1968 Copyright Extension Release Thread

[Rebel]

I check this topic everyday .. god I can’t wait.

[Zesterz]

Rebel---I do, too......

[Willy Wilson]

Ditto. The anticipation is driving me bananas... 

[Jay]

Do we know if there is going to be a physical CD release, or just digital?

[John Brode]

Do we know if there is going to be a physical CD release, or just digital?

Just digital, as of now. These end of the year sets usually are.

[terrei]

PR TAGLINE: "WHAT IF THERE WAS ANOTHER BEATLES? Guess what -- There WAS."

I've said this before in private to somebody, but I'll say it now, publicly: I wish you, Howie Edelson, were the manager of The Beach Boys, and included among a "team" in charge of the archival material, along with Mark Linett and Alan Boyd.

"The Beach Boys Are The Beatles". Um.... no.

[WWDWD?]

It's been talked on Discord that several new session dates in 1968 were added to Bellagio(http://www.bellagio10452.com/gigs68.html). To quote SaltyMarshmallow over there:

Away
I’m Confessin
You’re as Cool as Can Be track 1
You’re as Cool as Can Be track 2
Rock & Roll Woman track
Time to Get Alone demo
All I Wanna Do (May 24 session)
Well You Know I Knew (June 3)
Can’t Wait Too Long (sessions on July 24, 25, 26 & 30)
Mona Kana demo (July 25)
Dennis demos: Love Affair/Be With Me/Peaches (Aug 29)
I Can Hear Music demo
All I Want to Do (extra sessions)
Is It True What They Say About Dixie (Audree Wilson lead vocal)

Now I'm SO hyped!

Damn! Rock & Roll Woman. I loved the performance on the An American Band doco. Doesn't look like the BB recorded a vocal for it in the studio though.
And more Dennis?! bring it on.

[Howie Edelson]

Billy -- As it stands THIS week, the "I'm Confessin'"/"You're As Cool As Can Be" segments along with DW's "Well You Know I Knew" and "'Gong' session" are the ones that are killing me. But it's all major and along with the MASSIVE live component also coming, nobody will be pissed off about and/or second guessing the copyright drop this Xmas.

[Wata]

(IIRC) a previously undocumented Dennis Wilson track? That sounds so exciting! 

[ohthosegirls]

Any chance of the '70s Friends remakes making this release? That would be awesome but the new potential track info is already incredible!

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Billy -- As it stands THIS week, the "I'm Confessin'"/"You're As Cool As Can Be" segments along with DW's "Well You Know I Knew" and "'Gong' session" are the ones that are killing me. But it's all major and along with the MASSIVE live component also coming, nobody will be pissed off about and/or second guessing the copyright drop this Xmas.

Awesome! Thank you for the info...as always, we’re blessed to have you as a true steward of the bands legacy.

This is a great time to be fan. We’re finally getting materials we’ve only dreamed of. Man I hope my health holds up cause I really want to  be around to hear unreleased Brian stuff from 1972-1975

[JaiGuruDev]

This is a long shot, but i hope we get a new remaster of the Live in London concert, a lot of the instruments feel buried in some songs.

[RONDEMON]

Any chance of the '70s Friends remakes making this release? That would be awesome but the new potential track info is already incredible!

I've never heard about this. What's it about?

[JaiGuruDev]

Any chance of the '70s Friends remakes making this release? That would be awesome but the new potential track info is already incredible!

I've never heard about this. What's it about?

Brian tried remaking some of the songs on Friends in the early 70s with Stanley Shapiro and Tandyn Almer but the whole idea was never completed. I think they only got as far as making demos.

[ohthosegirls]

Any chance of the '70s Friends remakes making this release? That would be awesome but the new potential track info is already incredible!

I've never heard about this. What's it about?

"By the early 1970s, Wilson's reputation suffered as a result of his eccentricities of lore, and he quickly became known as a commercial has-been which record labels feared.[31] When friend Stanley Shapiro persuaded Wilson to rewrite and rerecord a number of Beach Boys songs in order to reclaim his legacy, he contacted fellow songwriter Tandyn Almer for support. The trio then spent a month reworking cuts from the Beach Boys' Friends album.[32] As Shapiro handed demo tapes to A&M Records executives, they found the product favorable before they learned of Wilson and Almer's involvement, and proceeded to veto the idea"

From http://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Beach_Boys_bootleg_recordings#/citenoteFOOTNOTEBadman200426634

Not sure if we'll get it since it's not from '68 but it would be pretty cool to hear these if they still exist.

[HeyJude]

Hey -I actually like "When Girls Get Together"...

It has grown on me to some degree over the years, and I think in the context of the "Sunflower" era it feels a bit more "right" to me than plopped on an already-problematic KTSA album in 1980. A lot of the KTSA album plods and sounds rather limp. "When Girls..." doesn't help *that* aspect of the album.

Some members of the band clearly had some affinity for the song, as they had previously done a mix of the song in the "15 Big Ones" era as well apparently.

[HeyJude]

Billy -- As it stands THIS week, the "I'm Confessin'"/"You're As Cool As Can Be" segments along with DW's "Well You Know I Knew" and "'Gong' session" are the ones that are killing me. But it's all major and along with the MASSIVE live component also coming, nobody will be pissed off about and/or second guessing the copyright drop this Xmas.

Awesome! Thank you for the info...as always, we’re blessed to have you as a true steward of the bands legacy.

This is a great time to be fan. We’re finally getting materials we’ve only dreamed of. Man I hope my health holds up cause I really want to  be around to hear unreleased Brian stuff from 1972-1975

Let's also hope that some sort of ramped-up online archival program might still be possible so that we wouldn't have to wait until 2025 to hear 1975 material.

While not obviously anywhere near all A-list material, there is a ton of later 70s and 80s unreleased stuff that can even change *that* part of the narrative. I don't know if they should wait another decade to release "LA (Light Album)" era outtakes, etc. BB fans are not exactly getting younger.

[JaiGuruDev]

Billy -- As it stands THIS week, the "I'm Confessin'"/"You're As Cool As Can Be" segments along with DW's "Well You Know I Knew" and "'Gong' session" are the ones that are killing me. But it's all major and along with the MASSIVE live component also coming, nobody will be pissed off about and/or second guessing the copyright drop this Xmas.

Awesome! Thank you for the info...as always, we’re blessed to have you as a true steward of the bands legacy.

This is a great time to be fan. We’re finally getting materials we’ve only dreamed of. Man I hope my health holds up cause I really want to  be around to hear unreleased Brian stuff from 1972-1975

Let's also hope that some sort of ramped-up online archival program might still be possible so that we wouldn't have to wait until 2025 to hear 1975 material.

While not obviously anywhere near all A-list material, there is a ton of later 70s and 80s unreleased stuff that can even change *that* part of the narrative. I don't know if they should wait another decade to release "LA (Light Album)" era outtakes, etc. BB fans are not exactly getting younger.

I wonder how long we will have to wait until the complete Andy Paley sessions 

[CenturyDeprived]

Hey -I actually like "When Girls Get Together"...

It has grown on me to some degree over the years, and I think in the context of the "Sunflower" era it feels a bit more "right" to me than plopped on an already-problematic KTSA album in 1980. A lot of the KTSA album plods and sounds rather limp. "When Girls..." doesn't help *that* aspect of the album.

Some members of the band clearly had some affinity for the song, as they had previously done a mix of the song in the "15 Big Ones" era as well apparently.

I have always wondered what the deal was with "When Girls Get Together"... such an odd track.

Was the band in 1970 consciously trying to attempt some kind of pro-feminist (girls rule! even in ways that have nothing to do with looks!) type of song as a response to the leering "California Girls" image they'd gotten stereotyped with so profoundly?

Also, the instrumental break at 1:04 to 1:08 always sounded like some sort of NBC network promo card/logo music that accidentally wandered its way into a Beach Boys track.

[You Kane, You Commanded, You Conquered]

Any chance of the '70s Friends remakes making this release? That would be awesome but the new potential track info is already incredible!

Nope. Tapes were stolen a while back from what I've heard.

[Howie Edelson]

Not all. . .

[CenturyDeprived]

Not all. . .

 

[Aomdiddlywalla]

Not all. . .

Who would want to steal?....

[mtaber]

"When Girls Get Together" is at its best when its just "doo doo doo doo doo doo".  Otherwise the phrasing is awkward.  This is one of those songs that gets stuck in my head for no apparent reason. 

Thanks to everyone involved in getting these archival releases out into the open, I join the excited masses on here!!!

[Mr Fulton]

release date December 7th?