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| From | Career Records <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: Smiling . . . |
| Date | Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:58:55 -0700 |
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Bobby
have you tried the obvious and assembled the BB version as per the running
order on the new album? It's on my mind, that's for sure.
I'm sure the pressure from Capitol, lawsuits and the relative flop of Pet
Sounds also contributed. I don't even want to think about that schmuck Mike
Love. As I said the other day, I'm sure he's got his turban in a knot about
Brian's album. Funny thing is, when I saw 'em in '71-72, it was Mike who
scolded the audience before they even started to "listen to their new songs,
and if the audience behaved, they'd play some oldies later". Opened with Heroes
And Villains. Played a lot of Sunflower and Surfs Up too...
The Lifehouse songs have always been there, a couple more Who versions surfaced
with the reissues of Who's Next. I'm surprised that they haven't just put all
those songs out on one album. Probably because Townshend keep dicking with the
idea, adding new songs and such. He probably doesn't even know what it's
suppose to be. The box set of demos he sold on his website was a treat. Great
copies of that stuff that I've had on tape for ages.
Another "lost album" would be First Rays Of The New Rising Sun, which would
have been the proper 4th Hendrix album. In Guitar Player a few years ago, they
showed Jimi's notes for the running order, but only three sides! I played it on
my radio show once, and then threw in the other songs that were done at the
same time. Again, I can't believe they haven't used those notes as the basis
for a proper collection of those songs. I think they have used the title for
yet another gab bag of stuff...
RS
Robert Sutliff wrote:
> Yeah,
>
> The one thing I thought is how really close it was to being finished.
> Certainly the centerpiece, Heroes and Villains was more than finished - it
> was just a matter of excising redundant bits. Also, Wonderful, Wind Chimes,
> Vegetables and Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine (is that Dennis on
> vocals?) were finished. The rest of the backing tracks were finished and
> most of the words were done. Later of course Carl took the backing tracks
> for Cabinessence and Surfs Up and sang them.
>
> I'm guessing we can never know the state of internal Beach Boys politics
> (meaning Mike Love) at that point. Certainly Smile is the antithesis of
> everything Love stood for - catchy 2:30 pop singles. Brian's horrific mental
> fall from grace dates precisely to this point in time. What if you had
> created the most amazing pop album ever and at the last moment had the rug
> pulled out from under you? You'd probably take a lot of drugs and give up
> also.
>
> I dunno though - maybe it wasn't that way at all....
>
> Bobby Sutliff
>
> I'm sort of glad I'm not remotely that brilliant or talented.
>
> > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 04:35:51 -0400
> > From: garymaher@juno.com
> > To: audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: Smiling . . .
> > Message-ID: <20041007.043601.4428.5.garymaher@juno.com>
> >
> > Wow -- I can't stop listening to Smile. It's been a long time since an
> > album has hit me like this. And while I've always liked the Boys, I'm
> > far from a huge fan. Before this week, there wasn't much after Pet
> > Sounds that got my attention. (Except for the obvious singles.) Even
> > the Smile outtakes on the box set didn't do much for me. Taken
> > separately, out of context, they conjured up images of the obsessed,
> > raving Brian. Hearing them all together, dropping the stupid song
> > titles, getting more of a taste of what it's all supposed to be about --
> > it's somehow clicked for me. The first two suites are the most
> > consistent side I've ever heard from the BBs. And the fact that this is
> > a true concept album, or rock opera, or something, makes it even more
> > impressive.
> >
> > Two things that strike me the most about this record, aside from its
> > majesty:
> >
> > 1) How BW came SO CLOSE to finishing the thing in '67. Most of the
> > songs were done on the first attempt, to the point of being finished.
> >
> > 2) What an amazing personal success story this is. BW will surely be a
> > poster boy for fighting through mental illness and personal adversity.
> > This was supposedly the very beast that drove him off his rocker, and he
> > has come back to slay that demon in a big way. Talk about getting a
> > monkey off your back!
> >
> > So now that we have Lifehouse and Smile, the Beatles have finally
> > finished Let It Be, and we can burn our own Zombies R.I.P. from the box
> > set, what's next? Will we be hearing that Pink Floyd have gotten back
> > together to finish that Household Objects record? Or maybe that the
> > mysterious disappearing Who tribute will finally surface? ;-)
> >
> > g
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