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woooooo  ;D

It looks like Gershwin's thinking "Hey, who put my picture here?"

Brian's like "do you believe I have to deal with this?"  ;D

Also, first picture makes it seem like Brian's being attacked by the pass.

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There should be more hilarious Brian/BBs photoshops on this board lol.

Whoa, look at that brooding, intense Brian face!  Reminds me of...

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:lol

There really should be.

I have no artistic skills though. There is the Pet Sounds cover on Cracked.com right now where they photoshopped Al feeding the animals rat poison.  ;D

Anyone have any info on this being just a US tour or will he be coming to Europe

I seem to remember Andrew Doe either saying he wasn't touring Europe or at least wasn't touring England this year.

May want to double check on that but I'm pretty sure he said that here not too long ago.

This may have been in reference to The Beach Boys touring band (Mike & Bruce) who are playing in Europe this year but not in England

Is anyone else annoyed by the VIP pass thing? Seems like the BW people have figured out how to monetize the folks who want to get backstage to meet Brian.

Correct. My current intelligence is, no BB in the mainland UK this year. As for Brian... logic would dictate some kind of visit in the fall to push the new album.

Brian always has a blast here when playing. His European tour last summer was IMO anyway one of his best tours ever.

That's just me. I remember one of the band members writing on the blue board after the Irish show in front of 15 thousand that it was the most fun he ever had.

Would be wise for them to come back.

my favorite photoshop... signed and approved by Brian!
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somewhat poorly executed, but kind of funny
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How 'bout this one?

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So two weeks and no new info yet.

I'd bet a lot of money that the info comes out...2 days after the album gets released  :lol

Brian Wilson knows 2 minutes of the song Rhapsody in Blue on piano and he decided he can do a whole tribute album???

We'll see about this.

Man, you do talk some complete nonsense. In 1985, I sat and watched Brian play "Rhapsody In Blue" on the piano - in full - before segueing into "Cast Your Fate To The Wind", again in full. That took a lot longer than 2 minutes. Plus, he was offered the commission by the Gershwin Estate.

And yeah, we will see about it, in just over two months. I'm willing to wager we'll all be very pleasantly surprised.

PWN'D

: ) Right on. I'm excited for this but I want more info now!

Sense of humor? Internet translation lost.

Must be a Trans-Atlantic thing cos I'm with Andrew!   :D

Firstly, I'll ignore the implied slur on my honesty (for now...). As for not seeing it, it was reported,by me, in the late spring edition of Beach Boys Stomp. We were in Westlake Audio where the 1985 album was being mixed (Bruce invited me down: I was in LA for a week  in late March doing interviews*): Brian was at the piano in one corner of the room, I was sitting in the other corner. Afterwards, we had a nice little chat. And when I met him in 2004 in London, he remembered it - without anyone prompting.

* - since you asked, Steve Kalinich, Jasper Dailey, Chuck Britz, Bruce Johnston, Steve Desper & Van Dyke Parks.

Hi Andrew.

I take it you may be offended by someone calling Brian Wilson "probably able to, but possibly not all that good at playing Rhapsody In Blue on piano". It just sounds unlikely that Brian Wilson, who was constantly with Eugene Landy and being forced to take antipsychotic medication (who also has Tardive dyskinesia as a side effect), was working on the Beach Boys self titled album and gets bored then plays a 15 minute medley of Rhapsody In Blue and Cast Your Fate To The Wind?

Hey, that's pretty cool.

But after reading this paragraph: "Gershwin's great-nephew and estate trustee Todd Gershwin claims that Gershwin left behind "several dozen" fragments in various stages of completion. Wilson's not yet sure what he'll do with all these pieces: "I can't decipher the verse from the chorus from the bridge, so I'm going to try to insert some new music into them. I might even write some music for an introduction." I just can not see this album ever being that good. It's just a cover album. On Disney Records. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/08/entertainment/et-brian-wilson8 (http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/08/entertainment/et-brian-wilson8)

Do people who are looking for the most original, independent, non-corporate music look to Disney Records to provide them with content? In my opinion no self respecting music fan can tolerate this.

"He [Brian Wilson] will follow that [Gershwin cover album] with an album of classic Disney songs, which the artist promises to “Brian-ize” with his trademark vocal stacks and unique arrangements. Release dates for each album have yet to be determined." http://www.brianwilson.com/news/press_gershwin.html (http://www.brianwilson.com/news/press_gershwin.html)




Sorry  if it bugs you Andrew, but I wish you had recorded that piano session in 1985 instead of writing about it in a magazine (that OF COURSE no one saw or knew you reported about) and I wish Brian Wilson would release two albums of material he wrote in the 1980s instead of the two he *cough* wants *cough* (is contractually obligated) to make. 

In the 1960s it was all about making Brian's music, not anyone who writes you a paycheck. Not indie enough Brian Wilson.

Fine. You think it sounds unlikely. I was there. He played it. One of us is obviously wrong.


That was in 2009. I'm guessing Brian worked it all out, as the album is now finished, so what say we wait until we've actually heard it before saying how good it is, or not. Just this crazy idea of mine. Humor me. My guess is that, as we've not heard anything to the contrary, Disney have found what Brian's done acceptable. The Gershwin estate too.


Again, let's see what it sounds like.


I think you'll find that, back then, pretty much the whole BB fan community knew about it... and, yes, I'd love to have recorded it, but although I was allowed to tape Brian giving us a greeting from that year's Stomp convention, the machine (which btw was BBC broadcast standard borrowed from John Tobler) had the batteries removed by Chad, one of Brian's then minders: they were handed back to me as I left. You simply don't walk up to any artist in such a situation and start taping them: as previously stated, I was at that mixing session because I was invited by Bruce, and I wanted to stay there longer than maybe ten minutes. It's very obvious to me that you don't believe me and think I invented the whole episode. Your privilege. Unfortunately, for you, there are three people who can confirm that when we met Brian in his dressing room at the RFH in summer 2004, the first thing he said to me (without prompting) "you're the interview guy, I played 'Rhapsody In Blue' to you back in 1985".

I'm no George Washington, I tell the occasional untruth, but in my BB/BW dealings and writings, I don't do that as in such a closed and increasingly scholarly world, it would soon be found out. So, you carry on believing I'm massaging my ego by inventing the whole thing, and I'll learn to live with the fact that it actually happened.

Hey Andrew, I believe you ;D

Hmm... presume, as you've already made your mind up, that you won't be bothering to give this one a spin then? And that so much of VDP's film score work is second rate cos it was Disney?

Or we could see this and consider the source.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBVRwhxTPk

Then again, Disney probably wouldn't touch it. ::)

Andrew knows what he's talking about it. Deal with it.

Is this from an episode of America's Got Talent?

The idea of Brian "going corporate" or doing albums because of contractual obligations shouldn't be too shocking: the Beach Boys have always been a pop band on a major label and from pretty early on, the idea of commerce has played pretty heavily in interviews. Despite the stories of Brian throwing away money on [whatever], he has always very publicly said he wants commercial and financial success. I'm actually almost as excited about the Disney songs album as the Gershwin album: I think the lack of any pressure to be Brian Wilson may well lead to some really fun, inventive arrangements. Virtually all of my current-music collection is indie, but indie's pretentiousness can suck my dick. Great (non-indie) pop is hugely popular in large part because people like listening to it. That alone makes it entirely valid.

Even Cheryl Cole?

Spot on, Luther.  You've said everything I was thinking.

Nah...just an outtake of Internet's Got No Talent, starring everyone's favorite "self-respecting music fan".

OHHHH, I see.  You're one of 'those' people.  The ones who think they and only they know what good music is. 

I agree with this whole heartedly, it's one of my pet peeves.  Brian's genius isn't just that he made incredibly creative songs, but that in many cases he made those incredibly creative songs incredibly popular.  It's one thing to paint a painting and call it art, it's another to paint a painting and have 10 million people buy a copy of it.

Eric's a good guy. I don't happen to agree with him on this point, but I don't think folks should personally attack him.

There has always been a strain of BW/BB fandom that sees his best work as part of an indie/art rock tradition, and has been a little horrified at his pursuit of mainstream accolades (see Sean O'Hagan's accounts of his time in the bubble). Some of these folks are in his current band.

I believe you wholeheartedly, but it is remarkable that Brian's memory works like this. It's a trait to his advantage.

Ja, and maybe I was a bit harsh, but I take issue when people question the integrity of any of my friends, especially when I know they are telling the truth.

That said, ironically enough I am in the same boat as the group you mentioned; hell, my band is about as far from the mainstream as you can get. I do think that  Brian very well could've had a "better" solo career if he had went that route..an opportunity was definitely missed. However, we must all keep in mind that this very project is something near and dear to Brian's heart, and nobody should be so much of an elitist that they overlook that.

Agreed.