Tonight I thought I would list my personal top 10 list; my favorite 10 live performances. They are all some of my favorite groups/artists but this list's number one is not necessarily my favorite artist, and number two not my second favorite etc. But in this case my number one in this list is actually my favorite...This blog was supposed to be all about the doors, and later on the beach boys also but this is an exception because I won't update this blog anymore..maybe one more time or so...well...enjoy my list!
10. The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women, live in Hyde Park 1969
I like this...it's really funky!
9. Dick Dale - Surfing & Misirlou - Ed Sullivan Show
Cause I looove Misirlou and he sure can play that guitar..this performance is soo great.
8. Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Just because this is like one of the best songs ever..and they are great live. From the Use Your Illusion tour..one of the longest tours in rock history..
7. W.A.S.P. - Tormentor, at the Lyceum in October 1984. It's not a favorite song of mine but it's a cool performance because it shows W.A.S.P. at their best...I would say...with the raw meat and everything...it's crazy but also interesting and kinda cool..I actually saw these guys live the other day..or well one of them..Blackie, and he behaved angelic hehe...people change for sure. Nice asses...hmm.
6.I posted this video already but here it is on the list...The Doors - Back Door Man + The End(live at the hollywood bowl 1968) They're both greaaat.
5. Guns N' Roses - Rocket Queen, Live at the Ritz 1988.
Probably their best concert ever..pure rock n roll..and gotta love the dropping out of the song to smoke some cigs..
4. W.A.S.P - On Your Knees, at the Lyceum in October 1984.
3. The Beach Boys - I Get Around&When I Grow Up, their first UK performance in November 1964. Cause watching them makes me happy and Brian is so cuteee. Actually I wanted to post another performance but I could not find it but this is also great.
wowowow..number 2...it's really hard to list my top 10...there are so many other performances I really love...well well..
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird, 4th of July 1977. This song is one of my favorite songs and this performance is amazing.
1. Elvis Presley...<3<3<3 I could not choose between these two performances, they are both breathtaking and show Elvis at his best...even though the 2nd video is 5 years later..it shows that Elvis was always at his best...and I love him..greatest artist EVER. - Trying to get to you- Comeback Special 1968/An American Trilogy- Aloha From Hawaii 1973(broadcast live via satellite around the world and watched by over 1 and ½ billion viewers...the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.) ...An American Trilogy is not even one of my favorite songs but this performance is powerful.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Down in Kokomo
Facts about the song Kokomo
*This came together when producer Terry Melcher was hired to work on a song with The Beach Boys for the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail. The Beach Boys' best days were behind them, and they had been playing fairs and nostalgia shows. They were one of the most popular bands of the 60s, and had a bunch of songs dealing with recreation and fun, which is why they were asked to record for the movie.
*Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The Beach Boys, but he had nothing to do with this. He released his first solo album that year and came out with the first single, "Love And Mercy," 3 weeks before this was released. Wilson's album didn't do very well.
*Melcher wrote this with the help of John Phillips, a former member of The Mamas And The Papas, Beach Boy Mike Love, and Scott McKenzie, who had a hit in 1967 with "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)." Phillips' daughter Chynna was in the group Wilson Phillips with Brian Wilson's daughters, Carnie and Wendy.
*Kokomo is a city in the middle of Indiana and is also a small resort owned by Sandals Royal Caribbean in Montego Bay, the title was made up. It was supposed to represent all the tropical places and images that people think of when wishing to get away to some paradise island to escape the dreary work life. John Phillips thought the name sounded good and wanted to use it for the title. Mike Love added the "Aruba, Jamaica" part and changed the line "That's where we used to go" to "That's where we want to go."
*Van Dyke Parks was called in to help record the song. He worked closely with Brian Wilson and was a big part of the "Smile" project - an album Wilson worked on when he was going through drug addiction and severe mental problems. Parks was one of the few people in Wilson's world at the time, and helped with lyrics on the project, which was never finished. Having Parks at the sessions made it more of a legitimate Beach Boys song. He arranged the steel drum band and played accordion on the track.
*This was released in July 1988, but it went nowhere until the movie came out a few months later and made it a huge hit. When The Beach Boys played it live during concerts that summer, it got no response.
*Before this, the last US #1 for The Beach Boys was "Good Vibrations" in 1966. At 22 years, it was the longest ever between #1 hits.
*Actor John Stamos played drums in the video. He is famous for his work on the TV show Full House and for his wife, actress Rebecca Romijn Stamos.
*The Beach Boys performed this song on an episode of Full House entitled "Beach Boy Bingo." Everyone tries to coax D.J., who won 2 tickets to the next Beach Boys concert, to take them with her. John Stamos played "Jesse" on the show.
*The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame the year this was released.
*In 1999, DJ Bob Rivers parodied the song as "Kosovo."
From Wikipedia
*In the original version, lead vocals were performed by Mike Love and Carl Wilson. The harmonies include Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston. The only active Beach Boys member not involved with the recording was Brian Wilson, who, according to his autobiography, was given short notice of the recording session and unable to attend. He was, however, included in concert recordings of the song, including a live concert filmed for the television show Full House (episode 028). The 2008 A&E Network Biography on Brian Wilson stated that Mike Love would "brag" about having a #1 hit without Wilson's help.
*"Kokomo" appeared on VH1's "40 Most Awesomely Bad No. 1 Songs". However, it received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song - Motion Picture in 1989. The song also ranked at #12 on Blender magazine's list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever",[2] while the music video was named the #3 worst video of 1988 on MuchMoreMusic's Back In... '88.
*This came together when producer Terry Melcher was hired to work on a song with The Beach Boys for the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail. The Beach Boys' best days were behind them, and they had been playing fairs and nostalgia shows. They were one of the most popular bands of the 60s, and had a bunch of songs dealing with recreation and fun, which is why they were asked to record for the movie.
*Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The Beach Boys, but he had nothing to do with this. He released his first solo album that year and came out with the first single, "Love And Mercy," 3 weeks before this was released. Wilson's album didn't do very well.
*Melcher wrote this with the help of John Phillips, a former member of The Mamas And The Papas, Beach Boy Mike Love, and Scott McKenzie, who had a hit in 1967 with "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)." Phillips' daughter Chynna was in the group Wilson Phillips with Brian Wilson's daughters, Carnie and Wendy.
*Kokomo is a city in the middle of Indiana and is also a small resort owned by Sandals Royal Caribbean in Montego Bay, the title was made up. It was supposed to represent all the tropical places and images that people think of when wishing to get away to some paradise island to escape the dreary work life. John Phillips thought the name sounded good and wanted to use it for the title. Mike Love added the "Aruba, Jamaica" part and changed the line "That's where we used to go" to "That's where we want to go."
*Van Dyke Parks was called in to help record the song. He worked closely with Brian Wilson and was a big part of the "Smile" project - an album Wilson worked on when he was going through drug addiction and severe mental problems. Parks was one of the few people in Wilson's world at the time, and helped with lyrics on the project, which was never finished. Having Parks at the sessions made it more of a legitimate Beach Boys song. He arranged the steel drum band and played accordion on the track.
*This was released in July 1988, but it went nowhere until the movie came out a few months later and made it a huge hit. When The Beach Boys played it live during concerts that summer, it got no response.
*Before this, the last US #1 for The Beach Boys was "Good Vibrations" in 1966. At 22 years, it was the longest ever between #1 hits.
*Actor John Stamos played drums in the video. He is famous for his work on the TV show Full House and for his wife, actress Rebecca Romijn Stamos.
*The Beach Boys performed this song on an episode of Full House entitled "Beach Boy Bingo." Everyone tries to coax D.J., who won 2 tickets to the next Beach Boys concert, to take them with her. John Stamos played "Jesse" on the show.
*The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame the year this was released.
*In 1999, DJ Bob Rivers parodied the song as "Kosovo."
From Wikipedia
*In the original version, lead vocals were performed by Mike Love and Carl Wilson. The harmonies include Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston. The only active Beach Boys member not involved with the recording was Brian Wilson, who, according to his autobiography, was given short notice of the recording session and unable to attend. He was, however, included in concert recordings of the song, including a live concert filmed for the television show Full House (episode 028). The 2008 A&E Network Biography on Brian Wilson stated that Mike Love would "brag" about having a #1 hit without Wilson's help.
*"Kokomo" appeared on VH1's "40 Most Awesomely Bad No. 1 Songs". However, it received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song - Motion Picture in 1989. The song also ranked at #12 on Blender magazine's list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever",[2] while the music video was named the #3 worst video of 1988 on MuchMoreMusic's Back In... '88.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Facts II
*The Wilsons are brothers. Mike Love is their cousin and Al Jardine was Brian Wilson's classmate.
*Brian Wilson was the creative force. He was tormented by drug problems and a difficult childhood. He lost most of the hearing in his right ear when his father hit him with a wooden plank. By 1965, he stopped touring with the band and focused on writing and producing their songs. He was replaced on tour by Glen Campbell, who played on their Pet Sounds album as well as "Good Vibrations."
*In 1968, Dennis Wilson became friends with Charles Manson, who thought of himself as a songwriter. Wilson let Manson and his followers stay at his place and paid most of their expenses. When it became clear Manson was not of sound mind, Dennis was afraid to evict him, so he just let the lease end on the house and never came back to it. Manson and his "family" went on a notorious murder spree in 1969. Before he killed anyone, the Beach Boys recorded one of Manson's songs - "Learn Not To Love."
*Dennis Wilson died in 1983 when he drowned while swimming near his boat in California. US president Ronald Reagan gave special permission so his body could be buried at sea.
*They became the first major American rock group to play in a Communist country when they performed in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
*Along with Chynna Phillips, Brian Wilson's daughters Wendie and Carnie formed the popular early '90s group Wilson Phillips. Brian and Carnie were estranged for many years, but reconciled in 1995.
*Carl Wilson died of lung cancer in 1998.
*At one point when he was depressed, Brian Wilson weighed over 300 pounds.
*Brian Wilson stopped touring with the band because he hated performing, but he also hated to fly. Much of the travel on their early tours was by bus.
*Mike Love also surfed somewhat, but basically it was just Dennis that surfed. Brian Wilson, ironically, had a pathological fear of the ocean. There was a famous sketch on SNL in which John Belushi and Dan Akroyd play policemen who arrest and force Brian him to go surfing. They go to a real beach, and Brian does indeed go in the water, about knee deep. He had to have his therapist on site to keep re-assuring him he would be okay.
And some videos....
Brian Wilson on SNL
The Beach Boys(Dennis Wilson) & Charles Manson
From the TV miniseries; The Beach Boys, An American Family
*Brian Wilson was the creative force. He was tormented by drug problems and a difficult childhood. He lost most of the hearing in his right ear when his father hit him with a wooden plank. By 1965, he stopped touring with the band and focused on writing and producing their songs. He was replaced on tour by Glen Campbell, who played on their Pet Sounds album as well as "Good Vibrations."
*In 1968, Dennis Wilson became friends with Charles Manson, who thought of himself as a songwriter. Wilson let Manson and his followers stay at his place and paid most of their expenses. When it became clear Manson was not of sound mind, Dennis was afraid to evict him, so he just let the lease end on the house and never came back to it. Manson and his "family" went on a notorious murder spree in 1969. Before he killed anyone, the Beach Boys recorded one of Manson's songs - "Learn Not To Love."
*Dennis Wilson died in 1983 when he drowned while swimming near his boat in California. US president Ronald Reagan gave special permission so his body could be buried at sea.
*They became the first major American rock group to play in a Communist country when they performed in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
*Along with Chynna Phillips, Brian Wilson's daughters Wendie and Carnie formed the popular early '90s group Wilson Phillips. Brian and Carnie were estranged for many years, but reconciled in 1995.
*Carl Wilson died of lung cancer in 1998.
*At one point when he was depressed, Brian Wilson weighed over 300 pounds.
*Brian Wilson stopped touring with the band because he hated performing, but he also hated to fly. Much of the travel on their early tours was by bus.
*Mike Love also surfed somewhat, but basically it was just Dennis that surfed. Brian Wilson, ironically, had a pathological fear of the ocean. There was a famous sketch on SNL in which John Belushi and Dan Akroyd play policemen who arrest and force Brian him to go surfing. They go to a real beach, and Brian does indeed go in the water, about knee deep. He had to have his therapist on site to keep re-assuring him he would be okay.
And some videos....
Brian Wilson on SNL
The Beach Boys(Dennis Wilson) & Charles Manson
From the TV miniseries; The Beach Boys, An American Family
Sunday, November 1, 2009
<3 Brian
My top ten
1. California Girls
2. Catch a wave
3. Surfin' USA
4. Don't Worry Baby
5. Good Vibrations
6. Surfer Girl
7. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
8. I Get Around
9. Surfin'
10. Sloop John B
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