Once upon a time, Melanie christened Brian Wilson ‘The Thunderbird’, because, she says, he moves his arms like they’re on strings whilst he plays nowadays. And he is one of the obvious reasons why taking lots of drugs is a Bad Plan. Ozzy Osborne is another. Certain Other Current Stars must be heading up that list too. Anyway.
Ignoring, Miss Mog’s slurs as to his puppet-like-ness, Brian Wilson can actually still turn out a cracking tune, if nothing quite as classic as God Only Knows or Surf’s Up. I went to see his new piece, ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ in Edinburgh on Saturday.
Now, it has to be said that the Edinburgh Festival Theatre doesn’t quite have the acoustics to handle a band the likes of which Brian Wilson tours with now, so some of the lyrics got a bit lost. Though, as obviously everyone in the audience (and probably the western world) knows the lyrics to Barbara Ann, which was one of the encore songs, it doesn’t matter so much for the classics. It did spoil the new stuff a little bit, but not much. Still, it was rather lovely – a return to his narrative and cohesive albums, rather than the collections of songs that have been his recent solo efforts. I especially liked Good Kind of Love.
And of course, he played a huge number of the classic Beach Boys songs – God Only Knows, Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains, Fun Fun Fun, Help Me, Rhonda, Surfin’ USA and so on.
September 24th, 2007 on 11:10
Here is where Ozzy and Sharon will be getting it on now.
Check it out! it’s Ozzy’s new pad. It is just a $10 million love shack for he and Sharon
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