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So Runners new screen name (referring to Drip Drop) made me think...what are some other "great" moments regarding to the band's recording sessions. Right now I can think of these:
-Brian telling Al how to sing in "I Know there's an Answer" (BUT WHAT CANN YOU TELLLL THEM)
-Murray at the Rhonda session ("I'm a Genius too you know")
-Rollin' Up to Heaven (The whole thing)

Anyone else got anymore?

Brian asking, "Can you feel the acid yet?"

Brian asking Dennis for hash joints.

"Dance, Dance, Dance" tracking session with Glen Campbell. After Glen makes a few mistakes he says, "Damn it to Hell!" Another musician at the session says, "Brian, should we call Jerry Cole?"  Glen says, "What do you want to call him?"

The entire "Dance, Dance, Dance" vocal session(s).

The Salt Lake City tracking session with Carol Kaye.

Nick Venet telling David he looks like Jesus with the beard.

Chuck Britz asking if Dennis was yelling "Go!" too loud at the intro to Little Honda and Dennis doing it again anyway.

David Wright booting two ground balls and going 0 for 4 at the plate.

.......to name just a few.

Oh. I guffawed sir at your attempt to insult my team   :lol

Brian telling the group to smile during a smiley session is fun, his breaking up during the tracking that day is funny too.
The smog rant
The Chipmunk song.

On a side note, personally I think those comments were deliberate put-ons by Brian. :)

Did you listen to how The Boys were talking during that session? They were ripped to shreds.

Yeah I just listened to that, it was Take 6, pretty funny.

I recall a Smile tracking session (UM17) where Brian says the name of the song is "The Old Master Painter" and there is a muffled response
then Carol asks what did he say and next everybody is laughing out loud -- I think I know the gist of the joke, anybody know who made it?

The Brian farts into the mic/piano Smile outtake

I don't think so.

Question: "Hey Chuck is it possible we could bring a horse in here if we don't screw anything up?"

Reply: "I beg your pardon?"

Brian's airplane sounds on Sail Plane Song.
TWO WORDS: MY SOLUTION
When we FINALLY found out what that noise was on Wake The World (first thought to be a music stand…then we found out it was Brian using the window shades for a sound effect.

Al's response to Brian's question was "I feel great." He seemed to be feeling it  :brian

A man waiting for a bus on LSD?

And then there was "the most incredible guy I ever met in my life...Dick Rising...."

Turns out Dick Rising is an actual, poorly named person.

How about Brian asking the guys if they sounded like a fake version of the Bee Gee's during the Goin' On session?  :lol

i do like cassius 'Love' vrs sonny 'Wilson'......... kind of ironic that they share a similar feud in real life...

this probably falls into another category, in the imagination video, Brian is laying down all parts to 'cal girls'....

I think its joe Thomas who says 'brian, you sound just like the beach boys'......brian says 'I know'....... So Brian!

Rick Bartlett

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Without checking, I'm pretty sure that was Carl - not Al.

Actually, Dick Rising, according to all who knew him at Capitol Records and in his personal life, was very well liked. He was murdered in his own apartment in Hollywood by a couple of low-life punks in 1974. He worked at MGM and Capitol for 23 years as an A&R and promotions man, and had a wife and two daughters.

Cavanagh (1993, p. 55) includes a transcript of the Prayer session, citing Al as the person responding to Brian's question.



Cavanagh, D. (1993).  The smile file. Glebe: PTP Productions.

I think we're very lucky that stuff wasn't cut out. I guess since it's from Smile Mike can now justify it as an 'acid album' and say "see? what did I tell ya!"

"Syncopate? In front of all these people?"- Al Jardine

"Hey, would you take off that hat? You look like George Washington" I think that was Brian

After all these years I never knew that.  It seemed so much in the line of their "Hawthorne" humor.

Okay -- the line in "Drive-in", "Remember only you can prevent forest fires."  As I recall back in the day Smokey the Bear's tag line was invoked to imply that guys should use "rubbers" or bear  the consequences.  So to speak.

I like Brian's line at the I Wanna Be Around session on the box set. The band is playing some jazz music and at the end, Brian jokingly says, "All right, you got that out of your systems now?" and everyone laughs.

Can't Stop Talking About American Girls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yC6xwlyMzY

yes these are Mikes best vocals,,,it's totally on key so I don't understand why it isn't on MIC...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xN9DYMPngs

During Mike's monologue over Heroes and Villains for the Hawaii rehearsals, you can hear Brian sing "I've been eatin' so much p**sy."

Jeez, that's horrendous. :lol

The cough in Wendy

Brian saying 'Top please (?) ' in Here Today

'Now it sounds like jewelry' Brian in Surfs Up (?) sessions

The uncomfortable seat joke by Mike (Live in London)

1976 'I'm Bugged at My Old Man' with 3 brothers, moment when Brian coughs, and they start laughing. :)

. . while the actual highlight from that 'session' is Denny's "blew his daaaad". ;D

Yes that too!

"This is an example of a Motown A&R man - 'Alright Baby's, Now if everybody gets it on the first take everybody gets some c*ck'". No idea who says it but - I Know There's An Answer (1st Vocal Insert Attempts By Al)

The whole session is great actually.

"This is an example of a Motown A&R man - 'Alright Baby's, Now if everybody gets it on the first take everybody gets some c*ck'"...and a little pot. No idea who says it (sounds like Mike) but - I Know There's An Answer (1st Vocal Insert Attempts By Al)

Another Brian, Al and Mike situation, like Honda 55 and Girls On The Beach (early version).

"Somebody bring me a dildo and a vibrator," says Mike Love as the band embark on yet another take of ‘Heroes and Villains’.

"Somebody bring Mike a bag of money," replies Carl.

Please, cut it down on referring to Al like that. Show some respect to one of the greatest singers ever.

As to the Wrightfan's topic, I'll nominate the recent MIC inclusion, There's No Other, as the funniest studio chatter I happened to hear.

OT question - Wrightfan, why you changed your old avatar? It was so charming, with some funny gzel toy. The current picture is boring, that guy looks like a weirdo & a loser. No offense, just my humble aesthetic opinion.

Ah, yes! Always makes me laugh a bit hah.


Jewelry as in "A diamond necklace played the pawn..."  I hadn't realized how thoughtful Brian was to SMiLE's lyrics until I heard this session take and made the connection.  :)

Can't believe no-one's mentioned the flat-out all-time undisputed BB in the studio moment - the 'session' for the tag of "All I Want To Do".  :bow :thud :ahh

Also, Brian asking Carol to "whack off on your bass"... much hilarity ensued.

Late but in-time response: I love America & am very interested in its culture, but baseball is the last thing I'd be all ears about. I once tried to watch this game on TV & didn't get anything from it. Still, thank you for the info, Mikie. I'll use this knowledge for crosswords.

I used to have this somewhere. Is that take still out there? I would love to hear it again.

Where can I hear the 'Whack off' quote?

Salt Lake City sessions, Sea Of Tunes Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 9, Disc 2.

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5xuqh4Q6w

and

Wasn't it released on the Hawthorne CA. CD as "Salt Lake City (session highlights)" ?

Yes.

if it isn't already, "I'll use this knowledge for crosswords" needs to become a recurring catchphrase.

The "Banana & Louie" session is pretty interesting. Listen to it or you won't get your Batman ring!

One thing that's odd to me is that Brian seems to be in a rather and uncharacteristically tetchy mood on the first (Pet Sounds era) Good Vibrations session.