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Post by carllove on Apr 5, 2024 22:24:14 GMT
I ordered it this morning, got $7.00 off on Amazon, along with another $5.00 since I used my Chase Amazon Visa rewards. It arrived 30 minutes ago. Ready to dive in!
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Post by carllove on Apr 5, 2024 22:57:07 GMT
Oh wow - the photos in this book are awesome! You have to get this, if you are a fan! The book is huge and packed with so many images I have never seen before. What an awesome buy. So much to take in.
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Post by carllove on Apr 6, 2024 0:09:29 GMT
I’m loving these photos!
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Post by carllove on Apr 6, 2024 0:20:21 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 6, 2024 0:30:31 GMT
I'm not usually all that into photos, but I have to agree. I've never seen a lot of the photos here, and some are really fantastic.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 11, 2024 23:38:52 GMT
It took me a while to notice this, but it was throwing me off just a bit throughout.
There is something strange about reading quotes from this California band, arguably the American band, spelled according to British conventions! Of course, Genesis Publications is a British company, so it makes sense. But seeing the likes of Mike Love and Brian Wilson saying "favourite," etc., throws me for a loop!
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 23, 2024 15:28:55 GMT
Occasionally little quotes from this book jump out at me for better or worse ... and this one, for worse. Sometimes I find Bruce insufferable, every bit as much as I do Mike.
In the section about his leaving the Beach Boys in the Rieley era, he says--or at least Edelson's reconstruction from source material has him say--"Leaving the band was the platinum period of my life. I wrote songs, I earned a Song of the Year Grammy, I met my wife and started a family. Recently, I wrote, arranged, sang, and co-produced a track on the Weeknd's album Dawn FM. Thanks to being around Mike and Brian's songwriting, and Brian's production talent, I gained some useful skills over the years!" (p317)
How in the hell does a single song he gave a vocal part to in the early 2020s fit, not only in the section about his leaving the Beach Boys 50 years prior, but in what is supposed to be the Beach Boys book at all? How will that quote age? It'll look like every other pathetic attempt to seem current through the years. But Bruce (and Edelson) apparently felt it had to be shoehorned in.
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Post by lonelysummer on Apr 26, 2024 1:31:20 GMT
Occasionally little quotes from this book jump out at me for better or worse ... and this one, for worse. Sometimes I find Bruce insufferable, every bit as much as I do Mike. In the section about his leaving the Beach Boys in the Rieley era, he says--or at least Edelson's reconstruction from source material has him say--"Leaving the band was the platinum period of my life. I wrote songs, I earned a Song of the Year Grammy, I met my wife and started a family. Recently, I wrote, arranged, sang, and co-produced a track on the Weeknd's album Dawn FM. Thanks to being around Mike and Brian's songwriting, and Brian's production talent, I gained some useful skills over the years!" (p317) How in the hell does a single song he gave a vocal part to in the early 2020s fit, not only in the section about his leaving the Beach Boys 50 years prior, but in what is supposed to be the Beach Boys book at all? How will that quote age? It'll look like every other pathetic attempt to seem current through the years. But Bruce (and Edelson) apparently felt it had to be shoehorned in. It's very much out of place for a book that only goes up to 1980. I mean, is there any mention at all of Carl's solo career? Brian's long awaited first solo album in 1988? Yeah, very strange.
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Post by lonelysummer on May 10, 2024 21:20:57 GMT
I got a copy from my library. It's not quite as YUGE as that Beatles Anthology book (I never did make it all the way through that one, it was so cumbersome!). Very nice layout, great photos; it would be nice to have a date for the various quotes, though. I recognize a lot of Brian's comments from various interviews. I've probably read most of Carl's and Dennis' before, too. Still, I can't get away from the disappointment of having it end in 1980. There's a lot of history after that - not nearly as much group recording; maybe they just thought it would be difficult to cover those years without getting into the solo stuff, although POB does get a page of its own. It's a nice coffee table tome, but the definitive BB bio has yet to be written.
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Post by Kapitan on May 10, 2024 21:25:44 GMT
it would be nice to have a date for the various quotes, though. That would be nice, but also tricky: from what I understood from his interviews about it, the quotes were basically Frankenstein's monsters of Howie Edelson's making. He used new interviews that he did as well as assorted old interviews and created responses that in some cases may blend multiple different quotes from multiple different interviews spanning however-long to create them. (It's my biggest pet peeve of the book.)
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Post by Kapitan on May 10, 2024 21:29:09 GMT
It's not quite as YUGE as that Beatles Anthology book (I never did make it all the way through that one, it was so cumbersome!). It's actually about 50 pages longer than the Beatles book, but it's also not quite as big in terms of dimensions. I'd be curious as to the word counts of each. It seems to me that the Beatles book had more text, but I wouldn't swear to it.
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Post by lonelysummer on May 10, 2024 21:39:46 GMT
It's not quite as YUGE as that Beatles Anthology book (I never did make it all the way through that one, it was so cumbersome!). It's actually about 50 pages longer than the Beatles book, but it's also not quite as big in terms of dimensions. I'd be curious as to the word counts of each. It seems to me that the Beatles book had more text, but I wouldn't swear to it. No, whatever you do, don't swear! My mother would have to wash your mouth out with soap!
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Post by Kapitan on May 10, 2024 21:44:15 GMT
It's actually about 50 pages longer than the Beatles book, but it's also not quite as big in terms of dimensions. I'd be curious as to the word counts of each. It seems to me that the Beatles book had more text, but I wouldn't swear to it. No, whatever you do, don't swear! My mother would have to wash your mouth out with soap! I'm probably among the youngest people in America whose mother literally did wash out his mouth with soap! I can't even remember what I said, but I had my mouth washed out with soap when I was a young kid, maybe 5-6 (so like 1981-82?).
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Post by lonelysummer on May 11, 2024 5:13:56 GMT
No, whatever you do, don't swear! My mother would have to wash your mouth out with soap! I'm probably among the youngest people in America whose mother literally did wash out his mouth with soap! I can't even remember what I said, but I had my mouth washed out with soap when I was a young kid, maybe 5-6 (so like 1981-82?). I remember mom saying that to my brother, but I don't remember if she actually did it or not! She could have washed dad's mouth out, too. One day, my brother was out in the shop, repairing a bicycle, and something slipped and he cut his finger and yelled out "g--d---it!" Dad came running out there and shouted "g---d----it, did I hear you say g---d----it!" Of course the best response would have been "yes, g---d---it, I said g----d---it, you m---f----er!"
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