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I'd love to see some people's collections.

I've only really started buying music of any sort three years ago, so mine's comparitively small.

LPs
Little Deuce Coupe; I think this is a later reissue because it says EMI on it
high water; 70s double LP featuring their 60s hits on sides 1 and 2 and the 1964 concert on 3 and 4
Party!
SMiLE
Smiley Smile and Wild Honey from SimplyVinyl are coming in the mail

CDs
CDR of Pet Sounds; missing Caroline No
CDR of Smile
CDR of Good Timin': Live at Knebworth
Surfin' Safari/Surfin' USA two-fer
Surfer Girl/Shut Down Vol. II two-fer
Smiley Smile/Wild Honey two-fer
Friends/20/20 two-fer
SMiLE
What I Really Want For Christmas
some Christmas compilation (can't recall the title) with Little Saint Nick
CDR of Adult Child coming in the mail
Disney's Beach Party; this is by a different band but was produced by Mark Linett and features Jeff Fosket and Darian Sahanaja on backing vocals -- thought it deserved a mention

DVDs
An American Band/I Just Wasn't Made For These Times

I have over 700 Beach Boys CDs, do I really have to list them all? All the studio albums, all the bootlegged studio material, and over 250 live shows.

If you're ever really bored, you now have a task.

We must talk.

All of the studio LPs on CD
All of the comps (rarities)
most of the best-ofs
All solo albums on CD, save for ML's released efforts
The Flame
Spring
The Honeys disc on CCM
Pet Projects
verious "tribute discs"
All of the SOT's
GoodBye Surfing Hello God
Vigotne SMilE
Project SMiLE
LAndylocked and various Wilson/Paley stuff
Sweet Insanity
BB Journals
Adult Child
landlocked
Merry Xmas From The BB
Lei'd In Hawaii Rehrersals
Leggo My Ego
Capitol Punishment
Dave prokopy's SMiLE tapes
(last 5 on cassette)
Pre-sweetened Knebworth show
live in Philadelphia 1980
Boston 1972
L.A. 1983
BW Carnegie Hall SMiLE
BW SMiLE debut RFH 2/20/04

DVDS and VHS
Endless Harmony
Beautiful Dreamer
American Band /IJWMFTT
BW A & E cadelay
Nashville Sounds
Lost Concert
some of the BB Endless Summer TV shows from' 89
BB 25 Years Together
BW Lost Hotel Tape

Books

David Leaf's
Tim White's
AGD's
both LLVS and Dom's new SMiLE book
Jon Stebbin's Denny bio
H & V
Brian's "auto"cadelay
Basck To The Beach
the Badman book
Chuck Granata's Pet Sounds book
John Tobler's (vastly underrated, IMHO) BB bio
The BB:Words and Pictures
the Byron Preiss book
The BB:Silver Anniversary by John Milward
a few back issues of ESQ and STOMP

various tour merch, including the BB landmark dedication T (with a very nice drawing of the Boys done by Emdeeh)

a few 45's. The one I searched long for was the H & V 45 on Brother (no pic sleeve tho)

some LPs

a BB postcard is on my fridge door

I have a 1975 tour program that came inside a near mint vinyl copy of Endless Summer

I have a 15 Big Ones kite

I have a Warner Brothers 70's promo picture with the Surf's Up-era pics (Brian in jammies and bathrome, of course)

And the prize........

a mono copy of All Summer Long. Why is that special? When I bought it on Ebay in 2000, it had Carl's, Dennis', Mike's and Al's. After Brian's Pet Sounds show in Chicago on July 22, 2000, it  had Brian's signature.  :)

Priceless!  ;D

I have all the official original released albums bar 'Still Cruisin'' and 'Une Saison En Enfer (Summer In Paradise)'  I know my life isn't really complete, is it?

I have all official BW album releases but no other BB solo albums.  I've heard POB but don't rate it.  I've never heard 'Don't Look Back With Love' -  again, my life's bereft.

In a 1995 article in Uncut magazine Bruce Johnston says when asked if he personally possesses every Beach Boys album ever released (and though I am quoting from memory I think it's as near verbatim as doesn't matter):  "Why would I want to own all of those?  Most of them are sh!t!"

Looks like I've already got too many as it is!  :)

Official CDs:
DCC Pet Sounds Gold CD
DCC Endless Summer Gold CD
DCC Spirit Of America Gold CD
DCC Lost & Found 1961-1962
Best Of The Beach Boys
Made In USA
Pastmasters CDs of Little Deuce Coupe, Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, Friends and 20/20
All the Capitol twofers (2001 remasters)
All the Brother era twofers (released in 2000)
Still Crusin'
Summer In Paradise
The GV box set
The PS box set
Endless Harmony soundtrack
Hawthorne, CA
The five Brian Wilson solo albums.

DVDs:
Endless Harmony
American Band / I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Smile

CDRs:
Pacific Ocean Blue, Going Public and Carl's two albums.
The remaining Pastmasters CDs for which I don't have the original discs.
Countless studio bootlegs, including the complete Sea Of Tunes Unsurpassed Masters and Dumb Angel Rarities and all the relevant Smile sources.

(I have most live bootlegs only in MP3 form).

where are these from? what's on them?:
some of the BB Endless Summer TV shows from' 89
BW Lost Hotel Tape

I'm pretty satisfied by my collection. I have basically everything worth having. Nothing left on vinyl or CD to pursue. I'm going to a record show Sunday, but the chances of finding anything new is getting slimmer and slimmer. I think I have just about everthing, although I think there may be some live gigs floating around that I haven't gotten (yet).

I found a video tape of uncut footage of Brian doing interviews and hanging out at his house with Elvis Costello  at last year's show, so you never know.

I'm hoping to find some recordings from last summers US tour.

Well, I do need a copy of "The Wilson Project" book. There's something I need.

170 CD's, seven books, 3 45's, and 25 on vinyl








And a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong way to go.

Long may you run, Katie.

I do not know how the heck I got that many till I counted  :o

"Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now
With those waves singing Caroline no
Rollin’ down that empty ocean road
Gettin’ to the surf on time.

Long may you run.
Long may you run.
Although these changes have come
With your chrome heart shining in the sun
Long may you run"

 ;D

Sounds a like a sweet song.  :)

All I have is the KTSA/BB85 twofer cd.

Is anything else any good?

Check it out, you'll love it. It's by Neil Young.

Cool


I was playing the new Gorillaz CD. Not as good as the last album but BW influnce went up by a hundred  :)

NASCAR is almost as good.

Then get Summer In Paradise/Still Crusin' twofer  ;)

I think Nascar is actually good fun. I like it. Nice to hear "Ole' Betsy" taken out for a spin.

Aside from that, well, the only other mandatory purchase is Al's PT Cruiser CD single. Buy 1,000 of the for only $999.00!

That's about the only good track on there!!

Well, it has a nice cover too.

The cover is false advertising at its finest. I only hear Mike on those tracks.

What else do you need? Mike started the Beach Boys, and wrote all their great songs. I found that out when Mike Love and the Beach Boys guested on Baywatch. Get with it, man.

Of course.

But Messrs Johnston and Marks are pictured and name-checked on the NASCAR cover and both of them cannot be heard on the tracks.

Well, Mike Love didn't use any of the guys on the cover when he made Ol' Pet Sounds!

I'm pretty sure I heard Bruce rustle some paper during Little GTO.

...and what about Brian Wilson '88? Talk about false advertising!

Maybe it's all a conspiracy?



One day we'll wake up and realize it's still 1966  :D

Yep. Everyone knows Landy and Melinda drugged Brian and made him play that ego-drug-bebop music. Thank God for Stan, Rocky and Mike.
Kokomoessence.

I thought I was going to hear Brian playing bass on GIOMH because of the cover! Boy, what a jip!

It's like buying a Rush album and finding out Bob Lizik is standing in for Geddy Lee!

Way to make a bad band worse.

Uh oh....


3...2....1.....

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Do you like worms?

I have these two pairs of Beach Boys' shorts. They are from the 25th Anniversary Sunkist-sponsored tour. One pair is orange and the other is blue. They are both size large and both have a nice BB/Sunkist logo sewn on them.

And that is much, much more information than anyone could possibly care about.

And they're for sale.

And I also have a real Beach Boys' Beach Ball. It's still in the box. I think it's from around the 15 Big Ones era...

I'd kill to find Stack O Tracks and Holland on vinyl. Very hard to find or bid on.  :(

Wha? Holland's easy to find!

The mispressed Holland fetches high prices on eBay.

I don't really own a whole lot of material Beach Boys things.  Just all the twofers, most of the books, a few LPs, and a handful of 45s.

But I do own a deep understanding of the Beach Boys that I feel is somewhat unique.  How's that?

I just saw those on sale at Amazon. If you have a first pressing, that's pretty cool though. The CD is cold and lifeless. IMO.

All BBoys studio albums, all Brian studio albums (burnt/bought for all)
Some Unsurpassed stuff
Sweet Insanity
Wouldn't It Be Nice: Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds"
Endless Harmony DVD and soundtrack
Hawthorne, CA
SMiLE DVD
Some of the 90's acoustic set material
that's all of the audio/video material I believe

Then I have (or got for my friend) a "Kokomo" liscence plate signed by Mike, Bruce and the rest of the band from last year. As well as a signed Pet Sounds with Mike and Bruce's signature on it, and a photo taken with Mike.

um if there's more I'll add later

Acetate.

Nice. A little scratchy, worse for wear, but closer to the source.

I could've added the SMiLE DVD to my collection yesterday, but got my mum "Plant and Page: No Quarter DVD" instead...  I'm still some apprehensions since the Pet Sounds Live DVD rather sucked...  Is Brian much better in the Smile one?

You need it for the documentary alone. The live show is great as well.

LPs (original unless otherwise noted):
Today - duo and mono
Dance, Dance, Dance - Today reissue
Summer Days - mono
Pet Sounds - two mono (neither one in playable condition)
Pet Sounds - purple label "Green Light Series" reissue
SMiLE - SOT 16 bootleg
Smiley Smile - duo and mono
Wild Honey - mono
Friends - two stereo
20/20 - green label stereo reissue
Surf's Up
So Tough - UK single LP
So Tough/Pet Sounds
Holland/Mt. Vernon and Fairway
In Concert
Endless Summer
Spirit of America
15 Big Ones
Love You
MIU
LA
Keepin the Summer Alive
Beach Boys (1985)
Pacific Ocean Blue - Canadian pressing
Carl Wilson
Youngblood
Brian Wilson (1988)
Gettin In Over My Head
SMiLE
What I Really Want for Christmas

CDs:
Concert/Live in London
Christmas
Today/Summer Days
Pet Sounds
Pet Sounds DVD Audio
Smiley Smile/Wild Honey
20/20
Sunflower/Surf's Up
Still Cruisin
Summer In Paradise
Endless Harmony Soundtrack
Hawthorne, CA
Good Vibrations box set
Brian Wilson (1988) - not the one with bonus tracks
Orange Crate Art
Imagination
Live at the Roxy
Gettin In Over My Head
SMiLE

bootleg CDs:
Live:
"Surfin' Over the Airwaves"
??/??/66 - Denmark
02/28/70 - Seattle, WA
05/01/71 - Syracuse, NY - "It's About Time"
09/24/71 - New York, NY
11/23/72 - New York, NY
06/14/74 - Uniondale, NY
1993 tour rehearsals
11/26/93 - Paramount Theatre, NY
Sea of Tunes Discs:
Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 07 - The Alternate Today! Album Vol. 1
Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 08 - The Alternate Today! Album Vol. 2
Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 15 - Good Vibrations Sessions
Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 16 - SMiLE
Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 17 - The SMiLE Sessions
Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 18 - The Alternate Smiley Smile Album
Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 19 - The Alternate Wild Honey Album
SMiLE:
MOK SMiLE
Fast Eddie's version
SMiLE - A STEREO Reconstruction by Purple Chick
Vigatone SMiLE
1988 Mark Linnett Rough Mixes
SMiLE Millenium Edition
Secret SMiLE
Studio:
"Lei'd in Hawaii Rehearsal" (Vigatone)
"Get The Boot" - not the double CD
Dumb Angel Vol. 1-4
"Summer Sounds (and Pet Sessions)" (Invasions Unlimited)
Dennis Wilson:
"Bamboo"
Dumb Angel vol. 14
"Carry Me Home"
Brian Wilson:
"The Hamburger Sessions"
"Sweet Insanity" - unreleased studio album (Invasion Unlimited version)
"Sweet Insanity" - unreleased studio album (Vigitone version)
 c.1976-1995 - "21 Little Ones"
 c.1995 - "Andy Paley Sessions"
03/09/99 - Ann Arbor, MI - "Brian Is Back!"
10/31/99 - Mountain View, CA
06/30/01 - Chicago, IL
07/24/01 - New York, NY
02/20/04 - London, England - SMiLE portion only
02/21/04 - London, England
02/24/04 - London, England
02/26/04 - London, England
03/14/04 - Paris, France
07/27/04 - London, England
10/07/04 - Cleveland, OH
10/12/04 and 10/13/04 - "Creators at Carnegie"
10/18/04 - Melbourne, FL
07/03/05 - Roskilde, Denmark
09/02/05 - Berkeley, CA

DVDs:
American Band/I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Knebworth
On Tour
Beautiful Dreamer
Two Lane Blacktop

VHS:
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times

Books:
SMiLE by Domenic Priore
The Beach Boys and the California Myth by David Leaf
The Beach Boys by Kieth Badman
Heroes and Villains by Steven Gaines
Wouldn't it be Nice by Charles L. Granata

Misc.
SMiLE 2004 Tour Booklet

I believe that's everything, although there could be a couple of things I left out.

"surfin" 45 on the x label with sleeve. mint. bought it for $75.00 in 1982. verified original.
my llvs autographed by tom maule and danny hutton on my wonderful page.

i'll be buried with these along with my beloved jazz bass.

Forgot to add a few things:

A few of the Hite Morgan-era comps (Lost and Found, the Surfin' disc on Varese Sararbande)
a 15 Big Ones acetate (with a letter on NBC stationary promoting the album and the IT'S OK tv special)
Bruce's Going Public on vinyl
Both Celebration albums on vinyl
and the ugly stepchild of my collection:
a mint condition copy of the Many Moods of Murry Wilson. Never had the desire to play the damn thing.

about Many Moods, didnt he do a cover of the BB? like Warmth of the Sun? I'd be interested in that...and isnt there a song on there written or co-written by Al Jardine? 
about Murry's involvement with Sunrays, is any of that good? I've only heard I live for the Sun which was on An American Family which I believe was Jeff Foskett's version. I guess I should buy Jeff's trib/rarities cd. I saw on the tracklisting there's: An American Family theme, what is this?   anyone have the cd?

I haven't played the LP, but someone years ago (before I bought the LP) gave me a tape dub. I listened to it once and put it away.
Yes, Murry does Warmth of the Sun and Al wrote the instrumental "Italia".

Forgot a few: Good Vibrations Box Set, my real introduction to the BBoys (Best Christmas present EVER) after hearing "Surfin'", the first BBoys song I ever heard in the 90's. Pet Sounds Sessions Box, best bday  present ever. City Blues piano demo

I have both box sets as well. I thought it was implied when I said "all studio albums on CD".  I bought the GV box when I was in college - it was a financial choice between that and going to see the BB play at Massey Hall in Toronto(during the "box set tour" of all things!!! man am I still kicking myself over that one!) The PS box was my wife's (who then was my girlfriend) first Christmas present to me.

I only own this one thing and it's better than anything in the Beach Boys entire catalog!
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I saw that in a used record store in KC for the longest time. They priced it at $25-40 range!

I got it for $2. and sent in some Solo plastic cup UPC labels. It's pretty awful, actually.
Should be called "Mike & Dean: Opportunty Whores."

This  was a summer replacement variety show that aired in syndication in '89. The BB had just scored big with Kokomo so their profile was once again, fairly high. It featured then-recent BB concert performances, BB performances on the Universal Soundstage, musical and comedy guests (a then relatively unknown Ellen Degeneres was one such guest). But the highlight of each episode was the "campfire singalongs". The BB, most of their families, their sidemen, and others gathered around a capfire with acoustic guitars playing and singing a la the BB Party album. Pretty sweet stuff! This show was a brainchild of one of the Full House producers who had the good sense to hire Steve Binder to direct the thing. Binder was the guy who directed Elvis' 68 Comeback Special. Now that I think about it, the Campfire jams was probably Binder telling the BB, "I did this sitdown set for the Elvis special----I think it might make for interesting viewing". Alan Boyd included a short clip from this show in ENDLESS HARMONY (the clip of the guys playing "Surfin'")




This was a home video shot at a hotel on an early 90's BB tour. It had Brian, BJ, Jeff Foskett, and John Stamos all around a piano shooting the sh*t and playing tunes. Great fun to watch (even if the quality is crap).

Aside from the usual audio, video, books, and tour programs:

 - The two albums of Beach Boys songs as played by the Hollyridge Strings
 - All of the little die-cast BB cars from circa 1999
 - Framed Frank Holmes Smile litho
 - The Beach Boys Barbie (circa 1988), including the little flexi-disc record with a song by Brian
 - A reel-to-reel tape of Wild Honey
 - An 8-track of Beach Boys Love You, purchased by my dad in 1977 and played only once
 - Smile concert program, signed by everybody except Brian after one of the first Smile UK concerts (thanks, Dan Lega!)
 - An Orange Crate Art poster, signed by Van Dyke Parks
 - A mint Capitol 45 of "Caroline, No" signed by Brian (autograph obtained by me at Brian's M&G at Tower Records in NYC, 7/24/98)
 - And the center of the collection...a battered 8-track tape called Good Vibrations, released in 1971 on the Pickwick label.  Even though it doesn't seem like much, this collection of songs is what showed me that there is more to the Beach Boys than what is on Endless Summer.  I obtained this tape in 1982 when I was 10.

LP's:

All the mono versions, duophonic, and stereo(note, have Surfin' Safari mono with dual Side 1 labels, Concert w/inside pages, Party w/trading cards, Stack-o-Tracks w/booklet, Holland w/Fairytale EP)
All of the comilations(including various diff. colored labels)
Brian's 1 solo album, GIOMH, and SMiLE
Rarities
Endless Summer(Promo)
10 Years of Harmony(Promo)
Made in The USA(Promo)
High Water
GV Best of


45's:
GV
HMR
Surfin' USA
Cal. Girls
Brian's Your Imagination bw/Your Imagination vocals
All 3 colored BW GV 45's

(All records I own are either in mint or near mint. I wont settle for anything less  ;D )

CDs:

All the 1990 2fers and single cds
all the newer 2fers and single cds
Endless Summer
Endless Harmony, both versions
Still Crusin'
SIP
30 Years Boxed set
PS Boxed set
Sounds of Summer
Ultimate Christmas
Hawthorne, CA
BW's SMiLE
BW's WIRWFC
BW's 1st solo
BW's IJWMFTT
Orange Crate Art
BW's Imagination
BW's Live at Roxy
BW's PS Live
BW's GIOMH
Live in Knebworth
The Honeys
Many Moods of Murry Wilson
How To Speak Hip(I know it isnt BB's but I had to get it :D ;D )

Cassette Tapes:
Endless Summer
some 1990's tapes with Surfin' USA to Little Duece Coupe

8-Track Tapes:
Endless Summer
Spirit of America
Today
PS

Reel to Reel Tapes:
PS

DVDS and VHS:
Endless Harmony
Live in Knebworth
Beautiful Dreamer
American Band /IJWMFTT
BW A & E
Lost Concert
Some BB's Now and Then(some show on news ch.)
Misc. shows from around the TV ch's.
Full House and Baywatch episodes

Books:
David Leaf's
Tim White's
LLVS
Brian's so-called autobio
The BB:Silver Anniversary by John Milward

2 Frank Holmes SMiLE Litho's
Lot's of magazines with BB's or BW articles
Tons of BB's/BW pictures taken from concerts/magazines/internet
2 BB's shirts
old style SMiLE shirt and new style
misc. BB's/BW keychains, buttons, programs

That's all I can think of right now. I'm sure that's all of it though.

That's beyond perfect. Congrats.

Wow -- I used to have one of those kites.   They fell apart, and I don't know what happened to them.  Had forgotten all about it.  I do still have a 15 Big Ones Frisbee.

Seems like Brad Elliott claimed a few years ago that Brian co-wrote one of the Murry tunes without credit on the LP.  It might have been "Heartbreak Lane."

Yes, I do remember Brad saying that and I was going to mention it myself in my post, but I couldn't and don't remember the song title.