They were terrific. The harmony and falsetto voice of Brian Wilson brought it all back.
I was in Corpus Christi in 1966, the sound of the Beach Boys were everywhere. All the commercial radio stations were playing their records and every party was alive to their sunny beach lifestyle music California Girl, I Get Around, Good Vibration Wouldn't it be Nice. The songs were played everywhere. They perfectly complemented the sunshine and the leggy girls and were all a far cry from the bleak landscape back home.
It was great to be young and caught up in the buzz !
Watching them perform tonight they were wondrously, spot on with the lead singer Mike Love, rolling back the years and creating a tingle as the beat and the extended lyrical harmony flooded from the stage to a rapturous audience, up on their feet, doing the moves, reliving their youth.
Music which has a hold as has no other, on the years when we were young and imperious
The excitement and the memories that tumble out of the brain when hearing a song or rhythmic beat played by a band, morphing ones personality into a youth full identi-kit of who we might like to be, again !!!
So once again we find ourselves caught up in the convention trap bursting, to relive a time when we were unabashed by anything and totally absorbed by hedonistic youth and the desires that keep the whole thing rolling !!
Corpus Christi, Clifton Beach, the hot sun beating down mercilessly, the bikini girls always unaware and we, tormented by our shyness unable to bridge the gap !!
Music and dance somehow broke the barriers down. the conventions that inhibited us, suddenly opened up an avenue to communicate and risk ones ego.
Somehow the formality of dance and the common thrill that the music imparted made the route to 66, seem less daunting.
As the song goes, "Girls, girls, girls, Good Vibrations" !!!!!!
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