Rick Rubin & Brian Wilson is a recepie for disaster. Neil & Johnny wanted to work on their songs - I feel if you told Brian to go away and just keep writing for, say, a year, you'd wind up with a seven-minute "Shortenin' Bread" suite.

Anyway, pairing Brian with a hot producer with a reputation for resurrecting moribund careers has been tried before, and failed. Don Was, anyone ?

Don Was and Rick Rubin two different animals. Rick Rubin is a producer

C-man, I'd love it if you posted any "who-played-what" info here.

That would get rather cumbersome...some of the sessions have, like, 30 or so string and brass players.

thank you for posting

BTW the release date of the box has nothing to do with the POB release by Sony except perhaps that everyone wants to release B. Boys product in the summertime.....
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I'm writing an article about the POB re release and I find the recent news (and timing) of the singles box quite interesting to say the least. I agree with the previous posting that said it was unfortunate that Brother has decided to release at the same time as POB trying to take the spotlight away from Dennis after all these years. One thing I learned in my interviews is that Mr. Linett and Mr. Boyd were not involved with the creation of the new album other than fetching the tapes from brother vault. Is that the reason for the timing of the singles box? I know I will be spending my money on Dennis and wait for a review copy of the singles box.

I have a question re the BBs touring/backing band ca. late '60s-early '70s.  I already knew that Daryl Dragon (the Captain) toured with, and sometimes recorded with, the BBs and Dennis Wilson.  What I did not know is that Daryl has two musician brothers, Doug & Dennis, who allegedly also worked w/ the BBs.  Did all three Dragon brothers ever perform/record/rehearse/etc. w/ all three Wilson brothers?  If so, when, where, how often, etc?

What brought this issue to my attention was the recent release of an album cut by the Dragon brothers in the late '60s which was released for the first time in '07.  The group was called The Dragons and the album is titled "BFI" (for Blue Forces Intelligence).  The label's website has some interesting notes:

http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/release.php?id=1270

While I have a promo copy of this album, I have not yet had a chance to listen to it.  Has anyone here checked out this album?  If so, what do you think of it?  Thanks for the help.

I think this BFI album is great. Does anyone know if there's more material?

It's weird that jon stebbins or AGD didn't show up here or in the Shut Down board to kill the rumours. I think the ball IS rolling, but as many things Beach Boys, this release date is "tentative".

maybe they're not involved if it is happening.