At 6:30 Eastern Time it is still a bit daylight outside my back door. I am glad the days are getting longer. In a few weeks we will add yet another hour of daylight to our sky when the time changes. This year that happens the 2nd week in March. March 13th is when the time will change to Daylight Savings Time. Do we still call it that? I suppose we do. The clocks spring forward in March and fall back in October.
In Southern Indiana we live near the far-Westward reaches of the Eastern Time Zone. We can drive an hour to the west and hit the central time zone. In June and July the days go well into the night. It will be after 9 before darkness creeps in to give way to the bugs and the bats and humidity of dark air.
I’m not rushing Summer. I would, however, give a great deal to see some Spring. Temperatures are supposed to be in the mid-60s this weekend. That will be Spring-like. That is good.
As we speaktherights I am listening to The Beach Boys 1966 landmark album “Pet Sounds”. Brian Wilson developed the greatest block harmonies and a true wall of sound. The tinks and bumps and subtle nuances and backing clopping sounds that find their way into sounding like they actually should…it is brilliance.
In earnest I admit I have never heard this album all the way through from start to finish and I am a little more than 2 songs. I am going to play # 11 over again before I get to # 12. “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times”. I look at politicians on television and this is what I am thinking. Strange times we are living in indeed.
This year Brian Wilson is touring all over the world with former Beach Boy band mate Al Jardine. They are performing the album Pet Sounds in its entirety.
The have sold out shows in advance in Australia and many in the UK and few in the United States so far. Looking at the tour schedule I was taken aback to see that Brian Wilson is playing The Hollywood Bowl on July 10th and the next scheduled show after that is at the Horseshoe Casino in Elizabeth, Indiana. I doubt you can out more than 1200 people on the house…if that. I don’t get it. I hope the stage lights are extra bright that night. All I can say is Horseshoe is buying the Pet Sounds barnyard to get this date and subsequent others at other properties.
I have seen one concert this casino venue. Of course it was The Moody Blues. Of all the Moodies concerts I have seen, this one was one of the less memorable ones. For one, casino concerts mean the show is sawed-off. Casino shows I have been to are typically a hour and a half at the most. My dear wife, Carrie, and I have seen Huey Lewis and the News at three other casino venues and this has been the case. Short shows at casinos. I was not happy when The Moodies cut out a couple of my favorite songs that night. I shall not complain, given that I heard those songs I missed the night before in Indianapolis.
Oh well. Maybe I Carrie and I will catch a nice outdoor concert this summer. I can tell you about it. It will not be The Moody Blues. They will not be touring in America this summer. They are coming around in March. We will see them then.
Am I glad I sat here and listened to “Pet Sounds”? You better believe it. Classic Rock and Roll never gets old. These guys made history. The Beach Boys provided part of the soundtrack of our lives.
Speaking the Brian Wilson rights.
Danny Johnson