I Get Around

[Mikie]

You know, Surfer, you seem to start new threads without 'concluding' your previous ones and seeing closure. You ask questions and don't thank or acknowledge the responders to your questions or comments or requests for further information. You leave them hanging with one opening post with no follow-up. On your previous thread, we wanted clarification and confirmation on your new "CD' that you received for Christmas. Now you start a new thread with the premise that a classic Beach Boys hit sounds like "Heavy Metal", which is really an off-the-wall statement. You make a vague comment without backing it up with why you think that way. The previous thread had no details, just a title. No track list, dates, or anything to give us some background. We salvage your threads anyway and make something out of almost nothing. This seems to be an on-going trend. We understand your condition, but we know you're capable of contributing better posts here, especially by following up after starting them. Some people would call it trolling, but we know you're not a troll. Hope you can understand what I'm talking about and please don't take offense, OK?

Mikie, Surfer's a lot like Brian in this respect. Gets easily bored, moves on. I can dig it. At least he's making positive contributions to the board.  

Understood, AGD, and I was concerned that no matter how my "friendly advice" was interpreted, it would come out wrong. That wasn't my attention.

AND, between you, me, and the wall, "I Get Around" doesn't remotely sound like Metal to me. Even with the twangy Fender Strat/Tele lead guitar.

[Lee Marshall]

Given that there was NO metal back in '64...well maybe Link Wray...how could it have been so?  Impossible...except for one thing Mikie...and it's true of all of us.  We all hear different stuff...with each and every song.  Our perspective is the ancient one.  We were there.  Looking from a different angle...it likely sounds different.  There are guys here who HEAR punk in some of the ditties.    I don't.  THEY do.

So it goes.  I guess what the Beach are and what they mean to each of us individually...is just that...an indivudal perspective.

Some folks love Smiley Smiley and Love You.  I don't.  I REALLY like everything from Pet Sounds to Holland [except Smiley Smile] MOST...and I LOVE the early stuff...even Surfin Safari...my very first Rock 'n' Roll album...others don't really like the early 70s stuff as much.  So it goes.  We're all right.  Even Surfer.

[Mikie]

Given that there was NO metal back in '64...well maybe Link Wray...how could it have been so?  Impossible...except for one thing Mikie...and it's true of all of us.  We all hear different stuff...with each and every song.  Our perspective is the ancient one.  We were there.  Looking from a different angle...it likely sounds different.  There are guys here who HEAR punk in some of the ditties.    I don't.  THEY do.

So it goes.  I guess what the Beach are and what they mean to each of us individually...is just that...an indivudal perspective.

Some folks love Smiley Smiley and Love You.  I don't.  I REALLY like everything from Pet Sounds to Holland [except Smiley Smile] MOST...and I LOVE the early stuff...even Surfin Safari...my very first Rock 'n' Roll album...others don't really like the early 70s stuff as much.  So it goes.  We're all right.  Even Surfer.

"So it goes". Remember Linda Ellerbee use to say that?

[retrokid67]

IGA: Personally I prefer the live in Sacramento and TAMI versions. They're played a bit faster and the verse arrangement is more driving. If you could combine the isolated fuzz bass from the studio recording into those, that'd be perfect.

  That performance from the TAMI show is my favorite BB performance from that time period!  Up to that point they had other filmed performances but they weren't as exciting to me.  Compare the TAMI Show with that earlier concert they did back in March of '64, huge difference (even though IGA wasn't in that setlist).  Another great performance of that was the Knebworth show.

[Micha]

Compare the TAMI Show with that earlier concert they did back in March of '64, huge difference

I think the reason for the "Lost Concert" being comparatively lame is that the audience was a bit lame that day. On the Sydney concert in January 1964 they sound as great and powerful as at TAMI.

[retrokid67]

Compare the TAMI Show with that earlier concert they did back in March of '64, huge difference

I think the reason for the "Lost Concert" being comparatively lame is that the audience was a bit lame that day. On the Sydney concert in January 1964 they sound as great and powerful as at TAMI.

Yea I see what you mean.  I was talking about all of the performances they did that year caught on film, the TAMI show is the best I've seen.  Hopefully, up the road we'll get to see more lost footage from that year 

[bgas]

From the BW/JB Tour Program: 
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Interviewer:  Give me an example of a song that means more to you now than when you first wrote it?

BW: Well I didn't think much of "I Get Around" until God, ten, eleven years ago when we started to tour and played it. Then for some reason I started really liking the song a lot more. I'm not sure why but I didn't originally like it that much. I never really cared for it back then, but now I listen to it more carefully and really dig it. It stands up <<