Thread for various insignificant questions that don't deserve their own thread!

[Myk Luhv]

Has anyone figured out the Wild Honey piano sound? Was it actually due to a specifically-detuned piano Brian owned or something?

[Al Jardine: Pick Up Artist]

Try throwing an old upright down a flight of stairs, and then play it in your bathroom. Might get the same effect.

[Quzi]

Has anyone figured out the Wild Honey piano sound? Was it actually due to a specifically-detuned piano Brian owned or something?

I've read Brian would sing a note, and the guy tuning it would tune the corresponding note on the piano to Brian's slightly imperfect frequency. I'm not entirely sure how true that is though.

[Andrew G. Doe]

That was the grand, in the sandbox - the WH piano is an upright, very likely a tack piano further processed.

[Andrew G. Doe]

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[Disney Boy (1985)]

Have Wild Honey out-takes Game of Love and Honey Get Home ever been booted? I've a fair few WH boots but none of them have anything in relation to these two tracks? 

[Andrew G. Doe]

No. "Game Of Love" is pretty incomplete.

[Iron Horse-Apples]

More incomplete than Lonely Days?. That would be pretty incomplete. I'd be happy to hear anything from this era though

[Disney Boy (1985)]

I'd love to hear it, whether there's three minutes of it or thirty seconds.

[Rocky Raccoon]

Why was the "Gettin' Hungry" single credited to just Brian and Mike?

[zachrwolfe]

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[The Shift]

On All This Is That, does anyone know what the lyrics are for the very hidden vocal part? I remember reading here recently that they are derived directly from some poem, but the search function is bringing up nothing.

Would love to hear that lost lyric isolated. Based on a Robert Frost poem:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[punkinhead]

Have Wild Honey out-takes Game of Love and Honey Get Home ever been booted? I've a fair few WH boots but none of them have anything in relation to these two tracks? 

I remember Alan Boyd saying Honey Get Home was an incomplete backing track, like much of what has been been found at the Wild Honey/Friends bottom of the barrel.…I remember reading that in some interview or article…and Game of Love has a lead by Mike Love I believe.

[Heysaboda]

I was in the Omaha airport on Wednesday last week, waiting for a flight back to California.  When, to my surprise, I realized that the song that the airport Muzak was playing was, none other than, Surf’s Up, done as an instrumental!!!!!

Surf’s Up on Muzak!  WOW  Not a bad arrangement either!

[alf wiedersehen]

Am I missing out on anything exceptional or important by sticking solely with The Smile Sessions? I was curious to know if anything great (and not on the box set) is floating around out there...

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Am I missing out on anything exceptional or important by sticking solely with The Smile Sessions? I was curious to know if anything great (and not on the box set) is floating around out there...

The Smile 'Unsurpassed Masters' CDs have some great Vegetables stuff not on the box.

[alf wiedersehen]

Am I missing out on anything exceptional or important by sticking solely with The Smile Sessions? I was curious to know if anything great (and not on the box set) is floating around out there...

The Smile 'Unsurpassed Masters' CDs have some great Vegetables stuff not on the box.

Thanks, that's good to know. For some reason I can't explain, I love that song.

[Andrew G. Doe]

On All This Is That, does anyone know what the lyrics are for the very hidden vocal part? I remember reading here recently that they are derived directly from some poem, but the search function is bringing up nothing.

Good few years back, I got that self-same question passed on to ACJ hisself. He couldn't remember. 

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Am I missing out on anything exceptional or important by sticking solely with The Smile Sessions? I was curious to know if anything great (and not on the box set) is floating around out there...

The Smile 'Unsurpassed Masters' CDs have some great Vegetables stuff not on the box.

Thanks, that's good to know. For some reason I can't explain, I love that song.

That lovely bit at the end of the Smiley Smile Vegetables? There's lots of that. Plus Marilyn singing the 'I know that you'll feel better...' line.

[punkinhead]

So I did pick up the Record Store Day release of Song Cycle put out by Warner Bros and I just found and bought a fresh copy of Song Cycle put out by Sundazed and it says Stereo. For now, the first one I bought has been taken out of the wrap, this one, however, I left in the wrap. What was the mix of the Record Store Day release? Mono?

Which would be better? Ive only had the album on cd for a couple of years so I'm not largely as familiar with it as I would be with Beatles or Beach Boys albums.

[EgoHanger1966]

This isn't a question, but just something that happened today that I wanted to share with some Beach Boys fans. I was walking in the city to catch a train, wearing my Pet Sounds shirt, because I always do, when I crossed the street and saw a younger guy sitting in a wheelchair, in the hot sun. I'm not sure what he was doing there, but I got closer and his eyes lit up and he yelled to me "PET SOUNDS!!!!", and told me how he was just listening to the album earlier, and how much of a fan he was. Always good to randomly meet like-minded people. 

[The Shift]

This isn't a question, but just something that happened today that I wanted to share with some Beach Boys fans. I was walking in the city to catch a train, wearing my Pet Sounds shirt, because I always do, when I crossed the street and saw a younger guy sitting in a wheelchair, in the hot sun. I'm not sure what he was doing there, but I got closer and his eyes lit up and he yelled to me "PET SOUNDS!!!!", and told me how he was just listening to the album earlier, and how much of a fan he was. Always good to randomly meet like-minded people. 

Similar happened to me years ago (about 2002/3) in Monterey, when I was wearing my SMiLE T-shirt, and some biker just pointed at it and  said "great album".  For a Brit, that made my day (though the evening whipped it!).

[Wrightfan]

No. "Game Of Love" is pretty incomplete.

That's a shame. That's a song that would've been a nice cover by the band.

[wantsomecorn]

This isn't a question, but just something that happened today that I wanted to share with some Beach Boys fans. I was walking in the city to catch a train, wearing my Pet Sounds shirt, because I always do, when I crossed the street and saw a younger guy sitting in a wheelchair, in the hot sun. I'm not sure what he was doing there, but I got closer and his eyes lit up and he yelled to me "PET SOUNDS!!!!", and told me how he was just listening to the album earlier, and how much of a fan he was. Always good to randomly meet like-minded people. 

Similar happened to me years ago (about 2002/3) in Monterey, when I was wearing my SMiLE T-shirt, and some biker just pointed at it and  said "great album".  For a Brit, that made my day (though the evening whipped it!).

I was walking around Lake Michigan in Chicago last Labor Day (well, the day before) and saw a guy in the park wearing a 50th Anniversary shirt (and maybe a tote bag too?) and had to restrain myself not to complement him... had I not been with my girlfriend, I surely would've! 

[Heysaboda]

(Listening to "Still I Dream Of It")

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Brian Wilson is the greatest songwriter of all time, I hope the world knows that.

What this guy said, times ONE MILLION!