Any woman that is patient enough to have BB songs played at her wedding should be married immediately! 

What? I would love a 100% BB wedding! Waiting for a proposal! There's nothing in this world like our sweet love...

My song of the moment, a moment that usually lasts a long time, is All This Is That. There is such peace in that song, I like its quietness, gentleness. Also, a guy I met here wrote me these lyrics once as "Song of the day" and I'll never forget it:

Golden auras glow around you
Omnipresent love surrounds you
Wisdom warming as the sun
You and I are truly one

How sweet is that?

To me, Pet Sounds, is a gift or pure love. I first discovered it only last fall, so it's still new to me. It took a few times for it to sink into my soul, but when it happened, I just couldn't believe what I was feeling. It was love! And then I read that Brian had intended for this album to bring love to people, and I'm still amazed beyond words that he did exactly that. What an artist! Brian truly has a gift and his generosity to share it knows no bounds. Today, 50 years after he opened his heart and soul for everybody, he is still sharing the beauty of his masterpiece with the world. Incredible and truly inspiring!

White wine is nice, but what if I want to prepare shots? I might try the Grasshopper after all...

3/4 oz green creme de menthe
3/4 oz white creme de cacao
3/4 oz vodka

I need your help, people! I'm currently preparing for a little Pet Sounds 50th anniversary celebration, and I'm in charge of drinks. I was trying to find out what have been some of Brian's favorite drinks through the years. Does anyone know? Rocky has mentioned Grasshoppers a couple of times, but I don't know if it's reliable information!

So what exactly is going to go on at this celebration?

Sorry, can't divulge! It's a private event! 

I need your help, people! I'm currently preparing for a little Pet Sounds 50th anniversary celebration, and I'm in charge of drinks. I was trying to find out what have been some of Brian's favorite drinks through the years. Does anyone know? Rocky has mentioned Grasshoppers a couple of times, but I don't know if it's reliable information!

Here are some of my other favorite shots of him:

For some reason I can't explain, I never liked that pic and the other one where he's holding the Good Humor hat.

It must be this one for me:

I like that you chose that one. It's something to be able to face Brian as he is, today - for me at least, I know it's a sort of challenge. But it's the same old Brian! Thanks for posting it.

"When Pet Sounds was released in 1966, 'We didn't play it on stage,' Wilson says, describing the record as, 'an album that started out with 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' and just went from there.'"

Billboard 2016-03-17
http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7263743/brian-wilson-pet-sounds-tour

I'm definately interested in a printed copy!

The vintage articles are great fun to read - especially when Dennis is talking/bragging - and the new reviews are well-written and interesting (if not always accurate), but they also give a star rating (out of 5) to each individual song and, well, here are some examples...

Christmas Day - 4 stars
Only With You - 2 stars
Please Let Me Wonder - 3 stars
The Trader - 3 stars
Here She Comes - 5 stars 
Kiss Me Baby - 3 stars
Farmer's Daughter - 2 stars

Jesus... Kids today.

The Here She Comes rating is a-okay with me… check out the bass line, and Ricky's drumming is unsurpassed…

Got a copy yesterday - can't believe editor John Mulvey's clanger, coming in the first few lines of the mag's intro, was allowed to slip through to print. As the whole premise for the mag is the 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds and Brian's coming Pet Sounds world tour, it's just wrong on so many levels.

Other than that, it's a feast

If He She Comes is a five, then The Trader would have to get 6 stars, which is not possible, so this stars rating is bull----. It's really not necessary for a magazine that produces a special edition that will be bought by fans to tell them how good the songs are. Come on!

[Hi, Rocky!]

Phone recharged and reclaimed

Reading my last post, I'm very uncomfortable with it but feel best to let it stand so I can either be put straight, reprimanded, educated, or whatever.

Well, personally, I must say that I don't see how one's sexual orientation should ever be relevant. And I don't see that, for example, being gay and being masculine would be a "contradiction", necessarily. I can't agree with the direction your previous post has taken but I see your point, kind of. You just let it wander a bit too far. However, since you've already admitted that and are ready to assume some criticism, I don't think it should be held against you.

It's nice when somebody can just be honest. And humble. Hi, Rocky!

I think we still get something very precious from this thread. I knew, like most of you, of the incident with Carl and Rocky, but I see it in a whole different light now. Little did Carl know, when he treated himself with a big F-U to Rocky, that he was treating all of us. When he took that punch, he took it for all of us. The man is a hero.

Reading it now - it's entertaining, but wow some of those star ratings leave a lot to be desired...

Are you saying it's not worth it? I'd like to know more before I spend 25 $...

Someone lurking on this board and who has read it with great interest, but who has not posted, has privately emailed me the first entry in the Rocky fanfic challenge. 

This rather illustrious person, whose resume and working history perhaps even surpasses that of the esteemed Mr. Pamplin, would prefer to remain anonymous, but I am reposting it on their behalf.  I will relay any book offers to that person directly or if, since apparently there is no distinction between fiction and non-fiction, Mr. Pamplin would like to buy the rights to this chapter, I will relay any reasonable offer and act as a broker in good faith.

*******

So one day we were on tour in Fargo or Wichita or Omaha or Akron, and it we were there early so me and Stan took Brian out walking in the afternoon before we were going to get into a limo to go the show that night. It was a hot day and after awhile Stan was thirsty and hungry so Stan and I stopped at a liquor store so we could get our usual Mr Pibb and beef jerky while Brian waited outside since we told him he couldn't go into liquor stores.  While I was looking for the sodas, I heard Stan shout from the checkout counter, "Hey Rocky!  Get your ass over here! You gotta see this!!"

So I drop the six pack of Mr Pibbs, run to the font of the store, and I see that theres a Winston cigarettes display on the checkout counter, and it had that big photo of me with the advertisement that was running everywhere in every magazine in the world at the time! I saw that display and the kid behind the counter, who was like 17, saw it and saw it was me and I could see he was way impressed!  "I totally smoke Winstons, man," he said.

So Stan says, "You know what we should do, Rocky? You stand right next to that picture, and we'll see if the next person who comes in here sees you and sees that it's you in that picture!"  And the kid says, "Yeah, it'll totally freak their sh*t, man."

So I stand there next to that display, and some old guy, kind of decrepit and unshaved, looks like a total bum alky, walks in to the store and walks over to the counter, and I'm standing there, like. "Hey, how ya doing?" He looks at me, and I nod towards the Winston display.  He looks at the display, looks at me, looks at the display, looks at me, then looks me up and down and goes, "Hmph!" and turns to the kid at the checkout counter.

"Gimme two packs of Marlboro reds."

Stan, who's standing next to the counter on the other side of the guy, decides to play with him a little, gives the old man a little shove on the shoulder, and says, "Hey, my buddy thinks you should smoke WINSTONS."  The old guy doesn't even look at him but just says, "shove off."

Uh oh!  No one tells MY FIREND STAN to SHOVE OFF! and suddenly Stan is all over the guy! He starts punching him but the guy shoves back and almost gets in a punch, so I jump in and we just start wailing on this old jerk, he's trying to cover his face with his hands so I get him in the ribs, and Stan bashes him in the head witha  tin of Skoal, and the kid behind the counter is laughing his ass off and we get this old alky bum on the ground curled up like a baby crying and wimp-ering and crying and bloody nosed while we get in some real good kicks, and finally we stop and let him get up and he starts to shuffle to the door.  Just as he's leaving, Stan says, "Hey! Wait!" and he grabs a pack of Winstons from behind the counter and tosses them at the old guy, and with a big smile Stan says "With our compliments!"

So the old guy leaves with his free smokes and we're laughing our asses off and the kid is looking at me and Stan and saying to each of us, "YOU DA MAN!" when Brian walks in and heads over to the counter.  Stan pushes me next to the spot besides the Winston display, and says to Brian, "Hey Brian - check it out!" and points to the display and points to me. 

Brian sees the display, looks at me, and turns to the kid and says "I wanna pack of True menthols."

This is great! So much so, in fact, that it's just as depressing as "real" Rocky chapters.

I know this thread has been dead for a while but if any one them deserves to brought back to life... this must be the one.

"We're all chemistry. We're made of chemistry".

..."my semi-addiction to drugs"

Mike Douglas Show, 1976

"It's the way [Carnie] was brought up. She'd come into our room and see us doing things, in bed. We never hid anything from her. So – it just goes to prove – that – if you don't hide anything from kids, they'll start doing things they normally wouldn't do until much later. At an early age. Like, three or four years old."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beach-boys-a-california-saga-19711028#ixzz42YVWXNzV

+ I generally like how he always explains everything twice (but not everything, of course), but in a slightly different manner, like that chemistry quote. Some other examples:

"[...] and be aware of the love in those songs that is able to give the listener the feeling of being love, which is something we kinda like to do. We like to give our love."
- Pet Sounds album liner notes, Pet Sounds box set, 1996

"I think God gave me my music and my talent. I’m trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people."
(unknown source)

"It’s taken very well by me and I appreciate the very thought of being able to entertain and write songs for people; it turns me on, personally. I feel turned on by it, I can’t help it. I can’t help myself."
(unknown source, 1988)


Brian has often been said to have a big heart and a big soul, but he also has such a great mind. He can say a lot of funny BS when he wants to or when he's uninterested, but I sometimes have the feeling that he's joshing with people just because he's so far ahead.

YES! I've been waiting to hear about something like this! But the waiting is awful. I've been a fan for such a short, recent time that it has been really easy to get my hands on a ton of BB stuff from albums to books, documentaries and all that's available on the net. I'm not used to waiting.

Seriously, though, who the f*@% is Frank Zappa?

...

I know. But it's true. I heard his name mentionned a lot but never listened to any of his music (I don't think). Any particular album I should start with?

I'm sitting at a table typing out a conversation with whoever sits down.   I'll tell you right here and tight now that I would say the exact same things to Little Rocklette to his face at a real table that I'm typing here. 

Yeah, but would you do it with your mouth full of cold cuts? 

Wow guys, this is all comic gold. Great work here.  

Did it every cross any of your minds' that some people would still rather hear from Rocky than endure your self-satisfied, holier-than-thou crap, no matter what he's done in the past or what tone he takes in the present?

Great job, everyone. You're picking on an old former male model on an Internet message board. Talk about speaking truth to power! What crusaders you are.

 Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals -- and imagine the tables were turned, and we were discussing a woman whose trajectory intersected with the Beach Boys. Would some of this pompous, bullying bullsh!t seem quite so appropriate?

Meanwhile, the backslapping continues. HAHAHA that was a good one! You're so enlightened! Rocky is sooooo stoopid. Hyuk!

 

You have a good point, but I believe what's happening here is just us speaking his language. I don't think all of it is purely gratuitious (although some of it is) and that Rocky is an innocent victim... I'd even argue that he enjoys it quite a bit. He cares for added "reads" on this thread and this grade-school bullying that has been going on makes for perfect conditions for them to soar.

We're pretty far from our best selves here, but isn't it fun to be nasty between consenting adults?

“The secret [...] is abstaining from orgasm.”  

Can't wait to buy my copy.

Wow, he was talking about that to Rolling Stone in the '70s and then still to NME in the '90s. The idea stuck with him. I wonder if he pulled it off.

Probably, as Marilyn complained about it.

I would think Marilyn would only complain if he made her abstain from the big O. 

Sadly, only a very small percentage of women experienced them at all back then.

That's very sad for them. 

Indeed!

I wonder if any great albums came as a result (no pun intended).

Love You... maybe abstinence brings forth feelings of love. OK, I admit there's absolutely no logic in this but that was just to plug the following quote:

Brian [from a 1976 interview]: "I wanted to call it 'Brian's In Love'... I don't think they'll go for it though, hahaha"

Rocky, you're right! We don't even care about Brian! We only care about YOU!
RO-CKY! RO-CKY! RO-CKY!

J'adore ça quand vous parlez du Québec!

Wow! Can this be seen anywhere? Will a compilation of all (or most) TV appearances by the Beach Boys ever see the light of day? What would it take for it to happen? Would it cost too much to make such a production?

[Vox Magazine]

Do you know if that 1990s interview is available anywhere on the Web?

Found this quote from a 1995 interview in Vox Magazine:

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,2716.msg51339.html#msg51339

I've seen that issue of Vox on eBay...

IIRC I have that issue. If it has the remarkable photos of Brian that I can not seem to locate anywhere... the pics are surreas, as if Bri is looking into a laughing mirror. There are a few photos of him that I find especially appealing, BTW, it's the Guy Webster one in b/w, with a very well-dressed Brian looking into the lens with a sombre face. Very stately. There are the ones from Vox, I think the photographer had a Belgian name, it will pop up in my mind some day today. And there is the Matthew Rolston one, again in b/w, in a Rolling Stone anniversay edition with portfolios of a number of rock photographers. Again, the Rolston is hard to locate, otherwise I would put it up here; to be honest, it portrays Brian as being fearful (I put it mildly), as if he is facing his personal demons precisely at the time Rolston took he photo. These are the standout pics for me.

(The finest Dennis photos BTW are the one that adorn the POB gatefold LP sleeve - they capture the mood of the music so well. IIRC that was Guy Webster again as the lensman.)

If you ever find those pics you're talking about I'd love to see them posted here... http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,23506.0.html