Random internet junk

[Emily]

OK. I'm looking for little detaily things about the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. So, I'm ending up at random BB-related things on the internet, some of which I find amusing or interesting or both. I've been putting them in "Random Questions" but they're piling up, so I thought I'd start a new thread for random BB-related internet junk, just in case someone's interested in little trivia but doesn't have as much time on their hands as I do right now.

Here's one that's strange and I found amusing:
http://kingsleytellsall.blogspot.com/
Listen to this, John Stamos... Lies told by Brian Wilson

[Emily]

While wandering around the internet looking for random crumbs about the Beach Boys, I came across Dale Reed, who says he built Dennis' Cobra and he had to go to Brian for the money. No more info in this thread, but he was apparently not professionally building cars at that time, so maybe he knew the Wilsons?
Has anyone met him, talked to him?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3332873/posts
He chimes in at post 18.


Another random little find, perhaps widely known, I don't know:
https://books.google.com/books?id=5-Nx8AUNAHIC&pg=PT159&lpg=PT159&dq=brian+wilson+fur+coat&source=bl&ots=DTIseaL-ZG&sig=7N-PClo4K5R6ibWM2KZkRYbHtCs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFgQ6AEwDmoVChMI5t_1jNiIyQIVQRU-Ch1yrw6Q#v=onepage&q=brian%20wilson&f=false

Brian Wilson attends an "all-night studio party" at which the Rolling Stones record "Goin' Home" during the second week of December '65.
One page earlier talks about the Stones attending the Dec. 4 acid test in San Jose. Brian Jones was tripping pretty much constantly at this time, with Keith Richards participating heavily.

[Smilin Ed H]

OK. I'm looking for little detaily things about the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. So, I'm ending up at random BB-related things on the internet, some of which I find amusing or interesting or both. I've been putting them in "Random Questions" but they're piling up, so I thought I'd start a new thread for random BB-related internet junk, just in case someone's interested in little trivia but doesn't have as much time on their hands as I do right now.

Here's one that's strange and I found amusing:
http://kingsleytellsall.blogspot.com/
Listen to this, John Stamos... Lies told by Brian Wilson

That was seriously tiresome, man.

[Emily]

ok. Sorry about that. I got a few laughs.
Anything on the Dennis Wilson guy?

[Emily]

I've done a search and not found this on the board, though I did see a few threads of people asking where they could find it (quite a while ago) -  so here's a link to Sean Lennon's interview of Brian Wilson. Sorry if it's already here somewhere.
http://www.brianwilson.com/imagination/

[Sjöman]

Emily, you can post bare URLs. So you can fix the link by removing the [img] tags.

[The Shift]

I've done a search and not found this on the board, though I did see a few threads of people asking where they could find it (quite a while ago) -  so here's a link to Sean Lennon's interview of Brian Wilson. Sorry if it's already here somewhere.
http://www.brianwilson.com/imagination/

I miss the days when I had time to trawl the web for this kind of thing! Hope you're enjoying the adventure Emily!

[Emily]

Emily, you can post bare URLs. So you can fix the link by removing the [img] tags.

Thanks. I must've accidentally clicked image instead of hyperlink. Good to know I don't need to do either!

[Smilin Ed H]

ok. Sorry about that. I got a few laughs.
Anything on the Dennis Wilson guy?

Sorry. Didn't mean to sound so rude.

[Emily]

ok. Sorry about that. I got a few laughs.
Anything on the Dennis Wilson guy?

Sorry. Didn't mean to sound so rude.

It's quite alright. I'm sure I sound much ruder than I intend 90% of the time. 

[Sandy Baby]

From yesterday, 11/11/15 Veterans Day, you can see Brian's name on the marquee at about 00:52    --
http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/waukegan--illinois--and-towns-across-america-remember-its-veterans-564813891736

(Re:  http://www.geneseetheatre.com/events/detail/brian-wilson-with-special-guest-al-jardine )

[Emily]

From yesterday, 11/11/15 Veterans Day, you can see Brian's name on the marquee at about 00:52    --
http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/waukegan--illinois--and-towns-across-america-remember-its-veterans-564813891736

(Re:  http://www.geneseetheatre.com/events/detail/brian-wilson-with-special-guest-al-jardine )

Nice catch!

[Emily]

From this site (https://theamazingkornyfonelabel.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/3626-the-beatles-l-s-bumble-bee/),
Dudley Moore and Peter Cook recorded LS Bumblebee to mimic the Beach Boys sonically rather than the Beatles. The site quotes Dudley Moore:
Dudley Moore wrote a letter on 15th December 1981 in which he said:

"Regarding “The L.S. Bumble Bee”, Peter Cook and I recorded that song about the time when there was so much fuss about L.S.D., and when everybody thought that “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” was a reference to drugs. The exciting alternative offered to the world was L.S.B.!, and I wrote the music to, in some ways, satirize the Beach Boys rather than the Beatles. But I’m grateful if some small part of the world thinks that it may have been them, rather than us !”

The vocals are way off and just way too English mod, but the instrumental arrangement and the very occasional vocal flourish are Pet Sounds-like and at times even Smilesque (or Smiley Smilesque).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GvkyxzqqIc

eta, if you follow the link on the site, you will get the whole album of sessions on youtube. If you're a beatle fan, you might enjoy it.

[Emily]

Awesome Romanian fans discussing Brian's punk pajamas:
http://forum.softpedia.com/topic/919764-unde-pot-gasi-pantaloni-asemanatori/

translated:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.softpedia.com%2Ftopic%2F919764-unde-pot-gasi-pantaloni-asemanatori%2F&edit-text=&act=url


well - one not so awesome. 

[The Old Master Painter]

OK. I'm looking for little detaily things about the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. So, I'm ending up at random BB-related things on the internet, some of which I find amusing or interesting or both. I've been putting them in "Random Questions" but they're piling up, so I thought I'd start a new thread for random BB-related internet junk, just in case someone's interested in little trivia but doesn't have as much time on their hands as I do right now.

Here's one that's strange and I found amusing:
http://kingsleytellsall.blogspot.com/
Listen to this, John Stamos... Lies told by Brian Wilson

This is comedy gold!!! 

[Emily]

In this Beatles press conference from August 1966, at 5:40, Paul McCartney tries really hard to get "Beach Boys" heard.
Also, note a pre-mustache David Crosby lurking by the curtain stage right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NGkl2OkNWM

[Sandy Baby]

Van Dyke Parks radio interview (recorded October 10, 2015):  http://www.livewireradio.org/content/back-basics-ruth-reichl-jackie-kashian-and-van-dyke-parks

[Pretty Funky]

Opportunity to tell your BW/BB fan stories here...

http://rockandrollnetwork.com/

Is this the same 'Professor' who posts here by chance?

[Sandy Baby]

The Beach Boys were briefly mentioned in the beginning of Episode 19 (must use app):   http://abc.go.com/shows/dr-ken/episode-guide/season-01/19-kens-an-expert-witness   

[You Kane, You Commanded, You Conquered]

SMiLE's cancellation now has its own Wikipedia article. Yay?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Smile

[Andrew G. Doe]

Interesting, if occasionally woefully inaccurate.

[Emily]

I was reading this for a completely un-Beach Boys-related reason when I came across this:

"He hated dealing with some of the people like [Brian Wilson's father] Murry, who he found extremely manipulative."

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/long-amp-winding-life-exec-proud-signing-beatles-classical-loved-yeah-yeah-yeah-article-1.771819