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turned 65 on March 2, Brian Wilson celebrated his 65th birthday yesterday at the Ancienne Belgique. I go months without seeing a single musician over 30 years and then in three days I will attend two concerts sexagénères. I guess you take them out for the summer.
turned 65 on March 2, Brian Wilson celebrated his 65th birthday yesterday at the Ancienne Belgique. I go months without seeing a single musician over 30 years and then in three days I will attend two concerts sexagénères. I guess you take them out for the summer. so hard not to compare. Both men have thought the same age they do not address so far on tour in the same way. On one hand we have Lou Reed, in his great goodness, gratifies his audience a live performance of one of its flagship album. His motives are unclear, it does not look like her. What is known is that As his audience of his albums has melted ... then resuming Berlin, he refilled the great dirty. And despite his disdain, he seems to take a lot of fun. On the other hand we have Brian Wilson who, more or less absent for thirty years, returns to his audience and chained his greatest success with apparent pleasure. Which of these two giants won the round? We are not a tabloid in English, there is no winner. Both concerts were nostalgic and professionals.
This concert was one of Brian Wilson expericence totally anachronistic. All the songs played had their heyday in the 60s even if not quite the case of public intergenerational mix, further proof of the timelessness of the great success of the Beach Boys. On stage, Brian Wilson is the linchpin of a show in the former. Everything is set like clockwork (I guess that is the same setlist every night). The tubes are connected one after the other, often introduced by small sentences or well rehearsed dialogues between Brian and musicians. "- I want to go on a holiday! - Where do you want to go Brian? - I want to go to Hawaii ...!" and go for "In Blue Hawaii". Yet this does not ring true, it's just overplayed, histrionic. We are far from the artist who made the same joke every night pretending natural. Even when one of the musicians stopped Brian Wilson at the beginning of a song to sing "Happy Birthday Brian" the crowd that seems completely orchestrated. No contemporary group does manage to get away with hits such as engaging manner. Age and baggage Brian Wilson gives it a certain panache, and we forgive him much.
music, everybody knows, there are no surprises. The majority of his set is devoted to classics from the albums Pet Sounds and Smile. Would not It Be Nice and Good Vibrations trigger obviously thunderous applause but do not forget to slide the beads as God Only Knows and Sloop John B. They could play for hours without a single song we is unknown. The orchestra of ten musicians behind Brian Wilson provides the show without a false note, without extravagance either. Former Beach Boys remains seated him at center stage behind his keyboard, the last bastion between him and the public. On most tracks he is content to ensure the song, to great effect elsewhere. Apart from a few false notes here and there his voice has not changed, true to the versions we've all got to know. From time to time his hands lightly touch the keys of his keyboard but it does not fool many people. One clearly sees the other two musicians on their synthesizers getting excited just behind him. Spend all the classics but he keeps the best for last. A reminder, without breaks, Johnny B Good, Help Me Rhonda, Barbara Ann, Surfin 'USA and Fun Fun Fun. Difficult to leave the dirty without smiling.
So, for or against this style of revivalist concerts? Personally, I find it hard to hide a smile cynically when they handed me a flyer announcing them. Brian Wilson and Lou Reed are yet evidence that this can be done well.
music, everybody knows, there are no surprises. The majority of his set is devoted to classics from the albums Pet Sounds and Smile. Would not It Be Nice and Good Vibrations trigger obviously thunderous applause but do not forget to slide the beads as God Only Knows and Sloop John B. They could play for hours without a single song we is unknown. The orchestra of ten musicians behind Brian Wilson provides the show without a false note, without extravagance either. Former Beach Boys remains seated him at center stage behind his keyboard, the last bastion between him and the public. On most tracks he is content to ensure the song, to great effect elsewhere. Apart from a few false notes here and there his voice has not changed, true to the versions we've all got to know. From time to time his hands lightly touch the keys of his keyboard but it does not fool many people. One clearly sees the other two musicians on their synthesizers getting excited just behind him. Spend all the classics but he keeps the best for last. A reminder, without breaks, Johnny B Good, Help Me Rhonda, Barbara Ann, Surfin 'USA and Fun Fun Fun. Difficult to leave the dirty without smiling.
So, for or against this style of revivalist concerts? Personally, I find it hard to hide a smile cynically when they handed me a flyer announcing them. Brian Wilson and Lou Reed are yet evidence that this can be done well. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
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