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Thoughts on this? I actually like the Parisian style editing. Also this is definitely one of the better songs from UTL. Anyone have more info on this track?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnuBJefQv3E

This and "Ram Raj" are the best non Beach Boys songs he's ever done. That's not to put down any of his other efforts though.

I'd add Girl From Imapanema to that list too.

Ipanema is probably the best vocal I've heard from Mike in decades, I really dig that one.

Not that it matters, but just out of curiosity,  are you friends with Noven Jaisi?

If so, there were some lingering questions asked in the other thread where you posted his montage video that some of us are curious about. The date he posted of 2014 regarding his first Mike video and his contacts within Mike's management team, why he never did a Brian or Al or any BB related video except those for Mike, etc.

No I'm not but he is active on Instagram, Let me try and ask him.

Any updates? Just curious.  As we were saying in the other thread, the original reactions back in 2015 seemed stronger than usual to people asking what was going on with that trailer, and Noven's recent posts opened up the timeline issues yet again.

It's also pretty conspicuous how his videos of the BB's focused solely on Mike, just wondering why the lack of anything related to the others.

He's obviously Mike's guy for doing promotional videos. There's no big conspiracy here.

That's not the issue Jay, read the other thread to see what it is before using the same phrase that was used back in October 2015 when Jaisi first appeared.

Mike Love is all about Mike Love. Any "tributes" to any other member of the original BBs is all about Mike Love. The ego that Mike Love possesses is all about Mike Love. Do not be taken in by Mike Love. His sole purpose in life at this stage is all about Mike Love and that he is The Beach Boys and that when people hear and think about The Beach Boys, it will be him they think about most. He cannot accept just being a singer in the band, he wants the complete focus to be on him and him alone. What he totally fails to realize is that will never happen in his lifetime or beyond.  :lol :lol :lol

Well, I thought it was nice last night when Mike remembered Carl and Dennis, and George Harrison. And at the end of Rock & Roll Music, there was a photo of Chuck Berry, 1928-2017. The way people talk around here, it's like Mike would want people to think he wrote Rock & Roll Music.
If I ever had a chance to interview Mike, that's what I'd start with - the influences. So many of the interviewers just want to cover the same old ground - Manson, drugs, Brian's mental health problems, Dennis' early death, etc. I'd enjoy hearing him talk about Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, the RnB stuff that influenced him as a singer.

Meh, even when he isn't asked about drugs or the Wilson's, he's definitely had a tendency to bring up the subject even when it has no relation to the question. Ask him about the Everly Brothers and you'd probably get:

(https://i.imgur.com/igkmBD6.jpg)

Jaisi has not responded to any of my messages. But going by his instagram page he got in touch with Mike in 2014.

Kind of a worn American trope to label Paris as the city of love. Here in Europe it's just a nice capital city. Nothing especially magical about it, nor is it associated with love either.

Indeed. City like many.

Well thank you for trying! That's the impression I got reading Jaisi's own Instagram, since he specifically said 2014 as the date...and named Mike's former agent/manager as his mentor...yet when "Still Tourin" first showed up on YouTube in Fall 2015, people asking about it were called conspiracy theorists, in some cases mocked outright, and some who supposedly "knew" what was going on tried to report something other than what the timeline and other info offered by Noven himself would suggest was the case.

I'm just trying to make sense of it for the record and out of curiosity, and I also didn't like and still don't like people trying to lecture and dictate information to fans that may not be true, not to mention the mocking and name-calling.

So there's that. Maybe it will be clarified some day why if Noven *was* in fact involved or in contact with Mike and or his manager/agent and management in general prior to the Still Tourin video hitting the 'net we were given information suggesting no one knew who Noven was when the video hit YouTube.

This is also referencing it from another thread:


And this is a link to the original thread that started October 29, 2015 when Noven's video first appeared, all 7 (ugly) pages of it...

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,22972.0.html (http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,22972.0.html)

Just trying to figure it out, out of curiosity.