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

[SMiLE Brian]

Breaking News - Bruce is an original member of the Beach Boys

http://www.beachboysband.net/TOURSCH/BB_TOUR_SCH.htm

Mike's Love machine is looking desperate.  First their management puts out concert promos that would lead one to believe that Brian, Al and David are still in the group.  That didn't fly so now Bruce is promoted as an original member.

And the BeachBoysBand.net site is looking pretty damm cheap and cheesy these days.

M&B need to hang it up if they keep pulling these tricks.

[Mendota Heights]

I can not make out the Cruisin' lyrics and I have sung the wrong words for 10 years now. Need help from someone who speaks English for a living.

The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGOnW8Rui9k

Every night it's Friday night
The streets are jammed from light to light
The school is out, my school is in
All you need is wheels, we'll be happenin'

Cruisin', cruisin', winnin' or losin'
The name of the game is hangin' out
Bad guys, good guys rollin' down ?
To see and be seen is what it's all about

The man with the van (?), follow that car
They turned in the corner, but they can't get very far
Just step on it quick, we'll catch 'em fast
I know we can do it if we give it the gas

Cruisin', cruisin', winnin' or losin'
The name of the game is hangin' out
Bad guys, good guys rollin' down ?
To see and be seen is what it's all about

Southern Cal is where it's at
It's a kettle (?) little place and I like it like that
Indoors or out it is good for your head
I'd rather be here than any place instead

[Al Jardine: Pick Up Artist]

Ok, this is going to sound REALLY terrible, but does IIGS on the BWPS DVD make anybody else laugh their ass off? Scott and Taylor start the song nicely, and there's a camera angle from the side and it all starts calmly and nicely. Then it's Brian's line and it's a front and center shot of this 60-something year old with a gut singing just *slightly* off, out of the corner of his mouth, with a bit of a wild look on his face. I can't help but laugh.

[bgas]

I can not make out the Cruisin' lyrics and I have sung the wrong words for 10 years now. Need help from someone who speaks English for a living.

The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGOnW8Rui9k

Every night it's Friday night
The streets are jammed from light to light
The school is out, my school is in
All you need is wheels, we'll be happenin'

Cruisin', cruisin', winnin' or losin'
The name of the game is hangin' out
Bad guys, good guys rollin' down ?
To see and be seen is what it's all about

The man with the van (?), follow that car
They turned in the corner, but they can't get very far
Just step on it quick, we'll catch 'em fast
I know we can do it if we give it the gas

Cruisin', cruisin', winnin' or losin'
The name of the game is hangin' out
Bad guys, good guys rollin' down ?
To see and be seen is what it's all about

Southern Cal is where it's at
It's a kettle (?) little place and I like it like that
Indoors or out it is good for your head
I'd rather be here than any place instead

What I hear: 
the first ? is Venice
the 2nd should be " Man, look at them, follow that car  They turned the corner but they can't be very far" 
and the 3rd is   "It´s a casual little place and I like it like that"

[dwtherealbb]

what do you think is the most well known/iconic picture of the group? Here's my candidates:
- Surfin Safari album picture
- few pictures from that same era with them wading on the beach, holding a surfboard; also the picture with Brian and Mike holding a surfboard with Dennis, Dave and Carl sitting
- the "Do You Wanna Dance" single picture (why did they allow Dennis to have his shirt off)
- the stripped shirt picture with Al and Dennis in front and Mike Carl and Brian in back (all of which have both fists on their chin
- the picture of them in white shirts with Brian having his hand on a ladder and Carl's head on the right barely making it into the picture
- the Pet Sounds album picture

[Al Jardine: Pick Up Artist]

You forgot the Surfer Girl album cover.

[punkinhead]

I was looking through the 1976 (i think) BB tour guide and noticed Mike has an awesome sweater or jacket that has the Wild Honey bee and I think, if I remember right, some of the flowers from the Wild Honey cover. I believe they're patches sewn on. Pretty awesome, prolly one of Mike's best wardrobes of the 70s.

Anyone seen this before? I tried finding a pic online but couldnt find one.
Anyone know if there's a story behind it? I'd love to have that WH jacket....even if it has Mike Love sweat in it.

[Mendota Heights]

What I hear:  
the first ? is Venice
the 2nd should be " Man, look at them, follow that car  They turned the corner but they can't be very far"  
and the 3rd is   "It´s a casual little place and I like it like that"

Thanks, much appreciated!
Not sure about Venice though.

[punkinhead]

Kind of a question but kinda off topic number I thought I'd bring up, hope no one's posted about it yet:


I was reading through one of the recent issues of MOJO that was a special Beatles issue about Magical Mystery Tour, nice to see some references to the Boys in there, one expected, two unexpected.

One was just a sentence telling what Macca was up to in 67 helping the Beach Boys record Vegetables. (that I expected to see, wish there was more info, but I'm sure whomever the Beatles expert was has as much info on it as we do.

Then unexpectedly, within the interview of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, specifically Neil Innes and Roger Ruskn Spear, RRS revealed "We did our cabaret act and it degenerated into a jam session - a couple of the Beach Boys, Lulu, Cilla Black dressed as Chaplin."   I wonder which BB those were!

Another unexpected BB reference, when the writer was discussing LSD and how it "takes you back to your childhood and/or repressed memories" and how it influenced the Beatles writing in She Said She Said, Strawberry Fields Forever, and Penny Lane. "In the US, there were songs like Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit, the Buffalo Springfield's I am A Child, and the Beach Boys' CHILD IS THE FATHER OF THE MAN."   I was SO excited to see this, but it made me think that really, they could have picked better BB songs that go back to that childhood theme, let alone, it wasn't just the Beatles writing about it. You Still Believe in Me would be a contender in my book. And Wonderful is a lot more child-like and CITFOTM, in my opinion...but then again, maybe they were lookin for titles with the word "Child" in it. Heck, Look/Song for the CHILDREN is more of a child-like song.

[bgas]

What I hear: 
the first ? is Venice
the 2nd should be " Man, look at them, follow that car  They turned the corner but they can't be very far" 
and the 3rd is   "It´s a casual little place and I like it like that"

Thanks, much appreciated!
Not sure about Venice though.

Up to you. Venice Blvd is a "major" street, running from the ocean( Venice) to downtown LA:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Boulevard

[Alan Boyd]

What I hear: 
the first ? is Venice
the 2nd should be " Man, look at them, follow that car  They turned the corner but they can't be very far" 
and the 3rd is   "It´s a casual little place and I like it like that"

Thanks, much appreciated!
Not sure about Venice though.

Up to you. Venice Blvd is a "major" street, running from the ocean( Venice) to downtown LA:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Boulevard

Actually, I think the lyric might be "rollin' down VAN NUYS,"  Van Nuys Blvd being one of the main drags in the San Fernando valley, something of a hotspot for serious SoCal car culture.  At least, that's how I've always heard it!

[Andrew G. Doe]

Same here, from the first time I heard it (in the actual movie).

[Andrew G. Doe]

Breaking News - Bruce is an original member of the Beach Boys

http://www.beachboysband.net/TOURSCH/BB_TOUR_SCH.htm

Mike's Love machine is looking desperate.  First their management puts out concert promos that would lead one to believe that Brian, Al and David are still in the group.  That didn't fly so now Bruce is promoted as an original member.

And the BeachBoysBand.net site is looking pretty damm cheap and cheesy these days.

No, they didn't - that was the work of the local promoter: Mike's management provides the copy but, recently, in a few instances the promoter has chosen to use a C50 photo for an M&B show. That's swiftly been corrected.

And the BBBand site has always looked cheap & cheesy: they could, and should, do better.

[bgas]

What I hear: 
the first ? is Venice
the 2nd should be " Man, look at them, follow that car  They turned the corner but they can't be very far" 
and the 3rd is   "It´s a casual little place and I like it like that"

Thanks, much appreciated!
Not sure about Venice though.

Up to you. Venice Blvd is a "major" street, running from the ocean( Venice) to downtown LA:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Boulevard

Actually, I think the lyric might be "rollin' down VAN NUYS,"  Van Nuys Blvd being one of the main drags in the San Fernando valley, something of a hotspot for serious SoCal car culture.  At least, that's how I've always heard it!

Same here, from the first time I heard it (in the actual movie).

I defer to those with better hearing. 

[Mendota Heights]

Actually, I think the lyric might be "rollin' down VAN NUYS,"  Van Nuys Blvd being one of the main drags in the San Fernando valley, something of a hotspot for serious SoCal car culture.  At least, that's how I've always heard it!

Thanks, Alan!

I heard "vanas" or "vana", but had no idea there is a street called Van Nuys.

[dwtherealbb]

instead of 15BO how would an all covers album have done in 1976 (could be called 15 Covers). And what I'm wondering is how do you think they would have done covering these songs?

1. St Elmos Fire (originally by Michael Franks)
2 Best of My Love (originally by Eagles)
3 Tin Man (originally by America)
4 Time (originally by Pink Floyd)
5 Hello Its Me (originally by Nazz, made popular by Todd Rundgren)
6 Jackie Blue (originally by Ozark Mountain Daredevils)
7 The Light That Has Lighted The World (originally by George Harrison)
8 At Seventeen (originally by Janis Ian)
9 Ridin the Storm Out (originally by REO Speedwagon)
10 Captain Jack (originally by Billy Joel)
11 Benny and the Jets (originally by Elton John)
12 Mind Games (originally be Lennon)
13 Ten Years Gone (originally be Led Zep)
14 Band on the Run (originally by Wings)
15 Turn That Heartbeat Over Again (originally by Steely Dan)

[Myk Luhv]

How frequently, if at all, was Chuck Britz interviewed in-depth about engineering the group? Are these online anywhere I could easily read them?

[halblaineisgood]

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[punkinhead]

I have this friend and he only knows about fun and the sun hits and now that he feels so lied to and duped by con artists Mike and Bute ,he'll never make the leap of faith required to enjoy Holland. he will either renounce the Beach Boys entirely, or remain forever a stoopid surf  fan, he gives us "real" fans a bad name. He thinks they only surf! He make people laugh at us  He makes  people think they wernt super cool 70's band who had black guys and whit guys with beards who did sound like the band. All of this becuase -w-w-w-.b-e-a-c-h-b-o-y-s-b-a-n-d.-net, and tCoHne ArtSIt Brooth. make you sad?

just have him watch Endless Harmony

[punkinhead]

Is Country Love/First Love ever gonna see the light of day? I actually really enjoy First Love.

[smilethebeachboysloveyou]

Is Country Love/First Love ever gonna see the light of day? I actually really enjoy First Love.

I'll bet that "Made in California" actually turns out to be a six-CD box-set of the Country Love sessions, with an entire disc devoted to sessions of "Wrinkles."

On a more serious note, I think there are legal problems preventing their release, and even without the legal problems I don't think either album would sell terribly well.  And I say that even though I also kind of like First Love (more than I expected to anyway).

[gfac22]

Is Country Love/First Love ever gonna see the light of day? I actually really enjoy First Love.

I do too.  Very nice late-70s, laid-back california sound to it.  It deserves a proper release.  I could live without Country Love, though.

[wantsomecorn]

What exactly prevented First Love from being released back in 1978? Were the legal troubles that far back?

[Quzi]

Is there anything to suggest that Mike's divorce in mid-1964 helped influence the more sombre, introspectiveness of Today?