I had a re-boot of this on a label called Red Robin.   Anyone else have that?

Previous to that I ordered the original 2-CD set from Dave Prokopy.  He wrote back to say he'd send it as soon as he could but his tape deck was in the shop!  We all know how long electronics repairs take.  It was literally four or five months of waiting.  I vividly remember the first listen, at work.  At that point all I had was the GV box material and the pitiful Early Years offering.  A great day that was!

Catch a Wave, people.   

I certainly think of Landy when I hear

"A lotta people out there hurtin' and it really scares me."

"I won't let you see me suffer, whoa not me," etc.

I'm a cantina version fan all the way.  I think the "three score and five" bit is the best part of the song and the "la la la la la" is just the song treading water for a while.

Reminds me of another Brian - Jones.

I don't think RangeRoverA1 is polluting the board at all. Let's remember that the Beach Boys love all girls and wish they all could be...well, you know the rest! If RR's avatar is actually her own picture, then we should all be a lot nicer!! And if it's not--RR: "Girl Don't Tell Me"....  

Also, please keep this kind of stuff out of here, it's just creepy. I've noticed that whenever we have a girl posting here, people can't control themselves and things get carried away to the point of melodrama. I know, it's novel that there's a girl posting here, super awesome, but if want to flirt, take it to private messages or something.

I'm glad somebody pointed this out. I agree, very creepy.

Besides, the avatar is Jenny Boyd, younger sister of Pattie "Layla" Boyd and former wife of Mick Fleetwood.

Yes.

References to "the beach" and "another bucket of sand" killed the album two minutes into the first track.

How "finished" was Cabin Essence by the collapse of the SMiLE sessions? I know that Dennis's "truck driver" vocal was recorded in '68, but other than that I don't know any details.

Does it occur to anyone that there was no such thing as a truck driver who would high tail their load off the road when the grand coolies were working on the railroad?  Just a thought.

Boy Lovers

If you want to find yourself under investigation by the police, that's a good one.

"Treble up!"

Any song that doesn't contain the word "kids," "groovy," or "cool" or "outtasight."   And Salt Lake City.  

The name was most definitely a blessing and a curse, a blessing for two or three years, and a curse for the rest of eternity.  I think about that line in Good Morning Vietnam where Krohnaur says "for God sakes get the Beach Boys" to come play in Saigon and someone quips "their agent says they're still on the Beach and won't be off till September."  Makes me cringe at the pigeonhole that name put them in, to paraphrase Dennis, forever.

Well, Endless Summer sure turned to gold so the pressure was off financially.  To paraphrase Ray Davies, it was was also creatively easier to give the people what they want and turn into an oldies band, which that co-billed tour with Chicago did to them.

Big deal if he wiggles his fingers or dances like a fool. (Real fans like myself, dig it!)

I'm a 'real fan' and I don't dig it. 

You'll be won over by the inevitable return of the chicken dance.

Stamos will sing Forever, no doubt.

I love the Sunflower album as much as anyone but with a lead-off single like "Add Some Music" it's probably no wonder it wasn't a huge smash for the group. Personally I think it's a very good and charming little song but at the time it might have sounded a little too much like a bunch of bored millionaire rock stars singing about things all nice and cozy and that apparently didn't get them back into the limelight.

The voice of Mike Love on Add Some Music is like an aural candy-striped shirt.  And when he sings "The world could come together as one/if everybody under the sun/would add some music . . . " it was obvious they were trying too hard.

I vote Rio Grande. 

I picked Sunflower barely over Friends.

This is me too. 

I always hear "I'm your kind I'm your kind of Nazi" in the chorus.

Sure I do. It's the loneliest number.

OK, I could've submitted each question one at a time. But I was trying to make up for all the joke questions people were putting up!

OK, going back to one question:

Brian, did you ever continue to work on SMiLE tapes in secret after the project was canned, as has been rumored?

Somebody stop me...

No, no - keep 'em coming!

Also:

Was the "intro" (firebells/whistles) intended as intro to Heroes & Villians or Mrs. O'Leary's Cow?

Is there a recorded vocal for "Old Master Painter"? (YOU sang this at the Atlanta Smile show)

Was "With Me Tonight" intended as part of Heroes & Villians?

Just have to say you have the most awesome avatar ever . . .

Eh.  He was a half ass member.  BTW what's he done since then?  

He plays guitar in the Rolling Stones, covering for Keith Richards on guitar from behind the amps. 

Thanks for that, Have to say it works well. And I was under the impression that a number of Videos was made around this time (66/67) like the "Fire" video, Guess I was wrong?

The 'Fire' video was actually for 'Good Vibrations'.  Although it matches up much better with 'Mrs. O'Leary's Cow', for obvious reasons. Unless you're talking about the home movie of the Boys in the studio wearing the Fire hats-which, now that I think about it, you probably are!
Also, I recall watching a movie a few months back on YouTube. It was somebody's mix of 'DYLW' with 'Little Pad' thrown in, and it had clips from different BB things of that era, like Brian in the studio wearing a fire hat, the Boys outside on a beach somewhere, someone with a movie camera (I think it's Paul McCartney), and a part where Carl (I think) rides his bike down a bunch of hilly streets. I can't find it anymore, and I think it was made by a poster here on the board.

Curious then, that Mike at one point puts his fingers to his mouth like he's holding an imaginary joint and rolls his eyes, suggesting that the music was drugged out, leading me to believe he knew it was for Mrs. O'leary.  Hard to imagine Mike not being a fan of GV.

Little Pad, This Whole World, Steamboat, Let Us Go On This Way.

Dude, you poached my avatar . . .

So it seems I did! And I thought I had one no one else had. Let me work on that for you!

No worries man.  Time for a change.  If anyone already has this, please let me know.

Little Pad, This Whole World, Steamboat, Let Us Go On This Way.

Dude, you poached my avatar . . .