Happy 75th Birthday, David Marks!
Aug 22, 2023 5:53:20 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Aug 22, 2023 5:53:20 GMT -5
To (ahem) mark David's birthday, here are three very lightly tweaked quotes from Carrie Marks salvaged from the long-defunct Capitol BB MB (and possibly Smiley). Should Ms Marks (or David) object, out they go. Of course, the information they contain may have been questioned since then:
"Oct 5th 1963 was David's last concert, but not necessarily his last day in the band. The story told by Ron Swallow in The Lost Beach Boy where he witnessed the final showdown between Murry and Jo Ann happened sometime between the 5th and the 19th when Al appears on guitar for the first time at the Hollywood Bowl.
"That could have happened after the session on the 18th for all we know...the last minute nature of the switch would explain Al's rather poor performance that day and his lack of a Fender guitar. Or the 'Little Saint Nick'/'Drive-In' session date could have been fudged by a week to account for David's real departure...like the questionable 9/3/63 marathon session that produced how many songs coincidentally (cough) the business day after the backdated 8/30 departure.
"Have a close listen to 'LSN'...sounds an awful lot like David to my ears. Besides, David has always steadfastly claimed 'Fun, Fun, Fun' was the first song released he didn't play on because it hurt him so much to hear it on the radio after having rehearsed the song but didn't record it – much like he felt when he heard 'Surfin''."
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"David has said that Carl was actually a very good drummer – more technical than Dennis. And while on the on the subject of Dennis going up front to sing, David was the first one to go back to play drums while Dennis sang. During 1962 and 1963 David played drums (live) on 'Surfer Girl' and 'Silly Boy'."
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"David played on every track on Surfin' Safari (except 'Surfin''), Surfin' U.S.A. and Surfer Girl (Al played bass and sang on four tracks while David played guitar) and every song (uncredited in some cases) on Little Deuce Coupe except for 'A Young Man Is Gone'.
"In addition to the obvious album cuts, David also played on the filmed versions of the songs like the One Man's Challenge version of 'Surfin' Safari', several Jan & Dean tracks, a couple of Gary Usher's and on several BB songs that ended up being held over for Shut Down, Volume 2 ('In The Parking Lot' – he believes) and the GV/Thirty Years box set/Hawthorne/bonus tracks on the CD reissues such as 'Baker's Man', 'Punchline' etc."
"Oct 5th 1963 was David's last concert, but not necessarily his last day in the band. The story told by Ron Swallow in The Lost Beach Boy where he witnessed the final showdown between Murry and Jo Ann happened sometime between the 5th and the 19th when Al appears on guitar for the first time at the Hollywood Bowl.
"That could have happened after the session on the 18th for all we know...the last minute nature of the switch would explain Al's rather poor performance that day and his lack of a Fender guitar. Or the 'Little Saint Nick'/'Drive-In' session date could have been fudged by a week to account for David's real departure...like the questionable 9/3/63 marathon session that produced how many songs coincidentally (cough) the business day after the backdated 8/30 departure.
"Have a close listen to 'LSN'...sounds an awful lot like David to my ears. Besides, David has always steadfastly claimed 'Fun, Fun, Fun' was the first song released he didn't play on because it hurt him so much to hear it on the radio after having rehearsed the song but didn't record it – much like he felt when he heard 'Surfin''."
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"David has said that Carl was actually a very good drummer – more technical than Dennis. And while on the on the subject of Dennis going up front to sing, David was the first one to go back to play drums while Dennis sang. During 1962 and 1963 David played drums (live) on 'Surfer Girl' and 'Silly Boy'."
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"David played on every track on Surfin' Safari (except 'Surfin''), Surfin' U.S.A. and Surfer Girl (Al played bass and sang on four tracks while David played guitar) and every song (uncredited in some cases) on Little Deuce Coupe except for 'A Young Man Is Gone'.
"In addition to the obvious album cuts, David also played on the filmed versions of the songs like the One Man's Challenge version of 'Surfin' Safari', several Jan & Dean tracks, a couple of Gary Usher's and on several BB songs that ended up being held over for Shut Down, Volume 2 ('In The Parking Lot' – he believes) and the GV/Thirty Years box set/Hawthorne/bonus tracks on the CD reissues such as 'Baker's Man', 'Punchline' etc."