I didn't realize a stereo mix of "Do It Again" was possible

[Iron Horse-Apples]

Were the three sections edited together then prior to '68? I didn't know that.

And I was using tinkering in reference to TSS and MIC.

And if it was tinkering, then what magnificent tinkering.

[37!ws]

I love that they're still finding tapes...the 1967 solo "Surf's Up," and the "Do It Again" multitracks...it all makes me hold out hope that some day we'll get a nice stereo vocals-only "Good Vibrations"...

[Andrew G. Doe]

And I was using tinkering in reference to TSS and MIC.

Allow me to directly quote you, emphasis mine: "If Cabinessence was a good example of Carl's "tinkering"...". Carl died in 1998. TSS was released in 2011, MiC just now. 

(BTW, is there any other bunch of fans who use song and album title acronyms like we do ?)

[37!ws]

Personally I'm a fan of TWOTS.

[Andrew G. Doe]

As I said in another topic... perverts. 

[Iron Horse-Apples]

And I was using tinkering in reference to TSS and MIC.

Allow me to directly quote you, emphasis mine: "If Cabinessence was a good example of Carl's "tinkering"...". Carl died in 1998. TSS was released in 2011, MiC just now. 

(BTW, is there any other bunch of fans who use song and album title acronyms like we do ?)

This is the problem when I'm having the same discussion on three different threads. Somewhere else I'd been discussing the tinkering that has been done to TSS and MIC. I used the word here in relation to Carl because essentially he did the same thing to Cabinessence, i.e, changed / embellished / mucked about with what already existed, as Mark Linnet has done with TSS and MIC. Tinkering is being used as a derogatory thing, so I was putting it in a context where it was positive, i.e Carl finishing Cabinessence.

It's stopped making sense to me as well.

[guitarfool2002]

If "Smile" had come out in 1972, or '73, or any of those years, I don't think it would have had anywhere near the reception nor the impact that it had when it did finally come out. So whatever it was that Carl had in mind at that time, or whenever, I'm glad in a way it never amounted to anything but auditioning tapes from the vault.

And does it surprise anyone else but me that they never ran a safety copy or a backup copy of the stereo "Do It Again" master tape in the event that it were to meet a tragic fate like flying out of a car on the way to the record company?

[zachrwolfe]

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[Daniel]

Oh well, "what ifs" are a pointless exercise.

Yet so much of this board and Beach Boys fandom is made up of "what ifs"

[bgas]

And does it surprise anyone else but me that they never ran a safety copy or a backup copy of the stereo "Do It Again" master tape in the event that it were to meet a tragic fate like flying out of a car on the way to the record company?

"Stephen, Let's make a copy of this master , just in case we lose it in the canyon while we're sharing a splif...." 
Nahh...  don't see that even coming up. 

[Alan Smith]

And does it surprise anyone else but me that they never ran a safety copy or a backup copy of the stereo "Do It Again" master tape in the event that it were to meet a tragic fate like flying out of a car on the way to the record company?

"Stephen, Let's make a copy of this master , just in case we lose it in the canyon while we're sharing a splif...." 
Nahh...  don't see that even coming up. 

 

[DonnyL]

I think the workshop fragment was put at the end because of the slightly off drum fill ... covers it up and makes it 'make sense'.

[Matt Bielewicz]

There's also a wrong bass note for a second right near the fade (just after the drum fill you mention, actually) which is definitely on the original album mix, but which I never noticed there until I heard the MiC mix, because the Workshop stuff is coming in at that point on the original 2020 album, and it has always successfully distracted me! Maybe that was the idea behind the inclusion of the Workshop overdub, too...!

[Mikie]

Personally I'm a fan of TWOTS.

Me too!  What do you guys think of TWOTS as a whole?

[Alan Smith]

Personally I'm a fan of TWOTS.

Me too!  What do you guys think of TWOTS as a whole?

The more, the merrier.