Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again
phirnis:
Judging from the Alan Boyd live version, it sure is a totally gorgeous song and might be just as good as Forever. Why the Beach Boys didn't consider releasing some record with more than just eight or ten songs on it in the early seventies is completely beyond me, as there used to be quality material all over the place. Yet to the public, it must have seemed like they were suffering from a creative dry spell, which they ultimately did a few years later of course...
Andrew G. Doe:
Quote from: phirnis on March 04, 2007, 01:26:30 AM
Judging from the Alan Boyd live version, it sure is a totally gorgeous song and might be just as good as Forever.
Better.
Sheriff John Stone:
Is it possible that Dennis was saving it for a solo album?
Dancing Bear:
Quote from: Sheriff John Stone on March 04, 2007, 08:18:08 AM
Is it possible that Dennis was saving it for a solo album?
Sure, when he had this row with Carl about Surf's Up line-up, he certainly had a solo album as a backup plan for his tracks. A 1971/72 solo album which never materialized... Maybe the question is, why did he offer 'Make It Good' and not WIBNTLA for C&tP?
But then we'd be talking about this gem of a track still sitting in the vaults, known as 'Make It Good'. :)
adamghost:
When we did it, Alan let us hear a recording of it but we did not make dubs, for obvious reasons.
Our version on the album is faithful to the original with three exceptions: we took out a long repetitive guitar solo section; we modulated the key for Evie's voice; and I added a "who ever said" response in the third verse, which came to me out of nowhere, in Dennis' 1971 voice no less, onstage in Chicago. It was spooky, and I'm not prone to these kinds of superstitions, so we kept it in. Otherwise, we were aware that it was the first chance BBs fans were going to get to hear it so we wanted to make it as true to the recording as possible. The background vocal arrangement is almost identical...
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