[KRTH/FM Brian Wilson Interview with jockey Jim Pewter 9/1/74]

KRTH/FM Brian Wilson Interview with jockey Jim Pewter 9/1/74

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9pih2QE5RI&t=132

Interesting Brian voice here, sounds smoother than what would come in later interviews during this period.

Pa Let Her Go Out has the verse from Lazy Lizzie... 

Date for streaming also changed to Dec. 2 release date.

Nov. 18th

Just got an email from the Beach Boys organization saying the release date is now Dec. 2

Is this for a physical release? Because the streaming release is still listed as November 18.

Once again, Brian Wilson never fails to surprise me. Completely new and cool sound! Much more organic than the 88 album we got instead.

https://www.brianwilson.com/1980s

Oh I am so happy this board is back! Here's to looking forward to a Holland/Carl and the Passions boxset this year? 

Rock and roll has direct quotes from Country Feelin as well as a bridge from Concert Tonight from Sweet Insanity. Never thought I’d hear that again.

I think It’s Natural is one of my favorites here. Should have been finished. I love the vibe and instrumental here.

Don't forget this different mix of Desert Drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md__7YYNbxA 

Best personal music news in a long time in my opinion. Love all of these tracks.

Sadly, unlike us who love the boys to death, they kind of "peaked" in the late 60's. They never received the commercial success they got before. So much good music, and I also think the BB's inspired songwriters behind the scenes... So I am at least happy about that.

This could be very special. Or not.

This will be very special. Or not. But it will.

I think it will bc this will be the first sighting of BW in about a year now. Will be nice to get some interview snippets and hopefully some recording snippets.

Why is this album mastered so badly? Everything sounds distorted and fuzzy, it really distracts from actually listening to the thing...

Also it's fun to hear Ram Raj again, thanks Mike.

Falsetto in my sense after studying music for many years is singing above the break of the voice, without the undertones of the chest. IMO Brian's is easily distinguishable and most iconic. The BB's stack their voices in 4's, 6's, or 8's (at the most), and are mostly doubled, making any falsetto part sound bigger (have more depth). Carl had the smoothest transition from chest to head voice (falsetto). Bruce's voice gets weaker and quieter as it moves to head voice (falsetto), same for Al. In LA, what makes the voices sound odd, is that they play around with their iconic vocal stack due to Brian's unwillingness to participate. M.I.U. was probably the last album to feature the traditional vocal stack of the Beach Boys that we come to recognize as the Beach Boys sound. I think there was a struggle to try and replicate this sound in LA, so it is naturally difficult to pinpoint as to who is on top, and so on.

Personally if Desper is really being left out of the conversation, I think it's needlessly dumb. His sound is what made those albums what they were in the first place. I can understand not wanting to commit to new quadrophonic mixes, but it sounds to me that the archivists just want to rush the music out, and are probably underbudgeted. But in the end, I don't come into this set for anything else but the music, and assume that there are always going to be politics at play. That's the nature of being a Beach Boys fan. It's messy, and you gotta wade through all the politics in order to get into the music. Hopefully we can hear from Desper's perspective, but in the end, the fact that this music is getting reissued in the first place is a cause for joy in and of itself.

I have a vinyl rip of it, but I am currently listening to the Spotify release now. I like about half this album, but I think there should have been more Beach Boys involvement personally.

So is Fred's Gofundme up yet?   Love the idea of a fan-financed completion of "Cows."   If 600 BB fans put in $50 each...

I'll put in $75 if we get all the tapes.

Here is this big ol dump of Brian Wilson footage for a documentary. Does anyone know what this is from or what this is for? In the meantime, enjoy an almost movie length trove of Brianisms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EneBzWgF728

There's another one from April '78 that doesn't go around, called I Really Love You, and it's bizarre. It sounds like his MIU voice on sleeping pills.

I'd love to personally hear this. MIU Brian's voice is so interesting and just a strange anomaly.

Thank you for this information and all of your contributions to Beach Boys history. It is always a treat to hear you 50 years (and more) after the genesis of some of my favorite albums! I hope you have a great 2021! 

I recommend Tatsu's discography if you like barbershop/beach boys harmonies. Big Wave is the tip of the iceberg... I've got the majority of his albums if you want to listen... Sort of reminds me of what would happen if Brian would strike out on his own, develop his musical instrument abilities on bass, and split off the Beach Boys in early 1970! In an alternate world maybe...

Well now I'm more confused - and, admittedly, I have not gone to the honored guests thread -

If you can send a signal to 4 speakers, surely you can record that signal (output) and then press that as 4 discrete channels on any medium that stores more than 4 channels.

What am I missing?

The issue is that you can't send a signal to 4 speakers in this case.  Desper never did a mix with 4 discrete output signals.  His device is for two speakers.

So is this system like Prologic 2 where you get different frequencies bounced to different speakers?

While watching Norbit.

Now there are only 5 copies left. 

One thing that is interesting about this 1970 release (samples) is that the only song I have not previously heard here is You Never Give Me Your Money. There is no other "outtake" here which has remained out of public hearing.

There are 2 possibilities:

1. The tapes from this year (1970) have been mined/leaked to such an extent that there is not a single song that we didn't know about still in the archives.

2. There will still have to be a small copyright dump prior to Christmas to protect a few other things.

Any thoughts?

As a rebuff to no. 2 I have not heard much of these outtakes. Yeah I've heard the usual, but these mixes will no doubt sound much better. LOVE the alt outtake don't go near the water.

1. The album would still flounder in the charts.
2. This would make LA a more democratic album, and probably better than what came out.
3. No, the production would have to get cleaned up ala MIU in order to become "listenable" I think a new Brian lead and some new drums and percussion would have to be employed in order to make these two songs fit sonically.
4. No, Brian was already petering out at this point due to his divorce from Marilyn at this time, he would have retreated into bed even if different musical events occurred. The man was checked out emotionally since MIU. The band might not have received as much scorn in the media, but I don't think they would have received any more respect if Brian compositions were in it. If LA came out in place of MIU then there would probably be a different story. But, 1979 was way too late in trends for the kind of music the Beach Boys were making in the first place to garner any sort of respect.

The Beach Boys were a joke at this point, both live, and in studio, and wouldn't regain some semblance of a footing until the 80s. I don't think one album can change that trajectory, unfortunately.