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Those words are not just rotating, they're REELING!!! 

It's like OSD on LSD! 

The scuttlebutt kings over at the nearest faraway place might have gleaned more info on the fate of the 'tates...will scope it out.

We can page Howie Edelson, who also might have more info to share. The mid-late 70s box set still seems to be on track. SMiLE it's not, of course, but there's still ~20 months for an "on-time" sixtieth SMiLE box.

There is still a chance that these will see the light of day, however slight that may be. Don't abandon all hope, Julia!

[nor was anything in my life ever really the same.]

Here is Friends.
https://vocal.media/beat/friends-bu1lfr0b22

Great stuff!

The very tiniest of nitpicks, but Brian's Something Great from '68 tour was in 2019, not 2018. (Ended just a few months before covid shut everything down.)

https://www.grammy.com/news/brian-wilson-and-zombies-announce-something-great-68-joint-tour

Saw that tour at the Beacon in NY. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Brian and the band were in great form, doing basically a dream setlist for me. But the Zombies! I was there for Brian and hadn't given much thought to the Zombies part of it, and my partner and I were blown away. They did Odyssey and Oracle and we just kept looking at each other like "are you hearing this sh*t?" They just sounded so damn good. The whole night was magic. A few months later the world shut down and it was never really like that again with Brian and the band... nor was anything in my life ever really the same.

Sorry for the tangent. I really enjoyed the Friends review

Sorry to hear that, BJL. COVID has a lot to answer for.

I discovered O&O in recent decades and was similarly blown away. There's something about that album that is so special... Shamefully, it got almost no publicity in the UK at the time -- I've never understood that. "Time Of The Season" was a huge hit in the US but went nowhere in the UK. Very strange...

So Durrie finally turned "$MiL£ionaire"?  Well perhaps more "in spe" than in spades !?
But NOW [originally thanks to our former prolific poster: CenturyDeprived] she's got a {recently re~edited for this occasion ~ into a:}
LIMITLESS  LIMERICK to her name !  Created by CD+WR (20/20 vision//2025 version:)
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"BRER B*    DiD  TOPDRAWER  (TOP & REER:)

A*C*E*T*A*T*E*S {:BB)  !  D*PARKS/ONE DURRiE'h ?...

= "SMiLEr~PRELIM'S  HEiR" !

    RUDE, NO?  SKRAP'D  BB~SET  ATE CAREER !

&  POT  (REWARD~POT?)  DiD TOO, W/BRER  B?««««««

[Pet Squares]

Adam's Pet Squares series, Joshilyn's YouTube tutorials and the sessionography project tower above everything else in Beach Boys Land these days.

Happy to give you all a view, a like and a favorite. Hope it helps the algorithm boost your content.
Thanks for sharing 

The latest episode of PET SQUARES: A GEEK'S GUIDE TO THE BEACH BOYS is finally up.

At last, we tackle one of rock's great mysteries: the Beach Boys' unreleased 1966-67 album SMiLE, intended to position the band as artists at the forefront of psychedelia, but instead laid unfinished and unreleased for 38 years.

Part 1, "The Rise of Smile" goes through the songs that were recorded in the second half of 1966 that were to be the basis of the album.

At over two hours, this is the longest episode of the series, necessary to tell a complex story as efficiently as possible. Because of this there is a minimum of visual additions to allow people to listen podcast-style without missing much content.

Enjoy, feel free to add corrections or additions here or on YT (there's always more to learn about SMiLE), and let me know if you like it.

https://youtu.be/_AR6_00IUOc

Here is Friends.
https://vocal.media/beat/friends-bu1lfr0b22

Great stuff!

The very tiniest of nitpicks, but Brian's Something Great from '68 tour was in 2019, not 2018. (Ended just a few months before covid shut everything down.)

https://www.grammy.com/news/brian-wilson-and-zombies-announce-something-great-68-joint-tour

Saw that tour at the Beacon in NY. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Brian and the band were in great form, doing basically a dream setlist for me. But the Zombies! I was there for Brian and hadn't given much thought to the Zombies part of it, and my partner and I were blown away. They did Odyssey and Oracle and we just kept looking at each other like "are you hearing this sh*t?" They just sounded so damn good. The whole night was magic. A few months later the world shut down and it was never really like that again with Brian and the band... nor was anything in my life ever really the same.

Sorry for the tangent. I really enjoyed the Friends review

Here is Friends.
https://vocal.media/beat/friends-bu1lfr0b22

Great stuff!

The very tiniest of nitpicks, but Brian's Something Great from '68 tour was in 2019, not 2018. (Ended just a few months before covid shut everything down.)

https://www.grammy.com/news/brian-wilson-and-zombies-announce-something-great-68-joint-tour

Fixed!

The UK band Iona had a magnificent run of live performances in NL in the 1990s. "A'Machair" was the track I heard first (we visited the magic isle of Iona in 2017):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1TkZLBzKg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona_(band)

Here is Friends.
https://vocal.media/beat/friends-bu1lfr0b22

Great stuff!

The very tiniest of nitpicks, but Brian's Something Great from '68 tour was in 2019, not 2018. (Ended just a few months before covid shut everything down.)

https://www.grammy.com/news/brian-wilson-and-zombies-announce-something-great-68-joint-tour