Time for a road trip to hear some angelic pop music. But I think I’ll listen to metal on the way down. I need some extra oomph today.

See you Sunday night at the James Hunter show, right?

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Casey Rea was the Seven Days music editor from 2004 until 2007. He won the 2005 John D. Donoghue award for arts criticism from the Vermont Press Association.

One reply on “Off to see the Wilson.”

  1. i went to hear brian wilson and his band perform smile last weekend in saratoga springs. it was a really lovely concert. the band was really great, super tight, and its amazing how they can cover all the parts and really recreate the records well. brian only played piano maybe once or twice for the whole show and bass on one tune. but his voice sounded great and he was in really good spirits. he was even making very intense hand gestures during the songs and getting into it. i also saw the ‘pet sounds’ tour but it was much earlier on in that tour. i liked the ‘smile’ show quite a bit more. i was also surprised that during the first set, they stayed away from the beach boys hits and played a lot of great and obscure songs from the beach boys records from the late 60’s / early 70’s (i.e. 20/20, sunflower, surf’s up, wild honey, holland, etc). all in all, a good show. my only complaint is that they were charging $35 for a brian wilson t-shirt!!!! that is unbelievable. especially after paying $60 for a ticket for the show. oh well… have fun casey and im looking forward to the article on brian.

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