Think The Beach Boys were a bunch of sun tanned All-American goodies who sang about cars and girls? Think again. This clip from 1971 proves that Nixon was right: this country NEEDED some law & order! Is it any wonder the Old Man freaked out when he was surrounded by people like this?
Released on their 1970 album Sunflower, “It’s About Time” will rattle your head like Mike Love’s rattling that tambourine!
Brian Wilson at The Sage
Gateshead, England, July 12, 2009
Glorious Noise photographer David Wala was the only person granted a photo pass for this show. “It was a privilege to hear all these songs live,” says Wala. “The gig ran like clockwork with an intermission. The crowd loved it—the highlight of the summer at Gateshead Sage.”
More photos after the jump…
Video: Rivers Cuomo – “Don’t Worry Baby”
Hadn’t seen this before. The Weezer frontman performs the classic Beach Boys song for Stereogum’s video series of stripped down, acoustic sessions. You can also find his solo cover of this song on Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.
Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy Edition) (Sony Legacy)
Sony Legacy has lovingly reissued an album that is considered by many to be a lost classic. The first solo release by a member of the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson‘s Pacific Ocean Blue was originally released in 1977, and while it received positive reviews, it peaked at #96 on the album charts, spawned no hit singles, and quickly fell out of print. Dennis Wilson drowned in 1983 after years of struggling with substance abuse.
So is the album any good? To find out, GLONO founder Derek Phillips and I located ourselves at opposite wings of GLONO headquarters, pressed “play” at the same time, and instant messaged our reactions to each other.
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Dennis Wilson‘s solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue, out of print since a crappy 1991 CD version, is being reissued on June 17 as a two-disc legacy edition with 24 unreleased bonus tracks (plus “All Alone” which was included on the Endless Harmony soundtrack). This is exciting news for Beach Boys fans and MOJO readers, as Pacific Ocean Blue is widely considered a lost classic and “the best solo album ever released by a Beach Boy.”
One weird thing about the reissue is that it contains one song (“Holy Man”) with a newly recorded vocal track by Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters. Buddyhead talked to reissue producer Gregg Jakobson about how this came about:
Taylor was in town, a fan of Dennis’s. He’s also a family friend and interestingly enough has the same gravely, whisky, smokers voice as Den. They sound very much alike. We were in the studio mixing the Holy Man track, Taylor comes down to the studio, we hammer out a lyric, Taylor sings it. Perfect! It was meant to be. Destiny.
Buddyhead adds that Hawkins is also “a bearded surfing drummer just like Dennis.” So there you have it.
Official site: Pacific Ocean Blue. Pre-order from Amazon. Buddyhead has a couple mp3s and videos. Full press release after the jump…
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The lead, of course, is required to include a reference to “good vibrations” being restored. Settlement Reached In Beach Boys Name Dispute:
The agreement, reached on Wednesday after two days of talks mediated by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, put to rest years of litigation that strained relations among members of the group that defined the California surf sound of the 1960s.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But lawyers suggested the amicable nature of the settlement could pave the way for a long-awaited reunion of the band’s three surviving co-founders — Brian Wilson, cousin Mike Love and Al Jardine.
So the question now is: can anything good come of this?
MP3: Beach Boys – “The Warmth of the Sun” from Shut Down, Vol. 2.
Intriguing Weezer/Beach Boys similarities: “Pet Sounds was released in 1966, Pinkerton in 1996. Both albums were not commercially successful and dismissed by fans of the bands’ earlier works. After many years, both albums have grown in stature to the point where they’re considered each band’s best album. And both titles are 9 letters long and start with “P.” Both albums have Japanese women on the back covers.”
This makes the Kennedy/Lincoln thing seem credible.
I’m A Genius, Too! The Murry Wilson Tapes – Listen to The Beach Boys’ dad drunkenly berate them in the studio: the complete 40 minute version (36 MB) and a 12 minute edit (11 MB). Via bb.
Don’t believe the hype – The Guardian slams the Strokes, James Brown, the Clash, Pet Sounds, the Stone Roses and lots of other rock icons.
I just picked up last year’s re-release of Pet Sounds and found something interesting in the liner notes (written by Brian Wilson biographer David Leaf):
…Well, Brian hadn’t quite yet formulated his ambitious plans when, in the late summer of 1965, Capitol Records predictably demanded that he come up with more Beach Boys “product” in time for the crucial Christmas buying season. Acquiescing to the company for the last time, Brian was forced to temporarily abandon his musical laboratory and maturing point-of-view to squeeze out one last record in the Beach Boys style, a formula he was just about to completely abandon.
That September, going into the studio for a “live” jam session, the group recorded Beach Boys Party!, their 11th album in four years and a “throwaway” record which yielded the #2 smash Barbara Ann, ironically a more successful single than anything from Pet Sounds…
Eleven albums in four years? That’s about one every four months. And we moan and groan about how the music industry exploits artists in this era! Just as Trent Lott showed us, little has changed in the past 40 years.
Enjoy your “crucial” season.
