For recordings made in the sixties, I feel it's only appropriate that they should be mixed the same way as was done at the time:  W-I-D-E STEREO!  The new stereo mixes on the album reissues and compilations are so narrow, they shouldn't have even bothered.  If SMiLE ever comes out in stereo, I'm afraid it will be narrow as well.  (I'm currently working on a super-wide "Wonderful" mix that hopefully will be faithful to that style).

Yeah see, I don't agree with that or follow the logic. Why? so we can fantasize we're actually listening in 1965 to a contemporary stereo mix that in reality never existed?
I'm not looking to start a fight, I just don't see the problem, personally. I like most of Linnett's mixes, though I haven't heard the latest ones yet. A few of the Today mixes I've heard were not that great but otherwise, I like them. I think the point of the (new) stereo mixes is to hear the music in a way we haven't heard before, to get more details and such; so that's why I am not bothered if they are 'wide' or 'narrow'. But, to each their own, I'm not an audiophile to nearly the extent that some of y'all are, so...

If they were going for authenticity they'd probably have the backing track in mono and the double tracked vocals on either side of the stereo, Chuck Britz style. Chuck Britz's mixes sound like crap to me.

Personally I don't agree that Linnett should be doing ultra-wide 'sixties style' mixes.

You fools, the only way to preserve the Beach Boys legacy and make sure they go out in style is by having Mike and Bruce tour state fairs and gambling casinos.

I believe he had a hand in all those songs, and wouldn't it be nice's contribution was no more than the good night sleep tight bit at the end.

Some of those songs I think he deserves a lot of credit, maybe 30 percent, if he wrote half the lyrics(as I believe he did on, say, Surfin' safari.) Others he might have written the whole lyric(good to my baby...) But sometimes I think he reworte or touched up what was there. All this deserves credit; but I don't believe that it was a Lennon/McCartney in terms of what they both brought. I think Brian brought more in general to those songs, with some exceptions...

Well, I for one am interested in the full story, the whole complicated saga, if you ever get the time...

[JOPLIN GLOBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11]

Oh my god the JOPLIN GLOBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

We should all make a commitment to contact Stebbins whenever untrue things of this matter pop up on the Internet; but I suspect that it would turn into a full-time job. I really wonder if the myth of the Beach Boys being somehow not a rock band is not firmly ensconced into the same mythology that turned the Beatles into infallible rock gods.

who are the 'shady people around Brian' and why are they shady? His wife? Foskett? Darian?

To be honest, the 'my band needs money too' argument carries a lot more weight to me than the 'Brian's camp are a bunch of jerks' argument. It's the same old thing since 1967, if you ask me. I'm not blaming or casting anyone as a villain, but it's unbelievable how similar this drama is to every other drama associated with those madmen.

If Brian's solo tour is an independent legal entity, then he could very well make oodles of money from it while the entity itself loses money.  Maybe the reason the solo tours don't make money is because he overpays himself, for example.

third thread...

This whole ordeal is a huge bummer.

I just hope it's a an extremely clever marketing stunt...

nevermind

damn you beat me

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-brian-wilson-al-jardine-respond-to-mike-love-on-beach-boys-flap-20121008,0,6270223.story?page=1


headline says it all

I hear a big similarity between Girls on the Beach and Surfer Girl, the rest of them are all completely different.

It might have been better for their career, if they could have pulled it off without sounding forced; I think Dennis and carl both would have had to have wrritten more songs for the band as I don't feel Brian's heart is really in the Classic guitar rock sound.


Ultimately, though, theirr music is their music and I'm glad it's gone the way it has.

Today/Summer Days

I think summer Days is underrated by fans.

Oh my God. He insulted the EAGLES?

Wait, don't they totally suck?

Nevermind.

What I love about the backing track of Cherry Cherry coupe is that it kind of sounds like a really tight, tuned up engine idling. You can hear the little pops of steam and rumbling and hissing and so on.

I think the melody is great no matter what the song, but Cherry Cherry Coupe is one of THE BEST BRIAN WILSON PRODUCTIONS EVER in my book.

i was already a fan but that song((Cherry, cherry coupe) that really convinced me how fucking out of this world BW could be.

the idea of these septuagenarian rock stars monitoring each other's facebook statuses and squabbling like teenagers is ever-so-slightly amusing.

the real story is not that Mike Love did this bad thing or that Mike Love had the right to do it and Jardine/wilson/Marks have no right to bitch and that Brianista this or Mike Lover that.... the real story is that this reunion which no one ever dreamt would ever happened but did happen and was great is disintegrating into anger and dispute just like so many times before.

I have to say I don't really like it; I mean, i don't hate it, either, but it grates on me in a big way. I am surprised to see so much love for it, for me the melody isn't anything great and the falsetto is too screechy and hurts my ears.

They must have been so baked.

Four or five years ago I read a post by Desper in which he said that Brian overdubbed snare on the last part of the song, the rest was a drum machine.