Got the book today. Thumbed thru, haven't started reading yet. Just want to say, DON'T buy it for the pics, they're mostly blurry and disappointing

That's no good. Probably due to the whole self-publishing deal, but the fact of the matter is, the several-thousand words in the book is probably worth at least the pictures shown within, so even if you can't see the pictures, the heartfelt story is probably worth the price of admission.


As for me, never got a reply to my Facebook message asking for an order form, so I'll just buy a used copy here in a couple months....

It's a good night.

Pretty much this. If you like to hear good musicians put on a solid show, you won't be disappointed seeing Mike Love's band. Especially if  you're a fan of the hit songs of The Beach Boys.



If the lack of Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, or Dennis Wilson is going to put a damper on the amount of enjoyment you would get from living these more than adequate renditions of songs you like, may as well pass, and spend your evening alone at home listening to one of The Beach Boys' recorded albums of live musical offerings....


If money's not an issue, just go. It's only a matter of time before nobody at all will be able to see the REAL members of The Beach Boys performing live in concert. Personally, I'd take any Brian, Mike, Al, Dave, & Bruce shows I could afford.

Seems that since Carl's death there's been a lack of that "wacky" Brian Wilson that we know and love so much. Maybe not behind closed doors, but in public, even at smaller events like the one in the YouTube video in the first post in this thread, Brian seems subdued, sadder.


Sure, we've got that cigarette lighter bit and "Michael Row The Boat Ashore" stuff from recent years, but we don't have any of that "just took a couple puffs of this mad spliff or drank 4 beers at Club Kokomo and am feeling loosey goosey" Brian Wilson anymore.


But as long as Brian Wilson is happy with his life, he should just keep doing what he's doing. He's at that age where he needs to just to what makes him happiest even if it's not the most healthiest thing for him.

The "Right Time" video I assume this thread is about isn't a music video at all, it's a "lyric video". Which is less of an artistic statement/expression, and more of a "now you can read the lyrics to the song you're currently listening to" type thing in the era of YouTube.



Here in the year 2015, music videos are a dead medium unless you are some sexy broad shakin' your tits/ass. Any cleavage showing Nicky Minaj or Katy Perry video is pretty much guaranteed to get 100 million+ views, regardless of how dire the song is.

It doesn't matter how creative or great a song/video involving some 72 year old man is.... Unless it's got Zooey Deschanel, Kacey Musgraves, and/or Lana Del Rey wearing skimpy outfits and making out with each other, singing about/showing what enormous skanks they are, or some gratuitous twerking, nobody is going to give half a crap.



Sex is what sells now, and Brian Wilson lacks what the general public calls "sex appeal".




Yes, and all of our grandparents are definitely not turning over in their graves at the way this moral-lacking, disease-ridden society has turned out.

Wouldn't It Be Nice is super fuckin' annoying.


It's so well written, catchy, and with such great production that it's constantly overplayed and mentioned any time some plebeian music fan mentions favorite Beach Boys songs.

That vehement backtracking "LOL I'M NOT DEFENDING MIKE LOVE IN MY REVIEW!!!!11!!one!1! I TALKED ABOUT THE MUSIC IN MY REVIEW NOT ABOUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK OF THE MUSIC IN MY REVIEW".... Wouldnt be so bad if ESQ Editor didn't go into extreeeeeeeeemely defensive damage control mode immediately after people started talking about his abortion of a song review....

Quite off-putting. The review this thread is about isn't even barely about the song in question, it's about what other people are saying about the song and the past history of the people involved/not-involved in the song.

Of course, this whole "internet journalism" thing isn't about, and never has been about, the  music. It's about whatever gets the most people to click URLS so the people in charge of websites get their fractions of a penny advertising revenue anytime somebody has the misfortune of clicking the links to the "music reviews".



The "review" obviously isn't about the music, otherwise there would be no mention of artists who have jack squat to do with the song in question.


And you can trust my opinion on all this stuff, I'm an "internet music review expert opinion giver" expert.  

The whole thing, the folly, of the American people and government is, Republicans AND Democrats both have had multiple terms to "right the ship" but unfortunately they all seem to have their heads so far up their collective booties that nobody gets anything but doodieheaded ideas and politicians.

Both parties have allowed a bloated federal government to exist that spends way too much money on things that step over the line of "governing" the masses and cross into the realm of "trying to run their lives" and "spying on mostly innocent people's personal business in the name of national security." Obama has done exactly what Bush has done, albeit with different methods, in creating more and more animosity towards the American people.

God bless Edward Snowden for exposing the NSA and Obama as nothing more than a darker skinned clone of George W Bush. It's just too bad the chickenshit liberals (and most of the conservatives as well) would rather suffer in silence than call out and do something about the president they elected who has done jack squat aside from racking up more national debt and encroaching on the freedoms that made the USA the great country it once was....

I've always wanted to try acid but Brian Wilson scared me into thinking I'd start hearing voices after a week or so and then have to spend a lot of the 1970s wearing a bathrobe.

It's just a plant man.

THEY TOLD ME CRACK WAS JUST A ROCK TOO.

Closer by Nine Inch Nails.

Great choice, but if I were to pick a NIN song for BW to cover, it'd have to be "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" or "The Great Below".

Hate to say this, but I think there's a cohort of posters who talk about this because they can; I dunno, maybe it makes them feel better that they can pick out something like this. When TWGMTR was released there was one insufferable asshole who would go on and on about the damn thing like he was the smartest guy in the world, though I suspect he's only just heard of it on here. Hey let's see if we can detect autotune on....

Unfortunately, this griping was picked up by newspaper writers (the hipster guy who writes for The Guardian being a prime example) who then banged on about it in their reviews - when I suspect it would never have crossed their minds to mention it because they, like most people, are well aware that electronic trickery has been going on for years, but if you want it to spoil your enjoyment of the music, wear yourself out.

Everybody everywhere talks about stuff "because they can". It's part of that whole "freedom of speech" thing. Of course some people act like twatasaurs about their alleged knowledge, and the sheeple just eat that stuff up. People with any modicum of intelligence learn to discount the majority of opinions of internet "experts" and have the eyes and ears and mouths and noses to make their own opinions.

It's when you start reading about the autotunes and melodynes in legitimate, printed, news sources that you need to start questioning the artistic integrity of Brian Wilson and his collaborators.

Which song would you have him and his band cover?


I'd love to hear his take on Lil Jon & The Eastside Boys' "Get Low" or Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over".

Runaway Dancer is friggin' ridiculous, how did Brian even do that?


We got a great album on our hands.

Such a fantastically talented singer, we've talked about her several times on this board and just how generally great she was.  There were so many really cool vocal and harmonic moments in a lot of her songs, like the bridge to "Maybe I Know" or the awesome "Tami" show performance (Here's a link).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0y1Rr5kPII

Her voice was so cool, so dead on key all the time even live.  I believe she had the fabled "Perfect Pitch", her voice almost rings and resonates it's so dead on pitch.  So talented, we'll miss her...

Damn, yeah, that TAMI Show performance is amazing. What a voice, now belonging to the ages.....

Another one I've always loved by her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQmBXEZEYtg

There's never been a bus I've wanted to be on more than that one.... So happy, so uplifting.


Fuckin' cancer taking people before their time.... If there is a god, he sure enjoys watching people suffer....

I've always wanted to try acid but Brian Wilson scared me into thinking I'd start hearing voices after a week or so and then have to spend a lot of the 1970s wearing a bathrobe.

Very, very good song that gets better as it goes along. Just long enough, too. Al sounds amazing. How can this guy be 70?

Agreed, killer song, and it only gets better the more you listen to it!! Though to me, I get to near the end and think "damn I wish this was a minute longer."

Love the parts where Al's harmonizing with who I think is his son, Matt, on those high parts. Definitely has that "family sound" that we all know & love.


I absolutely freaking LOVE that breakdown or whatever you'd call it where it's all "bom bah, bom BAH" and "woooooooOOOO" at the same time.

Those David Marks guitar licks near the beginning remind me a little of Dennis' "You & I", which we know Dave's a fan of....


Love the line "like changin' places with someone in the back of the line" seems very Brianish to me.


THIS ALBUM IS MY FAVORITE ALREADY YA

I am on holiday up in the mountains - far away from both California and stable Internett connection - but
check out NRK.no and the programme NITIMEN - (sorry, very Norwegian) - but
the best i can do for the moment (the streaming is available in an hour from now, I guess)

But it is true👼

Excellent, thanks for the link. I'm in California, too.  Almost 2AM, I was about to go to sleep until I saw your thread, I'm very much looking forward to what I'm going to hear in the near future. 


Enjoy your holiday in the mountains!!! I'd love to be in the mountains too right now.....

Y'know, PAUL JAY ROBBINS has the same number of letters as one PAUL VON MERTENS, wondering if there's a connection.






*Waits for condescending post by one AGDICK telling me how much of an idiot I am.*

Um, what? You're lying? Or you're incredibly lucky to have heard that.... 

About fuckin' time, actually much overdue, for a single from an album that's been "done" for several months by now.


Link to stream?


I'm also going to need your transcribed lyrics, chords, harmony stacks, & tabs/sheet music for the guitar solo. Thanks.

Guitar fool, when is your magnum opus book coming out?

He writes one with every post.

You bet your sweet bippy I do.

I may be a jackass in (most of) my posts a lot of the time, but guitarfool's insight & knowledge about the many things discussed here is very much appreciated by me, and I'm sure by many others.

So in conclusion, thank you for sharing as much as you do in this age of shorthand & 140 characters or less that we live in..... You've got a lot to say, and could totally write a book or really long essay on numerous subjects. 

My homies Billy C & SMiLE-Holland ain't no slouches either.


I love all of you, thanks for being there for me and the rest of the community. <3333

when it comes to SS I kind of think of it like when Kurt Cobain recorded "In Utero" his intention was to make the worst album he could so that it would fail, of course in doing so it became a masterpiece that was so unique people just thought he was being artistic, I'm thinking maybe Brian was getting back at the other guys for not supporting Smile so he set out to record the worst album he could, and it became an art statement....lol.. like his ex wife Marilyn said in IJWMFTT about Brian and the other members of the group after Smile(and I'm paraphrasing) "Look if you think you can do better than go ahead." Brian gave the producer helms to the other boys, washing his hands of it, hence it being Produced by Beach Boys..

I dunno about Kurt trying to make the "worst album he could" or Brian doing the same in regards to In Utero and Smiley Smile, because there's some killer songwriting on both those releases.... But  I do agree Kurt & Brian had similar intentions with them, trying to relieve  pressure from the record company suits to follow up hit albums they wrote/produced.

And in a way, they succeeded. Neither of them were forced into rehashing their old sounds, and neither achieved the lofty commercial heights as their earliest works..... Though it's a goshdarn shame what happened to both of those creative geniuses, because with one we lost decades of great music, and the other we lost a whole lifetime of great music....


Mental illness and drug addiction are some of the worst things. Glad people finally came around and stopped stigmatizing, and started being more accepting of those "eccentricities".

You know you're living in a country that's in deep doodoo when you reminisce for the days way back when when Slick Willy was getting serviced by some moderately attractive intern Lewinsky.

Bean Bag, your heart is in the right place, but the US of A is too complacent and lazy to actually care and do something about our freedoms getting more and more infringed upon....

The president recently enacted that affordable care act law BS which does absolutely NOTHING AT ALL to improve healthcare here, but does force millions of Americans to hand over their hard earned money to for-profit corporations, and nobody really even made a peep about that idiocy.

They could've pumped a bunch of the money they use for spying on Americans' phone calls and text messages and internet histories into educating more healthcare professionals and opening more locations where people can get health issues taken care of, but no, it makes more monetary sense to force every single person to have to pay insurance companies.



If nobody actually gives a sheeit about healthcare scams, nobody's going to care about what happens to their internet, as long as it isn't completely taken away from them....

America, land of the cheap, home of the laze. Keep pledging allegiance to that flag, I'm sure some government fools are on their way to my house to take me out and make it look like suicide. You heard it here first. RIP, stack-o-tracks

I've heard this version is actually John Cusack trying to sound like Brian Wilson on the 1975 version of the killer song from the Today! album.







Not really, but wouldn't that be a terrible bonus track? 

Hello,

Here's a short audio clip of Papa Oom Mow Mow live in 1977, Hope you'll enjoy !

http://youtu.be/TUq3DPtfJbk

Great first post on a great message board, and a great link to a great rendition of a great song.

What other rare things do you have hiding up your internet sleeve? I know you were the one who uploaded that tune, so what other good, rarely-heard things are you hiding from us?

And even though he won't read it, I'd like to thank Bruce for his contributions on California Girls and God Only Knows. Those timeless songs wouldn't be the same without your vocal contributions.