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How many collective years have we been waiting for SMiLE to be released Shall we add it up?
I'll begin
23 years.
(sorry if this is a bit blooboardy. I like time, and numbers.
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2011, 02:49:24 PM » |
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A mere 7 years.
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2011, 02:52:34 PM » |
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Technically, since 1967, when I was 12. Realistically (i.e. when I knew what the damn thing was and wanted to hear it), since summer 1975 - 38 years
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2011, 02:54:14 PM » |
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Since 2006, the wait began when I was 16.. Now I'm 21 and getting SMiLE  Not bad, huh |
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According to someone who would know.
Seriously, there was a Beach Boys Love You condom?! Amazing.
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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2011, 03:02:38 PM » |
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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2011, 03:05:05 PM » |
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5 Years, My dad loved the early stuff, but as a Beatlemaniac, I liked SMiLE much more.
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« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2011, 03:07:18 PM » |
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since i was in high school. 1986.
25 years
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« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2011, 03:18:12 PM » |
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Since January 1992 when I heard the Alive & Smilin' CD.
Then in April 1992 I got my copy of Look Listen Vibrate Smile book and that's when I was aware of the whole thing.
So it's 19 years 7 months!!
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« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2011, 03:31:43 PM » |
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Technically, since March of 1988. Realistically, since May of 2001. Either 23 and a half years, or 10.4 years.
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« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2011, 03:38:19 PM » |
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Jeez, I can't remember exactly. I think I first heard SMiLE around 2006. Not as long as most people but it still feels like an eternity "waiting"  |
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« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2011, 03:44:23 PM » |
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About one year since I am a new fan. I feel bad for not waiting like everybody else did for so long. Great people like Coach and Greg Larson died after waiting many years for the box.
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And production aside, I’d so much rather hear a 14 year old David Marks shred some guitar on Chug-a-lug than hear a 51 year old Mike Love sing about bangin some chick in a swimming pool.-rab2591
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« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2011, 03:45:34 PM » |
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1999- 12 yrs
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« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2011, 03:54:47 PM » |
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Technically since 1976, when I first head H&V and GVibes and segmented the former on my cassette player to create longer and longer versions of aural heaven. Realistically around late 70s/early 80s when I read David Leaf's California Myth and realised that all my favourite tracks had been intended for the same album, which had yet to see release. Let's say 30 years.
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« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2011, 04:00:40 PM » |
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Lesse, when i was a kid I loved the BB's, but I had never heard of the SMiLE album until about 2003. So I downloaded bootlegs, got instantly hooked, and then got blown away when I found out in late 2003 that Brian was going to tour the album, lol. So I waited about 3 months.
If you mean how long for this box set which will have a 'Beach Boys' smile on it, then I've waited since about Summer 2003, so that would be 8 years.
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« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2011, 04:01:43 PM » |
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About one year since I am a new fan. I feel bad for not waiting like everybody else did for so long. Great people like Coach and Greg Larson died after waiting many years for the box.
Yeah but after you die you probably have magic powers and things. So they can time travel. |
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« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2011, 04:04:08 PM » |
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Well, I bought BRIAN WILSON in 1988, but didn't actually buy a Beach Boys record until I got PET SOUNDS in late 1991. I became dimly aware of SMILE at this time, but didn't really "get" it until I bought the SS/WH twofer a little over a year later (1993) and began to discover a new world of fandom in those liner notes. So my wait time is 18 years. A mere trifle compared to many other fans, I know!  |
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« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2011, 04:24:45 PM » |
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Since about 1982, I think, when I got SMiLE #2. So, 29 years.
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« Reply #17 on: August 29, 2011, 04:29:27 PM » |
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Since I first learned about Smile via the Byron Priess book in 1979, so what's that? 32 years? Damn, that's a long time man!  |
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« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2011, 04:31:44 PM » |
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about 7 months
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« Reply #19 on: August 29, 2011, 04:32:46 PM » |
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Only a couple of years. I'm only 19, so I only learned about SMiLE relatively recently.
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« Reply #20 on: August 29, 2011, 04:35:01 PM » |
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44 years, since I first fell in love with the song H&V.
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« Reply #21 on: August 29, 2011, 04:38:01 PM » |
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Since I first read about it in the (then) new book, Heroes and Villains when I was twelve..So that's, uhh, 25 years. Holy crap!
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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« Reply #22 on: August 29, 2011, 04:53:25 PM » |
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3 years. ahh being young.
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« Reply #23 on: August 29, 2011, 04:55:05 PM » |
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A paltry six, BWPS being my introduction to it all.
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
Syncopate it? In front of all these people?!
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« Reply #24 on: August 29, 2011, 04:56:13 PM » |
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7 years when i heard about BWPS.
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