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Post by Cam Mott on Apr 18, 2024 6:33:48 GMT -5
(giggle)
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Post by Micha on Apr 30, 2024 7:12:47 GMT -5
Yesterday I discovered to my surprise just how short lived I Love To Say Da Da was. Not counting the "All Day" session in January, the first Da Da session was May 16 1967, and the first "Cool Cool Water" session was June 7, just 22 days later. It got axed after only three weeks!
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Post by WillJC on Apr 30, 2024 10:00:36 GMT -5
Yesterday I discovered to my surprise just how short lived I Love To Say Da Da was. Not counting the "All Day" session in January, the first Da Da session was May 16 1967, and the first "Cool Cool Water" session was June 7, just 22 days later. It got axed after only three weeks! When Brian was played this material in the modern age, he didn't have any reaction or comment for anything related to Da Da or All Day other than to start singing Cool Water. It's a My Childhood type situation to him; just an early concept/title that left his brain as soon as there were some lyrics to work with.
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Post by felipe on Apr 30, 2024 20:36:12 GMT -5
May 1967 must have been the worst month in his life up to that point. We've already had Brian comments from April saying "I think I lost my talent". And we have his recollections about being "ready to die", what points to May 12's Whiter Shade Of Pale release time window, when he thought it was his funeral march. Not the best week to finish Love To Say Dada. Neither the next... when Sgt. Peppers was released.
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Post by Cam Mott on May 1, 2024 8:41:00 GMT -5
Or was he relieved to be out from under SMiLE, with Capitol on the ropes, excited to be making plans with the Boys for Brother Records and Home Movies, and getting into his new mansion with a home recording studio?
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Post by felipe on May 1, 2024 21:10:13 GMT -5
In fact he recalls a good atmosphere when recording Smiley Smile, but that would be June. Interesting to bring up the new mansion, as Brian tells he wrote Love To Say Dada there in the first time he sit at the piano, probably in the beginning of April.
It sure is debatable if his lowest point was March, April or May. In March he gave up on Heroes and Villains. In April he was unable to cut Vega-Tables or Wonderful as replacement singles. In May he did nothing but these Love To Say Dada sessions.
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Post by Cam Mott on May 2, 2024 6:34:27 GMT -5
It is very debatable. There is a Derek Taylor article, maybe from July 1967, that specifically mentions May as the time they decided to get back in the studio and other proactive things (I'm not going to be able to site that for awhile, it is in LLVS as I remember).
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Post by Micha on May 2, 2024 10:48:51 GMT -5
Anyhow, Derek Taylor reported publicly that SMiLE was shelved before Da Da was even begun.
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Post by Micha on May 5, 2024 7:45:44 GMT -5
Interesting to bring up the new mansion, as Brian tells he wrote Love To Say Dada there in the first time he sit at the piano, probably in the beginning of April. What is the source for this, please? I'd like to read the whole interview where Brian said that. Might shed more light on this.
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Post by felipe on May 5, 2024 16:47:21 GMT -5
1990 Sunflower/Surf's Up two-fer liner notes:
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Post by Cam Mott on May 6, 2024 12:18:41 GMT -5
It is very debatable. There is a Derek Taylor article, maybe from July 1967, that specifically mentions May as the time they decided to get back in the studio and other proactive things (I'm not going to be able to site that for awhile, it is in LLVS as I remember). It is on LLVS 201/202. It seems to me SMiLE was dead before the April "Vegetables", or even by the "mid-Winter 1966/7" Taylor mentions, or even before that. Really, it sort of seems like it was settled and written very quickly and early on and just as quickly soon started falling apart and reassembled to fall apart some more.....something like that.....
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Post by felipe on May 7, 2024 1:20:43 GMT -5
It seems to me SMiLE was dead before the April "Vegetables", or even by the "mid-Winter 1966/7" Taylor mentions, or even before that. Really, it sort of seems like it was settled and written very quickly and early on and just as quickly soon started falling apart and reassembled to fall apart some more.....something like that..... for a moment this made me hope Child Is Father Of The Man had some melody or lyrics back in october. On second though, however, the fact that Brian recorded two completely different pieces of music for the verse means there was never a melody for him to base on
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