links to some artists I’ve been listening to lately with an old school sound:

Sierra Ferrell:  https://youtu.be/tMkqyMfqqgA

Charlie Crockett:  https://youtu.be/gSr0hF_MzSc

Wayne Hancock: https://youtu.be/0qlM3BgJhQQ

Sierra Ferrell is fabulous. CBS This Morning did a feature about here a few weeks ago too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqc6_n_lgvE

Anyone ever hear Willie Carlisle? His music is pretty great too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbdBwI58MyE

From Dae Lims, a superb Good Vibrations AI stereo remix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW83O-xC8bQ

Tasteful remix. Well done daelims.

The majority of my music money goes to my record collection and my blueray collection (and my toys).

I am pro-physical media 100%

Everyday I look forward to coming home from work and using an online random album picker to choose an album to spin.

Well said Rab.

I understand why AI terrifies some people. But like it or not, AI will leave just about no job or profession untouched.

Nice work Jesse. (as usual)

Thanks for sharing. 

Now here's an interesting idea-Caroline No not by Brian Wilson, but by the Beach Boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYpHaG9niRI

Pretty cool. Tastefully done.

I always thought Dennis' "My Love Lives On" needed some BB harmony woven into it.

I would love to hear early 70's Brian singing A Day In The Life Of A Tree.

Love to Brian and family. This is, no doubt, a very difficult time for all of them. I hope they are able to maintain a standard of comfort for Brian.

Did anyone rip the audio? I was going to (I had a feeling) but decided to answer nature’s call first.

It was beautiful.

I'd love to hear this, as well, hoping someone got it.

I've been looking for alternates on YouTube, nothing yet.

Daelims is now a member of the board here, and I hope the L&M track is made available again in some way, I missed it before it was removed. Hopefully there is an explanation why it got taken down.

He had a live listen just after he took it down. He said it upset people that he posted it so soon after it was announced that Melinda passed away and some thought it was not in good taste (I thought it was a wonderful tribute). So he voluntarilly took it down.

Did anyone rip the audio? I was going to (I had a feeling) but decided to answer nature’s call first.

It was beautiful.

Sad news. I am genuinely shocked.

Not sure we would have had Brian around for as long as we have were it not for her.

I haven't seen any news pages pick this up yet. I learned it from Brian's Facebook page.

Some tasteful moments from AI Al, AI Carl, and AI Brian. Bravo again.

I have had "Ding dong ding dong ding dong day. Frosty the Snowman has melted away!" on my mind quite often during the holidays.

Poor Mike. 

Glad the site is back up. Things have been slow, but I still stop by daily.

Damn. Those bongos on A Hard Days Night (which I never noticed before) are relentless and amazing! Really propels it forward in a way I never experienced.

I am excited for this to actually materialize... unlike the Sessionography that was supposed to come with Made In California that never happened.  

Enjoyable take on Child. The melody doesn't really slide into the overall backing the way I think it would had Brian intended it that way.. at least not as a literal insertion. Maybe with a few changes to the melody?

I really liked the addition of the children playing in the background.

I really want to hear 1971 Brian singing A Day in the Life of a Tree. Salivatingly so. 

It sounds like the vocal is being run through Brian’s lead vocal track (or Brian’s lead vocal is somehow a component), because that vocal has a weird mix of Brian’s voice and the fake Sinatra voice.

I’m not a Sinatra aficionado, so I’m certainly not as trained on his voice as the BBs, Beatles, etc., but this sounds pretty par for the course compared to the other tracks. It’s certainly more workshopped than most of the fake AI vocals on YouTube. But it doesn’t sound like the real thing either, to me.

Would there be value in having like a Sinatra impersonator sing the song to hear kind of what it would sound like had he recorded it? Maybe? So I guess this AI vocal is kind of like that.

Listening to Brian’s vocals (which are quite affecting and poignant) and then a fake Sinatra, I think the answer as to who should have sang the song is pretty obvious: Carl Wilson.

But hey, I’m someone who probably enjoys Brian’s demos of “Still I Dream of It” and “It’s Over Now” more than the studio versions. Not a super huge fan of that 70s lounge band sound.

It could be worse. See: Gary Usher’s mid-80s lyrical rewrite of “Still I Dream of It.”

Are you listning to the same track posted above or Mike Leroy's? if the latter, you're right. If the Dae Lim's version is what you're referencing I think you may be hearing something that is not there. This was definitely not modeled on Brian's original vocal. Phrasing is completely different.

There's definitely some spine-tingling moments from this version.  I'm not sure that I like the overall sequencing of the songs though and was there any reason to omit "Good Vibrations" which was the song that tied the whole thing together?  Also some of the wacky tempo changes seem jarring to me.

But on the plus side it was nice hearing a fully-realized version of "I Wanna Be Around" and kudos to Dae Lims for being daring enough to update "Surf's Up".  This is probably one of the most remarkable fan edits of SMiLE that I've ever heard.

Agreed. I'm not into the sequencing either, but an amazing mix. Surf's Up is inspired.

Like it or not, AI is the future of music production.

I'm wonderin', has Rio Grande been AI'd yet??

I've probably mentioned this before, but the idea of AI helping create a Pet Sounds-era-sounding Love You album is intriguing to me, and in addition to that I'd love to hear the '88 album given the same treatment (and saying that, I love the synths and production on both of those albums, I'm just intrigued by the idea of making them sound like they were recorded in the 60s with Pet Sounds era instruments).

If only AI could re-write Landy's contributions to '88

I know this wouldn’t happen either way, but I’d rather have someone like Darian, perhaps with or without contributions from Brian and Al, handle this sort of a thing. Brian’s band knows how to recreate this stuff to a T, and maybe with Scott Totten and John Cowsill no longer with Mike, something magical could happen. After all, Al did tease a possible Brian album next year. Darian and the band could handle the arrangements and help Brian and Al (if they chose to contribute) with lyrics. Obviously, I know this is extremely unlikely, especially potential input from Brian and Al, but as Lonely Summer said above, I don’t want to listen to AI stuff and justify its existence/support future creations. I’m sure those of us here are doing this with good intentions and a lot of hard work, but this stuff is too dangerous to me. Someone wanting to attack any of the band members could create deepfakes audio instantly, and that could spread fast. I think AI should be left to demixing, as HeyJude has said, and if Mark Linett, Alan Boyd, and Howie Edelsoj could get a hold of that (type of) technology (for a reasonable/fair price), that could be interesting for attempting new mixes of 62-63 and 65 material (LDC, Today, SDSN, etc) if they ever receive archive releases down the line.

Darian already did this back in the '90s on his version of "I Wanna Pick You Up," and it was revelatory. And as good as you'd expect which is to say very good.

Also his work on "Do You Have Any Regrets?" Brilliant!

I told my wife, when bookoff smile came out, that the best thing that could happen is that it would be "outdated by summer" and it seems my highest hopes are about to be met!!

https://youtube.com/shorts/YwGAn9QSVuk?feature=share

Hearing Mike sing those lines feels so right. I am excited to hear more.

Saw the same concert tour and bought the same merch. Talented guy.

RIP Tina. A true original.