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Re: Brian comments on possibilities of a BB reunion [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 06:19 AM CDT

Quote from: matt-zeus on Today at 05:25:33 AM

You could get 47 Big ones

Actually, if it's as good as "I'm Into Something Good"... why not? Cheesy

Re: Brian comments on possibilities of a BB reunion [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 05:25 AM CDT

You could get 47 Big ones

Re: Brian comments on possibilities of a BB reunion [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 05:07 AM CDT

Try telling those going to the 100 plus Mike and Bruce shows a year since 1998 that the Beach Boys are getting back together. No change to the status quo IMO.

Re: Brian comments on possibilities of a BB reunion [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 05:01 AM CDT

15 Big Ones, that's what you get from a Beach Boys reunion. 32 years later, it could be even worse. In terms of a reunion as a concert act only, I'd much rather see a well done DVD set of some never-seen-before live footage from the seventies and early eighties than these guys actually going on the road as The Beach boys again.

Re: Mike comments on relations between him and Al [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:23 AM CDT

Quote from: Eric Aniversario on Today at 02:36:14 AM

"The thing is, [Brian] was most successful when he collaborated in writing with his cousin Mike. That's me."

Yeah, I guess the last two albums with at least a handful of Brian & Mike compositions (MIU Album and Keepin' The Summer Alive) really proved his point...

Re: Brian comments on possibilities of a BB reunion [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:17 AM CDT

I don't think too many people attach too much value anymore to statements that Brian makes in interviews...

If someone would offer the guys a nice sum to do a few reunion shows (not that that's likely to happen though), I'm sure they'll all be there.

Brian comments on possibilities of a BB reunion [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 02:46 AM CDT

From a recent article:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24299918-2902,00.html

"There isn't anybody I know -- my publicist, my wife, my managers, myself, my current group -- I don't think any of us think there is any hope for a Beach Boys reunion," Wilson says vehemently over the phone from his home in Los Angeles where his neighbours include Robbie Williams, Paul Stanley and Avril Lavigne.

Re: Mike comments on relations between him and Al [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 02:40 AM CDT

You know, that's the thing with Mike that grates with so many people. He actually said something nice and generous about Brian's post-BB career, even mentioned he has a new album out.....but then can't resist saying that Brian was more successful when he they wrote songs together.

Yeah...but maybe Brian is *happier* now than when he was writing pop songs? Most truly creative writers end up having to either leave bands or undertake side projects just to stay sane.

Mike comments on relations between him and Al [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 02:36 AM CDT

From:

http://www.canada.com/cityguides/victoria/story.html?id=f22081d4-88bb-4c05-8a46-edcecbc92a8e&p=2

Mike mentions Al & Brian in this article...here's an excerpt:

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Legal strife has plagued the Beach Boys repeatedly. Earlier this year, Love and Jardine settled a five-year battle over the use of the band's name. Love sued Jardine in 2003, saying his former band-mate used the name to advertise concerts even though Love was the sole licensee.

Love says the two are friends today. "There was definitely a schism [between me and Jardine] that lasted a number of years," Love added. "But that's been overcome. The future is wide open."

And what about Brian Wilson? Might he ever rejoin his old bandmates on the concert stage?

"That would be great," Love said without hesitation. "We're not opposed to Brian being a part of it. But he's got his own band. He just came out with a solo album [That Lucky Old Sun]. He's been on the solo artist trail a while. We wish him well. And if it happens, it happens."

And then Love, perhaps smarting over past skirmishes, added: "The thing is, [Brian] was most successful when he collaborated in writing with his cousin Mike. That's me."

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Re: TLOS: any comments from Mike, Al or Bruce yet? [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 02:23 AM CDT

Quote from: shelter on September 23, 2008, 03:49:27 AM

Quote from: Aegir on September 23, 2008, 01:33:04 AM

And Bob Dylan is a far more respected songwriter than Brian Wilson is.

I have a theory about that. One of the reasons why Bob Dylan is such a respected songwriter is because everybody and their brother have recorded his songs, right? And I don't think that's because his songs were just better than Brian's... I think it has more to do with the fact that his songs are just a lot easier to cover and to make your own.

I think it has much more to do with the fact that he is a brilliant lyricist, and his music documents each generation.

Re: TLOS: any comments from Mike, Al or Bruce yet? [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 12:51 AM CDT

Was The Facts of Life confused with Full House and/or Baywatch?

Re: TLOS: any comments from Mike, Al or Bruce yet? [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 12:29 AM CDT

i dont think mike would want to admit if it was a good album or not unless he was on it. i think at that age and the amount of years someone has been in the industry,new albums are looked at as part of the job,not in the enjoyable sence that we listen to them.it woulsd be "ok,this guy is doing this" or "this guy is doing that" mike would probably listen to old stuff and in brians case,mike would have brians album down the bottom of his list of albums to listen to.

Re: My indiepop group [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 12:19 AM CDT

God save the Lexingtons.

Can't wait for the new album!

Re: Shows and sessions for 1983 now up on 10452 [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 12:15 AM CDT

God bless Brian Wilson. Sticking it to the Man Up Above.

Re: The Mark Linett Thread [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 12:13 AM CDT

Quote from: buddhahat on August 13, 2008, 04:12:56 AM

Hello Mark,

We are having a discussion about how fragmentary Smile songs such as Worms might be mixed for presentation on a hypothetical "Smile Box-set". My question is: Do you think it would be possible, with your expertise, to mix the existing 66/67 sessions into a seamless facsimile of BWPS? I'm not sure if you've heard any of the boots that do this (there is a Purple Chick one doing the rounds), but they tend to have awkward spots where the original sessions just don't quite fit the new sequence properly - the transition from Song For Children to Child for example, or the transition from Windchimes into Fire. Given that you have created very seamless mixes of fragmentary Smile songs for the GV Box, and as you worked on BWPS, I thought you might be the best person to answer this question!

Many thanks in advance for any opinions you might have on this.

Good luck on getting an answer to that one.

Re: Shows and sessions for 1983 now up on 10452 [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 11:16 PM CDT

Oh wow... can't say I blame them.

Re: Shows and sessions for 1983 now up on 10452 [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 10:44 PM CDT

Quote from: Ian on September 25, 2008, 06:43:04 PM

well....The story made the Deseret News and the school was not happy about it-the band issued an apology

I believed this appearance is mentioned in Brian's "autobiography".

Sunny Sunny Sunshine (album-a-day) [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 10:40 PM CDT

Hey foiks, this is an album-a-day (album written & recorded in a day) that I did a few months back. The production is kinda crappy, but oh well, I had fun. Some of the titles of the songs are not-so-subtle rip-offs of tracks from Smile(y Smile).

http://www.archive.org/details/SunnySunnySunshineV2