What did we learn at the Q&A?

[Lowbacca]

Unfortunately, there were some real softball questions and he answered some of those instead of the good ones that required some thought. I was hoping he would answer the question concerning his voice change ('74/'75) which was asked here in different ways by a couple of different posters and one poster at the BW board. Brian didn't want to touch questions like that - opting for questions about whether he liked cake or pie. Geeeez. Again, I know the questions can't be screened prior to the Q&A period, but there's only 1/2 hour for Brian to answer all of them (including the dumb ones). And even some of the good questions were answered very basically and/or not thoroughly enough as I kind of expected going into this thing. Better than "Yes" and "No" answers, I guess........

Now I'm asking myself if his cake/pie taste changed in '74/'75... oh well, next Q&A!

[Jesse Reiswig]

I love that out of all the unfinished songs Brian has, the one he thought of wanting to revisit was Lana!  

[Mikie]

What did we learn? To limit the number of questions to posters with more than 1000 posts (which rules me out for a start) so that the long-term members and scholars/historians get the look-in they deserve. Worth keeping in mind for next time. :=)

How about no.

How about yes.

[Mendota Heights]

What did we learn? To limit the number of questions to posters with more than 1000 posts (which rules me out for a start) so that the long-term members and scholars/historians get the look-in they deserve. Worth keeping in mind for next time. :=)

How about no.

How about yes.

How about no.

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

What did we learn? To limit the number of questions to posters with more than 1000 posts (which rules me out for a start) so that the long-term members and scholars/historians get the look-in they deserve. Worth keeping in mind for next time. :=)

Never going to happen.  NEVER.

[Lowbacca]

What did we learn? To limit the number of questions to posters with more than 1000 posts (which rules me out for a start) so that the long-term members and scholars/historians get the look-in they deserve. Worth keeping in mind for next time. :=)

That sounds.. wrong. For so many reasons.

[Mikie]

I love that out of all the unfinished songs Brian has, the one he thought of wanting to revisit was Lana!  

That wasn't an unfinished song. I think Brian misinterpreted the question. Maybe he was thinking of do-overs.

For instance, he didn't finish "Sandy" in '65 but eventually finished it 11 years later and released it in another form years after that. I think that's what the poster was looking for- that kind of answer. Songs that were unfinished or in demo form but not finished and released.

[puni puni]

Unfortunately, there were some real softball questions and he answered some of those instead of the good ones that required some thought. I was hoping he would answer the question concerning his voice change ('74/'75) which was asked here in different ways by a couple of different posters and one poster at the BW board. Brian didn't want to touch questions like that - opting for questions about whether he liked cake or pie. Geeeez. Again, I know the questions can't be screened prior to the Q&A period, but there's only 1/2 hour for Brian to answer all of them (including the dumb ones). And even some of the good questions were answered very basically and/or not thoroughly enough as I kind of expected going into this thing. Better than "Yes" and "No" answers, I guess........

What is there left to say? His voice changed around 1975 and then once more in 1980. He had laryngitis both of those years. It happens.

[clack]

It has been speculated that there is some bad blood between Brian and VDP. However, when asked for his favorite lyricist, he didn't answer Tony Asher, or Scott Bennett, or even Mike Love -- but Van Dyke Parks. I found that very interesting.

[Mikie]

Unfortunately, there were some real softball questions and he answered some of those instead of the good ones that required some thought. I was hoping he would answer the question concerning his voice change ('74/'75) which was asked here in different ways by a couple of different posters and one poster at the BW board. Brian didn't want to touch questions like that - opting for questions about whether he liked cake or pie. Geeeez. Again, I know the questions can't be screened prior to the Q&A period, but there's only 1/2 hour for Brian to answer all of them (including the dumb ones). And even some of the good questions were answered very basically and/or not thoroughly enough as I kind of expected going into this thing. Better than "Yes" and "No" answers, I guess........

What is there left to say? His voice changed around 1975 and then once more in 1980. He had laryngitis both of those years. It happens.

What's left to say? Confirmation on whether he inadvertently damaged it with drugs/alcohol/cigs or whether he did it on purpose to sound older. Even Marilyn says he did it on purpose which I've always disagreed with. I always thought he damaged his vocal chords by accident and if he knew at the time what was going to happen, he would have tried to prevent it.

I'm not talking about laryngitis. I'm talking about the PERMANENT damage that he did to his voice in 1975.

[Micha]

What did we learn? To limit the number of questions to posters with more than 1000 posts (which rules me out for a start) so that the long-term members and scholars/historians get the look-in they deserve. Worth keeping in mind for next time. :=)

Set the limit at 2,500 posts and it's a deal. 2,503 would be ok too.

[bgas]

 SO glad that people are happy with the inane answers supplied.  But then, did anyone really expect Brian to supply moere than one word/line answers? 
Maybe someone can get Pee Wee Herman to register here and we can ask him questions next

[shelter]

What did we learn? To limit the number of questions to posters with more than 1000 posts (which rules me out for a start) so that the long-term members and scholars/historians get the look-in they deserve. Worth keeping in mind for next time. :=)

I agree. Aeijtzsche, for instance, had a very interesting question about something he's been doing research to for years, something that quite some people would have loved to see the definitive answer to. And Brian never even got to see that question.

But hey, at least we got to know that Brian likes cheese pizza (no offense to whoever asked that question)....

[halblaineisgood]

Unfortunately, there were some real softball questions and he answered some of those instead of the good ones that required some thought. I was hoping he would answer the question concerning his voice change ('74/'75) which was asked here in different ways by a couple of different posters and one poster at the BW board. Brian didn't want to touch questions like that - opting for questions about whether he liked cake or pie. Geeeez. Again, I know the questions can't be screened prior to the Q&A period, but there's only 1/2 hour for Brian to answer all of them (including the dumb ones). And even some of the good questions were answered very basically and/or not thoroughly enough as I kind of expected going into this thing. Better than "Yes" and "No" answers, I guess........

What is there left to say? His voice changed around 1975 and then once more in 1980. He had laryngitis both of those years. It happens.

What's left to say? Confirmation on whether he inadvertently damaged it with drugs/alcohol/cigs or whether he did it on purpose to sound older. Even Marilyn says he did it on purpose which I've always disagreed with. I always thought he damaged his vocal chords by accident and if he knew at the time what was going to happen, he would have tried to prevent it.

I'm not talking about laryngitis. I'm talking about the PERMANENT damage that he did to his voice in 1975.

WHY would he answer that.

[Jesse Reiswig]

I love that out of all the unfinished songs Brian has, the one he thought of wanting to revisit was Lana!  

That wasn't an unfinished song. I think Brian misinterpreted the question. Maybe he was thinking of do-overs.

For instance, he didn't finish "Sandy" in '65 but eventually finished it 11 years later and released it in another form years after that. I think that's what the poster was looking for- that kind of answer. Songs that were unfinished or in demo form but not finished and released.

Maybe "Lana" WAS unfinished, despite being recorded and released. It's certainly always sounded to me like an unfinished song.

[Lowbacca]

SO glad that people are happy with the inane answers supplied.  But then, did anyone really expect Brian to supply moere than one word/line answers? 
Maybe someone can get Pee Wee Herman to register here and we can ask him questions next

What did you expect from a 30 minutes Q&A? He 'answered' about 30 Qs. That's one A per minute.

[Lee Marshall]

What I learned? Don't post your question until seconds before the deadline.  Post early in an orderly fashion?  Brian'll never get all the way through the umpteen pages of 'queries' to where you're so, in fact, well hidden that camouflage is a 100% waste of time and money.  {A duck-call might come in handy though...or something really LOUD that sounds exactly like a cheese pizza.}

[Mujan, 8@$+@Rc| of a Blue Wizard]

Unfortunately, there were some real softball questions and he answered some of those instead of the good ones that required some thought. I was hoping he would answer the question concerning his voice change ('74/'75) which was asked here in different ways by a couple of different posters and one poster at the BW board. Brian didn't want to touch questions like that - opting for questions about whether he liked cake or pie. Geeeez. Again, I know the questions can't be screened prior to the Q&A period, but there's only 1/2 hour for Brian to answer all of them (including the dumb ones). And even some of the good questions were answered very basically and/or not thoroughly enough as I kind of expected going into this thing. Better than "Yes" and "No" answers, I guess........

It's a rare occurrence where we agree, but this is one of them.

I also support limiting submissions to posters who've been here for at least, say 6 months or so. Or the 1000 posts idea. Maybe lower it a bit to 500.

Maybe I'm being a sour grape, but I'm saddened that we had some really great questions ready from yesterday that all got bumped by lame, last minute softball questions at the last minute.

Not trying to rain on the parade, just saying the format for future Q&As could be improved.

[Mikie]

Unfortunately, there were some real softball questions and he answered some of those instead of the good ones that required some thought. I was hoping he would answer the question concerning his voice change ('74/'75) which was asked here in different ways by a couple of different posters and one poster at the BW board. Brian didn't want to touch questions like that - opting for questions about whether he liked cake or pie. Geeeez. Again, I know the questions can't be screened prior to the Q&A period, but there's only 1/2 hour for Brian to answer all of them (including the dumb ones). And even some of the good questions were answered very basically and/or not thoroughly enough as I kind of expected going into this thing. Better than "Yes" and "No" answers, I guess........

What is there left to say? His voice changed around 1975 and then once more in 1980. He had laryngitis both of those years. It happens.

What's left to say? Confirmation on whether he inadvertently damaged it with drugs/alcohol/cigs or whether he did it on purpose to sound older. Even Marilyn says he did it on purpose which I've always disagreed with. I always thought he damaged his vocal chords by accident and if he knew at the time what was going to happen, he would have tried to prevent it.

I'm not talking about laryngitis. I'm talking about the PERMANENT damage that he did to his voice in 1975.

WHY would he answer that.

Why not? It was asked THREE times by other posters and it's one of the top 5 questions I would have asked him. Why waste time and ask him questions (i.e. about his new album that will be forthcoming very soon anyway)?

[Mujan, 8@$+@Rc| of a Blue Wizard]

What I learned? Don't post your question until seconds before the deadline.  Post early in an orderly fashion?  Brian'll never get all the way through the umpteen pages of 'queries' to where you're so, in fact, well hidden that camouflage is a 100% waste of time and money.  {A duck-call might come in handy though...or something really LOUD that sounds exactly like a cheese pizza.}

This. This is the only true answer

[The Cincinnati Kid]

I wouldn't be too upset guys.  Like with other Q&A sessions he sidestepped a lot of the questions and a few of the answers didn't even make sense.  I do think that there should something put in place next time so we don't waste time with questions like what is his favorite pizza.

[Mikie]

Unfortunately, there were some real softball questions and he answered some of those instead of the good ones that required some thought. I was hoping he would answer the question concerning his voice change ('74/'75) which was asked here in different ways by a couple of different posters and one poster at the BW board. Brian didn't want to touch questions like that - opting for questions about whether he liked cake or pie. Geeeez. Again, I know the questions can't be screened prior to the Q&A period, but there's only 1/2 hour for Brian to answer all of them (including the dumb ones). And even some of the good questions were answered very basically and/or not thoroughly enough as I kind of expected going into this thing. Better than "Yes" and "No" answers, I guess........

It's a rare occurrence where we agree, but this is one of them.

I also support limiting submissions to posters who've been here for at least, say 6 months or so. Or the 1000 posts idea. Maybe lower it a bit to 500.

Maybe I'm being a sour grape, but I'm saddened that we had some really great questions ready from yesterday that all got bumped by lame, last minute softball questions at the last minute.

Not trying to rain on the parade, just saying the format for future Q&As could be improved.

There are some who came out of the woodwork to ask questions. Poster's names I haven't seen in ages or not at all. Some with alias's with new names and 500+ posts. Some with just a few posts under their belt. I wonder how many registered just to ask questions.

[Wirestone]

This is what you get from a BW interview, folks.

Narrowing it down wouldn't have helped. The man knows how to dodge and weave.

Misdirection, evasion, brevity. That's his style, and he's not changing it now.

I wouldn't be too upset guys.  Like with other Q&A sessions he sidestepped a lot of the questions and a few of the answers didn't even make sense.  I do think that there should something put in place next time so we don't waste time with questions like what is his favorite pizza.

And don't hate on the pizza question. He picked it.

[halblaineisgood]

 Why waste time and ask him questions (i.e. about his new album that will be forthcoming very soon anyway)?

Because they are likely to be answered. And no matter how perfunctory, for thrill of Brian's dictated response.

Why not?

"YEah, I PERMANENTLY damaged my voice in 1975... don't forget to b uy my new album!! I'll be doin' lots of singing on it -with my permanently damaged voice!! Love, Brian     P.S. Thanx 4 the fun question!"

[The Cincinnati Kid]

This is what you get from a BW interview, folks.

Narrowing it down wouldn't have helped. The man knows how to dodge and weave.

Misdirection, evasion, brevity. That's his style, and he's not changing it now.

I wouldn't be too upset guys.  Like with other Q&A sessions he sidestepped a lot of the questions and a few of the answers didn't even make sense.  I do think that there should something put in place next time so we don't waste time with questions like what is his favorite pizza.

And don't hate on the pizza question. He picked it.

Exactly, he picked it...