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Post by Kapitan on Sept 24, 2021 18:27:22 GMT
Somehow I missed this interview with Howie E. about Feel Flows from Rock Cellar magazine by Ken Sharp (whom I believe used to be around the BBs boards ... still might be on one?). If somebody else posted it and I missed that, sorry. The most interesting part to me is Howie's comments about favorite still-unreleased tapes.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 13, 2021 17:50:54 GMT
Pitchfork, celebrating its 25th anniversary, is running a feature wherein various current artists name their favorite album of the past 25 years. Most of them name albums or artists I'm not so into, but Anthony LaMarca of The War on Drugs had one of interest to the board:
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Post by kds on Oct 13, 2021 19:30:43 GMT
So, Anthony LaMarca's favorite album of the last 25 years is basically a re-recording of a 1967 album. And, I think I'm stubborn about new music.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 13, 2021 19:35:41 GMT
So, Anthony LaMarca's favorite album of the last 25 years is basically a re-recording of a 1967 album. And, I think I was stubborn about new music. A remake which he kind-of criticizes, no less! He ought to join a BBs message board...
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Post by kds on Oct 13, 2021 19:43:30 GMT
So, Anthony LaMarca's favorite album of the last 25 years is basically a re-recording of a 1967 album. And, I think I was stubborn about new music. A remake which he kind-of criticizes, no less! He ought to join a BBs message board... Right. Going through the list, I wasn't expecting to like a lot of the choices, but I was actually surprised how few I'd actually heard of (both the albums and the artists picking the albums).
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 13, 2021 20:01:09 GMT
Pitchfork, celebrating its 25th anniversary, is running a feature wherein various current artists name their favorite album of the past 25 years. Most of them name albums or artists I'm not so into, but Anthony LaMarca of The War on Drugs had one of interest to the board: Do you find these articles to get my blood pressure up?
When I first starting reading Anthony's comments, I said to myself, "Yeah, well, you shoulda heard the original tracks..." And, then, a few sentences later, he states that he HAS heard the original SMiLE sessions, and STILL likes BWPS. So, good for him. He ain't the first; he won't be the last. However, while Anthony might like the "happy" BWPS, give be the "unhappy" original SMiLE any day. But, you know, he had to choose BWPS over the original SMiLE anyway because of the 25 year guideline they are using (see, I have to rationalize ). It's hard to believe BWPS is over 17 years old already.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 13, 2021 20:07:34 GMT
A remake which he kind-of criticizes, no less! He ought to join a BBs message board... Right. Going through the list, I wasn't expecting to like a lot of the choices, but I was actually surprised how few I'd actually heard of (both the albums and the artists picking the albums). Ditto, actually. I have heard of most of the people picking, and fewer of the albums they picked. Which is funny, really! (I mean, if they're picking classics...)
Some of the picks didn't surprise me though. Lauryn Hill, Radiohead, Outkast, I figured they'd be mentioned. But quite a few, I can only shrug.
Sheriff John Stone, I knew you'd love that choice. But I think you're right when you note, it's not like he would be allowed to pick the original (though I guess he could've picked The Smile Sessions). I also just took at as one of those "key moments in life" kind of picks, him being a HS senior and telling stories about going to visit his college-student brother, etc. I get that, where your favorite or the most important thing isn't actually a favorite or the most important thing, but it was a right-time, right-place kind of thing.
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Post by kds on Oct 13, 2021 20:17:40 GMT
Right. Going through the list, I wasn't expecting to like a lot of the choices, but I was actually surprised how few I'd actually heard of (both the albums and the artists picking the albums). Ditto, actually. I have heard of most of the people picking, and fewer of the albums they picked. Which is funny, really! (I mean, if they're picking classics...)
Some of the picks didn't surprise me though. Lauryn Hill, Radiohead, Outkast, I figured they'd be mentioned. But quite a few, I can only shrug.
Sheriff John Stone , I knew you'd love that choice. But I think you're right when you note, it's not like he would be allowed to pick the original (though I guess he could've picked The Smile Sessions). I also just took at as one of those "key moments in life" kind of picks, him being a HS senior and telling stories about going to visit his college-student brother, etc. I get that, where your favorite or the most important thing isn't actually a favorite or the most important thing, but it was a right-time, right-place kind of thing. OK Computer was the only one on the list that I really have an interest in. And, personally, I don't think it's nearly as good as it's reputation.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 27, 2021 13:10:49 GMT
The Cincinnati Kid posted this in the Feel Flows thread, but I wanted to archive it here as well--just because I can imagine six or 12 months from now trying to remember where it was and thinking this might be an intuitive destination.
A Shindig hypothetical recreation of the Dennis Wilson (and Daryl Dragon) early '70s solo album, including a comment by "Wouldn't It Be Nice (to Live Again)" lyricist Stanley Shapiro.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 29, 2021 15:45:05 GMT
This article was published a few days ago, though I can't tell whether it's mining Mojo quotes entirely, or just for one quote that the article cites as from Mojo. It is slight and not particularly revealing.
Why am I linking it? Because if its quotes are new, it shows Brian is STILL talking about doing a rock 'n' roll album "next."
"I've been wanting to make a rock 'n' roll album for years and years. I have some ideas, so hopefully I'll be able to do that one next."
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Post by kds on Oct 29, 2021 15:48:09 GMT
This article was published a few days ago, though I can't tell whether it's mining Mojo quotes entirely, or just for one quote that the article cites as from Mojo. It is slight and not particularly revealing.
Why am I linking it? Because if its quotes are new, it shows Brian is STILL talking about doing a rock 'n' roll album "next."
"I've been wanting to make a rock 'n' roll album for years and years. I have some ideas, so hopefully I'll be able to do that one next."
I like how Brian says his favorite band to listen to is The Rolling Stones. Just a couple weeks after Paul McCartney called them a "blues cover band."
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 8, 2021 15:00:58 GMT
Two of the more interesting bits in it, from my perspective, are:
- He prefers Brian's original mix of "Funky Pretty":
"And it was a pleasant experience. I enjoyed it on “Funky Pretty” especially. I wish they had kept the mix that HE had done, where everything was kind of full ball and it made people a little nervous because it went a little in the red (overload), but it was a whole lot more powerful, and very, very like overwhelmingly strong. He was behind the board this time – but not just this one time. He would try certain things and they just sounded fantastic." (If it still exists, perhaps we'll get it on the so-called Sail On Sailor set?)
- He has an unreleased album set to come out next year. He references it dating from '97, but I wonder whether he's referring to The Fragile Thread, which I've seen referred to as from 2001 or so. "[T]here’s an album that I made years ago. I’ll just put it this way – with some people in ’97 that I worked with that are getting it together to come out sometime next year."
Lastly I have to kvetch a little. The email has errors that annoy me, like misspelling Jack Rieley's last name or misstating "David Johnson" where it was David Johansen. These aren't huge deals, but when you're sending things out under the Brian Wilson banner, you'd hope for accuracy. Otherwise it looks like message board fare!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 9, 2021 0:50:08 GMT
So, Blondie basically confirms that both Dennis and Carl attempted a lead vocal on "Sail On Sailor". We still don't know if they were full, complete attempts, or if they started and stopped before completing the entire song. We also don't know if Dennis and Carl's lead vocals were erased/junked, or if they still exist in some form. Oh, how I wish those takes survived.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 11, 2021 14:02:36 GMT
This article is not new--it's a bit more than a year old--but it's new to me and I don't recall anyone ever posting it. It is about Jim Laspesa, the percussionist-vocalist from the BW band (whom I did not recognize until recently, when Sheriff John Stone identified him for me). I thought you might enjoy it, as it tells a bit of his history as well as how he got into the band.
Interesting tidbit: Darian says he recommended Jim for the group as early as 2003!
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Post by Emdeeh on Nov 14, 2021 1:29:06 GMT
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