From: puffinnospam@iinet.net.au   
      
   Last Night in King's Park Perth WA,  Brian performed Smile.   
      
   I was prepared to expect it to be the second best concert I've been to,   
   nudging into second place behind the Pet Sounds Tour of 2002.   
      
   WRONG.  Ladies and gentlemen,  We have a new Number 1 ticket holder.   
      
   The main difference that I picked up on, was how much better the band   
   was - they seemed a lot more comfortable together, where as previously   
   they were just plain 100%, they are now.....  (note to self, brush up on   
   my maths)   
      
   It also seemed so low key, no show biz aspects - for the start of the   
   concert they just wondered onto stage, no intro's, no big compere   
   schmaltzing the crowd.   
      
   The set was pretty standard, the only one from real left field was the   
   acoustic set "Drive In" - possibly one of the worse Beach Boys songs   
   ever (how much filler can one LP have  with Carls' Big Chance and Our   
   Fav Sessions?), but the thing is, how wonderful it sounded on the night.   
      
   Another notable difference from the Pet Sounds concert was that Brian's   
   voice is in much better shape, and also that Jeff doubles a lot more of   
   the vocals with Brian. As they have similar vocals styles, it just makes   
   the sound much richer.   
      
   Next  - the Stockholm Strings.  Are they cool or what?   I hope they get   
   paid musician rates plus dancing rates, The sound they add was worth it,   
   but their dance numbers just lift the night from a great musical event   
   to a great event. (Fun Fun Fun was a classic) - the strings added to   
   Forever just lifted the song up another notch.   
      
   Brian seemed very together, and clearly enjoyed the night.   
      
   Wonderful.   
      
   The only criticism I could make, the t-shirts were not available in XXL.   
   As a good number of the crows were paunchy middle aged men prone to   
   wearing Hawaiian shirts, they missed out on a few sales (well one at   
   least that I know of).  Still I did get the program.   
      
      
   PS I also posted this review to the odd yahoo group - sorry if it's   
   doubled up for anyone.   
      
   Cheers   
      
   --   
   Charlie   
   --   
   my music is at:   
   http://members.iinet.net.au/~puffin/mp3.html   
      
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