{"id":10555,"date":"2012-04-30T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2012-04-30T08:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:02:29","slug":"if-its-foggy-then-you-must-be-covered-in-beach-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-04\/if-its-foggy-then-you-must-be-covered-in-beach-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"If It&#8217;s Foggy, Then You Must Be Covered in Beach Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10560\" title=\"6a0120a7b5f86a970b0154325a97ff970c-800wi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6a0120a7b5f86a970b0154325a97ff970c-800wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6a0120a7b5f86a970b0154325a97ff970c-800wi.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6a0120a7b5f86a970b0154325a97ff970c-800wi-150x147.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the day after Sunday (we won&#8217;t say the word), and we&#8217;re enveloped in the evil fog.\u00a0 So summer has officially arrived.\u00a0 And with summer comes thoughts of <strong>The Beach Boys<\/strong>.\u00a0 Which reminds us:\u00a0 the reunited Beach Boys are coming to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbbowl.com\/concert_detail.htm?theID=59\"> <strong>Santa Barbara Bowl<\/strong> <\/a>on <strong>May 28th<\/strong> (Memorial\/Anniversary Day), and will include <strong>Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston<\/strong>, David Marks and a host of backers. What better way to spend Memorial Day?<\/p>\n<p>Before we get &#8217;round to listening to the real deal (last year&#8217;s <strong>Smile Box Set<\/strong> is highly recommended), in time of need we keep returning to two covers of the Boys&#8217; <em><strong>God Only Knows<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The first (featuring Canada&#8217;s talented <strong>Joe Grass<\/strong> on pedal steel) matches the morning&#8217;s mood.\u00a0 The second is by the phenomenal (and phenomenally horribly named) <strong>Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.<\/strong> and never fails to lift.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve written about the preternaturally-talented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-01\/dale-earnhardt-jr-jr-perform-on-conan\/\"><strong>DEJJ before<\/strong><\/a> and love their Grizzly-Bear-As-Applied-to-Beach-Boys-and-Vocals-Beyond effect on this cover in particular.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Grass<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Grass - God Only Knows (Beach Boys Cover) | A Take Away Show\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSL7eE3sluU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/40431285?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>DJEE at Troubadour<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr ~ God Only Knows\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jcL6d3wt7DM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - &quot;God Only Knows&quot; [Live at The Majestic Theatre 4\/21\/2012]\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WdKCTH9u_kY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the day after Sunday (we won&#8217;t say the word), and we&#8217;re enveloped in the evil fog.\u00a0 So summer has officially arrived.\u00a0 And with summer comes thoughts of The Beach Boys.\u00a0 Which reminds us:\u00a0 the reunited Beach Boys are coming to the Santa Barbara Bowl on May 28th (Memorial\/Anniversary Day), and will include Brian Wilson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}