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« Reply #75 on: April 23, 2015, 09:54:25 AM »

I loved Jack's posts--so full of heart. Wish he'd written a book--maybe we'll find out that he has already, but he seemed to be the kind to move on from the past, while remembering it vividly at the very same time.

I'm a full-blooded American, but I somehow envy his guts to leave it all behind for a better life in Amsterdam.

In case somebody hasn't already reposted this, here's my edit of all of his long posts into something resembling an article:
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,10155.msg182234.html#msg182234

Bye, Jack. Thanks for helping out with the boys.
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« Reply #76 on: April 23, 2015, 12:39:14 PM »

Thanks for re-posting the link to those stories. Fascinating stuff.
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« Reply #77 on: April 23, 2015, 01:25:34 PM »

Yes indeed. I remember reading these edits first time round. Thanks a bunch, Onkster. 
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« Reply #78 on: April 25, 2015, 08:34:10 AM »

Just wanted to add this for all to remember some of the great lyrics Jack wrote for the Beach Boys. These are definitely among their very best.


Hi
Trader

Trader sailed a jeweled crown
Humanity rowed the way
Exploring to command more land
Scheming how to rule the waves

Trader spied a virgin plain
And named it for velvet robes
Wrote home declaring
"There's a place where totally folks are free"

Happily completely
Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides
And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside
And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies
Signed sincerely

Trader found the jeweled land
Was occupied before he came
By humans of a second look
Who couldn't even write their names, shame

Trader said they're not as good
As folks who wear velvet robes
Wrote home again and asked, "Please help
Their breasts I see, they're not like me"
   (They don't believe our deity)

Banish them from our prairies and our hillsides
Clear them from our mountains and our seaside
I want them off our lakes so please reply
Signed sincerely

Trader he got the crown okay
Cleared humanity from his way
He civilized all he saw
Making changes every single day, say

Shops sprang over the prairies and the hillsides
Then roads cut through the mountains to the seaside
The other kind fled to hide, by and by
And so sincerely cried

Making it softly
Like the evening sea, trying to be
Making it go creating it gently
Like a morning breeze, a life of ease

Eyes that see beyond tomorrow
Through to the time without hours
Passing the eden of flowers
Reason to live

Embracing together
Like the merging streams, crying dreams
Making it full begging intently
For a slight reprieve, a night of ease

Hands to touch beyond the sorrow
On to the force without power
Piercing the crust of the tower
Reason to live

Hoping like a budding rose
Humbling shows
Making it struggling lonely
Like a desert field
Break the seal, make it real

Ears to hear beyond the showers
On to the suns of tomorrows
Burning the flesh of all sorrows

Reason to live
Reason to continue
Reason to go on
Reason to live
Reason to live
Reason to live
Reason to live




Source: http://www.songlyrics.com/beach-boys/the-trader-lyrics/
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To sum it up, they blew it, they blew it consistently, they continue to blow it, it is tragic and this pathological problem caused The Beach Boys' greatest music to be so underrated by the general public.

- Jack Rieley
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« Reply #79 on: April 25, 2015, 01:35:50 PM »

Thanks Rocker.  It sure ain't Fun X 3.

Carl and Jack.  Great team.  Now...perhaps reunited somehwre between here and there.  It's a mighty BIG universe after all.
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« Reply #80 on: April 26, 2015, 04:11:55 AM »


Trader said they're not as good
As folks who wear velvet robes
Wrote home again and asked, "Please help
Their breasts I see, they're not like me"

BV for the last line is "They don't believe our deity".
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« Reply #81 on: April 26, 2015, 04:16:50 AM »


Trader said they're not as good
As folks who wear velvet robes
Wrote home again and asked, "Please help
Their breasts I see, they're not like me"

BV for the last line is "They don't believe our deity".


Thanks, I inserted this in the above post.
Such a great song. It gets better and better. Criminally underrated. Not bad this band
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- Lester Bangs on The Beach Boys


PRO SHOT BEACH BOYS CONCERTS - LIST


To sum it up, they blew it, they blew it consistently, they continue to blow it, it is tragic and this pathological problem caused The Beach Boys' greatest music to be so underrated by the general public.

- Jack Rieley
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« Reply #82 on: April 26, 2015, 04:18:36 AM »

The best song the band ever did IMO.
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« Reply #83 on: April 28, 2015, 09:31:16 AM »

Man, as douchey as people can be on this board, it's nice to see these lovely tributes to Jack. (And wonder how many of these tributes are from people who twice flamed him off PSML many years ago.)
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« Reply #84 on: April 28, 2015, 09:57:20 AM »

What were Jack's posts on PSML? I'd love to read those...although I'd hate to witness the flaming, even years after the fact. (I have a bad feeling one of the flamers was, uh, a major player on the list...)

I've got a ton of PSML saved from the old days, but haven't had the time to sift back through...if there are any Jack gems, please post--or at least post the dates, so I can search back easily...
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« Reply #85 on: April 28, 2015, 10:35:49 PM »

Hello ? There's a link to all the PSML posts earlier in this thread of less than four pages.

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« Reply #86 on: April 28, 2015, 11:15:06 PM »

I didn't expect to be as saddened as I am by Jack Rieley's death. As an occasional writer, Jack is a huge influence.
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« Reply #87 on: May 04, 2015, 01:29:24 AM »

        John Frank Rieley III

'Are you sleeping Brother John?'

        JACK of many trades
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