Brian: "It's going to be a great box set."

[juggler]

From a new interview...

Capitol Records is also planning to release The Smile Sessions, an unreleased collection of works the Beach Boys originally recorded for the Smile album, which you completed and released on your own in 2004. What kind of involvement do you have with this project?

I'm involved. I have listened to all of the tapes—it's going to be a great box set. People will finally get to hear what these sessions were really like.

Continue reading on Examiner.com Q&A with Brian Wilson on George Gershwin, the Beach Boys, and the future - National Music Q&A | Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/music-q-a-in-national/q-a-with-brian-wilson-on-george-gershwin-the-beach-boys-and-the-future#ixzz1OWEWG2rc

[RollPlymouthRock]

I wonder why he thinks Breakaway is the strangest song he's ever written? The Murry factor?

[Peter Reum]

It is great to see that he is happy with the boxed set ...

[Chris Brown]

It is great to see that he is happy with the boxed set ...

Yes it is.  Nice little interview too, surprised that he was asked about Sweet Insanity and the last few Beach Boys albums.

[Andrew G. Doe]

It is great to see that he is happy with the boxed set ...

Yes it is.  Nice little interview too, surprised that he was asked about Sweet Insanity and the last few Beach Boys albums.

I git the impression that Brian was doing it by numbers - pretty terse in his replies.

[bgas]

It is great to see that he is happy with the boxed set ...

Yes it is.  Nice little interview too, surprised that he was asked about Sweet Insanity and the last few Beach Boys albums.

I git the impression that Brian was doing it by numbers - pretty terse in his replies.

Justin simply wasn't pretty enough, I suppose, or his voice was too gruff. 

[AllIWannaDo]

f you’ve happened to listen to the other Beach Boys albums they recorded since you stopped recording with the group in the late 1980s, were there any other songs that you really enjoyed that you’d like to mention?

No.


hahaha - GREAT answer, think that goes for most BB fans to be honest
 

[drbeachboy]

f you’ve happened to listen to the other Beach Boys albums they recorded since you stopped recording with the group in the late 1980s, were there any other songs that you really enjoyed that you’d like to mention?

No.


hahaha - GREAT answer, think that goes for most BB fans to be honest
 

This from the guy who is the Beach Boy on the Fat Boys "Wipeout". Brian has had his share of crappy post Beach Boys stuff, as well.

[18thofMay]

Almost seems like a questonaire. No warmth at all.

[AllIWannaDo]

f you’ve happened to listen to the other Beach Boys albums they recorded since you stopped recording with the group in the late 1980s, were there any other songs that you really enjoyed that you’d like to mention?

No.


hahaha - GREAT answer, think that goes for most BB fans to be honest
 

This from the guy who is the Beach Boy on the Fat Boys "Wipeout". Brian has had his share of crappy post Beach Boys stuff, as well.

mmm fair point, fair point - 2 points tho...
1.Wipe Out was originally to be recorded with Run DMC, MIke Love stepped in and went for the Fat Boys instead
2.The good faaaaaaarrrrr put weighs the bad with Brian Wilson, and he's been on an upward curve for the last decade, writing new material, Great Gigs, on top of finishing SMiLE etc, Mike Love's Beach Boys have.... ooops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt0LBlH3dAc
Enjoying Mike Love's deck skills

[drbeachboy]

Mike Love's Beach Boys cannot, so not a fair comparison. Brian did his first solo album while the Boys did Still Cruisin' and Summer In Paradise. They all did Stars and Stripes and The Beach Boys have done nothing since. Personally, though I don't listen to any these with any regularity, I probably listen to the Beach Boys albums a bit more.

[Andrew G. Doe]

It is great to see that he is happy with the boxed set ...

Yes it is.  Nice little interview too, surprised that he was asked about Sweet Insanity and the last few Beach Boys albums.

I git the impression that Brian was doing it by numbers - pretty terse in his replies.

Justin simply wasn't pretty enough, I suppose, or his voice was too gruff. 

It was a phoner.

[Andrew G. Doe]

2.The good faaaaaaarrrrr put weighs the bad with Brian Wilson, and he's been on an upward curve for the last decade, writing new material, Great Gigs, on top of finishing SMiLE etc, Mike Love's Beach Boys have.... ooops.

Brian's not written - or at least, finished - any new songs since about 2006.

[AllIWannaDo]

2.The good faaaaaaarrrrr put weighs the bad with Brian Wilson, and he's been on an upward curve for the last decade, writing new material, Great Gigs, on top of finishing SMiLE etc, Mike Love's Beach Boys have.... ooops.

Brian's not written - or at least, finished - any new songs since about 2006.

howdy there!
yeah that's a very good point - i read that on here abit ago i think, however he did complete 15 in a month long splurge then, good songs too! Aaaand (to claw back some dignity) the context i said this in was 'the last decade' i think?

feel free to mock this but i write too, from my perspective completing songs is always tricky, but that doesn't necessarily mean segments/sections/patterns and all that aren't formulating inside Brian, whether these get expanded/recorded or developed further into songs now or later is  something probly only the man himself would be fully aware of at the mo (said hopefully...)

[filledeplage]

f you’ve happened to listen to the other Beach Boys albums they recorded since you stopped recording with the group in the late 1980s, were there any other songs that you really enjoyed that you’d like to mention?

No.


hahaha - GREAT answer, think that goes for most BB fans to be honest
 

This from the guy who is the Beach Boy on the Fat Boys "Wipeout". Brian has had his share of crappy post Beach Boys stuff, as well.

mmm fair point, fair point - 2 points tho...
1.Wipe Out was originally to be recorded with Run DMC, MIke Love stepped in and went for the Fat Boys instead
2.The good faaaaaaarrrrr put weighs the bad with Brian Wilson, and he's been on an upward curve for the last decade, writing new material, Great Gigs, on top of finishing SMiLE etc, Mike Love's Beach Boys have.... ooops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt0LBlH3dAc
Enjoying Mike Love's deck skills

If you look at the video, it is almost cross-cultural, cross-generational satire...one generation poking fun, and having fun with the others' motif and stereotypes, and appreciation of each others' differences.   It was a fun song for the young kids (my kids were young at the time) with the music base of hip hop and break dancing, and parents who would be listening to the Beach Boys. 

Someone in college could do a study, looking back at the late 1980's early 1990's window of emerging hip hop music, juxtaposed against the classic rock chord structure and, could do a study of cultural mores of the 1960's contrasted against the new counter-culture world of hip-hop, complete with the clothing, (Hammer-time pants) against the Hawaiian and stereotypical early striped BB shirts.  Hilarious!  The detail is amazing, and an anachronistic snapshot of hula hoops, surf boards, beach balls against DJ's turntables played purposely ineptly by the Boys.

Goofy and fun, and a visually delightful parody and a visual on the evolution of American music!  JMHO!   

I love it!         

[Runaways]

f you’ve happened to listen to the other Beach Boys albums they recorded since you stopped recording with the group in the late 1980s, were there any other songs that you really enjoyed that you’d like to mention?

No.


hahaha - GREAT answer, think that goes for most BB fans to be honest
 

This from the guy who is the Beach Boy on the Fat Boys "Wipeout"..

doesn't mean he likes it

[Chris Brown]

2.The good faaaaaaarrrrr put weighs the bad with Brian Wilson, and he's been on an upward curve for the last decade, writing new material, Great Gigs, on top of finishing SMiLE etc, Mike Love's Beach Boys have.... ooops.

Brian's not written - or at least, finished - any new songs since about 2006.

You don't count the two "original" compositions on the Gershwin album?  Granted it's just two songs (quite good ones, I might add), but I'd still say it counts.

[drbeachboy]

f you’ve happened to listen to the other Beach Boys albums they recorded since you stopped recording with the group in the late 1980s, were there any other songs that you really enjoyed that you’d like to mention?

No.


hahaha - GREAT answer, think that goes for most BB fans to be honest
 

This from the guy who is the Beach Boy on the Fat Boys "Wipeout"..

doesn't mean he likes it

I didn't say he did or not, though he probably should if he's going to put his voice and band name on it.

[Runaways]

f you’ve happened to listen to the other Beach Boys albums they recorded since you stopped recording with the group in the late 1980s, were there any other songs that you really enjoyed that you’d like to mention?

No.


hahaha - GREAT answer, think that goes for most BB fans to be honest
 

This from the guy who is the Beach Boy on the Fat Boys "Wipeout"..

doesn't mean he likes it

I didn't say he did or not, though he probably should if he's going to put his voice and band name on it.

well considering the crap the band has released since the early 80's i'd say none of em really thought about it. 

[phirnis]

So now we know the Disney record is going to feature songs from The Lion's King and Toy Story...

[buddhahat]

So now we know the Disney record is going to feature songs from The Lion's King and Toy Story...

Must admit, not holding my breath for this one.

[Andrew G. Doe]

So now we know the Disney record is going to feature songs from The Lion's King and Toy Story...

And Pinnocchio ... and a few others.

[MBE]

If he did a song from the adult  Pinnocchio  that would be entertaining.

[hypehat]

If he does 'When She Loved Me', it'll be the bomb. If he does 'You've Got A Friend In Me'..... hmmm

[buddhahat]

God - don't know which Smile thread to post in any more!!

Eenie, meenie, miny, moe ...

Anyway, just came upon this link via Dallasone at the Hoffman board. Apologies if it's already been mentioned. Doesn't tell us much but is certainly a curious post, and as post-worthy as any other Smile tidbit in this info drought:

http://bsnpubs.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5335023&trail=40

Anybody get their promo/reviewer copies yet?
I got a 4-track promo in the mail on Friday which has:
1. Mark's stereo remix of GV that we've had here forever.
2. Twenty  minutes of `missing' pieces (mostly from BB 30th).
3. Heroes and Villains
4  Twenty minutes of `missing pieces', backing segments and segments of iso'd vocals.

And that's it, on a CD-Acetate.

And, it's rip-proof, i.e. it won't recognize on any kind of CD ripper program I have. Not Nero, not CD-EZ Extractor, not Windows not Roxio... I suppose I can record analog out and back in onto my laptop, but maybe there's some kind of audio-version of Macrovision on here too in order to prevent that. Have to try it tomorrow when the other computer is finished and I go pick it up from repair.