if brian and his band's performing this show today will he forget?

to mention today is the 51st anniversary date of the original LP's release

can't wait too long
all this is that
had to phone 'ya
all I wanna do
marcella

the other day listening to MIC cd's in my car I was reminded of one just such Beach Boys moment--FEEL FLOWS, following the Charles Lloyd flute instrumental break there's this rhythm breakdown / shift to a toy type piano taking lead over.  Man, that is just transcendent to listen again to

just once in my life
had to phone 'ya
the tm song
a casual look
chapel of love

"Did you purchase the Spring album new at a major record store? Was it in the regular bins?"

yes I recall thumbing through the bins (probably new release) at a major metropolitan store and seeing the Spring LP in '72 (no not '73 that'd be too late IIRC), but it took a minute for me to realize just what it was.  I played it for friends then but the screwy moment of vocal harmony on Good Time ("you know what that can lead to") there usually drew guffaws from them (yes time to get new friends).  I liked Sweet Mountain a lot and thought Everybody had a neat beat of the type Brian's good at, but could've completely done without Superstar

yeah from what I've heard of My Solution it wouldn't be out-of-place on the Love You album, if indeed it was absolutely necessary to revive and include a dated recording at all.  In other word(s) - 'Why'?

When Love You first came out I viewed Good Time as a certified beach boys gyp, because I'd already heard the song a lot on the Spring L.P. which I bought in 1973.  There was absolutely no need for Brian or the group as a whole to pass it off as a Beach Boys recording later in life because A) their version doesn't add anything substantial to it (that it was actually recorded for Sunflower winds up being irrelevant), and B) the song is a neat little curiousity and doesn't merit repeating since the Spring version gave it all anybody could have IMO.  I imagine the song was resurrected because the Spring L.P. hardly sold at all and the group therefore thought the tune had been 'wasted' and so not familiar enough to the public

well......
well-a well-a
well

roller skating child -

100% authentic genuine honest-to-goodness real Beach Boys POLKA!

mr kessel can be seen here in this 1966 sonny & cher recording session film but unfortunately I don't think he has that mandolin-type guitar there: 

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

two ways to look at it and the other's of course Brian could be interested (in a Bluthner) BECAUSE the beatles utilized it (if he knew).  pocket change (for him)?  well that's also debatable.

not that I have one, I vowed to stick w/ made in USA's, an old Lyon-Healy grand plus Charles Walters (last USA mfgr, w/ original pratt-read action) console

what, 5 pianos there and no Bluthner?

I'm quite fine with:

I WANNA PICK YOU UP and then hearing AIRPLANE (from BB Love You)

AT MY WINDOW and then COOL COOL WATER (from Sunflower)


100% in agreement with the already mentioned WALK ON BY and then OL'  MAN RIVER

the correct flipside for I'm A Little Teapot

would of course be Brian's

3 Blind Mice

like the Mellotron vs. Chamberlin controversy, only different

the electric harpsichord was known as the rocksichord

DEIRDRE is a particularly fun song to play on piano, having as it does complex chords and their progressions which give all your 10 fingers lots to do

I'd like to see a simple and direct Sunflower L.P. track line-up discussion thread, that is the continually evolving timetable over the months in '69/'70 of what song titles got added and others cut, all the boys producing so much output at the time and warner brothers repeatedly sending it back for a stronger 1st showing

CHRISTMAS DAY, not once but twice

first while pumping gas into my car at a Speedway about 2 weeks ago, over their outside PA

2nd, just last night while pumping gas AT THE SAME SPEEDWAY station!  Al Jardine's 1st lead vocal once again!

I guess if there's any time of year for that kind of coincidence to occur it is now (maybe the manager's a beach boys fan)

the association just mentioned w/ Break On Through certainly seems feasible to me.  Technically that song was the very first Doors release.  SLIP ON THROUGH / THIS WHOLE WORLD shouldn't've been just a hit but a DOUBLE-SIDED HIT.....IMO (they were short enough).  What a way to kick-off Brother Records, and both sides in stereo thanks to mr desper

remember the SOT flip-side was THIS WHOLE WORLD, so which should the DJ play (if he did)?  I'm fairly certain the designated A-side was S-O-T.  I bought the 45 when it first came out at a well-stocked local record store, not seen at any other place.  I was attracted to the particular pastel shades used on that early brother records label printing.  I wonder what motivated Dennis to give it that title (not that I disagree)

he must've sang pretty bad

before it was released Brian once spoke of the possible next Beach Boys 45 release as "SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD" (he said it was "in the can"), obviously the working title of CATCH A WAVE

fuzz bass on SMiLE tracks like Cabinessence

most of us here would be stopped dead in our tracks if we heard

VEGA-TABLES

in the gro......make that produce aisle

[MrsO'LC]

it was first in Malcolm Leo's 1985 movie BEACH BOYS: AN AMERICAN BAND we heard various SMiLE pieces like MrsO'LC

in the LOVE & MERCY movie we see this recording session and Brian's running around the musicians with lighted smoke flares

in the past it was printed that Brian had the studio janitor set afire a brazier of coals among the musicians

Brian couldn't record Mrs. O'Leary's Cow today because of smoke detectors