Other than "Never Learn Not To Love", which songs did The Beach Boys do this with?

I've wondered if "Suzie Cinncinati" might be one of those as well... nothing else Al has done reminds me of this track....
 

found this in a local antique shop ($75 Canadian, $56US dollars) and thought I'd mention it in case someone near has interest.
beautifully framed  (matted backing, etc) I would say its a 2'x3' picture or poster. can't say I've seen that one before, but would have been on the 15 Big Ones promotional push.


its at http://www.southworksantiques.com/

I'd buy it myself but I just don't have the space for it.

Talking about alternate takes of Brian's '76-'78 material, I just stumbled upon this earlier (?) mix of Pitter Patter. To me it sounds much better than the finished version that ended up on the M.I.U. Album, which sounds "polished to death" in comparison. Love the little instrumental addition towards the end here (synth?), wouldn't be surprised at all if it was Brian's idea, it's very reminiscent of some of his other late-70s work like Do Ya or It's Like Heaven.

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

wow... that does improve it ... quite a bit!  released was "Polished to Death" yeah I see that now :-)

Here's something I've always wondered-

Could Bruce handle singing thei falsetto parts today? He still does on Fun, Fun, Fun and God Only Knows (when Carl isn't on the screen)

http://youtu.be/L5b9mByFgO0

That's Jeff doubling him off stage

Suggests he can still cut it…


thats a little sad... (not the performance)
why wouldn't they have Jeff singing along with the other 4? Its not like the BB's back in the 60's were a quartet... 

Gives one a real insight into Jack Rieley.. not something you see on any other video interview...
so this is a big bonus!!! 

I think the proper debate here should be what Steve Levine was smokin' when he let Mike Love get away with that lead vocal.... I'm not the biggest ML fan by any stretch, but man, couldn't he have sung that lead better than that!! 

A cd for sale at a concert that is generally not available anywhere else?
Keep the price to something reasonable ($15), I'd buy that before a hat or a overpriced t-shirt

what doesn't normally sell is a popular bands latest CD at a concert, because the fans already have it before the concert.

For a band who's on the nostalgia circuit, you would think this would be a no-brainer providing they don't overcharge for it!

 

What might have saved Dennis was if he was busted for some infraction and sent to jail for a year or two...
At least then he would have hopefully gotten the worst of the drugs out of his system.. (I've heard Heroin is the worst, for lingering on and on)

yeah.. really enjoyed that one... Will have to buy :-)

I like to think that in these 12 days off they: 1. take a few days rest   2.Hang out in a rehearsal studio hacking away on material for the Rock 'n' Roll cd ! 

I knew what to expect and that was still painful! 

Love to hear Blondie tackle Saturday Night but thats highly unlikely.... bet you he could do a great job of it.. however it would 
in a different key.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Q6qNt6qks

A much better effort a few days later...

way to go Mike!

That's definitely a major misstep...although given what exists, did we really miss much? The California Feelin' piano/vocal track aside, there isn't much worth writing about there unless there's leagues of unheard greatness from the period.

That plus I've Got a Friend, Good Timin', River Song, Rainbows and Angel Come Home all hail from that period. I've never heard it but some have said Mike's Glow Cresent Glow is none too shabby. Plus if Chaplin had never left there'd be Hard Times and stuff from his solo debut. If Rieley was still managing them, there's plenty of quality stuff off Western Justice that could have been worked up into BB material.

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"Riverboat Queen"  from Blondie's solo record would be worthy of a BB treatment, and I'd be curious what Brian's "Honeycomb" idea with Roy Wood would have sounded like if it was finished...

I'm wondering how Saturday Night would/will sound with Blondie doing the lead vocal??? or maybe Scott Bennett?

I'm Feeling Sad ... wonderful falsetto, Busy Doing Nothing part 2 perhaps, but it also sounds like a track from the suite.
 

I have to say it... I think Nate should have sung the bridge as well.... While Brian sounds fine the song calls for a single lead voice... (there I said it... couldn't not say it..)

Wrong. They'll be re-recordings of Mike's unreleased material, last I heard.

Personally, I would think that this would be the best way for Mike to do this...

Going through the unreleased material picking out the best bits that this admittedly questionable songwriter has done. works better than locking him in a room for a couple months would likely to result in.

Then secondly, taking this material and rerecording it with one band and one studio would hopefully result in a cohesive final result. At least making it sound like something that wasn't thrown together from 30 years of rejected tapes..

imho of course!

Have to wonder who's on top of the mix?  Is it Brian Eichenberger, cause it doesn't really sound like Matt. Mind you, I haven't heard Matt doing much over the last few(ish) years so maybe his voice has changed a bit.

Still, I love the song, a wonderful 2:40 of ear candy  

I enjoy the song..
As for Al's part,  I agree with the "double tracked and buried with echo" conclusion and I like it!

meh
I was expecting something more from this...

Any plans to record more songs using the voice-as-instruments style like your wonderful song with Peter Hollens?

On the flipside of all this, I've been fortunate to play actual Beach Boys unreleased music that they've never heard before -- and in a couple of cases, pieces that certain members have SWORN they're not on -- when in fact said piece either was co-written by them and/or they're prominently featured.

One of the coolest moments was the day that Stebbins and I sat Blondie down during the DW doc shoot and blasted a pristine mix of "Carry Me Home" for him -- a tune he hadn't heard since the day he recorded the vocal.

Him looking at Jon and I screaming: "Me?! Is that ME?!"

Major moment.

like that you mention pristine mix... there's something to hope for in the future....  

that would be Dick Van Dyke not Dick Clark

maybe add the two or three Charles Lloyd tracks to it would work (All Life Is One, TM, How Sweet)