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...
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.
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.
I am in love with The Beatles and The Beach Boys. They both delivered great, great music.Brian and Paul love each other as friends and musical soulmates. They're mates. Mike Love was with The Beatles in India in '68. Elvis was fantastic too. But when it came to screams, The Beatles caused the greatest hysteria in pop culture ever...I don't care if they hadn't done, but that is the real historical truth.
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!
@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.
@riv4life618 I'm 57. I don't know if Dennis Wilson, who was a hero to me, got more screams than any individual Beatle, but when it came to screams for the Beatles as a collective band, the like has never been seen before or since. It truly was a mania...Beatlemania. But so what, the Beatles and The Beach Boys music was equally fabulous. The sixties..what a time. The hits and the quality just kept coming. God Only Knows met Paperback Writer/ Rain, Good Vibrations met Eleanor Rigby and on and on.
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!
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
Live recordings at times don't show what effect the bands songs have, for example on slower more intricate numbers the audience would be just tuning into the songs even on more upbeat number the recordings sound poor and thin but when you look at the audience they would be really enjoying it. You have to be there to really appreciate live music in my opinion except some really good live recordings of which we have been blessed with from the Beach Boys 🙂
"but when it came to screams for the Beatles as a collective band, the like has never been seen before or since". One word: ELVIS I wouldn't have brought up screaming, except I was responding to someone else. I am a fan of MUSIC, not popularity contests, screaming, hype, image, cool factor, etc. Hence why I'm not a Beatles fan, because imho, that's the only thing they have on The Beach Boys.
@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.
@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
@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.
this is so f ¥ cking badass! Love early 70s Beach!
Carl Wilson ruled! What a singer.
You can see Ed Carter playing bass right behind Bruce during "Cottonfields"
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.
Beautiful rendition of "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring"
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...
Incredible footage! Thank you soooo much!!! Can't believe they did "It's About Time"! Who could possibly give this a thumbs down?
There's another live version of "It's About Time" on CZcams from 1971, which is even better. I love that song!
Wow...do you realize how rare this is????
thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
My God, they could sing so well back then...
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.
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?
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.
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
The crowd is just standing there. Not even bobbing their heads to the music. "I heard a scream out there."
The key is Carl's saying that Capitol Records did label and pigeonhole them. Here they aren't surfer boys no more.
Wow ,this is wonderful !!!
I am in love with The Beatles and The Beach Boys. They both delivered great, great music.Brian and Paul love each other as friends and musical soulmates. They're mates. Mike Love was with The Beatles in India in '68. Elvis was fantastic too. But when it came to screams, The Beatles caused the greatest hysteria in pop culture ever...I don't care if they hadn't done, but that is the real historical truth.
Wow, not a surf song in the bunch! I love it!
lovely~
Carl was so cute 😍
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!
@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.
I'm a HUGE Beach Boys fan but please go find and put on The Beatles song "Because"... The Beatles were great singers.
That’s Al on lead, on Cottonfields.
CARL DEAN WILSON. FOREVERMORE.
Its funny how Mike love says one more time in Cottonfields, but here is no one more time hehehe !!!
@riv4life618 I'm 57. I don't know if Dennis Wilson, who was a hero to me, got more screams than any individual Beatle, but when it came to screams for the Beatles as a collective band, the like has never been seen before or since. It truly was a mania...Beatlemania. But so what, the Beatles and The Beach Boys music was equally fabulous. The sixties..what a time. The hits and the quality just kept coming. God Only Knows met Paperback Writer/ Rain, Good Vibrations met Eleanor Rigby and on and on.
it's good to hear Bruce in there
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!
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.
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
Live recordings at times don't show what effect the bands songs have, for example on slower more intricate numbers the audience would be just tuning into the songs even on more upbeat number the recordings sound poor and thin but when you look at the audience they would be really enjoying it.
You have to be there to really appreciate live music in my opinion except some really good live recordings of which we have been blessed with from the Beach Boys 🙂
Wow, they were good then - a proper band, playing honestly...
I wish I could hear what they were saying in their interviews, those french translations are a real bummer! You can barely here what they're saying.
"but when it came to screams for the Beatles as a collective band, the like has never been seen before or since". One word: ELVIS
I wouldn't have brought up screaming, except I was responding to someone else. I am a fan of MUSIC, not popularity contests, screaming, hype, image, cool factor, etc. Hence why I'm not a Beatles fan, because imho, that's the only thing they have on The Beach Boys.
yes he always sang bass
@stumptacular He says "It's About Time", the title of the song.
ok out of the four here singing hearts wer ful of spring: who was singing the highest falsetto? Bruce? Carl?
yeah seriously, the crowd is pretty lame. maybe they're just in complete awe of how awesome the group is
Why was Dennis not singing on Hearts were full of spring?
Denny is as flexible as Gumby
Wow, even Mike sounds honest here!
Light crowd. Wonder if this was a 'for documentary' quasi-rehearsal with some fan club members admitted.
ou se trouve ce doc en entier ?
@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.
@Ricardodelamuerte
true yes
I believe this was a four freshman song...
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@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.
SHUT. UP.. MIKE
Al Jardine is the Ringo Starr of the Beach Boys!
Yeah the french stuff is kind of dumb, even if it was in Paris.
@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
riv4life618 wow. I feel so sad. I’ve never heard anyone say they don’t like the Beatles.
@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.
wow bald Mike looks great. Nice hat covering his bald head. Hope it doesn't fall off because his bald head would blind the crowd
@TubeNumber1
truth is Brian should have joined The Beatles in 1962.
imagine that
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