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Believe it or not, the Adam Marsland's Chaos Band/Alan Boyd 2007 album LONG PROMISED ROAD: SONGS OF DENNIS AND CARL WILSON LIVE has found its way onto the official 2008 Grammy ballot in several categories. 

If you happen to belong to the Academy and think we're worthy of a Grammy nomination (or Dennis Wilson is, since a number of these would really go to him), below are the boxes to check on your ballot.

Also, bye the bye, today we posted two new original recordings to myspace that are going to be on my upcoming greatest hits album in 2008...one of which, "Portland," has Alan Boyd joining us on the harmonies and has a bit of the Beach Boys vibe to it.  (www.myspace.com/adammarsland)

Here are the categories the album is on the ballot for, and the ballot numbers.  Feel free to pass this on to anyone you know (particularly NARAS members who are also Beach Boys fans) who might be interested.

Thanks all for taking the time to give this a look.

Category 1 - Record of the Year
Adam Marsland's Chaos Band –
Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Live Again
Award goes to Artist, Producer, Recording Engineer, and Mixer:
Adam Marsland's Chaos Band, Adam Marsland, Evie Sands,
Alan Boyd, Mark Linett and Steve Refling
Ballot Entry # 371

Category 2 - Album of the Year
Adam Marsland's Chaos Band –
Long Promised Road : Songs of Dennis & Carl Wilson Live
Award goes to Artist, Producer, Recording Engineer, Mixer,
and Mastering Engineer: Adam Marsland's Chaos Band, Adam Marsland,
Evie Sands, Alan Boyd, Mark Linett, Steve Refling and Earle Mankey
Ballot Entry # 312

Category 3 - Song of the Year
Adam Marsland's Chaos Band –
Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Live Again
Award goes to Songwriters:
Dennis Wilson and Stanley Shapiro
Ballot Entry # 655

Category 4 - Best New Artist
Adam Marsland's Chaos Band
Award goes to Artist: Adam Marsland's Chaos Band
Ballot Entry # 192

Category 7 - Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group with Vocal
Adam Marsland's Chaos Band –
Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Live Again
Award goes to Artist: Adam Marsland's Chaos Band
Ballot Entry # 062

Category 11 - Best Pop Vocal Album
Adam Marsland's Chaos Band –
Long Promised Road : Songs of Dennis & Carl Wilson Live
Award goes to Artist: Adam Marsland's Chaos Band
Ballot Entry # 133

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adam marsland
www.myspace.com/adammarsland
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Wow, Adam -- that's fantastic!



 :thewilsons

That's the most awesome thing I've heard in a while!

Well, it's still one step removed from an actual nomination, so...if ya know anyone in the Academy, pass the word on.  Thanks!

Isn't Bruce a member?

I just spoke to Al Gomes, the fellow who got this on the ballot, and he really thinks we may have a shot in at least a couple of the categories.  WOW!!

Vote early and oftten!

If anyone out there knows any NARAS members, spread the word.

Congrats to Stan Shapiro for LIVE AGAIN!!!

Alan

Word has been passed along.

We all appreciate it.  Obviously, we don't want to get anyone's hopes up TOO high, but at the same time, much as we'd love it for ourselves, it would be incredible to get this kind of recognition for Dennis' work (and finally earn Stan some props, too).

That was GREAT news, until I heard the 'isn't Bruce a member?' bit.. Uh oh! Still, least it ain't Mike! Hopefully he'll put the usual petty BB differences to one side and champion his former (and, dare I say it, more talented) band mates..

An old story but I would guess not much has changed.

http://weeklywire.com/ww/02-23-99/austin_music_feature1.html


quote..

Of the 13,000 NARAS members, 10k are voting members and those voting members are, obviously, the people who decide who walks away with the hardware. In order to qualify as a voting member, electorate individuals must provide proof of being either a producer, composer, engineer, songwriter, or even a writer of liner notes on six commercially released recordings. Once those credits are confirmed, you literally your pay dues -- currently $65 a year -- and presto, you're a voting member. Nonvoting members of NARAS are plentiful, connected to the organization through their careers or are involved in some facet the music industry, but Grammy voters are, for the most part, the folks who make music, either from the creative side or from the technical side.

It's worth pointing out who the voters are not. They're generally not record label people, radio people, or print people. Music critics don't get to cast a ballot unless they've penned a few sets of liner notes, which means senior editors at Rolling Stone and the like, but not many more. Even if you're the president of the most powerful record company in the world, you don't get to vote unless you have those six credits to your name. That doesn't mean that record companies are completely shut out of the loop, however. They're involved from the first step of the process.

Every June, NARAS sends out entry forms to both the record companies and all of its members. Those entry forms allow NARAS members and record labels -- and NARAS sends entry forms to about 800 labels -- to nominate an artist or recording for consideration. NARAS receives back around 15,000 of those entry forms, and from those the first ballot is put together. And this is where the process really starts getting a little subjective.

Grammys are awarded in 95 categories across 22 different fields. Fields are essentially genres -- pop, rock, R&B, country, jazz, Latin, etc. -- but also include nonmusic categories like producing and packaging. Within those fields are the categories. For example, in the "pop" field there are seven different categories: "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance," "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance," "Best Pop Album," etc. Same goes for the rock, R&B, country, and other fields. Suddenly, potential awards start adding up.

All those nominations are hashed out every October when NARAS convenes music experts from all over the country and holes them up in a hotel for two days while they take those 15,000 or so entries and hold screening meetings. At those meetings, screening committees determine whether a song entered in, say, the pop field is actually a pop song. There's a main room, called the core room, where a committee of approximately 60 industry professionals -- senior A&R reps, engineers, artists, generalists -- screens entries into categories: pop, rock, R&B, alternative, hard rock, and metal. In different rooms, various committees of 10-20 experts in jazz, gospel, classical, New Age, Latin, etc., screen entries in those fields. Vice President of Awards for NARAS, Diane Theriot, explains.

With so many, I would not be surprised to hear Brian and Mike are members. Bruce has stated on the BBB board in the past he is one of the chosen. ;D 

Congratulations!!  That's a great achievement!!


Now can I do my shameless plug for my band's music on the 2008 Grammy Ballot??   I'm serious--six categories! And we added a cover of Carl's "Heaven" to our live shows.

www.pacificcoastband.com

Evie Sands (who sings the lead vocal) and we have both posted "Wouldn't It Be Nice to Live Again" from our album with Alan Boyd, LONG PROMISED ROAD:  SONGS OF DENNIS AND CARL WILSON LIVE on our myspace pages. 

This is the song that is on the Grammy ballots for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Song of the Year.  It's also the first-ever release of the song, which was to be on the Beach Boys' SURF'S UP album but was scrapped and never released nor bootlegged.

Because of the historical nature of the song, Evie recut the lead vocal in the studio.  However, the remainder of the recording -- including all the backing vocals -- is 100% recording live onstage and unaltered.

Come have a listen at either www.myspace.com/adammarsland (http://www.myspace.com/adammarsland) or www.myspace.com/eviesands (http://www.myspace.com/eviesands).  Thanks.

adam (marsland)

Outstanding, Duke!

Adam - any chance of a DVD coming out from that tour?  Even if you have to charge a lot for it, I'm sure it would be worth it.

Believe it or not, i'm actually good friends with somebody that won a Grammy. I will pass this on for sure.  :) I hope you win! I saw your YouTube video of River Song and was knocked out. I'd definitely buy a DVD of a Dennis/Carl related show.  :)

Alan Boyd shot a lot of film on that tour and has loose plans to do a tour documentary incorporating footage from the Indianapolis TV shoot.  Obviously, he's a busy guy and so he hasn't been able to get to it yet, although he's spoken of starting up with it soon.  So the answer is possibly and as always, if there's enough demand, things have a tendency to happen.

I'm sure some people already know how I feel about this. :lol

Either way, congratulations Adam I really really hope you guys win this! :)

Thanks Joe...the competition in the Pop Vocal Duo/Group category is only about 100 other acts.  It's a lot, but it's not insurmountable.  It seems to have affected sales in a good way, as we've bounced back into amazon's top 10,000 CDs for the first time in several months.  Yay!