So, this will sadly be the first yuletide season without our Brian To commemorate, here's a seasonal Brian Wilson rotator "Pi€Pi"taph by PiPiLaPap (2025): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Happy Holidays to you all. I'm back with another Christmas video this year that I hope you'll check out and enjoy. It's the group's original 'Santa's Beard' from the classic 1964 Christmas album. How do you rank the Beach Boys originals on that album? Is Santa's Beard at the top or the bottom? It's a nostalgic kick any way you look at it. Have a great Holiday season!
Hi there. I've linked this thread at the Endless Harmony forum, as Smiley is so thinly populated these days.
I'm also planning to link all individual album reviews at the Beach Boys Today forum, as they arrive.
I like the idea of uncomplicated essays on each album for those just starting down the Beach Boys trail. Keep up the good work!
Can you send me a link to said forum so I can add them myself. I would like to have the widest audience possible and am indeed having difficulty with this forum as well.
Soul to Soul, a vibrant and historically significant 1971 concert film — featuring performances by Ike & Tina Turner, Santana, Wilson Pickett, the Staples Singers, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, and the Voices of East Harlem — will be available again on February 20, 2025, ahead of the concert’s 55th anniversary on March 6, 2025. Released by Liberation Hall in partnership with Reelin’ In The Years Productions, Soul to Soul will appear for the first time on Blu-ray. Additionally, Soul to Soul: Music from the Original Soundtrack will arrive at retail on vinyl LP, CD & digital on the same date. The film will also be released on DVD.
On March 6, 1971, a group of some of the top musicians from the United States -– Ike and Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, the Staple Singers, and more -– boarded a plane bound for Ghana to perform in a musical celebration that was dubbed the “Soul to Soul Festival.” Thousands of audience members filled Accra’s Black Star Square for a continuous 15 hours of music. The festival was planned in part for the annual celebration of Ghana’s independence, but also as an invitation to a “homecoming” for these noted African-American artists to return to Africa.This episode revisits the famed music festival on its 50th anniversary and explores the longstanding legacy of cultural exchange with African diasporans originally set forth in the 1950s by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana. Tune in for interviews with noted musicologist John Collins, poet and scholar Tsitsi Ella Jaji, concert goers and more. Produced by Brandi Howell.
The mixes for the Paley stuff are all over the place, even on latter-day official releases that include smatterings of tracks from those sessions. Some of the tracks included on that “Long Promised Road” documentary soundtrack sounded kind of wonky, kind of messy and cluttered and too much reverb. I sometimes wonder if they definitely have all extant multitracks of every single track from those sessions, because sometimes what we get sound like rough mixes.
I get the vibe Paley was going for; he wanted a mid-60s vibe with some reverb/echo, so I don’t expect the tracks to be bone dry. But stuff like “It’s Not Easy Being Me” sounds better on the boots.
The mixes pushed onto Brian’s website a few years back are better, because I think they just dumped existing mixes on there. That’s the only place to get a pristine “You’re Still a Mystery” with Brian’s original 1995 lead vocal.
When I last talked with Andy, we spoke in depth about the sessions and he had told me he wasn't happy with the sound of any of the then-recently released "Wilson/Paley" tracks. He spoke about wanting -- in a perfect world -- to mix them side by side with Brian, and have them mastered by somebody of his choice.
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