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

[wantsomecorn]

I am interested in knowing who were the back up musicians, incl. horn players, who played on the BB's live album Live in
London 1969 ( which was really recorded in 68).  I've tried a few searches to no avail.

Thanks for any direction!

I think Ed Carter played with them during this time

Ed Carter did Bass and Lead Guitar on "Bluebirds over the Mountains" and "All I Want to Do"
Daryl Dragon played Keyboards
Mike Kowalski was there too, but I think AGD said that all he did on the album was percussion because Dennis drummed on every song.

[Quzi]

Are there any instances of Brian composing in a minor key?
I think someone mentioned that the chorus to H&V is in a minor key, but other than that...

Johnny Carson

[bringahorseinhere?]

winter wonderland??

RickB

[bringahorseinhere?]

I would say 'live in london' is the best 'sounding' live recording of the beach boys.....

73 album has nothing on it....... 64 sounds ok for the time, although not completely live, and the 50th cd, well, ..... hmm yeah.

any info on who and how they recorded 'live in London'?.......  4 track/8 track?? 

Mr Desper?..... were you about?

drums sound great, as the horns and the mix..... and Carl's vocals! wow!    doesn't sound like a board feed, but a combined audience/board?

ahhhh, things I just want to know........ brand of machine, tape used etc etc


RickB

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Wasn't Live in London the least doctored of the live discs?

[The Cincinnati Kid]

What was the last song Brian sang prominently on with his "old" voice?

[zachrwolfe]

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[zachrwolfe]

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[alf wiedersehen]

Who produced "All I Wanna Do"? It's so different from everything else, although it is a bit similar to "Cool, Cool Water."
It's one of the most remarkable productions I've ever heard.

[The Cincinnati Kid]

What was the last song Brian sang prominently on with his "old" voice?

I'm afraid it's more complicated than that, as his vocal deterioration was gradual. Also subjective. For example, many people hear a difference between his late-60s voice and his Sunflower-era voice, while I do not. Guess it depends on how much deterioration is required for you to decide not to call it his "old" voice anymore. In my opinion, maybe the California Feelin' demo on MIC?

Yeah I am one of those that doesn't think there was much of a change in Brian's voice  during that time.  Maybe a little bit lower, but he could still hit the high notes.  California Feelin' seems to fit the bill for me (unless there is something later).  In his solo Good Vibrations video from 1976, he can still hit the old Brian notes, but his voice is somewhat rough.  I guess that was when the decline really began. 

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

His voice was noticeably different on the 74 California Feeling, where he sounded like he did on Miu, only clearer. His vocals on 15 Big Ones and Love You were somewhat of a put-on;his voice had changed, true,but it was a bit exaggerated.  By the time MIU came out he wasnt intentionally trying to sound gruff but the deterioration was obvious and sadly permanent.

CK...you can hear a proto-76 styled vocal cameo on So Tough's He Come Down...right after the Yes I Believe It breakdown...the voice that sounds slightly like Dennis is indeed Brian (the Eeeee part). Even stranger is the fact that his higher vocal part on that song, along with his cameo on Marcella (Marcella Hey on the tag),he again sounds like 1977 Brian.

[Alan Smith]

Who produced "All I Wanna Do"? It's so different from everything else, although it is a bit similar to "Cool, Cool Water."
It's one of the most remarkable productions I've ever heard.

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,277.msg16068.html#msg16068

[Jukka]

Everyone and their mother knows that Brian wrote California Girls after taking acid for the first time. But what was the first song he wrote after being introduced to pot? Is there a detectable change there?

[Cliff1000uk]

Everyone and their mother knows that Brian wrote California Girls after taking acid for the first time. But what was the first song he wrote after being introduced to pot? Is there a detectable change there?

I'm sure I read somewhere that it was Please Let Me Wonder.
Here's the Wiki link but I've read it in print somewhere too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Let_Me_Wonder

[chrs_mrgn]

Can anyone source this track?

Is it even really Brian Wilson?

I would love to know some more information about it.

http://grooveshark.com/s/Piano+Demo/bbAFP?src=5

[alf wiedersehen]

Can anyone source this track?

Is it even really Brian Wilson?

I would love to know some more information about it.

http://grooveshark.com/s/Piano+Demo/bbAFP?src=5

There's no way that's Brian.

[Dudd]

Can anyone source this track?

Is it even really Brian Wilson?

I would love to know some more information about it.

http://grooveshark.com/s/Piano+Demo/bbAFP?src=5

I believe that's "This Isn't Love". There's a live version on the Roxy CD with Tony Asher lyrics. Not sure when it was composed...

[The Shift]

From AGD's Bellagio pages (http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/odds.html):


10/97
  Windham Hill
  019341011212      Songs Without Words
   includes "This Isn't Love" [BW]

[bringahorseinhere?]

I read somewhere that version is definitely! Brian playing!........

it sure has too many inflections of his style and playing though......

It's just gotta be.....

the ending notes however, don't sound 'Brian-esqe'

but I have the album, just not access to it at the moment...

RickB

[punkinhead]

Yeah, I've always known it as Brian playing for the Various Artists album Songs without Words.
On a similar note, I actually kinda like the version on the Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas film, in a non BW type way.

Also, didn't the riff of This Isn't Love start way back during the cocaine/hamburger sessions? I recall hearing parts of it on one of the middle tracks of the coke sessions boot.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Yeah, I've always known it as Brian playing for the Various Artists album Songs without Words.
On a similar note, I actually kinda like the version on the Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas film, in a non BW type way.

Also, didn't the riff of This Isn't Love start way back during the cocaine/hamburger sessions? I recall hearing parts of it on one of the middle tracks of the coke sessions boot.

Try listening to "You're Still A Mystery" again...

[Micha]

Best live disc IMHO is the SOT Live in Sacramento boot, especially the left stereo channel.

It has real live versions of IGA and FFF! IGA better than the studio version to me.

[punkinhead]

Yeah, I've always known it as Brian playing for the Various Artists album Songs without Words.
On a similar note, I actually kinda like the version on the Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas film, in a non BW type way.

Also, didn't the riff of This Isn't Love start way back during the cocaine/hamburger sessions? I recall hearing parts of it on one of the middle tracks of the coke sessions boot.

Try listening to "You're Still A Mystery" again...

Oh yeah? Why's that?

[The Cincinnati Kid]

Anyone know why the BB YouTube videos that had over 10 million views were all deleted around the time of the C50 tour?

[retrokid67]

Anyone know why the BB YouTube videos that had over 10 million views were all deleted around the time of the C50 tour?

that's what I was wondering too