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Been a long, long while since I posted, but I wanted to tell ya'll about the review I wrote about this cool book:


Basically, Brian as a valid artist because of "'Til I Die", his work on Pet Sounds and SMiLE, and a lovely interpretation of Sunflower.
You can read my article online here:
http://readingreligion.org/books/god-only-knows

Let me know what you think or strike up a conversation below.
This is the only Board I read, but feel free to share the link in other forums. It'd make my editor happy.

Peace.

The interview cuts off at 27:40. Is there a part 2 out there somewhere?

27-min is the full length.

Hmmmm I was listening and the audio abruptly ended in the middle of a response, and the time bar had reached 27:40?

The interview ends cold with no outro music. Mike finishes his answer and its over.

What I think was revelatory in the interview was Mike's future plans...he talks retirement---fewer dates and perhaps setting up permanently in Vegas. I suppose that is some fans' worst nightmare.

The interview cuts off at 27:40. Is there a part 2 out there somewhere?

27-min is the full length.

My friend Carl Koz did an interview with Mike Love recently.

Wide-ranging conversation (27-min)  including: new music in the live shows, early Beach Boys songs versus mature art, the battle for songwriting credits and other insider drama, the reunion and future plans.

Check it out: http://archives.radiotitans.com/Kozversations/Kozversation%20w%20Mike%20Love%202.mp3

I won't get a chance to listen to this until later in the day at the earliest. Anyone able to do a quick recap/paraphrase? I don't want to be the lazy ass that asks someone to transcribe the whole thing.

Also, if this isn't answered in the interview itself, can we get the date that interview took place?

Airdate was June 22, IIRC.

My friend Carl Koz did an interview with Mike Love recently.

Wide-ranging conversation (27-min)  including: new music in the live shows, early Beach Boys songs versus mature art, the battle for songwriting credits and other insider drama, the reunion and future plans.

Check it out: http://archives.radiotitans.com/Kozversations/Kozversation%20w%20Mike%20Love%202.mp3

  I've heard some recent Paul vocals that sounded strong while others betray an aging voice. He looks pretty good on the whole but you have to wonder if there is some "hair assistance" at this point. Still a vital artist making good music IMO.

He dyes his hair.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2606775/Brian-Wilson-steps-Beverly-Hills-wearing-Hawaiian-shirt-baggy-tracksuit-bottoms.html

They must be desperate for content  today.
Those are photos of Brian at the Deli, where he can be found about six or eight times a day when he's not touring or recording.
If you ever visit, I recommend the Tuna Melt.

The Beach Boys sold out long before a lot of you were even born and have sold out many, many times over. 

These, actually, are quite well done.

No doubt the Beach Boys are "sell-outs."
From the beginning. Beautiful melodies put in service of extolling the divinity of the spark plug.

 

No lost momentum, in my opinion.

Don't be so impatient. You can't make the plant grow faster by digging up the seeds to see if they've sprouted.

 

Sure does sound like her!
But she didn't have a problem appearing in a documentary film by that name...   

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Wait... wait, I think somebody just said "Girls on the Beach" is "Total Crap".  I must actually be in a film discussion forum, because there's no way in HELL somebody said that in a music related forum...

Great song. Love Denny on the bridge!

I really don't care for the song. For once the singing is not up to the Beach Boys standard; Surfer Girl, In My Room, Lonely Sea, Little Girl, Warmth Of The Sun, Don't Worry Baby and Keep An Eye On Summer are much better songs, and the Denny part is actually the worst part.

All IMHO of course. For a lot of people, such as yourself, Ron and Rab, it's a great song. For me, it really brings down All Summer Long.
I would never consider it to be one of the Beach Boy's worst, but I still generally dislike the song.

I love Denny's out-of-sync double-tracking on the bridge. Totally charming.
I also love when the song transposes in the middle of the last verse. Awesome songwriting.

Wait... wait, I think somebody just said "Girls on the Beach" is "Total Crap".  I must actually be in a film discussion forum, because there's no way in HELL somebody said that in a music related forum...

Great song. Love Denny on the bridge!

Isn't it obvious? For a first-time listener: SOUNDS OF SUMMER.
:-p

If he had the same tastes, his music would appeal to arty types. I don't understand why some people here seem to think that all modern music = Bieber.

I don't think all modern music = Bieber, but he's representative of the contemporary successful 19-year-old pop star. Of course, there are indie artists--in abundance--but they are not superstars, by a long shot. As talented as they may be in crafting melodies, they do not have the ear of a generation, and they will be forgotten quickly.

The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson as a musical phenomenon were born out of a special circumstance that does not exist today.

Brian would never be a success in today's music business.
The parallel would be Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus.
If he was recording his own songs in Garageband and uploading them on Youtube, he'd have a few followers from among his High School buddies and probably a couple hundred views. Some snarky comments on Twitter.
"The Beach Boys" equivalent in today's music is perhaps "One Direction" and they are a made-for-TV creation. It's quite unlikely that a family would gather 'round the piano and sing harmonies together----Dennis would be on Ritalin, Carl would be playing video games, and Mike would be a wanna-be white rapper.

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I'm convinced that when the rumors started of "three albums" what was meant is that there seems to be three types of songs with distinct flavors: (1) BB 2012 leftovers, (2) Beck 2013 collaborations, and (3) new BW solo. We know from Matt Jardine's comments that there's around nine songs with vocals now, so chill out.

I'm sure that Management deems it best to wait to release the album---whatever form it takes--when the Biopic brings the spotlight back to the Wilson Circus. That's a smart move, and if that means there's more time to lovingly craft a decent record, then all that's happened in the meanwhile is fanatical impatience. Relax and listen to MARCELLA 2012. Sweet!

  

The rumors stem from an article in which Brian (I think - might have been Thomas) observed that there was enough material for three albums... which  is of course some way from anyone saying there will be three albums. Business as usual, some over eager fan reading what they want into a perfectly ordinary statement.

I cannot find the article now, but my recollection is it was the writer - not Brian or Joe Thomas - who speculated the material being worked on could turn out to be three albums, based on the different styles and accumulating number of songs.  I definitely do not remember Brian making this comment.

It appears to be Jason Fine, the Rolling Stone writer.

"Actually, the record that Wilson started working on with longtime collaborator Joe Thomas almost immediately after wrapping up the Beach Boys' 50th-anniversary tour last fall has morphed into what could be three records: an album of new pop songs, recorded with his touring band and Beach Boys Al Jardine and David Marks (both of whom will also join Wilson at solo shows this Summer); a set of mostly instrumental new songs with an unlikely collaborator, British guitar legend Jeff Beck (who may also appear on the Wilson solo album); and a complex, melancholy group of interwoven tracks he calls "the suite," created in the modular style of SMiLE, and dealing with loss, vulnerability and hope as Wilson approaches the final chapter of his career."

Rolling Stone, but I found it on the bw website. http://www.brianwilson.com/news/2013/6/20/brian-wilson-rocks-with-jeff-beck-plans-new-lps

Whether the reporter was told this or just inferred it isn't clear, but it is definitely presented as if it were a distinct possibility that there would be three different albums.

I'm still convinced this is hyperbole: rather than "what could be three records"  --- there are three different styles of music. It's a mixed bag, in other words, and even Brian admits in the article: "I keep thinking, 'What's this record gonna be? I have no idea!'".

Let's not forget the author of the article is also associated with the Brian Wilson hype-machine, which not only polishes his public-image but strokes his ego too. So, massage the facts a little and it seems like the genius with writer's block who produced not more than two new collections of songs in the last twenty years is on a winning-streak again after the demise of the very successful Beach Boys reunion.

I'm sure an album is forthcoming around the time of the bio-pic, and I'm sure that it will be a BRIAN WILSON AND FRIENDS album, not a "Beach Boys" record.

I'm convinced that when the rumors started of "three albums" what was meant is that there seems to be three types of songs with distinct flavors: (1) BB 2012 leftovers, (2) Beck 2013 collaborations, and (3) new BW solo. We know from Matt Jardine's comments that there's around nine songs with vocals now, so chill out.

I'm sure that Management deems it best to wait to release the album---whatever form it takes--when the Biopic brings the spotlight back to the Wilson Circus. That's a smart move, and if that means there's more time to lovingly craft a decent record, then all that's happened in the meanwhile is fanatical impatience. Relax and listen to MARCELLA 2012. Sweet!

 

Yikes----this track is too hot.
Look at that waveform: one big blob.

Jeff isn't available-----that's odd.
Isn't he the only "Brian Wilson Band" member on retainer?

 

It's interesting that there are TV ads for a medication called Abilify that treat it like it's some kind of lightweight medication for depressed people to add to their Prozac if Prozac isn't enough. I see the Abilify commercial all the time on network TV. Out of curiousity, I looked up what it does, exactly. It's an anti-psychotic medication that's given to schizophrenics as well as depressed and bi-polar patients. I find it weird that a powerful anti-psychotic drug is advertised on primetime network TV with a cute-sy animated commercial, but I guess those problems are more mainstream and widespread than you'd think.

These disorders are not as widespread and mainstream as the advertising suggests, but it is a sign of the Big Business of pharmocrats: eighty-percent of the population is currently taking some kind of anti-depressant, according to the latest figures. There's a concept called FALSE POSITIVE. If you exhibit enough symptoms, you qualify for the diagnosis which gets you the prescription. You may not have a real problem, but you qualify for the drug.

Fact: no condition is listed in the DSM (the guidebook for diagnosis) without a sponsor.
Fact: no drug is considered for market by the FDA unless it is linked to a specific condition listed in the DSM.

Small investment when you have a potential to make billions of dollars, and the latest version of the DSM expands the number of diagnosis so that nearly everybody in the population can get themselves a prescription for one drug or another or both!

Most people won't think to ask their doctor about "Abilify" or any of the other drugs unless the advertisements tell them that there are drugs for certain kinds of symptoms. But are those symptoms really a medical condition, or are they something else? Like, a spiritual dilemma or a philosophical problem? Disease is socially defined, part of our consensus reality, and there are many professional cliques that earn billions of dollars by drugging the population unnecessarily. Cute ads make it "safe" and normalize it for consumption. It's a twisted business.

Anyway, I always thought it was interesting how Brian wanted to be a psychologist, before he became successful as a musician.

Obviously Brian changed a lot during and after the Landy period, but why did he seem so much more lucid from 1995-1998 than he does now or from the past 10 years? Is it just age?

Brian was a lot more "with it" during the "Stars & Stripes" doc and any interview related to "Imagination" than he is now.

When was the last time we saw this kind of humor out of Brian? Or when he and Mike were discussing writing Fun Fun Fun in the same interview? (does that exist anywhere? Or the whole doc?)

http://youtu.be/LK6dQTS8VwM?t=1m3s

This clip reminded me how much I prefer Matt Jsrdine's work on falsetto to Jeffrey Foskett....

It looks to me like they're both there. Jeff is sitting on Brian's right.
What I noticed is how much Matt Jardine seems to be having a good time.

I'm not complaining about TWGMTR. I love some of the tracks, skip a few of them. I feel the same way about TLOS. Both of them are solid records that I'm not embarrassed to share with my friends, plenty of songs to sing along in the car, and a few teary-eyed moments. These albums will stand the test of time.

The Little Girl I Once Knew
Good to My Baby
Kiss Me Baby
She Knows Me Too Well
In The Back of My Mind
You're So Good to Me
Wouldn't It Be Nice
You Still Believe In Me
That's Not Me
I'm Waiting For the Day
Wild Honey
Aren't You Glad
Time to Get Alone
This Whole World
All I Wanna Do
Our Sweet Love
You Need A Mess of Help to Stand Alone
Let us Go On This Way
The Night Was So Young
Marcella
Wonderful
Cabinessence
Surf's Up
Isn't It Time
Nothing But Love
Good Kind of Love
Goin' Home


Encore:
The Girls on the Beach
Surf City

I think its a great song. But the original production is flat, and the stereo remix is weak. It's much better in a live setting. I loved it at the Roxy.