I've been listening to a band led by Vinnie Vincent, whom I discovered was the guitarist with Dan Hartman on his disco hits "Instant Replay" and "This Is It". Quite a character too, as was Dan Hartman. But unlike Hartman, Vincent hasn't always been the easiest person to get on with. He was with KISS for a while (until they fired him). This is "Boyz Are Gonna Rock" from the debut album by the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, who surely qualify as a "hair band":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4orXwHdK2Q

[The Lost Beach Boy]

Shut Down Volume 2- No more Dave, Al is back full time

I was under the impression that David was, in fact, on a few of the Vol. 2 tunes.  There was some overlap here wasn't there?

You may be right about that. Dave has always said that he played on the first 5 Beach Boys albums. But there's no indication from any source I have that Dave is on the Shut Down 2 album. I wish somebody would set the record straight.

I always thought the Al to Dave to Al transition in the early years was one of the more murky parts of the early BB.

There wouldn't seem to be any more information on David's departure than that recorded in The Lost Beach Boy (p. 98 to end of chapter). Unless more has come to light since then (2007)...

As for threads at Smiley, this one on who sings what is fairly indispensable:

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,5525.0.html

Not to forget Mr. Desper's study videos: http://swdstudyvideos.com/index.html

Outside of Smiley, there's this: http://www.beachboysarchives.com

[The Ginger Man]

RIP JP

I hope the movie gets made of the Ginger Man at some point. Johnny Depp visited quite a few times as far as I know.

My wife used to visit his house as a kid as she was friends with one of his partners kids. He had his own quarters so was rarely seen.

I've often wondered how they might film The Ginger Man. Actually, what I would prefer to see is a biography of its author. The two (?) autobiographical books give his side of the story and a biography by someone who knew him might complete the picture. 

By all accounts J.P. was a very private man. All the same, to have visited his house is quite something in itself. Wow.   

Today's song is Surf's Up [The SMiLE Sessions Ver.]

My favourite "SU" is still the album-closer, the version I heard first, but this one is breathing heavily down its neck...
                             

[The Ginger Man]

I would never have known if I hadn't been looking for recent celebrity deaths. J.P. (Mike) Donleavy is one of my all-time favourite authors. I read The Ginger Man first of course----many times, in fact----but his other early novels (A Singular Man, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B and The Onion Eaters) are all fabulous reads in different ways.

And 91 is a grand age to pop off. Rest in peace, Mr D.   

http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/j-p-donleavy-author-of-the-ginger-man-dies-at-age-91-1.14167485

Just for fun, can we come up with 12 absolute clinkers?

Man, this is difficult. I'm sorry but I can't think of any absolute clinkers. There are lesser tracks----but absolute clinkers?

Does "Happy Endings" count?

Going to YouTube to listen to a symphony and reading the top comment: "I have to listen to this sh*t for homework".

A minor peeve, perhaps. But still...

Use this service:

http://9soundclouddownloader.com/

enter https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/342303408%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-bbxLr&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=

Then download

Thanks, Reggie. Got there in the end, lol.

Love the solo's call and response between acoustic guitar(s) and Duane Eddy-style electric.

Lots going on in there----more listens required. :=)

No need to click on a YT vid called "Hear brian wilson's new surf-rock song 'run james run'"----it's bogus.

Today's song is Child is Father of the Man.

Gave this one a five. I missed "Look" (blink and you'll miss it)----that would have been five as well...

https://genius.com/Fleet-foxes-cassius-lyrics

I like the Foxes but it's never got very much further than that.

Heard some interesting stuff a while back by former Fox Father John Misty...

Right now I'm listening to the Stravinsky piano concerto as posted on my other board by Cool Cool Water, to whom many thanks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS7d8fI9hPw

After DOOM's brilliant epic album it's "drunk in the club" time again, haha (sorry, Ovi). "10,000 Hours" is most unusual in that it starts very upbeat and bright with some great synth lines but ends in the dark ("welcome to the heist"). I don't think you can say that about many songs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT3wLBjq53w   

 "This track is not available in your country."

That's a relief.

My two-year-old granddaughter likes playing with smartphones. One of the videos on ours is a sneaky one of a quartet from Mike's Beach Boys singing "Their Hearts Were Made Of Spring", taken at a recent concert. Yesterday, she found the vid (for the umpteenth time) and sang along with the first few notes! Do you think she'll be arrested?

["walk with me henry" version]

My favorite though is the "walk with me henry" version. I really dig the fuzzy bass on that one. It's all wonderful to me 

H'mm. That one's new to me. Is it on YouTube, Mike?

I just scrolled through about 40 different Wonderful videos on youtube and couldn't find it. I have it one of my boots. Brian (at least I think it's Brian) sings "ah-wowm pretty baby wontcha walk with me henry" over the music. And then at one point says "I need a drink of water". And it's got a real cool fuzz bass sound on it, as well as an upright bass, harpsichord, mandolin and jazzy drums which sound like their being played with jazz rake brushes. Real cool stuff!

OK. Thanks for taking the trouble, Mike. It may turn up there some time----I'll keep an eye/ear out for it.

#9 Dream is probably my all-time favorite solo Lennon tune. Given how it was during a time when, as I mentioned, he was struggling a bit artistically, when I hear it I'm still like "Wow, where did that come from?" (From a weird dream he had, I know, but I mean compared to the other stuff he was recording at the time). It's just so beautiful, the perfect 'dream' song...that chorus is out of this world and sounds like a George Harrison type thing, including the opening slide guitar solo. The only part I kinda don't like is the 'pousse pousse' or whatever word. I know they changed it so it wouldn't sound like the other word, but it still stands out and adds a sort of sexual context to an otherwise innocent sounding song. Oh well, no biggie. Still love it. If you can, listen to the fade out with the volume up, you can briefly hear I 'think' John doing some backup vocals that are drowned out during most of the rest of the song. It just shows how much is really going on.

So '#9 Dream' is the song I'm obsessing over right now.  

"#9 Dream" is one of my favourite John solo efforts ("Woman" is another). It's certainly a song that's difficult to get out of one's brain. I have no trouble with the mock-French chorus and have never thought of it that way. It's just something utterly magical----a language from another planet.

From the sublime to the ridiculous. Right now I'm obsessing about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCY0aeUx-Ns  

[Pet Sounds]

Yes though I wouldn't say it "improved my quality of life".

Sorry to hear that, RR.

As for me, I came in from the opposite side to HVPtIV. As a boy I'd been bitten by the "classical" bug in '62 and had devoured much 19th and 20th century orchestral music by the time Pet Sounds was released. It was my first pop album (in the wake of dozens of "classical" ones) and I listened to it with "classical" ears. It was one of the most colourful things I'd ever heard.

But to answer the OP's question... yes, oh yes! Being a Beach Boys fan has introduced me, via this and other forums, to BB music I would otherwise never have heard (to say nothing of knowledge of things BB) . But it's not just that----contact with fellow fans has introduced me in turn to music, often by artists I'd never even heard of, that I have come to love. So it's a two-way thing.

["walk with me henry" version]

My favorite though is the "walk with me henry" version. I really dig the fuzzy bass on that one. It's all wonderful to me 

H'mm. That one's new to me. Is it on YouTube, Mike?

Found these on pinterest:

1988, San Diego, CA.
Mike, Carl and Al backstage with
Shawn Love (and, presumably, Gage)...

[Today's song is Wonderful]

Today's song is Wonderful.

Say no more!

Gophers football and classical music?

Why not? It was good enough for Charles Ives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqsX4TnXtNw

I almost exclusively post drunk. (I'm neither proud nor ashamed of this fact.)

 

I remember one legendary post of yours when you "finally f*cking unloaded". It should be made compulsory reading.

[20/20]

Today's song is Cabin Essence.

More goshdarn proof of Brian's genius. This must've blown the roof off people's heads when they first heard it at the end of 20/20. It certainly blew the roof off mine.