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Haven't seen it posted yet. Saw it on Al's Facebook-site. Interview  by David Beard

http://www.goldminemag.com/article/step-inside-the-beach-boys-world-50-years-in-the-making

JT insisting BW sings the chorus on Shelter.... interesting!

I hope it's a Beach Boys album.



Have I mentioned that I love this man?



Sounds like Jeff to me.

I'd love for it to be Brian, but my ears tell me that's Jeff, because Brian's falsetto never sounded likethat.

I know, which is what makes Joe Thomas' dogged peserverance that it's Brian all the more odd.

Sure makes you wonder about those unreleased songs that are mind-blowing.

I think there might be a typo.

It says:
"A lot of people think that’s Jeff, but it’s Brian. That’s Jeff on the high part, but Brian does the lower one on, “Do you still ever think of me?” That’s Mike singing the octave below (on the bottom) with Jeff doing the octave. Brian is answering, “think of me… used to be,” etc."

I think it should read like:

"A lot of people think that’s Jeff, but it’s Brian. That’s Jeff on the high part, but Brian does the lower one . On “Do you still ever think of me?” That’s Mike singing the octave below (on the bottom) with Jeff doing the octave. Brian is answering, “think of me… used to be,” etc."



At least that would make the most sense to me.

Is this all old news, rendered even older by the break-up of the band?

the professor agrees.

here too:  I hope that people think that this was, by any means, the better songs; they’re all equally phenomenal. These are just the appropriate songs for this album.

should read:  I hope that people DO NOT think that (this was) THESE WERE, by any means, the better songs; they’re all equally phenomenal. These are just the appropriate songs for this album.

Seem a little odd that JT he had to be told that Smile started with an a capella track  ???

It would be interesting to hear the original 97/98 demo of TWGMTR, maybe we will see something like that on the MIC box.

Heck, some of the comments here were made back then, too. Holy deja vu, Batman!

Odd but not surprising - Joe Thomas doesn't exactly strike me as much of a Smile fan.

I think I read somewhere he's actually a big fan of the Surf's Up album (IIRC...).

You don't say? Only a freak avant-garde lunatic would dare open an album with something that could be called a prologue.

Could be.  I do remember reading it was he that suggested Carnie and Wendy cover "Till I Die" on The Wilsons album  during the time he was working with Brian.

That quote was in another article over the summer.  When I read that I went back and listened.  Clearly it is Jeff on the falsetto, but it does sound like Brian on "I'll give you " at the start of the chorus, then blends into Foskett for the rest.

Big surprise that "Beaches In Mind" was Mike's idea. I was just thinking today. Imagine if he and Brian wrote "Add Some Music" these days. It'd probably be about how one hears music when they are surfin'. It really is a shame that the man can't see that he was a great lyricist at one point, and that includes the surf 'n car stuff. He apparently thinks that's the only worthwhile way to go now though. That or quoting his own stuff.

Everybody knows that portions of this article was in an issue of ESQ from earlier in the year, right?

Nice article, good times, good times.

Your general point still stands, but "Add Some Music" already has terrible lyrics and people still love it.

Needs a tougher edge, imo. None of this namby pamby dentistry sh*t.

YOU HEAR IT WHEN YOU'RE FUCKING YR BEST FRIENDS WIFE
YOU HEAR IT FAINTLY WHEN YOU'RE SMOKING YOUR CRACK PIPE
YOU'RE SITTING IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
AND THEY'VE GOT BEATS FOR YOU THERE
SO ADD SOME MUSIC TO YOUR DAY, MOTHERFUCKER

The interviews with Mike and Brian took place on 3-7-12, Al Jardine 3-14-12, Joe Thomas on 6-18-12 and David Marks was 12-08-11 and 6-25-12. 

Initially these interviews appeared in ESQ the Spring 2012 (issue #95), and the Special Edition of ESQ (issue #97).  I combined all of the interview material for Goldmine.  Let's face it, Goldmine is more well known than ESQ.  Goldmine was published in early September (Issue #819), and the online version was just posted a couple of weeks ago.  It is common practice for Goldmine to wait for the physical content to run its course before they post it online.  Unfortunately, most of the goodwill that the article covers is now gone.

I will say that subscribing to ESQ is well worth it.

As for the guys getting back together in the studio…  You can bet on it. 

Ah, wait a minute.  You can't go all AGD on us, David. For those of us that have paid ESQ good money over the years (and still do), details please...

Darn, all that journalistic objectivity just went out the window    ;D

There are no details right now.

:lol

It's funny how JT is like "Only Brian Wilson could have written something like 'Think About the Days'!!!" when everyone pretty much agreed when it leaked on European radio that it sounded like a Bruce Johnston product  ;D

... And Joe wrote the chords!

Wait, I'm missing something. Have we just gotten a leak or a viable piece of scholarly information that the BB are, in fact, planning (with the details to be established) to make a new album and thus be in the studio together next year? If so, this is major news. . . . or should we wait and just keep it on the back burner until we get word from the band members and management and label?

I do agree that the lyrics are kinda corny, but I do think it shows that Mike had some kind of restraint lyrically back in the day that he no longer has.


Quite exciting. I would imagine that are indeed going to make a new album. Which sounds freakin' awesome to me. We'll have the box set early next year with a quite a bit of unreleased stuff and I wouldn't doubt that we get a new album by summer 2014 at the latest.


Even though this is exciting, I probably wouldn't put too much thought into any of this yet. I'm assuming there are probably just vague plans to get back together and work on some material. The band themselves probably don't know much more than that at this point either. And I'm sure AGD would be very sad to learn that they will be working together again.

From the wording I think he had to be reminded of it rather than he actually did not know. The fact that both albums start with wordless vocal pieces hadn't struck him.