Whoa..wait a minute...he re-made DWB for GIOMH?

I can hear his voice crack on that note though. I think it is doubled with someone else, though (Marilyn or Diane), but I still hear Brian on that high part. The voice cracking gives it away.

What did that alternate intro sound like?

I just listened to it again...talking about during the chorus. I think it's Brian.

Top of my list is California Feeling from 1974 and Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again.

Release those two officially and I will die a happy man.

Those & Lucy Jones, for me. I've been dying to hear them.

Any song that Brian and Stanley Shapiro wrote new lyrics to in the early 70s (there was a third guy too I recall, but I've forgotten his name)

Tandyn Almer.

Medication is a two edged sword.  Anyone who has used something as common as zoloft or prozac knows there is a blunting of range of emotion.....the person may be less miserable in a way but they sometimes loose their edge, their sparkle.  Some choose not to take it for that reason.

That's why I stopped taking my meds some years back.

sh*t, I love both.

Three, the high parts are all backgrounds, and are multitracked even more ridiculously than the leads. Again, it isn't to say he isn't hitting the notes, but a group of 10 voices kind-of hitting a part comes through more impressively than one voice slightly missing.

I distincitly recall AGD saying a long time back that Brian's BVs for Imagination were doubled about 6 times (sorry if I don't remember this exactly AGD!), and as Brian does 4 or 5 part harmonies constantly, as well as doing inserts like crazy (stuff like "Runnin', runnin' runnin'" or "dit dits"), it really adds up. Someone posted on the vocals only mix of "Your Imagination" on Youtube that he's singing 72 different parts. While he didn't have a source credited, I can certainly believe it.

Not 72 different parts.. there's not enough harmonic variations for that.

Hm I didn't know he did the patch.

Yeah, he mentioned it in an interview promoting IJWMFTT.

1994,via the patch.

That is Brian. From 1978 I think.

Brian does the intro, Al the rest.

Also, notice how part of it jacked from Winter Symphony.

May 1965:

From 11 Oct 1990:



From 1995:


From the Landy era:

Carl looks mentally handicapped, Dennis looks like a zombie Jesus, Al looks like a pedophile, Mike looks like a Meth dealer, and Bruce...no  comment.

[although more are on the way.]

I still consider Endless Harmony to be the best BB's documentary, although more are on the way.

[/b] Really? Tell us more!

Personally I believe his voice is just about where it should naturally be at his age. I really do believe it recovered nicely and sounds like "Brian". My ONE problem with his current day vocals or singing is I believe their is no more emotion in his voice when he sings. It's devoid of emotion in almost any way. Go back and listen to his original vocals on "Surf's Up" and then anything from the last few years. Emotion is gone. Yes, it SOUNDS like a modern day Brian's voice should--Just the vocals ring cold to my ears.

Regards,
Cal aka "Beatle Bob"

I personally disagree. I think he's singing with more emotion now in 2009 (well, in 2008) than he has since the Paley Sessions. Only problem is his vocal range has deteriorated to the point where he has about as much range as Dennis did on POB (range-wise, not timbre!).

I think we'd be lucky to still have the 1976 version of Brian around. Watch the Lorne Michaels produced Its OK TV special, in those interviews from his bed, or the other interviews in that time period its so obvious that Brian was still present. The difference between those days and now are huge. he was probably still 80% or more there. Admittedly he was overweight and very troubled, but today the Brian we have is much much less present and much less Brian...I'd say he's operating at 60 % on his good days in comparison to '76. Don't take my word. Look at a filmed interview from '76 and look at one from the last 10 years. In '76 he was nervous, weird and unhealthy...but he's there...he's present.  Now he's completely on auto-pilot most of the time, maybe he's healthier physically, he's still nervous and wierd...but the guy that used to be Brian is diminished, partial, vacant. Anybody who thinks he's more "back" now than he was in '76 is fooling themselves. And I agree with SJS that the songs he wrote in '76/77 were closer in spirit to the real Brian than most things since. I guess that's the last time we weren't receiving Brian's offerings through a giant filter.

That is some hardcore truth .

To be honest, DWB aside, Brian's vocals weren't that bad. Hell, on GOK he sounded better than he does these days on it.

I half-agree with you. KTSA was the end of them doing rock, but BB85 was their last non-oldie band album (with a couple of exceptions), as it tried to swing too far the other way.

I think it's a mistake.  With this last "Brian's Back" campaign that began in 1998, they've positioned Brian to the general public as if he was the same guy he was around Today/SD&SN, when many of the diehards rather he be built up as the quirky guy who put out quirky, Love You-style music.

Me, I'm just the opposite. I can't listen to mono at all,as it just sounds muddy & flat....except for "I'm Waiting for the Day", which IMHO sounds 1000x better mono than in stereo.

..in the 2004 SMiLE cd booklet, there were pictures of 2004 Brian doing crazy things like throwing vegetables and jumping and swimming like all those pictures from 66/67.. that would be cool!

okay.. maybe i'm a bit baked here..

That reminds me, the other day I was feelin' on the same level as you must be on now, and I remarked to my wife "It'd be funny as hell if they did publicity pictures where Brian was reenacting different covers from the BB history", and for some reason the idea of 2009 vintage Brian in a snow globe surrounded by penguins like KTSA really split my merda.



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weird...the topic locked itself. I just unlocked it.

...besides the fact that I don't have the disc anymore, so there is no way for me to read the liners.

PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN  1973 BEACH BOYS CONCERT PICTURES (&  new article)

Check out the BACK THOUGH THE OPERA GLASS website (www.pipeline-operaglass.moonfruit.com) for some EXCLUSIVE 1973 concert photographs (not seen for over 35 years !) – taken at the Hollywood Palladium concert that gave us the sleeve pictures for the Beach Boys In Concert album ! A RARE GLIMPSE of Brian included !! Also included is a great timepiece/article from the era …
Go to the above link / Click on Part 2 / Enter & Highlight the ‘In Concert’ LP / Scroll down the page !
Enjoy !!

Thanks to my good friend Rob Shepherd on this one ! 

What page has that picture of Brian?


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Ahh... I found it