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Where are these "Beach Boys archives" located that I hear so much about?  Stuff that is left in the vaults...what vaults and where I'm wondering??  Please no joke answers, this is a serious question.

Holy vault-raider, Batman!

Why does it matter anyway? Be careful whatcha ask to know about. You never know who is reading. :)

it's a place i dream of everynight; i sneek in, even if it's just to listen to the Battle Hymn of Republic

I'm going to take a wild guess and say the vault is in some secret location in or near Los Angeles.


But there is a website run by a guy named Craig (I think he goes by "c-man" around these parts) called the Beach Boys Archives, which consists of in-depth writings and notes on some of the BB's albums.
http://beachboysarchives.com/

I'm going to take a wild guess and say the vault is in some secret location in or near Los Angeles.

Sort of a Beach Boys Area 51? :o

What about that tablet in Hawthorne? I'll be damned if I have ever even seen a field? ;)

You know, vaults in and of themselves are pretty nondescript places.  Storage warehouses.  Go out to your garage and you'll get a feel for the vault that the Beach Boys stuff is in.  And you can't listen to anything on the premises either, 1/4", 1/2", 1", and 2" tape machines being much in demand elsewhere.   :police:

Do you dive in head first a la Scrooge McDuck?

haha, awesome, i used to day dream in school of doing that with orange tic-tacs.... :-D

I just want to open a few Smile era tape boxes and breathe in the oxide tape smell.  The ultimate high!

I want to eat a SMiLE tape!  :lol :lol

The vault is in a tall circular building at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles.  Go to the elevator and follow the signs to studio "A".  When you are sure no one is looking, get the key, which is attached to a magnet behind a small portrait of Frank Sinatra, just to the left of the main entrance.  Entering the room, you'll notice a 50's motif mural on the wall to your left.  Behing the mural is a walk in safe.  There is a combination lock just above the large door handle.  Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to search the internet for those elusive individuals who have visited these dark recesses in the past, and extract the secret combination.  Good luck.  This message will self distruct in five seconds.

it obviously hasn't (yet)

There is, in the Capitol tape room, a box numbered 2580. With a master tape inside it.*

Not anything to do with the BB or BW, of course.  ;D


[* - or there was in March 1985]

Missing tapes?  Al Jardine has them.

"So we went there and got to meet him in his studio. He had Brian Wilson’s piano, and knick-knacks that were really interesting to me, like a Beach Boys flight case with the Brother Records logo on it from 1973, and old reels of tape with the Brother studio logo on it.


http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/index.php?blog=6&p=1015&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

I really like the idea of a secret vault located behind a Frank Sinatra portait.

I like to think that I'll see "the Vault" when I walk into the light at my deathbed...  ;D

The vault is like my dorm room. Hard to walk thorough  :lol :lol

Hey Al! Don't F with the formula! put those priceless artifacts back ASAP! Maybe someday the meek
and eternally patient will be allowed to hear them, as it is written in the BBBible! :-D