Title: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: SonoraDick on September 04, 2013, 01:47:20 PM A lot of good stuff here...
http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/the-issue/ Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again on September 04, 2013, 01:56:00 PM Great Brooth interview!
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Pretty Funky on September 04, 2013, 02:05:49 PM Under Dave's story.
'In the meantime, Al split. He got a job at an aircraft company.' Haven't heard that one before. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Rocky Raccoon on September 04, 2013, 02:25:06 PM The Brian/Mike/Al interview is definitely one of the better interviews I've read from any of those guys.
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: jb412 on September 04, 2013, 03:11:12 PM Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: The Shift on September 04, 2013, 03:34:44 PM The interviews with Boyd, Linette and Wolfe are terrific. Revealing. Hope one or two of them drop by here again soon!
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: seltaeb1012002 on September 04, 2013, 03:48:48 PM "RCM: As archivists and keepers of the flame, what are the Beach Boys’ holy grails for you?
Alan Boyd: Well, there’s a half inch reel of SMiLE masters that we’d love to get a hold of if it wasn’t destroyed or left behind at Capitol back in ’68." :o edit - nvm. Seems he's talking about the masters for songs like "Wonderful" and "Cabinessence". Would be a huge revelation, but I assumed he was talking about some final mixes. ;D Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Mikie on September 04, 2013, 03:56:18 PM If that's really Brian answering interview questions (and I don't doubt it is) then I think we're going to get a real good autobiography when it comes out. He still seems to have a good detailed memory about his collaborators and specific songs etc.
But.......here's even one more account of the events surrounding the writing of Warmth of the Sun. Among others, I've read that it was written in a corner of the room at the El Dorado Hotel in Sacramento the night of the assassination, and I've read that it was written in Brian's office in Hollywood the day after the assassination, and now this version by Mike: "Brian had moved out of his home in Hawthorne to a rented house in Hawthorne and I spent the night at his place, mattresses on the floors and all that. Brian came up with the beautiful haunting melody and the harmonies and I came up with the lyrics. The melody and mood of The Warmth of the Sun was so melancholy. It was written the preceding day, words and music, and we got up to the news that President Kennedy had been taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and that he was dead. It was shocking. We didn’t change the lyric to conform to the event. Within days of that event we went into the studio and recorded it. That session was even more charged with emotion". Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Pretty Funky on September 04, 2013, 04:31:00 PM This from wiki but still fits.
The song was commenced by Brian Wilson and Mike Love in the early hours of the morning before John F. Kennedy's assassination. After learning of the news, the song was completed by Brian and Mike later that day in a hotel room, inspired by the emotional shock felt by its authors over the death of President John F. Kennedy. "The Warmth of the Sun" was started in the early morning hours of the same morning that President Kennedy was killed in Dallas. The melody was so haunting, sad, melancholy, that the only thing that I could think of lyrically was the loss of love, when interest slips and feelings aren't reciprocated... though I wanted to have a silver lining on that cumulus nimbus cloud so I wrote the lyrics from the perspective of, 'Yes, things have changed and love is no longer there, but the memory of it lingers like the warmth of the sun.' I think it's really impactful and memorable... one of my favorite songs from an emotional and personal point of view." Mike Love, 2007 Brians version doesn't work really. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: EgoHanger1966 on September 04, 2013, 04:37:41 PM Brian says he wrote "Darlin'" for Carl's voice. Danny Hutton would disagree! :o
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Mikie on September 04, 2013, 04:55:55 PM Brian's version is:
"I wrote this in honor of President John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963 and that night, Mike and I got together at my office in Hollywood and wrote the song." In the liners for the Shut Down Volume 2 CD, Brian wrote: "The day after President Kennedy was assassinated, Mike and I went to my office in Hollywood and wrote 'The Warmth of the Sun' at my piano. We knew that we had a spiritual song on our hands and we recorded it with that kind of attitude." In the liner notes for the same CD, noted Beach Boys Historian David Leaf writes: "The song was written on November 23, 1963, only hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Brian had just broken up with his first serious girlfriend. This melancholy ballad and beautiful lyric perfectly capture that feeling of loss. He clearly feels the pain but he is at peace." The circumstances as described by both Mike and Brian don’t hold water when you consider the fact that The Beach Boys were out on the road at the time … and, in fact, played a concert performance in Marysville, California on the evening of the assassination! http://forgottenhits.com/the_story_behind_the_warmth_of_the_sun Fred Vail's account: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1437 My take: It would make sense that they started the song in Brian's apartment in L.A. the night before or very early morning hours of the 22nd and finished it (or nearly finished it in the hotel room 400 miles North on Novemner 22. Then maybe Brian made some adjustments to it in his office the following day. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: EgoHanger1966 on September 04, 2013, 04:58:16 PM "I did not like the Friends album because I thought it was wimpy. I don’t think we were doing anything where Brian was at full strength. We had to do some of the Friends stuff on the road and it just used to make me wince because it was wimpy."
-Bruce This coming from the guy who wrote "Tears In The Morning"? Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Mikie on September 04, 2013, 05:13:42 PM Really enjoyed the Dave Marks interview.
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Pretty Funky on September 04, 2013, 05:21:03 PM Really enjoyed the Dave Marks interview. Would be great to read that letter to his folks! :lol Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: lostbeachboy on September 04, 2013, 05:43:44 PM Is the magazine sold in stores or just online?
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: kermit27 on September 04, 2013, 05:48:42 PM Holy crap. I really love Al, but in this photo there, he looks exactly like Hoggle from Labyrinth! Here's both pictures for you to compare! http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2013/09/04/beach-boys-collaborators-stephen-kalinich-andy-paley-interview/ http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Hoggle Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Peter Reum on September 04, 2013, 07:01:51 PM I like Bruce, but jeez...calling Friends wimpy when he wrote wimpy tunes is sort of the pot calling the kettle black.....
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: chrs_mrgn on September 04, 2013, 07:27:33 PM The Mike, Al and Brian interview is great cant wait for the other 2 parts.
That bums me out to hear Bruce talk bad about Friends but that's pretty typical of him, he just really doesn't seem to care for it. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Mikie on September 04, 2013, 08:09:10 PM I like Bruce, but jeez...calling Friends wimpy when he wrote wimpy tunes is sort of the pot calling the kettle black..... Exactly. The "wimpiest" songs on Friends can't hold a candle to Bruce's rockin' "Diedre", "Tears In The Morning", "Disney Girls", "She Believes In Love Again", and "I Write The Songs".* * I didn't include Endless Harmony/Ten Years Of Harmony 'cause I've always loved that one. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Wah Wah Wah Ooooo on September 05, 2013, 05:07:52 AM Tears In the Morning
Deidre Disney Girls (1957) I Write The Songs Endless Harmony Yeah, Bruce calling anything wimpy isn't just ironic, it's asinine. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: The Shift on September 05, 2013, 05:43:51 AM C'mon guys, have you heard his meaty cover of Pipeline? And those threads… rockin'!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZIQmiQETM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZIQmiQETM) Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: The Shift on September 05, 2013, 05:45:04 AM btw, this Rock Cellar material seems to be the source of the feature in Record Collector but I think some of the text – the answers given by band members – differs.
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: SloopJohnB on September 05, 2013, 07:19:53 AM There's a song in the lyrics quiz that isn't a Beach Boys song... :police:
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Cyncie on September 05, 2013, 08:23:19 AM Totally psyched to read this special edition. Loved all the interviews.
Some impressions: Brian continues to back away from the "genius" label. I don't blame him. That's a lot of pressure to live up to. Bruce is a bit prickly, ain't he? David seems fairly charitable to Murry. I know a lot of people just put his abusive behavior down to his being a product of his time. Parenting must have changed when I grew up in the 60's then, because, while spanking was OK, beating never was. Alan Boyd has a great job, doesn't he? Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Jim V. on September 05, 2013, 08:33:34 AM "I did not like the Friends album because I thought it was wimpy. I don’t think we were doing anything where Brian was at full strength. We had to do some of the Friends stuff on the road and it just used to make me wince because it was wimpy." -Bruce This coming from the guy who wrote "Tears In The Morning"? I was gonna come on here and trash Bruce for the "wimpy" thing as well, but you know what? Yeah, he wrote wimpy stuff, which I'm sure he will admit. But I think what he liked from Brian was his more dynamic stuff. And dynamic doesn't necessarily mean uptempo. It could mean anything from "Wouldn't It Be Nice" to "Surf's Up" to "Surfin' U.S.A." to "Caroline No" to whatever. And to be honest, Friends really isn't that dynamic. So I can see what he's saying. Honestly, for all the their albums from Pet Sounds through Holland, I'd say that Friends is my least favorite. The vibe is okay, but I kinda do agree that the songs themselves aren't really there, which I don't think I would say about Brian's work on any of the other albums around this time period. Honestly, I think he did the whole Friends type sound better on "I Went To Sleep" from 20/20. Also, what a great interview from him. I feel like you really get a better vibe for the background of each album from Bruce's interviews then you do from Brian or Mike. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: seltaeb1012002 on September 05, 2013, 08:59:32 AM I'd love to hear the original version of "Keepin The Summer Alive". Wonder if an early Brucified mix exists.
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: drbeachboy on September 05, 2013, 09:04:46 AM Totally psyched to read this special edition. Loved all the interviews. I fail to see the difference between spanking and beating. I grew up in the 60's too, and a spanking was a beating. A smack in the puss wasn't off limits either, though rarely done. That was the parenting style back then, as mentioned by Dave in the article. I had a few friends who used to get a belt whipping, but my mother used to absolutely forbid it in my house, having gone through that with her father, as a kid. My father would threaten it by taking the belt off and snapping it. That was quite enough to get our full and undivided attention. ;)Some impressions: Brian continues to back away from the "genius" label. I don't blame him. That's a lot of pressure to live up to. Bruce is a bit prickly, ain't he? David seems fairly charitable to Murry. I know a lot of people just put his abusive behavior down to his being a product of his time. Parenting must have changed when I grew up in the 60's then, because, while spanking was OK, beating never was. Alan Boyd has a great job, doesn't he? Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Jon Stebbins on September 05, 2013, 09:35:09 AM Really enjoyed the Dave Marks interview. Would be great to read that letter to his folks! :lol Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Micha on September 05, 2013, 09:56:09 AM I like Bruce, but jeez...calling Friends wimpy when he wrote wimpy tunes is sort of the pot calling the kettle black..... Don't forget Bruce is a rock hard Republican capitalist. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Freddie French-Pounce on September 05, 2013, 12:25:11 PM I see links to my upload of YLTLF [Boot] and The single Version of CS/C. I love things like that.
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Heysaboda on September 05, 2013, 12:38:58 PM I like Bruce, but jeez...calling Friends wimpy when he wrote wimpy tunes is sort of the pot calling the kettle black..... Does Bruce even remember Friends?? Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again on September 05, 2013, 12:51:57 PM Shouldn't this quote just about clear up countless reams of threads?
Brian Wilson: Well, Mike had music ideas besides lyrics. So he helped me out with the music and his lyrics were really really creative. Some of my favorite Mike lyrics are California Girls, Good Vibrations and Do it Again was another great one that we wrote. I also like Warmth of the Sun. that was a very sweet and sorrowful song. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: HeyJude on September 05, 2013, 01:07:47 PM Shouldn't this quote just about clear up countless reams of threads? Brian Wilson: Well, Mike had music ideas besides lyrics. So he helped me out with the music and his lyrics were really really creative. Some of my favorite Mike lyrics are California Girls, Good Vibrations and Do it Again was another great one that we wrote. I also like Warmth of the Sun. that was a very sweet and sorrowful song. I don't think much of what Brian says in a given interview can clear much up, as he usually contradicts some or most of it later on, depending on a whole slew of factors. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: SurfRiderHawaii on September 05, 2013, 01:18:04 PM Most interesting to me is the AB and MLinterview and discussing vault tracks, and why certain tracks didn't make the box.
http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2013/09/04/made-in-california-producers-alan-boyd-dennis-wolfe-mark-linett-beach-boys-interview/2/ Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Pretty Funky on September 05, 2013, 02:29:25 PM Really enjoyed the Dave Marks interview. Would be great to read that letter to his folks! :lol Oh man....I forgot that was in there! Re-read and chuckling. :lol Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Jon Stebbins on September 05, 2013, 02:59:16 PM Really enjoyed the Dave Marks interview. Would be great to read that letter to his folks! :lol Oh man....I forgot that was in there! Re-read and chuckling. :lol Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: chrs_mrgn on September 05, 2013, 03:19:37 PM "About ten years later somebody at CBS decided the tapes had to get out of there and rather than go through all of the tapes, they sent somebody over there with a bandsaw and cut all the reels in half and threw them into the dumpster. Nobody cared. It’s a shame."
Ugh that killed me "As a matter of fact, Mike was talking about how one of his dream projects would be a box set with one disc highlighting each of the group members’ strongest moments over the years, which is incidentally something that Mark (Linett) has been wanting to do for many years too." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQCP85FngzE Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: hypehat on September 05, 2013, 03:46:55 PM .
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Don Malcolm on September 05, 2013, 04:11:16 PM Yeah, really terrific stuff from everybody. Kudos to the interviewers. Nice to see Bruce plugging Bill Yerkes' book--while we've had just a ton of great material from Jon and Ian, Mark Dillon, etc. (and we still await you, Mike Eder!!!), that photo book from the 60s tours is a really nice piece of work. Bruce's comment about Dennis writing songs to pick up chicks is pretty darned funny!
And, let's note, a lot of very solid kudos passed out to Mike for his efforts in support of MIC. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Andrew G. Doe on September 06, 2013, 04:12:54 AM Alan Boyd has a great job, doesn't he? Taking all the factors into account... no. I wouldn't - couldn't - do it. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Disney Boy (1985) on September 06, 2013, 04:21:18 AM "I did not like the Friends album because I thought it was wimpy. I don’t think we were doing anything where Brian was at full strength. We had to do some of the Friends stuff on the road and it just used to make me wince because it was wimpy." -Bruce This coming from the guy who wrote "Tears In The Morning"? I was gonna come on here and trash Bruce for the "wimpy" thing as well, but you know what? Yeah, he wrote wimpy stuff, which I'm sure he will admit. But I think what he liked from Brian was his more dynamic stuff. And dynamic doesn't necessarily mean uptempo. It could mean anything from "Wouldn't It Be Nice" to "Surf's Up" to "Surfin' U.S.A." to "Caroline No" to whatever. And to be honest, Friends really isn't that dynamic. So I can see what he's saying. Honestly, for all the their albums from Pet Sounds through Holland, I'd say that Friends is my least favorite. The vibe is okay, but I kinda do agree that the songs themselves aren't really there, which I don't think I would say about Brian's work on any of the other albums around this time period. Honestly, I think he did the whole Friends type sound better on "I Went To Sleep" from 20/20. Also, what a great interview from him. I feel like you really get a better vibe for the background of each album from Bruce's interviews then you do from Brian or Mike. Leaving aside the hypocrisy of Bruce 'Tears In The Morning' Johnston's comment, I just think his description of Friends as "wimpy" is just plain inaccurate. Friends is laid-back, it's mellow, but wimpy? Nah. (It's also incredibly creative and artistically inventive, but we're just talking vibes here so I wont go into that...) Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: MBE on September 06, 2013, 06:50:09 AM Yeah, really terrific stuff from everybody. Kudos to the interviewers. Nice to see Bruce plugging Bill Yerkes' book--while we've had just a ton of great material from Jon and Ian, Mark Dillon, etc. (and we still await you, Mike Eder!!!), that photo book from the 60s tours is a really nice piece of work. Bruce's comment about Dennis writing songs to pick up chicks is pretty darned funny! Thank you. I do have good news in that I will be preparing a proposal in about a month. In other words it might FINALLY come out next year.And, let's note, a lot of very solid kudos passed out to Mike for his efforts in support of MIC. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Paulos on September 06, 2013, 11:14:32 AM Who knew that Bruce was such a big fan of Smiley Smile? I thought it was said that he had very little to do with it, so I was surprised (and delighted) to see him singing Smiley's praises. Also had no idea that he was instrumental in getting Blondie and Ricky onboard, that normally gets attributed to Al and Carl.
Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: bsten on September 08, 2013, 10:49:52 PM WIMPY (OR NOT) - VOL 1:
Tears in the morning Lookin' at tomorrow When girls get together Disney girls Busy doin' nothin' Matchpoint of our love Hold on dear brother I don't wanna know The surfer moon The nearest faraway place Let's go away for a while She's goin' bald Everyone's in love with you I'm so lonely She believes in love again Make it good Ballad of ole Betsy :) Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Micha on September 09, 2013, 02:32:54 AM "As a matter of fact, Mike was talking about how one of his dream projects would be a box set with one disc highlighting each of the group members’ strongest moments over the years, which is incidentally something that Mark (Linett) has been wanting to do for many years too." The "Bruce's finest moments" disc would leave about 50 minutes of space for hidden tracks, I estimate... >:D Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: The Heartical Don on September 09, 2013, 03:14:18 AM "As a matter of fact, Mike was talking about how one of his dream projects would be a box set with one disc highlighting each of the group members’ strongest moments over the years, which is incidentally something that Mark (Linett) has been wanting to do for many years too." The "Bruce's finest moments" disc would leave about 50 minutes of space for hidden tracks, I estimate... >:D I do love his 'Maksha At Midnight', however. Superb edelkitsch. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: punkinhead on September 09, 2013, 10:52:19 AM Totally psyched to read this special edition. Loved all the interviews. I fail to see the difference between spanking and beating. I grew up in the 60's too, and a spanking was a beating. A smack in the puss wasn't off limits either, though rarely done. That was the parenting style back then, as mentioned by Dave in the article. I had a few friends who used to get a belt whipping, but my mother used to absolutely forbid it in my house, having gone through that with her father, as a kid. My father would threaten it by taking the belt off and snapping it. That was quite enough to get our full and undivided attention. ;)Some impressions: Brian continues to back away from the "genius" label. I don't blame him. That's a lot of pressure to live up to. Bruce is a bit prickly, ain't he? David seems fairly charitable to Murry. I know a lot of people just put his abusive behavior down to his being a product of his time. Parenting must have changed when I grew up in the 60's then, because, while spanking was OK, beating never was. Alan Boyd has a great job, doesn't he? Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: drbeachboy on September 09, 2013, 11:49:26 AM Totally psyched to read this special edition. Loved all the interviews. I fail to see the difference between spanking and beating. I grew up in the 60's too, and a spanking was a beating. A smack in the puss wasn't off limits either, though rarely done. That was the parenting style back then, as mentioned by Dave in the article. I had a few friends who used to get a belt whipping, but my mother used to absolutely forbid it in my house, having gone through that with her father, as a kid. My father would threaten it by taking the belt off and snapping it. That was quite enough to get our full and undivided attention. ;)Some impressions: Brian continues to back away from the "genius" label. I don't blame him. That's a lot of pressure to live up to. Bruce is a bit prickly, ain't he? David seems fairly charitable to Murry. I know a lot of people just put his abusive behavior down to his being a product of his time. Parenting must have changed when I grew up in the 60's then, because, while spanking was OK, beating never was. Alan Boyd has a great job, doesn't he? Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: punkinhead on September 09, 2013, 12:05:18 PM Alan Boyd has a great job, doesn't he? Taking all the factors into account... no. I wouldn't - couldn't - do it. Let alone, we all know what health condition Alan was in about a year ago this past summer, I wouldn't blame it on one person or situation, but you could trace what was going on in BB world and Alan's health and possibly notice a correlation. But besides that, I know it would be fun going into the vaults for audio and film. I think he should write a book! Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: TimmyC on September 11, 2013, 10:51:14 AM Just read the Bruce interview - very interesting. I think he's dead on right about the Warmth of the Sun being Brian and Mike's best moment, and possibly the Beach Boys. As much as I love everything the Beach Boys have done, it is undeniable that their LEGACY and what will live on forever is their mid-60s output. The brilliance of Warmth of the Sun reminds me what the universal meaning of the Beach Boys is (e.g. it's not the squabbling, it's not the reunion, it's not really anything post Good Vibrations). Although it's disappointing that the post GV era is not generally appreciated, I think we can celebrate the fact that early to mid 60s work has left an indelible imprint on American culture.
ANYWAY, this struck me as pretty interesting, and would love to hear what he had intended the KTSA song to sound like: "It would have been a great rebuilding track for the band. Carl wrote that song with Randy Bachman. I decided this is like Jan & Dean’s Surf City meets Bachman Turner Overdrive except we’re gonna record it. I had that thing exploding; I had drums for days. It was very powerful. But Carl came in and made it gentler, unfortunately. He made it so light that I lost all the muscle of probably the only up-tempo track from that album that could have been a radio record. That would have been a great hit, Beach Boys with a Bachman Turner Overdrive groove. Man, I’m so frustrated about that!" PS - it is annoying how he goes out of his way to basically put Brian and Mike on the same level. But whatever. It's probably true that for years Mike did not get his due for the lyrics that he did contribute. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: Nicko1234 on September 11, 2013, 11:18:53 AM I was gonna come on here and trash Bruce for the "wimpy" thing as well, but you know what? Yeah, he wrote wimpy stuff, which I'm sure he will admit. But I think what he liked from Brian was his more dynamic stuff. And dynamic doesn't necessarily mean uptempo. It could mean anything from "Wouldn't It Be Nice" to "Surf's Up" to "Surfin' U.S.A." to "Caroline No" to whatever. And to be honest, Friends really isn't that dynamic. So I can see what he's saying. Honestly, for all the their albums from Pet Sounds through Holland, I'd say that Friends is my least favorite. The vibe is okay, but I kinda do agree that the songs themselves aren't really there, which I don't think I would say about Brian's work on any of the other albums around this time period. Honestly, I think he did the whole Friends type sound better on "I Went To Sleep" from 20/20. Also, what a great interview from him. I feel like you really get a better vibe for the background of each album from Bruce's interviews then you do from Brian or Mike. A great comment which I agree with. I like Friends but I can completely understand what Bruce was saying as it does sound half finished. Title: Re: Beach Boys in current Rock Cellar magazine Post by: bsten on September 11, 2013, 03:01:18 PM ANYWAY, this struck me as pretty interesting, and would love to hear what he had intended the KTSA song to sound like I agree!! Is there an early ("Bruce-ier") version of KTSA in the vaults?? It's really amazing when you think about it, we've had the PS and the Smile sessions!! That's really awesome!! But what about the rest, will we ever get to hear sessions, outtakes etc before we die?? ;) Work in progress - fun, educational and inspiring! |