Beach Boys: Live at Knebworth

This was the last concert in England in 1980 that they had the three Wilsons...Brian, Carl and Dennis and Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston singing as a group.
It was a cool and rainy night in Knebworth that night but the Beach Boys warmed up the crowd starting off the concert with California Girls. When they opened School Days with an acapella chorus it was mesmerizing their harmony was so tight...then Al Jardine launched into the rest of the song with infectious enthusiasm.
Carl Wilson sings Darlin', God Only Knows and Keepin' the Summer Alive and it really emphasizes just how good he was. When he sings God Only Knows you wonder if anyone could sing it better except maybe Brian Wilson. His driving rendition of Keepin' the Summer Alive even woke up Brian Wilson who seemed like he was completely out of it whether due to feeling under the weather or being under medication but when the opening bars of Keepin' the Summer Alive started you could see the change in him. For most of the concert he seemed to just be going through the motions at the piano and keyboard.
Mike Love and Dennis Wilson have been known to engage in fisticuffs before and you could see the tenseness when Dennis drags his mike stand closer to Mike during Surfer Girl and you could tell Mike was not very comfortable having Dennis that close and Dennis seemed to enjoy taunting him by his expressions.
Dennis absolutely butchered You Are So Beautiful To Me and may have been drunk the way he was acting. It is sad to see Dennis on this video knowing he died three years later in a drowning accident.
Some of the best music is on Help Me Rhonda and Barbara Ann when the band really got involved but my favorite of the show was Keepin' The Summer Alive which really rocked.
The highlight of the show to me was the last song Fun, Fun, Fun when Mike kept urging the crowd to get more involved and by end of the song the sea of people there were all moving to the music. You could tell it having an effect on the Beach Boys to see that response to their music.
This is the best concert video I have ever seen of the Beach Boys and it can be found for under $20.
The prologue at the end of concert when Al Jardine tells about losing Dennis in 1983 and Carl in 1998 is a very moving one and reminded us the Beach Boys may have lost two of their group to death but their music will live on for a very long time.