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Post by Kapitan on Aug 18, 2021 23:32:39 GMT
While the DVD has been sitting in dusty company somewhere, the Imagination "documentary" was recommended by the AI gods on youtube, and I've been watching it just now. So many thoughts and memories!
Jim Peterik, if I am right in my identification, has spectacular hair.
The concert is so weird, with the awkward videos of Brian awkwardly doing harmonies (presumably) to normalize for the audience the presence of a dozen BW vocal parts?
Thinking how young Brian sounds, and immediately realizing how around that time I thought about how old Brian sounded.
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Post by kds on Jan 18, 2022 14:56:24 GMT
Over the weekend, I finally watched this for the first time.
It's an interesting EPK for the Imagination album. And it also has a lot of the same BW talking points that we've all heard before.
I agree that the concert footage is somewhat strange, with the Brian heads on the big screen.
I enjoyed the segment on South American with Buffett. I like how Buffett said "I learned it, that special Beach Boys secret...but I'm not telling."
But, overall, it's worth watching if you like the Imagination album.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 18, 2022 15:02:19 GMT
One thing I never liked about it, and still don't, is some of Sean Lennon's parts. Now, I know Sean really adores Brian, and I've come to respect him more and more. (He actually comes across as a very smart and interesting person now.)
But when he says something like how the Beach Boys were doing "major sevenths, minor sevenths, minor nines, that was way ahead of everyone else," it drives me insane. Yes, extensions are more advanced than your most basic blues-rock music. But sevenths? Not really... Whatever was advanced about Brian's writing and arranging, the use of seventh or ninth chords was not it. In the end, I feel like that kind of comment just makes the talking head look dumb, and makes people who know nothing about music think "wow, yeah, he IS a genius!"
Kind of like Don Was in the newest doc, making an idiot of himself as he marvels incorrectly at instrument pairings.
I've often wondered what Sean thinks of his comments now.
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