I am feeling happy, euphoric if you will. Why? Because I'm watching television and the 50th Anniversary concert of THE BEACH BOYS!
Whenever I hear those great voices and great songs, I feel young again. I grew up listening to The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and countless others from the 60s and my memory slips back in time to a more innocent time when I wasn't so conflicted and frightened about what our world has become, when I hear The Boys.
The best part of this show though, is that they still sound GREAT! Ah, how wonderful that they are not only not forgotten, but are Still Cruisin' after all these years. Scuse me for a bit. I'm goin' to Kokomo... in my 409... the cheerful story of a girl, a car and a flooded engine.
Where Would I Be Without them and their music?
Catherine Linda Michel
P.S. And the BEST thing of all? They are STILL recording! Check out "That's Why God Made The Radio" on youtube.
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Kingston Trio: Celebration
Interesting.
PBS ran a recent Kingston Trio concert tonight. (Usually -- at least here in San Francisco -- the station re-runs it after midnight and sometimes online or on an alternative channel for a while afterward; if anyone's interested they might want to check online for repeats in their area.) The current members of the group are in their late sixties and still performing live; their website says they too have an album of new material just out. (Only original member still alive is Bob Shane, 82, who came on -- oxygen tube under his nose and all -- to sing lead on Tom Dooley and solo with Scotch and Soda, seemingly as well as ever.) Guest performers besides Shane were Timothy B. Schmit, Al Jardine, Trini Lopez, Barry McGuire, Sana Christian, The Limeliters and Josh Reynolds. (Josh Reynolds turned out to be Nick's son, there to sing Nick's lead vocal on MTA while playing a two-string guitar.)
Like Catherine with the Beach Boys, that's the music I grew up with in the house (I had their first 21 albums). along, of course, with a lot of other 60s performers.
Eric