Next they need to use AI to write imitation Beach Boys songs.

I wish people would stop dying. I'm getting sick of it all.

That was a great video!

I would think that if he was still alive, he would have been hearing rumors about his death, then he or somebody related or close to him would somehow have come out by now and said, somewhere, "Hey, no he's not dead!" The fact there's been nothing like that (that we've heard) would seem to indicate to me it's true. Maybe.

I just noticed he had a Wikipedia article which hadn't been updated with his death. So I fixed it.

RIP.

Brian's tribute:
https://twitter.com/BrianWilsonLive/status/1616202967530541070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1616202967530541070%7Ctwgr%5E210f45f963ab43e607c38f550c73849482ca2be8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fjason-isbell-brian-wilson-billy-231813751.html

Gargantuan CSN fan in high school. Dave was one of my faves. RIP Dave.

HBVDP!

I enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing!

Here is a very interesting video from a jazz pianist who only recently discovered the complexity of Beach Boys music:

https://youtu.be/zaa-4JgSsKM

That one was great.

Recently I discovered a similar Youtuber who is a Classical harpist and pianist (and who appears to know some jazz too) but knew next to no pop music. So a friend of hers challenged her to listen to some stuff and analyze it. She did This Whole World here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LEmAUtzSb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVXthdb8SPw

That's her actual, real first name, lol.

This is kind of a weird thread, in that it's really just a promotion. Hope topics like this are OK.

Anyway, I recently found out about this woman - she's from Iceland and has a great voice and great songwriting skills. Does a lot of jazzy stuff.

Her Youtube channel is here:
https://www.youtube.com/@laufey/videos

If you want to hear just 2 songs to give you a quick idea, check out these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26H76PJWnmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_McR5v_XEc

I suppose I don't get BB songs stuck in my head as often as some other stuff, but I do on occasion get them stuck anyway.

Haha that is great!!!!

Great job! I really like the talking at the very beginning. Nice lead-in to the music.

Happy birthday Al!

Sounds great!

BTW, something I've always wondered ... whose voice is it who says, "You're under arrest"?

I'll be a good boy for now and just leave it at this: it's like this nearly everywhere now. I was going through downtown Vancouver, WA a couple days ago and saw the same thing I saw in Portland, OR: homeless camps everywhere, tent, trash, etc. Even the small rural towns have it now. It's very sad.

I was in Grant's Pass OR a few years ago and was surprised at how many homeless people there were for such a small city.

Sorry for the stupid thread but I noticed three different Beach Boys albums are in the top 50 of itunes at the moment. Also charting very high on amazon. Did I miss something?

It's summer, and people want to listen to summer-y music. Kinda like how Christmas music starts topping the charts after Thanksgiving.

I think I've noticed the BB's going up in the charts during previous summers.

I missed it! Happy birthday!

I read somewhere that Bruce Springsteen spent 6 months working JUST on the song Born to Run. Imagine going to the studio every day for 6 months just to work on ONE song. Over and over again. You'd get sick of it before it's even completed.

I never noticed there was vibrato in Brian's voice until I watched this.