Listen to "An Occasional Man" by Jeri Southern from the 1950's.  It has a similar island vibe and the same clipped style of delivery.  I immediately thought of this record when I heard Zoe's song.

My sister saw the film at a private screening in Florida last night.  She is a 50 year fan but not rabid enough to ever come here.  I expressed no interest in seeing this film having been burned horribly by other biopics in the past.  Her first impressions were these: It's a very "dark" film, lots of unhappiness portrayed; the two actors playing Brian are unconvincing but the great story makes it not matter; the Mike Love character is well played; the recording studio scenes are well done; Landy is portrayed as a monster.  She listened for comments by the other attendees after the show.  Verdict:  older people were more sympathetic/ younger people thought it was weird. That's it, I'm going......

5/1/71 May Day protest in DC.  Hippies around us partially ruined the show.

Re: 11/7/71-  I'd like to hear a soundboard recording too.  I went with a group of 6 or 7 people.  The cassette deck was borrowed from my buddy's grandmother.  We were able to tape everything but "It's About Time" (we were changing tapes).  No one of our group (or probably anyone else there that night) was expecting such a knockout show.  And no, I taped no other shows- it wasn't long after that groups got more wise to the tapers.  The smartest thing I did, though, was to transfer the cassettes to a reel to reel recorder at 7.5ips the next day, because the cassettes ended up with the friend who had the recorder, and they were long gone within a year.

I taped the 11/7/71 show at Georgetown University.  We had a cheapo battery powered cassette recorder with a meter we had to watch all night long because it overloaded at times.  We were very open about it.  No one paid us any mind.

Adult Child and New Album sound like the source was a cassette tape-  listenable but hissy.  The Brian Wilson Productions disc is nicely pressed but has some rechannelled stereo cuts.

I was surprised that Surf's Up charted as well as it did.  I think it sold better because some folks thought the band had come up with a new surf song.  In the DC area, the record did not get much radio play.  I heard Long Promised Road earlier in the summer when it was a single, but only once.  I heard the title song on the hip fm station only once, and I was glued to that station.  I was at the 11/7/71 show at Georgetown University, and even though it appeared sold out and the crowd loved the new songs, they still kept calling out for oldies.  I think it was the live shows that turned the band around, not the records.  If I could get unbelieving friends to go to a show, they always wanted to go again, but if they bought any music subsequently, it was usually a greatest hits collection.  I don't think Disney Girls was totally out of place then-  it went over well in concert.  The Boomers at the shows could relate to it- it wasn't that long ago and 1971 was not a peaceful time.

Only one- "Then I Kissed Her"  always hated it, cannot believe it was a 45 in the UK.

Sumahama - 45 versus lp.  The difference is at the end fade.  LP mix has "suma...hama" background vocals over and over, 45 just has "ooh" harmonies.  I do not have a UK 45, that's just the difference on the US 45.

I have one

I was at this show.  It was typically hotter than the hinges of hell that day, but we had a cooler of beer and ice so it was fine.  Dennis actually spoke about the hostages twice- he went to the mic at the end of the show and exhorted the crowd again.  Someone skipped a frisbee off Brian's piano near the end of the show and he bolted off the stage for a bit- they left that part out of the tape.  He was pretty subdued that day.  The best part for me was watching the crowd, which was massive, maybe 500,000.  During "Wouldn't It Be Nice" everybody old and young seemed to know all the words and sang along, which made me teary-eyed.  I walked to the front (easy to do, everyone had spread out blankets early in the day so there was room to move) and noted at least three topless girls vying for camera attention.  When they showed it on PBS in the 1980's they left the topless shots in, but they edit them out now.

After visiting Patsy Cline's grave in Winchester, VA I had a dream that I was front row at a 1973 Beach Boys show with Blondie and Ricky.  The band started to crank up "Sail On Sailor" and as the vocal part started Patsy came out and sang it in her "growly" voice.  It was sublime...

You will get a number of people who have seats but never use them.  I've been to stadium shows where I've never been to my seat- either I found some friends to hang with or just found better seats.

I've got an original.  In 1973 a box of sealed unsold ones showed up at an old Bethesda, MD store called Discount Book and Records.  Price- $3.99.  They also had a bunch of sealed duophonic "Party" albums for the same price- I bought both that day.  The next week they were gone.  Never seen or heard  of a mono "Stack".

In my experience, the 1968 original Friends beats the green label.  I did a shootout with Anna Lee and the original had more presence and definition.  The other green labels are definitive except for Pet Sounds (go with the Warners press).

I sometimes think that all Ramones songs are speeded up Beach Boys songs.

In DC circa 1973-74 we has a small chain of stores called Discount Book and Record.  They always had imports and hard to find stuff at regular prices, no special section of rare records.  They must have gotten a few boxes of warehouse stock from somewhere, for there in the stacks one day were 25 or so sealed copies of Beach Boys Party and Stack-O-Tracks.  Both were fake stereo versions.  Needless to say I plonked down my $4.00 each and they're still in near mint condition today.  I have never seen a mono Stack-O-Tracks, and I have searched high and low.  BTW- the 1994 repress has the photos in the gatefold and a nice repro of the booklet.  Sounds real good t0o, using the 1990 stereo remixes on some cuts, mono on others.

The US 45 of Sumahama is mixed differently at the end- it's not an edit- I can't get to them now, but the difference is on one mix it fades with the vocals singing "Suma...Hama" over and over and the other just some "OOOH's".

Sumahama has a different ending on 45.

I bought a near mint 331 Candix cheap in the 1990's in the days when everyone thought it was the 2nd press (including me). I also have a nice "X" label copy.

He was also out there at the end of the show with the cast, looking out of place.  Gilda Radner noticed this and started to do a waltz-like dance with him and he responded eagerly.

Fox news has plenty of lefty opinions.  They are allowed to be challenged.  That scares the lo fo mo fo's.

Barbara and I've Got a Friend were played consecutively as 2 different songs at the 11/7/71 show in DC.

In 1971 Jack Reilly, introducing the band, would say "35 million records sold!".  Even then I thought that kind of low- everyone I knew had some BB's records in their collection.

It was just pop music- nothing serious, nothing important.  Until Sgt Pepper, there was no mainstream or underground press (that I've ever been aware of) concerned with rock and roll.  If anything, it was being praised for allowing black label owners like Barry Gordy a chance to compete in the market.  Pop songs were mostly about love and its problems, hardly the stuff of sociological comment, other than possibly snobbism from fans of other music.  Up until 1965, I only saw Beach Boys records in collections owned by girls.  "Barbara Ann" and "Sloop John B" were the first Beach Boys records I had conversations with my male friends about (I am an east coast guy, it may have been different on the west coast).