Carry Me Home

[doc smiley]

pure speculation (wishing)

Brian Wilson, currently in studio with Don Was,  recording a lead vocal for  "I've Got A Friend" so that this
tune could be included in the upcoming box set.

why not? stranger things have happened.  

[AndrewHickey]

why not? stranger things have happened.  

Why not? Because he's working with Jim Keltner, a drummer. He must be recording new backing tracks.

[Nicko1234]

pure speculation (wishing)

Brian Wilson, currently in studio with Don Was,  recording a lead vocal for  "I've Got A Friend" so that this
tune could be included in the upcoming box set.

why not? stranger things have happened.  

It would be nice...

If 10,000 Years could be finished as well (if no complete version exists) then that would be cool too.

Probably unlikely in the extreme though...

[Mikie]

Sadly I've never played with Hot Wheels.

Don't be sad. They were OK. Kinda fast. They came out in the 60's after Matchbox cars. By Mattel.

[Smilin Ed H]

"If 10,000 Years could be finished as well (if no complete version exists) then that would be cool too."

Mike finished A version of this song for his unreleased album of about ten years back.

[doc smiley]

why not? stranger things have happened.  

Why not? Because he's working with Jim Keltner, a drummer. He must be recording new backing tracks.

could be working on more than one thing however..

[Mikie]

So again, a great song that we don't know that much about. Anybody know Blondie's e-mail so we can contact him for his memories, if any? And I see there's no takers on my question about who sang on it. Are these the right chords here, musicians?

C     F       C     Fmaj7
Carry me home to my daddy
C     F       C
Carry me home to my mom
C     F       C
Carry me home to my love
C     F       C
Carry me home to my home
    Cm             Ab
The rain's fallin' down on me
    Bb6             Cm
The wind is blowin' cold
   Cm           Ab
My eyes gettin' tired
  Bb6                Cm
I guess I won't grow old
C      F
Ah I'm dyin'
         C
Carry me home
            F
Sweet sweet home
              C
Don't want to die this way
        F
In this cold
         C
Carry me home
            F      Db
Sweet sweet home
Db
  Don't wanna die
Bb
Can this feeling ever go
          Ab
I wanna live
Gb
Life
   Bm
Is meant to live
    Gb
And I'm afraid
      Bm7
I'm afraid to die
Gb
Please God, please God
Bm7
Don't take my life
Gb
Please
Bm7
please help me

Carry me
Gb
Carry me home
         Bm7
Carry me home
Gb
I'm afraid to die
Bm7
Please please
Gb        Bm7
Carry me home

Carry me home

[Nicko1234]

"If 10,000 Years could be finished as well (if no complete version exists) then that would be cool too."

Mike finished A version of this song for his unreleased album of about ten years back.

True but a completed original version if it existed would be more enticing (and more likely to make the box set I guess).

[Andrew G. Doe]

pure speculation (wishing)

Brian Wilson, currently in studio with Don Was,  recording a lead vocal for  "I've Got A Friend" so that this
tune could be included in the upcoming box set.

why not? stranger things have happened.  

Doubt it, partly on basic principles, but mainly because "IGAF" isn't on the track list I've seen*.

[* indicates a statement that is almost certainly a base falsehood, but ya never know...  ]

Seriously though - why would Brian lay down a vocal for a 41-year-old song he's almost certainly never heard in his life ?

[Nicko1234]

Seriously though - why would Brian lay down a vocal for a 41-year-old song he's almost certainly never heard in his life ?

That would depend on whether the box set compilers would have played it for him as an idea I suppose.

Unlikely in the extreme but...

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

[AndrewHickey]

why not? stranger things have happened.  

Why not? Because he's working with Jim Keltner, a drummer. He must be recording new backing tracks.

could be working on more than one thing however..

Occam's razor -- "Plurality must never be posited without necessity".
In this case, we have two hypotheses. Hypothesis 1 -- Brian is working on something that requires a drummer. Hypothesis 2 -- Brian is working on something that requires a drummer and also on a new vocal for I've Got A Friend.
Occam's razor demands that the second hypothesis, which contains more complexity than the first, be dismissed without further thought unless and until some actual evidence for it turns up.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Seriously though - why would Brian lay down a vocal for a 41-year-old song he's almost certainly never heard in his life ?

That would depend on whether the box set compilers would have played it for him as an idea I suppose.

Unlikely in the extreme but...

I'm a bookie and I can safely say that the odds on that happening are up there with being hit by a flying saucer piloted by Elvis while water-skiing on Loch Ness behind the monster.

[Mikie]

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

[Jason]

Seriously though - why would Brian lay down a vocal for a 41-year-old song he's almost certainly never heard in his life ?

That would depend on whether the box set compilers would have played it for him as an idea I suppose.

Unlikely in the extreme but...

I'm a bookie and I can safely say that the odds on that happening are up there with being hit by a flying saucer piloted by Elvis while water-skiing on Loch Ness behind the monster.

Even if it did happen, I'd rather hear David take a stab at a vocal.

[Les P]

I haven't listened to CMH in a long time but after reading the lyrics again, I wouldn't be surprised if both Mike AND Brian vetoed it for the box...it's a powerful song but might be too disturbing to Brian considering the subject matter.

[doc smiley]

I look at it this way...

Brian in the last couple of years has done covers of "Forever" (Dennis) and "Heaven" (Carl) with pretty decent results and I would think has heard pretty positive comments on both.  The compilation of MAD has surely had some input from Brian if not song selection.  If I was one of the compilers of the box and had a decent instrumental track for a song the fan boys want (IGAF) and a live version to use as a guide.. why not ask Brian to finish it?

It is just as legit as the completed "Holy Man" on the POB set and as its Brian, would be even more so...
To say Brian's never heard it is pure speculation as well....

Its a stretch, but why not?   

[AndrewHickey]

Its a stretch, but why not?   

Because there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it's happened.

[doc smiley]

Its a stretch, but why not?   

Because there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it's happened.

all very true, .here's absolutely no evidence

All I'd like to add is.... certain people and organizations follow this board
 

[AndrewHickey]

all very true, .here's absolutely no evidence

All I'd like to add is.... certain people and organizations follow this board
 

Well, if your "speculation" that it's actually happened is actually an attempt to plant the idea in someone's head... you do realise that in the unlikely event you succeed, you'll get lynched by half the board when the box set release date is put back another year to accommodate the new recording, resequencing the discs, and rewriting the booklets?

[doc smiley]

 

I'm no Phil Cohen, so I'll take my chances..  For a August release I wouldn't think the booklets are done yet anyway.

besides Brian can always use it on his next solo record if he desires...


cheers

doc smiley

[Andrew G. Doe]

The compilation of MAD has surely had some input from Brian if not song selection.  

And pray, what the f***, exactly, is MAD ?

For a August release I wouldn't think the booklets are done yet anyway.

You... don't know much about how these things are put together, do you ?  The release date is a mere 135 days away: if the booklets aren't done yet, it won't be released on 8/27/13.

[AndrewHickey]

The compilation of MAD has surely had some input from Brian if not song selection. 

And pray, what the f***, exactly, is MAD ?

How I feel when people keep using SIBATCOTOL* instead of BTTFSTTAWTO** ?

*Stupid Incomprehensible Bloody Acronyms That Consist Of Thousands Of Letters
**Bothering To Take Five Seconds To Type A Whole Title Out

[doc smiley]

me bad... I should have typed it out long form... (Made In California)
where did I get MAD from?  no idea (a brain cramp)

As for the time needed for the booklets and such, your right, I have no idea, just seems that in 21 century, having the booklets done 135 days in advance of the release seems ridiculous. I've seen bands recording in the studio in September rushing for a Christmas release ??

don't Phil me guys, I was just speculating on a idea that I thought would be pretty cool... 

[The Shift]

me bad... I should have typed it out long form... (Made In California)
where did I get MAD from?  no idea (a brain cramp)

Midnight's Another Doughnut   

[AndrewHickey]

don't Phil me guys, I was just speculating on a idea that I thought would be pretty cool... 

Sorry if you feel like you're being picked on. Certainly not my intention. It's just that around here speculation has a habit of becoming rumour, which then becomes confirmed fact, without at any point having any contact with reality. And then when people find out that the speculation is just that, they either refuse to believe the truth or go into a massive strop about how Mike Love stopped them from having whatever nice thing they've become convinced they're going to have, even though it never existed outside their heads.

Much better for the general sanity level around here, in my view, if you make mildly pessimistic assumptions when discussing things about which we have few or no details.