It´s indeed a Chamberlain or Mellotron - BUT it doesn´t sound well.

I´ve got a CD called "The cocaine session", that´s Brian and Dennis.

He´s really singing it good. Wouldn´t have thought this.

I had the honor to play and sing it on one of our German BB fanclub meetings, having Billy Hinsche and Jeff Foskett on choir. That was REALLY something !

Thanks for the information.

I´ve got a DVD about the Mellotron and Brian is in, telling that he loved it and he plays a bit of California girls for the camera.

Also Stephen Desper said that Brian had water sounds on his Mellotron.

What difference do you see between a Chamberlin and a Mellotron ? I´ve good a book about the Mellotron and it says they are the same, just that the Chamberlin was first and named after the inventor. The Mellotron (just a new name) had partly the same sounds and looked quite the same, just in white.

The nowadays version is digital and called "Memotron", wich has MIDI and the (original) sounds on CDs. It sounds just like the old ones (I´ve got one).

Take care, the new UK DVD is in Mono, NOT Stereo !   (A mistake ? But it´s true).

How do I upload a Photo here ?

The "Herbert" I do not use for a long time.

"Songs like Leaving This Town, Steamboat, and The Trader made me really sad that they didn't keep this version of the group together longer. 
Going from stuff like that to 15 Big Ones.  Wow. "

After Carl & the passions and Holland, 15 Big ones was exactly the reason that I turned my back on the Beach Boys for several years !
I also love the Ricky and Blondie time. Ricky was / is a fantastic drummer. Yes, live it was even better.

Leaving this town has very clever piano harmonies, the bass is very Brian-like, the song structure is interesting and I love the Moog solo.


Funky Pretty is also very clever (I´m musician myself), the ascending bass line is very fine and all the vocal-functions are really good. And again the Moog fits in perfectly. The song has - like Leaving this town (and before "Here she comes" and "Hold on dear brother") very much soul > thanks to Ricky and Blondie.

Ok, thanks.

In the whole song, but especially that section.

What is the meaning of the lyrics at all ? I never really got it (Sorry, I´m German, that´s not my mother language).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/This-Whole-World-The-Complete-BEACH-BOYS-Single-EP-Cover-Collection-Book-/361379051071  


If anybody is interested in this book, I still have a few of it for 20 Euro each............ (sealed)

Mail me at     cranberryhill@t-online.de

Manfred Schmidt

Daniel told me that he has the window and it is stored.

"ran it into the ground" ? What do you mean ?

No, I saw this one.

But I found it, it was the Beatles singing Sail On Sailor, here it is:


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

Hey Lee !   Nice to hear from you.
I didn´t know that. Actually I was looking for another joke, where somebody acts as Beach Boys or Brian, but I couldn´t find it.
I remember something with Sail on sailor.......................

I didn´t  create it, just found it in the net when I was looking for Beach Boys parody. To me it´s VERY funny, sorry. They are finally no gods.

Yes, I´m German and I ran the German Beach Boys fanclub California Saga for 15 years seriously.

Don´t you have any humour ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VokiVu95xbU

A very good song, nice melody, but remember, the composer was Johann Sebastian Bach.

Hello Stephen and greetings from Germany !

For me it was very interesting to read about "Brian´s Mellotron". I am a huge fan of the Mellotron and still use it myself. I love it and I wondered why Brian - especcially when he owned one - used it so rarely. I guess he did it only on Country air and another tune I don´t remember. Did he demos with orchestra sounds with it ? What did he with it at all and why not more ?  Around 1967 everyone who had the chance, used it. The Moody Blues, The Beatles on Strawberry fields, Magical Mystery tour and on the white album, The Stones on their satanic majesties request and so on.  And who can think of these recordings without it ??   It was absolutely IN then.  I guess Brian didn´t like it very much, although I have a DVD in which he praises it........

My god, what a crap !

Can´t you think of better questions ?

On Leggo my Ego you can hear Dennis sing a part of Sloop John B which I don´t remember being on the Box Set.