The Beach Boys - I Get Around - 1971 Live

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From the Good Vibrations in Central Park concert.

[@Feedersuper]

Amazing this song was considered an ‘oldie’ seven years after being released.

[@psymi-hk1fp]

i know lmao... what a time in music

[@kevinrayonflores2212]

Well then again,It’s stark contrast as in the early 60s music had a certain innocence to it. Almost like the stars looked clean and acted clean, 10 years later sex,drugs and rock n roll lifestyle was the normal.

[@oneeyedman99]

Ask your kids or grandkids how old a song has to be to be considered old, LOL.

[@ACDZ123]

​@kevinrayonflores2212 it would be like saying something from 2017 is an oldie 😅

[@truthtransistorradio6716]

I was shocked when U2 was played on an oldies station! But I guess that song was already 30 years old at the time! lol

[@michaelfrazia4569]

the missing Brian falsetto shows how his voice lifted good songs to transcendent

[@davidleigh443]

When they played California Girls on Jack Benny Hour in. 1965 all the girls went crazy when Brian sang.

[@figmo397]

It looked like Bruce Johnstone was singing the falsetto but his mike wasn't working. The vocal mix was also uneven.

[@harrietgate]

Miss Brian's falsetto. Not the same without it.

[@railwaymaster1163]

And yet his father believed it killed the song's potential!

[@harrietgate]

@@railwaymaster1163 Murray Wilson...the less said the better. Hitting your son over the head with a 2 x 4. A*****e.

[@AlexOroChannel]

I think so

[@Gabriel2oh6]

There is a falsetto. Bruce is doing a fine job at it on stage. I can tell. It’s just barely audible unless you listen really hard because whoever was mixing this show wasn’t doing a very good job in that regard.

[@eujrvision2296]

and 52 years later, Mike Love is still rocking and getting around

[@dubuqueblues69]

Thanks a million for this show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Carl was so awesome.....perfect voice and superb guitar player. He was no shredding lead player but he knew every single chord there is and could play them in any inversion. A master, much like his oldest brother.

[@Polnanico1409]

Warren Hawk i totally agree

[@flaccidego9468]

gotta love hippie era Beach Boys doin' their surfer era classics.

[@bighands69]

The hippie era was their downfall. It was also the down fall of the beatles.

[@josebelindo1641]

They didn't do Monterey pop

[@zachb3573]

Jose Belindo not doing Monterey pop really did them in. Oh well, hopefully lesson learned.

[@josebelindo1641]

They did ok at the Fillmore East

[@peterp2153]

No way! That era is what helped regain them some credibility and put them back on the road to success.

[@jer1er]

Question. When did the Beach Boys turn into Lynrd Skynrd? LOL!

[@Paul-dz7xi]

1971

[@lucyfernandez8304]

sea at beach night

[@pixlekingproductions]

When brian was in bed apparently

[@asr53]

Funny that this was considered an oldie as the song was only 7 years old.

[@Gabriel2oh6]

1971 was such a radically different time from 1964. It was a time that moved incredibly fast.

[@sttroner]

Beach Boys 1971: "Do you want an oldie? " Me 2019: OMFG

[@JJcDAmAn1]

Dang, Brian's missing falsetto makes this song so much worse..

[@kidamathias]

+Jarrod Castillo I think Brian Johnston is singing it, its just really really quiet in the mix

[@officialchase02]

Motohiro Sato where is Brian in the song anyway

[@That_AMC_Guy]

In bed.

[@timlazar9030]

@@kidamathias Brian Johnston of AC/DC? Lol. You mean Bruce Johnston.

[@countof3everybodyOD]

Jarrod Castillo I guess Carl was protesting by not singing it

[@CurtisPNW]

I know Mike catches a lot of hell (rightfully so), but man, he's such a character in this clip! That goofy hat & beard, and the way he dances. It's pretty funny.

[@supersonicsroots]

I guess it was not suppose to be funny, but he sure is.... full of himself that is. What a douche.

[@KingpinTBM]

He gets way too much hate in my opinion, he was the only alpha male in a group of beta men so it makes sense...

[@supersonicsroots]

@@KingpinTBM tell that to Brian.

[@reggiehammer8170]

Met him in Person 5 Years ago and he definitely lived up to his reputation as a narcissist Asshole !

[@KingpinTBM]

@@reggiehammer8170 What happened?

[@almondosebastiano584]

Since 1961 still AWESOME nowadays

[@-bernieburn711]

Brian's voice is missing................

[@officialchase02]

-Bernie Burn I know where is he anyway

[@davecarsley8773]

Its not just his voice. It's his entire part. Nobody even attempted to cover it? Like... it wasn't super important to the song? WTF?!?!?!

[@rideon77]

​@@davecarsley8773 Bruce does it, but it's too low in the mix

[@ggggg8853]

Crazy on the drums amazing

[@petestaint8312]

Who's on the drums? Mike Kowalski?

[@Biscuit-Triscuit]

The funny thing is that it sounds like you can very faintly hear Brain doing the falsetto, but no it's just a myth

[@flashiereagle2213]

Actually it’s true because Bruce Johnston (the bass player in the blue shirt) is singing it but it’s extremely mixed down

[@karlpiepenburg127]

It might be Bruce

[@karlpiepenburg127]

@@flashiereagle2213exactly

[@nataliarobinson9514]

This sounds like a music box version of I get around But you need the high part that Brian sings *I’m a reeeeel cool heeeead*

[@dand6838]

badass love The Beach Boys

[@Skip44]

Carl, however, is in fine form (as usual).

[@raymondkitchen6137]

Clearly you habvernt seen or heard the 1978 Melbourne show where Carl and Brian snorted some bad heroin beforehand. Carl also added a couple of Maitais and a Valium on top of it. It was a fucking mess of a show!!!

[@Skip44]

I have, in fact, watched the Melbourne show. Highly doubt Brian was there though in 78. But you are right, Carl was not in fine form. However at this post Brian, pre-Flame era....Carl held things together.

[@raymondkitchen6137]

Brian is there.

[@Skip44]

You're right. I stand corrected, sir.

[@dawnkeir549]

Carl is entitled to have an occasional bad performance he was normally brilliant

[@waynescott137]

Looks and sounds like their stone out of their minds.

[@DeadEyedTye]

In 1964 they looked like a bunch of young geeks, in 1971 they looked like a bunch of homeless hippies. Talk about changing with the times.

[@railwaymaster1163]

Well put.

[@takezo73]

The below parts missing in the live are essential for this song.... I get around ... From town to town ... I'm a real cool head ... I'm making real good bread ...

[@officialchase02]

Takeshi Brian usually sang those parts

[@impalaman9707]

I'm shocked they were still doing this song in 1971! Wasn't this when they were trying to be relevant with the hippie crowd, and change their name to "Beach" or something like that, and play more progressive music with a deeper meaning? There again, the song was only 7 years old at this point so I guess it wasn't that much of a relic of the past. But still--Western culture changed A LOT in those 7 short years!

[@seanpasttrip795]

The Stoned Boys.. 'I Get Around' (eventually) to the nearest munchie house.. YEH MAN

[@willheeres5618]

Brian made this song what it was. I don't want to hear my favorite song like this X_X

[@johnwreagan]

Really misses Brian's vocal...

[@officialchase02]

John Reagan yeah because if you notice they didn't ever say the front lyrics from town to town and I making real good bread those lyrics are missing

[@Evan-ug9hr]

Bruce Johnston(who joined the band initially as Brian’s replacement on tour to sing his parts and play bass in 1964, but in 1966 became a full time member of the band) is singing it but it’s just very quiet in the mix. You can here it semi-clearly when he sings “I get around” but you can’t hear the rest of it.

[@lucyfernandez8304]

party pets

[@georgemusic4all4seasons]

Great vid and thanks for posting. These guys were awesome!!!!

[@shawntindall5697]

mike love blows eternally.. he started the song flat and it goes downhill from there..

[@timemachine5641]

Thanks for putting this back up! It's been missing from youtube for years. Do you have their performance of "Forever" too?

[@upfront27]

time machine I do. I'll try and get it up on the site soon.

[@upfront27]

time machine Here's Forever: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH3Nmo2vap1qn9k

[@Paul-dz7xi]

The audience is awesome looking😎

[@magnuslernsten7061]

its amazing that in seven years beach boys went from your boys next door to your local drugdealers next door 😉 i say this with respect since i love their music

[@plumeria66]

Magnus Lernsten It happened to all the bands. Beatles, Rolling Stones......

[@rhythmista7707]

Meanwhile, the later Live at Knebworth from 1980 has ten times more energy and power, and they're actually in key. This has all the markings of having smoked many spliffs before going on stage..

[@officialchase02]

Brian not being here is bad so I had to sing his part for him so the song would sound better

[@andyp8183]

This sounds like one of those "shred" videos made for comedy. Sadly, it's real.

[@nataliarobinson9514]

Yep Ive seen it

[@georgehomza1034]

Check out Greg Brady in the audience for their version of Okie from Muskogee

[@paulbrion2227]

There maybe a falsetto if you listen close. Best Mike Love look

[@talkdattrashimmapullyacard4396]

👍 2pac's " I get around" song brought me here 😎

[@whiteandright1958]

Even in the horrible hippie days of the late 1960s ... early 1970s, when 30 minute drum solos were applauded, nothing, but nothing could still energize a crowd like a great BB song. Even a hippie audience.

[@Gabriel2oh6]

“Horrible hippie days” pretty sure The Beach Boys embraced the hippie era pretty damn artistically well.

[@jackiebenitez144]

without brian there was no beach boys

[@75DrummerBoy]

The Beach Boys was a group effort not a one man band and never revolved around any one member! They all made it great. Brian's problems kept him from touring and you can't expect the Beach Boys to have ended because he wasn't there!

[@senormedia]

"never revolved around any one member!" - that may be the most ill-conceived comment ever made in the Beach Boy universe.

[@raydeen1]

Like the Doors without Morrison.

[@peterp2153]

Brian Wilson cultists weird me out. You guys are fucking disturbing.

[@davecarsley8773]

Seriously? Did NOBODY even attempt to cover Brian's major falsetto melody part in this song??? Weird. I wouldn't expect my local bar band to think they could get away with doing this song without that part!

[@patrickbrogan8770]

WTF... Brian Wilson's falsetto part makes the fucking song. I know he had stopped touring with the Beach Boys by this point, but they should've had SOMEBODY cover it. IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART!!!

[@flashiereagle2213]

Bruce Johnston (the bass player in the blue shirt) is singing it but it’s very low in the mix

[@scootergreen3]

This is one of the rare times they played live in a video. They usually lip sync.

[@GoodGamer3000]

They only did that on TV performances.

[@mrsmacca126]

Myk glove. Kills every single solitary performance. CARL DEAN WILSON. 💕 💗 ❤️

[@darrelltiencken2194]

You think it was old then........what about now!

[@jorgezaber9676]

Cool 😀.

[@PuzzleCollege]

Tremendously great. One of the coolest guitar solos in surf music? Beginning around @1:07?

[@joen3992]

looks like the barber died in 71 with these guys. haha

[@Bill-xc8le]

that was the style

[@dakotacharming2176]

And Mike Love swears he never did acid.

[@foxbodyblues6709]

So missing Brian’s falsetto

[@evermæn]

Why is Mike dressed as Tom Bombadil?

[@SchatziMadchen]

Where's the whipoorwill background???

[@heyholetsgo]

Sounds great!

[@floormaster1]

Is it Dennis on drums ? Love the punk drumming here 💚

[@whiteandright1958]

No. Dennis tore tendons in his hand by punching a glass door while in a drunken stupor in 69 or 70. He is on the far left stage here, playing keyboards. There is a clip of Dennis at this same concert, playing keyboards on FOREVER. Also, Dennis did play keys on HMR in the early seventies. He went back to drumming in the mid 1970s

[@senormedia]

And DB Love kicks over Al's guitar as he sashays off stage.

[@jonah290]

Actually Al pulls his own guitar over as he walks away. The lead is caught round his leg, watch how he stumbles. Mike just happened to be closest as it went over. I like this performance.

[@senormedia]

Ah, you are absolutely correct. I was watching it on a small screen initially.

[@loqueestamal3465]

It's still Mike's fault somehow. It always is.

[@kwt7667g]

This iteration of the Beach Boys....somehow seems wrong playing that song. Agreed, falsetto is definitely missing.

[@notoriousblt1038]

At least Mike’s not making car noises this time

[@mikej5827]

Why Carl isn't doing Brian's part, I don't understand.

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

Bruce is

[@alexiszarraga7406]

Beach Boy Get Around

[@galorouco459]

Hey… is that Paul Simon at 1:28?

[@smedleybutler8787]

Sounds better when al plays his strat.

[@thurmantube2012]

At 50 second mark is that Walter Becker?

[@heggy_69]

WHAT DO YOU WANNA HEAR AAAAGGGGGGGGGG

[@basketburger]

I miss the high part

[@georom]

This was their Manson family period.

[@haro82]

the 70s was not an attractive era as far as fashion

[@scootergreen3]

You got that right.

[@alannaputzeysalanna4731]

Omg

[@robbflynn22]

Brian is the real beach boy!!!

[@eurekasquared9853]

It’s garbage without Brian’s falsetto.

[@moomoowillie9061]

1 thing thats funny abt this is al carl and bruce could all sing falsetto but they just decided not to

[@JSL79]

To me this song doesn't work without the high harmonies. But I can see why The Beach Boys altered the song somewhat considering they were trying to be taken more seriously with the hippies.

[@normancharles2507]

I curse my 10-year-old self for not having had the presence of mind to sneak out of my house in Brooklyn and take the subway to Central Park to see this show.

[@kako1023]

Mike Love should stick to song writhing. He is killing me and drowning Carl voice.

[@marieamielgagasa5951]

not as good as the one with brian

[@flashiereagle2213]

@jayson bread He didn’t quit he was just very inactive, he also hadn’t toured with the band since 1964 sooo….

[@topgeardel]

I followed the BBs in the 60, 70s, 80s, 90, and 2000s. They were at their best in the 60s....just the five of them in stripe shirts. This is a crap version of a great song...I Get Around. They were in the funk of the 70s. Not a good decade for them as some fans think.

[@stroppa2004]

This doesn't sound right without Brian's vocals. I don't think it would ever been a hit without the falsetto

[@ralphgomez9006]

Who are the two drummers?

[@kako1023]

1.16 brutal, Love pushes a 12 string out of his way, killing ,me

[@RowdyLowdy]

Wow, without Brian’s falsetto the song isn’t the same. 😢

[@PatriciaMarie100]

Finally showing Carl playing the hell out of guitar. Mike l is useless and distracting - why did they ever put up with is weirdness?

[@subg8858]

A lead singer is useless when literally every other member of the band blows him out of the water on vocals. Al could have sung any Mike Love lead and it would have only sounded much better.

[@markjamesmeli2520]

Well, it's just one of those things that happens. Mike's voice isn't "great," but he forged THE sound on all the hits he had with the group. On the other hand of the spectrum, The Lovin' Spoonful still exists today, but without John Sebastian. Granted, Sebastian wrote 'em all, but he wasn't really the best singer in the group. The best voice was Joe Butler, the drummer, who now fronts the band, and does a real nice job. If the Beach Boys were going to replace Mike having Al do his parts, it would have had to been done by 1970 or so.

[@1thenatural1]

Aside from the fact that he helped Brian write the lyrics to several good hits. That is backed up by other Beach Boys too. People like to discredit him as much as they can because they read false info about him and take it for the truth. Sad. He sings the deep parts and Brian Wilson has called him one of rock n rolls greatest singers. Look it up if you don't buy it. Rolling Stones

[@raydeen1]

Won't be long now...

[@augustoguzman9510]

I think Mike is a parasite, that slowed down and belittled Brian Wilson's creativity (Pet Sounds), but then sued him for co-authorship of several songs and overcame the group's name.

[@ariesmercurio1869]

Beach skynard

[@jimmuncy5636]

Yeow and ouch! Vocals took the night off. Kind of a WTH.

[@tod3msn]

Brian is missing here and the band sounds like they are going through the motions. Mike sounds flat. Al Jardin’e band in 2022 sounds better.

[@GereDJ2]

I can see why this was missing for years. This Live version sucks major wind. Mike Love should have stayed home to pound some more Peyote. Sad. It was the Dismal tide. I could never get behind Mike Love's version of "Cool". I would have avoided him at Harvey's Broiler in Downey. Now, he's out there, like a thief in the night, doing One Nighter's, calling himself The Beach Boys. Sad. The Dismal tide.

[@enricosanchez894]

GereDJ2 That's Mike Love's current group, Dismal Tide.

[@dumfriesspearhead7398]

This is an awful version, without the falsetto. Check out the harder rocking Knebworth version in 1980; that's ace.

[@janawalczuk833]

No falsetto?

[@reggiehammer8170]

I Love The Beach Boys, However this is by Far the Worst Version of I Get Around that I have Ever heard !

[@janawalczuk833]

Needs Brian’s falsetto

[@Bengtroslund]

A hippieband without falsetto.

[@kevinkozak7229]

Im missing Brians falcetto because I'm gay from third world California

[@raf1425]

Agree this isn't really the Beach Boys without key members the Wrecking Crew and some guy named Brian as well.

[@dee7781]

This sounds terrible without Brian"s voice. Where is he?

[@supersonicsroots]

Laughing his ass off

[@Healer1515]

LSD

[@gregdolecki8530]

This isn't the same without Brian's falsetto.

[@officialchase02]

Greg Dolecki yeah where is he in this song anyway

[@Gabriel2oh6]

@@officialchase02Brian only performed on occasion with the group at this time. Bruce was singing Brian’s falsetto here, it’s just mixed really poorly.

[@Garretscornermid]

These are not the Beach boys

[@flashiereagle2213]

@@officialchase02 I recommend you listen to their material from 1971-1973

[@lynntempleton9640]

These were not good years for the boys.

[@smarkmalark]

God, the falsetto is almost non existent, the drums are being completely overplayed during each verse, the solo was somewhat sloppy, and it’s so damn slow. It’s like all the energy from those old live shows disappeared. Just depressing to watch sorry. Weirdly awful preformance

[@lucyfernandez8304]

women's dancing

[@xDaXAFImoshmonkey]

Go home beach boys, you're drunk!

[@supersonicsroots]

@@beachboysswiftie he is right though.... this is terrible.

[@scootergreen3]

It's a shame they grew all those ugly beards and long hair. They looked so nice clean cut. They didn't have to change with the hippy era. All who loved them would have still followed them.

[@resireg]

In 1971, the hippies were already old news.

[@bladerunner625]

What a train wreck

[@sikpuppet2656]

No Brian, no wonder it sucked