SMiLE Sessions box set!

[Mike's Beard]

It's war, and there will be casualties. It will be akin to the Michael Love/Van Dyke Parks Celebrity Deathmatch.

It's on! Mike Love, V D Parks...... get in the ring, biatch.

[Jason]

It should be just like The Running Man; get all nine of the official Beach Boys (living and deceased) into a five acre arena with all kinds of armor (imagine Al in spikes and studs a la GWAR or Kiss spewing all kinds of fake blood), and just let them duke it out.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

^ Post of the year

[OBLiO]

you put your left claw in, you take your left claw out
do the Cabinessence and you shake it all about

flap flap scratch scratch buck buck scratch scratch  WOOOO WOOOO

[The Heartical Don]

^ Post of the year

There should actually a computer game with that fight of our heroes...

[hypehat]

It should be just like The Running Man; get all nine of the official Beach Boys (living and deceased) into a five acre arena with all kinds of armor (imagine Al in spikes and studs a la GWAR or Kiss spewing all kinds of fake blood), and just let them duke it out.

For some reason I picture this as occuring during the mid-70's, with beards, bathrobes, and moogs....

Dennis is your man to beat in this scenario, honestly. I imagine whoever he found first would essentially cease to be, although he may hesitate to kill his own family. If he met Al or Bruce, they'd stand no chance. Mike would be a harder match, but I think Dennis would beat him eventually. He'd dispatch Carl, David and Blondie with ease. I imagine unless you keep him fuelled with vodka and cocaine, Denny would eventually get tired, which is where Brian (or Bruce, if he's stayed alive long enough) could make their move. His toughest opponents physically are either Ricky (a fellow drummer) or Brian (a fellow hedonist).

Al, wee fella, is buggered in hand to hand combat. If he got his hands on a projectile weapon of some kind he could maybe dispatch of Carl or Mike in a sneaky manner, but Bruce would blatantly outsmart him, and Brian and Dennis would be able to get in quick enough to neutralise him.

Bruce would obviously come up with some cunning strategy. If he survived long enough. Engineered correctly, he'd probably be only left with either Brian or Dennis, Ricky or Mike, all of which he could take down in a one-on-one with his quick fingers. Brains and agility, not brute force. The anti-Dennis.

Carl is one of the least violent men on planet earth. The only way he could survive the initial shitstorm is hiding until absolutely everyone else is dead, which leaves him with either Dennis, Brian, or Bruce, all of whom would slaughter him in seconds.

David, in his hedonist days, could be a contender, but lacks the sheer bulk of Brian, the muscle of Dennis, and the evil genius of Johnston to really go the distance. Either killed by a lucky Al or a pissed off Mike.

Blondie and Ricky are similar, although stronger. Would be a close tie with the Lovester, but easily seen off by Brian, Dennis, or Bruce.

Brian, fuelled with hamburgers, beer and the finest marching powder, is an unstoppable force of nature. The only person who could stop him would be Dennis, and only then with a similar amount of stimulants. His only problem is that, without these things, he is confused, idle, and prone to sleeping. A dichotomy not unlike The Incredible Hulk. You won't like him when he's high. Found in the former state, Brian Wilson is one of the hardest men to walk Gods green earth. Found in the latter, he is susceptible to Bruce's cunning, Al's sneakiness, Blondie, Ricky, David and Mike's varying forms of muscle and intellect, and Dennis' brute force. If his binge was sustained, he would be the eventual winner. If not, whoever is left would take advantage of his frail mental and physical state.

Mike is difficult to suss. A jack of all trades. He has the skinny physique of a Jardine with the mental imbalances of a Wilson at it's coke fuelled pinnacle. He has the smarts to have his own entity of the group, combined with the immense stupidity that believes wholeheartedly that Summer In Paradise is a fine musical work. He is a wildcard. Physically, he is puny but his latent rage brought on by years of TM could see him easily overcome lesser members of the group. Only he has the extensive knowledge of Bruce to get inside his mind and thwart his strategy, but Bruce also has the same knowledge of Mike. He, despite his baffling sense of humour, can damage Brian Wilson's ego and belittle the rest of the band. Mike's key to success is possibly tackling the lesser members of the group, hopefully outwitting Bruce, and hoping to God in the eventual Brian/Dennis showdown that Brian wins. A tired Brian is susceptible to his ill-timed jibes. If Dennis wins, Mike Love is but a poignant memory.

All things considered, victory goes to Dennis, I think.


As an aside, my degree is falling by the wayside somewhat. I can't imagine why.... 

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Maybe I gave the Post of the Year award a bit too early...

I wonder what would go down if you switch Running Man with, I dunno, Total Recall.

[OBLiO]

There was a Beatles Celebrity Deathmatch .... the claymation thing... looked to see if there was a Beach Boys episode... but there isn't.




Anyone else reading The Act of Creation?

And I changed my mind from an earlier post... Brian was the glue... but the doors to the universe opened up and Van left and the album was due and so on. All of that stuff is in the past though and they are finally doing it!... Yabba Dabba Doo!!!

[pixletwin]

Hypehat, you are clearly entirely too full of awesome! 

[Shady]

last two pages are made of win.

Now this is smile talk

[Runaways]

here's a question for y'all..

since i imagine most here will be getting the boxset, how will you listen to SMiLE first?  vinyl or cd?

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

CD. I do not have a record player.

[rab2591]

CD.....I as well do not own a record player.

Depending on whether or not it is shrink-wrapped I'll probably never take the vinyl out of its case.....a sin, I know.

God I can't wait to open that boxset up and listen to the album......HURRY UP AND RELEASE IT!!!! - please!

[pixletwin]

CD mostly.... I will open the vinyl just to bask in the album art.

[?]

Honestly, I'm sure I'll hear it first on the mp3s that will leak two weeks before the box comes out.  Then vinyl.

[Les P]

Hypehat, that was extremely entertaining.  And this was my biggest laugh of the week:

Mike is difficult to suss. A jack of all trades. He has the skinny physique of a Jardine with the mental imbalances of a Wilson at it's coke fuelled pinnacle. He has the smarts to have his own entity of the group, combined with the immense stupidity that believes wholeheartedly that Summer In Paradise is a fine musical work.

Brilliant work!

[Mike's Beard]

It should be just like The Running Man; get all nine of the official Beach Boys (living and deceased) into a five acre arena with all kinds of armor (imagine Al in spikes and studs a la GWAR or Kiss spewing all kinds of fake blood), and just let them duke it out.

Al would be the first to go. As the runt of the pack the others all simply gang up on him and rip him limb from limb like a bug.

Mike then decides to hop on a private Lear jet and cruise over to Hawaii to sit things out whilst working on his tan. He leaves his cohorts Stan and Rocky to do his dirty work for him.

Bruce's number would be up next. He is engulfed in a tidal wave of syrupy sludge that erupts from the speakers when Carl plays "Goin' Public" at full volume, causing him to die slowly and painfully.

Family loyalties are out the window here, so next up Denny cooks up a ruse to take Brian out. "Hey Brian, 15 Big Ones sucked and I think I'm attracted to Carnie!", he yells before running away. An enraged Brian gives chase. Sneaky Dennis leads him down a blind alley where the Manson Family lie in wait. They all hold Brian down while he is shagged to death by an insatiable Sadie Atkins. Dennis gives them a Beach Boys gold record as a token of his appreciation.

On a roll, Dennis then turns his attention to Carl, lulling him into a false sense of security by inviting him up to his hotel room to snort some good blow. After a few toots a relaxed Carl lets his guard down enough for Dennis to jump up and quickly put Carl's "Youngblood" solo album on the stereo. Upon hearing it Carl simply dies of shame.

Sadly for Dennis he is then jumped and beaten to death by scumbags Stan and Rocky.

Upon hearing that he's the last man standing, an ecstatic Mike flies back from Hawaii with his new freshly married 17 year old Hawaiian bride in tow. She serves him with divorce papers approximately halfway into the flight....  As if that wasn't bad enough, the smog levels means the plane has to delay landing for another half an hour. Faced with having to spend another 30 Min's in the company of Mr. Love in an enclosed space, the pilot wisely opts for suicide. Dashing Mike grabs the controls in a desperate bid to steer the plane to safety.
      "It's no use" screams his soon to be ex wife, "the plane's too heavy, we'll have to jettison something"!
Mike dutifully obliges and tosses her out of the airlock. Forced to make an emergency crash landing Mike lands the plane in downtown LA, inadvertently wiping out hundreds of people including Stan, Rocky and a coach carrying the Wishbone Ash Fanclub, on their way to their annual convention in the process.

Defiant, Mike climbs to the top of the Capital Tower building where he proceeds to chickendance around the rooftop in victory yelling "Who's the man!" as stunned passersby look on.

So caught up in the moment is he, that Mike fails to notice the figure that emerges from out the shadows behind him and shoves him off the side of the building, where his body hits the street below with a bloody splat.

"They always forget to pay attention to me." sighs David Marks. Jon Stebbings makes a mental note to include this in his updates for the revised The Lost Beach Boy book.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

[The Shift]

Jon Stebbings makes a mental note to include this in his updates for the revised The Real Beach Boy book.

Jon really ought to complete the series:

The Lost Beach Boy – David Marks
The Real Beach Boy – Dennis Wilson
The Bald Beach Boy –
The Sub Beach Boy –
The Short Beach Boy –


… and so it goes on. We've a couple of months at least until this box set comes out, so I invite everyone to suggest a few more book titles for Jon – I'll commission him to write the best, promise.

Only rule: nothing offensive, cos I'm tired of offensive.

(This has got to be more productive than us all bitching at each other for eight weeks or more   )

[hypehat]

John Stamos - The WannaBeach Boy 

[Mahalo]

This set will probably include some of the sessions for GV's that was supposed to come for the 40th anniversary idea that never manifested.

[PhilCohen]

Here's some legitimate questions:
1.Will there be material exclusive to the 2-CD & download editions, to force avid fans to buy all the editions?
2.Will there be problems in getting satisfactory pressings on the vinyl records, causing a substantial delay in the box set release?
    (this is a legitimate question, considering the substantial problems that have, to date thwarted the release of The Beatles vinyl reissues. Capitol & EMI must still be feeling the negative feedback that
      greeted the "George Harrison-All Things Must Pass" vinyl reissue, which used decent vinyl, but was let down by careless handling of the records at the pressing plant)
3.Will Capitol be careful enough to design a packaging that doesn't damage the records or CD's before they get to the consumer, or will there be disc-damaging packaging like the type which caused Amazon's UK & Canadian companies to halt the sale of the recent Eric Clapton "Derek & The Dominos" CD/DVD/Vinyl set? Capitol is new to the idea of CD + vinyl sets, but both Universal & Sony have had problems with disc-damaging packaging in their sets.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

This set will probably include some of the sessions for GV's that was supposed to come for the 40th anniversary idea that never manifested.

I think so too.

[Runaways]

Here's some legitimate questions:
1.Will there be material exclusive to the 2-CD & download editions, to force avid fans to buy all the editions?
2.Will there be problems in getting satisfactory pressings on the vinyl records, causing a substantial delay in the box set release?
    (this is a legitimate question, considering the substantial problems that have, to date thwarted the release of The Beatles vinyl reissues. Capitol & EMI must still be feeling the negative feedback that
      greeted the "George Harrison-All Things Must Pass" vinyl reissue, which used decent vinyl, but was let down by careless handling of the records at the pressing plant)
3.Will Capitol be careful enough to design a packaging that doesn't damage the records or CD's before they get to the consumer, or will there be disc-damaging packaging like the type which caused Amazon's UK & Canadian companies to halt the sale of the recent Eric Clapton "Derek & The Dominos" CD/DVD/Vinyl set? Capitol is new to the idea of CD + vinyl sets, but both Universal & Sony have had problems with disc-damaging packaging in their sets.

1.  avid fans would by all editions anyway.
2.  probably not?
3.  probably?

[juggler]

I'm an avid fan, but I won't be buying the download.  It's just a waste.  If the download does include some exclusive bonus track, such a track is unlikely to be something earth-shattering.  I mean, they're not going to, for example, leave a completed The Elements off the box in favor of the download.  More likely, it'll be something like "Heroes & Villains Take No. 38 (Brian sounds congested)."