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Subject: Jubilee Concert
Brian Wilson should just never sing in public again :P
Subject: Re: Jubilee Concert
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Brian Wilson should just never sing in public again :P
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LOL.
It's very cruel - but I must agree. I'm trying, but I just can't seem to find the correct words to describe what I saw in that performance!
Subject: Re: Jubilee Concert
What happened?
Subject: Re: Jubilee Concert
He attempted to sing "California Girls", I seem to recall. I may be wrong about the actual song - I only watched that part for about 5 seconds before I had to switch channels, it was so painful.
Subject: Re: Jubilee Concert
Good thing they didn't show that concert in the States!!! ;D
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He attempted to sing "California Girls", I seem to recall. I may be wrong about the actual song - I only watched that part for about 5 seconds before I had to switch channels, it was so painful.
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Lol - and if you stayed put for the next 20 mins, you would have heard the other songs he *attempted* to sing. My mind appears to have repressed the titles of these songs so if I hear the originals, I wont be scarred for life ;D
Subject: Re: Jubilee Concert
I have to admit I wasn't expecting him to perform anything off Shut Down Volume Two... especially not The Warmth Of The Sun, my second favourite track from said album. I think it's great he's still performing, but perhaps having been at it for 41 years now, and even before that with Murry and his brothers it's time to slow down a bit.
Subject: Re: Jubilee Concert
Hey but Sir Paul McCartney did a GREAT JOB, did he not!! And Elton John was pretty good as well!
Peace,Cat Lover
Subject: Re: Jubilee Concert
OK, they replayed it last night on TV here in Oz.
I suppose I should cut BW some slack as, judging from his stiffness, he appears to have suffered a stroke. So he did pretty well to be up there at all. To be honest, Ozzy looked more out of it than Brian :P
But I was real impressed with the guy who did "Bohemian Rhapsody" - I think it was the lead performer from "We Will Rock You" (a Queen musical). He looked like a cross between the lead singer of "Placebo", the lead singer of "The Dandy Warhols", with a little bit of the lead singer from "Pulp" thrown in... He could sing, and emote as well :)
Subject: Re: Jubilee Concert
As someone who has watched a modern Brian Wilson sing Good Vibrations with his Roxy band (which includes Taylor Mills, the only girl on the set). Yes, it does appear as if he's had a mild stroke, speaking from one side of his mouth, yet, if you think about it, being deaf in his right ear, he'd do that naturally so he could, in a sense, hear his own speech.
As a Wilson fan, I would be more glad to hear some rarer tracks, perhaps those off Surfer Girl/Shut Down v.2, whatever. What I'm saying is, having been known since birth, he's under a certain pressure to do this, this, and this, the way he wants. Now, Dennis was the exception to this rule, as anyone who's read about his drugged, enebriated, past where, by 15, he smoke, drank, and had got a neighbourhood girl pregnant. Underneath all this, as you'll hear Brian admit, Dennis was still churning out the most beautiful love songs of all. But Brian, who often joined him on these substance binges, even up until the day in 1983 that DW died, was not entirely blameless. If there was any there, he'd still be at it now, that's doubtless.
What I'm saying is, with the past he had, he's had one great life out of it, from an outsider's view.