Documentary!

[HeyJude]

Maybe Mike forgot to bring along some cans of Kokomojito.

[Bedroom Tapes]

I'm curious what the doc soundtrack will consist of.  Anyone have an inkling of a tracklist?

[HeyJude]

I'm curious what the doc soundtrack will consist of.  Anyone have an inkling of a tracklist?

Considering they haven't announced anything and the doc is a week away, I would think the most likely scenario is just what essentially amounts to a Spotify playlist. I don't anticipate new/unreleased tracks. I would assume some shorter variation of "Sounds of Summer."

[Bedroom Tapes]

Mentioned near the bottom of the RS article.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-beach-boys-family-reunion-documentary-clip-1235021836/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3CsgCFGK9RkynqUbjnZo1neD8IDFY0

[Pretty Funky]

In the new beach reunion, it almost looks like the guys are toasting with glasses of water.   Guess no one ever told them that was bad luck!

Drinking is illegal on the beach. What a way to finish the documentary. A repeat of the ‘Failure To Surf’ Brian arrest…but with all 5 of them. 😉

[Emdeeh]

You can get alcoholic drinks at the Paradise Cove restaurant, which is where they're sitting (outside dining area)..

[Bedroom Tapes]

Could be glasses of vodka...

[Joel Goldenberg]

Here's the direct YouTube link to this little video clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_74NLBJDMc&t=51s


Al mentioned in a Q&A on one of his recent cruise gigs that the filmmakers didn't even want them to do any playing/singing, and he had to convince them to let him have a guitar on hand just in case they might want to sing together. Subsequently, several have mentioned that they sang a few songs together during this meet-up.

But it might be worth pondering the question, what if the filmmakers kept to their original idea of just making this essentially a "photo op" situation in the documentary? Wouldn't it be kind of nuts if they didn't even include any of the songs from that day in the final documentary? It would be nuts.....right?

I guess Frank Marshall likes Duophonic!

[Rocker]

The Beach Boys’ Mike Love & Bruce Johnston Hint At Things To Come | This Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0PNGr1TUaU

[B.E.]

Is the date of the Paradise Cove get together known?

[Bedroom Tapes]

Apparently September 2023.

[Pretty Funky]

You can get alcoholic drinks at the Paradise Cove restaurant, which is where they're sitting (outside dining area)..

Might be related to Disney, but who knows.

[HeyJude]

Probably over-analyzing the beverage situation. But, either way, as I've mentioned in the past, I think folks should be prepared to *not* get much info or footage from that Paradise Cove reunion. I think that one-minute featurette may be more of an insight into that gathering than what you see in the actual documentary.

[Zenobi]

The Beach Boys’ Mike Love & Bruce Johnston Hint At Things To Come | This Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0PNGr1TUaU

I put these "hints" by Mike & Bruce in the same bag as Brian's R&R album.

[Pretty Funky]

It’s the 2024 version of Mike saying for years “Never say never.”

I am very disappointed that posters on other sites are talking up a possibility of new material and any kind of ‘Live’ event with Brian. The recent conservatorship ruling saying he is free to continue with music projects is one thing. Whether he is able to go to a studio and work with anyone who may put him under any duress has, under my understanding, been taken out of his hands. (thank goodness). Melinda acted as his backstop in the past and now others will do the same.

Enjoy the clips of the Paradise Cove reunion. Maybe this IMAX thing might be a group Q&A from his house, but please…no more. Leave him be. Enough is enough.

[Zenobi]

 Right. Also, more than enough is more than enough.

[HeyJude]

We don't know what Brian is like on a day to day basis, we don't know how much Mike knows about Brian's shape (e.g. does he know more than us?), and we don't know how much Mike has been in contact with Brian in the last six months or more. So we have no idea how possible or ridiculously pie in the sky Mike's suggestions are as far as future things concerning Brian.

I dunno; I'd rather hear Mike saying he hopes he can work with Brian again (however unlikely that is, and however much he may have *not* actually put effort into doing so in recent years/decades) than the alternative of interviews where Mike just keeps mentioning all the drugs and drinking the Wilson brothers did.

Really, considering how dysfunctional the band and its members have intermittently been for many, many decades, and how some members have often not spoken particularly sympathetically about some other members, I think everything that has gone down in terms of public comments from band members over the last six months with all the turmoil with Brian, I think we've *so far* seen them show some restraint, and they've either been appropriately vague and supportive, or have just shut the f**k up about it.

I was not a big fan of how Mike tended to speak about Carl's illness, both during and especially after the fact. He never did or said anything particularly harsh, but I didn't like how he spoke about it (I won't digress into that right now), so I'm hoping we won't see Mike (or anybody else for that matter) put his foot in his mouth talking about Brian in the future.

These guys are all 200 years old at this point, yet this is new territory for them a bit.

[Zenobi]

Few things in the world would delight me more than the miracle of a new Brian-Mike good song, sang by the remaining Beach Boys. But, sadly, I don't think it will ever happen, now. And, of course, these guys have given us way more than was to be expected. Particularly Brian, of course.
Yes, more than enough is more than enough, but, on the other hand, in this case hoping (humbly, not expecting anything) costs nothing.

[juggler]

I guess the documentary premiere was tonight (Tues) in L.A.?
Carnie has photos on her Instagram (including one of Brian and Marilyn together):
https://www.instagram.com/carnie68/

[Robbie Mac]

Brian and Marilyn at tonight’s premiere.

[Robbie Mac]

[Heywood]

To get them together at Paradise  Cove and not use it seems very odd.

[HeyJude]

Can the BB photo historians out there point to the last time, if ever, *this* particular grouping of Beach Boys was ever photographed? How many photos are out there with Blondie *and* Bruce?

[HeyJude]

And hey, I prefer the clean-shaven Mike without the goofy mustache of recent years, so, that's something I guess.

[HeyJude]

Well, even if the documentary doesn't cut it for some of us, we can be entertained by a moderately surly Al Jardine during the Q&A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7SZc7BApKI&t=2s