Beach Boys sailing on with concert at Palace Theatre
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The Beach Boys, fronted by Mike Love, will perform at The Palace Theatre in Greensburg on Sunday, Aug. 6 at 4 p.m.
With farewell tours abounding and one over-70 rocker after another heading for their rockers, it无毛视频檚 an inevitable question to ask: Is there a time when Mike Love will call it a day after more than 60 years of being a Beach Boy?
无毛视频淎s long as you have your health and you enjoy doing what you无毛视频檝e done for a lifetime, then there无毛视频檚 no reason to stop doing it,无毛视频� Love said by phone last week from his home in Lake Tahoe, Nev. 无毛视频淚 enjoy doing what we do.无毛视频�
Love, who turned 82 in March, is the sole remaining original member of the Beach Boys, having teamed up with his cousins Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson to form the group in 1961, along with their friend Al Jardine. The band无毛视频檚 epic saga has been fodder for a small library of books, more than one movie and a Broadway musical. Originally known for fun-in-the-sun hits like 无毛视频淟ittle Deuce Coupe,无毛视频� 无毛视频淔un Fun Fun无毛视频� and 无毛视频淐alifornia Girls,无毛视频� the band was driven later in the 1960s by Brian Wilson无毛视频檚 innovative sonic explorations, culminating in 无毛视频淧et Sounds,无毛视频� an album which is mainstay on critics无毛视频� best-of-all-time lists, and the single 无毛视频淕ood Vibrations.无毛视频�
Though never quite reaching the same artistic apex again, the Beach Boys have carried on in the decades since, despite the deaths of Dennis and Carl Wilson, and Brian Wilson无毛视频檚 sporadic participation. Their most recent album, 2012无毛视频檚 无毛视频淭hat无毛视频檚 Why God Made the Radio,无毛视频� saw Brian Wilson return to the producer无毛视频檚 chair, and it peaked at No. 3 on Billboard无毛视频檚 Top 200 album chart, the best showing for a Beach Boys disc since 无毛视频淪urfin无毛视频� USA无毛视频� in 1963.
The Beach Boys lineup that will be at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg on Sunday, Aug. 6 at 4 p.m., will be fronted by Love and Bruce Johnston, who joined the band in 1965. Also in the lineup is Christian Love, Love无毛视频檚 55-year-old son.
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Though the Beach Boys have not released a new album in more than a decade, there has been no shortage of product to sate the faithful. 无毛视频淧et Sounds无毛视频� was the subject of a five-disc box set for its 50th anniversary in 2016, with the original album remastered in stereo and mono, along with outtakes and live performances from the era. Other Beach Boys albums have gotten the deluxe treatment, with the most recent being 1972无毛视频檚 无毛视频淪o Tough无毛视频� and 1973无毛视频檚 无毛视频淗olland,无毛视频� both of which were combined into last year无毛视频檚 box set 无毛视频淪ail On Sailor 无毛视频� 1972.无毛视频� It also included a never-before-released recording of the band at Carnegie Hall in New York on Thanksgiving Day in 1972.
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Like other veteran musicians who were accustomed to a reliable stream of royalties from record and CD sales, Love is less than happy with the paltry returns he receives from streaming. He calls it 无毛视频渉ighway robbery,无毛视频� and explained that 无毛视频渢he big companies make a fortune and they give very, very, very little to the artists. The writers无毛视频� share is even more minuscule. So it无毛视频檚 kind of a drag.无毛视频�
Nevertheless, Love has uncorked a geyser of his own new music in recent years. He has released four solo albums since 2017, with the most recent being 无毛视频淢ike Love Not War.无毛视频� Ticket buyers to the Beach Boys无毛视频� Palace Theatre show will receive a free download of the album.
A lot of his songs 无毛视频渁re dealing with the situation on the planet right now, that is disgusting,无毛视频� Love said. 无毛视频淭he awful war going on in Ukraine and there无毛视频檚 saber-rattling going on just about all the time. To me, it无毛视频檚 a sad state of affairs because the human race has been at it for several thousand years and we haven无毛视频檛 figured out how to get along. So that无毛视频檚 just pathetic.无毛视频�
He continued, 无毛视频淚 hold on to that hope, that one day enough people will rise to the occasion and figure out ways to eliminate all the negativity that comes along with war. War is the absolute enormous failure of humanity.无毛视频�
Despite the plethora of new and archival music coming from Love and the Beach Boys, Love said his job still centers mostly on live performance. The Palace Theatre show is happening two weeks after the group无毛视频檚 latest run of shows kicks off, and it will continue through the beginning of November. Along the way, the Beach Boys will be playing at fairs, festivals, casinos and more.
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For information go online to ThePalaceTheatre.org.