Brianisms Appreciation Thread

[Wirestone]

I dunno ... the collaboration thing with Brian is tough because there are two different pushes. One is to credit Brian to the max, the still-genius guy, etc. That's what his people want. But there's also a push for his collaborators to use him to further their own names or careers (Andy Paley being the most recent and unfortunate example). The truth often falls in the middle, and it's especially hard when someone is writing something that's a tribute to Brian's style (like that "Standing Tall" original version). So Brian comes along, changes a few things, adds a vocal arrangement -- how much of a co-write is that? On one hand, he contributed little, but on the other hand, the original writer is using Brian's style (or earlier songs) as a template. See also the title track to "That's Why God Made the Radio" and "Soul Searchin."

[runnersdialzero]

Same, thus why I (sadly) switched back from the Mother 3 avatar to the Hello Kitty avatar. Like, it's a totally different person. Where's Wirestone? What happened to him? Oh wait, he switched avatars.

Edit: Interesting timing, Stoney ;(

[Pretty Funky]

Santa Barbara, CA 5/28/12

"Could you stop bouncing the beach balls?  Stop bouncing the beach balls please...."


and


Interviewer. 'Brian, whats going through your mind when you sing I Just Wasn't Made For These Times?'
Brian. 'Nothing, it just comes out of my throat.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9VY3zbCt24

Thank God!

Brian: "I don't know what you Ya-Whoo's do at Mikey and Brucie concerts, but this is a concert in 2012...not a Getcha Back video"

Gotta have a source for this beauty! Surely a joke post?

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Don't be ign'ant, bgas.        

i will lie awake and lie for fun and bake a cake

It's so weird, when someone changes their avatar or name, I feel like it's a whole new person.

I know, right? ^_^

[Dunderhead]

Don't be ign'ant, bgas.        

i will lie awake and lie for fun and bake a cake

It's so weird, when someone changes their avatar or name, I feel like it's a whole new person.

I know, right? ^_^

oh but william, I'd know you anywhere!

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

[Rocker]

Giving Mike a song called "Spring vacation" to write lyrics to. That has to be one of the greatest Brianism's...

[SMiLE Brian]

Giving Mike a song called "Spring vacation" to write lyrics to. That has to be one of the greatest Brianism's...

Classic Brian put-on, letting Mike stay lost in the endless summer.

[punkinhead]

Santa Barbara, CA 5/28/12

"Could you stop bouncing the beach balls?  Stop bouncing the beach balls please...."


and


Interviewer. 'Brian, whats going through your mind when you sing I Just Wasn't Made For These Times?'
Brian. 'Nothing, it just comes out of my throat.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9VY3zbCt24

Thank God!

Brian: "I don't know what you Ya-Whoo's do at Mikey and Brucie concerts, but this is a concert in 2012...not a Getcha Back video"

Gotta have a source for this beauty! Surely a joke post?

idk what you took from the joke but the quote was made up by me but there's a certain video of Getcha Back that has one too many beach balls being tossed and hitting the guys while they perform. Jeff F gets hit dead on...the video is from the mid-80s.

[Ron]

There's also a famous one, where Carl is singing "God Only Knows" at the front of the stage.  A bunch of girls are crying and screaming in the front row, doing girly things.  Brian, clearly unamused, gets up, hurries to the front and says something like "COULD YOU SHUT THE HELL UP, HE'S TRYING TO SING"

[runnersdialzero]

There's also a famous one, where Carl is singing "God Only Knows" at the front of the stage.  A bunch of girls are crying and screaming in the front row, doing girly things.  Brian, clearly unamused, gets up, hurries to the front and says something like "COULD YOU SHUT THE HELL UP, HE'S TRYING TO SING"

Please tell me there's video of this.

[Dunderhead]

There's also a famous one, where Carl is singing "God Only Knows" at the front of the stage.  A bunch of girls are crying and screaming in the front row, doing girly things.  Brian, clearly unamused, gets up, hurries to the front and says something like "COULD YOU SHUT THE HELL UP, HE'S TRYING TO SING"

Please tell me there's video of this.

I think it's during the 1967 Hawaii show, but I could be wrong about that.

[Rocker]

There's also a famous one, where Carl is singing "God Only Knows" at the front of the stage.  A bunch of girls are crying and screaming in the front row, doing girly things.  Brian, clearly unamused, gets up, hurries to the front and says something like "COULD YOU SHUT THE HELL UP, HE'S TRYING TO SING"

Please tell me there's video of this.

I think it's during the 1967 Hawaii show, but I could be wrong about that.

Yeah, it's from one of the two shows. I don't think though that Brian got up and walked to the front. I haven't listened to it in a long time but it sounds like he was yelling it into his microphone while still sitting at the organ

[SloopJohnB]

There's also a famous one, where Carl is singing "God Only Knows" at the front of the stage.  A bunch of girls are crying and screaming in the front row, doing girly things.  Brian, clearly unamused, gets up, hurries to the front and says something like "COULD YOU SHUT THE HELL UP, HE'S TRYING TO SING"

"HE'S SINGIN', COOL IT!"

[punkinhead]

There's also a famous one, where Carl is singing "God Only Knows" at the front of the stage.  A bunch of girls are crying and screaming in the front row, doing girly things.  Brian, clearly unamused, gets up, hurries to the front and says something like "COULD YOU SHUT THE HELL UP, HE'S TRYING TO SING"

"HE'S SINGIN', COOL IT!"

Yep, that's what he yelled.

[runnersdialzero]

Picturing a bearded late 70s Brian getting up and screaming "COULD YOU SHUT THE HELL UP, HE'S TRYING TO SING" painted a far more amusing picture than this. ;(

[Aegir]

It's even funnier if you picture him juggling.

[Rocker]

TheDumbAngel posed this in the picture thread. Question about "favorite groups" and "individual singers" totally Brianisms !! 

[Amy B.]

Brian has hazel eyes? What publicist wrote this up?
Thanks for posting, though. Do you have the rest of the group?

[Rocker]

Thanks for posting, though. Do you have the rest of the group?

No, sorry. As mentioned, I didn't post this originally but TheDumbAngel over in the picture-thread in the media section

[rn57]

The Bruce & Brian questionaire is from 16 magazine, published in the fall of '66. Another issue of 16 from around that time had questionaires filled out by Al and Mike. All four of these were quoted on another thread here about five years ago. If Carl and Dennis had ones published they don't seem to be on the board.

Brian's liking The Twilight Zone - wonder what his fave episodes would be - kind of ties in with his saying in the 1990s that Mirage was his favorite movie. I saw Mirage back in the '70s on TV - it stars Gregory Peck and Diane Baker, and Walter Matthau plays an amusingly goofy detective. George Kennedy goes around killing people with his halitosis. (That, for those of you who came of age after 1990, refers to an old ad campaign he did.)

Al's questionaire is worth looking at. He says his fave male singer is Bobby Goldsboro! He also says his favorite male actor is Richard Dunn. I don't know who this would be - IMDB shows there was a guy with that name who appeared in some very small roles in movies and TV in the '40s and '50s but no one else more prominent is listed there.  Maybe he was Al's cousin or something.

[The Dumb Angel]

TheDumbAngel posed this in the picture thread. Question about "favorite groups" and "individual singers" totally Brianisms !! 

Gotta love his answer for 'Home Info'. 

"It's furnished in 'Brian-Modern'. A mixture of everything."

[EgoHanger1966]

New one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ShwBvpnew

Al: "We were recording Wouldn't It Be Nice, Good Vibrations and a host of other songs simultaneously..."

Brian: "And Barbara Ann!!!!!"

Al:"Noo, different time."

Even Mike cracked up.

[Pretty Funky]

Also from the CNN story. Mike joking but ohhh so true.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/14/world/asia/hong-kong-beach-boys-stout/index.html

Love and Jardine then take to a small nearby stage and strike up an impromptu version of "California Girls" (with Al on bass and Mike doing vocals). Johnston then appears out of nowhere to play the piano.

But where was Wilson?

"Off to a buffet somewhere," quips Love with a smile.

[Gohi]

Awww, Al correcting Brian made me sad.