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Post by Cam Mott on Jan 14, 2024 11:10:10 GMT -5
Several, hither and yon, over the next year or so apparently, but only one small one at Griffith Park as far as I can tell.
The real question is how long would Jules and Chrissie hold on to "super strong weed" to share. I've placed my bet.
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Post by Cam Mott on Jan 14, 2024 12:13:38 GMT -5
The irony is Jules got into some sort of "shootout" with Cheetah publishers and was fired a few days before the release of the first issue.
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Post by alankard on Jan 16, 2024 6:05:11 GMT -5
Some more data points consistent with Custom Machine's earlier post... This YouTube playlist captures a good-sized chunk of singles recorded at Gold Star: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30230FD400D6EC78A search for 1966 recording sessions came up empty for November -- but the playlist does offer a nice trip through a warm and familiar room. There are interesting songs from The Lyrics (My Son and So Glad), recorded at Gold Star in December 1966 [conceivably finished then, having begun in late November]. The Lyrics reportedly underwent several line-up changes, but at the time they appeared as a four-man unit on the KFMB-TV8 program "Dance Time" out of San Diego: On another front, a perusal of Billboard Top 40 songs from December 1966 through January 1967 yields no likely candidates for the topic at hand. Parsing Siegel's lead paragraph for criteria suggests conflicting examples: * would benefit from a record plugger: The Lyrics [no clear San Jose link]. * disc jockey friend in San Jose: Brian Lord at KLIV >>> Count Five [misCount]. * would hit the top of the charts in a few weeks: The Monkees [no plug needed]. * four Cali-based long-haired kids/small-g geniuses in the Top 40: The Mamas and the Papas [ditto]. So a fair question is whether Siegel used various aspects of contemporary bands to create a composite quasi-band that served his journalistic purpose of comparative genius.
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Post by Cam Mott on Jan 23, 2024 8:23:39 GMT -5
If you used LA's KHJ, KRLA, KFWB, Billboard, and Cash Box Top 40 as "top of the charts" in late December the four-member candidates seem to be:
The Monkees The Seeds The Four Tops The Incredibles John's Children The Lovin' Spoonful The 4 Seasons The Seekers The Elgins Mamas and Papas
Most of these don't seem to fit to me. Maybe The Seeds, The Incredibles, and John's Children?
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Post by Cam Mott on Feb 23, 2024 21:05:59 GMT -5
Back to "Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!": I think we can put a finer point on when Jules wrote the first version.
The first version didn't include the Brian explaining Surf's Up part (that came in the third version) but it started with "the swimming pool, water ballet".
Jules had written the first version and claims his last visit to Laurel Way was just before Christmas, the witch girlfriend incident at Columbia A was after and Jules didn't see Brian.
So apparently written between December 15/16 and December 24 1966?
(wanders off, cinching up his bathrobe)
Oh yeah, probably a day or few before December 24 as the first version had already been shown to Brian and Anderle.
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