On a late June day in 1971, the Beach Boys took the stage to play a set of twelve songs in the last days of the Fillmore East in New York City. Bill Graham produced concerts at the Fillmore East, and he decided to close it as a venue for his shows. Bill arranged for the audio and occasionally video taping of shows promoted by his company.
Recently, a grey label cd of the June 27, 1971 Beach Boys concert at the Fillmore. was issued. The music has been available previously as a digital download through the Concert Vault company, which offers an incredible variety of shows for download. In the mid Seventies, a vinyl pressing of this concert, a bootleg, was a rare record, primarily because no one bought Beach Boy bootlegs!
The cd offered for sale sounds like it was sourced from a cassette taped off of fm radio. The vocals are not as prominent as in other live cds by the group. That said, the performance itself has some 1970-1 tunes from the Sunflower and then unreleased Surfs Up albums. There is a horn section playing with the band, and their presence is generally helpful.
Highlights of the show are a version of It's About Time, a version of Student Demonstration Time that is well done, and a blues tinged version of Help Me Rhonda that recalls the time the group jammed with the Grateful Dead.
Bruce Johnston sings a solo version of Elton John's Your Song that is almost reverent. Your Song was prominently played on the radio in the USA and UK shortly before this concert.
The versions on this cd of Heroes and Villains. Do It Again. and Cottonfields on the cd are well done. Alan's version of Cottonfields is very well done. A number of the group's Sixties hits fill out the show. There are no surf tunes, and just one car song...if you can call I Get Around a car song.
This concert was produced by Bill Graham's people, and rather than purchase this cd. I highly recommend that the listener join the company that sells Mr. Graham's board recordings of concerts of nearly every major group from the Sixties through the early Nineties. The company is known as Wolfgang's Vault or Concert Vault. If you are a person who likes Jazz from the same period, these folks have a nice selection of live shows by greats of that period.
For Beach Boys listeners, there are other shows available from the Seventies and Eighties besides the show that closed the Fillmore. Digital downloads usually cost 5 to 8 dollars after a yearly membership fee is paid. They often do promotions offering 3 extra months or free downloads as a reward for becoming a member.
I wish everyone good listening....
Copyright 2016 by Peter Reum - All rights reserved
Recently, a grey label cd of the June 27, 1971 Beach Boys concert at the Fillmore. was issued. The music has been available previously as a digital download through the Concert Vault company, which offers an incredible variety of shows for download. In the mid Seventies, a vinyl pressing of this concert, a bootleg, was a rare record, primarily because no one bought Beach Boy bootlegs!
The cd offered for sale sounds like it was sourced from a cassette taped off of fm radio. The vocals are not as prominent as in other live cds by the group. That said, the performance itself has some 1970-1 tunes from the Sunflower and then unreleased Surfs Up albums. There is a horn section playing with the band, and their presence is generally helpful.
Highlights of the show are a version of It's About Time, a version of Student Demonstration Time that is well done, and a blues tinged version of Help Me Rhonda that recalls the time the group jammed with the Grateful Dead.
Bruce Johnston sings a solo version of Elton John's Your Song that is almost reverent. Your Song was prominently played on the radio in the USA and UK shortly before this concert.
The versions on this cd of Heroes and Villains. Do It Again. and Cottonfields on the cd are well done. Alan's version of Cottonfields is very well done. A number of the group's Sixties hits fill out the show. There are no surf tunes, and just one car song...if you can call I Get Around a car song.
This concert was produced by Bill Graham's people, and rather than purchase this cd. I highly recommend that the listener join the company that sells Mr. Graham's board recordings of concerts of nearly every major group from the Sixties through the early Nineties. The company is known as Wolfgang's Vault or Concert Vault. If you are a person who likes Jazz from the same period, these folks have a nice selection of live shows by greats of that period.
For Beach Boys listeners, there are other shows available from the Seventies and Eighties besides the show that closed the Fillmore. Digital downloads usually cost 5 to 8 dollars after a yearly membership fee is paid. They often do promotions offering 3 extra months or free downloads as a reward for becoming a member.
I wish everyone good listening....
Copyright 2016 by Peter Reum - All rights reserved
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