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[Jaspy]

Remember that film was shot of a GV instrumental session too...it's heard playing out on SOT 15, for those interested. "Bob" and his camera are making too much noise in the studio - the whirring camera is audible - and Brian several times tells "Bob" to stop filming.

Piece this together: The "photos" of Brian with Tommy Morgan and Jay Migliori looks like a film print to these eyes too. Morgan and Migliori - practically any of the Wrecking Crew - would have no need to be at a vocal session.

So is this still a shot from the camera of "Bob" which we hear on that session?

Damn, I'm almost in shock if it is. That has been on the list of Holy Grail material for how long? If it is...

And another bit of mythbusting: Brian is filmed working the mixing board at Columbia. This was apparently a big no-no, even Bruce himself confirmed as much to AGD personally a few weeks ago at a show. Yet there is Brian, with Bruce in the background, working the controls on Columbia's board, a move against union rules which got his hand slapped away according to legend.

Has another myth been busted thanks to that film?

The pics with the mixing console, Beach Boys and the guests look more like movie-stills to me than the Morgan/Jay Migliori-shot. And Brian is wearing the same shirt as on the famous darkroom/piano-bit from 'An American Band'. Perhaps an unreleased bit from that Denny-movie reel?

[puni puni]

this picture looks like a still from a television segment



he's wearing the same clothes... what's it from?

[guitarfool2002]

Remember that film was shot of a GV instrumental session too...it's heard playing out on SOT 15, for those interested. "Bob" and his camera are making too much noise in the studio - the whirring camera is audible - and Brian several times tells "Bob" to stop filming.

Piece this together: The "photos" of Brian with Tommy Morgan and Jay Migliori looks like a film print to these eyes too. Morgan and Migliori - practically any of the Wrecking Crew - would have no need to be at a vocal session.

So is this still a shot from the camera of "Bob" which we hear on that session?

Damn, I'm almost in shock if it is. That has been on the list of Holy Grail material for how long? If it is...

And another bit of mythbusting: Brian is filmed working the mixing board at Columbia. This was apparently a big no-no, even Bruce himself confirmed as much to AGD personally a few weeks ago at a show. Yet there is Brian, with Bruce in the background, working the controls on Columbia's board, a move against union rules which got his hand slapped away according to legend.

Has another myth been busted thanks to that film?

The pics with the mixing console, Beach Boys and the guests look more like movie-stills to me than the Morgan/Jay Migliori-shot. And Brian is wearing the same shirt as on the famous darkroom/piano-bit from 'An American Band'. Perhaps an unreleased bit from that Denny-movie reel?

I have a few points to offer for consideration about this. The Badman diary book mentions four films created for Good Vibrations, one of which is a film of the Boys rehearsing the song at Western. The shots of Brian whit that reddish/maroon shirt we saw in the Dennis video were clearly Columbia, no doubt about that, and the other Beach Boys were there. The shot of Brian at the piano with Tommy Morgan in front, and this one...



...the still shots of Brian wearing that vest seem to have come from Western, the photo posted above is *clearly* at Western with that wood paneling, and the Migliori/Morgan shot appears to have Brian at the same keyboard as seen in some of the more famous shots of Brian and Van Dyke at Western.

The Dennis video of Brian with the maroon shirt was taken at Columbia, these stills of Brian with the vest are from Western (no Beach Boys seen), and the stills of the Beach Boys with Danny Hutton, Audree, and June Fairchild are Columbia. Who can put all the pieces together before Nov. 1st?  

Wherever these came from...what a great collection....

[Joshilyn Hoisington]

Who is on drums there--at first I thought Hal but it doesn't quite seem to be his hair...

[guitarfool2002]

Who is on drums there--at first I thought Hal but it doesn't quite seem to be his hair...

It's hard to tell if it's even a drummer from the way they panned across the photo...there is a bottle of soda to the guy's left. It kind of looks like Hal.

See if this one can clarify anything, it's the best I could do to get his face in the shot:

[Shady]

I'm pretty sure that's Hal Blaine

[Joshilyn Hoisington]

It does look more like Hal in that last shot, so it probably is.  I assumed it's a drum set because it has the classic Western drum overhead set up, with the one as-yet-to-be-determined SDC over it.

[guitarfool2002]

I thought this thread would generate more interest - the premiere of "new" studio photos is cause for champagne around this house!

[Joshilyn Hoisington]

I thought this thread would generate more interest - the premiere of "new" studio photos is cause for champagne around this house!

Pol Roger and Beluga Caviar at the Aeijtzsche household, certainly.

[Dove Nested Towers]

It's a banner day, for sure. Many more to come.

[guitarfool2002]

Bumping this one in light of the release of the Columbia vocal session film footage. I still think the stills of Brian with the Wrecking Crew came from a film as well.

Take another look at the stills and screenshots in this thread, which ones look like they came from a film? Knowing what we know now, any thoughts?

[Wild-Honey]

Who is on drums there--at first I thought Hal but it doesn't quite seem to be his hair...

Sorry for asking something on an old thread,  but who is the reflected image of over the shot!   Looks like Carl?

[STE]

Yes, looks like Carl.

[Runaways]

pretty sure it's brian. the video is on one of those smile youtube webisodes

[joshferrell]

it's a ghost at the studio..