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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: David Leaf to reissue California Myth
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on: July 13, 2022, 03:16:27 AM
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Add David Leaf to the EH board shitlist….  Mmm...not really. At least, not yet. There appears to be fallout because David has decided to bypass a visit to our fine feathered friends there after seeing how things played out with Howie. But the BBCGRS* reading is only at 4.4 at this point, as opposed to the Loma Prieta level they achieved with Howie. (The "big one," of course, occurred here, which permanently created the BB chat group version of the San Andreas Fault...) Oh, and BTW...that thread over there called "Over at Smiley" where AGD had posted a clandestine lament about the events that had transpired with Howie... has been disappeared from the board. Having had a sneaking hunch that this might happen, I made a point of copying that entry over into a Word file just in case. Here is the text: "Exactly. I've been a "hard" fan since summer 1975 and though I never thought it would happen, the events of the last few weeks/months have just sucked all the joy out of it for me. I'm close to done with this band, at least to the extent I have been. I posted my thoughts on the latest release here at the time. As for Howie, he's been doing his job, and very well: he's all over the 'net and while he's not been single-handedly responsible for the reboot hitting the Top 30, that's got to have been a factor. But, some elected to focus on individual sentences instead of the overall message, and we lost what could have been a huge asset to this forum. So he didn't post much: 396 people who've registered with this board since it began haven't posted at all. That's almost exactly half. How many posts anyone makes is a meaningless metric (look at my posting total for proof of that). I need to work out how, or if, I can make all this fun for myself again and right now, with the added joy of there being new members who seem to have come here with the express intent of stirring it, I'm not seeing it. Some will see this as a good thing, and they could well be right. Time to regroup and reconsider. Back in my 30s I had a tshirt that said "I'm too old to have to put up with all this sh*t". If only I'd known..."These are clearly the scattered, despairing laments of someone who knows that some real political damage occurred in that thread. And if I hadn't seen AGD relentlessly and remorselessly go after Lorren Daro's jugular here some years back, I'd probably be able to muster some sympathy for him, since he certainly wasn't close to being the main instigator of that firestorm. And we will continue to admire and use Bellagio10452 with the hope that all of this fallout will not cause it to disappear in a fashion similar to the post above. This isn't meant as gloating--this is all sad stuff. In the meantime, I urge those who don't want to wait for the US release of David's book to purchase it from Amazon UK in whatever format they feel they can afford. While the price for the UK print edition is certainly not cheap, I can tell you that it's worth every penny/shilling/pound/dollar and more. --- *BBCGRS = "Beach Boy Chat Group Richter Scale"As usual you are wrong. Your hunch is full of crap. The over at smiley thread has not nor never was deleted. It was moved. Moved to forum feedback. In all its glory. Save space on your computer and delete that word file. Not needed. You can find andrew’s post there anytime you wanna look. And for someone who likes to say you hate the eh board you sure seem to spend a lot of time going there. Witty you are not.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / KHJ top 30 weekly surveys
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on: June 23, 2022, 06:22:16 PM
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i have come across items some collectors may want. i have 20 of the khj weekly chart placings from December 1967 to December 1968. all have beach boy singles in khj’s boss 30 placings or their boss hitbound future hit records picks. if anyone collects stuff like this just pm me. these are free. all in excellent shape.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Sounds of Summer 6LP Announced
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on: June 18, 2022, 09:58:31 AM
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Or would you rather talk about music? It doesn't seem that way, but I hope that's why people visit these places. Throwing tantrums on 6 year old grudges and outbursts must be more appealing?
if that really is how you feel great. but you really should remove that latin phrase under your avatar post. goes against what you are preaching.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Sounds of Summer 6LP Announced
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on: June 18, 2022, 09:49:37 AM
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Just listened to the set. I like it for easy listening or background music while doing other things. I think for the average listener they will like it. I believe that is who this new edition is aimed at. Most won’t know about old mixes or even care. If this new edition turns more people onto the beach boys catalog so much the better. If this was the goal then i think mark, alan and howie hit it out of the park. Sometimes fans can over analyze something to death. The set sounds good. If one doesn’t like a mix replace it with one you do. But for the average person this set sounds good. Hope it turns more people on to the beach boys and they start exploring the catalog. That is the ultimate goal anyways. Thank you mark, alan and howie. I love the new sounds of summer. I appreciate the effort you all put into this set.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Why are the Beach Boys charting so high at the moment?
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on: June 17, 2022, 11:07:10 AM
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Plus on amazon’s digital chart the little duece coupe lp is at #51.
And amazon is now out of stock of the version of pet sounds that has been charting the past few days. That has caused pet sounds to fall over a 100 places in amazon’s chart.
I expect nothing less from Capital records Capital records has nothing to do about this. Amazon had the inventory. Amazon sold out. Even they didn’t know there would be a bigger demand for that lp. They have reordered more from Capital.
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