Carry Me Home

[Nicko1234]

Obviously there are a few Dennis songs (the aforementioned plus Mona Kani, California Slide etc.) that seem to be available for the box set. But of the other unreleased songs listed on AGD's website, how many is it thought have survived up to this point? Is it only some of the 1974 recordings that are thought to have been destroyed?

A load of the unreleased songs are from the 70s with several by Al (Gold Rush, Rubles, Dr. Tom, Canyon Summer etc.). Have these songs ever been booted or heard by nefarious people? 

[Jason]

Rubles exists and is rumored to be on a Wrinkles or Summer of Love level of horribleness.

[Nicko1234]

Rubles exists and is rumored to be on a Wrinkles or Summer of Love level of horribleness.

Lovely stuff. Should fit nicely on the box set between Hey Little Tomboy (original version) and the full Country Love album!

[Jason]

Rubles exists and is rumored to be on a Wrinkles or Summer of Love level of horribleness.

Lovely stuff. Should fit nicely on the box set between Hey Little Tomboy (original version) and the full Country Love album!

I know, right?

Dr. Tom exists as well, I forgot to mention that. Never heard it, but it's confirmed. Holland era. Gold Rush and Canyon Summer are unrecorded as far as I know. For the record, the actual title of "California Slide" is I'm Going Your Way, and "Mona Kani" is Mona Kanau.

[Ian]

Its possible brian did hear "i've got a friend" when he attended the bbs december 3 1971 long beach show . It was performed

[Nicko1234]

I know, right?

Dr. Tom exists as well, I forgot to mention that. Never heard it, but it's confirmed. Holland era. Gold Rush and Canyon Summer are unrecorded as far as I know. For the record, the actual title of "California Slide" is I'm Going Your Way, and "Mona Kani" is Mona Kanau.

Thanks for the info.

Hopefully plenty of unbooted songs will make it onto the box set...

[smile-holland]

Isn't there at least one radio broadcast of I've Got A Friend, thereby making it a professional recording? I'm not saying whether there is a multi track soundboard recording, but a radio broadcast would still be miles above a tape placed somewhere in an audience.

By far the most common live version of "I've Got A Friend" that has been bootlegged is from the Radio Luxembourg broadcast of the Beach Boys concert on May 10th, 1972 at Concert Hall of the Villa, Louvigny, Luxembourg. It's either an audience recording or someone recorded it right off the radio. Dennis also sang it the night before in Munich, Germany. I always wondered if the radio station recorded a copy and it's stashed somewhere in a box. Daryl and Dennis Dragon and Toni Tennille were on stage, and that was one helluva setlist with Blondie singing Wild Honey along with the band playing a couple of songs from the Carl & The Passions album.

I think the recordings that circulate of the Radio Luxemburg concert were recorded right from the radio. Problem was the fact that the weather conditions that day (night) were not so good. This made the broadcast not being perfect in most of Europe.

[smile-holland]

I've Got A Friend. At least two live versions exist - one from Germany (Luxemborg?).

I have four audience recordings -- University of Georgia June 1972, Munich May 9 1972, Radio Luxembourg May 10 1972, Long Beach December 71.

Do you mean those, or do you mean that soundboards exist of two shows?

There's a fifth one circulating: Ahoy Rotterdam (Netherlands), May 13th 1972. Again quite a bit of hiss on the background, but not as bad as the ones mentioned above.

[The Shift]

Isn't there at least one radio broadcast of I've Got A Friend, thereby making it a professional recording? I'm not saying whether there is a multi track soundboard recording, but a radio broadcast would still be miles above a tape placed somewhere in an audience.

By far the most common live version of "I've Got A Friend" that has been bootlegged is from the Radio Luxembourg broadcast of the Beach Boys concert on May 10th, 1972 at Concert Hall of the Villa, Louvigny, Luxembourg. It's either an audience recording or someone recorded it right off the radio. Dennis also sang it the night before in Munich, Germany. I always wondered if the radio station recorded a copy and it's stashed somewhere in a box. Daryl and Dennis Dragon and Toni Tennille were on stage, and that was one helluva setlist with Blondie singing Wild Honey along with the band playing a couple of songs from the Carl & The Passions album.

I think the recordings that circulate of the Radio Luxemburg concert were recorded right from the radio. Problem was the fact that the weather conditions that day (night) were not so good. This made the broadcast not being perfect in most of Europe.

Can it be assumed that Radio Luxembourg engineers recorded the gig simultaneously? It'd seem odd not to give themselves the option of repeating the show another date.

[smile-holland]

Isn't there at least one radio broadcast of I've Got A Friend, thereby making it a professional recording? I'm not saying whether there is a multi track soundboard recording, but a radio broadcast would still be miles above a tape placed somewhere in an audience.

By far the most common live version of "I've Got A Friend" that has been bootlegged is from the Radio Luxembourg broadcast of the Beach Boys concert on May 10th, 1972 at Concert Hall of the Villa, Louvigny, Luxembourg. It's either an audience recording or someone recorded it right off the radio. Dennis also sang it the night before in Munich, Germany. I always wondered if the radio station recorded a copy and it's stashed somewhere in a box. Daryl and Dennis Dragon and Toni Tennille were on stage, and that was one helluva setlist with Blondie singing Wild Honey along with the band playing a couple of songs from the Carl & The Passions album.

I think the recordings that circulate of the Radio Luxemburg concert were recorded right from the radio. Problem was the fact that the weather conditions that day (night) were not so good. This made the broadcast not being perfect in most of Europe.

Can it be assumed that Radio Luxembourg engineers recorded the gig simultaneously? It'd seem odd not to give themselves the option of repeating the show another date.

perhaps, and I wish I could confirm that...

[Mikie]

Thanks for the info, SH.  I'm assuming Ian has documented all five of these shows in his new book(?)  I'm thinking maybe someone out there could take away some of that hiss without compromising the quality of the recording.

[AndrewHickey]

Thanks for the info, SH.  I'm assuming Ian has documented all five of these shows in his new book(?)  I'm thinking maybe someone out there could take away some of that hiss without compromising the quality of the recording.

I seriously doubt it. There's more hiss than recording there.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Isn't there at least one radio broadcast of I've Got A Friend, thereby making it a professional recording? I'm not saying whether there is a multi track soundboard recording, but a radio broadcast would still be miles above a tape placed somewhere in an audience.

By far the most common live version of "I've Got A Friend" that has been bootlegged is from the Radio Luxembourg broadcast of the Beach Boys concert on May 10th, 1972 at Concert Hall of the Villa, Louvigny, Luxembourg. It's either an audience recording or someone recorded it right off the radio. Dennis also sang it the night before in Munich, Germany. I always wondered if the radio station recorded a copy and it's stashed somewhere in a box. Daryl and Dennis Dragon and Toni Tennille were on stage, and that was one helluva setlist with Blondie singing Wild Honey along with the band playing a couple of songs from the Carl & The Passions album.

I think the recordings that circulate of the Radio Luxemburg concert were recorded right from the radio. Problem was the fact that the weather conditions that day (night) were not so good. This made the broadcast not being perfect in most of Europe.

Can it be assumed that Radio Luxembourg engineers recorded the gig simultaneously? It'd seem odd not to give themselves the option of repeating the show another date.

There's a copy - or was - in the band's vault.

[Jason]

I've Got A Friend. At least two live versions exist - one from Germany (Luxemborg?).

I have four audience recordings -- University of Georgia June 1972, Munich May 9 1972, Radio Luxembourg May 10 1972, Long Beach December 71.

Do you mean those, or do you mean that soundboards exist of two shows?

There's a fifth one circulating: Ahoy Rotterdam (Netherlands), May 13th 1972. Again quite a bit of hiss on the background, but not as bad as the ones mentioned above.

And a sixth from Georgetown University, November of 1971.

[hypehat]

Yeah, the Luxembourg one is the best chance, unless they recorded a show that we aren't aware of. I like that version anyway, because Dennis breaks it down at the end to tell us how much he loves his wife. That's soul music, right there.

[Mikie]

One of my good friends on the board sent me another version of "I've Got A Friend" today. So that makes four that I've heard now. Out of the four, one of them has very minimal hiss and the other minimal hiss but with slight distortion. Seriously now, I'm thinking that with a Radio Shack 4-channel dual quad posi-traction Dolby equalizer, the mid-frequencies could be turned up and this could be a gem in the rough. I think the frequencies could be messed with to eliminate most of the distortion or hiss. It's just Dennis and a piano. Then in the middle, Carl comes in on guitar and (Dennis Dragon?) plays drums. One version he's on what sounds like a pipe organ. And a horn. These were all recorded live around mid-May of 1972. Dennis really got a good long ovation in Luxembourg and I'm a little surprised that didn't prompt him to go home and complete the recording for this song. Instead, he went over to the Bellagio studio the following month and recorded the song "Barbara". "Barbara" wasn't finished either - there were strings intended for it - probably like were planned for "I've Got A Friend". Plans for further work on "I've Got A Friend" were probably aborted at that point. A session for "Cuddle Up" was recorded up at Bellagio the previous month and he probably figured that he'd done enough on "Barbara" and "I've Got A Friend", so he added some strings to "Cuddle Up" in a studio in Downey and released that one.

"I've Got A Friend" was about Barbara. At the end of the song in Luxembourg, he repeated his wife's name "Barbara" and said, "I Love Barbara" three times with emotion. Dennis really soaked up the ovation, which seemed to get even louder after he told the crowd about her and expressed his love publicly for her.

[bgas]

It's nice to have Friends!

[Mikie]

Yes it is, Bgas. 

[Jay]

There used to be a version of I've Got A Friend on Youtube that sounded quite a bit better than my version(s). I wish I could still find it...

[Jay]

By the way, has anyone ever covered IGAF as they have with WIBNTLA?

Not sure, but Primal Scream covered "Carry Me Home".  Not bad!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4x1YB88_s

You had a very different opinion about the same recording in this thread: http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,10904.0.html 

[Mikie]

I was being facetious, Jay.  It ain't bad at all.

[Mikie]

There used to be a version of I've Got A Friend on Youtube that sounded quite a bit better than my version(s). I wish I could still find it...

Why didn't you download the better Youtube version?

[Jay]

I didn't have any program to download it with. I probably wouldn't have known how to do it anyway. lol

[smile-holland]

There used to be a version of I've Got A Friend on Youtube that sounded quite a bit better than my version(s). I wish I could still find it...

Until a few years ago I had the Rotterdam recording on YT (accompanied with some pictures of the concert), but my channel got blocked. That's probably the one you saw.

[Jay]

Yeah, I remember your videos, and JasperEich(sp?). Good times.