4.8.

"Boogalooed" needs a bit of a rewrite but it's still an admirable rocker.

An inside the park home run.

4.6, rounding it up to 5.

Would have had a different track listing for sure but still a solid four, maybe four and a quarter.

How I wish I had four or five others to sing along with.

Carl And The Passions- So Tough sounds like a bizarro greatest hits album to me.

A lot of disparate voices crammed together on one slab of vinyl. Bar "Make It Good", it's damn good to me.

"You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone" - 5/5
"Here She Comes" - 4.5/5
"He Come Down" - 4/5
"Marcella" - 5/5
"Hold On, Dear Brother" - 4/5
"Make It Good" - 2.5/5
"All This is That" - 5/5
"Cuddle Up" - 5/5

Glad to see that I'm not alone in my disgust of Rolling Stone.

I, too, think that Mike should have started in on Wenner, perhaps at the point where he sort of went off on Woody Guthrie. I think it would have made the speech a bit less of a mess. Maybe something like this:

"Now, that Jan Winner or whatever, you know, the guy from Rolling Stone? Boy, I wish The Beach Boys had mentors, money like him when we were starting out. When the Wilsons, my mother's family, I'm first cousin to Brian, Carl and the late Dennis, the surfer of the group, when they first came to California, they were Kansas dustbowl Swedes who didn't have enough money to rent or buy a house, they had to live in tents on the beach in Huntington Beach, California. Sure, we in the Beach Boys have had our interstescene squabbles and such but we earned everything that we have tonight. Me and Brian wrote "Surfin'" twenty-seven years ago and we only got better from there. Our songs, our harmonies will live forever. I was pumping gas for a living before that endless harmony saved me."

Probably would have changed the perception of his speech.

I liked the magazine when I was a kid. Then, my tastes changed, expanded, broadened. If one's music collection begins and ends with greatest hits albums and the radio dial, it's the right magazine for you.

Well, that "smarmy San Fran upstart rag" got rid of a bunch of assholes that had no creds for being record reviewers and hired some real reviewers that know what they're talking about:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-10-coolest-summer-albums-of-all-time-20120718/the-beach-boys-wild-honey-1967-20120717

Not sure that I'd call Wild Honey a summer album but at least it's praise.

My whole thing was that the magazine was none too kind in the late '60s and early '70s when the group really needed it.

Seventh-rate album reviews like this didn't help:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/wild-honey-19680224

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/friends-19680824

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/20-20-19690419

I apologize for the links, but I feel that if there's one magazine that hurt the Beach Boys back home, 'twas the smarmy San Fran upstart rag.

Wow... just wow.

I can only hope any further inquiries (I probably have a few hundred) are this fleshed out. I'm trying to compile a list of players on the post-Pet Sounds, pre-Sunflower material at the moment. This has really helped me out a lot.

Fantastic photo from the Whisky, DonnyL. Always great to see Mike with an epic beard.

Watching this little by little.

Sixty-six minutes in, I've noticed at least thirty mistakes.

Brian said of his father:

"He was the one who got us going. He didn't make us better artists or musicians, but he gave us ambition. I'm pleased he pushed us, because it was such a relief to know there was someone as strong as my dad to keep things going. He used to spank us, and it hurt too, but I loved him because he was a great musician."

He was a product of his times, for better and for worse. He definitely gave too much unsolicited advice. He saw his sons as "boys" until the day he died. I'm pretty sure that I read that he thought that his songs were better than those of the group. Without his initial drive, though, who knows what would have happened?

That seems to be an accurate assessment.  It's not on Wild Honey, but does seem to be on Friends quite a bit.  Busy Doin' Nothing is another track that seems to feature it.

It was introduced in 1967, presumably Brian (or somebody) got a hold of one by early '68. If that's what I'm hearing.

It's on "Diamond Head" as well (under the pedal steel).

I'm pretty sure its on the title track, did it have a a clavinet sort of setting? I think it's on the early version where strings are playing the vocal parts that I always hear something like that somewhere in the mix.

It definitely had a clavinet setting. Brian used that for "Add Some Music to Your Day".

Forgive my ignorance but what is a Rock-Si-Chord?

A keyboard designed to simulate a harpsichord for rock and roll (hence the name). Brian put it to great use on "Add Some Music to Your Day". I swear that I hear it here and there while listening to Friends.

Long time lurker, first time poster here.

I'm wondering if anybody on this board knows when Brian Wilson procured the Rock-Si-Chord.

I swear that I'm hearing it adding subtle accents here and there on Friends (on the title track and "Passing By", for example).