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

[wantsomecorn]

Does anyone know exactly when Matt Jardine started touring? The first show he's listed at on Eric's website is 6/26/88, but Bobby Figueroa seems to have left at the end of 1987, so it doesn't look like a 1-for-1 switch.

[bgas]

Does anyone know exactly when Matt Jardine started touring? The first show he's listed at on Eric's website is 6/26/88, but Bobby Figueroa seems to have left at the end of 1987, so it doesn't look like a 1-for-1 switch.

Think it was sometime in the early 1970's

[Beachlad]

So my special needs7 year old Son love Pap oom mow mow.  So I jump on You Tube and just pick one of the dozen version and find the MSU with Al on lead. My son gets this disgusted look on his face starts to cry and says No Brian.<Lol> I wouldn't even of guessed he would know the difference. Just a proud papa moment. He also has been going around Hey Siri Beach Boys Pap
oom mow mow.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

My daughter has the same reaction when she hears Surf's Up with Carl. She prefers any version where Brian sings, including BWPS.

[John Manning]

My daughter has the same reaction when she hears Surf's Up with Carl. She prefers any version where Brian sings, including BWPS.

I need another beer…

[smilethebeachboysloveyou]

My daughter has the same reaction when she hears Surf's Up with Carl. She prefers any version where Brian sings, including BWPS.

Your daughter has excellent taste!

[The Cincinnati Kid]

When is Bellagio going to be updated?

[bgas]

when the swallows come back to capistrano

[LeeDempsey]

Was there ever any animosity towards Brian from any members of the Wrecking Crew? I was listening back to the "California Girls" session where he has them do more than 40 takes and I can imagine some people probably got frustrated at a certain point. Although, they all seem to be in good spirits during recording, and they probably knew what they were getting into at this point. I don't think I've ever read anyone from the Wrecking Crew say a bad thing about Brian, but I'd be interested to see otherwise.

Carol Kaye, on the BW Songwriter DVD, talks about how Brian had the Crew play a song over and over again (part of me wants to say it was 'Help Me Rhonda, but I could be wrong), because Brian was showing it to people over the phone or something. At the end of the session Carol gave Brian the middle finger as she walked out. She said that after that Brian never really wasted their time again.

Two observations.

1. Brian (OK, Capitol) was paying for the session so it was none of her business how long it took and what Brian did...

2. In the (admittedly unreliable) book The Wrecking Crew, she's interviewed and states it was a "Rhonda" session, but the author states it was the infamous Murry-interrupted session... which of course, was purely vocal, so someone's got it way wrong.

On the "Help Me Rhonda" tracking sessions you can hear the crew continuing to play the repeating bars of the ending for well beyond what would have been required for a proper fadeout.  Not being a bass player I can't speak to how difficult that bass passage may have been on Carol's left hand and wrist to keep repeating over and over, but it doesn't seem to be something that would have caused her any injury other than boredom.

Lee

[rogerlancelot]

Can anybody help identify this Mike Love video? It's called "Can You Help Me With My Melon?" and I was just wondering if anybody knew the purpose for it:

http://youtu.be/3Ga6xVvLsgk

[metal flake paint]

Can anybody help identify this Mike Love video? It's called "Can You Help Me With My Melon?" and I was just wondering if anybody knew the purpose for it:

http://youtu.be/3Ga6xVvLsgk

The original is Mike's appearance on the Merv Griffin Show singing "Looking Back With Love." As to the aim of this Youtube upload, it serves the same purpose as those shred videos...

[bgas]

Can anybody help identify this Mike Love video? It's called "Can You Help Me With My Melon?" and I was just wondering if anybody knew the purpose for it:

http://youtu.be/3Ga6xVvLsgk

The original is Mike's appearance on the Merv Griffin Show singing "Looking Back With Love." As to the aim of this Youtube upload, it serves the same purpose as those shred videos...

which is....?

[rogerlancelot]

I'm not sure if I understand the "melon" connection between the two videos.

[bgas]

Where was the melon?

[metal flake paint]

Can anybody help identify this Mike Love video? It's called "Can You Help Me With My Melon?" and I was just wondering if anybody knew the purpose for it:

http://youtu.be/3Ga6xVvLsgk

The original is Mike's appearance on the Merv Griffin Show singing "Looking Back With Love." As to the aim of this Youtube upload, it serves the same purpose as those shred videos...

which is....?

...whatever one's opinion of the purpose of those shred videos happens to be.

[punkinhead]

Besides the released version (on GIOMH) of Desert Drive and numerous live versions on live bootlegs, how many early versions of Desert Drive with Andy Paley "exist?" All I know of is an instrumental/jam version on the Slightly American Music bootleg.

[Andrew G. Doe]

That's it, as far as anyone know.

[Andrew G. Doe]

When is Bellagio going to be updated?

Which bits ? 

Mea culpa. I will set to tomorrow.

[Micha]

how many early versions of Desert Drive with Andy Paley "exist?" All I know of is an instrumental/jam version on the Slightly American Music bootleg.

Too bad that wasn't finished with the boys' vocals back then. Carl was still alive at the time. And Mike's voice belongs on on the lead there. The GIOMH version is so terrible, it totally ruined the reputation of that song.

[Loaf]

how many early versions of Desert Drive with Andy Paley "exist?" All I know of is an instrumental/jam version on the Slightly American Music bootleg.

Too bad that wasn't finished with the boys' vocals back then. Carl was still alive at the time. And Mike's voice belongs on on the lead there. The GIOMH version is so terrible, it totally ruined the reputation of that song.

And i wish Jeff didn't mispronounce 'coyotes'. I don't care if "Kigh-otes"- scans better, it sounds embarrassing. Pick a different animal.

[Micha]

how many early versions of Desert Drive with Andy Paley "exist?" All I know of is an instrumental/jam version on the Slightly American Music bootleg.

Too bad that wasn't finished with the boys' vocals back then. Carl was still alive at the time. And Mike's voice belongs on on the lead there. The GIOMH version is so terrible, it totally ruined the reputation of that song.

And i wish Jeff didn't mispronounce 'coyotes'. I don't care if "Kigh-otes"- scans better, it sounds embarrassing. Pick a different animal.

Not nearly as bad as having a guided walk through an old state library and the guide pronouncing "Don Quijote" as "Don Kee-yotee". I was tempted to ask "Isn't that the one with the roadrunner?"

[Andrew G. Doe]

One of my English tutors used to pronounce it "Don Quick-zote". Seriously.

[Please delete my account]

Not nearly as bad as having a guided walk through an old state library and the guide pronouncing "Don Quijote" as "Don Kee-yotee". I wa tempted to ask "Isn't that the one with the roadrunner?"

Oh, that's how I pronounce the name. Is it wrong?

One of my English tutors used to pronounce it "Don Quick-zote". Seriously.

That's the traditional English way of pronouncing it, before the fashion changed from Anglicization to accuracy. I believe both pronunciations are now deemed acceptable in English. Melvyn Bragg pronounced it this way fairly recently on the Don Quixote episode of BBC Radio 4's "In Our Time".

[Loaf]

Can anybody help identify this Mike Love video? It's called "Can You Help Me With My Melon?" and I was just wondering if anybody knew the purpose for it:

http://youtu.be/3Ga6xVvLsgk

The original is Mike's appearance on the Merv Griffin Show singing "Looking Back With Love." As to the aim of this Youtube upload, it serves the same purpose as those shred videos...

It just occurred to me that Mike Love's solo career has actually been a prank designed by Christopher Guest for a movie. Looking Back With Love sounds like something from A Mighty Wind. Same with Mike Love Not War, First Love, Country Love. The joke's actually on us, guys. Mike's been in on it since the start.

[SMiLE Brian]