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Post by kds on Mar 18, 2021 14:30:53 GMT
"Larry and I have been working on this project, which we affectionately call “Waves of Love 2.0.” There’s a “Waves of Love” on an album, A Postcard from California, that I released a number of years ago—it is also going to be re-released on UMG this coming September. “Waves of Love” was originally a bonus track on that album. So folks are getting a sample of the East Coast version."
Al: please stop with "Waves of Love," already. No amount of fiddling will make it more than ok/mediocre.
That's The Beach Boys way.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 6, 2021 17:25:06 GMT
New interview with Don Randi from the Sunset Sound recording studio channel. He talks about Brian and the boys at least a few times (I'm about half an hour in, and I think there have been three separate mentions so far.)
But what I have cued up here (24:53) is an interesting story ... that isn't true. I think any of us of a certain vintage know how this goes: you live a story, you tell a story, you know it's a popular story, you hear a similar story, time passes ... and your story is no longer true. Listen to Don Randi's recollections of "Help Me Ronda"/"Help Me Rhonda":
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2021 3:32:39 GMT
Oh I'm not a good historian so I have to ask for clarification of what is wrong about that. I'm not saying it's right because I have no idea, but where did he go wrong,and thank you so much. quote author=" Kapitan" source="/post/20304/thread" timestamp="1617729906"] New interview with Don Randi from the Sunset Sound recording studio channel. He talks about Brian and the boys at least a few times (I'm about half an hour in, and I think there have been three separate mentions so far.)
But what I have cued up here (24:53) is an interesting story ... that isn't true. I think any of us of a certain vintage know how this goes: you live a story, you tell a story, you know it's a popular story, you hear a similar story, time passes ... and your story is no longer true. Listen to Don Randi's recollections of "Help Me Ronda"/"Help Me Rhonda":
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 7, 2021 11:29:56 GMT
The way Randi tells it, Leon Russell played a version of the song, but it wasn't released because Murry hated it, so "it went on the shelf." Then later--seemingly much later (relatively speaking), by which time Leon Russell "was a big star"--Randi was brought in to do a different version (not realizing the first one had been done). And he says after Murry passed away, they redid and released it.
The version Leon Russell played on is the album version, "Help Me Ronda," which was recorded on January 8 and 19, 1965. The single version was recorded about a month later, February 24, 1965. There was no large gap between in which Russell became a star. And while there are famous boots of Murry berating the group during a recording session for the song, he didn't keep it from coming out--not either version. The first version wasn't "on a shelf," it was on an album! The single version was released just a few weeks later. And Murry didn't die until 1973, nearly a decade after both versions had been out.
(What's more, Randi may not have played on either version. The wiki page for the song, citing Craig Slowinski, has Brian Wilson playing piano and Hammond organ and Larry Knechtel on Wurlitzer electric piano.)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2021 16:28:50 GMT
You know I was only 5 at the time and so I'm a little fuzzy but I have a pretty good memory of playing triangle on good vibrations.
I'm not sure if that use that track because it was over the klezmer clarinet solo. But I hit the triangle at different times throughout the recording just to make sure it couldn't be completely purged from any final version. So if you listen closely in the right channel during the harmonica break you can hear me hitting the triangle 3 times in a descending pattern. It was a special triangle that had 3 octaves on it. Well at least that's how I remember.....
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 9, 2021 20:06:01 GMT
A 1990 interview with Gary Usher, apparently his last interview, from what appears to be a local public access television show. As you might expect, the conversation touches on Brian Wilson. (I'm about 15 minutes in now, and they were discussing "Dead Man's Curve" a few moments ago.)
I know Usher died of cancer in May 1990, so this must have been quite near the end for him. (He doesn't look well.)
Dominic Priore of Beach Boys fan fame is on the panel as well.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 9, 2021 21:05:07 GMT
A 1990 interview with Gary Usher, apparently his last interview, from what appears to be a local public access television show. As you might expect, the conversation touches on Brian Wilson. (I'm about 15 minutes in now, and they were discussing "Dead Man's Curve" a few moments ago.)
I know Usher died of cancer in May 1990, so this must have been quite near the end for him. (He doesn't look well.) Good find. I never saw or heard Gary Usher speak before, though it was a little difficult to watch due to Gary's obviously ill condition. Jeez, how many people in Brian Wilson's circle passed away prematurely. Anyway, Gary Usher co-wrote with Brian two of my all-time favorite BB songs in "Lonely Sea" and "In My Room". And then he was gone...
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 21, 2021 22:27:41 GMT
Mentioned in the "Feel Flows" thread, but it warrants its own mention in the interviews section since it goes beyond that project. As I said in that thread, for reasons of navigation:
"When you go to www.wfmu.org/recentarchives.php under Saturday (late morning) you'll see Michael Shelley's show. He begins introducing the interview and making relevant smalltalk after Susie Cincinnati, around 20-few minutes. (At 24:39, he has explained the things I reported above, but the interview has yet to begin.)"
First of all, the interview is preceded by "Waves of Love 2.0." And while I was dismissive in my post in that other thread, it actually is a much better version of the song than its predecessor(s). It still isn't a classic, but it is improved upon. You can hear it somewhere around the 25 minute mark of that show. It was released in February, but I don't think I listened to it. (I knew he was redoing it, but I guess I thought it was just another slight change of the original version. This is very different.)
Al says it is coming out in "July ... no, August, not July ... no, July 23..." and then says the material on it covers 1969-71, some unreleased, some finished and some unfinished, "no mostly finished," etc. Oh Al.
He also admits he doesn't necessarily even listen to all of their archival releases, though he says he did for Feel Flows.
Al then redirects the conversation to "Waves of Love 2.0." He says his producer/cowriter (Larry Dvoskin) wanted a new approach. The solo album is also being rereleased in September, including both ANOTHER new "Waves of Love" ("the West Coast version") and ... [he hasn't yet said the other song and they've changed topics. Guessing "Jenny Clover."]
Says they'll "definitely" do at least a few major shows with the Beach Boys in the US "for sure." "We'll figure it out." "And overseas too." "It starts later in the year; you know, October is our 60th..."
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 21, 2021 22:36:14 GMT
I'd say the interview was about 15-20 minutes long. Pretty enjoyable. I do recommend it.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 22, 2021 13:40:10 GMT
For the record, Al never did get back to saying what the second bonus track on the Postcard From California reissue was going to be (alongside "Waves of Love"). Though I am still guessing "Jenny Clover," in that it wasn't on the first version and has been finished and released as the B-side to "Waves of Love 2.0" in February.
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Post by Kapitan on May 19, 2021 18:34:48 GMT
Here is a relatively new interview with Matt Jardine, done in March. He talks about growing up, early years touring*, the "Add Some Music" charity project, etc.
It's funny hearing him talk about missing big chunks of pop culture because he grew up in such a remote place in Big Sur. And also about how he wasn't really especially familiar with the Beach Boys even yet in the early 80s, because he was "listening to ZZ Top, Judas Priest, the Police..."
*I hadn't heard him talk really at all about his past before, and now I heard him tell stories about being a roadie/gopher for the Beach Boys both on BeachBoysTalk and this interview.
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Post by Kapitan on May 25, 2021 20:07:30 GMT
Three months ago, Al spoke with collaborator Larry Dvoskin on Clubhouse. I had no idea (or did, and forgot, which happens...). Anyway, here's Al with Larry chatting about the then-new "Waves of Love 2.0" and "Jenny Clover."
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 17, 2021 17:21:04 GMT
I'm not sure how new this is, whether it coincided with the Wilson website update last summer or is more recent, but it is from 2021 anyway. (I just saw the link on an email many of you also probably got from the Wilson site, about the new album.)
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 18, 2021 14:55:01 GMT
Here is a new Van Dyke Parks interview that gets into Wilson/Smile, presented by a podcast about songwriting. I have to admit the podcast is new to me, and I have only just begun the interview (which begins around 12 minutes into the show).
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Post by carllove on Sept 18, 2021 15:28:55 GMT
Here is a new Van Dyke Parks interview that gets into Wilson/Smile, presented by a podcast about songwriting. I have to admit the podcast is new to me, and I have only just begun the interview (which begins around 12 minutes into the show).
I’m going to have to give this a listen. I love hearing Van Dyke Parks speak. He sort of reminds me of Truman Capote.
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