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| BRIAN WILSON NEW 2006 BEST Book CATCH A WAVE BEACH BOYS ["brian wilson"] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 06:40 AM CDT
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| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 06:23 AM CDT I think by original format,it means exactly as released, no bonus tracks. I doubt a good remastering job would infringe the stipulation although, as has been pointed out, the remix GM did on some could be seen so to do. | ||
| 42 years ago today.... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 06:04 AM CDT Brian and the boys were in the studio working on 'Prayer'  | ||
| Re: Be My Baby [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 05:53 AM CDT I have 'BMB' in stereo. Contrary to Spector's First Commandment, 'The Ronette's Greatest Hits' appeared in true stereo on the Phil Spector International label in 1976 or thereabouts. I think it was a Polydor license deal for only a couple of years. I also have the Xmas album in stereo, as well as the two 'Rarities' sets - but they were in mono only. Great sleeves, BTW, esp. the 'Rarities' disks. | ||
| Re: Brian signing CD's in Nashville? [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 05:36 AM CDT I must say that I don't find this condition odd, or profit-obsessed at all. I am a huge admirer of a sadly deceased Dutch novelist. About 15 years ago I went to a signing session by him in our best bookstore. I did not know then that it was recommended that you'd bring only his then freshly published poetry volume with you. So: he looked a bit awkward when I presented him with a stack of 10 of his best books, some of them had even been remaindered by then (talk about profit...). But he obliged chivalrously, and I thought afterwards: celebrity or not, you might try to empathize a bit before being critical... | ||
| Re: The Wilson Brothers picture thread [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 05:18 AM CDT | ||
| Re: \ [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 05:09 AM CDT Oh God please don't give me a thread!!!! don't worry, we won't.... but watch out, we might turn you into an honoured guest...  | ||
| Re: Questions about Dennis's death [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:38 AM CDT According to Tom Noguchi's (the coroner at that time) report, Dennis had a bruise on his head. Maybe he tried to surface and hit his head on a piling rendering him unconscious. I read this in Dr. Noguchi's book Coroner At Large, published in 1985. That's what Hal Blaine told me too. He was on the marina that day though not with Dennis, and it was what was announced on the radio there. | ||
| Re: in defence of \ [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:34 AM CDT It is a great song. The 45 is not as good. It's somewhat tinny and a bit too glossy. The LP sounds natural. It's really one of the only post 1980 songs worth hearing. | ||
| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:27 AM CDT Is it true that the Beatles always vetoed re-mastering their back catalogue out of vanity? Like in: we are the only band in the world that does not need that kind of overhaul? Just asking. (BTW: my 'NO' remains that: a 'NO'; I do have principles...  )This may be an R&R urban myth, but I've read that there's a clause in The Beatles contract with EMI stipulating that the original studio albums will never be reissued in any other form than they were originally, which would of course explain the total and complete lack of bonus tracks on any of them. Evidently this clause postdated the Capitol hatchet job on the pre-Pepper releases. As always, thanks Andrew. Seems to be a very rational answer to this question. What puzzles me however: suppose EMI would re-negotiate and re-issue everything in pristinely remastered format (perhaps without bonus material, to 'protect' history, as it were) - wouldn't there be a couple of billions to rake in for them (and Michael Jackson)? | ||
| Re: What did Johnny Rivers DO? [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:23 AM CDT I always thought the 1975 Help Me Rhonda was kind of like his vocal on In The Still Of The Night. He hits the notes ok but you can hear a differrence from even a year or so earlier. It's right in the middle of the swift decline to me. | ||
| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:06 AM CDT Is it true that the Beatles always vetoed re-mastering their back catalogue out of vanity? Like in: we are the only band in the world that does not need that kind of overhaul? Just asking. (BTW: my 'NO' remains that: a 'NO'; I do have principles... )This may be an R&R urban myth, but I've read that there's a clause in The Beatles contract with EMI stipulating that the original studio albums will never be reissued in any other form than they were originally, which would of course explain the total and complete lack of bonus tracks on any of them. Evidently this clause postdated the Capitol hatchet job on the pre-Pepper releases. | ||
| Re: The *official* Brian/BB picture thread [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:02 AM CDT  What a lazy fake! Why would there be a poster for a 1971 concert with a picture of the Beach Boys from what, 1976? There are so many things wrong with that poster, so many anachronisms. | ||
| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 03:52 AM CDT I don't like Love. The only thing I like from it is While My Guitar Gently Weeps, because that's one of the only songs that's not just a bunch of songs on top of each other. | ||
| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 03:51 AM CDT | ||
| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 03:38 AM CDT No. | ||
| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 03:36 AM CDT Is it true that the Beatles always vetoed re-mastering their back catalogue out of vanity? Like in: we are the only band in the world that does not need that kind of overhaul? Just asking. (BTW: my 'NO' remains that: a 'NO'; I do have principles... ) | ||
| Re: Shows and sessions for 1983 now up on 10452 [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 03:12 AM CDT Jay -- It is the same Kingdome regardless of how it looks in the Who video and how it looks in the BB video. It could be how the two different shows were shot that gives them a different appearance. But I'm absolutely positive the May, 1983 Seattle show was at the Kingdome. I have the full show on DVD. In my dvd of The Who at the Kingdome, Pete Townshend sarcastically calls the building a "fishtank". I'm not sure what that means.... The arena was the site of both the Mariners and the Seahawks. It was an indoor, air-pressure inflated building much like the Metrodome in Minneapolis or the old Hoosier Dome (I think it was called) in Indianapolis. I've never seen the Who video so I can't make any comparisons personally. Your assurance (Kingdome) is good enough for me. | ||
| Re: Be My Baby [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 03:03 AM CDT the song has a lot of nuance and a lot of musicality, but its just gonna sound compressed and boring unless you have a good copy and the right equipment to bring out that nuance......at least thats what i've found over the years.........because.......even the original mix,....is still compressed as fudge.......but, becuase the backing track is recorded all at once - aside from the strings - , with the wrecking crew, as a group......it has got that wonderful group dynamic.......alot of dynamics really, - whatever that means........despite the lack of "dynamic range" per se .......if that makes any sense............seriously.....it took me years to really......get hardcore into alot of spector's stuff.......just because, - i believe - i wasn't hearing it in the right context., or that is....under the right circumstances.......really, i don't mean to be bullying anybody into thinking like I do......it's just I feel if you had heard it like i have heard it, you might come around.....at least a bit, or not....but...........ya know, ....fudge coming around.....i just want everybody to experience the extreme pleasure that i have experienced with a lot of those tracks...certainly almost or as much as any of the bb's greatest tracks......I'm always trying to turn my friends on..... | ||
| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:58 AM CDT Can we get Giles Martin to remix TLOS? I love LOVE and think it was a brilliant idea and well executed. Beatles have never sounded better on a format except the original vinyls. | ||
| Re: Info sought, please. [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:50 AM CDT Whoops, uploaded too soon; Just noticed the photo and info in another thread.  | ||
| Info sought, please. [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:42 AM CDT Can anybody identify when and where this photo was taken? http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q476/marcus1970/bb.jpg Cheers. | ||
| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:31 AM CDT Bad luck, sons. Because I veto this plan here and now. It amounts to sacrilege. Not one mortal soul shall ever tarnish and blemish the works of the mighty Professor Brian Douglas Wilson by 'twiddling the knobs'. NO! | ||
| Re: Brian comments on possibilities of a BB reunion [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:28 AM CDT Breaking news: There will be a BB reunion when Dennis and Carl come back! Good news. I will speed up the development of the Don's Essential Revitalisator in my hidden lab in the European Alps. More news to follow, stay tuned. | ||
| Re: Brian comments on possibilities of a BB reunion [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:27 AM CDT Dear Sherriff JS - although I don't agree with you on various points (but in degrees, not in sharp contrast, so a heavy debate is nonsense) I see your point. This is where I stand, roughly... In 1995, I was overwhelmed when having read articles in the UK press, good, detailed ones, about the work that Brian and Andy Paley did in the studio then. Soon thereafter, I came into the possesion of a recording of demos and my hope was confirmed: 'Getting In Over My Head', 'Must Be A Miracle', and other songs could, with proper production and real instruments in stead of keyboards, be the sign of a true comeback, the comeback that the '88 album did not turn out to be. And, I think all of us somehow here have that obsession: there were few things in the world we wanted more than a true Brian Wilson comeback, sans Landy, and general acknowledgment that his genius is unique. Instead, he found Joe Thomas. Turned in a few mediocre products (the Nashville Sessions are not really awful, just mediocre... and I don't know what is worse). As if he was on a boat, surely afloat and not sinking, but without direction. Meanwhile the public portrait of Brian Wilson was refined and painted in truthful colors (I am thinking about the Don Was film here; and sympathetic books by Tim White and later Peter Ames Carlin of course). Yes, in some respects Brian Wilson fans can be the saddest shoegazing fans in the world, endlessly ruminating about what might have been, and I do belong firmly into that category. I think it is quite fair to say that his output from 1988 onwards does not hold up to the sixties peaks. The melodies are simpler, changes are more predictable, sometimes on the verge of childishness. Still, for this person they still are a joy to listen to. I try to take it all in on its own merits, and that works quite well. And: Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE for me is outside of time and place. It is a masterwork and I firmly agree with the rating that Robert Christgau gave it: an A+, because it shows that there still might be some hope that pop music is not only the predictable dire stadium fodder that is served on a daily basis by the likes of U2, Coldplay, the Rolling Stones, and all those big names from the past with one or two surviving founder members in the line-up. And hey... I would be rather eager to exchange the whole of the Stones' or Led Zep's output for a solitary gem like The Night Was So Young or This Song Wants To Sleep With You Tonight. | ||
| Re: God only knows whether this will come to fruition... [Smiley Smile Message Board] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:20 AM CDT Love is currently my favorite Beatles 'album'! That would be awesome if he did something like that for the Beach Boys! | ||
| Brian Wilson autograph Good Vibrations signed import 45 ["brian wilson"] Posted: 04 Oct 2008 12:17 AM CDT
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| Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun (CD 2008) ["brian wilson"] Posted: 03 Oct 2008 10:34 PM CDT | ||
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