The Beach Boys on The Midnight Special (1979-04-27)

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4 жыл бұрын

reluctant to upload this as the quality is definitely not the best by any stretch of the imagination and it definitely exists in better quality (i know the good vibrations performance was released on DVD for instance) but i was asked to upload this so gestures here it is.
TIMESTAMPS
00:16 - Good Vibrations
5:20 - Here Comes The Night (disco!)
8:48 - Surfin' U.S.A
11:22 - Angel Come Home (shame about it cutting in like that, there is a full upload on youtube though)
15:02 - Rock and Roll Music
17:46 - Lady Lynda
21:51 - Good Vibrations (again.)
also if you want to see mike get attacked with a mystery piece of fabric view 14:39

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@michaelclark4043 11 ай бұрын

Carl was not only a great singer but a great guitarist as well. He was an all around talented musician. He was the main ingredient of the Beach Boys.

@326cher 3 жыл бұрын

Carl's voice is so angelic!! And I'll always love Dennis.

@LBNLDC1 5 ай бұрын

A real live performance of Good Vibrations, a very challenging song. Amazing. Carl’s voice is perfect. God bless Brian for writing a vehicle for it.

@stevenbrockiv4674 2 жыл бұрын

Love them Wilson boy's, Carl is so great love his voice.

@Mike583 Жыл бұрын

I'm listening to this almost to the day,44 years later! 70 & still love listening to their music! What a tragedy, that befell the Wilson Brothers!❤💔💔💔

@allsummerlong Жыл бұрын

Denny is awesome on "Good Vibrations" and funny how Brian vacates the stage for "Here Comes The Night (Disco Version)" as if to say, "I can't be seen with this..."

@allsummerlong Жыл бұрын

"Lady Lynda" rules too!

@sheatiller2465 2 жыл бұрын

Angel Come Home is such a good song.

@ms8596 3 ай бұрын

Nice to see Dennis still with his faculties and looks.

@ENigma-um8zw 3 жыл бұрын

In 2021 I am SO here FOR Disco Beach Boys ! Hell yeah what a great version of Here Comes The Night, thats hot af

@wagonmaster1974 Жыл бұрын

Beach Boys doing what they do best. Cool to see Wolfman rocking!

@JenniDarlin Жыл бұрын

This is FANTASTIC!! Quality is not that bad. Thank you for posting it! ❤❤❤

@sleepinthecloud1524 Жыл бұрын

so great to see Brian rocking out on the bass.

@gerrydooley951 3 жыл бұрын

June , 1979 had just gone to see the BB's at Berkeley's Greek Theatre. Came home to my friends apartment, turned on the TV and the Boys were hosting the Midnight Special. It was a great night.

@TheStarclipse 4 жыл бұрын

Thank You Elora for this Birthday gift 😎🖤🆒🤗

@kirstenhaldrup5219 7 ай бұрын

Wow even Brian clapping with/for the audienceon GV! Good stuff!

@rickbaker8188 Ай бұрын

Carl had thermostat beautiful voice. His singing was amazing. The older I get the more I appreciate the brilliance of their "simple" music.

@will2741 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing, and as McGuinn Clark and Hillman were on the show too, it raises the possibility that two of my all time musical heroes, Gene Clark and Dennis Wilson got trashed together afterwards and said nice things about each others music

@Ned88Man Жыл бұрын

knowing what little i know about Gene and Dennis, there is a good chance it happened!

@jpinnacle 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. So great seeing the whole band together on stage like this.

@jayastor4663 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for posting this one! It brings back some nice memories of the LA Light album for me.

@charliestoops8815 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, an underrated one in their discography. Baby Blue, Angel Come Home, Love Surrounds Me, Good Timin’, Lady Lynda, all beautiful songs.

@timcahill605 10 ай бұрын

Go l a light album

@Allthisisthat31 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting. I remember this performance well - for me its again all about "Lady Lynda" - spectacular.

@fredgien 4 жыл бұрын

It is sad to see Dennis and know what would happen in the next years.

@tomklonoski176 3 жыл бұрын

But nice to see him appreciated by the crowd when he sang

@randallkennedy2066 3 жыл бұрын

Dennis had talent.

@LetitRainNow450 3 жыл бұрын

He was barely drumming. Totally strung out

@ENigma-um8zw 2 жыл бұрын

I’m just thankful he was able to make and bless us with his music forever and Pacific Ocean Blue and Bambu albums and material-but yeah I 100% wish he was still alive tho. Man the stories that guy could tell, he’d be the best podcast guest or memoir writer. I’d read the fuck out of his tales. Sure by the end it was sad but he lived a fast hot burning life, he was Capricorn Carl was a Sagittarius and Brian is a Gemini, they all lived wild lives more so then the other ‘Boys, and Dennis probably the most of them all in the big scheme of things, I mean when the Mansons are tied to your story that’s a sign of some far out late 60s shit lol I love it and I respect him dearly. He drummed and sang his heart out for audiences, he was noted to have influenced the hard hitting strike of John Bonham and also the power style of Keith Moon both of which note Dennis as a rock drummer influence of theirs. So that’s not nothing. I mean we have to remember; They were one of the first big US rock groups in the early 60s even before the Beatles and went on to compete somewhat till Brian wasn’t able to complete SMiLE and went recluse for several years and the band had to become their own without him or with minimal input aside from a handful of instances like Love You and others where he had dominance of production again. Nonetheless. *Long live the legacy of the Wilson Bros and Beach Boys and RIP Dennis and Carl*

@Tommy-TwigFan 2 жыл бұрын

@@LetitRainNow450 lmao no

@derekbeauchamp2409 3 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant, never seen the whole thing before. Thanks for sharing !!! ❤️

@susanmcclellan1773 4 жыл бұрын

Love brian carl and dennis love those wilson boys always.

@TonysMusic1974 4 жыл бұрын

They were never the same after Carl Passed :-(

@gerrydooley951 3 жыл бұрын

Nope, especially as a live band

@officialFredDurstfanclub Жыл бұрын

I miss him daily

@andrewcarey5359 11 ай бұрын

@@gerrydooley951Mike’s band is The Beach Boys one with Carl is not because Mike is the lead singer.

@gerrydooley951 11 ай бұрын

@@andrewcarey5359 not sure what you just said, please explain

@truthtransistorradio6716 10 ай бұрын

2012 was a good year for the band. Using Brian's backing band and 5 surviving members! Better than the 80s and 90s in my opinion.

@thomasbrown7791 Жыл бұрын

Great segment love the disco song they did i.hope it's out on DVD some where it was great to see Brian Wilson back performing with the guys I didn't see him at first he was over on the side playing and singing he could still reach the high notes!!!

@Ned88Man Жыл бұрын

It seems that all the original 5 are here. There couldn't have been a whole lot more shows where they all appeared on stage together after this.

@tanyaterrell74 3 жыл бұрын

I had no idea The Beach Boys did a disco song!! Sounds good ❤️❤️❤️

@andrewcarey5359 11 ай бұрын

Same didn’t knew either.

@ms8596 5 ай бұрын

This was '79. You had McCartney coming out with “Goodnight Tonight” in early '79, the Rolling Stones with "Some Girls" in '78, and the Beach Boys dusting off a song from late '67 album Wild Honey, originally done in an R&B style, and making a disco song out of it in early '79, complete with 7 snd 12" single. Unfortunately, by the point in '79 when this was released, people were getting pretty sick of disco. Bad timing. The die hard fans hated it, and the disco crowd only took it to 44 on the hot 100.

@ellenblood415 3 ай бұрын

Always loved Al Jardine

@allanspence1347 Жыл бұрын

Mike Love gives me the creeps

@frereanaktom99 9 ай бұрын

me too

@rejectionisprotection4448 8 ай бұрын

Me too (2).

@butteheadbuttrack4728 3 жыл бұрын

Ty for uploading.

@NOWtheband 4 жыл бұрын

I LOVE that version of Here Comes The Night, especially the long verison (minus the sax), much more than the original. Sooooo good! :-)

@mrsharpe 4 жыл бұрын

Listen to this 1979 version featuring Brian's 1967 vocals. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rshodcZ9l6ubh6s.html

@guitarraman1237 Жыл бұрын

Nah, original is wayyy better imo. But i respect your opinion

@NOWtheband 2 ай бұрын

@@guitarraman1237 - Thank you for the respect. I respect that. 🙂

@momomclagan5180 4 жыл бұрын

Carl❤️

@GlassTarantulah Жыл бұрын

Classico! On wikipedia its says they only performed disco 'here comes the night' once and got booed. Obviously not here! It woke that crowd up and sounds amazing!

@jokerman8619 3 ай бұрын

well its a tv show they were there to make this song look not shitty

@ms8596 3 ай бұрын

The disco tune is lip synched. By the time they tried it, disco was already on it's way out. After McCartney (Goodnight Tonight) and the Stones (Miss You), plus all of the Bee Gees success since '76, they figured they try it too to remain relevant. It remains one of their biggest WTF bad decisions.

@johnmitchelljr Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Good comments.

@patearly9492 3 жыл бұрын

Amazingly cool show! Thank you for sharing and God bless all

@karenbrakefield5873 3 жыл бұрын

I liked the disco song. The harmonies are stunning. Never heard it before. These guys make it look easy. And it’s not. This is talent.

@andrewcarey5359 11 ай бұрын

What song was that?

@wmulhernjr 10 ай бұрын

Here Comes The Night. It’s the only song they lip-synched…

@andrewcarey5359 10 ай бұрын

@@wmulhernjr Troll they are not lip synching at all.

@will2741 7 ай бұрын

⁠@@andrewcarey5359They literally are. It’s all live except here comes the night.

@andrewcarey5359 7 ай бұрын

@@will2741 You do not know that. They ARE the REAL Beach Boys. You are a troll.

@debussy10 3 жыл бұрын

Brian on bass, Denny singing "Angel Come Home" and playing smash drums, Carl on surf guitar, Mike tearing up the stage (one of the greatest lead singers ever!) and 2 Chuck Berry songs- plus Good Vibrations! Who could ask for more?

@matthewhartz9566 2 жыл бұрын

yes! and Brian is really kicking the groove in the ass on bass this show

@kevd008 Жыл бұрын

You know it was a good gig when you see Lady Lynda on the Setlist

@peterpanassow7814 4 жыл бұрын

Elora, u rock! U have the best videos. 👍

@deniseireland6154 Жыл бұрын

A true masterpiece, eternal masterpiece!

@shaykatz5648 Жыл бұрын

As Brian hadnt been touring with them since about later 60's, it's great to see how Carl, the youngest Wilson, stepped up to fill his vocal shoes! Sadly Brian is only brother alive now. Great job cousin Mike & friend Al Jardine!

@robertbrown7408 4 ай бұрын

Dennis stole the show,what a lovely soul he was..

@paulbeever6812 2 жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTELY SUPERB. DENNIS DRUMMING BRILLIANTLY, BRIAN'S BASS A KNOCK OUT,MIKE'S VOCALS FANTASTIC, THE REST OF THE GUYS UNBELIEVABLE!!! THANK YOU FOR THAT SLPLENDID PIECE OF MUSCAL HISTORY!!!! THE WILSON FAMILY LIVES!!!!

@davidpanzer1166 Жыл бұрын

Not Brian on bass.

@lowenbad Жыл бұрын

Or Denny’s drums

@Mina-ok5qm 3 жыл бұрын

I liked that disco number actually

@rejectionisprotection4448 8 ай бұрын

So do I. It's not as bad as I expected. It's still very recognisably the Beach Boys. I remember this song at the time, but I didn't know it was them.

@Nethanel773 2 жыл бұрын

Whoa! That's Here Comes the Night?! Wow! So much more tight, bright, together and energetic than Good Vibrations. To be fair, Good Vibrations is one of those studio songs that's difficult (at least then) to reproduce live. But they went into Here Comes the Night... Just wow! Don't recall their harmonies being so up front and carrying a song the way did in this performance. Start at 5:20. Sounds like another rock band that can't escape the disco craze at its zenith. 7 seconds in and the harmonies come at you... These guys got it. I mean they sound so alive here! I did not expect this at all. If you listen close enough, their harmonizing has a vocoder-like effect. It could be partially because of the increasing machine precision and clockwork polyrhythms becoming more common with disco music. Thanks for putting this up.

@Frenite 4 жыл бұрын

One of the only times they performed “Here Comes The Night”.

@R68A5050 3 жыл бұрын

They aren't performing it. Here Comes the Night here is straight off LA Light Album.

@R68A5050 3 жыл бұрын

I know, but what I'm saying here is- the sound we are hearing here isn't live- it is the actual album track

@michaelclark4043 11 ай бұрын

R.I.P CARL.

@ELVENGADOR858 3 жыл бұрын

BEACH BOYS FOREVER

@elframo 2 жыл бұрын

I'm 53 and Mike Love still creeps me out

@frereanaktom99 9 ай бұрын

i wouldn;t have let him near my daughter

@seltaeb3302 2 жыл бұрын

I saw Brian Wilson about 20yrs ago with his huge band. Great night & good vibrations..

@disprogreavette8545 3 жыл бұрын

What a lineup on the Midnight Special that night.

@robertbrown7408 5 ай бұрын

Dennis steals the show for me.What a great performance with Angel come home !

@Mina-ok5qm 3 жыл бұрын

My darling Carl ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@javier86050 4 жыл бұрын

Lady Linda, great version

@kirchfam 3 жыл бұрын

Was that Dennis playing the piano behind Bruce on the keyboards? It was hard to tell.

@sofhispalis 4 жыл бұрын

Dennis had a fuckin nice voice!

@sofhispalis 3 жыл бұрын

I love this album! ♥️

@gerrydooley951 3 жыл бұрын

he did but it was all downhill from here

@gerrydooley951 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrsmacca126 great, great album

@davidstorm4015 4 жыл бұрын

This rocks, despite the video quality!

@ENigma-um8zw 3 жыл бұрын

If you grew up with VHS and CRT TVs this would be the norm, it actually adds to it in my weird opinion, I mean ofc it would be great to have some high res reel or tape of the footage and see a cleaner version, but like you said even despite such quality, this ROCKS! :D

@SixtiesRule-gi5xf 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Roger McGuin of the Byrds looking might fine on Rock 'n' Roll Music!

@skee19 Жыл бұрын

angel come home !

@rickbaker8188 Ай бұрын

Sorry, spell checking my note, the most beautiful voice...

@RyGuyLikesFrenchFry 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet Christmas....every single group went disco at this time!

@bonzodog6872 3 жыл бұрын

The Beach Boys went disco five years after everyone else

@disprogreavette8545 3 жыл бұрын

Even the Grateful Dead went disco. It was an odd time.

@karenbrakefield5873 3 жыл бұрын

Damn Dennis is workin it lol. In angel come home.

@ronaldjoseph4425 3 жыл бұрын

MORE!!!

@rafaelsale6364 Жыл бұрын

I can't believe they made Brian perform on the stage considering the condition he was in.

@SirKevinH 2 ай бұрын

He is in great form on here even playing bass on a few songs. He was actually going through a good period at this time. After he lost a good bit of weight and before the drug cocktails from Landy screwed him up. He is very cogent here.

@stevefaure415 Ай бұрын

Beach Boys pull off Good Vibrations with basically, it seems, mostly the original lineup. They're got a few guys playing behind them for sure but I don't think any other vocalists and it looks like it's only Dennis playing drums, which wasn't always the case.

@petestaint8312 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone sounds great, especially Bobby Figueroa!

@lukehallinan9966 Жыл бұрын

What a cast😄

@KajZu2 2 жыл бұрын

Since I was 14 for ages ago decades since. Love this since my own music succes in carrier LOVE!!!

@7Burns Жыл бұрын

What a great live performance of 'Good Vibrations'. Never heard a better one, I guess. The description says it's on DVD. What DVD ist this on?

@yankeeponge9659 Жыл бұрын

Never heard from Dennis much he was real and the ONLY surfer among them.

@kirchfam 3 жыл бұрын

1:26 Carl has chest hair! OMG

@dingdangdata 2 жыл бұрын

Seriously! Why was he hiding that from us?

@miguelrenteria7672 4 жыл бұрын

Can you upload Paul Williams cried like a baby live performance which was on the midnight special 1975 if you have it?

@DavidFernley Ай бұрын

carl was amazing

@joe22589 4 жыл бұрын

3:41 Stunner-alarm

@rustybooker 4 жыл бұрын

Not close

@bryancooper2247 3 жыл бұрын

Lady Linda sucks 🤣

@richardhintz6890 Жыл бұрын

Watched this when it first came on midnight special. With disco and new wave coming? I needed dirt dog California

@lowenbad 3 ай бұрын

8:18 Al playing nothing… almost like “fuck this”.

@Blend42 3 жыл бұрын

Is this the hairiest Brian got? Also does he disappear off of stage for Here Comes The Night? (and maybe Angel Come Home/ Lady Lynda). Goes from Piano for Good Vibrations to Bass for Surfin USA then back to piano again for the 2nd Good Vibrations. Guess he wasn't too down for the newer stuff?

@gerrydooley951 3 жыл бұрын

It is, it was never that big and bushy again.

@DaleRay-op7hh 2 күн бұрын

Go Dennis Go

@darrenjray 4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone else suspect they're using a backing track for 'Here Comes the Night'?

@fredgien 4 жыл бұрын

darrenjray Playback...

@jonchapple 3 жыл бұрын

They're miming the whole thing, by the sounds of things.

@McGarveymusic210 Жыл бұрын

@@jonchapple I don’t know all the numbers seem like they’re performed live for the most part. The disco one definitely is playback.

@nates.9744 2 жыл бұрын

Did Dennis lip-sync/redo his vocal for Angel Come Home here? Sometimes he’s a bit off sync but I say this bc it sounds like everything else on the track here is live.

@richardhintz6890 Жыл бұрын

Then there was this momentary lapse of reason

@rhondaeverett8284 Жыл бұрын

Yup lol

@joshuamorin1771 2 жыл бұрын

Some of those attending the concert looks like Greg Brady. The girl he is dancing with looks like Marcia, his sister.

@ms8596 3 ай бұрын

It's a weekly TV show. The audience is selected for looks and danceability.

@thesour7284 2 жыл бұрын

L O V E

@steves4533 2 жыл бұрын

That beach boys disco song was ha ha.

@Frenite 3 жыл бұрын

5:03: Who’s the guy with the curly hair behind Mike Love?

@EloraBB 3 жыл бұрын

ed carter

@Allthisisthat31 3 жыл бұрын

@@EloraBB as he is often called, "Smilin' Ed Carter" :-)

@slendus8363 Ай бұрын

can you post the Tavares performances please

@leannmeixner8073 Ай бұрын

Right after this, Carl left the band for while and tried a solo career.

@user-ld2cy8ox2m 3 жыл бұрын

11:23

@tonyjrduran5331 3 жыл бұрын

DENNIS CARL WILSON ON DRUMS

@leokimvideo 2 жыл бұрын

In this era Brian was being controlled by Eugene Landy. God only knows what drugs were being used to numb Brian and all his staged performances in this ere have him literally sidelined as an embarrassment to the group, nice to see him playing bass here. This would also be a few years away from Dennis Wilson's death. You can see in the early 80's Dennis on stage was like looking at a possessed person and the demons were never far away. Carl Wilson was the only one holding the band together. It's the last era of the original Beach Boys line up.

@tomjones5650 Жыл бұрын

This was 1979. Brian didn't go back to Landy until 1982...

@kirstenhaldrup5219 7 ай бұрын

Love Denny!

@kirstenhaldrup5219 4 ай бұрын

These songs are such reminders of relationship failures sadly. So sad for Carl and Denny

@kirstenhaldrup5219 4 ай бұрын

Rewatching! Love Dennis (hot, sexy and outgoing) and Carl ( so beguiling) the glue of the family

@leannmeixner8073 4 ай бұрын

Dennis was born in 1944 I think so he should be age 35 here. He was dead in 1983 at age 39 ! Trivia: what do the BB's, the Who, Led Zepplin and the Carpenters all have in common ???....... The drummers died first.....

@bozoallen464 3 жыл бұрын

as usual, @ 1:45, ..mike's more worried about what Brian's doing,..instead of concentrating on his deep breathing,..yoga!!!!

@bozoallen464 3 жыл бұрын

again @ 2:00

@bozoallen464 3 жыл бұрын

What a DICK!!! THEY we're all riding Brian's coattails!!!

@bozoallen464 3 жыл бұрын

He & Murray r the reason 'Smile' never came out when it should have!! "Stick to the formula!..thats too farvout!! ..people r gonna think u r 'Out There!!" Not according to John & Paul- who said- "We'll jump on that ticket,...and ride!!"

@gerrydooley951 3 жыл бұрын

@@bozoallen464 It was all up to Brian regarding Smile. He made the decision to shelve it

@1401minstrel Жыл бұрын

@@bozoallen464 I'm not a Mike fan, but in 1979 he had good reason to be concerned about what Brian was doing.

@dumfriesspearhead7398 8 ай бұрын

At 13:00. Dennis looks so haunted....

@Jacob-er5xb 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the few live versions of Good Vibrations that I like. I'm usually disappointed with the Beach Boys' live versions of Good Vibrations: Carl's voice is always great, but the bass is too quiet, the synth is too loud, and Mike turns it into a karaoke song (I understand wanting to get the crowd to sing along, but I wish they would've done it in a way that fits the song better).

@seltaeb3302 3 жыл бұрын

Why did you cut out the other acts?

@EloraBB 3 жыл бұрын

wasn't me! just got the file like that, take it up with whatever beach boys fan had it originally :)

@seltaeb3302 2 жыл бұрын

@@EloraBB will do, & get my lawyers on to it!

@figmo397 6 ай бұрын

The disco number was hilarious and clearly lip synched. If you don’t believe me, look at Al Jardine’s left hand doing nothing while he pretends to play the guitar with his right hand. Brian didn’t even pretend to be involved!

@ms8596 3 ай бұрын

Same thing with Carl. Not really even going through the motions. Dennis tapping on the high hat. Disco was already dying and they laid this egg. Bruce Johnston should have been fired for this.

@Hillers62 10 ай бұрын

The Beach Boys do Disco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731 3 жыл бұрын

is that john cowsill on drums (when dennis isn't playing)?

@MIKELIN8 3 жыл бұрын

I think that's Mike Kowalski. But I could be wrong...I always got him and Bobby Figueroa confused.

@gerrydooley951 3 жыл бұрын

@@MIKELIN8 Bobby

@weasleychick Жыл бұрын

Bobby Figueroa

@anonymusum 2 жыл бұрын

One of the most discplined shows I ever saw from the BB. Except Dennis who again seemed to be on drugs - he sure was a hopeless case for a working band.

@rejectionisprotection4448 8 ай бұрын

They kicked him out of the band in 1980 to clean himself up.