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[Shady]

Damn, Jeff.  

[oldsurferdude]

I think I'd actually prefer a Brian-with-Al-guesting album than a Beach Boys album, anyway (blasphemy!), so this is really cool. While the group dynamic is missing, you get more Brian songs and less Mike nostalgia. Not that the latter doesn't have it's place, I've just had my fill from the last album.

That's kinda the elephant in the room, isn't it? I agree totally, by the way.

I don't see an elephant in the room.

Weeeeel...instead of beating the poor elephant again, I've always believed that the nuts and bolts of another decent Brian album have certainly been there for a number of years. It's almost turnkey post TLOS and TWGMTR. When you introduce certain parties such as Mike, there needs to be a certain 'compromise' that takes place.

 

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo true.

[leggo of my ego]

Love the photos, smiles, wardrobe, guests, positivity....God knows we need it right now, but would anybody like to venture a guess why there is no info attached to the photos about the project Brian is working on?

 What and kill the spontaneous speculation?   

[Shady]

It's Pleasure Island, it has to be.

[leggo of my ego]

It's Pleasure Island, it has to be.

Probably just recording station IDs and/or commercial V.O.  for some ol' FM rock stations. 

Okay, I hope thats wrong. 

[Generation42]

It's Pleasure Island, it has to be.

I'd love for that to be true, Shady.

Though I think TWGMTR would be hard to top, I'd also love another Beach Boys record.  It would be great to think that there could be enough goodwill between the fellas to pull it off and if everyone was really, honestly up for the challenge, producing a collective work as good as last year's release doesn't have to be impossible.

I'm still hoping that the rest of the suite is being finished for release, whether it be on Made in California, a new Beach Boys record or a BW solo release.

It certainly is intriguing.  And fun!

[Pretty Funky]

For those who know. We had shots, what, 1-2 months ago of Brian at the mic doing vocals. Now its the musicians (plus Al and Jeff of course).

Has this been Brians method of recording his solo albums in the past?

[The Dumb Angel]

Wow! I'm getting excited. I have a feeling whatever Brian and Al are working, it's going to be great! I have high expectations.

[Pretty Funky]

At the very least there could be some new material for the shows later this year.

[runnersdialzero]

Al looks like he was havin' the time of his life until the photo of him and Jeff.

[Gertie J.]

lol, that's true.

[Autotune]

Hmmm.... Maybe it' just that Brian is producing Jeff's new solo album with special guests.

[Mikie]

Looks like Al's 'directing' again.  Just like he did on stage during the C50 concerts.

[the professor]

Damn, Jeff.  

Drunk karaoke time. Jeff is a disaster every time you can hear him on Radio. A "Brian and friends," even including Al, is a disaster. Distinctly articulated solo albums aside (Postcard; The Circle Continues) nothing means anything as we now look ahead --and I am tired of explaining this--except a new BB album. The world is divided into people who believe that and those who don't.

[Moz from Oz]

Myself and a couple of other guys were talking to Nelson Bragg at a pub after the Sydney show last year. Can't recall if he said Brian WAS definitely going to make an album this year or had a strong feeling he might do one and then tour the album next year. Whatever it is, it certainly looks promising.

[Wirestone]

Damn, Jeff.  

Drunk karaoke time. Jeff is a disaster every time you can hear him on Radio. A "Brian and friends," even including Al, is a disaster. Distinctly articulated solo albums aside (Postcard; The Circle Continues) nothing means anything as we now look ahead --and I am tired of explaining this--except a new BB album. The world is divided into people who believe that and those who don't.

Why wouldn't this be a distinctively articulated solo album? If it says "Brian Wilson" on the front, it's by definition different than "The Beach Boys." And Postcard was nothing if not "Al and friends."

Given the strong evidence we've heard from people within the group, it looks as though there will be no new BB album. So if that's the case, would you really prefer to never again hear from Brian?

[the professor]

Damn, Jeff.  

Drunk karaoke time. Jeff is a disaster every time you can hear him on Radio. A "Brian and friends," even including Al, is a disaster. Distinctly articulated solo albums aside (Postcard; The Circle Continues) nothing means anything as we now look ahead --and I am tired of explaining this--except a new BB album. The world is divided into people who believe that and those who don't.

Why wouldn't this be a distinctively articulated solo album? If it says "Brian Wilson" on the front, it's by definition different than "The Beach Boys." And Postcard was nothing if not "Al and friends."

Given the strong evidence we've heard from people within the group, it looks as though there will be no new BB album. So if that's the case, would you really prefer to never again hear from Brian?

Wirestone so keenly deconstructs my message (for which vigilance thank you), so he merits my detailed response.

Al had a lot to say after never having done a solo album, and the BB world was dry. Yes, he delighted us with "friends" and all the BB were "friends" on that album, a prelude to the reunion. I cherish the album and its sincerity and humanity. Dave has done two solo albums in adulthood, so in tracing his redemptive story and wanting to hear as much of his artful guitar as possible, I love both those albums.

But the situation of BW in the studio in 2013 is a different animal: after the reunion and after Radio and after the full-wave rhetoric of unity and "harmony, boys" and all the celebratory aspects of Radio and the many majestic shows. . . . .as I say "after" all this, to have BW back in the studio working on what could have been and should have been a BB album, a joyously collaborative work of the 5 BB standing, means very little to me. I try to convince no one out of their opinions, but I am relentless in mine.  Ironman 3? OK, but I can't wait until he picks up the phone and calls in Captain America in a future film. Have I not been clear about the mythic archetype I demand?  Does no one stand with me in demanding of history what history should yield? No one makes a movie called "it would have been 7 samurai but like two of them are doing their own thing, but these are the best and most inspired of the samurai."

Wirestone, you know this, as your posts are learned and scholarly. You know this.
 

[Bud Shaver]

One thing's for sure, Brian has looked fantastic in every picture they have released thus far.  Not an awkward one in the bunch!

[Andrew G. Doe]

One thing's for sure, Brian has looked fantastic in every picture they have released thus far.  Not an awkward one in the bunch!

Which of course means only one thing. 

[bossaroo]

Damn, Jeff.  

Drunk karaoke time. Jeff is a disaster every time you can hear him on Radio. A "Brian and friends," even including Al, is a disaster. Distinctly articulated solo albums aside (Postcard; The Circle Continues) nothing means anything as we now look ahead --and I am tired of explaining this--except a new BB album. The world is divided into people who believe that and those who don't.

but Jeff is all over the last album. what makes you think he wouldn't be all over the next BBs album?

Mike had a chance to keep the reunion going. to keep playing world-class arenas, to keep making critically-acclaimed and chart-topping albums, to please the fans and his bandmates which includes the man who provided Mike with the songs he sings every night to earn his livelihood. Mike passed on that opportunity.

what does Mike really have to offer a new release? nasal singing and yet another chance to insert the words "fun fun fun" into a lyric? nostalgia, "positivity", and an Executive Producer credit? no thanks. the 50th Anniversary showed us in more ways than one that some things will never change... be it the guys' ability to sing harmony or Mike's inability to come across as anything but cheesy, creepy, and classless.

let's hear what Brian has to say without "cousin Mike's" input. Mike has kept Brian down long enough. time after time. the reunion was nice but let's recognize the genius, the voice, and the virtuosity of Brian, Al, and Dave and let's recognize the endless summer egotrip of Mike & Bruce for what they are. as someone else said: Brian is an artist, Mike is an entertainer. Mike has very little talent to speak of and Bruce has squandered his. good riddance to them both.

they can have Sea World and Stamos. we can have Brian, Al, Dave, superb musicianship as orchestrated by Brian, and more of the greatest music ever written and recorded. and a special guest or 3.

[Puggal]

... Curiouser and curiouser ...

Al looks super cute in this picture

[Freddie French-Pounce]

That picture of Jeff scared the life out of me!

[D409]

Another Foskett-bashing thread ? Really ?

[Jason]

Be careful what Brian pictures you post on here! You never know what bulldog is waiting in the wings...

[Pretty Funky]

One thing's for sure, Brian has looked fantastic in every picture they have released thus far.  Not an awkward one in the bunch!

Which of course means only one thing. 

No Mike?
No Bruce?
No Dave?
He's had a face lift?
He's drunk?
He's seperated from Melinda?
He had a good motion that morning?
He's getting well paid?
He's getting well laid?

....we have no idea.