The Beach Boys - It's About Time - 1971

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Good Vibrations from Central Park

[@yehudafinkelstein7504]

The Beach Boys at their creative height: Sunflower era, all band members contributing album material.

[@fshoaps]

The 1968-1973 era is my favorite. “Holland”, “Surfs Up, “Sunflower”, and “20/20” are by far their greatest albums. Imo.

[@orgonelifesupport]

Great era for the BBs. Really came into their own for an brief period during the Carl and the Passions tour era and kinda was able to shed the skin of their clean 60s image and sound.

[@Paul-dw2cl]

@@fshoaps don’t forget Friends

[@lucyfernandez8304]

@@Paul-dw2cl The Beach Boys Visiting Leo Sayer & Dyan Cannon & Linda Ronstadt & The Roger Moore

[@planetaryiam954]

Considering how much the crowd is clapping along, I'm surprised this song wasn't a bigger hit of theirs. The Post-Pet Sounds era of the Beach Boys is vastly underrated.

[@squirrelguy2195]

It should have been. They had many great songs between Smiley Smile and Holland that should have been top 10 hits. Not to mention they left several very good songs in the vault as well. Soulful Old Man Sunshine would have fit right on home on the radio in 1969-1970.

[@yorobnorob8816]

Well said!!!

[@fshoaps]

@@squirrelguy2195 “Sail On Sailor”, “Long Promised Road”, “It’s About Time” and “The Trader” should’ve been Num1 hits.

[@railwaymaster1163]

@@fshoaps Don't forget "Add Some Music to Your Day".

[@bororidley]

They promoted the wrong songs on the Sunflower album. If they did this song and this old world sunflower would have done much better.

[@LegoStarWarsZation]

damm this was my favorite time period of the boys

[@tommytwomommy]

Dario Dulic they were on the rise back to the top. Endless Summer in 74 was the signal that they were an oldies band that would never progress.

[@kennow61]

Same for me! I love the early stuff from the sixties because it's just so much fun to hear and sing along to and you can't beat the harmonies, but the early 70s were the best! I just can't understand why they didn't have a run of #1 hits in that time period. The music was outstanding, especially with the influence of Carl and Dennis. I was only 10 years old when this video was made, so I was probably listening to The Jackson 5 and The Osmonds at that time (LOL), and when I started going to Beach Boys concerts in the mid 70s, they had pretty much gone back to their oldies, so I wasn't really exposed to this on the radio and had to find it myself. The only thing I can guess is that the music just wasn't promoted like it should have been, which I guess would be the decision of the recording company at the time and maybe the decisions of one or two band members. I just don't get it! It just doesn't get any better than this!

[@internetdinosaur8810]

From Beach Boys to Beach Men

[@CMiles-er8st]

Carl really rocks!

[@christopher9152]

This is when they first really became a great live act...and so much good material to draw on.

[@jessetimmmiller1870]

Carl with another one-take, studio-quality vocal performance LIVE!!! What a beast!!!

[@sebastianfitzptraick7395]

Capitol need to unearth more live Beach Boys footage from this era and remaster it.

[@themagnanimous1246]

I can't believe this song wasn't a hit

[@johndoyle2429]

I can't even believe Sunflower album wasn't even a hit as well.

[@maxshenkwrites]

Radio refused to play them, even when they liked the records. There's a great story about a Reprise promo man going to WFIL in Philly with "Add Some Music To Your Day" and being told by the program director that he loved the record, but he wouldn't go near it because it was the Beach Boys. They were considered that "out" at the time. But shows like this turned it around by 1973-74.

[@lucyfernandez8304]

@@johndoyle2429 The Beach Boys Visiting To Linda Ronstadt

[@bobareebop]

Man, what a great live act in 1971!

[@Hlirving15]

Great version. Love the horns. Sunflower is one of the Beach Boys best albums ever.

[@the_dejesus]

Amazing rip Carl❤

[@justinplank]

I love this! They're hip with an artistic statement! Geegs, Bruce is starting the claps this early in his career!

[@donbrogan3158]

Haha. Very corny.

[@fentonhardy8176]

They were a great Live act back in 73' too, Blondie and Ricki were great additions, boy they played a great arrangement in the late 60's and 70's.

[@tommytwomommy]

Bruce, Mike, and Al become corny dads early on somehow

[@Bretta55]

Carl was 25 years old in this clip and that would make Dennis 27. The beginning of their prime. Carl was just slaying his guitar here but it's hard to hear it over the bass and drums. I would have loved to hear this song over the radio back in 1971.

[@donmalcolm4365]

Technically 24 and 26, since D & C were both December babies. Sadly, the BBs couldn't buy a hit in 1970-71 despite a profusion of great music, released and unreleased. Was lucky enough to see a near-duplicate of this performance a few months later--the band was just *sensational* in that time frame. Such sweet memories--thanks to @upfront27 for posting...

[@lowenbad]

They were never this cool again. Shame they had to become a nostalgia act. They were so bad ass during this period. Even Mike Love is exuding some genuine rock swagger.

[@chrisfreeman9960]

After making several great albums, such as "Sunflower", "Surf's Up", "Carl and the Passions - So Tough", and "Holland", Capitol Records released "Endless Summer", a compilation of their best '60's singles and album cuts. It was a double album, and it went double-platinum. The Beach Boys got the message. The U.S. was in the middle of a nostalgia craze, launched by the success of the movie "American Graffiti". It was a great movie. Music from the '50's, considered somewhat obsolete, became suddenly cool. Long explanation, I'll agree. The Beach Boys were now playing stadiums, and they knew their fans wanted to hear the oldies, not the more recent creative and experimental work. Which is why, after giving us a brilliant album, such as 1973's "Holland", they handed us a piece of dreck such as 1976's album "15 Big Ones."

[@asr53]

Best era of the live BB's 70-74.

[@sharonramone7186]

I saw many great concerts through 79, 80 as well as the yrs.you mentioned!

[@kennow61]

I wish I could have seen The Beach Boys in this era. I first saw them in 1975 and they were pretty much doing their old hits from the 60s and a few new ones, but I don't remember them performing this or other songs from the Sunflower album. Carl was really rockin' this one!

[@mr.sensitive9963]

What an album Sunflower is! This isn't even one of the highlights. It's only take-off-the-top-of-your-head awesome! Sunflower was so enigmatic 'cause I couldn't track it down 'til three years after I got all the other ones. IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT x 1000000!

[@sharonramone7186]

Totally agree!!!

[@paladin1726]

Slip on through, this whole world is probably their best 1-2 punch on any album, though Sail on Sailor and Steamboat are right there.

[@chrisfreeman9960]

​@@paladin1726"Leaving This Town" is also an incredible cut off of "Holland."

[@maxroelen3608]

The following is from a Hawthorne High P.E. coach where the Wilson's and Al Jardine went to school; I remember this conversation I had with Carl Wilson like it was yesterday. Carl was a sophomore in my P.E. class, and in those days it was a mortal sin not to dress for P.E. (a non strip). I could never get Carl to dress for my P. E. class. When, on those rare occasions, he did dress for class he would come out wearing his cowboy boots and carrying his guitar. During class he would sit on the bench play his guitar, never taking part in any class activity. One day I decided to have a man to man talk with Carl, so I sat down beside Carl and told him he was probably going to fail P.E. Carl says to me" coach thats ok, I really don't like P.E." So I ask Carl what he wanted to do with his life. Carls' response was, "coach all I want to do is learn how to play this guitar and join a band". My great bit of advice to him was, "Carl you are never going to make a living playing that g-----d guitar. You would be smart to put that guitar in a closet some place, and go find a real job. Ten years from now I will probably see you up on Hawthorne blvd. selling pencils or something". Boy, some advice. By the way, I did give him an "F" in P.E. Coach Bunyard

[@MichaeldeFilippi]

lol I was reading this thinking you were the coach!

[@sharonramone7186]

Great story, thanx for sharing!

[@Bretta55]

I love this story! I love it because it sounds just like how I was at that age. Carl was a bit of a rebel but it's because he could see what was real and followed his own dream. I was once told I would be flunking PE if I didn't participate more and I told the teacher I didn't see much of a future in spending time in PE when I could be in Jazz band and choir doing what I was born to do. Yes, I got an "F" but it didn't alter my future any. I just love Carl's way!

[@THECLARENCES]

Long live the memories of Dennis & Carl Wilson. xoxo The Clarences

[@JTCurtisMusic]

(Insert comment about how awesome Carl is) (Insert comment about how much Mike Love sucks) (Insert comment about how I wish Brian was there) These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect Beach Boys comment...

[@nln1897]

Dennis not the greatest singer, but he could write good tunes...he deserves more credit than he gets. All of the Wilsons were very talented.

[@jamessilver6429]

A very famous british singer i think rod stewart saw them in liverpool in the 70eez said dennis singing you are so neautiful wich dennis wrote. With nilly preston was the most moving performance he ever heard

[@paninovevo1162]

I think he has a great voice. The most rock n roll voice in the Beach Boys for sure

[@jansj1958]

A rocker from Dennis,and The Beach boys.Great live song :)

[@metisslo8800]

What a performance

[@theunsheep]

2:12 You’re sharp, Mike, Carl’s look says.

[@1401minstrel]

LOL!

[@mgoldman60]

The Beach Boys were a different kind of band from 1968-73. They really reinvented themselves. They they went back to be an oldies act.

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

That's a shame. This is really rocking. As good as their albums were at this time they weren’t commercially successful in the US. When their greatest hits albums became a hit in the mid 70s, it was hard not to go back in that direction.

[@Crocodileism]

Fantastic !

[@sharonramone7186]

I just love this clip! Always one of my favorite BB songs. Wish they had done this at 1 of the many concerts I attended. Did you catch the way Carl looked at Michael when he got to the line"You better start to help each other now", message? I so miss the great Carl and Dennis. Fabulous singers, writers, musicians, and darm nice guys to be around!💝💝💝

[@1401minstrel]

That eye roll is absolutely priceless.

[@mrsmacca126]

Is that Mungo Jerry in the audience?!

[@johnhallman5074]

The Beach boys= soul power!

[@davidgrose6349]

This is just fantastic!! I love it. Boy these guys use to put on a great show back then. Love how they look and seem to be really enjoying themselves.

[@CMiles-er8st]

Love this....Carl really rocks! X

[@dingdangdata]

Carl Wilson. Best ass in the history of rock n roll.

[@1401minstrel]

Band member Chris Farmer says they knew they were playing well when that ass was wiggling.

[@kenbear64]

"Daryl Dragon on piano" a/k/a The Captain from Captain & Tennille (at the beginning of this clip).

[@Mandrake591]

Great song by Dennis! Carl in full wolf-man mode! Mike in full perma-dork mode!

[@chrisfreeman9960]

I saw them live during this period. It was after they had just released "Sunflower." Saw them promoting the album at the Whiskey in West Hollywood. It was a great experience. "Sunflower" didn't score big (a shame). But the album they did after that, "Surf's Up", really did. And they were off and running in their creative, early '70's run. Along with the the aforementioned two albums, they also gave us "Carl and the Passions - So Tough", and "Holland". Four brilliant, very creative albums in a row. Their new direction. The crowd they were performing for here really appreciated their new musical direction. That creative run ended in 1974, when Capitol released "Endless Summer", trading on the nostalgia craze begun by the movie "Anerican Graffiti." A double album which featured their great '60's hits and singles. It went double-platinum. Great marketing and timeing on Capitol's part. But it also spelled the end of the Beach Boys' early '70's creative period. Their new stadium fans wanted to hear their oldies hits, not "It's About Time" and "Feel Flows." So the Boys went from giving us a great album such as "Holland" in 1973, to "15 Big Ones" in 1976...

[@chrisfreeman9960]

Meant to say "Endless Summer" included their great '60's hits and album cuts.

[@fab1651970]

Absolutely awesome

[@magictransistorradio4933]

For a brief period in the early 70s, the Beach Boys were appreciated by the hippie crowd. But all that fell apart when Endless Summer went platinum. They would be performing one of their progressive song, and the audience would yell at them to do Barbara Ann or I Get Around.

[@kawiigurl9877]

I noticed from a live show even in 73 that the crowd goes crazy when they play little deuce coupe

[@frodolives8969]

WOW! Totally rocking!!

[@kande6916]

Awesome Song and done awesomely!!!

[@lordburlap4514]

Other than The Beatles, The Beach Boys were the most creative band ever....thanks to Brian, of course.

[@mrsmacca126]

Lawrence Fishberg mostly, but Carl and Denny were awesome as well.

[@asr53]

A great rocker, thanks for posting. Good quality video and sound.

[@peterp2153]

This is The Beach Boys at their commercial nadir yet about to peak artistically. There’s a reason the crowds were starting to grow, simply due to the music and the live shows.

[@murraypassarieu9115]

I'm sorry but 1963-1966 is their peak artistically. It would be ANYONE'S peak artistically. Not saying they didn't do other great stuff but their group effort of the early 70s pales next to Brian's early-mid 60s prime IMO.

[@themagnanimous1246]

@@murraypassarieu9115 pet sounds and smiley smile was a Brian Wilson solo venture, wild honey to holland were collaborative beach boys albums and far better than anything prior to pet sounds

[@murraypassarieu9115]

@Gabe W I love the four albums after Pet Sounds more than I like Pet Sounds. After that Sunflower is OK, Surf's Up has a couple of good songs, Carl and the Passions is pretty crappy, Holland has like 2 or 3 good songs and 15 Big Ones is fun if really rough. I like Love You as a weirdo album and MIU has some laughably bad stuff. I think their best stuff was 1964. All Summer Long album and the "When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)" single. I don't think they ever topped that.

[@AlexGarcia-tz4ii]

@@murraypassarieu9115 🙄🤦

[@AlexGarcia-tz4ii]

@@murraypassarieu9115 Wrong.

[@marcbolanish]

I miss Carl!!!!

[@Flapperdame16]

Wow this is a rare song they played live!!!

[@kykyah]

More hip than hippies! Wonderful, oh they performed it live too!

[@violinmke]

Well, hey also covered Okie from Muskogee in this era too.

[@JSL79]

Not too many can look cool with a big beard, but Carl Wilson somehow managed to pull it off.

[@Grachtnakk]

JSL79 Paul McCartney

[@mrsmacca126]

JSL79 It’s simply not possible for Carl to look any way other than AMAZING

[@poconobarb26]

That big bearded person is Mike Love, not Carl. Carl is in the flowered shirt playing guitar. Mike always played the tambourine.....

[@lisac7117]

@@poconobarb26 She (or he) didn’t say the biggest beard. lol

[@MedievalRichard]

Awesome! :D

[@nicolasmrn]

Carl Wilson, señores y señoras.

[@mrsmacca126]

CARL DEAN WILSON 💕

[@greedo591]

Qué temazo por Dios

[@Danimal1577]

❤️ Carl

[@dububro]

mike wildin out

[@truthtransistorradio6716]

A year earlier, the Beach Boys could barely draw a few hundred people in New York. Their image was updated, and they begin to get noticed by the FM underground scene in 1971.

[@daleschmitt2163]

I can't quite explain it, but I always like to see Alan wearing a hat onstage.

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

I thought it just me; he wears it well.

[@NOWtheband]

All heroes, no villains. :-)

[@jamese.ferrell6218]

I like the album version but man, this is something else. Carl!

[@AprilShowers1955]

Wish I could hear Carl playing his guitar more clearly. Other instruments are helping to drown his guitar out. Enjoyed the saxophones that reminded me of the group Chicago. 😊❤

[@patricialambert3110]

I guess there was some unwritten law that began in 1971--"Thou shalt start growing beards!"

[@mrsmacca126]

Mungo Jerry in audience... rocking out

[@sharonramone7186]

LOL I thought the same thing.

[@trfesok]

"Sunflower" didn't have much of a chance, but if they had released this as an A-side instead of a B-side, it might have done better.

[@williamderickjohnson3986]

Imagine it is 1974.5/75 and instead of shelving the new project the Boys vote to release the double album despite the new RIAA compensation rules. My thought would be: Side 1: 1) We Got Love (Studio), 2) Out in the Country ( Don lead), 3) Hard Times, 4) Looking At Now, 5) Wonderful/Don’t Worry Bill, 6) Where is She?, 7) My Love Lives On, 8) My Friend (studio finished) Side 2: 1) Sweet Mountain ( Beach Boys take), 2) Good Timin (1974), 3) River Song (Beach Boys Take), 4) Fallin in Love, 5) Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Live Again? 6) Wild Honey (with Blondie), 7) Forever Side 3: 1) Rolling Up To Heaven, 2) Rock N Roll Woman, 3) Too Cruel, 4) Michael Row Your Boat Ashore, 5) On Broadway, 6) Sail On Sailor ( Caribou style), 7) Aren’t You Glad (Live 1970) Side 4: 1) It’s A New Day, 2)I Write the Songs (Bruce Johnston), 3) 4th of July, 4) Oakie From Muskogee, 5) Back Home (mix of old 1963 with 1970 verses and newer B Section- no voice crack), 6) Goin to the Beach, 7) Good Vibrations (live)

[@stevenbrockiv4674]

Bad ass song...

[@milwaukeeskosher]

Waiting someone put this video on the Feel Flows box audio

[@yoblol]

I think they're different. Bruce gives a different introduction.

[@robertzastrow4648]

Anybody know who their drummer on this was. They show a couple of shots of him near the end, but I don't recognize him. He doesn't look like Ricky Fataar, and Dennis was on piano for this song.

[@damnitboy9635]

MIke Kowalski. He played with them for many years as early as late 60's & early 70's, then toured with the band again in the late 70's, and then from, I think, early 80's he was the band's live drummer until he left in the mid 00's.

[@kennow61]

I love that guy in the audience at 1:01.....I wonder where he is now and what he looks like

[@JasonKTerry]

Probably hasn't changed...owns record store or something.

[@namenameson2790]

mike love here reminds me of chris robinson.

[@sandyboggs8099]

that's what I thought

[@mrsmacca126]

Is that Bruce introducing the song??? He actually said “ ...from MY Sunflower album. Dennis wrote it and Carl sings it”. 8

[@95bsv]

our sunflower album...

[@MichaeldeFilippi]

my favorite part of this song is Mike's bass vocals.

[@lar7905]

This is June 13, 2022....ANOTHER mass shooting today in Texas again. This time at a summer camp for children. Do you think this song is relevant 50+ years after Sunflower was released. I think it's about time . We thought things were bad then....Now ???? R.I P. Carl...you have no idea how things have become since you left.

[@acerjackson4579]

Dennis wrote this!

[@juliepritchett5537]

Was Mike's mission to look homeless?

[@peterpanassow7814]

LMAO!!!!! 😂

[@Bretta55]

At 3:21 it looks like Mike accidently hit Carl in the rear with his tamborine!

[@StudioHWOtheAnimator]

Certified Mike Love moment

[@novaqne]

WHAT IS MIKE DOING

[@StudioHWOtheAnimator]

Mike stuff

[@pacificoceanbluess]

RIGHT LMAOO

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

At 2:30 Mike L “moves like Jagger”.

[@mrsmacca126]

1:02

[@otisblueswelljr]

who's the drummer?

[@DeakyBassist]

i think that the drummer is Mike Kowalski

[@fentonhardy8176]

I think you are right.

[@sharonramone7186]

@@fentonhardy8176 yep it is

[@Fletch-1974]

Who is on Drums?

[@fredgien]

Now i know for sure that i hate cellphones….

[@kako1023]

Creepy thin man needs to get out of the FFFFFF>>>ING W@y

[@michaelthorner]

Who's drumming here?

[@jamesschepis3062]

Mike Kowalski

[@kako1023]

True talent except I am traumatized by that tambourine

[@bgbstrm2352]

America's - no the world's greatest rock/live band!!!!!

[@bgbstrm2352]

Imagine the Stones doing this.... 😙😄