gfxgfx
 
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
logo
 
gfx gfx
gfx
680601 Posts in 27601 Topics by 4068 Members - Latest Member: Dae Lims March 29, 2024, 12:38:14 PM
*
gfx*HomeHelpSearchCalendarLoginRegistergfx
  Show Posts
Pages: 1 ... 373 374 375 376 377 [378] 379 380 381 382 383 ... 391
9426  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: SMiLE Sessions box set! on: August 13, 2011, 09:12:11 AM
1.When the cows come home.
2.When the farmers return to Hialeah,Florida.
3.When Godot arrives.
4.When Hell freezes over.
5.When Capitol Records releases "The Beach Boys-The Smile Sessions"

(Footnote to the above: Hell DID freeze over......once, for the rock group "The Eagles", so there's still a small chance that the "Smile" box MIGHT be released.)

6. When you quit bitching?

7. When the Second Coming of the Lord comes to pass (only, by then, Phil will have taken umbrage at His/Her non-appearance and changed his affinity to a lesser religion whose lead figures never really went away – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slLIu5Yb1MI, for example).
8. Will you have a Box Set listening party with AGD when the box is released?
9427  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The Monkees Reunion Tour canceled on: August 12, 2011, 08:43:12 PM
Why do we even need Davy on the tour anyway? What function did he ever serve besides pretty boy?
...And first class Jerk to the rest of the members.
9428  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Did Brian Ever Sleep Around On Tour ? on: August 12, 2011, 08:41:31 PM
The book writen by their tour manager makes it clear they all slept around. Brian wasn't on tour at the time but I have no reason to think that the young handsome Brian of 61-64 didn't have at least a few on the road flings.
Its hard not to have flings when you have crazy girls screaming at your shows every night.
9429  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Did Brian Ever Sleep Around On Tour ? on: August 12, 2011, 08:31:58 PM
I'm all for free speech, but these inane threads are starting to get on my nerves. I like to talk about the Beach Boys in an intelligent, sometimes funny or goofy way. Not  stuff that is just plain weird and not fun or intelligent to read. Ghost would be better off if he posted less, because he has funny posts among the weird or odd posts he makes . Smiley
After thinking about my post, I was overreacting to yesterday about that wacky thread "Surfin' is cooler than Good Vibrations"  ghost made yesterday where he had four really crazy posts back to back. I sound like a creep like from "1984".  Sometimes annoyed at Ghost's posts, yes, denying him free speech, thats when I crossed the line.

Triumph! I have overthrown your Big Brotherly ways & now post with Caligula-like pomp and abandon.  Evil


Since you referenced the ancient Roman emperor Caligula and the word triumph, i couldn't help myself from thinking about this quote:

Patton: [voiceover] For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.



 
9430  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Beach Boys \ on: August 12, 2011, 06:31:24 PM
It truly is awesome, Brian comes alive singing and looks happy for a brief time. At 1:48, is that Billy H in the choir?
9431  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Did Brian Ever Sleep Around On Tour ? on: August 12, 2011, 04:58:10 PM
I'm all for free speech, but these inane threads are starting to get on my nerves. I like to talk about the Beach Boys in an intelligent, sometimes funny or goofy way. Not  stuff that is just plain weird and not fun or intelligent to read. Ghost would be better off if he posted less, because he has funny posts among the weird or odd posts he makes . Smiley
After thinking about my post, I was overreacting to yesterday about that wacky thread "Surfin' is cooler than Good Vibrations"  ghost made yesterday where he had four really crazy posts back to back. I sound like a creep like from "1984".  Sometimes annoyed at Ghost's posts, yes, denying him free speech, that's when I crossed the line.
9432  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike Love Mocking 'Heroes & Villains' on: August 12, 2011, 10:56:49 AM
Brian wrote the skit in a bizarre way to deal with the failure of the song on the charts.
9433  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Did Brian Ever Sleep Around On Tour ? on: August 12, 2011, 10:26:58 AM
I'm all for free speech, but these inane threads are starting to get on my nerves. I like to talk about the Beach Boys in an intelligent, sometimes funny or goofy way. Not  stuff that is just plain weird and not fun or intelligent to read. Ghost would be better off if he posted less, because he has funny posts among the weird or odd posts he makes . Smiley
9434  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: London Riots on: August 11, 2011, 12:09:50 PM
It's tough to be a libertarian socialist with right-wing crypto-Nazi nonsense on Fox and Sky "news" that so many people take oh so seriously.
Fox News just exists so people get angry and distracted over issues that are really not important, while real issues stay unsolved.
9435  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Odd, weird, disturbing, or downright \ on: August 11, 2011, 08:21:08 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMqxNPsfN50
Tom Waits "what's he building?"
9436  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Thread for various insignificant questions that don't deserve their own thread! on: August 11, 2011, 07:34:15 AM
Whats the story behind the song "our team"?
9437  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Surfer Girl on: August 10, 2011, 05:36:11 PM
I like the other "rehearsal" version where Brian sings "I used to take you" on the bridge.  Both 1967 versions are very nice, but I agree that they shouldn't be compared to the studio version.
I love the 1963 studio version the most, I was just blown away by the 1967 version when I listened to the box set and wanted to see what other people thought about it.
9438  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Surfer Girl on: August 10, 2011, 05:30:22 PM
The track I'm talking about is the last track on disk 5 of the box set which they sing the normal lyrics unlike the boot of the one at Wally Heider's studio. The Harmony and smooth singing (Even from Mike!) is so beautiful to hear.
9439  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Surfer Girl on: August 10, 2011, 04:44:28 PM
I'm just hooked on the 1967 version because it sounds like a sad swan-song to the golden era of The Beach Boys.
9440  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Surfer Girl on: August 10, 2011, 04:16:12 PM
I have been listening to the 1993 box set and have been hooked on listening to the 1967 Hawaii "rehearsal" version of the song. Which version do you guys think is better, the studio version from 1963 or the Hawaii version?
9441  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: WhAt iS yOur HOly GrAll of SMilE sTufF?? on: August 10, 2011, 01:13:00 PM
The completed album that Brian's hidden from everybody as one big joke. Grin
9442  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: SMiLE Sessions box set! on: August 09, 2011, 10:36:15 PM
Just waiting for the SMiLE Sessions has been hard, but i will wait as long as necessary with the awesome other albums of the band until i hear the music of SMiLE.
9443  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: LOS: The Last Great Brian Wilson Record on: August 09, 2011, 10:31:43 PM
I guess I still need to buy this album, I have been distracted by the SMiLE sessions hoopla.
9444  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Atypical roads that lead to Beach Boys fandom on: August 09, 2011, 10:27:50 PM
I think being 5 yrs old and already aware of them as a "current" phenomena is fairly atypical. Having teenage sisters in my house swooning over them gave me an awareness of the fan worship element at a very impressionable stage. I don't really know anybody that was exposed to them quite the same way, although i'm sure there are thousands, although maybe not influenced to the point of writing books and obsessing over minute details of their music.

What i would give to be alive as a fan buying the LPs during the band's heyday ...

No kidding - even though I discovered their music in mostly chronological order anyways, being along for the ride in "real time" would have been quite the trip.
Breaking down the Holland trip and Brian's breakdown real time would have been interesting. Also hearing their singles on the radio would have been awesome instead of never hearing them ever on the radio.
9445  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Atypical roads that lead to Beach Boys fandom on: August 09, 2011, 04:38:50 PM
I think being 5 yrs old and already aware of them as a "current" phenomena is fairly atypical. Having teenage sisters in my house swooning over them gave me an awareness of the fan worship element at a very impressionable stage. I don't really know anybody that was exposed to them quite the same way, although i'm sure there are thousands, although maybe not influenced to the point of writing books and obsessing over minute details of their music.

What i would give to be alive as a fan buying the LPs during the band's heyday ...
9446  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Old Essay I wrote about The Beach Boys for my college class on: August 09, 2011, 04:25:03 PM
Very Nice..

Have written a few Beach Boys essays in college myself
Its such an easy topic to write about  Grin
9447  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Old Essay I wrote about The Beach Boys for my college class on: August 09, 2011, 03:53:42 PM
That be a harsh analysis, oh ethereal one. We can't all take as many drugs be so cosmically conscious as yourself....

I got an "A" grade on the paper, which made this paper worthwhile. I guess I'm doing well being somewhat not cosmically conscious
9448  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The Monkees Reunion Tour canceled on: August 09, 2011, 03:39:31 PM
The comments on the article allude to low ticket sales and bad performances
9449  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Old Essay I wrote about The Beach Boys for my college class on: August 09, 2011, 02:31:29 PM
The Beach Boys


I wrote this early in my fandom, so forgive if I made mistakes or simplied their history for this paper




Voice: I am a marketing executive sent to help the beach boys have a better web presence to help with their popularity in the 21st century.
Audience: The band members of Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Alan Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks who are the main surviving members of the band today.
Message: The band needs better a website to promote deep material the band has recorded over the years because the current website doesn’t really show the deep material that has made the band so great.
Tone: You guy need to make money because of all the bad record deals over the years that have prevented the members from making their money like they really want to.
Attitude: I can help these guys a lot if they just stop arguing for 10 minutes about future concerts or record deals.
Reception: I want my band to be recognized as great as the Beatles like they should be by the public instead of being ignored and not making any money.
 

           The Beach Boys have been around performing music since 1961, yet are not respected by the public like the Beatles are. The main reason for this is that the dad of band leader Brian Wilson sold the music rights of the band away, forcing the band to perform all their greatest hits material to make money because Brian Wilson had mental health issue preventing the writing of new material that the public would like. This had the result that the public thinking they are cheesy and not very good at all despite their albums having deeper material that is classic American music. The members also don’t get along with Brian and Al not getting along with Mike due to hatred built up from years of band infighting. To get this project to work I will need the members to get along and realize they need to market their material to a new audience to make the money they want to.  My job is find a way to promote this band online so they can make more money and regain the public affection they once had.
 
              The problem with the Beach Boys is that they don’t promote their album material well at all. The official website has little or no information about the band’s history and material made over the years. The fan sites are so much better because they have the whole history and reviews of material by the band and even have entire sections about bootlegs that float around on the tape trading market. Wikipedia is also a great source of information with a history of the band along with pages on songs and every album the Beach Boys ever did in their heyday. The only CDs or MP3s promoted are the greatest hits collections, which have the same material that everybody knows. I had to buy all of their less known, but better material on CDs from secondhand record stores or random sellers on amazon.com’s market place. I also noticed on YouTube that everybody has put up videos of unreleased material for viewing by the fans. This makes the band lose money because the fans can listen to this material for free instead of paying for it in unreleased material box sets that could help mark 50 years of the band being in existence. The worst example of this free music is the bootlegs of the upcoming Smile Sessions Box set being all over YouTube, making the fans know what is coming in the set and maybe not wanting to pay for the album after listening to it for a while for free.
 
             The Solution to this problem is to take the videos off YouTube and release the songs on CDs or MP3 at affordable prices for the fans. The new central band website should show these songs to public for free if the band doesn’t want to sell the unreleased material. Also the band should totally reunite and make new material for the fans to listen to instead of the fans getting tired of the old material and trying to find new songs in bootlegs or other recordings not meant for the fans to listen to ever. The band should reissue all its albums online or in stores so fans see the albums and buy them to listen to the deep tracks that make the band so great. A central band website also needs to use the fan website material with permission from each fan website. This action will help new fans to the group learn which material to buy from reading the articles on the new central website and also learn what material is bad and would make fan angry at the band for selling them crappy material.
 
 
            The social media aspect for the group is alright and could get better over time. This is due to Brian Wilson having his own facebook account with information about his personal life and the account notifying the fans when a new album or award comes the band’s way. Al Jardine and Mike Love also have a great web presence on facebook. Each member also has a twitter account that keeps the fans in touch just like the facebook pages do as I said before. These forms of media keep the band popular with the fans online and also give free marketing for the band to get new fans. Using social media is one thing the band has gotten right these days. The presence of facebook and twitter could get better if all the members combine their pages into one big Beach Boys fan page that could promote future events to the fans everywhere.
 

         The results of my advice will be a popular band that has its reputation and fortune restored as a new generation of fans can listen to their music and buy their albums. The high media presence will help the band reunite for a 50th anniversary tour to top off this new era of media exposure. The fans will get excited and spend money on the band, creating more money for the band so the old members of the band can retire in peace from touring at last. This can only happen however if the band listens to my advice and uses the internet to market the band effectively to fans around the world. Social media is changing the world and if the Beach Boys use social media to their advantage, their fame and popularity will only go upward with the public.
 

· how you arrived at the topic;
My interest in the band made me want to learn more about their web presence as I wanted to find more information on the band.
· How you developed your ideas about it; I thought about the history of the band and figured out how it led to the fractured web presence of today.
· what your purpose is for writing (other than or in addition to fulfilling a class assignment); I wanted to educate the general public about a band that is one of the best ever, but is ignored for many reasons by the general public
· where you think you did your best writing and thinking (and why); the web presence analysis because I had truly looked up the features of the pages in much detail during the project
· what aspects of the essay project gave you the most difficulty, The solutions to their problems because there are no easy solutions to help a rock group get back on top after years of failure and rejection.

 
 
Bibliography:Works Cited
 
"The Beach Boys." AllMusic. Ed. Allmusic. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. <http://www.allmusic.com/>.
 
"The Beach Boys." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Ed. Wikipedia Editors. Wikipedia, 2011. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/>.
 
Up, Clicking Sign. "Various Profiles." Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More. Mark Zuckerburg, 2011. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. <http://www.facebook.com/>.
 
"Various Videos." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Ed. Video Uploaders. Youtube, 2011. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/>.
 
Wheadon, Bret D. "History." The Beach Boys: The Complete Guide. 2011. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. <http://www.beachboys.com/>.
9450  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Atypical roads that lead to Beach Boys fandom on: August 09, 2011, 02:22:27 PM
Mine was through watching American graffiti and picking up sunflower and today in a bargain bin at the CD store.
Pages: 1 ... 373 374 375 376 377 [378] 379 380 381 382 383 ... 391
gfx
Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines Page created in 0.321 seconds with 21 queries.
Helios Multi design by Bloc
gfx
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!