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Summary: Why not put the whole concert out?
Review: 22 Minutes?Why not release the whole show featuring The Beatles.The Beach Boys and Leslie Gore?It would make a good document of the times.
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Summary: Too Short and Sadly Uninspired
Review: A smug, gum chewing Mike Love leads the band in a very short set of uninspired versions of Beach Boy songs.Their set is very short- so why the inclusion of "Papa-Ooo-Mow-Mow", "Long Tall Texan" and "Hawaii"? Nowhere is the "genius" of Brian Wilson evident. Nowhere are the beautiful Beach Boy harmonies. The only thing in abundance on this video is Mike Love's hamminess. This is still a must for the hardcore fan. And it is goofy fun for people longing for the 60's. When all is said and done, there are a few good points. Brian before his breakdown, Mike Love strutting around like a proud peacock- something tells me he's putting us all on and this is all done with a wink and tongue firmly in cheek- and hearing the group without benefit of a back up band. It is impressive that they can play their own instruments and get away with it. Nice time capsule. Sadly uninspired. Too short. Needs a better song selection. I'm glad I got it, but hust barely.
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Summary: Fun, Fun, Fun
Review: I discovered this video on cable in 1998. I loved it! It's a fun video with great music. Brain is animated, Mike Love is adorable dancing the mashed potatoes while the band plays the earliest hits. Remember it was made in 1964, so the sound quality is good, for the times. It's only 20 minutes long, but it's a must have for any Beach Boys fan.
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Summary: Fun, Fun, Fun
Review: I discovered this video on cable in 1998. I loved it! It's a fun video with great music. Brain is animated, Mike Love is adorable dancing the mashed potatoes while the band plays the earliest hits. Remember it was made in 1964, so the sound quality is good, for the times. It's only 20 minutes long, but it's a must have for any Beach Boys fan.
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Summary: "in memory of...."
Review: I viewed the video and I was very impressed with how much closer I'd felt to the "Beach Boys". I happen to own several albums, saved from early teen years, and as I watched I looked at names and relating the faces at the same time. It made me feel so much closer to the musicians I used to dance with in my room for hours! I felt shadowed with emotion for Brian Wilson, who had such a terrible battle with mental illness, he was as brilliant as Gerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and any other of the so-called "Greats"; our early beginnings of fine rock, rockabilly and "surfing music".
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Summary: Beach Boys - The Lost Concert
Review: I was the first fan club president for the Beach Boys and if you look in the audience you will see Marilyn Rovell Wilson and myself. This show was one of the first taped live of the Beach Boys along with the "Bob Hope Show". I was at both. It is truly amazing to see it again even with their obvious nervousness what attracted me to them so long ago. It's worth owning for any true Beach Boy fan! Jolene (Jodi) Gable Firgens
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Summary: "Beach Boys Concert" album video
Review: If you own the "Beach Boys Concert" album, you will enjoy watching this DVD as they share the same time period - and thus - concert sets and bits between the songs.
The video is pristine and the audio is very clean. Their performance is quite good and a lot of fun. I enjoyed it because it wasn't perfect. All too often, the only clips from this time have the bands lip-sync their latest hit record.
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Summary: Let's Go Surfin' Now!!
Review: Refusing to backdown to the tidal wave of Beatlemania, the Beach Boys pumped out 22 minutes of pure joy in this lost treasure from 1964. Sure, the concert is short, but brief gigs were all the rage in the early 60's. The Boys whip out classics such as "Little Duece Coupe", "Hawaii" and "Surfin' USA" with the frenetic energy of a garage band auditioning for their first gig. The adolescent girls shriek hysterically as drummer Denny Wilson shakes his long hair while pounding out a fearsome beat. Mike Love clucks around the stage like a reject from a Gidget movie. But, oh what fun! Then of course there's Brian, just nine months before his "retirement" from the road, caressing the crowd with his beautiful falsetto on "Surfer Girl". In fact, the rare appearance of Brian -- looking happy and healthy -- makes this video worthwhile. The Beach Boys, like the Beatles, would progress by leaps and bounds the following two years. Albums such as "Today" and "Pet Sounds" would prove to be landmark achievements, but never again would they seem so innocent and so wrecklessly full of energy. This video is a must own for all Beach Boys fans.
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Summary: Quintessential Southern California of the 60s
Review: THE BEACH BOYS - THE LOST CONCERT is a nostalgic reminder of the Southern California of the 1960s, where the Pacific-washed edge of the place was populated with sun-tanned surfers and their girls, and the Beach Boys could be heard on every car radio and beach blanket transistor. The DVD, only 22 minutes in length, has the group singing 9 of their songs, including "Fun, Fun, Fun", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Surfer Girl", "Surfin' USA", and "Shut Down". The performance on March 14, 1964 - before a live audience - was filmed by promoters to air on closed-circuit TV in theaters. The DVD seems to be a faithful reproduction of the original B&W film, though one gets the impression that the promoters were working on a limited budget. The teenage audience, the makeshift stage, and the overworked sound system suggests that the venue was a commandeered high school gym. And, as the camera pans the fans, I was left wondering, "Did we really look that geeky?" (I myself was a high school frosh at the time.) Regardless of the unsophistication of the production, this DVD is a must see for Beach Boy fans of that long ago era when US pop-music performers could still be well-groomed, clean-cut, and heart-breakingly All-American, and their lyrics celebrated fast cars, bikini-clad girls, and catching the next monster wave. Though I grew up in Malibu, the center of the SoCal beach culture, I was never a surfer myself. I would have been disowned by my Mom at least, to whom "surfer" conjured up visions of long-haired, lazy bums (only to be replaced in the 70s by "long-haired, drug-ridden hippies"). But, in that carefree period of my life, the sun shone, the ocean breezes swayed the palms, the waves caressed the beach off Point Dume, and the Beach Boys provided the background music. I miss those days. Truly.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: The DVD's audio sound like it was recorded in a Garage. Very Disappointed.
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