OT: Beach Boys Live at U of M 1966

Submitted by UESWolverine on

I didn't see anyone posting this in the last few weeks, likely because this Beach Boys release wasn't promoted by them or their record label. Looks like it was recorded at Hill Auditorium and was released digitally-only just a few weeks ago. Thought it might be interesting to the music fans on the board. 

Link to music: Live At The University of Michigan

Link to the reason it got released: Copyright Laws

Setlist of the show: Hill Auditorium

Is it possible that anybody who posts here was at this show? A freshman at that time would be right around 68 years old now. 

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Bando Calrissian

January 19th, 2017 at 11:37 PM ^

That was Homecoming weekend, according to the football schedule. The Doors played the IM Building the next year, which turned into an absolute disaster courtesy of one Jim Morrison and a few too many bottles backstage.

For more, see: 

http://michigantoday.umich.edu/a7894/

I've heard some firsthand stories from people who were there/helped organize the show, and Morrison couldn't even sing. Oh to be a student in the 60s...

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UESWolverine

January 19th, 2017 at 11:51 PM ^

That is an amazing article! Thanks for posting - I hadn't seen it before. I'm probably going to have to reread that a few more times. I'm blown away that Iggy Pop was so inspired by a performer that was so drunk, they were unable to perform. I guess since it was Jim Morrison, it kind of makes sense. I wonder what would've happened to Iggy had he not been there that night. 

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Double-D

January 20th, 2017 at 12:32 AM ^

My buddies and I were shopping for swimsuits on spring break in Daytona. The shop owner told us he had a promo for free tickets to The Beach Boys playing that nigh with the purchase of a swimsuit. We needed suits and took the deal and proudly bragged about it to all of our friends It was a free concert in the park.

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LSAClassOf2000

January 20th, 2017 at 6:31 AM ^

Which makes it even more fascinating to consider that if the impressionable young Jim Osterberg had stuck around a little while longer that night at the I-M building, the world might have been denied—for better or worse—the powerful influence of punk rock’s original psychopath. Because it seems that after almost everyone had left, the Doors returned to the stage, complete with an inexplicably sober Jim Morrison, and played an entire set of their material, flawlessly.

That was a very cool and interesting piece, illustrating one of those moments in history where the paths of the already famous and would-be famous cross and timing seems like everything to create the world we know. Even better that someone Jim Morrison managed to get a set in considering how drunk he began the evening (my mother was at this attempt at a concert and remembers this well). 

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OldDad67

January 20th, 2017 at 7:18 AM ^

(see my user name) so I missed them by a year. I remember The Doors and Louis Armstrong my freshman year. Not sure if either was during homecoming though.

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DianeJ

January 20th, 2017 at 8:06 AM ^

I was at the concert-I was a freshman then-It was actually the second time Good Vibrations was performed in concert. I remember the Beach Boys said they had sung Good Vibrations at MSU the night before and it had not been well-received. The U-M audience loved it!!!!

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Everyone Murders

January 20th, 2017 at 8:17 AM ^

The Michigan Difference, I suppose.

(Apart from Pet Sounds I'm not a big Beach Boys fan, but Good Vibrations is an amazing single.  While recorded during the Pet Sounds sessions (or thereabouts), a bit of trivia about that song is that it was never on a proper studio album of theirs.)

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redwhiteandMGOBLUE

January 20th, 2017 at 9:11 AM ^

21 - Jenison Field House, Michigan State University, Lansing MI* [6]

Refer to footnote 6 at the  bottom of the page.

http://esquarterly.com/bellagio/gigs66.html

 

The Standells, of "Dirty Water" fame, played between the Beach Boys sets.

22 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI* [2 shows w/The Standells] [7]

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vaUaNqrE6goJ:www.a…

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Everyone Murders

January 20th, 2017 at 8:14 AM ^

For fellow Spotify addicts, it's on Spotify. 

It was interesting to me that Barbara Ann is a cover song.  Seems like a quintessential Beach Boys song.

I've seen The Doors story before, maybe on this here webpage.  I strongly suspect that Jim M. 
"sobered up" through a healthy bump or two of cocaine and/or speed, perhaps after a cleansing hurl.  It seems that Amy Winehouse used to "sober up" by similar means. 

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UESWolverine

January 20th, 2017 at 10:25 AM ^

It's also available on Amazon Unlimited (available now for a free 30 day trial). Side note, I do both Amazon Umlimited and Spotify and love them both. I'm about to cancel Apple Music because I just found out that Beats 1 is actually free. 

Barbara Ann is originally done by The Regents (no, not those regents) - these guys

I got to see Whinehouse a few times and I don't remember her ever 'sobering up' at a show. When it was bad, it was bad. But when she was on - holy cow, just goosebumps. 

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MGo Banana

January 20th, 2017 at 9:49 AM ^

Pet Sounds is the best (okay Sgt. Peppers, the 2nd best), and I love their drug inspired songs like Feel Flows, but the TV show China, IL forever tarnished my perception of The Beach Boys.

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