At risk of duplicating past discussion, yet...

I spent yesterday afternoon listening to Be My Baby multiple times (like the big guy)...in preparation for listening to Pet Sounds
this morning.  Hey! It's a pretty good album!

But seriously...I have a question. Can anybody point to lines/phrases in the album where Al Jardine is up front?  He doesn't have
a lead, of course. Is that him with the "bah bah bah" in the DOK bridge? ( I imagine it is Brian sounding like Al.)  Any help would be
appreciated. In summary:

1:  I'm surprised that Al, with a recent number-one single under his belt, did not feature more.

2: I wish that he had been the lead on Here Today.  (or is he in there?)

 

I’m sure Andrew will buck up, will continue to contribute to the saga as only he can. He has seen worse.
I am reminded of a soirée years ago. He was in officer’s uniform, glass of Maker’s Mark in hand, light and shadow
stressing his tilted jaw, and letting it be known—to a circle of maidens no less—that his cousin Prince Vassily
was in town for a spell, bunking with Andrew himself. One lass called him out—suggesting that Vassily had
in fact recently passed on—whereupon Andrew broke into a falsetto take on the bridge from “No Go Showboat.”
The girls positively swooned. He can maintain his balance.

Wow.  Thank you Professor and Andrew H.  There is such commitment in those performances.
Susan Cowsill...fantastic.  Micky Dolenz...fantastic.  And Let Us Go On This Way!

This is the sort of thing that makes one realize the essential genius of BW.  It's in his genes,
his epigenetics, his neurons.  Can't be explained except by the results.   

Captain...thanks for the reminder.  Had seen it listed at A&L daily.  Now have read it.
The article seems underdeveloped to me.  There seems to be confusion in the use of the word
"philosophy".  To me, an important quality of high art is the surpassing of  ideology (not so much
with lower art forms).  Not sure that the author is saying such when he talks about "philosophy."
I wish he had gone further to consider the hard problem of consciousness and the virtue
or lack of virtue in making ideology a presence. The article made me go back and listen
to Steve Reich's"Eight Lines" and think of how it reminds me of some of the work
of Sean O'Hagan/High Llamas. But not the other way around. 

The Last Picture Show.  1971.

You have to be in a certain mood.  But then it is moving and magical and devastating.
Terrific performances...of course especially by Cloris Leachman (AA).

No Beach Boys content... but gosh, those legs of Ariana Savalas...

a Christmas gift for all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Hrn2_LxDs&list=PL7A4D9C100657150E&index=1

This reminds me of my old response to the Gettin' In Over My Head album:


Yon air ... Brian! Oy!

As they say in Costa Rica, spot on.  And I too recall the Shake character.  He was
sort of a hybrid of Damon Runyon and Elizabeth Bishop.

I've always disliked the cello bit in Good Vibrations.  I would have used rapid, descending
bass guitar (higher notes) arpeggios.  But I will always love Parks' statement in the American
Band video about the legitimacy of a band that sang about the place where the ocean water touched
the shore.  Very Shakespearean that.  Don't care much for what gets said today.

Cam, I don't think you need apologize. This board, if nothing else, is meant to allow an expansive
rhetoric.  (I'm thinking of the example of the hermeneutics of Mr. Loaf as he has boosted jazz and
questioned a couple of songs on Summer In Paradise).  The problem, of course, is when the board's
automatic editor changes our phrases ( "dinky to behold" becoming "hard wood").  Is such censorship
necessary?  Perhaps it depends on the clientele.

...which makes 3 now. Yes, Mr. Loaf?

(4 if you also include "Billy C.")

Even in this craziness, some light shines.  I recall that, during the long walk
to his "Postcards" album, he considered many album titles, including:

I Can't Believe It's Not Al Jardine

Hah hah!  I definitely couldn't make that out.  I do hope Andrew D. can help us.
Gen. Aldo told me he thinks the Peter Smits character is some sort of Capitol liaison
within the Universal Music Group, based in London.  I bet he has a copy of the 45.

PP:   Sorry for the lag in my responding…the story deepens.  A friend from Whitechapel allowed me
to hear the production (evidently pressed as an old-fashioned vinyl 45) over my cell phone.
It sounded like the original Beach Boys version but in bad quality—like a 45 played on a phonograph
and sent over a phone.  This is more weird:  The friend stated that a restraining order (he called it
an “epoxy wicket”) has caused the records to be embargoed.  I may be the only person over here who
has heard it. So I guess I’m the link for now.  I’m trying to get my friend, General Aldo, to contact Andrew Doe.   

Hank B:  I've read your posts, and have to guess that you are embellishing (I'm being
kind) here and there. Like Carl Wilson in his "Australia" phase.  To suggest that A. Boyd
is your contact...well...last time I spoke with him he didn't know the difference between
a primrose and a prime number.  Although he knew a little about impatiens.   

I have to share this…blew my mind…from The Late Reverend Arthur Belling Evermore Newsletter,
which, strangely enough, I continue to receive from across the pond.

Whitechapel, June 14, 2015.   The “Offices of Mr. Posner (ret’d)” announced today the release
of a new “modern” version of “Passing By” (Full Quotation Records, Ltd.).  This surprising, perhaps uncalled-for, release
by the veteran esteemed organist features a large cast of musical players and a surprising “today’s hip” result.  Drawing
from decades of experience, Posner has constructed a version of the famous Brian Wilson/Beach Boys song that seems
to equal the original and perhaps exceed it in a quality of self-reference.  “Our goal,” said Posner, “Was to do justice to each note
and intention of the original—to do no harm.”  He added that the recording is meant to praise Brian Wilson, the song’s creator,
while perhaps offering a new authenticity that might resonate with a new younger generation. Calling on the services
of some of England’s popular current singers (Smith, Perry), Posner was able to well estimate the harmonies involved.
Employing electronics and his uncanny sense of the keyboard-semblable, he was able to mirror the original Brian Wilson sounds.

Posner reported that a video of the song’s production was to include a shot of Beach Boy Mike Love adding his lower part
to the harmony.  “That actually didn’t happen, stated Posner, “because of a prior commitment of Love to an antique auto show
in Potomac, Maryland.”  He added, “We also had to shelve the take featuring Kanye West blowing into a jug, because of
a screeching sound that we couldn’t remove.”  The final result manages to duplicate the original Beach Boy voices
in the harmony and the arrangement and ambience of the original Beach Boys’ instrumental recording.  The video of the song
shows Posner, with local Whitechapel instrumentalists Jim T. and Pants Elk, and vocalists Pogo Mahone and Claude Akins
straining in a successful effort to duplicate the Beach Boys’ gem.   

Despite its brilliance, the recording has produced a small amount of controversy.  “It’s just the same goshdarn track,” stated
Capitol Records vice-president Peter Smits.  “Nothing’s different from the original.  Instruments…voices.  I don’t know who
these people are.”  Smits admitted that he couldn’t prove that the artists shown in the video made the released recording.
 “But you know,” he concluded, “Only true counterfeiters could produce something so equal to the original.” 

C, C, A, J:  It's Sunday morning and I'm praising the good Lord.  We all say
mis-measured intemperate things once in a while.  Let's have a cold beer
right now... (sorry, A)
--Don

Possibly worth checking out if you haven't.  Postmodern Jukebox is a YouTube phenomenon in which
a group of musicians/singers places recent songs in old styles.  Pastiche, I guess.  But very well done.
Every song features Scott on the piano and Adam on bass.  The lead singers are always good.   This new video
features the Amazing Morgan James.  She's a soul singer, but in this case...she does a mean
imitation of a theremin.  (at about 2:09)  The videos tend to take place in somebody's apartment,
suggesting a nice intimacy.  I encourage all to check out the tons of performances...many great
lead singers in many old styles.

This is a new performance.  It is NOT one of the better ones, overall.  But perhaps of interest in these parts...
especially that theremin.


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ReSV3CCRzg

So this morning I've been working on my new novel-manuscript about the history
of fast food in Thailand. I've been googling all sorts of names and phrases...and when I
googled "fluent bollocks" I was sent to this site.  Excellent!

Lee...Totally sympathetic re such agonistes.   Here's hoping things improve.  I remember taking a bath
when I ran that ASM scratch-n-sniff cover (some Portuguese perfume that Diane R. liked).  Big outlay,
little result.  Please hang in there! 

O & O is a profoundly overrated album on Beach Boys fanboy sites.
It has a nice enough sixties feel.  But really...relax.  There is no great song,
no complex harmony, no understanding of history. No shift
in ontology.

Thanks, Lee.  I'm noticing now that I have a  Tonight You Belong/Goodnight My Love promo (red/orange target),
then I also have a Canadian Tonight You Belong/Goodnight My Love (stock copy...regular classic orange/yellow swirl).
Forgot about these things!  Those were the days.

Thanks!

Just went into the closet and dragged out the little "singles" bookcase/record-case.  Lot of cobwebs.

and...sweet...I've got that Sunflower thingy...plus He's a Doll and Sweet Mountain.
Both of the latter are promos.  Worth less, I'm guessing...but I bet I can afford that trip
to Jersey now.  (That's NEW Jersey to all you Brits.)

Guys...It's been a long time...What was the Sunflower EP?
And what about the Honeys singles (value-wise)?

So it will be a "Brian and Alan" single.  That would seem to be a proper attribution
for the single, what with singles usually stressing the singer(s) as artists.

At this point, one might construct a nice album of "Brian and Alan".