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126  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Joe Osborn - R.I.P. on: December 17, 2018, 03:17:49 PM
RIP. Sad
127  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Your Favorite Non-BBs Christmas Album on: December 10, 2018, 03:27:39 PM
Micheal Buble
Bing Crosby
Charlie Brown

And there are several albums of traditional Christmas carols that are my favorites. I prefer those over contemporary pop Christmas songs.
128  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) 2 Guitar Arrangement on: November 24, 2018, 06:31:50 PM
Nice!

If you have an acoustic guitar, I think the background chords (guitar on the left) would sound better in acoustic. That would "bring out" the melody line in the guitar on the right as well.
129  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike Love Nominated for Induction into The Songwriters Hall of Fame on: November 16, 2018, 03:33:34 PM
Did Mike ever write a song all by himself, without any help from anyone else?
130  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Thread for various insignificant questions that don't deserve their own thread! on: October 22, 2018, 03:16:53 PM
There's a Toyota TV commercial that uses "You Are So Beautiful." Not Dennis' version or anything, but at least it's Dennis' song.
131  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Dennis singing on: October 10, 2018, 06:47:35 PM
OK, but could he do the really high screams that start around 3:30. Without sounding awful, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTnpiRzpLgw
132  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Dennis singing on: October 10, 2018, 06:41:17 PM
Yeah those two are kinda sorta close. Hadn't heard California Slide before.
133  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Dennis singing "Dream On" by Aerosmith ... on: October 10, 2018, 06:29:12 PM
Would he sound any good doing it? Could he put the right 'omph' into it?

Sometimes I wonder which of the BB's might sound best doing certain other people's songs. Aside, of course, from the ones they already covered.
134  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2019 Nominees Announced... on: October 10, 2018, 03:14:03 PM
I can't believe they finally nominated Todd R.
Agreed. That one was long overdue.
135  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: RIP Geoff Emerick on: October 03, 2018, 03:48:56 PM
Oh no!!! Sad

RIP. Sad
136  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: RIP Marty Balin on: September 28, 2018, 05:49:46 PM
Ugh I just read this!

He and Paul Kantner are having one hell of a jam in heaven now! Sad
137  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Cover songs better than their original on: September 28, 2018, 03:20:25 PM
She did.
138  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Cover songs better than their original on: September 27, 2018, 06:04:10 PM
I thought she had a great voice.
139  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Cover songs better than their original on: September 27, 2018, 03:49:43 PM
Just about any song Linda Ronstadt covered, was better than the original.
140  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Songs Inspired by The Beach Boys on: September 21, 2018, 03:14:15 PM
I am convinced Paul was more or less trying to imitate You Still Believe in Me when he wrote Here There and Everywhere.
141  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Rick Beato - on: September 13, 2018, 03:10:53 PM
I recently discovered Rick Beato's channel. Lots of really interesting stuff.
142  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: I just wanna know......... on: September 01, 2018, 05:14:24 PM
Scene setup in this clip shows they are really going for the correct look. I do think ‘Dennis’ will be little more than a bit player in the movie, but still worth seeing.

https://youtu.be/N9V4ZGrvkzw
That's pretty cool. Recently I wondered if they could use actual footage of some city taken in the 60's or 70's or whatever era they want to set a movie in, and superimpose the actors into the footage using computer graphics? The video that gave me the idea was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zk0eyKzp1c
It's such good quality footage it made me think you could use it (and I think it's public domain) and make a movie set in London in 1967, and simply superimpose the actors over that background.
143  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Aretha Franklin on: August 21, 2018, 06:34:04 PM
This was really cool!

Rainbow Appears During Tigers' Moment of Silence for Aretha Franklin
144  Smiley Smile Stuff / Polls / Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song Ranking - Ranking Process on: August 08, 2018, 03:17:52 PM
1. Let Him Run Wild
2. Surf's Up
3. Good Vibrations
4. Cabinessensce
5. Wouldn't It Be Nice
6.  God Only Knows
7. Till I Die
8. The Warmth of the Sun
9. Your Summer Dream
10. Please Let Me Wonder
145  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike Nesmith Reveals Quadruple-bypass Surgery - Still Plans to Tour In September on: August 01, 2018, 03:37:34 PM
Come to think of it, Elton John recently announced he'd be retiring from touring after his last tour this year. But your "typical" person his age would have done that, like, at least 5 years ago, maybe 10. I think Paul Simon has said something similar.

I can see somebody in their 60's doing some concerts, but unless you're in really good shape I'd think 70's is really stretching it. I can see doing some creative work at that age, but touring is pretty strenuous.

Anyway, not to say these guys are crazy (though ... maybe they are :D ) and I wish them luck, but one can't help but wonder if touring while in your 70's might not be optimal for one's health?
146  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike Nesmith Reveals Quadruple-bypass Surgery - Still Plans to Tour In September on: July 30, 2018, 03:24:41 PM
Don't these guys ever, like, retire, and just decide to spend the rest of their time tending their garden, or something?

The only 60's-70's rocker I know of who decided to do that is Grace Slick.
147  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: I Hear A Symphony: A on: July 23, 2018, 03:41:08 PM
I finally finished the last of them yesterday!

As I said, they're all nice, but they're VERY repetitive. I suppose that's going to happen when you write 104 symphonies. Only about a dozen of them are worth listening to more than once. Also, you could tell in the last 10-20 of them he started getting a little more adventurous, and dabbling into some of the then-new Romanticism. But I am pretty sure if you asked him near the end of his life if he could remember every one of those symphonies, he would probably say no.

At work, a big chunk of my job is to do this really tedious stuff processing real estate transfer deeds and as a result I can listen to A LOT of music while I do that. I've found that music with vocals is a bit distracting, but instrumental music, such as classical, is perfect.

Recently while doing this, I decided to listen to all 104 of Hayden's symphonies on Youtube. I started with #1 and am going in order. I just finished #51 (I think) today. Almost halfway through.

My review of them is, while they're all very nice, they all sound very similar - almost to the point where they're getting a bit tedious. But I'm going to insist to myself that I finish them all, just ... because. I can easily imagine Mr. Haydn, at the end of his career, likely unable to recall all of the symphonies he wrote, it almost seems like these authors who churn out volumes and volumes of pulp fiction stories to the point where they all seem to run into each other and you can't really tell them apart (even if they're entertaining).
Update to my comment about Hayden symphonies.

As I said, due to what I do at work, I get to listen to A LOT of music. I've mostly been listening to Romantic-era symphonies, plus a bit of Baroque and Modern stuff. In the past few months I think I've listened to several dozen Romantic-era symphonies. And to expand upon what I said about Hayden, after you listen to a bunch of them, they all start to run into each other and sound about the same, even though they're different composers. It's made me start to ponder the nature of creativity, and art in general, and why artists move on to new stuff, to the point where they delve into increasingly marginal stuff (that is, stuff that's bound to be less popular and sound increasingly awkward). Today, after listening to the first 6 symphonies from ... I forget his name ... it made me wonder if someday art in general - at least the creation of new art - is someday going to "die" simply because it's become increasingly difficult to create things that doesn't sound like something that's already been written (actually, I've pondered that many times over the past several years, but I digress). Is art of all kinds someday going to be replaced by ... I don't know what? It's either that, or artists will increasingly be faced with the choice of creating things that are similar to stuff that's already been done, or do increasingly bizarre stuff that will have limited appeal. Merzbow becomes increasingly understandable. But then, what happens after several hundred artists have created Merzbow-style music?

Probably off-topic, but a philosophical question to ponder. I think you have to listen to about 50 Romantic-era symphonies (or, 50 High-Classical era symphonies, or 50 ....) to really get what I'm saying. After a while the repetition becomes impossible to escape, even among artists who are "different" from one another.
148  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Carl or Brian on God Only Knows? on: July 02, 2018, 03:43:26 PM
The fact that it's difficult to tell one brother from the other, I think speaks volumes.
149  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Simon & Garfunkel appreciation thread on: June 28, 2018, 04:09:41 PM
Wednesday Morning 3am is actually my favorite of their albums.
150  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Had SMiLE been released, what would Brian have subsequently done? on: June 07, 2018, 03:23:18 PM
Maybe the Beach Boys would have turned into a American version of Yes.

Though if that happened, you'd probably have had a couple of the band members leave.
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