I treated myself to a special event at UCLA last Wednesday. Brian Wilson, the legendary creative force behind the Beach Boys, celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the classic Pet Sounds album by performing the entire work live in concert.
It was so much fun! The band were awesome. They sang great and almost everybody played a multitude of instruments, including keyboards, guitar, banjo, percussion of all sorts, trumpet, horn, and saxophone, accordion, harmonica, and so on. Joining the band on stage was original Beach Boy Al Jardine. It was fantastic to hear such beautiful music performed by talented musicians in an elegant concert hall where hundreds of great artists have performed over the decades.
Royce Hall, where the show was performed, is an intimate concert hall in a beautiful historic building on the UCLA campus. The acoustics were fantastic even for a loud rock show and the view was excellent from the center balcony. The house was completely sold out and everybody was moving to the music, except for the enormous woman to my right who kept playing with her stupid glow-in-the-dark PDA. Get a clue, sweetheart.
Anyway, the show was fantastic. Well worth the 68 bucks. Now you know why I went by myself.
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