"That's Why God Made The Radio" Single!

[Shady]

Let's give it till next Wednesday

[HeyJude]

Gosh...Dave must be the first musician that ever mentioned a release date in an interview that ended up being wrong. Wow.

Surprisingly, considering the fervor for new information on the album on this board and penchant for quickly piling on someone in the BB camp for doing or saying or singing something someone doesn’t like, I haven’t seen much frustration targeted specifically at Dave on this one so much as general frustration about simply wanting to hear the song. Which is as it should be, because as soon as I listened to that interview, I knew it was just a casual sort of series of statements.

While we don’t actually know for sure if the June 5th release date for the album will hold true, if that is in fact the date, then it would be interesting that the fans know the release date of the album before Dave does. I get the vibe he’s not too concerned with all of that clerical, administrative stuff like release dates and whatnot. Thus, I took the “Wednesday” statement as a possible indicator and nothing more. This is especially the case considering, as I mentioned in previous posts, there has been nearly no other indication of this single release. We have band members saying it’s the first single, and some European sites showing a CD single for pre-order. That’s about it. That indicates it’s coming sooner rather than later. But with no new press release from Capitol, no indication of Capitol taking orders from retailers, and not one second of the new single leaking or being legitimately previewed, I was very skeptical the song would all of a sudden be purchasable yesterday.

An argument could be made that all of these guys, and probably many artists, should maybe take into account the fans’ enthusiasm for wanting to hear their new stuff sooner rather than later, and hold off on saying things that sound at all definitive if everything is still up in the air.

My best guess at this point would be that Capitol will want to combine a press release for the single and album (e.g. “New Beach Boys album (insert title here) due June 5th, First Single “That’s Why God Made the Radio” due out April whatever), and they probably can’t do that until the album is 100% done in terms of tracklisting, sequencing, title, probably art, etc. It sounds like in the last week or two they’ve still been finalizing the album, so perhaps they just need another week or so to get that all worked out.

I would think a new single right before the start of the tour would be a nice extra bit of promotion, so hopefully they’ll let us hear this song very soon!

[Autotune]

Had Foskett made the Wednesday claim, we'd have a 100-page ranting thread.

[Mikie]

.............which would be completely stupid.  I just skip over the negative sh!t people write about him here.  People with no lives, no jobs, and nothing else to do but sit on their computers day and night here and rag on Foskett or other posters.

[SMiLE Brian]

I like Jeff Foskett, there I said it!

[Shady]

I like Jeff Foskett, there I said it!

Ban this guy!

 

[Aegir]

I like Jeff's band from the 80s with Randell Kirsch, The Pranks.

[Lowbacca]

I like Jeff's band from the 80s with Randell Kirsch, The Pranks.

Yap. They got a few cool tunes. Check out The Warner Demos Collection.

[EgoHanger1966]

I've had The Pranks stuff before I even knew who Jeff was - "Dance Floor" is a gem - a faux Hard Day's Night era Beatles, complete with George styled 12 string!

[Mikie]

I use to see Jeff play with Papa Doo Run Run at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk way back when.  Always thought his version of "GTO" was pretty good too, along with the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean covers.

[Tony S]

I have all of Foskett's solo CD's. I think they're great, especially At My Window(which sounds like it could be the Boys), and Cool and Gone, which is a tremendous CD. My problem with him, isn't actually with him per se, it's with him performing with the Boys, in an almost totally taking over mode. Not his fault in my mind, but when he sings with them live like the other day at Dodger Stadium, he might as well be solo. Can't hear anyone but him, and it's not the Beach Boys, in my opinion. Too much Jeff Foskett......but I really enjoy his solo music.....good stuff for sure.

[Iron Horse-Apples]

That's Why God Made The Internet

[hypehat]

I mentioned this before, but that's entirely the fault of a) the sound guy and b) the Beach Boys. Throughout a combination of factors (and god knows there are many in a baseball stadium with fireworks, what seemed like half of california's armed forces, and jets flying overheard) the group were not singing as loud as they were expected to.

[Ron]

I like Jeff Foskett, there I said it!

Quick! To the Castle!

[Heysaboda]

Not all that surprised that the song didn't surface today.  I mean, we're all getting bent out of shape over a vague comment David Marks made.  All he said was it was getting released on "Wednesday".  Didn't explain how it was getting released (on the radio, iTunes, website, etc.).  I think we're reading far more into this than necessary.  I'm sure the thing will get released soon.  Get a grip, people.

Vague comment?

"The album is - I don't know when the album is gets to come out but there's going to be a single out next week."

"And is the whole album done? Or at least the -"

"Yeah the album's pretty much done. Um, the single is titled "That's Why God Made The Radio," it's gonna be out next Wednesday."
David Marks interview with Michael Shelley on April 7, 2012.

VAGUE COMMENT?!

Considering that he doesn't specify exactly *how* it was going to be released, nor has anyone else made any kind of announcement that the song was coming out today, I'd say there's not a lot to go by.  So that would make it vague.

I was thinking, maybe those jets that flew over Dodger Stadium would drop copies of the single on the assembled masses.....................

 

[Heysaboda]

The Cohen of Silence has descended once more... 

"sorry about that, Chief!"

 

[Heysaboda]

In the absense of any real news, maybe people will be amused by this related website of Get Smart catch phrases:

http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/phrases.html

"How about Gunga Din on a donkey?"

[Paulos]

Let's give it till next Wednesday

When you say next Wednesday do you mean the 18th April or 25th?

[Runaways]

Let's give it till next Wednesday

like we have a choice?

[Cliff1000uk]

I like Jeff Foskett, there I said it!

i like Jeff too.....sorry

[Heysaboda]

Actually, since the interview came out over the weekend, wouldn't today be "this Wednesday" and next week is "next Wednesday"

I remember getting into a massive semantics argument with someone once when they said they were going bowling 'next Friday', this was on a Monday but they didn't mean the upcoming Friday but the one after that, the argument went on for ages with both us refusing to back down. I still think I was right...

but................ did they ever go bowling??

[Paulos]

Actually, since the interview came out over the weekend, wouldn't today be "this Wednesday" and next week is "next Wednesday"

I remember getting into a massive semantics argument with someone once when they said they were going bowling 'next Friday', this was on a Monday but they didn't mean the upcoming Friday but the one after that, the argument went on for ages with both us refusing to back down. I still think I was right...

but................ did they ever go bowling??

I can't remember, they didn't talk to me for awhile after the disagreement! It was someone I worked with and I have a tendency to upset work colleagues without really meaning to, for example once a workmate asked if I would like to for drinks with a bunch of other work people and I responded with 'no thanks, I've already made plans with my real friends'. That did not go down well.


Anyhoo, back on topic: TWGMR will definitely be out at some point this year. 

[stack-o-tracks]

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[The Shift]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Gawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!   Rickrolled!

[Wilson Love]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

You bastard!