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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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