"KTMA"

keeping the mantra alive

"Previously unreleased alternate mix that WE THINK the producers would have preferred to have been released at the time"

works as long as WE remains unidentified

"....we’ll make lasagna that night"

plus bring matzo-ball soup

"Am I being clear? For, to examine the non-release of the FF box requires tremendous energy and discipline.
But then why should anyone listen to me, or should I speak, since I know nothing."

….somebody's seen Head at least as many times as I

"someone's stonewalling until the aspects are right!?"


yes, Genevelyn will give the go-ahead

"As editor and publisher of, not one, but TWO Beach Boys fanzines, I’m pleased to announce my enthusiastic encouragement for the release of the FEEL FLOWS box set! Although it has been 40 years since issue three of Celebrate the Newsletter came out, my readers (those that are still alive) learned long ago to grow accustomed to each subsequent issue being later than the one before! In any case, rumors are swirling that a new edition is ready to roll off the (dust covered) presses!  Celebrate the Newsletter Issue FOUR could feature a candid, behind-the-scenes look into the inner workings of this 5 CD sets’ hold up!  That’s right, fellow fans!  An EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with a close former friend and confidante of the culprit/culprits largely responsible for the delay will highlight issue 4, which is due out as soon as this box set is OFFICIALLY eliminated from any possible release!  

I’m sensitive to the fact that this inside source doesn’t wish to jeopardize the release of FEEL FLOWS by giving out inside information that could further damage the aforementioned culprit/culprits’ reputation, but its my belief that my informer will gladly open this “Pandora’s Box” if the set ultimately stays on the shelf, to be lost for fans forever.

If, on the other hand, FEEL FLOWS actually DOES come out in its 5 CD box set form, issue 4 of CTN will obviously lose its main attraction, but will still provide lots of mirth and merriment for its readers!  Thanks for listening!

And, as a side note, this “inside source” is NOT anyone directly involved with putting this box set together! If you’re familiar with my two fanzines, you’ll know exactly how serious this is!"



sounds reasonable.  go ahead, or not

Happy birthday today AL JARDINE!

arguably the founder of the Beach Boys

makes me wonder if Steve Love 'baited' (i.e. deliberately provoked) Blondie Chaplin in that confrontation.  It doesn't appear that Carl Wilson came to Blondie's defense.  And we all know too well how Mike Love aims to oust group members he deems are unnecessary for the time being

that track (mono) mix would want to be dedicated to either tracks 1 or 4, and the engineer chose 4 as a convention.  tracks 1 and 4 are in the outermost location on a tape.  because the track has volume during passages of vocals (to be applied) that may be quiet, putting the instrument mix at an outermost physical tape location minimizes the effect of cross-talk to an adjacent (vocal) track, which is always undesirable (it may be considered an unpredictable tell-tale that could conceivably contribute to phasings and other unknowns later)

probably because initially Brian claimed full song-writing credit on SURFIN' SAFARI, when the melody was copied from Berry's SWEET LITTLE 16

after a lawsuit decided in Chuck's favor Brian lost all credit

over and over
the crow cries uncover
the cornfield

"they're not important.....throw them out!"

the bass line to their Just Once In My Life

on eBay 24 track reel tapes from rumbo recorders are being liquidated, here is one now:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Daryl-Dragon-Captain-and-Tennille-24-trk-Safety-Reel-to-Reel-Tape-1986/123937121503?hash=item1cdb3a64df:g:rFkAAOSwzcNcLxKv

they are just safety duplications

there's another I can't find right now that has capt/Tennille rehearsing beach boy songs

two old beach boys reel-to-reel prerecorded Capitol tapes now on eBay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BEACH-BOYS-Shut-Down-Vol-2-Little-Deuce-Coupe-Reel-To-Reel-3-3-4-IPS-Y2T2383/174075922329?hash=item2887bbc799:g:RjAAAOSwP45dsoKJ

and

https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Beach-Boys-Pet-Sounds-Reel-to-Reel-Recording/133310161064?hash=item1f09e7a0a8:g:NmIAAOSw7xZeJS6U

the latter is the rare original 7-1/2 IPS variety (it was reissued at the less desirable 3-3/4 speed), though it has no box

here're 4 recent facebook comments about Snow, made by Rick Henn:

"Murry and the BBs manager put us together. One of the BBs who shall remain nameless, tried to block Souful from ever being released...Alan Boyd and Mark Linett made it happen."

and

"….after the Sunrays disbanded I went back to music school in the later part of the late 60's. Every time Murry got the urge to write songs and get back into the studio, he would graciously call me to refine the tunes and write the charts. There were a lot of sessions at Gold Star and Sunset Sound all the way up until his death. He could have hired anyone he wanted (if they'd work with him), but he stayed loyal to me knowing the arranging skills I was learning could be experimented with and gave me the opportunity to write and work with the best studio players in LA."

and

"No, this Snow was from Omaha, Nebraska. I wrote the arrangements on my tunes and used Wrecking Crew players and then we did vocals if I remember correctly, at Sunset Sound and Brian Wilson's Bellagio home studio. We also recorded a track at Goldstar on a tune called Run River Run..."

and

"thanks for the post. I hadn't heard about this EP. When I went to the Omnivore Recordings website, http://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/break-away-ep/ I did see that two of my songs, "Wilderness" and "Bless Me" are part of it. The copy on the site describing the EP has a few mistakes regarding the group Snow, but it's still great that someone cared enough to release it so many years later."

the type of speculating the merits of which are being questioned here is, of course, by intent or happenstance, speculating the wrong thing

don't waste time speculating when but instead WHY

at such an 11th hour position we'd think all details of the release would be sewn up tight.  a delay like this can only mean they still aren't

so what/who is holding up the 'done deal'?

i.e., material (recorded or written) proved not as represented or inexplicably not delivered, terms as written were not as discussed or presumed, rights to material were omitted or failed, financial figures still being haggled about, much more editing work required than had been thought to make it as presentable as desired,  agreements by principals not signed, marketing studies changing on a daily basis, mistakes discovered only after the passage of 50 years

those are all unknowns to us, without being tipped and that may happen in the crunch of things

Haight - Ashbury

should be

Mt. Vernon - Fairway

streetsigns

"AMW & KT's "Raspberries" = 2 different songs."

officially, of course, they'd have to be, songwriting credits couldn't support otherwise.  the songname Raspberries & Strawberries first came up with how At My Window recording began

speaking of at my window, and al jardine for that matter

I'd like to hear early tracking for that song when it was still a form of raspberries/strawberries cover of the Kingston trio song which Al wanted to do

(perhaps a little like how riot in cellblock #9 became student demonstration time on their next LP)

they better not waste their time and money with a physical release then

"ESQ Editor " "Good things are coming …"'

if it's contingent upon fan support of Mike Loves' songwriting induction

then you know where you can shove it

wasn't it VanDyke Parks who once said he'd observed Nick Grillo to be the hardest working guy in a thankless job he'd ever seen then?  It's a shame things had to come to a head with Mike Love denying Nick repayment of an informal loan (as I have read it), but all things considered that may've been inevitable

"...., though objectively wrong, was not completely unreasonable."

I swear I haven't a clue what that means but I certainly like the sound of it for the time being

"Mr. Wilson" is of course given considerable lip-service courtesy Mason Gamble in another major motion-picture DENNIS THE MENACE

If Rock Hudson suffered a nervous breakdown while filming SECONDS no doubt he sought treatment for it from (do I have to say) Eugene Landy

good luck on that getting lower case for the i only

"I wonder why...nothing ever seems to go my way".........."But when I hear you talkin' I feel my heart unlockin"

......and my words just melt away


talk about a Pet Sounds major contender