Our Team

[grillo]

Really learning to love this song. Reminds me of the early stuff in the good, funny ways. Is it just Al, Brian and Denny (with the girls in the background) on this one?

[Jay]

I'm pretty sure Mike is in there somewhere

[Andrew G. Doe]

Really learning to love this song. Reminds me of the early stuff in the good, funny ways. Is it just Al, Brian and Denny (with the girls in the background) on this one?

Not Dennis - this was cut at MIU, remember (12/4/77)

[grillo]

Really learning to love this song. Reminds me of the early stuff in the good, funny ways. Is it just Al, Brian and Denny (with the girls in the background) on this one?

Not Dennis - this was cut at MIU, remember (12/4/77)

so who's singing the kinda flat middle harmony on the end of the chorus "...still number OOOONNNe"? Sounds exactly like the weird Denny idea of harmony.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Really learning to love this song. Reminds me of the early stuff in the good, funny ways. Is it just Al, Brian and Denny (with the girls in the background) on this one?

Not Dennis - this was cut at MIU, remember (12/4/77)

so who's singing the kinda flat middle harmony on the end of the chorus "...still number OOOONNNe"? Sounds exactly like the weird Denny idea of harmony.

That's Brian.

[JaredLekites]

That's not Dennis singing "... for the girls in the stands and all of our fans" ? Sure as hell sounds more like him than Brian. However, their voices were rather similar at the time. Just my ears playing tricks on me, I guess. It sounds like a line Dennis would sing.

Dennis does have a co-writing credit on the tune... but so does the rest of the group.

EDIT:
Listening to it now, the only voices I can place at the forefront are multi-tracked Alan and Brian.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Once again, it's Brian - there's an adenoidal quality that Dennis never had. Compare his vocal for "My Diane", recorded at roughtly the same time.

[Mooger Fooger]

On the film made during the recording of "Our Team" (called incidentally "Our Team") Dennis is nowhere to be seen. He is only seen on the segment featuring his vocal recording for "My Diane"

[JaredLekites]

Once again, it's Brian - there's an adenoidal quality that Dennis never had. Compare his vocal for "My Diane", recorded at roughtly the same time.

Yup, no doubt about it.

[grillo]

Really learning to love this song. Reminds me of the early stuff in the good, funny ways. Is it just Al, Brian and Denny (with the girls in the background) on this one?

Not Dennis - this was cut at MIU, remember (12/4/77)

so who's singing the kinda flat middle harmony on the end of the chorus "...still number OOOONNNe"? Sounds exactly like the weird Denny idea of harmony.

That's Brian.

Even though all signs point to you being correct Andrew, it still sounds EXACTLY like Dennis during the end of the chorus. With all the different vocal things happening isn't  it maybe possible Denny jumps in there?  The weirdest part is it sounds like the out-of-tune dennis from 15 years earlier, like how he sounds at the end of 'So Young', but I guess Brian's voice and ear were pretty flat during this era, so...
Definitely BW on 'the girls in the stands' though.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Really learning to love this song. Reminds me of the early stuff in the good, funny ways. Is it just Al, Brian and Denny (with the girls in the background) on this one?

Not Dennis - this was cut at MIU, remember (12/4/77)

so who's singing the kinda flat middle harmony on the end of the chorus "...still number OOOONNNe"? Sounds exactly like the weird Denny idea of harmony.

That's Brian.

Even though all signs point to you being correct Andrew, it still sounds EXACTLY like Dennis during the end of the chorus. With all the different vocal things happening isn't  it maybe possible Denny jumps in there?  The weirdest part is it sounds like the out-of-tune dennis from 15 years earlier, like how he sounds at the end of 'So Young', but I guess Brian's voice and ear were pretty flat during this era, so...
Definitely BW on 'the girls in the stands' though.

According to the AFM sheets, Dennis did pay a flying visit to MIU, as he's listed  as playing drums on a early session for "She's Got Rhythm". The sessions for "SGR" are dated 11/7, 11/14 & 12/3. "Our Team" was recorded 11/15 & 12/4, thus it is unlikely in the extreme that Dennis was on any vocal session for it. And aside from that - it doesn't sound like Dennis circa 1977. To say it might be him on the basis that "it sounds like the out-of-tune Dennis from 15 years earlier", that is 1962, is quite the silliest thing I've read on this board this year. Come ON ! That's like saying it can't be Brian on Love You because he doesn't sound the way he did on Surfin' Safari.

[grillo]

Really learning to love this song. Reminds me of the early stuff in the good, funny ways. Is it just Al, Brian and Denny (with the girls in the background) on this one?

Not Dennis - this was cut at MIU, remember (12/4/77)

so who's singing the kinda flat middle harmony on the end of the chorus "...still number OOOONNNe"? Sounds exactly like the weird Denny idea of harmony.

That's Brian.

Even though all signs point to you being correct Andrew, it still sounds EXACTLY like Dennis during the end of the chorus. With all the different vocal things happening isn't  it maybe possible Denny jumps in there?  The weirdest part is it sounds like the out-of-tune dennis from 15 years earlier, like how he sounds at the end of 'So Young', but I guess Brian's voice and ear were pretty flat during this era, so...
Definitely BW on 'the girls in the stands' though.

According to the AFM sheets, Dennis did pay a flying visit to MIU, as he's listed  as playing drums on a early session for "She's Got Rhythm". The sessions for "SGR" are dated 11/7, 11/14 & 12/3. "Our Team" was recorded 11/15 & 12/4, thus it is unlikely in the extreme that Dennis was on any vocal session for it. And aside from that - it doesn't sound like Dennis circa 1977. To say it might be him on the basis that "it sounds like the out-of-tune Dennis from 15 years earlier", that is 1962, is quite the silliest thing I've read on this board this year. Come ON ! That's like saying it can't be Brian on Love You because he doesn't sound the way he did on Surfin' Safari.

What can I say, I'm a silly guy. I was trying to say you must be right and the evidence for that is that it sounds like Denny from way back, therefore it can't be the then contemporary Dennis, DESPITE that fact. Did that make sense?
Anyway, point conceded.

[JaredLekites]

As I mentioned earlier, this thread inspired me to give it a real good listen and the only voices I hear on this track (barring the background cheers) belong to Alan and Brian. Alan is really good at overdubbing and harmonizing with himself (as he did for most of "Come Go With Me"). Brian sounds like he's really getting into the song on this one; a rare moment of joy in one of his unhappiest years.

[Jay]

In the Our Team documentary, Brian seems at the top of his game, directing people and just seeming to have a great time overall. There is a nice scene with Brian goofing around with Mike. It seems like they're all having a good time. Except Carl, who looks depressed and bummed out throughout the film.

[gsmile]

This documentary sounds awesome!  If only I knew where to view it.  Guess I'll have to Ponder More...

[Jay]

The highlight is when you get to hear "Mike Come Back To LA". 

[Andrew G. Doe]

This documentary sounds awesome!  If only I knew where to view it.  Guess I'll have to Ponder More...

Said doc is, for some odd reason, not too easy to, ah, access. With one exception, all copies I've seen over the course of some 25-30 years were, at best, poor 3rd/4th generation copies that looked like an animated cubist painting. Someone can pick me up on this if I'm wrong, but I think it was established that the clip in it of Dennis doing a vocal for "My Diane" was actually shot in Seattle's Kaye Smith studio, December 13th 1977.

[Jay]

The quality on my copy sucks. The audio during the concert scenes sounds like a terrible audience tape buried in distortion and hiss.

[slothrop]

I love this song--should've been on MIU for sure. Why two covers and yet not this great song?

[Jason]

"We look like we know what we're doin' when they ask us to play, only takes two or three minutes to warm up and give it our best and beat all the rest..."

The older you get and the more bullshit you learn about the Beach Boys, this lyric is probably the ultimate irony.

[urbanite]

I thought Dennis played those awesome drums on Peggy Sue.

[RONDEMON]

Id LOVE to see this documentary. Not on YouTube or anything??

[Andrew G. Doe]

I thought Dennis played those awesome drums on Peggy Sue.

He did. In 1976, during the 15 Big Ones sessions.

[18thofMay]

Any more gems out there like this with Brian really into the song?? Mid late 70's stuff I am talking!

[Jason]

Drip Drop.