The Beach Boys (1961-), American Rock Band from California - Brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, Cousin Mike Love, and Friend Al Jardine

[The Hersch]

That was laugh-out-loud funny! What on earth *was* it?!

It's pretty obviously the Beach Boys doing a pantomime "live" performance for video to go with their audio recording of  "I Get Around", but without the audio of the record. When this was put together with the audio, we got this:

which is actually pretty wonderful. I love the Beach Boys, who were no more dependent on studio recording than were the Beatles to make a great sound:

I can hardly convey how happy "Shut Down" makes me, every time I hear it:

[mr food]

Yes, it's happy music. The recent high-res downloads are getting good reviews though I haven't sampled yet.