BW Surf's Up solo piano Q...
brother john:
I can't believe that I'm having such a brain block, but will someone kindly point me towards the best version of Brian playing surf's up solo - the Bernstein TV show or studio versions thereof~: maybe its just I've imbibed too much Christmas spirit, but my poor old brain just can't figure out where to look on my hard drive or in my cd collecton... Doh! :-[ ::)
Thanks alot guys...
BJ
Andrew G. Doe:
Bernstein - Beautiful Dreamer DVD
Solo studio - GV box (albeit slightly edited)
brother john:
Thanks big guy! :)
brother john:
Actually, something does occur to me Andrew: Given that the Surf's Up on the album of the same name was 'vocally enhanced' by Carl in Brian's section due, we're told, to damage done to the original tapes, what are the chances of this GV version being all Brian or mostly Brian with a bit of Carl? And if all Brian, why did Carl consider it not good enough to use as it was, as it sounds pretty good to me?
Ron:
I'm just speculating, but my understanding of it was that the Brian solo version was just a demo, and a very Brian demo, not a Beach Boys track. Also they had the incredible production arranged for the first half of the song sitting with nothing over it. So Carl likely felt that he would love to have a fully produced version of the song, since that backing track is so great. The piano demo wouldn't lay over the recorded arrangement with the horns and things because of timing differences, so Carl simply resang the first half. They didn't have any produced 'second half' arrangements, so they just used the Brian demo (not only because it's beautiful, but because it added an extra Beach Boy, a very popular Beach Boy, lol, into the song). The only other alternative would have been to try and record a new backing track for the second half of the song, or have Carl duplicate what Brian did, or whatever... when all they really had to do is (if your memory is correct) have Carl double a couple spots to thicken it up or whatever, if he did that at all. Then allegedly Brian caught wind that they were going to release that song, and informed them that the 'child is the father' hook lays over the falsetto outro. I don't know if that last bit is true but I heard Brian actually helped them arrange that part.
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