We need Scott T to chime in on that, but I personally believe (based on YouTubedotal evidence) that Bruce wears pants most of the time now. The short shorts thing is a relic of decades past, and what's really a curiosity/burning question is when is the last time Bruce sported a mustache onstage....?

The only stuff I dig off Party was the car medley (we always take my car although it's a heap) and when Dennis sings that Beatles song. It's fun and timeless, but it definitely lacks what Summer Days and Pet Sounds have a lot of.... If that makes any sense. Which it doesn't.

Man, shut your whore mouth, nobody cares what you think or feel and your opinion is just plain wrong.

Looking back with these roseish colored lenses and being born the same year as Kokomo, my opinion is idiotic and wrong, but Capitol didn't really screw The Beach Boys, they screwed themselves by not making the music that the general public went nuts for, like they did those first 4 years.

Yes, their mid-60s music is now considered by many as their creative peak, but.

They peaked commercially at a time when their music was perfect for the times, and never really got with the times after their "wave broke" (PUN INTENDED LOLOLOL) in the mid-60s, and never really regained their commercial footing until they started releasing greatest hit comps once their music was considered "nostalgic."


The average music listening people will name "Surfin' USA", "I Get Around", or "California Girls" when you talk about Beach Boys songs, but when it comes to "masterpiece albums", such as Pet Sounds, pretty much the only songs people aren't as whacky as us will mention is  "Wouldn't It Be Nice", to a lesser extent "Sloop John B", and to an even lesser extent, "God Only Knows".


It all comes back to people not appreciating what they have until it's gone. If Pet Sounds were a smash hit and Smile was released and a hit in the way Brian Wilson imagined it near the beginning of the project, we'd have a totally different history of the band. There'd be no Love You or Summer In Paradise. But what would there be? And would we really want it any other way? Yeah we would.

super rare oil painting of katie wilson & bryan perry

I wonder if Mike will post this one to his Facebook and give me a shout out during a concert.

Great find!!! I think I may of heard this awhile ago. Pretty sure it's 76 or 77.

I definitely think it's later than Micha's '72 estimate, but not quite the same as it was during 15 Big Ones or Love You.

So I'm going to say it's from 1974. 

Kinda bummed Lana Del Rey's version of Last Song didn't make the cut.... Not a huge fan, but she's got a nice voice, and it'll definitely put a dent in sales because now fans of her aren't going to check the music out....


Looking forward to the rest of the album tho. My homie Scott Weiland's got one coming out a week prior to No Pier Pressure, so I've got a lot of good stuff to look forward to in April.

I think selling us the songs, preferably several times...  is kind of the point.

Sooo... I wonder how many outtakes this generated?

What would be the point of buying the regular CD as well as the deluxe edition?  And who would do that?

A collector.  You are surrounded by them right now in fact.

There aren't as many as you think.

I remember when I was 19 years old and thought I knew everything.

These internet generation kids got no respect....

please, dub & upload. pm me it or post soundcloud link or whatevz.  really great clip you uploaded, would love to hear the rest.


is it 90 whole minutes of dennis talking or is there other things, people talking about dennis, etc?

You can blame sweetdudejim on the error of my ways. Or blame me for not reading the entire Welcome thread in that forum.

Either way, I'm very excited Brian decided to grace us with his presence and will be answering some of our questions in advance of this new album we will hopefully be getting to hear sooner rather than later.

BILLY C, have you tried the new jalapeno McChicken?

That'd be another good review. I liked that one better than its burger counterpart.

I really wanted to ask him a Kill-Marry-Screw style question about Kacey, Zooey and Lana, but I figure the mods would not be cool with it, and Brian probably wouldn't answer it. He'd probably just screw & marry all 3, I know I would. 


So instead I just asked if we're ever going to hear the long-rumored album known as Pleasure Island.

When, exactly, are we going to be able to hear your new album?

Seems like the release dates we hear online keep getting pushed back further and further.... A lot of us would love to know a precise release date for your new tunes.

Since the big man decided to grace us with his presence, I figured it would be a good idea to have a thread where we can ask him our burning questions.

Will he respond? Who knows!

But it doesn't hurt to at least try, especially now that we know he is officially one of us SmileySmilers.

I thought this thread was going to be about Charles' son, Mini.


But Mini Manson is a blackjack dealer, not a musician, so that wouldn't make any sense.

I kept an eye on summer, now I have cataracts. Thanks a lot, Beach Boys.

Just now seeing this thread so I'm a few days late. But honestly, if you want to save money to do stuff you'll enjoy throughout the remainder of your retirement, but an Asian car. Honda or Toyota, mostly. Outside of Japan, Kia of Korea makes a decent vehicle.

You probably won't find the fanciest or the fastest, but they're reliable, much moreso than (most) American cars.

I think you should buy a cheap, reliable car, then use it to go to places and experience things that will be much more memorable to you than owning a "cool" car will be.

As for a recommendation, check out a Kia Optima from the past couple years, they're more "sporty" than they used to be, and you can probably find one for a decent price. If you're looking to spend more than $20k, find a used Toyota Land Cruiser. 

Not a fan of U2.  Therefore I'm not going to post in this thread. 

THIS THREAD HAS YOUR SHEET SO FOOKED UP YOU DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING ANYMORE



I hope you get the help you need to get your life back on track.

I don't think Dennis would have gone into music had he not joined the Beach Boys. Seems we have his mum, Audree, to thank for that.

Don't forget his big brother for showing him the way. 

Doesnt surprise me. Any and Every substantial group PERIOD is influenced by the Beach Boys.  And every band/artist in the last 40+ yrs makes it known that they wouldnt exist without em. The greatest of the great I.e. the Ramones, Dictators, Dickies, Descendents, Queers, Travoltas, etc have ALL either covered the BBs and/or borrowed from em, very prevalent.

No. Just no.

Don't knock other peoples' tastes.

Books, music, movies, dog breeds, trees. Just cause you don't find them to be the greatest, doesn't mean other people can't.


In regards to this thread, I found that whole " Ba Ba Barbara Santa Barbara " song to be pretty cringeworthy.

I think if Dennis Wilson wasn't in The Beach Boys, he would probably have spent a lot of his life in jail.


Definitely he was in the right band, and the only band, that is for Dennis Wilson to be in.

John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas has been dead for 13 years.

John Hunter Phillips, as the different name and being alive would suggest, is indeed a different person.

Well that's good to hear. With the amount of unreleased, studio-recorded songs by artists who are currently not living; and record labels on life support that are looking to make a quick buck off of said people who currently spend their time as corpses, it's hard to know if the stuff being shilled is actually new or just being marketed as new by a bunch of scumbags who would rather sell some rapist's music than work a real job.


Sorry if I'm offending people, but me, I'd rather change my "professional" name than have to share most parts of it with some folk rock singer whose life is marred by the awful things that have come to light in recent years.

Good luck to ye. It's hard these days to make a living creating music unless you're involved in a particular type of generic garbage rock type stuff (Foo Fighters) or cretinous rap garbage (Lil Wayne and Drake) or absolute shite po(o)p loved by young teen girls (One Direction). It would be satisfying to me to know that somebody with a similar love of this crazy 1960s pop-rock "god" had what it takes to carve a niche in the almost mostly talentless modern music scene.

Guy has either done some reprehensible things or has an unfortunate name that you wouldn't even wish on a guy whose last name is Hitler.