Here's my mix.

1. Untitled Instrumental [Spanish Guitar Piece] (Secret SMiLE Disc 2)
2. Heroes & Villians (Hawthorne)
3. Holidays (Odeon)
4. Heroes & Villians [Intro] (GV Box - Actually Fire Intro)
5. Do You Like Worms (Odeon)
6. Cabinessence (Extended Intro added* GV Box)
7. Heroes & Villians [Sections] (GV Box)
8. Prayer (GV Box)
9. Wonderful (Extended Intro added* Vigotone) (GV Box)
10. Child Is The Father Of The Man (Jazzy Part inserted at the start* Odeon)
11. Look (Odeon)
12. VegaTables (Hawthorne)
13. Wind Chimes (Extended Intro added* Secret SMiLE Disc 1) (GV Box)
14. Elements Part 1 [Fire] (Secret SMiLE Disc 2)
15. Waterchant (Odeon Cut from Cool, Cool, Water)
16. I Love To Say Da Da (Odeon)
17. Surfs Up [Instrumental + Demo] (Odeon)

*I didn't like how some of the songs started vocals straight away, with no musical introduction. I really enjoy the instrumental versions of the songs songs too, so I decided to often edit in the instrumental version (or part) of the song first.

I think it's fairly likely that Brian would have first heard the US version not the UK "as the Beatles intended" version.

I enjoy this CD. I listen to it more than any BW release I have. Granted, Bri is not in great form - But the performance is honest & seems (mostly) to be unedited. Much better than the production on some of his other solo work.

That Darion single is really cool.

Wow - That is cool! Sounds like elevator music to me - I wouldn't mind hearing that in an elevator. Thanks for posting!

I didn't include any of the illustrations when I did the scans. Feel bad about that now, haha.

Excuse my ignorance - but who is Paul Williams?

He's the author of the book "How Deep is the Ocean?" as well as many other books. But he is perhaps best known as the founder of Crawdaddy. I THINK he has Alzheimer's disease or something like that.

Ah, ok. That's bad news. I wish him well.

Link posted in the media thread if anyone is interested.
Cheers

Thought i'd share a scan for this book I got off ebay recently. It's an official biography written around 1977-1978. I was surprised with the SMiLE content so i've scanned the relevent pages & uploaded it as a pdf file.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/glwfwwm4mni/The Beach Boys Biography - Byron Preiss.pdf

Enjoy!

I recently picked up a BB book on ebay for $5. "The Authorized Biography of The Beach Boys" by Byron Theiss. It's from the late 70's & actually has a fair bit of information about SMiLE. I'm considering scanning the relevant pages & sharing them here. That's not a breach for board rules is it??

The 1st printing of that book (white cover) had interesting artwork that was omitted from the considerably thinner reprint (yellow). Just FYI.

Thats the one - I've got the 1st edition. I was pretty happy, I just bought it cause it was cheap.

You're asking the wrong person about that, babe. I really don't know.

I just got the book by Kingsley Abbott Back to the Beach. Yesterday I got AGD's Guide to the ...... and the one by Paul Williams--How Deep is the Ocean???   Alibris is a great place as well.

Did you hear about the benfit for Paul Williams?

More of a general question Donnak - but thanks anyway. Looks like you've got some reading to do!
Excuse my ignorance - but who is Paul Williams?

I recently picked up a BB book on ebay for $5. "The Authorized Biography of The Beach Boys" by Byron Theiss. It's from the late 70's & actually has a fair bit of information about SMiLE. I'm considering scanning the relevant pages & sharing them here. That's not a breach for board rules is it??

My Beach Boys LP's: http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b245/BiscuitPower/BBlps-1.jpg
My Beach Boys singles: http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b245/BiscuitPower/BBsingles-1.jpg

Wow! Thats a nice collection. Been collecting long?

Here's my Brian Wilson collection. I'm working on a Beach Boys collection but it's still fairly small.

It sounds good on record try gemm.com

I got mine on Gemm.com

I've read the BB's sued Capitol AU for this after it came out & was promptly removed from sale.
I expected a bidding war.

I think its worth repeating the story behind the withdrawl of the Australian rarities set - conventional wisdom says it was because of a false claim that the Beach Boys played on the Survivors track on the album - this is not true according to Stephen McParland who compiled the album with Genn A Baker.

At the Sydney get together in January 2008 (which Brian attended) McParland explained that the real problem was the use of the two Dennis tracks, Lady and Sound Of Free. As the Rarities album was coming out on Capital, a division of EMI and because the Dennis tracks were relesed on Paralophone, also a division of EMI, it was incorrectly assumed that they had the rights to use the tracks. Parlaphone promptly sent a letter asking for a licensing fee for the tracks or the album should be withdrawn. As only 500 albums were ever printed Capital Australia just decided to ignore the Parlaphone request and not reprint the album - so technically not withdrawn.

The Survivors story has some basis as the guy from the band (sorry can't remember his name) did make a fuss and make threats so McParland and and Baker basically said "yeah, yeah, sorry" and let that be - the real reason was the Dennis tracks licencince issue with Parlaphone.

Wow, thats for all that info too!

Unfortunately what you have bought isn´t the rare withdrawn "Rarities" album.

The one you should look out for is called "Brian Wilson Rarities":

http://cgi.ebay.com/Beach-Boys-%22Brian-Wilson-Rarities%22-LP-%22What-I-Say%22-RARE_W0QQitemZ270362997201QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090324?IMSfp=TL090324124007r20181

Aw. Never mind - Still a few harder to find tracks on there.

I'm pretty excited right now - Just picked up the Australian issued "Rarities" LP for $8.55 AU.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=230331487931

I've read the BB's sued Capitol AU for this after it came out & was promptly removed from sale.
I expected a bidding war.

I thought Brian says Pet Sounds was his best, not his favorite.

Damn, I don't have cable.

Really looking foward to this DVD. My local online store isn't shipping till the 2nd of Feb - but sounds like it'll be well worth the wait.

I was watching the samples of the DVD on Brian's site with headphones on & I'm pretty sure I picked up some double tracking of Brian's lead in places - might of been Jeff backing him up though, as he often does. I really prefer "warts n all" live footage - not smoothed over edited stuff. Oh well.....

Ok, you've swayed my thoughts about GV. So it'd be first up on side 2 going by the usual format.

I think Good Vibrations would only be included at the insistance of Capitol. As was know, it doesn't fit as it's a Pet Sound track so I don't think Brian would of included it. Though it is on the Dec 66 track list, isn't it?? But did Brian write the list or Carl.......

Wonderful & Vega-Tables were both also considered as singles, so either one of those tracks could of opened side 2.

[Friends]

I have very good reason to believe that the track in question was recorded 3/26/68, during the Friends sessions.

Anybody know what Friend's songs, if any, they were working on that day?

Darn it, now I have to find a new intro to "Heroes And Villains" for my SMiLE mix....

Ditto

What do fellow Smiley Smile boarders think of the band?

Been an Australian, I am probabily exposed to them more than others - but their more recient work is amazing.
Forget their early "grunge" stuff DIORAMA is a remarkable record, kinda symphonic prog rock. Their latest YOUNG MODERN is more akin to quirky pop songs. Van Dyke Parks has contributed string arrangements to their last few albums too - that can't be bad. Discuss.