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What else? The original stone tablet with the Ten Commandments on it???  :lol

Where did you get that SU test pressing at? That sounds amazing!

Nice!!! What's the story behind her getting it signed?

I did not specify Myke, but that's how it came back.

Beach Boys kite. Promo copy of Surf's Up with "thanks Marilyn" in the dead space before the label starts. There's more.

A great friend who was a dj. Forgot all about the term "test pressing"-sounds good to hear again. OK Eric, you're gonna like this one alot- A huge SU poster signed on the back by Myke-To Sherry, Mike Love. Sherry was my date for about 4 years.

1. An original sketch by Dennis Wilson.

2. Japanese *Wild Honey* CD insert signed by Brian, Carl, Al, Mike, and Bruce

Beach Boys kite. Promo copy of Surf's Up with "thanks Marilyn" in the dead space before the label starts. There's more.

Is the "thanks marilyn" part of the recording, in spoken? Or do you mean written somewhere?

 Not to be picky( for accuracy instead) Is your copy the white label Promo, with the song titles printed on the label, or the blank white label test pressing, Nothing printed on the labels( as were 99% of all test pressings) ?  


Ooh, a Denny penned sketch would be incredibly cool to possess!!

Denny's tambourine from the 1972 RFH shows (trashed)...

Letter from Brian thanking me for my help with the 1993 box set (thanks David)...

My friends/sources...

Name listed in TSS credits (unexpected)...

More memories than I can shake a stick at...

- The Good Vibrations vocal sessions reels
- The Surf's Up pt2 sessions reels

Is the "thanks marilyn" part of the recording, in spoken? Or do you mean written somewhere?

1. Wonderful
2. Cabin Essence
3. Sail On Sailor
4. The Warmth Of The Sun
5. California Girls
6. The Night Was So Young
7. Dance Dance Dance
8. You're So Good To Me
9. Forever
10. Good Timin'
11. Meant For You
12. Friends
13. Busy Doin' Nothing
14. Wouldn't It Be Nice
15. You Still Believe In Me
16. I'm Waiting For The Day
17. God Only Knows
18. Sloop John B
19. Hang Onto Your Ego
20. Pet Sounds
21. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
22. Our Prayer
23. Heroes And Villians (Cantina Version)
24. Surf's Up
25. Marcella
26. Good Vibrations
27. I Get Around
28. Barbara Ann
29. Do It Again
30. Surfin USA
31. Love And Mercy

:O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O

This unique piece of history:
(http://musings.philsolomon.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/n599858804_1136792_4505.jpg)

Videotaping this beautiful Brian moment, with hardly anyone else around:

http://vimeo.com/24036109

and my program from Carnegie Hall, September 24, 1971 (still looking for it, but its here somewhere...)

I'd love to see pics of all these priceless items. You guys got some cool sh!t...

I don't have much in the way of rarities but when Brian played Jones Beach with Paul Simon, he came out and signed autographs after his set. I stood in line twice and got him to sign the Fairy Tale sleeve, and then a Pet Sounds scan with one noticeable change:

(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/30014_397143058927_520943927_4045425_986202_n.jpg)

that ranks up there with my greatest Brian memories, as well as the first show of his tour in Ann Arbor '99, Pet Sounds live in New Hampshire, getting a front row seat to SMiLE at the last minute in Melbourne, FL and the Roxy show in '02 where they played the best setlist EVER:

1. Wonderful
2. Cabin Essence
3. Sail On Sailor
4. The Warmth Of The Sun
5. California Girls
6. The Night Was So Young
7. Dance Dance Dance
8. You're So Good To Me
9. Forever
10. Good Timin'
11. Meant For You
12. Friends
13. Busy Doin' Nothing
14. Wouldn't It Be Nice
15. You Still Believe In Me
16. I'm Waiting For The Day
17. God Only Knows
18. Sloop John B
19. Hang Onto Your Ego
20. Pet Sounds
21. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
22. Our Prayer
23. Heroes And Villians (Cantina Version)
24. Surf's Up
25. Marcella
26. Good Vibrations
27. I Get Around
28. Barbara Ann
29. Do It Again
30. Surfin USA
31. Love And Mercy

1) An original SMiLE booklet -- which I was able to show to Frank Homes in person, who verified its authenticity.  Remember that Mikie?   :)

Ok, what the heck is the story behind that Brian and Marilyn block?

- The Good Vibrations vocal sessions reels
- The Surf's Up pt2 sessions reels

PS can correct me, obviously, but I believe it's from the pool of the Bel Air house.

This unique piece of history:
(http://musings.philsolomon.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/n599858804_1136792_4505.jpg)

Videotaping this beautiful Brian moment, with hardly anyone else around:

http://vimeo.com/24036109

and my program from Carnegie Hall, September 24, 1971 (still looking for it, but its here somewhere...)

*checks date, stares blankly, drinks more coffee*

There has to be a market for these… :D

… I think the vendor could pretty much name their own price.

Ok, what the heck is the story behind that Brian and Marilyn block?






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That stick-signed cement slab, dated 8/27/66, came from Brian and Marilyn's pool at 1448, when the owner at the time (2000) came out of her house and wrote down my license plate number (I was taking photos and she presumed either a Beach Boys fan or a stakeout, or both). We chatted for a bit, and I told her I was on my honeymoon visiting friends in the LA area. She was from Iran and had purchased the house from lawyers, not from Bri-Mar directly, and she was renovating the pool area and had the autographed slab removed and it sat at the side of the house where she led me to look at it. She asked for 1K, and I told her that I was happy to have seen it, but really didn't want it that badly. Long story short, I came back the next day with $500.00 cash and made an offer, and then threw out my back (and my honeymoon) trying to get it into my car trunk with one of her workers.

So now it sits in my living room, with a little piano light on top of it, in homage to 1448 (alas, the wife has moved on...). One could easily imagine Brian and the Posse getting high in the heated pool and SMiLE dreamin'...it overlooks the Valley and the twinkling lights of LA at night, and you could imagine them feeling above the fray and in their own world...What was unexpected, however, was how really accessible it was, right on the cul-de-sac, directly on the street, you could have walked right to the door in 1966 and stepped into the sandbox. One could imagine (see Lewis Shiner's GLIMPSES for a dramatization) that this was a happy home for a time for the young couple and Banana and Louie, full of creativity and promise. Seemed oddly normal and (upscale, yes, but not yet Bel-Air) suburban, not that hard to imagine the leap from growing up in Hawthorne. The more secluded and gated Edgar Rice Burroughs mansion on Bellagio seems to have eventually brought out the Kane in Brian, much more of a solipsistic lair, one imagines...

...I could mindscreen Van driving up, or Jules bringing over Thomas Pynchon, or David Anderle talking Brother and big dreams, or Mark Volman driving over on Sunset from Laurel Canyon to play spoons, etc. You can see where the slab comes from in the somewhat awkward home movie/promo films shot at the pool.

4) An entire box of cassette tapes and CD-R's sent to me over the years by the late great Rev. Bob Hanes, all annotated in his handwriting.  I miss him.

Lee

Thinking about this 'most treasured' thing, I realise that what I truly treasure most isn't something palpable, but rather the act of being one of a small but tightly-knit band of like minded souls who are, the odd troll, space cadet and general grouch excepted, fine people to know, even when the insults are flying like underwear at a Tom Jones gig. That some seriously good primary research has resulted is just a bonus, and even the crazies here generally know their BB 101. It's cool. It's a good place to be.

If we could just resurrect the original Ego, well, that would be prefect.

Hey, Melinda  ;D