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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 18, 2021 16:54:59 GMT
Music Mogul Buys Beach Boys Songs, Calling Band "Underappreciated":
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Post by kds on Feb 18, 2021 17:20:08 GMT
Very interesting. I wonder how this could affect future achieve releases.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 18, 2021 17:34:19 GMT
Astounding:
"But this deal is different from those made by Neil Young or Bob Dylan — whose songs fetched as much as $300 million — in that the band is giving Azoff’s company, Iconic, control over everything from their social-media accounts to their names, likenesses and life stories. He will be the steward of the Beach Boys, overseeing their work even after the remaining members die."
Might their work (finally) be consistently well represented/well served?
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Post by B.E. on Feb 18, 2021 18:39:59 GMT
Wow, I look forward to reading about this later.
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Post by Emdeeh on Feb 18, 2021 19:48:27 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 18, 2021 19:49:59 GMT
Thanks for posting! About to dive in.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 18, 2021 19:52:49 GMT
Truer words have never been spoken:
[Emphasis mine.]
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 18, 2021 20:05:27 GMT
From the Rolling Stone article: I am not exactly excited about a Beach Boys branded restaurant. This part doesn't appeal to me: I get that this is possible and lucrative for them, but this stuff isn't appealing to me at all. In fact, it is the part that could go horribly awry and make their image worse than it was, say, in the "corny" 80s-90s. (If well done, it could be very useful, of course.)
But I hated when Harley Davidson and Gibson Guitars decided they weren't a motorcycle company and a guitar company, but rather "lifestyle brands."
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 18, 2021 20:40:50 GMT
I don't envy these Azoff/Iconic people working with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine. Just reading some of Mike's and Al's quotes makes me laugh...and cringe. It's good that Azoff/Iconic has majority holdings.
That being said, this absolutely jump starts ALL prospects and ideas for a 60th reunion, prospects that I think would've been severely limited - or not existing at all - with BRI alone.
I wonder why Brian WASN'T disclosing (with photos!) on Facebook or Twitter that he was walking/exercising and working extensively with a voice coach?
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 18, 2021 21:02:57 GMT
I wonder whether the discussions and then negotiations with Azoff & Co. had anything at all to do with the delay on Feel Flows.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Feb 18, 2021 23:32:30 GMT
I wonder whether the discussions and then negotiations with Azoff & Co. had anything at all to do with the delay on Feel Flows. I remember people saying it was finally getting finalized, then something completely different came up. I wonder this what that something was.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Feb 18, 2021 23:43:52 GMT
Brian: "I gotta go now." If that isn't a great Brianism, I don't know what is.
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Post by lonelysummer on Feb 19, 2021 2:36:56 GMT
Brian: "I've been working out every muthafucking day, getting myself in the best fucking shape since I was with that bastard Eugene Landy. Dammit! I want to go on a fucking world tour now, dammit! I wanna get out there and kick some ass with Mike and Al again!"
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 19, 2021 13:18:36 GMT
Brian Wilson: Most exciting to Brian is the idea of touring and possibly recording with the group he founded in his parents’ living room six decades ago. “It’d be a great trip, a big thrill,” he says. “When we went on tour for the 50th anniversary we had so much fun. It’d be such a joy to be singing with the boys again.”
Al Jardine: Jardine had been touring with Wilson’s band before the pandemic hit, but he also regularly talks to Love. “We don’t discuss business much,” he says.
Don't get me wrong. These are nice things to read and I hope they're true. I'll take a Beach Boys' reunion - any kind of a reunion - over the continuing Brian solo/Mike solo...careers. But, somebody is full of crap here. Since the end of the 2012 reunion, with very, very few exceptions, Brian, Al, and especially Mike have had nothing, um, positive to say about each other. It's been one swipe against each other after another. Now, almost overnight, everything is beautiful. Jeez (as he shakes his head)...
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Post by kds on Feb 19, 2021 13:26:43 GMT
I read the RS article yesterday, and I have to say, I'm optimistic. I love the idea of a new documentary, especially since I think music docs have come a long way since Endless Harmony was released in 1998.
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