Did anyone donate to Al’s cancer charity and win one of the 50 signed CDs? Just wondering what the CD looks like.

Pre-orders are up on Amazon.com for the various iterations of the release. June 10, 2016 is the expected release date.

From a new Billboard article on Brian’s Pet Sounds Tour:

“Capitol/UMe's Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary Edition will be released in June, including a 4CD/Blu-ray Audio collectors edition presented in a hardbound book, featuring the remastered original album in stereo and mono, plus new hi res instrumental and 5.1 surround mixes, as well as session outtakes, alternate mixes, previously unreleased live recordings and hi res stereo and mono mixes; a 2CD and digital deluxe edition pairing the remastered album in stereo and mono with highlights from the collectors edition's additional tracks; a remastered, 180-gram LP editions of the album in mono and stereo with faithfully replicated original artwork.”

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7263743/brian-wilson-pet-sounds-tour

I hear Brian at the end of “Make It Big.”

Ladies and gentlemen, the first Rocky Pamplin GIF.

Anybody able to track down a photo of Rocky on the Wheaties Box?

   "WHEATIES"

Found a commercial on YouTube too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1yOtw8LF4

The book’s getting released a month from today in the US. Might pick up the audiobook.

Worth noting “Crumple Car” was recorded by a band featuring the Dragon brothers on the soundtrack to 1969’s The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun. Wonder if Al learned about it from them.

Soundtrack information: http://www.sundazed.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=2706

I laughed listening to Surf’s Up the other day when I realized they were singing “Ooh dirty water” instead of “Ooh diddy wadda” in the backgrounds for “Don’t Go Near The Water.” That’s very funny.

Rocky Pamplin said that Mike gave him $100,000 to fund his 1979 disco album, so clearly Mike had large sums of money tied up in recording projects that didn’t end up paying off.

Another Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/officialbrianwilson/photos/a.452661542240.241240.34250497240/10153948484667241

I'd like to be the first to congratulate Rocky on the fact that this thread is currently the 18th most-viewed in the history of the board (General On Topic Discussions).

The charts as they stand:

SMiLE Sessions box set!                                                582382
Thread for various insignificant questions…                     399003
New album info (as it rolls out...)                                   270430
New Beach Boys 2012 Remasters!                                 219943
*Merged* Brian Wilson current album thread                  185686
Love and Mercy - News and Reviews…                           155164
MiC up for order on Amazon, August release                   138553   
The Weirdest Photos Of Mike Love You Can Find             136530
"Made in California" Box Set                                         128608   
Mike and Bruce Tour 2015                                           104165
"That's Why God Made The Radio" Single!                     88549   
50th Anniversary Tour Dates (as they roll out)               80805
New Beach Boys release will make you 'SMiLE'               80191
Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again                                  78577
Where is that %^&$@#&* MIC Box Set…                      78262   
Brian with Jeff Beck Fall Tour Dates                               69313   
Donations                                                                   63286
Rocky Pamplin book about The Beach Boys?                  61312

I don't know why I just did that…

I don’t get enough credit/blame for starting this mess. Did I bring a net plus or net minus into the world by starting this thread?

man I must of accidently deleted mine I uploaded on iTunes! What version was it? this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2U6dmPT_uU

The version from the Smiley Smile/Wild Honey twofer is a live rehearsal from Hawaii in 1967. It was also released on Hawthorne, CA in case you have that compilation. And I don't think that's actually the Beach Boys in that YouTube video.

Rocky, who is the “J. Talon” that wrote with Robert Darcy on your album? Johnny Talon?

They probably watched at least one episode of Karen.

Any cool names for the people who have nice to you?

My speculation is that Mike pulled for it's exclusion - I recall in the campfire vids a scene where he expressed some regret (Let's not mention that style), could be wrong, been a while since I watched it.

I believe that was Looking Back With Love.

Thanks for the response, Rocky. I was asking because for someone not in the know the leap from Robert Darcy to Robert Z’dar is kinda big. Never hurts to have confirmation.

Rocky, I was just reading information about your album on http://www.discogs.com/Rocky-Pamplin-The-Rock/release/4895286 and I saw that a “Robert Darcy” did a lot of the work on it. I looked up Robert Darcy on copyright.gov and saw he had written a song with Diane Rovell in 1978 and that “Robert Darcy” was a pseudonym for Robert Zdarsky. Then I googled Robert Zdarsky and found out that that is beloved B-movie actor Robert Z’dar’s real name. So here’s the question: did beloved B-movie actor Robert Z’dar write, produce and arrange your album? If so that’s really funny to me.

Mike Love put me on his label Butterfly Records in 1979 and gave me a budget of $100,000 dollars to do a Disco Album. Disco stopped on a dime as soon as we mixed it down!

I started this thread after searching the web for more information about that disco album. Incidentally, I found information about your book instead. nice full-circle moment for me.

sorry rocky, it’s just me viewing it 35,000 times 

Just saw Brian’s book is up for pre-order: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0306823063. November 2016 expected release. (someone unlock the discussion thread! http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,19851.275.html)

Also, still waiting on the explanation for Young and the Restless. Why no credit at Internet Movie Database?

A role doesn’t necessarily have to be credited.

Having Rocky here is endlessly entertaining to me. Never thought that would happen when I started the thread. Best of luck getting your book to print, Rocky. Always interested in hearing things from different perspectives. Hope you let us know any updates on its publication.

What does “This Isn’t Love” have to do with Andy Paley? Pardon my possible ignorance.