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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Recent Pro-shot Mike & Bruce(and Foskett) videos
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on: June 03, 2014, 02:07:45 PM
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Does anyone know if Randell has any leads anymore? It would be a shame to not use him for any leads at all. To my ears, Randell's lead on Good Vibrations was much better than Christian's lead.
I saw the first show with Jeff replacing Christian on May 32, 2014. The only lead Randell had was "Then I kissed Her". Jeff also took the lead on "Darlin". I'm not sure if this was a mistake or not. They started the song and nobody took the lead. Jeff picked it up after a few seconds and finished the song. Several of the guys were laughing. I'm not quite sure what happened. Either Jeff of John missed their spot at the begining of the song. But, Jeff actually sounded good on "Darlin". I hope that Cowsill got it back, he sounds absolutely phenomenal on that song.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Rolling Stone - Beach Boys Play Tour - Jeff replaces Christian Love
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on: May 29, 2014, 01:45:50 PM
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Re this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Ndp9xItZg&list=UUYSLKpmPGeiyCI_qmtm8LtA&index=1Great mix, free of board echo. Mike's backing vocals are nice and prominent in the mix. The Beach Boys, in their usual non-C50 state, are a cooler, leaner, more straight-tone blend. On In My Room, Mike and Jeff really blended well (sep. In My Room), and anchor the harmonies. Now that Jeff's voice is all over TWGMTR and everything in the C50 tour, his voice adds authenticity and familiarity to the MB band. This is the best I've heard the MB band's vocal blend sound. Never thought I'd say that, but they sound fantastic. Brian's band has a generally warmer vocal blend, and Brian blends much better with them than he did 10-15 years ago, because of how his voice recovery really took off after 2004. Foskett never really fit the blend at any point, valuable as he's been in many ways. Matt Jardine in Foskett's place will be the icing on the cake. I really think this fixes the vocal shortcomings of both bands. And personally, I would now actively seek out tickets to MB, rather than being relatively ambivalent. Interesting that Scott has the lead on "Sloop". Bruce did it when I saw them earlier this year. They must have shuffled the vocal blend for Jeff. Also they sang "break up" like the earlier versions of "Sloop" at one point.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Rolling Stone - Beach Boys Play Tour - Jeff replaces Christian Love
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on: May 15, 2014, 04:15:08 PM
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Sad. I really expected any "turncoat" cracks to be on the Bloo.
Here's a question. We know the who, and the when. The bigger query is, the why ?
How else to put it At a time where there is obvious friction between brian and mike, Brian's best friend decides to join mike. Until we hear some confirmation that brian was ok with this I see it as a stab in the back Check Ray Lawlor's post in the Jones Beach thread, Brian seemed cool with it as of a few hours ago.
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