On the newer iTunes release (from late last year), the Sacramento shows, there's the performance of Little Honda on the second night, why aren't there any vocals until the end of the performance? Something wrong with the audio equipment/microphones?

In an interview in the 90s for a British mag (?) which focused on the Paley/Wilson sessions and Mike's Brit fag attack on High Lama Sean, Brian mentioned that he had once had monkeys and they threw tihS everywhere. Wish i could find that mag...it was a classic Brianism.

What's this about Mike's attack on High Llamas? I don't think I've heard that before. Link to a thread or article about it?

I know we all love to ponder: "why wasn't this track on this album? Why wasn't WIBNTLA on Surf's Up? Why wasn't California Feelin' on an album?"
 
I think a real crime is why wasn't Don't Fight the Sea on the Still Cruisin' album? It could have been a very strong single and perhaps used in a film after its release. I think it also would have helped Side 2 of Still Cruisin'. Maybe start side 2 with Don't Fight, then Make it Big. Make Wipe Out last.

Alan Boyd showed a documentary on Carl at the Roxy years ago...he played it for that BB IU class I attended a few years ago. I want to say it's a vocals only and that the original reason it remained unreleased is that Gina didn't like Carl's vocals. The short documentary left everyone teary-eyed, had some great pictures I'd never seen before, and featured vocals only snippets of The Trader and Long Promised Road (I think).

Almost Summer
Country Pie
Looking Back with Love
It's OK
Kona Coast (appropriate during winter shows)
We'll Runaway (Jeff)
Marcella
All I wanna do
Airplane
She Believes in love again (close to the recent recording?)

Does anyone know what the setlist is looking like these days?

What did you guys get for Christmas about the Beach Boys.  I start first

1.  203 Success Facts on the Beach Boys Book
2. A book about Smile the Long lost Album
3. Capital Years CD

I'd actually not heard of the 203 Success Facts until this thread, is there a paperback/hardback version? I only saw Kindle.

Have fun with that stuff Surfer! I've got the Capital Years box on vinyl, I LOVE it!

Merry Christmas Andrew!
That means a lot for you to express yourself that way.

Were Brian's glasses non-prescription? 

I ask because the only pictures I've seen of him wearing them were around the Pet Sounds/Smile period, and that was his (sorta) hipster phase.

Here's Brian's take on wearing glasses:

http://youtu.be/NcPjQVDwZPY?t=2m20s

I remember reading in a book or interview with Marilyn about how he would sit her down and have little things to teach her and he'd put his glasses on. I'm not sure that's totally accurate, but that's what I remember.
Also, one of the many ads in the Look Listen Vibrate Smile book had this questionnaire filled in by Brian about such topics: astrology, music, food, and other random things. One of the things they asked about were glasses...I don't remember his reply, I'm not by my book at the moment...will find it later.

Of course

The poster of BW is one of the photos featured in the BW bio Wouldn't it be Nice, where Brian has a beard and has lost a lot of his weight from the early 80s...dating the picture around 84-ish?

I remember someone about ten years ago made (homemade) a comp called Endless Christmas...at the time, What I Really Want for Christmas wasnt out. But it did contain Mike's Christmas tunes (from Scrooge's Rock and Roll Christmas), Brian's On Christmas Day and other carols he made available on BW.com, a few mixes of Hey Santa was on there, the Christmas medley with the BB's kids, Jeff Foskett material, Winter Wonderland with the Boys (and Colin Ray? I can't remember), and the backing track outtake of the BB Christmas album song Jingle Bells....and that's all I can remember.

I would like Brian's version (which was on his site) of The Christmas Song, I loved the chord of "Merry Christmas" he does right before the song.

If you'd like a vinyl copy of Pet Sounds with some form of notes/booklet, the 40th anniversary vinyl reissue of Pet Sounds is a double LP with a gatefold containing mostly notes from the cd booklet of Pet Sounds. It's a double LP of a stereo disc and a mono disc...they're also on yellow and green colored vinyl.

I've got an indepth question about a particular thing Brian used to do: using a tape recorder with his voice recordings of "yes, "no," and something else, I can't remember.

My particular questions are:
when was this used? how often?
Who was it used with? Capitol Records folks?
Was it just a one time thing?

My only sources are the eronious BB An American Family tv film (which I don't trust) and one of the BB/BW bios, which might have been Brian's WIBN My Own Story (which I don't trust either).

According to Leaf, Brian turned up to at least one Capitol meeting in the sixties with a collection of some eight tape loops, which included "yes", "no" and "that's a great idea".

That's brilliant!

Imagine when someone finds those tapes and wondering why there's one word answers...then realized it was Brian Wilson, King of One Word Answers...assuming he didn't record over those tapes.

I've got an indepth question about a particular thing Brian used to do: using a tape recorder with his voice recordings of "yes, "no," and something else, I can't remember.

My particular questions are:
when was this used? how often?
Who was it used with? Capitol Records folks?
Was it just a one time thing?

My only sources are the eronious BB An American Family tv film (which I don't trust) and one of the BB/BW bios, which might have been Brian's WIBN My Own Story (which I don't trust either).

It was eventually released as a single in Germany...in 1990.

http://www.beachboys45.nl/Germany-Capitol-8189.htm (scroll down to the end, the second version was released by the German California Saga fan club).

Weird how Land Ahoy is spelled correctly on the picture sleeve but the label on the 45 is spelled Land Ahoi

While hanging out on the Bellagio site, I was checking out the timeline and noticed the sessions for Wild Honey (single), Bluebirds Over the Mountain, and Aren't You Glad were took place (9/26/67 through 10/4/67), then Brian's sessions with Redwood for Time To Get Alone took place. So a few questions just about these facts from Andrew's site:

-I know Brian has credit for writing WH and AYG, but how involved was he with the production? I was thinking the credits were "produced by the BB" for the album.
-Did the Bluebirds from 1967 sound like the single/20/20 track we know now or did it have a Wild Honey type song? Though I figure Bruce produced it, it may not have been in that same style.
-During the Redwood sessions (10/14 & 10/15), TTGA was recorded, but was this when they recorded Darlin' or at least the track for Darlin'? I was thinking they might have did the instrumentation. I know I read about all of this years ago, but I can't remember what the source was.
-I wonder what Brian's inspiration for Time to Get Along was? It's not as much in the style of the R&B style as the Wild Honey album was. I feel like TTGA has a Smile-like production quality to it, especially Brian's early version with the horn section.

Perhaps I asked in the wrong thread (the Fire Hats thread), but I'm still curious if Andrew or anyone else could lead me to what I was asking here:

Not a "Fire" session because...

Too early and...

Wrong studio.

Although...

When I interviewed Chuck Britz back in 1985 at Western, he related a session for Fire that he engineered there. Another mystery...

Along with all your research (on the fantastic Bellagio site) and the book you did with Tobler...what's the outlet of this and other interviews you've done over the years? (Perhaps write another book? 😉) I would LOVE to read all those interviews and what not...and speaking of reading something of yours, I'd love to read other observations in your experience over the years of meeting beach boys/various related folk, attending concerts and beach boys conventions..it would provide a unique point if view for  this young beach boys fan. There's so much I'd love to hear about that you've experienced.

Not a "Fire" session because...

Too early and...

Wrong studio.

Although...

When I interviewed Chuck Britz back in 1985 at Western, he related a session for Fire that he engineered there. Another mystery...

Along with all your research (on the fantastic Bellagio site) and the book you did with Tobler...what's the outlet of this and other interviews you've done over the years? (Perhaps write another book? 😉) I would LOVE to read all those interviews and what not...and speaking of reading something of yours, I'd love to read other observations in your experience over the years of meeting beach boys/various related folk, attending concerts and beach boys conventions..it would provide a unique point if view for  this young beach boys fan. There's so much I'd love to hear about that you've experienced.

So while reading an ESQ from September of 1999, Matt Jardine was asked about what a fan would expect at a Friends and Family Show and he mentioned a few tunes such as Wild Honey, Til I Die, Surf's Up, and Be Here in the Morning. I know Mike/Bruce's band has done WH and Til I die, and Brian's band has obviously done those two plus Surf's Up, but did Al's Friends and Family Band perform Til I Die, Surfs Up, or Be Here in the Morning? I'm fairly certain they did Wild Honey on the Live in Las Vegas concert album. I know Eric's setlist site has some of the setlists for Al's shows, but has anyone else experienced any of Al's shows? What type of rare/deep album tracks did Al's group performed live? I know of the ones on the Las Vegas Live album, but did he expand upon that at any point? It'd be great if he performed stuff from his Postcard album, (like do a whole California Saga medley with Lookin down the Coast, Don't Fight the Sea, California Feeling, and maybe the Tidepool Interlude.)

LOVE this song! It kind of deserves a release on a Brian Wilson album, it's so biographical. It's cool that it was on that Trios album, but to me, this sounds like Brian and his daughter singing about himself. The Shortenin Bread part is SOOO rockin! I love it! This and Metal Beach are my favorite versions of Shortenin Bread riffs.

I was thinking how Brian opened with it at Roxy and all those early 2000 shows, it makes total sense that he'd want to perform something like that, something that didn't do well on charts (as well as he wanted I should say) and wasn't performed in a live setting (as far as I know). It's really regarded as a greatest hit (vol 2 at least), but it's not known as well by the Barbara Ann/Mike Love crowd (I would presume).

Does the alt version (Hawthorne CA) have a Carl vocal that's more prominent?

Bad excuse, but I got you.

What you got is an irritated Wookiee, lady.

Ahhhh, the Star Wars holiday special, the Smile album of George Lucas.

Edit- I might be shunned for that comment. 😉

I'm thinking of creating an inventory of my Beach Boys collection, including everything from vinyl to CDs to books, magazines, tour programs and what not. Has anyone else done this? I know it's gonna be a lengthy process getting it done (between work & life), but I'm really eager to do it. Would Excel be the best program for this? Anyone interested in seeing it once I'm done?