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BETTER HURRY!!!   
 
For only $400 ( limited to 90 persons)
You will meet Brian at Capitol Studios during a wine and hors d'oeuvres reception and then join him for a Playback Session of the album "Pet Sounds" in Studio A; then hear some tracks from his new Capitol Album!!!!


http://www.insideaccess.com/EventDetails/1535

Oh no, they’re not going to pull a “Carl and the Passions” and pair his new album with “Pet Sounds” in a two-disc set, are they?  :lol

Hopefully this means we’ll get the new album, and sooner rather than later. Mid-late October is looking feasible.

Pay him $400. to promote his new album?

Pre-signed Brian Wilson Memento



Please note: This is not an autograph session.



....So you get to hear PS stories, he plays GOK's live then they would refuse a signing of your own Capitol PS album if you asked? Sorry, but they can get stuffed to be honest.

I also note you need a Chase card to purchase.

Its a 'No' from me.

That would actually be kinda neat if it were the CATP mix of Pet Sounds released on CD 

Travelling from Australia to LA and will be there on October 6.....
What to do?

get a  ticket

easy - go.

The day before my 40th birthday. What do you guys say? How about getting this for me?  :P

Maybe you could just walk in backwards pretending you're leaving?

$400 ?

Seriously ??

To hear an album you've already got 47 times, and hear part of something you can get for about $15 in a few weeks ???

To quote The Count from The Boat That Rocked, "well f*** that sideways".

It's on my bucket list to meet Brian, and the window of opportunity closes with every passing year (on both sides), but I don't have a job, won't have a place to live shortly, and couldn't afford to travel even if I DID have an extra $400 that didn't need to go to food or rent. Yeah, gotta pass. Besides, I don't think this scenario would be within Brian's comfort zone, judging by how the meet and greets normally go, and wouldn't want to make him feel uncomfortable.

Maybe one day if I ever DO get to meet him, we'd be in the studio for a different reason. Hey, I can dream, right?

Edited

:lol

Why did you delete your post? I was looking forward to hearing your sons rendition of the Spiderman theme.  :'(

You know, this would be a perfect promotion for Brian, the album and the movie if they were to take away the $400 and make it a fan contest or such. Some form of 'thanks' to his loyal supporters would have been appreciated rather than a money grabbing exercise.

I see this as a fail with a 'Capitol' F by all concerned and just another of a long list of poor decisions by camp BW.

Brian makes his own decisions.

Well Love and Mercy indeed.

What do you want Brian to say? They raised the prices at his deli! Wheatgrass juice is expensive!

I included too much personal information. As a result, someone hacked my iCloud a/c and posted pictures of me naked wearing copies of the Wouldn't It Be Njce/God Only Knows 45 on my nipples.

All I can say is that it's no club  Kokomo

Those were your Nipples??  I thought the photo was taken from the rear

I'm sure this was Brian's idea  ::)

What's with all the negativity regarding this wonderful idea for a promotion by Team Brian/Ca$hpisshole Recordz? How the hell do you all expect B Dubz to buy kibble for his hundred and some odd four legged, tail wagging family?

Looks like a credit card promo, allocating some extra seats for a press event. No biggie.

Exactly.  I got the offer from Chase in an email as a cardholder -- totally independent of my BB/BW fan connection.  They recently did another one where for a similar price you got to play a round of golf with a PGA pro.  It's just a promo person at Chase trying to come up with unique experiences for their cardholders.

Lee

It's Club Kokomo, but instead of bud light you get wine and food, and instead of meeting Mike Love you get to meet Brian Wilson PLUS you get to be smug about hearing tracks on the new album before anyone else!

If I had $400 to spend, I'd do it.

I don't have a Chase card! and Cannot get one.

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FTFY

Yeah, I think Brian heard it before all of us.



At least, I would hope!

find someone who has. (Look up!! :)  )

You could just hang out at that deli he supposedly goes to everyday and meet Brian for free.

and carry a boom box playing Pet Sounds so Brian will think he's already in Capitol A

I hope everybody criticizing this promotion also criticized “Club Kokomo”, and the C50 “VIP” thing, and so on. They’re all decadent, overpriced items that most of us common folk can’t afford, but it’s clearly just a little extra revenue stream for these guys, who have to put in little effort. The VIP packages have a meet and greet, so there’s a bit more effort there. But they already have to do a soundcheck at the gigs, so they’re not putting extra effort in there (notwithstanding the theoretical “adding rarities” to the soundcheck for the fans).

This new idea isn’t the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of or anything. How many of us have been able to watch Brian listen to the entire original “Pet Sounds” album? Sure, he might just veg out. Or maybe we could pick up a slightly unique experience. I’ve heard that sometimes Brian really absorbs listening to the old recordings of he and his brothers and band. It also would be cool to hear some tracks from the new album. It goes without saying that it’s something everybody will be able to buy within weeks perhaps. But what’s the alternative? Play track that *won’t* be released? That would be more aggravating for most fans frankly. I for one am often sort of annoyed when I read descriptions of hearing tracks that we will *never* get to hear ourselves.

It certainly would have been preferable to perhaps run a contest and let 90 fans into this event for free as a pure promo event for the new album. But Mike doesn’t let everyone into “Club Kokomo” for free either. They won’t let me into the soundcheck for free at gigs.

Now, what I *would* try to save up money for is a $400 event where you can sit with Mike and listen together with him to “Smile” and “Sweet Insanity.”

Sold out!

All but 10 bought by ticket brokers, no doubt

round trip ticket to LA, hotel bill, eats and incidentals .....comes to around 2000 us dollars in my estimate.  Approx the amount it cost to go to London to see SMILE.  If I lived in LA, maybe.