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A
Welcome to a very special episode of Jokerman podcast. Al Jardine Podcast. Oh, boy, my voice is cracking already. It's early in the morning. Not that early. I'm Ian and Evan is not here, unfortunately, but fortunately for my wife because she got to see the show and she gets to be on the podcast. Welcome back to Jokerman, Grace.
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B
Happy to be here.
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A
Happy to have you. This is at least the third time we've done husband wife conversation.
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B
I think third.
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A
We did the Bob one a couple years ago from the Pantages and we did the Beyonce one in this very. We're at my sister's apartment here in beautiful Hollywood, usa. So it's gonna be a little bit of a ramshackle family style conversation on some less than quality recording equipment, as everyone out there can hear. But I think it's appropriate for the show that we just saw the Al Jardine and the Pet Sounds Band performance, which itself was a pretty ramshackle family affair, but just a complete full delight from beginning to end for me at.
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B
Least, it was a real barn burner.
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A
You had a good time?
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B
Yeah, it was great.
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A
Was it better than the Bob show?
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B
Oh, how could one even compare the two?
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A
They have pretty different experiences. Well, yeah. So we are recording live chat just a day after seeing again the Al Jardine and the Pet Sounds Band live in Cerritos. Beautiful Cerritos, which is somewhere down in Orange county, like next to Downey. Very odd place. That seems to be sort of the hallmark of the Al Jardine and the Pet Sounds Band tour that has been undertaken this year is some odd venues, odd locations. I think he's played in Florida and in like upstate New York and Minnesota maybe. And. And these are the Southern California dates. He played in El Tejon a couple nights ago and then the Los Angeles date is Cerritos, and he's going to Phoenix for three days straight after this. So he's, you know, he's kind of flying by the seat of his pants.
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B
It's the Snowbird tour.
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A
The Snowbird. Oh, yeah. You know, that's a good point. Well, I mean, it does make some degree of sense because obviously Al Jardine, aged fellow, I don't know exactly when he was born, but probably around the 80. 80 years old.
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B
Mark, I don't like to speculate about people's ages.
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A
That's very kind of you. But I mean, I think it was clear both from Al's presence on the stage as well as the audiences that we were amongst some elders, some wizened elders perhaps.
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B
So I saw A number of younger folks in the audience singing along to every word of even some of the deeper cuts.
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A
You saw one of them sitting right next to you to your left.
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B
Present company Notwithstand.
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A
Yes. Yeah, there was a fun little mixture of younger and older folks in the crowd. I saw a couple kids in some classic Keep It Clean with Al Jardine T shirts wandering around out in the lobby when I went out for the intermission.
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B
That's cool.
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A
We saw some hot young ladies dancing right up there in the front at the end of the show.
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B
That was a commonality with the Bob show. There's always at least one lady who cannot stand, stay within the boundary of her assigned seat and must get up.
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A
They just feel the music within them and they are summoned from a force deep within to get out into the aisle and start boogieing. And when you hear Al Jardine doing Help Me Rhonda, who amongst us. But yeah, I always love to see shows like this because it is always ancient people and we get to feel like the young ones for once. This is contra, like when we saw Rene Rapp, for instance, where we were the ancient, grizzled elders in the audience. We get to be the hot young ones at a place like this. It's a very nice, you know, sort of generational communal experience where we can kind of get in touch with those. Be in touch with those above us and below us on the age ladder, as the case may be. And that's what we got on stage as well, which is this beautiful performance. For anyone out there who might not be aware, it's Al Jardine and again, the Pet Sounds Band, which is really the Brian Wilson Band, the former band that went out on tour with Brian for the last couple decades. Headlined by bandleader Darian Sahanaja, who we interviewed on Jokerman recently. Jim Laspiza was there as well, who spoke with us on Jokerman, and Al's son Matt, Matt Jardine, right there in the front. Carney Wilson's husband, whose name is Escaping Me on lead guitar. It's like a 10 piece unit full of synthesizers and various percussion instruments and guitars and bass and horns and woodwinds and flutes and shit. It's a really striking, fantastic, big picture presentation of this material. And it's very exciting to get to hear such beautiful music presented live so well. Of course, Brian was doing this for the last several decades of his life, you know, on all these Brian Wilson tours, early beginning about 2000. And now that dear Brian's no longer with us, you might think, how can such a thing continue. But Lord knows it's cranking along just fine under dear old Al's valiant leadership.
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B
Yeah, I mean, I think Al is fortunate that he birthed a son who can hit Brian's falsetto.
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A
Yes, Matt Jardine is definitely one of the major, not so secret weapons of the band. Matt Jardine, big guy. Big Matt compared to little Al. But he's right up there in front next to his father and he takes a lot of the younger Brian leads, you know, the falsettos he did. Like Don't Worry Baby, for instance, you know, the very high pitched, high pitched singing voice, which I leaned over to at one point and said, I'm surprised that a man so big can sing so high. You inform me that the size of your body doesn't actually have anything to do with how high you can hit on your vocal range.
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B
Yeah, I mean, like, I guess there is a loose correlation. The larger you are, the more, like, sonorous your bass could be. But a falsetto is sort of a different animal and he just has one. And not everybody does it makes it. I mean, this is now the second time that you and I have seen a founding member of the Beach Boys in We'll get to that show in concert. And I have to say that the Brian Wilson part scares me every time because you just never know until it's happening whether or not it's going to happen. Well.