The Morgantown 2009 L&M clip-- he was wearing the same outfit that he wore in Munhall, PA, around the same time.  For that show, he played the keyboard for almost the entire first set, and his singing was really good.  However, that was the beginning of the Brian-is-so-relaxed-he-looks-like-he-fell-asleep phase.

He was NOT playing a grand piano at the Grammys, btw.  It was one of those digital keyboards that's only about 3 feet deep, and looks like a grand.  When I saw a shot of him at the keyboard, with the cockpit of buttons above the keys, I was getting that Baldwin organ vibe.  That thing might be his own instrument, and easy enough to set up on stage for a tour-- probably weighs a couple hundred pounds, max.

Please ask him why the piano wasn't removed from Brian's vocal for Barnyard.  Others have done it with no noticeable artifact remaining.

That will probably be the album title I would suppose as well.  It doesn't necessarily mean it's the last album, though... just a clever title. 

THANK you.  Been meaning to say that.  People live into their 90's, and the boys are 70 or younger.  Tony Bennett is 85 and seemingly going strong, and a pianist named Horszowski (sp.?-- I don't mean Horowitz) did his last recording at 99.

I'd say it's LIKELY their last album, given the way things have been for the last 25 years, but that's just an assumption, seeing as Brian just decided to start sounding 30 again in the last few years.

Maybe they'll remake Fall Breaks and Back to Winter on this one, and Winter Symphony on the one after that.  If they make a 3rd reunion album for their 75th anniversary, I guess they're stuck cycling back to Their Hearts Well Full of Spring. At that point, it'll be a Wall of Foskett.
 

My claim to fame is that, upon release of the reissue, I mentioned the wrong mixes on the PSML.  Somebody forwarded my comments to Mark, and he insisted that they were the right mixes, even saying that the 3 loud synth notes before the L&M coda were loud because of the higher bitrate.  Yeah, I don't think bitrates add like 6 dB; just sayin'...
 

Meet everybody on this board in jail if we watch this video

Son, obviously you've never seen the internets.

(cough *2girls1cup* cough)

May I ask about the confirmation of the OCA vocal arrangements?  Always seemed like pure Brian to me, but I've seen it stated many times quite definitively (at least in the minds of the posters) that VDP wrote the arrangements.

Regarding IJWMFTT: haven't watched it for a while, but Brian's tardive diskenesia (sp.?) was quite in evidence during the performance footage, as he seemed to be trying really hard to get the words out properly.  If lip-syncing, wouldn't it make more sense to go for a more relaxed appearance and not try so hard?

Newguy, what does this make you?  A slut!  A prostitute! You'll be having so much sex you can't pay for it, and heaven forbid we should. If we're going to consent to your threesome and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch.
 

Charles Manson. The Sunrays

It does work, and contributes to the many faces of SMiLE as a modular album.  However, even with all Brian's chucked out of his brain, I don't think he would have let this one slide in 2004, if it were true.

AMAZING work, and great through headphones!  I had also thought of the transition into DYLW on the a capella F7, and I'm glad to hear it in your mix.  Love it all!

"'Til I Die".  Everyone's going to die, and some people already have.

Go for the 15 Big Ones cover, on your stomach. 

and had us singing background on a new song of his, 'He's A Bm.'  A great song, and I hope it comes out someday. 

My understanding is that that song is a real turd.

A bm usually does come out, if one is patient...

*potty-mouth mode off*

Tug of Love is tremendous.

Mike's unreleased hot tub video?   

We've also got those animal noises in "Good Morning, Good Morning", which strike me as a bit "Barnyard".

My mother thinks that Brian plays with the Beach Boys, and "I Loves You, Porgy" bugs her, because it's supposed to be sung by a woman...

...she's 80...

Damned auto-tuned Foskett all over the track, ruining it for me!

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I can't tell Mike from Bruce any longer.  They're both neckless, baseball-capped Weebles.  The only way to tell is that one has a prop keyboard, and the other one has more "bling", as the kids say.

A paper cup that Brian drank from, during a performance of the full Pet Sounds album.. Probyn was kind enough to toss it to me after the show, and I took absentee communion with Brian by consuming the final drops of...

diet mint tea.

What's with the guy with the plastic face and the teeth who introduces it? He looks like a bad CGI experiment.

I was originally going to put up a random clip of him in the TERRIBLE sitcom 'Saved By The Bell' - then I came across this little jewel 15 seconds into my search:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtjnXw_iEAE&feature=related

BEWARE! This video is not for the faint of heart.

Evidently these are the spirit-fathers of the smiling Mexigay who introduced the Extra segment.

BTW, Brian plays H&V in A (rather than D-flat) in the interview...as far away as a key can be.

Happy Days.

 

This is the part where you link me to a bizarre 70s era interview with Al doing something ridiculous to prove me wrong. 

Not from the 70's, but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slLIu5Yb1MI

Start around 3:00.

I guess no one told him about all the good p0rn out there.

Nice to know he doesn't call CDs "tapes", like most people his age.

I was under the assumption that digital editing had been around for, what, 15 to 20 years at that point?  And what about all the syncing between vocal and instrumental tracks?  Maybe he meant that it was MASTERED on analog, but he did say edited, as unlikely as that sounds...maybe he meant PS was edited on analog, as opposed to the PS BOX.

The Pet Sounds box was edited on analog tape?