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| From | Gene Good <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Brian Wilson tribute |
| Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:54:02 +0000 |
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I didn't see the show,but I saw a quote in the paper where Brian considers Lyle's version the ultimate."I thought Lyle Lovett's version was the best version I ever heard,including the Beach Boys.The most loving.beautiful version I've ever heard.Unbelievable."That is Brian's quote.
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:05:01 -0800
> From: blukoff@alvord.com
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Brian Wilson tribute
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Eytan Mirsky wrote:
>
> >
> > Who put together that show? It was so embarrassing. The best artists you
> > could get for the musical tribute were Lyle Lovett and Hootie and the
> > Blowfish? Nothing personal against Lovett, but he can't sing, so he made
> > "God Only Knows" sound terrible. (Maybe the point was to demonstrate
> > that Wilson's music is so beautiful that it's beauty cannot be
> > diminished by Lyle Lovett's singing.) And nothing against Hootie and
> > the Blowfish, but this is a mediocre group that hasn't had a hit in ten
> > years and was totally incapable of performing the songs. Even with the
> > help of a battalion of offscreen singers they still sounded terrible. I
> > could see if they were one of a number of bands, but they let H and the
> > BF do three songs! If they couldn't get any appropriate big name
> > artists, then they should've at least gotten Carnie and Wendy Wilson to
> > perform. That would've made some sense on an emotional level.
>
> I understood Mike Love's absence, but where was Al Jardine? And yeah,
> Wilson Phillips could have put in an appearance...
>
> Seriously, having Hootie there made it an embarrasment. Lyle...that was
> just weird.
>
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