LOL  That'll work for me AGD!!!  My bad. 

 Bri

How on Earth did they leave out THIS Classic about Summertime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU1fK7uViBg   "Summertime Rolls"  Jane's Addiction

IMHO one of the BEST Summer songs!

 Bri

Nice!  And why not just combine King Crimson with Genesis and come up w/this Classic line-up!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNYI_M9C0tw

 John Wetton, Steve Hackett, Chester Thompson.

 Bri

Stegibo and gsmile:
   Check these out:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXBJdF9npgA&feature=related   "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight"

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix73z5Eg_oM&feature=related    "Watcher........"

What a great instrument! 

 Bri

Nothing quite like the sound of the Mellotron.
And I couldn't help but associate it with my other favorite band right after(if not equal to the BB's)and that is Genesis.
Tony Banks put the Mellotron to dramatic use. Especially the intro to "Watcher Of The Skies".
Very warm instrument.

Big Bri

"Sloop John B."
"Cabinessence"
and
"Til I Die" (Desper Mix)

 Bri

That interview is Hilarious!!!  Since Howard went over to Sirius Radio I've forgotten just how good he is as an interviewer. And this interview w/Brian from 1998 was Stern at the pinnacle of his career following his movie "Private Parts" in 1997.
Brian loosens up as the interview progresses and seems much more relaxed.

 Big Bri

I bought the LP in 1975.  Still a favorite.
"At My Window" is still to me the best song on there. Followed closely by "This Whole World", Add Some Music",
"Cool, Cool Water", "Forever" and of course "Our Sweet Love".

Big Bri

I've often wondered if Brian has read probably the most famous of the Metaphysics books, "Seth Speaks" by Jane Roberts.
And since Jane's passing in 1984 you now have quite a few in the field of Metaphysics that have supplied invaluable information. Serge Grandbois who channels "Kris" and Mary Ennis who channels "Elias". 
But it was Jame Roberts and her channeling of Seth that laid the groundwork for what is now a huge movement in Metaphysics. Especially now as we all move thru "The Shift" in consciousness.

Bri

I'd like to add:
Sloop John B. (In Concert 1973)
At My Window
Let The Wind Blow (In Concert 1973)
Cool, Cool Water
Funky Pretty

Since we're talking "who played what" on In Concert 1973, I've got a question about the masterpiece version of "Let The Wind Blow"?  
Who played the Grand Piano?  Who played the killer Lead Guitar solo in the middle?
And who may have been playing the Hammond Organ with that great Leslie Cabinet "whir" that can be hauntingly heard underneath?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrjMXrf6C7Y          CD
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0WshQmpH68    Vinyl

Big Bri

As well! Everybody have a safe and Happy Holiday!
And here's a little present from ME to all of you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg9KUgcd65I
It's from my upcoming CD "The Human Experience" which will come out in 2010.
It's one of only 2 "cover" songs that I recorded on my Washburn 12-string acoustic.
Enjoy!  And check out all the other original songs from the CD in the menu section!

Cheers,
Bri

Green Day's "American Idiot" should have at least been in the Top5 on that list........

No question on just how good that CD really is.

Doesn't matter if he's a Dodgers or Angels fan.....

The Phillies are going to WIN it ALL and give us another Parade down Broad Street here in Philly!!!

Bri

You weren't lying about the Fendertones........these guys are AMAZING!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sDcuw_YMz0&feature=related

Bri

Nobody,
  There's a Pet Sound booklet as part of the Pet Sounds box set that has very detailed accounts from members of the Wrecking Crew on what they played and how Brian approached recording.
  Especially interesting is Carol Kaye's song by song description of who played what and each part that was played.
  The booklet inside the box set is a must read for those interested in how it all came together.

Bri

"Let The Wind Blow"  espescially the "In Concert '73" version:

Let The Wind Blow
Let the wind blow
Let the grass grow
But don't let her go

Don't take her out of my life
Don't take her out of my life

Let the moon glow
(let the moon glow)
(on the fallen snow)
On the fallen snow
(let the moon glow)
(on the fallen snow)

But i just got to know
(let me please know oh oh oh)
Know she'll be a part of my life
Know she'll be a part of my life
Forever


Let the bees make honey
Let the poor find money
Take away their sorrows
Give them sunshine tomorrow

But don't take her out of my life
Don't take her out of my life
What would i do without her tell me now

Let the bird sing
With the coming spring
Let the church bells ring
Let the rain fall
Let the grass grow
Let the moon glow
On the fallen snow

But don't take her out of my life
Please keep her a part of my life

Big Bri

"Taint" nothin' wrong with "eating" a little "kitty" every so often......... Hee,hee

"The queen in Copenhagee
The dream of Amsterdamee
The cream of gay Parisee
The theme of U Say Asee
The scene in Great Britainyee
The meaning in Los Angees
The heat in Tokyosee
The treat in Manhattohsee
Oo,yeah,yeah The Funky Pretty!"

Speaks for itself in it's surrealism.

And of course:
"A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the op'ra glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Columnated ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?

Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumperter swan
Columnated ruins domino"

Doesn't get any better than that!

Bri

Age 6 in 1969 at my Grandmother's house in Pottstown,Pa.
My Aunt lived there(she was only 13)and had a bunch of 45's of The Monkees, Beatles and Beach Boys.
The first BB song I ever heard and still my all time favorite was "Sloop John B". Then I think it was "California Girls" and "Let Him Run Wild" not sure?  My very first Rock song was "Stand" by Sly & the Family Stone.
The greatest "gift" I got was Christmas in 1973(10 years old) when I got "In Concert '73" on LP. WOW!  Still the greatest live album(that and "Second's Out" from Genesis)that I ever received!  And Sloop and "Let The Wind Blow" steal that LP.

My very first concert was the Beach Boys in 1976 at the Spectrum in Philly during the 15 Big Ones tour! And Heart opened for them during their Dreamboat Annie tour.

Bri

Excellent PDF files of the music!
But I would love to know if anyone is ever going to make accurate staff lines for "When I Grow Up" and "Little Girl I Once Knew"??   
The layered harmonies are stellar on those 2 songs in particular. Yet no one to my knowledge has ever given them the treatment as the ones on the web site I just viewed.

Bri

From the Holland review:

"Funky Pretty" is more on the guttural side of R&B. A cosmic love song to an astrological lovely, it mounts its grit in a swirl of harmonic complications, again underlining Blondie Chaplin's more straightforward vocal dexterity with a defiantly baroque choral signature: Vivaldi meets the Regents on a magic synthesizer. It makes for a beautiful track, built on economical and even monotonous musical premises that delight in their unreasonably complex development."

   According to the above, Blondie sings the studio version of FP. If so, then WHY does it sound so much like Carl?
And on the "In Concert" LP it IS Carl singing FP.

Bri

Thanks AGD! Appreciate it.

Bri

I'd like to ask Mike or Jack who came up with the clever word play during the Copenhaggee, Amsterdamee, Tokyosee, etc. part?  The most unique set of lyrics in the Beach Boys repitoire.

Bri

  As I'm going through the process of recording my CD "The Human Experience" I find mySELF more and more interested in capturing EMOTION and Feeling moreso than the technical aspect of piecing this together.
And amazingly I'm writing material on the spot as I'm recording!!  Very cool creative "high" I'm on with my CD.

Cheers,
Bri