Brian Wilson
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
October 31, 1999

C-Man writes regarding the two shows: "Regarding personnel, both Paul Mertens and Mikey D'Amico were absent from these performances. The rules for the Bridge School concerts (as dictated by Neil Young, I suppose) stipulate that only acoustic instruments be used. As a result, Brian's entire band was "un-plugged", making these two performances very unique. Instead of using his regular rock drum kit, Jim Hines played what looked like a tympani with a tighter skin, maracas, shakers, tambourine, plastic blocks, and mark-tree. Bob played an acoustic bass guitar. Darian and Scott traded off on grand piano and vibes. Probyn still played trumpet on the intro of "California Girls" and French horn on "God Only Knows", but for "Good Vibrations", he had to come up with an alternate way of playing the Theremin line (since the Theremin, being an electronic instrument, was off-limits these nights). On the first night, he played the part on his acoustic guitar with a slide; on the second night he pretty much just vocalized the part. And Brian was joined by other participants in the Bridge School benefit: on the first night, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder sang backup on "Surfin' USA" (Neil also played guitar), and on the second night the same group was joined on this song by Emmylou Harris and The Who's Roger Daltrey. Additionally, Neil Young contributed his harmonium playing to "Good Vibrations" on the second night only. Finally, Brian and band did a brief reprise of "Good Vibrations" following "Sufrin' USA" on the second night (just one chorus)."

Main Vocalist:

Backup band included:

SETLIST

13. Love and Mercy

Contributed by: "HeyJude", additional info C-Man

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