New tour and album info coming to Brian's website soon

[Wrightfan]

[Shady]

woooooo 

[Don_Zabu]

It looks like Gershwin's thinking "Hey, who put my picture here?"

[Wrightfan]

It looks like Gershwin's thinking "Hey, who put my picture here?"

Brian's like "do you believe I have to deal with this?" 

Also, first picture makes it seem like Brian's being attacked by the pass.

[RONDEMON]

 

There should be more hilarious Brian/BBs photoshops on this board lol.

[PongHit]

Whoa, look at that brooding, intense Brian face!  Reminds me of...


 

[Wrightfan]

There should be more hilarious Brian/BBs photoshops on this board lol.

There really should be.

I have no artistic skills though. There is the Pet Sounds cover on Cracked.com right now where they photoshopped Al feeding the animals rat poison. 

[Shady]

Anyone have any info on this being just a US tour or will he be coming to Europe

[Wrightfan]

Anyone have any info on this being just a US tour or will he be coming to Europe

I seem to remember Andrew Doe either saying he wasn't touring Europe or at least wasn't touring England this year.

May want to double check on that but I'm pretty sure he said that here not too long ago.

[Paulos]

Anyone have any info on this being just a US tour or will he be coming to Europe

I seem to remember Andrew Doe either saying he wasn't touring Europe or at least wasn't touring England this year.

May want to double check on that but I'm pretty sure he said that here not too long ago.

This may have been in reference to The Beach Boys touring band (Mike & Bruce) who are playing in Europe this year but not in England

[Wirestone]

Is anyone else annoyed by the VIP pass thing? Seems like the BW people have figured out how to monetize the folks who want to get backstage to meet Brian.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Anyone have any info on this being just a US tour or will he be coming to Europe

I seem to remember Andrew Doe either saying he wasn't touring Europe or at least wasn't touring England this year.

May want to double check on that but I'm pretty sure he said that here not too long ago.

This may have been in reference to The Beach Boys touring band (Mike & Bruce) who are playing in Europe this year but not in England

Correct. My current intelligence is, no BB in the mainland UK this year. As for Brian... logic would dictate some kind of visit in the fall to push the new album.

[Shady]

Anyone have any info on this being just a US tour or will he be coming to Europe

I seem to remember Andrew Doe either saying he wasn't touring Europe or at least wasn't touring England this year.

May want to double check on that but I'm pretty sure he said that here not too long ago.

This may have been in reference to The Beach Boys touring band (Mike & Bruce) who are playing in Europe this year but not in England

Correct. My current intelligence is, no BB in the mainland UK this year. As for Brian... logic would dictate some kind of visit in the fall to push the new album.

Brian always has a blast here when playing. His European tour last summer was IMO anyway one of his best tours ever.

That's just me. I remember one of the band members writing on the blue board after the Irish show in front of 15 thousand that it was the most fun he ever had.

Would be wise for them to come back.

[bossaroo]

my favorite photoshop... signed and approved by Brian!

[bossaroo]

somewhat poorly executed, but kind of funny

[Alex]

How 'bout this one?

[Wrightfan]

So two weeks and no new info yet.

I'd bet a lot of money that the info comes out...2 days after the album gets released 

[warnakey]

Brian Wilson knows 2 minutes of the song Rhapsody in Blue on piano and he decided he can do a whole tribute album???

We'll see about this.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Brian Wilson knows 2 minutes of the song Rhapsody in Blue on piano and he decided he can do a whole tribute album???

We'll see about this.

Man, you do talk some complete nonsense. In 1985, I sat and watched Brian play "Rhapsody In Blue" on the piano - in full - before segueing into "Cast Your Fate To The Wind", again in full. That took a lot longer than 2 minutes. Plus, he was offered the commission by the Gershwin Estate.

And yeah, we will see about it, in just over two months. I'm willing to wager we'll all be very pleasantly surprised.

[RONDEMON]

PWN'D

: ) Right on. I'm excited for this but I want more info now!

[donald]

Brian Wilson knows 2 minutes of the song Rhapsody in Blue on piano and he decided he can do a whole tribute album???

We'll see about this.

Man, you do talk some complete nonsense. In 1985, I sat and watched Brian play "Rhapsody In Blue" on the piano - in full - before segueing into "Cast  I
And yeah, we will see about it, in just over two months. I'm willing to wager we'll all be very pleasantly surprised.

He really did that and you SAW it?  I certainly never heard anything like that.   And nothing like that appears on anything I have .....ahem...from any source.   But I would love to hear it.. Where did you witness this event?

[warnakey]

Brian Wilson knows 2 minutes of the song Rhapsody in Blue on piano and he decided he can do a whole tribute album???

We'll see about this.

Man, you do talk some complete nonsense. In 1985, I sat and watched Brian play "Rhapsody In Blue" on the piano - in full - before segueing into "Cast Your Fate To The Wind", again in full. That took a lot longer than 2 minutes. Plus, he was offered the commission by the Gershwin Estate.

And yeah, we will see about it, in just over two months. I'm willing to wager we'll all be very pleasantly surprised.

Sense of humor? Internet translation lost.

[The Shift]

Brian Wilson knows 2 minutes of the song Rhapsody in Blue on piano and he decided he can do a whole tribute album???

We'll see about this.

Man, you do talk some complete nonsense. In 1985, I sat and watched Brian play "Rhapsody In Blue" on the piano - in full - before segueing into "Cast Your Fate To The Wind", again in full. That took a lot longer than 2 minutes. Plus, he was offered the commission by the Gershwin Estate.

And yeah, we will see about it, in just over two months. I'm willing to wager we'll all be very pleasantly surprised.

Sense of humor? Internet translation lost.

Must be a Trans-Atlantic thing cos I'm with Andrew!   

[Andrew G. Doe]

Brian Wilson knows 2 minutes of the song Rhapsody in Blue on piano and he decided he can do a whole tribute album???

We'll see about this.

Man, you do talk some complete nonsense. In 1985, I sat and watched Brian play "Rhapsody In Blue" on the piano - in full - before segueing into "Cast  I
And yeah, we will see about it, in just over two months. I'm willing to wager we'll all be very pleasantly surprised.

He really did that and you SAW it?  I certainly never heard anything like that.   And nothing like that appears on anything I have .....ahem...from any source.   But I would love to hear it.. Where did you witness this event?

Firstly, I'll ignore the implied slur on my honesty (for now...). As for not seeing it, it was reported,by me, in the late spring edition of Beach Boys Stomp. We were in Westlake Audio where the 1985 album was being mixed (Bruce invited me down: I was in LA for a week  in late March doing interviews*): Brian was at the piano in one corner of the room, I was sitting in the other corner. Afterwards, we had a nice little chat. And when I met him in 2004 in London, he remembered it - without anyone prompting.

* - since you asked, Steve Kalinich, Jasper Dailey, Chuck Britz, Bruce Johnston, Steve Desper & Van Dyke Parks.

[warnakey]

Hi Andrew.

I take it you may be offended by someone calling Brian Wilson "probably able to, but possibly not all that good at playing Rhapsody In Blue on piano". It just sounds unlikely that Brian Wilson, who was constantly with Eugene Landy and being forced to take antipsychotic medication (who also has Tardive dyskinesia as a side effect), was working on the Beach Boys self titled album and gets bored then plays a 15 minute medley of Rhapsody In Blue and Cast Your Fate To The Wind?

Hey, that's pretty cool.

But after reading this paragraph: "Gershwin's great-nephew and estate trustee Todd Gershwin claims that Gershwin left behind "several dozen" fragments in various stages of completion. Wilson's not yet sure what he'll do with all these pieces: "I can't decipher the verse from the chorus from the bridge, so I'm going to try to insert some new music into them. I might even write some music for an introduction." I just can not see this album ever being that good. It's just a cover album. On Disney Records. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/08/entertainment/et-brian-wilson8

Do people who are looking for the most original, independent, non-corporate music look to Disney Records to provide them with content? In my opinion no self respecting music fan can tolerate this.

"He [Brian Wilson] will follow that [Gershwin cover album] with an album of classic Disney songs, which the artist promises to “Brian-ize” with his trademark vocal stacks and unique arrangements. Release dates for each album have yet to be determined." http://www.brianwilson.com/news/press_gershwin.html




Sorry  if it bugs you Andrew, but I wish you had recorded that piano session in 1985 instead of writing about it in a magazine (that OF COURSE no one saw or knew you reported about) and I wish Brian Wilson would release two albums of material he wrote in the 1980s instead of the two he *cough* wants *cough* (is contractually obligated) to make. 

In the 1960s it was all about making Brian's music, not anyone who writes you a paycheck. Not indie enough Brian Wilson.