The Jasper Dailey/Dennis and Carl Smile-era recordings

[Mooger Fooger]

Despite reports of the tracks' musical shortcomings, I would like to see these tracks included in a sub-section of the box set. They are part of the Smile myth and some sort of representation should be made of them. Teeter Totter Love does still exists in tape format. I would assume the other material does as well.

[PhilCohen]

Despite reports of the tracks' musical shortcomings, I would like to see these tracks included in a sub-section of the box set. They are part of the Smile myth and some sort of representation should be made of them. Teeter Totter Love does still exists in tape format. I would assume the other material does as well.

It was stated by Dailey's widow that he had a very gravelly singing voice, which doesn't sound very promising.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Despite reports of the tracks' musical shortcomings, I would like to see these tracks included in a sub-section of the box set. They are part of the Smile myth and some sort of representation should be made of them. Teeter Totter Love does still exists in tape format. I would assume the other material does as well.

It was stated by Dailey's widow that he had a very gravelly singing voice, which doesn't sound very promising.

To call Jasper's voice "gravelly" is an insult to shingle !  Wouldn't say he was worse than Wild Man Fischer, but he wasn't a whole lot better.

Don't know about now (he passed on a good while ago), but Jasper used to have acetates of all three of his tracks.

As for including them, or the Dennis and Carl sessions... eh... while they're not Smile sessions, they're of that era, true, but I'd hate to have to decide what to drop to make room. Maybe the full "Vega Tables" argument session, or "Brian's psychedelic party", which are, frankly, tedium personified and a waste of tape, time and money.

[doc smiley]

personally I'd like to hear them... or at least the backing tracks.... some of these are Brian's compositions from an interesting period of Brian's life.

curious if these backing tracks were used elsewhere??

[JohnMill]

Despite reports of the tracks' musical shortcomings, I would like to see these tracks included in a sub-section of the box set. They are part of the Smile myth and some sort of representation should be made of them. Teeter Totter Love does still exists in tape format. I would assume the other material does as well.

It was stated by Dailey's widow that he had a very gravelly singing voice, which doesn't sound very promising.

As for including them, or the Dennis and Carl sessions... eh... while they're not Smile sessions, they're of that era, true, but I'd hate to have to decide what to drop to make room. Maybe the full "Vega Tables" argument session, or "Brian's psychedelic party", which are, frankly, tedium personified and a waste of tape, time and money.

Eh I like those sessions, I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit I probably have the "SMiLE Era Party" memorized down to a script much like I do several conversations The Beatles had during the "Get Back" sessions.

"Yeah they're calling it a sickness, disease of the mind... " 

[A Million Units In Jan!]

The best thing about the arguments and party are that we can get a glimpse into Brian's mindset at the time. And to be honest, the star of the arguments is Hal Blaine. There are a few funny bits in there.

[OneEar/OneEye]

I love Carl's tune, "Tones", and it feels like a Smile recording.  I wish he/they had gone back and done something with it. 

[Jason]

The best thing about the arguments and party are that we can get a glimpse into Brian's mindset at the time. And to be honest, the star of the arguments is Hal Blaine. There are a few funny bits in there.

Hal's the only reason to consider a second listen to the Vega-Tables argument tape.

[hypehat]

The Psychedelic Sounds Tape (Not the Lifeboat party, that's dire) also has it's moments. Mostly through VDP casting zings into the fray every so often. But I only need to listen to the Vegetables Arguments once.

"Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach, Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach, Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach". 

[A Million Units In Jan!]

The Psychedelic Sounds Tape (Not the Lifeboat party, that's dire) also has it's moments. Mostly through VDP casting zings into the fray every so often. But I only need to listen to the Vegetables Arguments once.

"Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach, Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach, Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach. Eat your spinach". 

VDP had the right idea when he said , 'let's veto the whole scene'

[Chris Moise]

I really, really want to hear Dennis' "I Don't Know"---something Alan Boyd posted was a recent discovery.