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Crack the Whip. Teeter Totter Love. When I Get Mad I Play My Drums.  Recorded in Jan and Feb of 1967 with photographer Jasper Dailey.  Anyone ever heard the tapes?  I have never heard or read a thing about these sessions other than the blurb hear and there in session data and Smile narratives.  It would be very interesting to hear what Brian was up to when he was starting to burn out on Smile.  Was this the start of a planned project or just a way to blow off some steam?

Jasper, bless his heart, was a sweet soul... but he'd have been the first to admit, he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.. You think Dick Reynolds' vocals are bad ?  Not even close.  ;D

I guess what a obsessed fanboy like me  ( err... most of us at this message Board) would really like to know is the songs themselves...
do we have anything along the lines of a lost classic here?... ( musically)
or is it tripe, or has the tunes here been recycled by Brian ..

 thing is, with Brian's singing over the last 35 years... its not like Brian' s always singing in tune either... ( "Love You" Demos come to mind..)

I'd be much more interested in a huge coffee-table book of Jasper's studio photography than hearing the productions.

Do any tapes still exist?

Presumably - I know Jasper had acetates.

So AGD, have you actually heard them? Can you tell us a little more about what they sound like, or are you just going to keep teasing us by tossing out jokes about his vocals? You know, you could probably make a fortune if you opened a BB "strip club" were you would reveal mysterious little facts to us about the BBs and we would have to throw money at you to get more information. Of course, you'd never real tell us that much, just enough to keep us on the edge of our seats tossing out hundred dollar bills while you slid around a pole that you took from a fire station. Actually taking off any clothes would be optional, but probably not preferable...

 ??? :o

They're full BW productions, with the Crew. Stephen McParland accurately described Jasper's vocal as "excruciating". Think Mrs. Miller, only with less control of pitch, tone & timing. Jasper himself told me back in '85 that he knew his voice was awful, but Brian insisted.

Oh my Gawd what a quandry: Andrew sliding naked up and down a fireman's pole giving us juicy BBs titbits? Or us never knowing?  I'm torn...
 :lol

Did the music for these songs ever turn up in the BB/BW recordings?

Recycling old or unreleased tunes seems like a near given.

I remember hearing somewhere ( old Smile Shop board, by an anonymous poster, so take it as you will  ::)) that one of the Jasper songs was sort of like 'You're Welcome', with Jasper 'chanting' the lines-which doesn't sound at all like what AGD said they sounded like, which were full-on BW productions.
 Which also brings forth the question: if you were the other BB's, and your record was already late, the record company was getting pissed, and your leader was blowing wads of money recording a photographer who couldn't sing a lick, wouldn't you get pissed off? I know I would.

It'd take a whole lot of TM time not to be royally pissed....and they weren't there yet.

Hell, I'd love to hear the Japser Dailey songs just because they were from the SMiLE era. Those songs could be foisted upon an unsuspecting public as "lost SMiLE tracks"! :lol :lol

I suspect we'll hear them in the fullness of time, just as we've heard something of a glut of previously unprecedented SMiLE stuff since Sea of Tunes started putting it out there, and the fan-only collections Psychedelic Sounds and Secret SMiLE hit the fan community.

Now what I really want to hear is Dennis' "I Don't Know"!

If multi's still exist, and lead sheets too, somebody else should lay down some decent vocal tracks just so this stuff could get heard...have Jasper's vox tacked on as bonus trax...