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I know when I've heard certain rare recordings, I've been fooled into thinking of what could have been or what was real or not....this not only touches issues around the Smile era. But I'm talking about the innocent days when you didn't know any better or didn't have this great message board to come (or you were mistakenly on the Blooboard)...When you received (not discussing how were got it) a rarity or some sort of 'foot ware', you may have been fooled like me. I remember, and yes, we all know Landlocked is not a real album, somebody gave me a copy of it and it started with Out in the Country, and I was floored, I thought, this was to part of Surf's Up? Even just a snippet like that on the album would have been suffice for me for some artistic value, of course, we know it didn't come from that era, or so I think. Then it has a section called the Monterrey Saga (includes Lookin Down the Coast, early cut of Big Sur and Santa Ana Winds), and I thought, dang, that woulda been great on Surf's Up, but how young and innocent I was in those days of not know their vocals or production trademarks of what era.

anyone else suffer from this?

Klaatu comes to mind......lots of us with wishful thinking back then, LOL.

good call

i also think of that track: Here Come the Honey Man; where did that track come from?

same with Balboa Nights and a couple of Dennis tunes that weren't even his like Circles and some other titles I can't remember because my ipod is being a bastard right now.

It's a Miles Davis recording.

It had me fooled 25-30 years ago... but once enlightened I bought the Porgy & Bess album. It IS a superb track!  Cheers Peter!

Well, I've just paid £50 on Ebay for a copy of Remember The Zoo

Apparently it comes with some love letters Brian wrote in the 60s

I'll let you know what it's like!!

Jesus, I wish i had that kind of money to throw away....

I wonder how many people 'Here Come De Honey Man' fooled.... For those around for the first bootlegs, did you believe it was Brian?

"There's a sucker born every minute"

No, not for a moment. It just didn't feel right, and the way it panned didn't sit right either - I don't recall a single instance of that in Brian's work up to that date.  Likewise, the "Doves of Peace/New Song" track didn't shout Smile to me when it first emerged, and it wasn't.

Haven't come across this one; thought I had every SMiLE boot (or at least facsimilies of...)!

Otherwise known as "Spanish Guitar instrumental".

Aha - many thanks.  Yes I have this... somewhere...

"fakes you were fooled by"...people or songs?  >:D


Ant-Bee covering the Worms track than having it show up on the ultimate Smile boot of its day was pretty sneaky, and thanks to the internet I think one of the most common Smile questions became "What's with this version of Do You Like Worms?".  But Ant-Bee also covered "Love Is Only Sleeping", one of my favorite Monkees tracks and a hidden gem of a song, so I don't hold a grudge... :)

PS - The "Spanish Guitar" thing sounded more like film studio canned music than a Smile piece, but the mere mention of the word "new" next to "Smile" makes the heart race and common sense goes out the door.

Back when there was naughty Napster, I remember looking for Smile boots. One of them was a very strange track called Do You Dig Worms?. For the longest time, I thought it was a BB cut. Found out later it was recorded by members of the Mothers of Invention (?). I think I first discovered that on this board in fact.

Ant Bee I think

I think I already mentioned that... ;D

I gotta admit, Ant Bee fooled me too, especially since their version of "Worms" showed up on the first *achooboot* that came into my possession.  The Smile Shop (and then Google) set me straight on what that was all about.  They did a pretty decent job on that tune.

The exact opposite once happened to me. I heard Oh Lord back in the Napster days, and I was almost positive that it was not a Brian or Dennis related track.

What is the end result of this track's history? Somehow I missed out and I was hoping it would be discussed in this thread.

Ant Bee got me too!

It was done during Friends sessions in 1968, i believe. It's a Beach Boys production, but I wonder who was running the session - Brian? Carl?

what's the tracklisting?

unreleased/unrecorded albums (http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/unreleased.html)

Or...

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well, i wasn't sure if the record he was buying was any different....really, i hoping to see a link to the product, to see the cover and such

He hasn't got back, because he's just yanking your chain; he didn't buy the LP on ebay, just like he didn't buy the letters.
UNLESS!!  Its a tax-dodge for the seller:  ( the idiot that bought these)     http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=VGKZ
They need a HUGE writeoff, so they're taking a loss on the sale.

I understand the person who bought those, then put them up for auction earlier this year in London, wasn't entirely thrilled to be told they were fakes.  ;D

Funny.  I know these were discussed previously.  It's hard for me to fathom anyone being stoopid enough to have bought these in the first place.
So maybe they tried to sell them on ebay, and all they got was 50 pounds?  Nah, that's too much like dejavu all over again for me...

EVEN I WAS FOOLED!

To be honest, it's hard to tell sarcasim in text...as is any other emotion in text, unless you CAP it.