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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Three new albums in as many years - more reissues to follow?
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on: August 24, 2019, 09:40:04 PM
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YOU compared Mike to Hitler first. Do you think he deserve that? Read what you write before posting.
Help me out here, Musto, as to where on this thread I called Mike Hitler. And remember, he is not a post or member of this board (that we know of). And furthermore, Mike Love doesn't need you to defend him. I only post my opinion of him and if you don't like that, well, that's fine but don't attack members because they don't happen to like Mike Love. It's none of your business. If you attacked someone you didn't like, then that's your business and I could care less. As a fellow Lovester hater I have to say I look forward to your comments. They describe the subject with 100% accuracy and are hilarious to boot.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: USA Today, August '98 Mike: “Most of the audience doesn’t even know our names.\
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on: August 04, 2017, 02:12:12 PM
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Some interesting bits in this time capsule from a strange moment in the band's history........
USA Today - August 20, 1998
Beach Boys Change, But the Sound Stays the Same
The Beach Boys, or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof, are on the road again. The songs are the same, of course, and Mike Love, 57, is front and center. But aside from singer / keyboardist Bruce Johnston, 54, who joined in 1965 as a touring replacement for Brian Wilson, the rest of the band is virtually unrecognizable- even to fans.
Carl Wilson died of cancer in February; Al Jardine is off recording a solo album. Brian Wilson, who hasn’t toured regularly with the Beach Boys in decades, is basking in the reviews of his recent solo album, Imagination, and living in a quiet suburb of Chicago.
Although those key members are missing, the band is chugging along as it has every summer for 37 years, waving the flag for sun, cars and surf. "Mike is the only one who really has to be here,” guitarist David Marks says. “He has the distinctive voice. You can do without any one of us.”
"The Beach Boys are a band with great harmonies that sings the songs everybody knows,” Love says. “Most of the audience doesn’t even know our names.” Don’t tell that to Ted Cohen, press agent for the 1976 “Brian’s Back” tour. He bristles at the idea of a Beach Boys show with no Wilsons. “What they are doing now is just a hollow continuation of the brand,” he says. Cohen, now a Los Angeles media consultant, thinks the current lineup is missing some vital parts. “Brian provided the soul for the Beach Boys, and Carl was the heart.”
Marks, 50, now a permanent member, was until recently just a footnote in Beach Boys history. He lived across the street from the Wilsons as a child and played on the band’s first five albums; Jardine replaced him in 1964. Love asked Marks to join the road show last year “to lend some authenticity,” Marks says. “Without the Wilsons around, it adds something to have one of the founders onstage.” How does he feel about being one of the Boys again after all these years? “Sure beats sitting on the couch and flipping through the channels.”
"Emotionally there is a void, and it’s a drag that Carl’s gone,” Love says. “But for the rest of us who are still here, life goes on, and we do the best we can. Even if Carl isn’t there, it still sounds pretty good.” These are, after all, many of the same musicians who’ve provided instrumental punch for two decades. They strive for exact reproductions of the familiar, albeit at a pace that’s more energized than in recent memory. “Carl slowed everything down so it would groove,” Marks says. “Now we’re going a little faster.”
There are no plans to add to the canon, though “I’d like to write with Brian again,” Love says. “I would have no interest in doing a Beach Boys album without him.” Marks, however,is ready.“I’d love to record,” he says. “I’ve written some great songs. I have friends who’ve written some great songs. But no one here seems interested.”
Still, there’s no shortage of product. Endless Harmony, a VH1 documentary airing Sunday, demonstrates that — despite Marks’ claim that it doesn’t matter who’s onstage today — the Beach Boys’ music is the result of powerful interlocking personalities. A companion CD, a career-spanning 25-track collection with a healthy dose of compelling rarities and alternate versions, is a balanced cross section of the group’s career.
Symphonic Sounds of the Beach Boys, produced by Johnston with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is a classical treatment that began as part of a symphonic tour but was derailed by Carl Wilson’s passing. Johnston is ebullient, chatting the disc up at every opportunity. “I don’t care if this sells. It’s more of a statement.” Capitol also hopes to re-release the band’s 1964 Christmas album, combined with tracks from an unreleased 1977 effort, for this holiday season. And that will be followed by new editions of the band’s creatively fertile 1970-76 output, with the requisite bonus tracks and expanded liner notes.
“We’ve been dysfunctional at times,” Love says. “We’ve been self-destructive at times. And time has taken its toll. But the most important thing is that we’ve created a lot of happy people, millions of memories. These are literal good vibrations. You can pick the group apart, but there is a lot of positivity that has been created.”
Actually... Brian was the heart, Carl was the soul. And Dennis was the spirit. And Mike was the rectum.
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