Thread for various insignificant questions that don't deserve their own thread!

[bonnevillemariner]

RE: Brian's appearance on Emile Haynie's "Falling Apart" track...

I recall reading on this board about some isolated Brian vocals that appeared as kind of an easter egg (like after 20 seconds of dead silence at the end of another track). I remember confirming this on Spotify and bookmarked the track. However, the track disappeared from my playlist sometime over the years. A search here for key terms like title, artist, etc. net zero results. It's almost as if it never existed.

So either it existed and has been pulled, or I dreamed this.

The album track itself is good, but Brian's buried so deep that I'd have never noticed he was there if his name didn't appear. I distinctly remember listening to the isolated easter egg vocals over and over again.

Does this ring a bell to anybody? Where can I find what I have lost?

[Bellagio 1975]

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[Rebel]

Do we know what happened with those durrie parks acetates that were on eBay? Did anything ever get released? Any chance we hear anything on there? I’d be willing to throw money down (as I’m sure many are) to get it uploaded

[Dan Lega]

Do we know what happened with those durrie parks acetates that were on eBay? Did anything ever get released? Any chance we hear anything on there? I’d be willing to throw money down (as I’m sure many are) to get it uploaded

WHAT?!?!  Durrie Parks "SMiLE" acetates were sold on Ebay?!?!?!

When did this happen???

How many were there???

Do we know the titles of the songs on the acetates???

Is there a thread on this I can go back and read?

I heard mention somewhere that the "Child is Father of the Man" at the end of one of the digital releases ("Friends?") was taken from a Durrie Parks acetate.(?)   I mean, we had heard that mix on bootlegs -- but it did not appear on the big SMiLE Sessions box set, even though Brian used that as his template for the song when he finished SMiLE in 2004.  So where did the bootleg version come from?  Sorry, so many questions!

Love and merci,
Dan Lega

[Rebel]

In the new beach boys book it talks about Dennis doing the bass vocals in wouldn't it be nice with his mouth cupped into his hands. I can't really hear it on the track. Can anyone else?

[nts and the drum]

In the new beach boys book it talks about Dennis doing the bass vocals in wouldn't it be nice with his mouth cupped into his hands. I can't really hear it on the track. Can anyone else?

I didn’t realize it until about a month ago that it was him doing that. I do believe it is him, the bass vocal during the second verse is definitely more of a Dennis vocal than Mike.

[Bellagio 1975]

Anyone know more about Spring's "Funky Fever" outtake and where it might be lurking?  Thanks all. 

[Gosh Darn Highway]

Slowly making my way through the new "Beach Boys By The Beach Boys" book. Two questions that have come up for me so far:

1. On page 64, a photo of a tape box dated 4/14/62 shows track 1 being "Bye Baby Bye" with Audree's name (misspelled) next to it--I presume she sang this? There's no reference to the tape box photo in the captions on the page, but is this a known track to many of you? I'm not sure I've ever come across any reference of it.

2. On page 105, there's a selection of photos of "Fun Fun Fun" single picture sleeves from Japan, Sweden, and the USA. However, the USA one is stated to be the "West Coast" picture sleeve...I presume this is a typo and simply meant to state the US as the source. I've never seen any other photo for the American issue of this single, nor am I aware of any major (or minor, for that matter) artists of the day releasing regionally-different picture sleeves. But there's a first for everything so I'm curious about the reasoning for calling it a "West Coast" picture sleeve if it's not simply an error on the writing/editing side of the book.

[Rebel]

On Take a Load off your feet, the song starts with a muffled and muted drone buried in the mix. I feel this is more prominent on the recent box set. It almost sounds like a horn but I suspect it is some kind of key instrument. Does anyone know what that instrument is? It doesn't sound like it's playing a chord, just one note at a time.

[Rebel]

Do we know any of the random assortment of instruments everyone was using on the heroes and villains "back of tricks" snippet on the boxset?

[Bellagio 1975]

Will we ever get those 60th Reunion songs released that were recorded during the making of the Disney+ doc?  C'mon Frank, just sitting on the good stuff.  Someone's gotta make this happen!

[MyDrKnowsItKeepsMeCalm]

Will we ever get those 60th Reunion songs released that were recorded during the making of the Disney+ doc?  C'mon Frank, just sitting on the good stuff.  Someone's gotta make this happen!

Can you tell me more? What songs?

[Bellagio 1975]

It's been mentioned several times that a couple of their classics (Barbara Ann, Their Hearts Were Full of Spring and so on) were recorded during the Paradise Cove segment of the doc.

[positivemusic]

This is absolutely heart shattering.
It's not overstating it to say that this man, his soul touching music, and the incredible bandmates he made it with have been the one one constant for me through the good times and the bad.
From the annual pilgrimages to the beach, to the early highs of meeting and dating Jessica and the ultimate day of our wedding, and the lowest of lows when I had nowhere to go, but my car to probably the depths of my absolute rock bottom when we lost Bloomie last October. "Lay Down Burden" from Brian's 1998 album, Imagination was the first song we listened to after potting him in our snake plant, so that some part of him would live on.
This man had the very rare gift of being able to connect with literally any emotion human beings are capable of, from The Beach Boys' earliest records to tragically unknown gems like "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times," "'Til I Die," "The Night Was So Young," "My Diane," and "Summer's Gone," just to name a few, I've never had a musical experience that felt like the artist literally knew me inside and out like I did with The Beach Boys and Brian's solo and other outside work.
I was raised on The Beach Boys during their mid-80's to early 90's renaissance and was lucky enough to see Brian's Pet Sounds Symphonic Tour at the State Theatre in Easton on July 7, 2000 and to see the "full" reunion at Bethel Woods on June 17, 2012, and left neither of them disappointed in the slightest.
The music he created with his brothers, friends, and cousin is truly timeless, and though the man behind most of their magic is now gone from this plain of existence, the songs remain and will do so through the whole of humanity.
There are a lot of milestones to look forward to when raising children, but honestly, one of the biggest I look forward to is introducing our future children to the music of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys.
Love and mercy, Brian, Love and mercy.

[Bellagio 1975]

Quoting Howie Edelson from the official Beach Boys website:  "Here's to a fantastic 2026 with A LOT to look forward to -- including a massive new archival box set, along with classic albums being revisited and re-examined along with SO MUCH MORE.

Let's raise a glass to the New Year and plenty of reasons to fall in love all over again with The Beach Boys!"

[JK]

Quoting Howie Edelson from the official Beach Boys website:  "Here's to a fantastic 2026 with A LOT to look forward to -- including a massive new archival box set, along with classic albums being revisited and re-examined along with SO MUCH MORE.

Let's raise a glass to the New Year and plenty of reasons to fall in love all over again with The Beach Boys!"

Yes, a toast to the New Year -- only the things I'm looking forward to in Beach Boys Land are more episodes of the sessionography project and Pet Squares.

[Bellagio 1975]

I've heard some murmurs about a POB Deluxe Reissue possibly later this year.  Anyone know more and willing to divulge?