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Hey now, pixletwin, he said it would be ready for Christmas....


What we didn't know is it would be Christmas 2045!

Nah, jk. We love you c-man, and whenever the thing's ready most of us will be all over it.

Pix, don't bug C-man.  He's busy working on the 'Carl & The Passions So Tough' sessions.

[Cohen]I don't think we're ever going to see it[/Cohen]

"As I sit and close my eyes, there's peace in my mind, and I'm hoping that you'll find it, too".
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The MIC online sessionogrpahy (with accompanying track-by-track essays) is inching toward completion. To be exact, here is what's finished as of now:
INTRODUCTION: the band history/backstory
DISC ONE: track credits, two/thirds of the essays
DISC TWO: track credits, one half of the essays
DISC THREE: track credits, all of the essays
DISC FOUR: track credits, one fourth of the essays
DISC FIVE: track credits
DISC SIX: track credits

Most likely, the introduction & Disc One credits/essays will go online first, followed by those for each succeeding disc, on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. To coincide with the posting of the Disc Two credits/essays, I plan to also post a sessionorgraphy for Disc One of The SMiLE Sessions, as many people have asked for this, and it was more-or-less promised back at the time of that set's release.

I have NO DOUBT that everyone who reads the finished product will consider the wait well worth it! Many questions will be answered, and a few long-held assumptions will be refuted. Along the way, there are many, many surprises awaiting for hardcore Beach Boys fans. This will pretty much be the definitive, be-all-and-end-all account of the creation of these timeless recordings, as most everything that is known will be included. It will be the equivalent of Mark Lewisohn's Beatles session book, combined with my SMiLE Sessions credits approach, applied in a track-by-track fashion to the MIC box set. And I hope everyone has as much fun reading it as I have preparing it!

I don't understand the constant asking him about the sessionography as if he forgot about the project and this will remind him and get him to finish it. He will obviously notify us when it is finished, as i'm sure he's just as eager as everyone else to get it out.

Great news C-man!  Thanks for all your work!  ;D

Soon as its published I'll be asking for a re-pressing of the Disc 3 track credits and essays to accompany my re-pressed Disc 3. I have it on good authority that the essay on Surf's Up is missing the last full-stop and paragraph mark…

Thanks c-man for being so agreeable by answering in various threads what must be a lot of annoying pestering questions.  :lol

I know smilers are asking  about it in this thread or that thread. I figured it would be easier to have it in one visible place.

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No annoyance felt, whatsover. I completely understand people's interest...belive me, I want it done as much as the next person! :)

Very cool! Are you writing all of the essays?

Yes, indeed. I've been very fortunate to have been supplied a ton of great information from Alan Boyd and Mark Linett, along with other sources. Taking that raw information, adding the relevant historical perspective, and converting it into essays is what's taking so dad-blamed long.

That sounds killer. Hopefully it covers their whole career and not just the (comparative) sampling on MIC! Maybe that's asking a bit much...

At this time, just the MIC tracks are covered in-depth.

Really looking to this treat, thanks for the update, c-man! Happy to paypal you a coffee should you be burning the midnight oil!

Thanks - I might just take you up on that!

Fair enough! Looking forward to it!

I sincerely hope it'll be better than that, as Lewishon has admitted since the first edition that some of his statements of fact were actually assumptions on his part which later proved to be unfounded, if not actually misleading.

Hmm...wasn't aware of that...are these admissions of his available somewhere online? I would at least hope he got the dates, locations, engineers' names & track info right, from reliable sources!

Any news?

I'm particularly curios about the track "Why?". It just sounds to, well, good to be a late 1970's recording.

It's coming...trust me, this isn't one of those things that you hear about, but it never happens. It's gonna happen. Soon. Like, this month-ish. :)

It's an MIU outtake, no question about it.

I remember reading an interview with some Beach Boys associate (Munoz?) saying how Brian was creating stuff like this at the time, but didn't use  any of it - then we had the inevitable charges from some correspondents implying that Munoz (or whoever) was making this up to suggest Brian was more in control of his faculties than he actually was...

Regarding the Smile sessions c-man, I'm still itching to know where the Child Is Father To The Man chorus acetate was discovered / sourced from.

That would be cool…

And still it continues...

It's a great track and would've been the best thing on the album by far - but it would'e stuck out like a sore thumb in the way My Diane does.

Thanks man!

You can take your time until after the soccer world cup, I wouldn't have time to study it before that anyway. :-D

So, I've got another month, then? Awesome! :)

I was thinking about the sessionography too c-man. I seriously can not wait!!! When it is up within the month is it gonna be the whole thing?

Gee, can you wait at least a month, maybe two or three?  I won't be able to get to it before then....

I wish! Nope, it'll be a lengthy forward piece and the sessionography plus essays for all the tracks on Disc One. More to follow throughout the summer. It's gonna be a GREAT summer!

Not for me. I can see major renovations at 10452.  :old

Definitely looking forward to it.

Any updates which you can share? :)

Yes...Volume One has gotten the overall approval from Mr. Boyd...just some minor adjustments to make, which will be done as soon as I've completed ANOTHER Beach Boys-related sessionography project that's suddenly come up...and then the two things have to be formatted, graphics added, etc., before the big unveilings... 

Hope you've been given the info for a NPP sessionography… that might well be the hardest of them all to collate (after TWGMTR!)

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Bedroom tapes, bitches 8)

Nah, seriously, excited to hear what this may be ^_^

"Volume I" you say? This may be an even heartier read than I was anticipating. I better wear my bib. :D

Any chances we will see this released before Christmas?

Preferably Christmas of 2014? :)

Can someone give me some info on what this is all about?  It's the first I've heard of this.

its the sessionography companion to Made In California.  :)

Thanks!  Should be very interesting. 

C-man, any news about it?

Stay tuned...

I've tuned out. It will happen when it happens. I've stopped anticipating, if you know what I mean.

C'mon, guys. It's only been two years.

Hey guys,

Just wondering any news on c-man’s sessionography?

Well, his Friends sessionography just got released as part of the latest issue of ESQ... I just ordered mine...

Craig's sessionography contributions are a highlight of the ESQ fanzines and currently the best way to access his wealth of information. It's interesting to compare his 2018 Friends sessionography with the one he prepared for ESQ 10 years ago.