You're right, that is indeed Coventry Cathedral with the Chapel of Unity in the background.

That looks better, thanks.  Sorry,  the hour was late...

Booklet, tracklisting for Disc Three: anyone know where the photo of the boys was taken? Given the limestone pavement they're stood on and the nature of the walls in the valley so deep and wide behind them, I'm guessing it just might have been the Yorkshire Dales during a UK visit but who knows? Anyone?

Edit: found it on line but no further details:



Edit: this is almost certainly from the same day:

I'd always believed the 'arches' pic to be in the ruins of the old Coventry cathedral, with the modern 'Chapel of Unity' in the background. The open views in the other pictures don't look much like the Midlands, so I guess that might account for Bruce's moustache conundrum!

AGD's Bellagio 10452 shows a concert in Glasgow (Nov/Dec 1970) the day after one in Birmingham, and then several in Stockton-On-Tees and Sheffield, so apart from Al changing his jeans, looks like they might well have worn the same clothes for two days!

After following the discussion about The Four Seasons' The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette/ The Zombies Odessey and Oracle on the 'Where is that %^&$@#&* MIC Box Set @#$%^&*(!!!' thread, I've been dipping back into Horslips' 'Happy to Meet...Sorry to Part' which has quite close echoes of both IMO. A lot of it is of its time, but if you like The Zombies mixed with Celtic rock there's a lot that sounds familiar....!

Also mikie, was it just a coincidence that you referred to 'Thank God for the Radio' or were you thinking of this:

http://www.musicstack.com/album/carl+wilson/thank+god+for+the+radio

 

Nah, that's a different Carl Wilson.  Man, did you see what that Carl Wilson "Long Promised Road" CD is going for on that website?

   Was just amazed that something did exist with the title from your earlier post and that not only was the title spookily prescient (being pre TWGMTR)) but was recorded by a 'Carl Wilson' -  who, had I actually been in any doubt, was clearly a very 'different' Carl! But then there's also a track called 'Darlin'' on the album and that's a different Darlin'. An alternative universe?

There are a few interesting comments about the 2000 reissue and the 'CD exchange' in :

 
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/rec.music.artists.beach-boys/n_WrcrJoRAM


Also mikie, was it just a coincidence that you referred to 'Thank God for the Radio' or were you thinking of this:

http://www.musicstack.com/album/carl+wilson/thank+god+for+the+radio

 

 Beach Boys at Number 9 with God Only Knows on BBC Radio 2/Official Charts Co Top Number 2's poll...

Just something that popped into my head while headbanging (actually impossible at my age, something might fall off ) to Psychedelic Pill the other day - is the title a nod to Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow or is that taken as read?

I may be wrong but I'd read the UK tickets go on sale mid-December for March 2013...

EDIT: yep, looks like I am wrong! Unlikely that Twitter hints would be necessary if it were so 

I'm surprised there's not more being posted about it - Walk like a Giant is on a loop in my car at the moment. A lot of it sounds as good as his early stuff to me. The world needs a bit of Crazy Horse!

And there I am can't even get the layout right. My comment's managed to find itself inside the box - apologies.

Heh. I really didn't mean for all of this. Anyway, I'm not a moron and not incapable of using the search function - and before I posted, I did try. Also, I'm not here posting new threads every day about common knowledge - cut me just a liiiiiitle bit of slack!

Like one other poster, I couldn't find concrete evidence that this recording was the same thing as what Brian posted on FB. Of course, after I post the thread and get scolded by the expert, the third or fourth phrase match got me the KFWB thread.

I still think it's interesting in light of "Brian's" recent Facebook post, and the fact that I haven't seen it discussed here in my 1000+ posts time, means maybe it's worth an updated look?

Love and Mercy.

You are right, it is, thanks. You need a hide like a rhinoceros on this board...!

I admit when I first saw your post I thought it was going to be one of the much crueller Brian/Paul spoof phone conversations doing the rounds on Youtube

I have a question: did the Beach Boys really play their own instruments? Also, what year did they record "Surfin' Bird"?

 

Oh, that was sarcasm. Right.

I have a question: did the Beach Boys really play their own instruments? Also, what year did they record "Surfin' Bird"?

 

Respectively, mostly up to 1965... and as far as I'm aware, never. Shame. That would have been epic.

Unfortunately Google manages to make it look otherwise - at least one lyrics site attributes it to them 

AGD's right. Why the stupid ?  It's old news. Was discussed here before and it's on YouTube.  Do a search.

Disagree. I've never heard the clip and a board search of Brian + Beatles + phone, or Brian + John + Phone  turns up nothing on the first page. Don't know about most of you guys but I'm not willing to trawl through hundreds of archived threads just to make sure I don't put AGD's nose out of joint.

And yet I searched John Lennon Brian phone and got one page and this : http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,9297.0.html  from 2010.....

I am in pedant hell.

Meh I don't know, you can come to like it......

IIRC I read somewhere that in the 2000s someone bet Brian a steak dinner that he couldn't hit the high note in Surf's Up anymore.  Brian won the bet apparently.

Someone who posts on this very board, and yes, they lost.

free steak dinner = domino

Took a few seconds there, but 

AGD's right. Why the stupid ?  It's old news. Was discussed here before and it's on YouTube.  Do a search.

Disagree. I've never heard the clip and a board search of Brian + Beatles + phone, or Brian + John + Phone  turns up nothing on the first page. Don't know about most of you guys but I'm not willing to trawl through hundreds of archived threads just to make sure I don't put AGD's nose out of joint.

And yet I searched John Lennon Brian phone and got one page and this : http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,9297.0.html  from 2010.....

When was the last time Mike was seen without a hat on?

On Ilkley Moor?

When Carnie says she has the same piano playing style as her father, she ain't kidding. Back in 1986 I watched her play (on the sandbox piano) at Marilyn's house, and it was eerie/scary: same 'stance', same tilt of the head, same sideways look. Not like Brian - it was Brian.

Blimey It's gone very quiet

Imagine finding the finished smile album...

And then do with it what Mr Desper's doing on his thread.....

Your two videos were truly a revelation, thank you.

I can't pretend to have any knowledge at all of how music is transferred from soul to tape, but that's what's happening here, it really is an education.

As a fan who obsesses about 'lost' this and that, it's like all your nightmares come at once to know perhaps an even 'better' 'Til I Die once existed!! How is that possible?! A fascinating story though,  huge thanks once again.

It's like the C50 tour changed nothing.

Were back to where we began

Yay! Now this board can go on for ever and ever!

I don't think most unrepentant Mike supporters WANT the Mike/Bruce show to come to their town! You don't have to hate Mike with a passion in order to scratch your head at his seeming determination to keep the economy class "Beach Boys" rolling......

In fact no one HAS to hate Mike with a passion either..... It's so easy to just love the Beach Boys warts n all.

Erik - "unrepentant" would be me in the late 60's and 70's when they fell out of popular favor. A Beach Boys fan.  

And, I'm greedy; I'll go see them all.  It is not economy class.  Bigger is not necessarily better.  They need to find their formula tha works.  Pun intended.  

Keep finding myself agreeing with your posts - a little cool-headed appreciation of the music in a morass of mud-slinging!

4th of July (followed closely by Carl's voice at the end of Our Sweet Love)

And Kokomo...... ahh

I'm probably gonna go to that one in New Jersey, but I don't think I'll buy a ticket until like February.

I don't agree with the sentiment "if it's not all of them, there's no point". Never stopped anyone from seeing Brian solo. Hell, I'd see Foskett solo singing Beach Boys songs if he was in the area. Why not?

That's the thinking! And it'll keep it alive for all the new 'converts' from BB50, who've got a lot to catch up on...

They sounded in good spirits TOGETHER at the pre-BBC concert interview.....