.
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This is great
During their swing East I saw them at Carnegie Hall performance It was incredible! Carl had to absorb a lot of brother Brian’s burden & never complained Carl had the voice and demeanor of an angel
Really beautiful. Thanks for posting this.
Nice version. Live it must be one of the most difficult numbers to do justice to as I think the album version had so many legendary sequential parts, that it really wasn't put together with live performance in mind.
Fantastic live version of one of Brian's and Parks' best.
Thanks for sharing, Mega.
Peace.
This is righteous.
Favorite BB song! I don't really care for the snare off beats or the vibraslap on this live version....but I guess they needed a way to keep time...
Someone shut that vibraslap up!! ;-)
I agree totally! I didn't mean to make it sound like those early surfing songs weren't great. In fact a lot of those early albums like Shut Down, All Summer Long, Today and Summer Days and Nights are an example of some of the greatest produced creative songs that were ever made. Rivaled only by the Beatles and a few others. So I definitely don't want to take anything away from those early years. I just find some of the later weird stuff a bit more fascinating because it isn't as well known
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Great performance by Carl but the drums in that last ecstasy minute of the song are way too loud!
This is a bootleg so you can't judge the mix fairly! Just glad to be able to hear it!
Is it possibly 6% too slow though? Maybe a difference in calibration between your recorder and the unit you dumped it from? It seems a semitone down...
was anyone there? i wish was alive then
saw brian wilson live on his birthday at greek th. los angeles ca. 2015. he did this song and also busy doin nothin.. in interview short time later BW said he is not gonna sing those WORDY songs anymore.. to hard to sing.. crushed my hopes of a new smile tour replacing pet sounds tour. oh well
paul dash
You never know… No one ever thought he would finish the smile album so I guess there’s always hope
the end part of the song is so beautiful, easily one of the top 5 pieces of music ive ever heard in my life, the studio version though, not this
some songs were better than what the Beatles put out
Leo Sim, no. I like The Beach Boys way more than The Beatles, but have you heard some of the stuff they put out in the mid to late '70s and '80s? They didn't have Brian for most of them, and there were not a lot of good songs. Summer Days, Pet Sounds, Smiley Smile, SMiLE, Holland, Friends, and Surf's Up were some of their best albums, and what I would say are as good (if not better) than The Beatles'. (SMiLE, Pet Sounds, and Surf's Up are definitely better.)
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CARL DEAN WILSON. 💗 💕 ❤️
Is Bruce playing piano here?
what's prinston?
This recording was played back on a shitty recorder, I had to remix it back to it's original pitch. It was at least 2 steps too low, not to mention that soundboard-quality mix. I'm quite a bit happier with this after working on it. I'd rather Brian on vox than Carl for this one, Carl is too breathy in some parts, but a magical voice nonetheless.
www.dropbox.com/s/dyi3gaogz00hbke/remastered%20surf%27s%20up%20live.mp3?dl=0
@@tehee- Quite the improvement! Thanks for the mix :)
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Diann Wilso and Al Jadaes
Mike Loev
What an excessive percussion at the end.
It reminds me a lot of "Child is Father of the Man", another _Smile_ track which the coda takes elements from. Wouldn't surprise me if it were a deliberate nod to that song.
It's not excessive, it fits.
Wow, they really ruined the song at the end with that strangely wrong ending chord, like an insipid game show coming in out of nowhere.
It's fascinating the way many artists will add inappropriate "smash endings" when performing live. It dumbs down the music.
It's a fucking live show, they can't fade out
Lousy mix, the horns overide the harmonies. And what's with the ending?
carl is and was a star in his own right but this sucks! old grandad brian still makesa better effort at this beautiful song.
s j f you’re insane & tone deaf
s j f Better find another line of work because music doesn’t seem to be your strong suit