Beach Boys 50th Anniversary tour....with Brian Wilson?

[daemon]

Looks like Satan's gonna have to get his toque out for this interesting development.

[euro60]

you can take the question mark out of the thread's title as this was officially confirmed the other day. A new album in2012 with Brian Wilson, along a 50 date tour starting at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in late April. Depending on ticket price I might go if they come to Cincinnati.

[cyclone]

I was finally able to see Brian solo earlier this year.

I have no interest in seeing a re-united Beach Boys for the obvious reasons, but I guess with a definitive version of SMiLE finally being released, it's whatever.

[daemon]

you can take the question mark out of the thread's title as this was officially confirmed the other day.

Well, it was more of an incredulous question mark . Are Mike and Brian really going to be able to stand each other in the studio, much less on the road?  I can't see this being cheap, but if they do Riverbend maybe the lawn would be semi-affordable.

[cyclone]

I can't see this being cheap, but if they do Riverbend maybe the lawn would be semi-affordable.

I always assumed that the "Beach Boys" that Mike Love has still toured all these years as the only original member has to be pretty cheap, always playing Riverbend-type places playing the surfing/hot rod hits.  When I saw Brian earlier this year, the tickets were outrageous, and Brian is one of if not my single favorite musician of all-time.  My ex-gf who worked for the radio station that put it on got me in for free or else I would have never paid the $75-100 tickets.  That is of course because nowadays Brian "plays" a keyboard front and center and does his best to sing through the set ... the Wondermints backing band (responsible for the production on his solo Smile release) typically take on the lead vocal roles, and the younger keyboard player actually sang Darlin' from Wild Honey by himself.  Brian does his best, and got up to play bass in the encore.  The most interesting thing is that 99% of the crowd was people in their 50s/60s, a lot of them dawned on Hawaiian shirts and the like.  I was a little shocked that people would pay that kind of money for a Brian solo show rather than the numerous times they could seemingly see the quote unquote "Beach Boys" for cheap.  Granted, maybe I'm wrong in making the assumption that most of them probably weren't aware of the internal Brian/Mike drama, didn't view the importance of Pet Sounds, etc.

As far as the Brian/Mike stuff goes, it's hard to tell these days.  I had kind of figured that the numerous times Mike tries to sue Brian it may have been the final straw in recent years.  Brian these days, perhaps with his mental state and passive, almost childlike demeanor, seems pretty dismissive whenever that kind of stuff is brought up.  I feel like Van Dyke Parks probably still holds a lot of resentment.  Brian has probably just gotten to the point where he wants to put it behind him/them.

[twentyshots]

they should drop the "boys".
beach men.

[Cockney Rebel]

They should drop the "beach" too...

Old Men

[euro60]

I can't see this being cheap, but if they do Riverbend maybe the lawn would be semi-affordable.

When the Monkees came around to Cincinnati earlier year on their reunion tour (at the Aronoff Center), tickets were super-pricey. If the Beach Boys do a similar thing, I won't be there for sure.

[TayFo]

in '93 i saw the beach boys @ king's island for $19.
in ;99 i saw brian wilson in a small chicago theater for $48.
if they play aronoff tickets will start easily for $60. (beach boys > monkees)
if the play riverbend lawn tickets for $40.
if the don't play cincinnati nobody will be surprised.

[euro60]

in '93 i saw the beach boys @ king's island for $19.
in ;99 i saw brian wilson in a small chicago theater for $48.
if they play aronoff tickets will start easily for $60. (beach boys > monkees)
if the play riverbend lawn tickets for $40.
if the don't play cincinnati nobody will be surprised.

The only time I've seen the Beach Boys was at a free after-Reds show at Riverfront Stadium, I'm thinking 88 or 89 or so (when they were semi-relevant again because of the huge Kokomo hit single).
But I did see Brian Wilson in Detroit some 5 years ago, what a great show. Need to look up the venue, it was suburban Detroit's version of Riverbend