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The dog days of summer usually mean making a bee-line for the beach. Not us. We can't stand the place. And it's got nothing to do with being the source of a super-spreader event. Yes, the pounding waves are pretty cool. But the beach itself - with all that seaweed, dead fish and assorted flotsam and jetsam - not so much. But something else is even worse.
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While Love's vocals were consistently at the forefront, Johnston deftly handled the energetic B-side toe-tapper "You're So Good to Me" and the up-tempo "Do You Wanna Dance?" - "all over Ohio," he ad-libbed at one point - while wild man drummer John Cowsill acquitted himself nicely on "Darlin'" and "California Dreaming." But it was Love's son Christian who all but stole the show with a spot-on channeling of the late Carl Wilson's "God Only Knows," the twin chart-toppers "Help Me Rhonda" and "Good Vibrations," and multiple selections from a forthcoming 135-track box set of rarities and outtakes we can't wait to add to our collections.
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