2023 BBs documentary

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2023 BBs documentary

« on: April 27, 2023, 04:43:39 PM »

Information is trickling in on the upcoming BBs documentary. I found this tidbit in a story about manager Jerry Schilling:

https://www.actionnews5.com/2023/04/27/tenn-legislature-honors-memphis-jerry-schilling-friend-elvis-manager-beach-boys/

TENN. LEGISLATURE HONORS MEMPHIS’ JERRY SCHILLING, FRIEND OF ELVIS, MANAGER OF THE BEACH BOYS

"Schilling, now 81, is now a consulting producer on a soon-to-be-released documentary on The Beach Boys."


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« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2023, 06:52:36 PM »

Hopefully soon and hopefully it gets a decent release platform.

Weren't Disney allegedly involved in this?


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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2023, 08:21:41 AM »

Looking forward to seeing this. As I mentioned elsewhere, I hope they use/are able to use lots of the beautiful and rare footage that has shown up during the years, be it live footage or interviews etc. For example the interview of the Boys including Glenn Campbell from 1965 or the Ida Blackburn footage. Of course they would need to find a way to include this in a way that makes sense. I would inmagine that when it comes to the Beach Boys there must be much more existing. So hopefully it won't be the same old Hawaii '67 footage overdubbed with a slowed down Live in London GOK.


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« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2023, 08:46:10 AM »

I don't know a super ton about this, but from what I have heard, I would just say... it might be worth tempering your expectations. A Beach Boys "Beatles Anthology" this will not be, as far as I can tell.

I think we'll be lucky if this ends up being a longer (and/or more up to date) "Endless Harmony." And I say that with the utmost respect and gratitude for the EH documentary existing. It's as good, no, *better*, than anything could possibly be under the constraints it was made (the main constraints being run time and its authorized nature). And I think "Endless Harmony" had genuine pathos; again, not easy under those constraints. How it frames Brian giving up on "Smile", how it deals with the Mike/Van Dyke stuff, how it frames the Landy era, it's all done with a deft touch.

I fear the new doc, even if longer and covering the post-1998 era, will appear shinier and slicker by virtue of being a more modern production, but it might lack as much pathos and soul as we might like.

But if it can end up on Disney+ or Hulu (the two likely results considering Disney's involvement), that will certainly boost the band's visibility.