The new issue of Record Collector is a Beach Boys special. Great and very accurate little essay by the editor and an interesting interview with the band (plus a cool Stack O' Tracks photo shoot cover).
Two quotes from Mike:
''Brian told me on the 50th anniversary tour that he was doing LSD when he wrote California Girls''. (Wow, really? He'd never heard that before? I'm sure there's lost aborigine tribes in Outer Mongolia who know Brian was on LSD when he wrote that song...)
''Dennis was like the Wagner of the Beach Boys. He was up there on a whole other level''.
That last quote was from Al. They mistakenly attributed it to Mike in one highlighted area, but if you check the article itself, it's Al.
Having just finished reading said article, yeah you're right (there's a fair few grammatical mistakes throughout the article actually. I'm assuming this is a misprint - Mike: ''Alan Jardine, myself and Bruce Johnston did drugs [
] and the Wilson brothers got into all kinds of things'').
Quite a moving section on Dennis, Al says some really nice things: ''He was under a shadow, he should have had his own solo career a lot sooner because frankly the Beach Boys model didn't work for him anymore. He ran out of time''.
Also, each member is asked to name what they consider the groups most under-rated album: Brian picks Summer Days... and Love You; Al picks Love You; Bruce picks Smiley Smile (Good call!! Almost makes me forgive his dislike of Friends...); Mike picks Wild Honey (on the title track: ''When I wrote that I was thinking salacious thoughts''.)
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