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51  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Definitive BB Historical Sites Thread. on: December 27, 2010, 10:39:07 PM
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Additional info on Brian’s Crenshaw Park apt.
 In August 1962, Brian Wilson moved out of the Wilson family home in Hawthorne and into a 1 bedroom apt in The Crenshaw Park Apartments, located less than two miles away at 10800 Crenshaw Blvd. Inglewood, CA 90303. His apt. was in the northeast corner of this building, Apt #29.
wow thanks. great info!
52  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Definitive BB Historical Sites Thread. on: December 27, 2010, 10:21:28 PM
Does anyone have any info on the address of Brian's apartment in Inglewood from the early 60s (if it still exists)?
53  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Revisiting GIOMH on: July 22, 2010, 04:24:44 PM
ya know its funny i was driving this morning listening to this album and had it in my mind to pose roughly the same question to the board. I've never been one to be down on GIOMH. It's classic Brian. Probably the last time we will hear backing vocals like that from him. I know a major complaint is that it is comprised of rehased stuff from the 80s and 90s but hey Brian took old stuff that was laying around and revamped it into something representative of where he was at in 2004. It most cases i feel the songs improved by shedding the crappy 80s prodution style and gaining a very "classic" Brian style. Many people also compain about the guests just being there to boost sales but honestly i enjoy elton and claption's contributions. Pauls I could do without. Anyways i have several thoughts on this albums after a car trip from knoxville to nashville with it. Anyone care to expand?
54  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Best Bass in a Beach Boys song? on: July 08, 2010, 09:26:52 PM
maybe I'm out in left field here but check out the bass playing on "Morning Beat" during the "Hear those guitars gently strummin'
Hear the voices softly hummin'
It's hard to feel down living in this town;
But you're so far away It's a long long way from January
All the way to December"  section

also staying with solo Brian the bass in "I Do" from Sweet Insanity BLOWS my mind away!
55  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: All TLOS bonus tracks ... on: July 01, 2010, 06:20:22 PM
Ya know when you take all of the songs from TLOS (removing the narratives) and add "Message Man" and "Just Like Me And You" you're left with a very eclectic playlist that does a good job of demonstrating all the many "shades" of Brian. It's almost like a stylistic retrospective, a Brian 101 if you will...took me nearly two years to get bored enough to try that...
56  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Al Jardine's \ on: June 30, 2010, 03:14:59 PM
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Could anyone post the guestlist and who is on which track? Would be great.



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Yes.  I would like someone (ANYONE!) to *please* post the track credits!   I got the Amazon.

agreed
57  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Dead Man's Curve story on: May 31, 2010, 12:36:51 AM
Thank you so much guys, I'm loving all of this info
58  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Dead Man's Curve story on: May 28, 2010, 02:07:41 AM
Does anyone have a more definitive account of how this song was written? it has always been a favorite of mine
59  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Dead Man's Curve story on: May 27, 2010, 02:20:24 AM
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Ummm... I think in this instance, Artie's memory is somewhat at fault.
i had a feeling that was the case. I just wanted confirmation from someone with the facts to pick that story apart. It makes me wonder what grains of truth (if any) exist within it though...
60  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Dead Man's Curve story on: May 26, 2010, 09:01:02 PM
I just found this on songfacts.com and I'm thinking there's no way this story is true but I'm curious now and I'm sure there are plenty here who know a great deal more than I.

from songfacts.com:
  The credited songwriters are Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Jan Berry, Roger Christian (a DJ and car enthusiast who wrote "Little Deuce Coupe" with Wilson) and Artie Kornfeld, who later helped organize the Woodstock festival. In 2009 on Artie Wayne's Blog, Kornfeld explained:

One day, Brian and I were chilling and trying out this tiny Honda that the company had sent him as a thank you for writing the Hondells "Little Honda." (the song was not yet released, but Wilson had already written it for a Honda commercial) We were cruisin' about 3 miles from his ex-wife, Marilyn's mom's house. Brian, as he was known to do, was pushing two hundred pounds way over what a 60 cc Honda could handle. I said Bry you should slow down, as in Santa Monica there is a lot of sand on the streets. We went over and the bike and were torn apart. We carried half a Honda each 3 miles, bleeding like crazy, to an open door in an empty house. We noticed a piece of blank paper on the piano and Bry sat down and I pulled up a chair and, I guess because of recent events I wrote down the words, "Dead Mans Curve."
Brian started a two four piano rhythm but I don't have any idea for the lyric…except I always envied Jan's Corvette, sang to Brian's chords" I was crusin' in my Sting Ray late one night and an XKE pulled upon the right…" Bran repeated what I wrote down with the melody and I almost finished the lyric in about 30 minutes with me writing the words, some with Brian, as being a New Yorker after I put us on Sunset Blvd.
I had no idea what landmarks we would pass to that curve after Doheny where it turns right and heads into Beverly Hills.
We were laughing and Brian said, lets hear what we have, laughing at the whole trip and tripping on our wipeout still. I jumped up and said Brian stop, "I think we need an accident here". He responded "you are nuts Artie", but stopped and hit a chord, for some reason at that moment I thought of Robert Frost Poem about two roads in the woods and went metaphoric putting in an accident.
In my mind symbolic with the point we make those decisions that may change or end our lives. I wrote something like it says on the record and Brian Started a Kick Ass chorus. In walks the ever great loving talented Jan Berry who with Bry and a little me worked out the complete song. As Jan tightened up the song for a Jan and Dean Record, he was already hearing a finished product. Jan sat down at a table, hardly touched the piano, except to find the changes and as only Jan with Brian there could do…wrote out the entire arrangement, that as I remember, and was not a note off when we went in with it to play for Lou Adler. It just seems like moments but it was really days later when we went in and recorded it. The reason we had to put DJ Roger Christians name on the song, Lou Adler would know more than I.
The musicians on the date included Glen Campbell, then a tough tee shirted ass kicker on guitar, and Leon Russell (wearing a suit). Then there was Earl Palmer and Hal Blaine, the only drummers you could put together, and it came out great.
Of course being about 19 or 20 I could not help but notice Lou's Fiancée Shelly Faberes, in a very tight sweater. Dean did not show. I did stand behind Bry to get a falsetto sound that was a little different.
When the record came out it was the B side to "New Girl in School."I guess I did my first promotion as for reasons so few know I reversed the Charts and "New Girl in School" stopped shooting up the charts and "DEAD MANS CURVE" RULED! Brian, Jan and I all lived "Dead Mans Curve" in our separate lives.
61  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian Wilson made __________ cool on: April 17, 2010, 11:09:48 PM
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.Carl Wilson ,Bruce Johnston, Al Jardine and Mike Love
   LOL
62  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Cows In The Pasture on: April 17, 2010, 11:07:50 PM
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I've been wanting to hear this ever since I heard Buddy Emmons played steel guitar on a Brian Wilson production.

talk about two geniuses.
  it would be worth hearing for the history of that alone
63  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian on Elton John's new album on: March 23, 2010, 01:18:56 PM
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Heck, if it's another good collection of John/Taupin compositions, they can have whomever they want on board, far as I'm concerned.

agreed
64  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian on Elton John's new album on: March 21, 2010, 01:33:10 PM
it may have something to do with the fact that Elton's album is a collaboration with Leon Russell, whom Brian knew in the 60s, and of course Brian also knows Neil Young pretty well, and He and Elton arent exactly strangers, so it may simply just be a case of some friends making music together as opposed to a marketing ploy.

also I'd like to point out that the album is being produced by T Bone Burnett and from the description Bernie Taupin has gived on his blog, it wont sound anything like your typical Elton John album.
65  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Brian on Elton John's new album on: March 20, 2010, 10:32:00 PM
sorry if this was already posted but this is from Bernie Taupin's blog

Work on Bernie’s project with Elton and Leon is about to go to the mixing phase.

Aside from a few additional things to check off the to-do list, the record which now consists of 16 tracks is on the home stretch. The album will be released in the fall, most likely in October.

To confirm what has already leaked out to the press, Neil Young is featured significantly on one of the albums key tracks. Other guests contributing outside of those listed in the last posting are Booker T. Jones, Brian Wilson and pedal steel wizard Robert Randolph.






This should be pretty interesting


66  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 50th Anniversary, The SMiLE box, the reunion, new material and things to come on: February 14, 2010, 11:29:04 PM
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While I don't think there will be a reunion concert, if there would be, and if they wanted to incorporate "guests", I think the guests should have to have a connection to the song(s) they're performing on - which would eliminate outsiders like McCartney.
Vega-Tables?
67  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Alcohol Intake by the Beach Boys (Sister Thread to Cigarette Inquiry) on: February 06, 2010, 08:09:45 PM
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I think he is better now than at anytime since '83.
i'll go along with that.
68  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: cigarette smoking in the beach boys on: February 05, 2010, 05:10:57 PM
i'm a Lucky Strike smoker. it would be cool to find out one of the Beach Boys smoked luckies...not that smoking is cool...
69  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Alcohol Intake by the Beach Boys (Sister Thread to Cigarette Inquiry) on: February 05, 2010, 05:08:10 PM
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I heard somewhere that Mike was drinking heavily around the time of his infamous HOF speech.
gee what makes you think that  Cheesy
70  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: cigarette smoking in the beach boys on: January 26, 2010, 07:58:43 PM
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Not sure about Carl but Mike certainly did during their unedited performance of Heroes and Villains at the Wollman Rink, Central Park, New York NY, July 2nd. He can be spotted with a cig just before the start of the second verse.

thats a little shocking to me
71  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: cigarette smoking in the beach boys on: January 24, 2010, 10:06:20 PM
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Now that we're at it: what were the favourite brands? I recall Denny preferring unfiltered Larks (according to Gaines) and Brian smoking Marlboros endlessly. Am I right?
  anyone know what Carl smoked. I think i see a Pall Mall pack in the photos of the 1967 Hawaii rehearsal. i could be totally wrong though
72  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: cigarette smoking in the beach boys on: January 22, 2010, 04:53:39 PM
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Now that we're at it: what were the favourite brands? I recall Denny preferring unfiltered Larks (according to Gaines) and Brian smoking Marlboros endlessly. Am I right?

i've wondered this as well
73  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Concert Tonight on: October 26, 2009, 06:12:25 PM
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I guess MBE is referring to Darian's truly fantastic Pet-Sounds-esque reworking of the title. There's an even better version of I Wanna Pick You Up on the flip.
http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/2009/04/darian-do-you-have-any-regrets-1997-at.html
   mmmmm...dosn't seem to work for me. I'm dying to hear it
74  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: TLOS DVD on: October 25, 2009, 08:59:13 PM
just wanted to give a "for what it's worth" thought. i honestly never watched the concert all the way through until tonight, i was much more interested by the documentary and bonus features. I was in the camp of people who felt the in studio performance idea was kind of a letdown. however upon a second glance i have to say i notice that Brian seems to be the most happy and at ease i've seen him on a performance DVD. I saw TLOS live and Bri seemed very uncomfortable and tense. I expected that and it didn't really bother me, you just come to expect it, the man just isn't a comfortable performer, but on this DVD he seems 100% at ease and the smiles seem very real. He's just very at home in the studio. its actually a really clever idea, put Brian in the studio and he'll be comfortable and have fun, and it's still "live" so it's cool by me. Def worth a second look to anyone who just skimmed through it like i did.
75  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike now talking 50th Reunion with Brian on: September 07, 2009, 05:05:13 PM
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Like, in: tucking Brian in a four-poster and supplying him with hamburgers and Bolivian Marching Powder, and the rest working in the home studio, with the very occasional visit of Brother Bri, to do a couple of staccato synth drones? Could be. A. Distinct. Possibility.

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Ah, there we go again, reminiscing about the good times...

now thats when the boys really used to know how to get the whole gang together for an album LOL
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