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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 1971 on my website
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on: October 17, 2022, 03:07:14 PM
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Well…the site I have is limited in size of images -meaning files have to be small and fit a certain size. As far as photos-yeah no Lagoon photos but plenty of ads. I have one photo of them getting mobbed outside prior to a show there but no photos onstage. However I did find a lot of photos over the years of various shows so it may turn up someday. The trick is that someone who has photos has to feel some incentive to take some old photo from their scrapbook or attic and digitize it and put on the internet. Beach Boy photos don’t have the monetary cache of Beatles photos so not much incentive there
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / 1971 on my website
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on: October 16, 2022, 01:27:08 PM
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So at my BeachBoys gigs website-I have completed 1971 (though I update if I find a photo or new info) and it can be viewed here if you are so inclined: https://www.beachboysgigs.com/1971-2/Again-the site is kind of a digital update/addendum to the Beach Boys In Concert book-and I try to feature visuals (photos, flyers, etc) with the show listings, as well as reviews, etc. It would be nice to have photos of every show-but I have featured whatever I could find that matched a specific show. You can of course view 1962-1970 year by year as well. And of course there is a blog (Listed as Additions from the Home Page) with updates to the physical book listings (I have that written up to 1972 only) showing shows that you have to pencil in to the original 2013 book
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Pro Shot Beach Boys Concerts
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on: October 15, 2022, 09:04:13 AM
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Right-the venue filmed the concert and broadcast that to the audience in the venue-for the people with less of a good view -standard today but a new development in 1977-78. Apparently they often are not preserved (possibly by the artist’s request) but those videos were saved.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Pro Shot Beach Boys Concerts
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on: October 14, 2022, 03:59:52 PM
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Noticed the post on the previous page asking where the footage of Brian singing In My Room in 1970s seen in American Band comes from. I wrote an article in ESQ years ago where I noted that the footage of Brian singing in my room and Dennis singing you are so beautiful in the film come from the April 14 1978 show at the Summit in Houston. It was one of the early venues to have a Jumbotron screen and the video comes from that feed.
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Elvis Presley
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on: September 23, 2022, 12:05:38 PM
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I think it’s interesting how much Elvis became a “feel” singer in the 1970s. If he got emotionally involved in the song, he would really give it his all but if it was an old number that no longer spoke to him then he often treated it as a joke. For example in 1968 he gave phenomenal performances of heartbreak hotel and love me but as early as 1970 they became listless throwaways
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Wilson/Paley Sessions
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on: September 17, 2022, 06:12:36 PM
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Right-that is it exactly-Frank Zappa is that exactly-a quirky guy who just put out what he wanted to put out and sold just enough records to keep being allowed to make more but hardly ever bothered the record charts. Brian, however, was the leader of a very commercial/mainstream group and therefore he could only get away with a truly quirky statement like Love You once. No one around him would allow anything so raw out ever again. So Sweet Insanity was shelved and he was pushed in a more mainstream direction. The question is whether Brian was sad about that and I guess that may never truly be known. Whether 1998 Brian really loved the sound of Imagination or was just going through the motions and dreamed of doing wilder stuff like Sweet Insanity -I just cannot answer that.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Wilson/Paley Sessions
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on: September 12, 2022, 07:01:57 PM
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Right it is a complex issue….Brian was/is a quirky guy. I love Love You but it was not a commercial album. It’s a fascinating window into where Brian was at in 1976-77 and the guys were so scattered at the time that they basically let him make a solo album with little interference but they were not going to let him do Love You Part 2 in 1995. A quirky album was going to be made. The BBs in 1995 would micro manage Brian and I don’t think he works well in that setting. Also I don’t think Melinda wanted a Love You part 2 and maybe Brian agreed…in 1998 they were looking to make a nice commercial record that sounded polished and professional, thus enter Joe Thomas. But I do recall Dianne Rovell’s comments on the A&E biography (I think it was her or Ginger BLake) that the Brian you heard was not the real Brian but a tamed Brian, something along those lines.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Wilson/Paley Sessions
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on: September 04, 2022, 07:51:20 AM
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I think as you say that the Paley sessions loomed large for many years because a certain part of the fandom continued to argue that things like Imagination were Brian being pushed into a more commercial/bland direction and that the “real” Brian was represented on the more “raw” Paley demos. The suggestion is that Brian was pushed into collaboration with people like Joe by “outside forces” and that he would make more experimental music left to his own devices. But I just think that is wishful thinking and not where Brian head has been at since 1988
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: This Day in BB History
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on: September 03, 2022, 04:53:42 PM
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Brian was a fan of Papa Doo Run Run and had played with them that year (in July) at Disneyland. Oddly enough, I think Brian sometimes enjoyed playing onstage even in that strange period-maybe he preferred being away from the pressure of the Beach Boys-where often all eyes were on him.
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