Billy Hinsche has passed away according to his friend Bill Mumy.

I was genuinely surprised by my reaction to hearing this. Unexpectedly poignant.

Mr. Burnham should update the defunct CD Baby link on his website.

Any further details on this version of "Honeycomb"? I know it's a song Brian has been tinkering with for many years.

John Sebastian comes to mind.

Problem Child

Mine is also Problem Child.  I have no excuse.

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To me sometimes whenever I'd post something or want to reply to a posting, he seemed like an " online bully " to me. Maybe it's just me. Granted I don't post 10 to 15 posts a day or even a week, but still, I feel weakminded and dumb whenever I ask something or wish to address something. I sure hope that maybe I can overlook that feeling and wish to make a comment every now and then.

Pretty good summary of my feelings regarding the Smiley Smile board in general.  I'm a longtime lurker but rarely post, as people are very quick to "jump down your throat" here.  I've never really understood the undercurrent of nastiness that pervades this site.

I wouldn't change a thing about 'Our Special Love' because I think it's really beautiful track as-is, but I did take the scissors to 'Guess You Had To Be There' to cut out Musgrave's first verse which turns it into more of a Brian track since you hear his voice first. I also removed Chaplin's lead vocal section on 'Sail Away' and faded it out early to eliminate some of the 'Sloop John B' stuff. Improves the album for me.

Are you joking?  I can't tell.

I was reading on the Hoffman boards that a couple people have edited out the Peter Hollens boyband stuff from "Our Special Love"  Has anybody here tried this and more importantly, would they be willing to share it?!

I want to spend some more time with the album before writing out a full review but my first thoughts..."Our Special Love" just kills me, a really beautiful intro and outro with this awful boy band song wedged in to the middle.  "Runaway Dancer" is the only song that I'm now skipping.  I'm surprised at some of the negative reviews of "Sail Away" I love the bouncy bass, and Al's singing coming out of the key change, the whole thing is very catchy and one of my favorite tunes on the album, along with "Guess You Had to Be There."   Overall the Joe Thomas cheese-factor is bothering me more here than ever before.

Best Wishes to you sir, I can't wait to hear the new album!!

I really like that cover.  Hats off to Daria!!

Buddhahat makes some really great points here.

It is so cool when folks apologize for not knowing something they didn't know. 

This really is becoming a page of bullies.

My apologies for not recognizing Chad.  He really did a fine job, I meant no disrespect by referring to him as "some guy" - I just didn't recognize him, having only seen a few Fendertones videos.

Let's see...leads given away, just Darlin' and Sail On Sailor.  Al did Cottonfields and Rhonda of course.  Chad did a lot of Don't Worry Baby.  He was fairly prominent in the mix doing the high parts. - pretty much the same as Jeff but not doubling Brian here and there like Jeff used to do.  He was fine but his voice was just not as good as Jeff or Matt, looked to be a really young guy.  No real surprises in the set list - I was a little surprised to hear "Girl Don't Tell Me"

I went.  Much to my surprise the high vocals were done by a guy named Chad (no Matt Jardine) they said it was his first show.  It was solid, everybody sounded good.  Scotty nailed Sail on Sailor and Darian Darlin.  Good crowd if a little under-attended.

That's too bad, their version of "Danny Boy" was beautiful (I have not heard the recording, but did see when they did the tune on Jimmy Fallon's show).  Maybe it will turn up as a bonus track somewhere.

I'm surprised we haven't seen a trailer yet.

Interesting they are playing at the L.A. Arboretum.  Not a typical concert venue.

The previous credits of the writer and the director are not encouraging.

It takes a special kind of snobbery to say "Hey, all this info you're giving me?  Sort it how i want it in my mind; it's not worth my time as it is"

Snobbery?  Or a sincere desire to improve the signal to noise ratio on this site?  What is the harm of putting the polls in their own section?

For those of us who monitor the board using an RSS reader, here's what the feed looks like nowadays...

Chiming in as somebody would like to see the endless polls put in their own section/sub-board.

I was really hoping for Hi-Res downloads.