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« Reply #25 on: April 14, 2008, 12:03:14 PM »
I'm reliably informed that Marilyn has two photos of the sandbox in her private collection.
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« Reply #26 on: April 14, 2008, 01:07:42 PM »
So, there are at least a couple in existence.  Aha.
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« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2008, 06:14:46 PM »

Quote from: SurferGirl7 on April 13, 2008, 11:21:11 AM
Maybe whatever stays in the sandbox and tent, stayed in the sandbox and tent  Huh  Huh

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A play on the saying "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." etc.
Misbehave if you like and we won't talk about it afterwards.
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« Reply #28 on: April 15, 2008, 08:14:48 PM »
Quote from: SurferGirl7 on April 13, 2008, 11:21:11 AM
Maybe whatever stays in the sandbox and tent, stayed in the sandbox and tent  Huh  Huh



 LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL


Kind of like Las Vegas!?
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« Reply #29 on: April 15, 2008, 11:27:54 PM »
If memory serves (from Jules Siegel's PLAYBOY article), Brian apparently got spooked by Siegel's girlfriend (or was it Pynchon's?) thinking she might be a "witch" and so he asked them to leave after a time... Anybody remember reading this? Before they went up to Laurel Way, Pynchon had been somewhat skeptical of Siegel writing an article on the Beach Boys. After Siegel turned him on and then turned him on to Pet Sounds, he said something like "Oh....I see..." This is one of the great little sidebars of SMILE - Pynchon and Brian's worlds colliding...(Indeed, I first found Siegel's SAT EVE POST article reprinted in an edited collection of rock articles around the same time I discovered Gravity's Rainbow in 1973).

   
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« Reply #30 on: April 16, 2008, 01:30:37 PM »
I agree, to me, "Smile" as a concept is almost more interesting as a "time period" than an actual "album".  It was such an interesting time in pop culture and LA was it's ground zero.  There are so many interesting stories like Brian meeting Pynchon, you know, so and so hanging out with so and so, e.e. cumming spending an evening on a yacht with Paul Revere and the Raiders (made that one up)...

Dom's Smile book touched on these cultural touchstones, but I'd like to see something documenting the whole scene, a step back from the Beach Boys.  The cross-pollination, the "meeting of the minds".  Lots of great little stories.
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« Reply #31 on: April 17, 2008, 05:48:03 AM »
I looked all over the web one time for a picture of the sandbox and piano.  I recal finding one small image that MIGHT have bee the sandbox and piano but is wasn't clear if that was actually what it was.

Yes.  Amazing there are no pictures given its place in BB lore.

Maybe Marilyn has one.
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« Reply #32 on: April 17, 2008, 06:01:15 AM »
Quote from: donald on April 17, 2008, 05:48:03 AM
I looked all over the web one time for a picture of the sandbox and piano.  I recal finding one small image that MIGHT have bee the sandbox and piano but is wasn't clear if that was actually what it was.

Yes.  Amazing there are no pictures given its place in BB lore.

Maybe Marilyn has one.

Two, actually, like I said two days ago.
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« Reply #33 on: April 17, 2008, 01:35:12 PM »
Quote from: donald on April 17, 2008, 05:48:03 AM
I looked all over the web one time for a picture of the sandbox and piano.  I recal finding one small image that MIGHT have been the sandbox and piano but is wasn't clear if that was actually what it was.

That was a litter box. Wait, that's what the sandbox WAS.... police

It's interesting that Brian had a sandbox built for "inspiration" because I didn't think he even liked the beach, or at least the surf....
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« Reply #34 on: April 18, 2008, 04:42:23 AM »
Quote from: Sheriff John Stone on April 17, 2008, 01:35:12 PM
Quote from: donald on April 17, 2008, 05:48:03 AM
I looked all over the web one time for a picture of the sandbox and piano.  I recal finding one small image that MIGHT have been the sandbox and piano but is wasn't clear if that was actually what it was.

That was a litter box. Wait, that's what the sandbox WAS.... police

It's interesting that Brian had a sandbox built for "inspiration" because I didn't think he even liked the beach, or at least the surf....
Just because he was afraid of the water doesn't mean he didn't like the sand.
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« Reply #35 on: April 18, 2008, 08:06:37 AM »
look listen vibrate smile! - by priore - page 168 Brian in his living room 1966/67 with table in the sand (sandbox)
LOOK OUT
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« Reply #36 on: April 18, 2008, 09:10:50 AM »
Quote from: ckod on April 18, 2008, 08:06:37 AM
look listen vibrate smile! - by priore - page 168 Brian in his living room 1966/67 with table in the sand (sandbox)
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Anyone have a scan of that?
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« Reply #37 on: April 18, 2008, 10:28:47 AM »
It's page 166 in my copy. Looks like sand indeed... But it could also be a thick carpet.
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« Reply #38 on: April 18, 2008, 11:02:34 AM »
Its page 166 and it looks to me like thick shag carpet.  He is sitting in a recliner-like chair (next to sofa) in front of a coffee table.   I don't ever recall hearing he had his living room furniture (other than piano) in the sandbox.......although who knows this is Brian we are talking about.
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« Reply #39 on: April 18, 2008, 11:16:49 AM »
Plus, I think that in "Beautiful Dreamer", someone says that it was the "finest, purest, whitest" sand one could find. Hardly the words that'd come first when I look at that picture: it almost looks like wet, dirty sand. My guess is that it's just a thick carpet.
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« Reply #40 on: April 18, 2008, 01:04:06 PM »



I think that this is definitely legendary sandbox.
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« Reply #41 on: April 18, 2008, 02:27:07 PM »
If not, thats one ugly carpet...
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« Reply #42 on: April 18, 2008, 04:19:15 PM »
That's an ugly carpet.  No footprints....shag was cool at that time.
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« Reply #43 on: April 18, 2008, 06:46:56 PM »
Yeah I think that's just a carpet.
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