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As opposed to straight "Concert" Posters.  

Thanks bgas, colossal stuff!

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Thanxx for keeping it on!  I don't have the IJWMFTT poster( that I can recall)  

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Love this stuff. Thanks for posting !!

So cool, bgas  8)

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MAN!!  All your stuff is framed!!  Do you keep them displayed?  Almost all my stuff is stored( except when I take it out to show, like here)

Many of the posters are framed behind non-reflective glass, although the one promoting 'An American Band' is still rolled up; that's a darn big poster!

The IJWMFTT poster is actually wood mounted. It literaaly stopped me in my tracks when I saw it displayed in a long-gone record store.

Yeah, I've got the American Band poster, but it came folded; I'll have to dig that one out.

huh?

Nice, very nice!

A poster which folded out to reveal those much loved CDs of the original Capitol albums, sans bonus tracks and liners.

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I am jealous of you all.

That's Ya'll  ;D

this was for the in concert lp

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Hmmm, interesting.

a tidal wave

1969 OK

OMG, great items of beauty and rarity, bgas!

Thanks so much for sharing (hoping you'll continue to do so).

May I continue...

Promotional flyer for the box set, 4 sides

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Standee for same
 
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Standee for 2fers and double play cassettes! Circa 1990

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speaking of the GV box

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Dutch Pet Sounds BOX flyer (both sides)

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badge

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Cool stuff, SMiLE-Holland!

My pleasure (and it's really nice to see you adding some goodies as well)

Let me continue with some Dutch promomaterial

Dutch postcard from the mid 60ies
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Standee for an early 70ies Dutch compilation album. As there were 4 volumes of this Story reissue, I expect that there were more of these standees, but I’ve never seen them.
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To compare size: left is the album, right is the standee
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The Dutch Singles Collection CD promo material (1998). I also had a huge poster of this album, but I gave that one away to a British collector during my stay there in 2004 (BWPS concert)

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Oh boy, talk about taste when you gotta sell your new album with Cocoa Butter or promote your concerts with lower fat margarine....
Fascinating reminders of the time the Beach Boys reached an absolute lowpoint.
Thanks for posting !

Remember that Brother Entertainment did not have the distribution and marketing resources of Capitol, Warner's or CBS. A perfect way to let the public know that you have new product, while also getting paid to do so. Seems like a good business decision to me.

Sure but c'mon, we are talking about the Beach Boys and lower fat margarine. There must've been more tasteful ways to promote your stuff

The cruise was for the margarine, the soap was the for the CD. Nothing like being beachy clean during Summer In Paradise. ;)

Seems like the soap would be a good idea. Would feel dirty if I had actually bought Summer In Paradise...

I must be filthy, then. I actually like about half the tunes on that album.

I also do like to listen to it from time to time.

OK, Listen!! 
If you guys are going to go all crazy here, I'll have to stop putting up pictures.
Listen to SIP, are ya Nuts??

I keep seeing people write here that so and so could sing the phonebook and it would sound great. Well, I kind of look at SIP in the same way. Maybe not the best songs in their catalog, but most of the singing is pretty darn good, especially Al. As with quite a few of their later albums, performance outweighed composition.

You guys have some terrific stuff. Thank you very much for sharing it here.

i want to say thanks for posting this stuff. i had a lot of stuff also but lost it in a blink of an eye. nice to see it again in scan form.
i say share this stuff with others while you have it. one never knows......

i have scans of lots of magazine articles and stuff. luckily i had scanned those before the loss. i would be happy to share it if one wants it but i'm not sure about copyrighted stuff on this board.
just let me know........

Thanxx Steve; As for me, you're one of the reasons I'm posting this stuff, you might say. or your spirit-sense, so to speak. An all-around sharing .  I've got an immense collection, paralleling what I imagine yours was. ( between my posts here and the concert posters thread)

it was a big collection.. lol

but again, thank you. nice to see certain things again and it makes me remember how i got mine.

We might as well start a library section on this board.  :)

thanks smile holland (and you know for what...  ;)  )

just let me know....

I won't have to re-post anything, will I?

Nope, if there were to be a new sub-section, I'd simply move this topic (and the Concert posters as well) to that new section. No worries.

in the mean while: a last addition before I go to bed...

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You go to sleep early!!  It's only 3PM....

I'd like that very much. As you know we have something like that on the german Cal. Dreamin'-board.

Steve, magazine articles would be cool  :)

10 PM here, which still is early (for me), but I have to get up at 5AM (which is now half an hour ago).

Stars & Stripes promo material

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not promotional posters per se, but these early 70ies posters are nice enough to share

poster from the Dutch Popfoto magazine, 1970

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and another one, also Popfoto magazine (either 1970 or 1971)

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and lastly, a poster from the Dutch mag Muziek Parade, 1971

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I guess everyone that owns the Flame album knows that there's a huge poster inside, right?

For those who didn't:

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back to promotional stuff: bumper stickers (which one would receive yearly after renewing your subscription on the BBFC newsletter)

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(Dutch) promotional poster for the California Gold album

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No clue from which magazine I got this from, but it's a Dutch add for a Californian company that delivers/delivered computer equipment.

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Did they only do this for three years?

 
 I guess that's probably an early IBM laptop they're carrying...

I have several duplicates of most of these, so I assume it was more than three years. Just checked the archives. It seems that I was a member of BBFC for 8 years. And with every renewal one would receive a sticker and a badge (and a membership card). Still had them - well hidden - in a map somewhere.


they sure made some progress since then...

here's some of the badges that one would receive with every renewal of the BBFC membership

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O, and one could buy all kinds of merchandise at the BBFC at the time. And - Why? No idea! - I even ordered a few things (gotta love those trendy colours  ;D ...I guess I was a bit too overenthousiastic with collecting... even bought a SIP T-shirt)

can cooler
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hip bag
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cap
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Wish I HAD bought that stuff!  The things a collection is made of. 

the prom

You guys need to post more buttons - there's quite a bit more - for POB and Brian's albums too.

The Making of Holland book. Back in early '73 there was a stack of them on the front counter at Record Facory. Or was it Tower, I don't remember. I asked the guy if they were freebies - he said, "Yeah, take one"!  So I grabbed a handful and he didn't say anything. I shoulda grabbed the whole stack of them!

Awesome, thanks a lot for the heads up, Mikie!

Midnight, if you right click on each page with the mouse and "save as" to your desktop, the whole booklet can be read just fine.

Or just have Mikie send you one; he's got a handful of them!  ( but he has really small hands....)

You need to quit living so precariously thru the rest of us; get sum gumption and tell blanca that you need to live a little too! then open up the storage locker, wipe away the cobwebs, and post some pics of the goodies you have stashed away.
 

Say, I know...  

You're missing a few buttons, but you have a couple I don't have too. Do you have the Honeys box set to go with that Honeys button? And the tour program to go with the Caesars Palace button? And the Getcha Back bumper sticker to go with the others there? And the Beach Boys license plate frame, and the....and the....and the.....it never ends.

I never did pick up the surfboard pin promo for the '93 box set. Always wanted that - I've seen it on Ebay (among other things) a few times but didn't bother. And the sunglasses that went with Stars & Stripes.

Anybody reading this (5 people) have a Salt Lake City/Amusement Parks USA promo 45 for sale? I'll bet Smile-Holland has one.

I do have one, but I can't remember putting it up for sale...  :)

found one more pin in my collection: (measures 3 - 4,5 cm's = 1.2 - 1.8 inches)

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Totally forgot about that one (I have it as well). Good one!

Where's the pics of your buttons??  and all the stuff you ask about.
After I give you this link, I'm boycotting your questions and starting a campaign. 
Salt Lake City on ebay, minimum bid $29.99: 
http://cgi.ebay.com/BEACH-BOYS-Salt-Lake-City-RARE-PROMO-ONLY-45-1965-/140543441317?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item20b90ab9a5

The campaign: everybody get together and please don't post anything Mikie mentions, until he becomes one with us, and posts some pictures.

Coincidently, I have that same pin sitting about 10 feet from me as we speak! Can't even remember where I got it.

The seller told me it was from the 15BO era.

That was a smelly time

Waiting For Mikie, or someone like him;

That last one is a real treat, bgas.

I'll look up some more promotional items later this week.

Couple mo  

Pet Sounds Box promotional sheets / photo's

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German promo flyer (front and back) for the BW at The Roxy CD. Got these at a German CD shop, in Hamburg prior to the Brian Wilson presents Pet Sounds concert on January 22nd 2002

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BWPS UK concert poster

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and a promo poster for the CD, which I got from my local CD shop.

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Imagination promotional booklet.

You’ll notice a few strange scans, as if these were added double. Not true. The 3rd / 4th and 17th / 18th page are transparant.

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Exceeded bandwith... o dear.... it seems that Photobucket ain't your best friend right now, bgas.

Yeah, I posted in Concerts...  the limit is 10 GB per month. Not certain if that means 10 new GB every month or total. Anyway, the current pics are "supposed" to come back live on the 16th, which is Monday, so we'll see.  If the 10 GB is total, then I need to find another free storage site. Suggestions?  

weird, cuz I checked my account there after the last upload and I was still short of their limit; probably a lag in their updating my account.  Too bad, I was planning on some more stuff today...

I use www.tinypic.com but there are plenty other possibilities ...

Such as? 
Tinypic is owned and operated by Photobucket( where I hangs my hat) Suppose I can try using it and see if that upsets the cart; but I don't want to lose all the pics I have on the bucket...

if you google search terms such as "sharing pictures" or "uploading pictures" you'll get a whole bunch of websites that offer this service. One might have to take a membership for some of them. I just picked the first one for which that wasn't necessary.

Thanxx. remind me to try this if I get booted again; for now, I'm live. Yippee!!

Tower Records had a huge box of free Holland books next to the exit at the front door.  I only took two, convinced that I needed to leave the rest of them for others to discover that The Beach Boys were still making great music in 1973.

Wow, the Beach Boys on Pocket Discs.  I had totally forgotten about that format.  Basically a smaller and round implementation of the usually square shaped Eva Tone Flexi Discs that could be sent in the mail and were sometimes bound into magazines like Mad.

I recall seeing Pocket Discs around somewhere back in the day, but where were they sold?  And what did they cost?  Seems like some Pocket Discs may have even been freebies somewhere, like in a cereal box.  I do recall that such discs had a ton of surface noise when you played them. 

First bgas posts photos of the BBs on PlayTapes, and now Pocket Discs.  Could there possibly be some other rare format that BB stuff was released on?  As far as more modern but defunct formats are concerned, I don't recall the BBs were ever being released on DAT or MiniDisc, which probably means that bgas has a bunch of such releases in his collection.

Thanxx!  Wish there was some other formats, cuz I'd sure like to have them...  They did make it to Minidisc with The Absolute Best Vol. 1: 

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Hah!  I should have known you'd probably have a BBs MiniDisc or DAT, even though I rather doubted any had ever been made.  (DAT and MD are/were both great digital recording formats.  But I only bought blank tapes/discs for both formats, although a Springsteen MiniDisc came with one of my MD recorders and a Colors of Jazz six pack came with one of my DAT recorders.)

Getting back to the Pocket Discs, do you have any idea where were they sold and how much they cost?   They were probably considerably more popular than prerecorded MDs or DATs (which isn't necessarily saying much from a sales standpoint) and did have the advantage of being able to play them on a regular record player, but I'm still thinking that not many of them were sold.  Had PlayTapes disappeared from the market when Pocket Discs were introduced, or was there an overlap of both formats being available at the same time?

All good questions, of which I mostly don't know. The Pocket discs were available via Americom( the manufacturer) vending machines and came in a generic Pocket Disc sleeve. The sleeves are somewhat rare also( I don't have any) as they were simple covers without writing, other than maybe the manufacturer's name, so most were  evidently trashed.  I think Playtapes and Pocket discs were available at the same time.
 Huh! Here's probably all you need to know about Pocket discs( except for all the BBs listings):  http://www.rarebeatles.com/photospg/flexiad.htm
  I take that back; THIS is really cool!     http://wn.com/1969_Americom_ABC_Records_Music_Swinger_Pocket_Disc_Record_Player   
 Be really neat to find one of these babies...

The American Band docu was not only released on video (and later on DVD), but also on Laserdisc.

So too was Endless Harmony and 25 Years Together.

... and "Pet Sounds", at least over here in Europe (Capitol C8 07777 48421 8 1).

1990 promotional sheets I received when I ordered Ed Wincentsen's book "Denny Remembered.

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A Beach Boys Cafe napkin !

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2007 Best Of The Beach Boys CD + frisbee. Scan is a bit unclear, but it's actually a light blue frisbee

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That's cool. Never knew they made a frisbee for that.
Best Frisbees I've seen are the home-made ones done with copies of Lokking back With Love

Very cool, Smile Holland.

I decided I'd better deliver some better quality pictures  :)

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ahh, that is a cool promo!  Is that two CDs?

Of course it's 2 CD's! But you don't collect CD's, do you Bgas?

Cool promo! The only frisbee I have is the one for 15 Big Ones.

It´s one CD and a round paper inlay. And to be exact: this isn´t a promo item. The frisbee + CD was on sale at TCHIBO coffee shops in Germany.

A coffee shop. No wonder we haven't seen them in the U.S. Starbucks should put something out like this. Here's what they looked like bagged:

http://sonic.net/~dsktracy/bbstuff/Miscellaneous/pages/2007%20frisbee%20with%20CD%20from%20EMI%20Germany.html

By the way, did I mention there are 4 ft. x 4 ft. promo posters for "Love You" (with stryrofoam/paper backing & 4 metal ring holes) in addition to the L.A. Light and Keepin' The Summer Alive albums? Don't think there was a 4 x 4 made for MIU though.

I thought that might be the case, but so hard to tell from the pic. Have to keep my eyes open on Ebay for the darn thing; even tho I no longer collect CDs, the frisbee is cool and it's a nice package!  If only I had been in a TCHIBO when this was on sale!

from a 1982 issue of billboard

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Can't remember seeing

40" x 27" poster of An American Band:

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36" x 23-1/2" poster:

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Funny!!  I was just looking thru stuff today ( for a different poster) and came across two folded copies of "An American Band".  Fairly certain  I have the other one also, but there's SO many tubes to check.( I have almost nothing on the walls)
Thanxx for posting these!!   

No worries, I finally got around to carefully removing them from their tubes and photographing them. Must add them to my inventory database (an ongoing project).

Oddly enough, the second poster was advertised as a 1981 CBS promo poster by the seller.