{"id":582,"date":"2013-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2013\/2013\/10\/16\/brian-wilson-and-jeff-beck-rocked-out-at-the-palace-on-october-8th\/"},"modified":"2013-10-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T00:00:00","slug":"brian-wilson-and-jeff-beck-rocked-out-at-the-palace-on-october-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2013\/2013\/10\/16\/brian-wilson-and-jeff-beck-rocked-out-at-the-palace-on-october-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck Rocked Out at The Palace on October 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck make for an unlikely pair to headline a tour, yet their individual sets provide an interesting contrast of the music from the 1960s and 1970s. Wilson with his Beach Boys tunes, Pet Sounds<\/em> and more experimental material are starkly opposite to Jeff Beck’s guitar sound that can be heard emulated in heavy metal songs to this day. Together, the show they put on at The Palace Theater<\/a> in Albany over the course of two separate sets and one stellar group encore made the night truly memorable.<\/p>\n

\"brianBrian Wilson and musicians were set up Big Band style with 12 others in his group, performing an acapella tune, “Their Hearts were Full of Spring” by The Four Freshmen, to start the night off on a weird yet intriguing note. Following familiar Beach Boys tunes like “Do it Again” and “Don’t Worry Baby,” the first half of the set was focused on the singer\/songwriter, giving intros to songs before performing them, familiar or not. \u00a0A sign of a musician in his later years, discussing the history and background of the music, was well-received by the audience and the stories elicited knowing nods from the mostly seated crowd. “Sail on Sailor” and “Heroes and Villains” stood out among these tunes, \u00a0the former off the forgotten Holland<\/em>\u00a0album while the latter was quite psychedelic in the vein of\u00a0Pet Sounds<\/em>, as the backup band sang a synthesizer friendly ballad that could substitute as music for a montage in any 1980s film.<\/p>\n

\"brianSet highlights included “God Only Knows,” Brian Wilson’s signature work and one he spoke with great pride of, recalled Big Love<\/em> and sister wives; “Sloop John B”, with vocals from the diminutive Al Jardine were accompanied with soft flute and the harmony of guitarist Jeffrey Foskett, and “I Get Around,” which has forever ingrained the image of sperm navigating Fallopian tubes<\/a> in the memories of Gen Xers, was as good as any other Beach Boys tune that night, something the crowd was excited to hear, even though it seemed repetitive from last year’s 50th anniversary tour. “Good Vibrations” and “Fun Fun Fun” closed out a set with the crowd rising to do their best white-hair surf rock boogie to, if their hips could manage.<\/p>\n

Brian Wilson Setlist<\/strong>: Their Hearts were Full of Spring, California Girls, Do it Again, Then I Kissed Her, Don’t Worry Baby, Little Bird, Old Man River\/Cottonfields, Til I Die, Sail on Sailor, Heroes and Villains, Marcella, Pet Sounds, God Only Knows, Sloop John B, Wouldn’t it be Nice, Help me Rhonda, I Get Around, Good Vibrations, Fun Fun Fun<\/p>\n