Beach Boys Breakup - September 2, 1977

[Steve Latshaw]

Can anyone identify the author and title of the Rolling Stone article about the band split at the airport on 9/1/1977?  I'm looking for that article.

Many thanks!

[bgas]

Can anyone identify the author and title of the Rolling Stone article about the band split at the airport on 9/1/1977?  I'm looking for that article.

Many thanks!

The Beach Boys - No More Fun Fun Fun, John Swenson – Rolling Stone Magazine 10/20/77

[The Cincinnati Kid]

This link has it, plus some other interesting stuff.

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php?action=printpage;topic=6867.0

[Steve Latshaw]

Many thanks to - once again - this board, for providing the missing links! 

That Bruce interview was from Goldmine and pretty entertaining, as I recall.  I think the full length interview covered everything unreleased and currently in the vault, at that time.  Love to read the whole thing if anyone has it.

[Lee Marshall]

Read some of that link C Kid provided.  SO MUCH to take in in one sitting.  A birthday to remember for Al eh?  Not nice, at all, what he said to Dennis.  Bet he wishes he could take THAT back.  And now that the times that WERE a-changin' have, in fact, changed... ... ...In a sense...almost 40 years later...it hasn't changed much [see 2012]...except for the need of a second plane for Carl and Dennis [Oh SO sadly].  Jealousy and bullshit.  And reality.  And money.

Then the later interview with Bruce and his observation about the shape radio was in.  I wonder what he thinks of it now?  By and large it's way worse.  But he missed the reason why it was bad and also why the Beach Boys were hard pressed to get any air-time.  Radio became increasingly bad because of the choices made available to it musically speaking.  [And they chose music with their eyes instead of their ears...using 'charts' instead of instinctive talent.]  When you only get to choose from a floundering pool of mediocre tuneage...it's going to suffer.  The Beach Boys weren't competing with themselves or their former records.  They were competing with the accepted  quality of the day...and still losing.  Even when the choices were as limited as they were.  Paling in comparison to themselves didn't help any though.

It was the the late summer of '82 when I sat down, post show, in Winnipeg with Bruce back in the bar at the Winnipeg Inn.  Everyone was there except Brian.  Even Dennis who didn't attend the concert...but instead went to see E.T. at the theatre...was there.  The guys all sat at different tables with whomever they were there with.  Mike was restless and ended up standing outside alone searching the late night sky for meteors.   I sat to speak with Bruce not for interview purposes but rather to just enjoy his company and to more or less relax and shoot the breaze.  He wasn't a happy guy that night.  Things looked a little precarious.  Was he going to leave?  Was the group coming apart at the seams?  Was the magic ALL dried up?  Artistically I got the impression that Bruce was a combination of disappointed and frustrated.  I think, though, that these feelings and how they were collectively feeling and what they were individually saying on any given day were always subject to change without notice.  Next time I saw Bruce and asked him if things were better?  He looked at me as if I'd just landed from Mars.  I just checked an old day-planner.  I had actually returned from Mars several weeks earlier.  Odd.

At least now...33 years later ...[wow 33 years!!!  Man alive!!!]... the pressure is off.  They know, Mike and Bruce that is, that they don't HAVE to do anything but show up and perform 'the show' .  Any other expectations are long since WAY behind them.  As it turns out...for the casual fan...'the show' is really all they want...and THAT is way more than good enough.  Bruce mentioned in one of the articles that doing 'the show' is fun.  It still is I would guess.  As long as people keep showing up and enjoying the heck out of it Mike and Bruce and their backing crew who help them pull it all off night in and night out are really doing a VERY good thing.  They make people HAPPY every time they go to work.  Can't beat that...can you?

[bgas]

Many thanks to - once again - this board, for providing the missing links! 

That Bruce interview was from Goldmine and pretty entertaining, as I recall.  I think the full length interview covered everything unreleased and currently in the vault, at that time.  Love to read the whole thing if anyone has it.

It's in Goldmine # 65/October 1981 ; I'll put it in Media, but I'm not certain you'll be able to read it all. My camera probably leaves something to be desired....

[Andrew G. Doe]

*koff* scan it *koff*

[Micha]

Did you choke on something, Andrew? 

[bgas]

*koff* scan it *koff*

yes yes, but my scanner worls about half the time these days, and it's not nearly large enough to do whole pages...  
But, for you Andrew, I'll try!  

Edit; Done. better, but some are skewed.
NOW, Andrew, as my scanner is only 8-1/2 X 11, as are most of them I think, perhaps you could send me the $$ to buy one that will scan 11 X 14 which is the size of older Goldmine and Rolling Stone( and other) pages so I don't have to make multiple passes ?

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Did you choke on something, Andrew? 

Oh, I'm quite sure he did. He seems to "koff" quite frequently. 

[Andrew G. Doe]

*koff* scan it *koff*

yes yes, but my scanner worls about half the time these days, and it's not nearly large enough to do whole pages...  
But, for you Andrew, I'll try!  

Edit; Done. better, but some are skewed.
NOW, Andrew, as my scanner is only 8-1/2 X 11, as are most of them I think, perhaps you could send me the $$ to buy one that will scan 11 X 14 which is the size of older Goldmine and Rolling Stone( and other) pages so I don't have to make multiple passes ?

Sell the T2580 acetate.

[bgas]

*koff* scan it *koff*

yes yes, but my scanner worls about half the time these days, and it's not nearly large enough to do whole pages...  
But, for you Andrew, I'll try!  

Edit; Done. better, but some are skewed.
NOW, Andrew, as my scanner is only 8-1/2 X 11, as are most of them I think, perhaps you could send me the $$ to buy one that will scan 11 X 14 which is the size of older Goldmine and Rolling Stone( and other) pages so I don't have to make multiple passes ?

Sell the T2580 acetate.

Ahh, I could NEVER dip into my collection Just for a scanner...