*Merged* Brian Wilson current album thread

[Wirestone]

Citation for the Beck interview saying that?

[Matt Bielewicz]

Have to say I'm very glad "Danny Boy" didn't make the album.

It's only my opinion, and I'm sure many others here will disagree... but I'm with this. One thing I love about Brian's stuff is that it rocks... without actually BEING rock most of the time. I've never liked widdly-widdly guitar acrobatics (if I never hear Bluebirds Over The Mountain again, it will be too soon), and Beck's guitar shapes, while clearly the product of someone who has great skill with his instrument, just get in the way of a beautiful melody as far as I'm concerned.

I was a J Beck doubter from the moment I heard he was working with Brian, but quietly hoped it might be one of those collaborations that ends up being more than the sum of its parts. It seems that it did not, especially based on this performance from the Fallon show. For me, it doesn't really bring anything to the song Danny Boy that I find interesting, though as I keep saying, that's just my opinion.

And who knows, perhaps all the 'Jeff Beck is disgruntled' stuff we've been getting of late is just a smokescreen, and there's a fabulous multi-part suite on NPP featuring Mr Beck throughout...? I kind of doubt it, but if so, I will *happily* eat these words with a fork and spoon...!

[Shady]

Citation for the Beck interview saying that?

Can't find the exact link, it's buried in the very long thread we had on the Beck interview..

Here's the quote




"He didn't even talk to me when we took promotional photos for his Facebook page. It was very weird. His people told me he would be pointing at me and I could shrug or whatever. We took that photo and Brian left the studio immediately after that. He needs help, seriously. I think there was another picture where he's like Phew, what a musician! and I'm standing next to him, miming chords. Brian had one of his muscled handlers there, pretending to write something down, so I wouldn't engage in conversation. There's something wrong with him."

Jeff Beck is a genuine asshole..

I hope nothing of his makes it on to the album.

[phirnis]

Jeff Beck is a genuine asshole..

Why? I don't get it. The way Beck describes the staging of the photo shoot does sound like it must've been an uncomfortable situation for him. "There's something wrong with him" might not be the nicest way to address the strangeness of the situation but it all sounds quite reasonable at least from his point of view.

[the professor]

Audivi audivi.

I wash my hands of Beck

... but the entire Beck debacle is best forgotten. It produced no creative nor preformed work of merit.

Ah, so you've heard all the Wilson/Beck sessions, have you ? 

[Generation42]

This Jeff Beck stuff is old news, yeah?

Anyway, no matter how unseemly some of the post-collaboration quotes may seem; no matter any amount of he/he said stuff, bad feelings, etc., a good recording is a good recording.

And no matter how reticent I personally was about a potential team-up between Jeff Beck and Brian Wilson (I didn't think they'd mesh well at all), I cannot deny that I found that Jimmy Fallon clip to be beautiful and musically engrossing.

I can't say that I care all that much about any history of bad blood between the principals (I am on a Beach Boys forum, after all); I care about results.   

[Pretty Funky]

Citation for the Beck interview saying that?

Can't find the exact link, it's buried in the very long thread we had on the Beck interview..

Here's the quote




"He didn't even talk to me when we took promotional photos for his Facebook page. It was very weird. His people told me he would be pointing at me and I could shrug or whatever. We took that photo and Brian left the studio immediately after that. He needs help, seriously. I think there was another picture where he's like Phew, what a musician! and I'm standing next to him, miming chords. Brian had one of his muscled handlers there, pretending to write something down, so I wouldn't engage in conversation. There's something wrong with him."

Jeff Beck is a genuine asshole..

I hope nothing of his makes it on to the album.

That 'quote' was Lowbacca taking the p!ss.

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,18101.50.html

Even AGD laughed!

[job]

Jeff Beck is a genuine asshole..

Meh...he's probably right about Brian.

[Lowbacca]

Citation for the Beck interview saying that?

Can't find the exact link, it's buried in the very long thread we had on the Beck interview..

Here's the quote




"He didn't even talk to me when we took promotional photos for his Facebook page. It was very weird. His people told me he would be pointing at me and I could shrug or whatever. We took that photo and Brian left the studio immediately after that. He needs help, seriously. I think there was another picture where he's like Phew, what a musician! and I'm standing next to him, miming chords. Brian had one of his muscled handlers there, pretending to write something down, so I wouldn't engage in conversation. There's something wrong with him."

Jeff Beck is a genuine asshole..

I hope nothing of his makes it on to the album.

[Micha]

That 'quote' was Lowbacca taking the p!ss.

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,18101.50.html

Even AGD laughed!

It's funny and at the same time not funny that people took that quote for real.

[Wirestone]

See, that's the thing. I know Beck was displeased, but if a quote like that was real, it would have caused a furor on the board.

[Shady]

Citation for the Beck interview saying that?

Can't find the exact link, it's buried in the very long thread we had on the Beck interview..

Here's the quote




"He didn't even talk to me when we took promotional photos for his Facebook page. It was very weird. His people told me he would be pointing at me and I could shrug or whatever. We took that photo and Brian left the studio immediately after that. He needs help, seriously. I think there was another picture where he's like Phew, what a musician! and I'm standing next to him, miming chords. Brian had one of his muscled handlers there, pretending to write something down, so I wouldn't engage in conversation. There's something wrong with him."

Jeff Beck is a genuine asshole..

I hope nothing of his makes it on to the album.

Congrats Lowbacca, you successfully duped Shady,

I still don't like a lot of what Jeff said about Brian, so my opinion hasn't changed.

[Shady]

See, that's the thing. I know Beck was displeased, but if a quote like that was real, it would have caused a furor on the board.

What he said did cause a furor, we had a few very long threads about his comments.

[Wirestone]

See, that's the thing. I know Beck was displeased, but if a quote like that was real, it would have caused a furor on the board.

What he said did cause a furor, we had a few very long threads about his comments.

I was here. I know Beck's actual comments caused discussion. But comments made in jest by another poster, put in Beck's voice, didn't cause a ruckus because they weren't real.

[runnersdialzero]

Someone changing quotes as a joke? BAN. RIGHT NOW.

[Pretty Funky]

Well I guess most of us could potentially be banned going by the number of 'quotes' associated to Mike under the weirdest picture thread!

[runnersdialzero]

Well I guess most of us could potentially be banned going by the number of 'quotes' associated to Mike under the weirdest picture thread!

BAN. NO EXCEPTIONS. COME ON, WIRESTONE, LET'S HEAR THE POEM I TAUGHT YOU.

"MY NAME IS...
MY NAME IS...
MY NAME IS...
UGH" *passes out*

[Pretty Funky]

"And then mom said, 'Mike, little fluffy's dead' "

*"And then mom said, 'Mike, little Wrinkles is dead.'"

 A Ban?For fake quotes? 

[runnersdialzero]

"And then mom said, 'Mike, little fluffy's dead' "

*"And then mom said, 'Mike, little Wrinkles is dead.'"

A Ban? For fake quotes?  

Uh. I'd never use yellow text. You just made my text yellow when quoting me, which is a case of flagrant misrepresentation. BAN.

[Pretty Funky]

 

[Ron]

Jeff Beck is a genuine asshole..

Why? I don't get it. The way Beck describes the staging of the photo shoot does sound like it must've been an uncomfortable situation for him. "There's something wrong with him" might not be the nicest way to address the strangeness of the situation but it all sounds quite reasonable at least from his point of view.

Yeah... strangely one thing Beck and Brian both have in common is they "tell it like it is".  Brian just says whatever he thinks.  Jeff just says whatever he thinks. 

This is what happens when personality disorders clash...

[Lemon]

Amazon Canada saying January 13th 2015

http://www.amazon.ca/No-Pier-Pressure-Brian-Wilson/dp/B00NSOP9Y2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1419302500&sr=1-1&keywords=brian+wilson+no+pier

Please god, it will cure all our January blues  

Amazon US March 31
http://www.amazon.com/No-Pier-Pressure-Brian-Wilson/dp/B00SHH8L8G/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1422032981&sr=1-1&keywords=brian+wilson

[Andrew G. Doe]

Amazon Canada saying January 13th 2015

http://www.amazon.ca/No-Pier-Pressure-Brian-Wilson/dp/B00NSOP9Y2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1419302500&sr=1-1&keywords=brian+wilson+no+pier

Please god, it will cure all our January blues  

Amazon US March 31
http://www.amazon.com/No-Pier-Pressure-Brian-Wilson/dp/B00SHH8L8G/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1422032981&sr=1-1&keywords=brian+wilson

Didn't show up 10 days ago, I'm thinking it won't show on 3/31 either.

[The Shift]

There are now FOUR import versions, inc vinyl, showing on Amazon UK. No details or artwork tho'.

[Shady]

It's madness. Where the hell are amazon getting these release dates from