BEACH BOYS PBS 'AMERICAN MASTERS' SPECIAL IS IN THE WORKS

[Sheriff John Stone]

...and the fragile ties between Michael and Al and now Michael and David make the situation less hopeful.

All Brian Wilson has to do is put two letters together - O and K - and you'd be amazed how quickly the various relationships become settled.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Of course, the reunion could always take place on December 28, 2012..

Ha! I believe the actual date is December 21, 2012. Maybe it is the Beach Boys reunion that causes the end of the world!

[Jason]

It would make for the best PR the band's had in years!

[Pretty Funky]

And something else to blame on Mike!

[grillo]

Of course, the reunion could always take place on December 28, 2012..

Ha! I believe the actual date is December 21, 2012. Maybe it is the Beach Boys reunion that causes the end of the world!

I like the idea of the re-union taking place a week AFTER the end of the world, seems more fitting somehow...                                                                                                                                               

[KokoMoses]

This would be especially cool if the world ended due to a second ice age. This way the cover of "Keepin The Summer Alive" could at last become reality!

[Jason]

And the cover of the Keepin' The Summer Alive album would become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[KokoMoses]

And the world of ice will be ruled by evil overload Mike Love and his army of non-surfing hodad monsters, while good Prince Brian will be locked in a dungeon with the secrets of the universe.

[Jason]

Wow, you just likened the Beach Boys' saga to the Amber saga! Impressive.

[Cam Mott]

IF, on and off, Brian isn't keen on a reunion maybe it has nothing to do with the remaining Boys but has to do with his brothers not being there. MAYBE on some level he would love to do it but on another level there is an emotional stumbling block.

[Wilsonista]

IF, on and off, Brian isn't keen on a reunion maybe it has nothing to do with the remaining Boys but has to do with his brothers not being there. MAYBE on some level he would love to do it but on another level there is an emotional stumbling block.

Well said.

[BJL]

What would make me happiest isn't really a concert or a documentary (though I wouldn't complain!)

what if the guys just headed over to Al's ranch for the afternoon, had a few beers, no cameras, no reporters...just hanging out as buddies, reminiscing, maybe playing some old records...

us fans wouldn't find out until a few months later at best...but we might notice a friendlier tone in interviews, perhaps a surprise Brian cameo at a Mike and Bruce show! 

and we'd know that after all the problems, all the drugs, all the lawsuits, a couple guys could still hang out and, to paraphrase that old Beach Boy's song, "Be Chill"

I fan can dream, right? 

[Wilsonista]

What would make me happiest isn't really a concert or a documentary (though I wouldn't complain!)

what if the guys just headed over to Al's ranch for the afternoon, had a few beers, no cameras, no reporters...just hanging out as buddies, reminiscing, maybe playing some old records...

us fans wouldn't find out until a few months later at best...but we might notice a friendlier tone in interviews, perhaps a surprise Brian cameo at a Mike and Bruce show! 

and we'd know that after all the problems, all the drugs, all the lawsuits, a couple guys could still hang out and, to paraphrase that old Beach Boy's song, "Be Chill"

I fan can dream, right? 

Yes, yes and yes.

[Rocker]

I like the hanging out in a room and talking and playing the piano, maybe strumming on some guitars. Like the Anthology, or even like the hotel tape (or the campfire sessions). Everyone could make fun of everyone else, tell some stories, and maybe have some closure.

They should do it like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_yoEEN0tBQ&feature=player_embedded#at=70


In fact I think it would be a cool ending if you have a documentary with the guys sitting together in a room, having fun and making music and afterwards you'll see them leaving the room, each heading their own way again. No reunion-concert (although that would be nice), just clips from their individual shows. You know what I mean ?

[Alex]

As far as a doc is concerned, I think the BBs deserve the same treatment Scorsese (sp?) gave Dylan.

[Dove Nested Towers]

As far as a doc is concerned, I think the BBs deserve the same treatment Scorsese (sp?) gave Dylan.

Hear, hear!

[metal flake paint]

Mike Love says that a new Beach Boys retrospective is in the works for PBS' American Masters series in commemoration of the band's 50th anniversary which falls in 2011.

Personally I'm still waiting for Mike to deliver his pet project that he mentioned way back in Goldmine, 1992.

A documentary featuring America's band on tour, starring The Beach Boys' cheerleaders! The music would provide the backdrop to the girls rehearsing and auditioning, getting their costumes fitted. "Don't Worry Baby" plays in the backround while the girls are getting made-up for "Be True To Your School". Cameras the cut to them on the bus, flying in the plane, and backstage before a show. Cue to one of the girls on the phone to her partner. Basically a view of The Beach Boys through the eyes of the cheerleaders.

It's sure to sell a million units.

[Dove Nested Towers]

I remember reading that article at the time, but not that particular brainstorm. I guess there really are at least TWO geniuses in (one of) the old lineup(s)!

[metal flake paint]

I remember reading that article at the time, but not that particular brainstorm.

I was beginning to think that I was the only person who read it!

[Bean Bag]

What about a "reunion lite?"

I'm thinking of a new online single by Brian, written by Wilson/Love, with a special guest vocal by Mike Love.

[Fall Breaks]

What about a "reunion lite?"

I'm thinking of a new online single by Brian, written by Wilson/Love, with a special guest vocal by Mike Love.

I'd take whatever I can get, and this would certainly be better than nothing... and it would open up a big hall of 'what will this lead to' for all of us to discuss... 

[Ed Roach]

The new American Masters show airing tonight:  Sam Cooke: Crossing Over

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-sam-cooke11-2010jan11,0,4101248.story?track=rss
(Click here, if only to see the great photo of Sam in the studio with Cassius Clay!)

The PBS series takes a respectful look at the life and death of the silky smooth singer, first in gospel and then in pop.

By Randy Lewis
January 11, 2010

Pop music has rarely sounded more elegantly silky than when Sam Cooke sang "You Send Me," the dreamily romantic 1957 hit that first put the Chicago singer and songwriter at the top of the national sales chart and primed him for a key role as African Americans started to assert real power in the music business.

That role was cut short when Cooke was shot and killed outside a Watts motel room in December 1964, a sad finale to a life that had been blessed with a remarkable musical gift.

The circumstances of his life are given more weight than his artistry in "Sam Cooke: Crossing Over," a new one-hour documentary for PBS' "American Masters" series airing tonight on KCET-TV Channel 28 and on Jan. 26 on KOCE-TV Channel 50. Producer-director John Antonelli, co-producer D. Channsin Berry and writer Noland Walker deliver a solid primer on their subject, starting with his upbringing in the Windy City as one of eight children of a Pentecostal minister....
                                                                                    ..........................

.........The major drama of Cooke's life story is that such nobler aspirations ran in tandem with the earthly temptations that ultimately led to his downfall. The show quickly relates the facts surrounding his death at age 33 -- his meeting with a woman who turned out to be a prostitute and their trek to a motel, where he was shot and killed by the manager after the woman fled with Cooke's pants, and money.

There are film snippets of testimony from the woman and the manager but nothing about the controversy that surrounded the investigation or the myriad theories that have proliferated over the years.

"American Masters" leaves that to the likes of biographer Peter Guralnick, who explored those details in much greater depth in his 2005 biography "Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke."

Absent the deeper examination of an extraordinary talent, we're left with a take on Cooke that's respectable and eminently respectful, but something short of masterful.

randy.lewis@latimes.com

[Shady]

As far as a doc is concerned, I think the BBs deserve the same treatment Scorsese (sp?) gave Dylan.

Yeah, we can dream 

[Ed Roach]

Wow!  Just noticed that here in L.A., they are showing the Marvin Gaye American Masters after Sam Cooke!

[Alex]

As far as a doc is concerned, I think the BBs deserve the same treatment Scorsese (sp?) gave Dylan.

Yeah, we can dream 

I'M DREAMIN'!!!