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Post by jasonaustin on Jul 28, 2020 13:39:21 GMT -5
The "pop me in the mouth" comment isn't on Lost & Found, it's on Hawthorne, CA and Made in California though! "This is the tone of Dennis Wilson's voice" is also sourced from the Wollensak Tapes (specifically, the "Ipana Toothpaste" track, blew my mind when I first heard it!) For anyone else with the Garage Tapes boot, can anyone identify the song Brian's listening to in the background of the toothpaste track? The Garage Tapes is definitely one of my favorite BB boots; it's such a deep and personal dive into the family life of the Wilsons prior to that little "Pendletones" thing they got themselves into! Actually having multiple tapes of Brian teaching himself and practicing harmonies at the piano, as well as the family offhandedly singing the very song that would eventually earn them a #3 placement on the US billboard charts some six years later, is like the BBs equivalent finding a preserved dinosaur in an iceberg. Really fascinating stuff. Indeed, I almost fell over upon hearing these 'Garage Tapes' back in the day. By no rights should this stuff have made it into the fan community-- the recordings are almost impossibly rare when you think about it! I mean, tapes of Murry talking on the phone with a neighbor or Brian rehearsing his high school Spanish? It's such an incredibly intimate look inside the Wilson household, before that even held any wide-scale significance; they were still just a regular American family like millions of others. I don't know, maybe I'm overselling it by saying they're revalatory, but there's real historical value to these tapes, and I'm really glad they found their way out to the fan community.
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Post by wontlastforever on Jul 28, 2020 18:10:16 GMT -5
The "pop me in the mouth" comment isn't on Lost & Found, it's on Hawthorne, CA and Made in California though! "This is the tone of Dennis Wilson's voice" is also sourced from the Wollensak Tapes (specifically, the "Ipana Toothpaste" track, blew my mind when I first heard it!) For anyone else with the Garage Tapes boot, can anyone identify the song Brian's listening to in the background of the toothpaste track? The Garage Tapes is definitely one of my favorite BB boots; it's such a deep and personal dive into the family life of the Wilsons prior to that little "Pendletones" thing they got themselves into! Actually having multiple tapes of Brian teaching himself and practicing harmonies at the piano, as well as the family offhandedly singing the very song that would eventually earn them a #3 placement on the US billboard charts some six years later, is like the BBs equivalent finding a preserved dinosaur in an iceberg. Really fascinating stuff. Indeed, I almost fell over upon hearing these 'Garage Tapes' back in the day. By no rights should this stuff have made it into the fan community-- the recordings are almost impossibly rare when you think about it! I mean, tapes of Murry talking on the phone with a neighbor or Brian rehearsing his high school Spanish? It's such an incredibly intimate look inside the Wilson household, before that even held any wide-scale significance; they were still just a regular American family like millions of others. I don't know, maybe I'm overselling it by saying they're revalatory, but there's real historical value to these tapes, and I'm really glad they found their way out to the fan community. I agree, this stuff is pure gold. It adds so much colour and brings life to what we know about the pre-Beach Boy era through testimony of those that were around at the time. There's so much in the Beach Boy vaults (that has subsequently got out into the public domain) that I guess they must be pretty unique in that respect.
Each time I listen I hear something new - the bits where Brian and Mike are threatening to get Al in and boot Dennis out are funny in that they refer to poor Al as Napoleonic - are they suggesting little man syndrome?! He certainly made use of the stool in the corner whilst laying down the vocals...
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Post by George Faulkner on Jul 29, 2020 8:01:35 GMT -5
Listened to a bit yesterday, and was surprised to hear that the track called 'Murry Directs Brian at the Organ' is in fact Murry running through the main melody of his song Heartbreak Lane (which wound up on Many Moods). He didn't formally copyright the song with the LoC until Oct 1967 on Sea of Tunes.
This confirms the family were exposed to Murry's songs, and getting enlisted to accompany him on them. It also makes me wonder if Murry could write notation, or needed the Wollensak to capture his compositions. In all my research, I've never seen any notation done by Murry's hand.
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Post by Paul JB on Aug 3, 2020 19:30:02 GMT -5
I stand corrected Jiggy. I own the Hawthorne and Lost and Found CD’s but not the MIC BOX so I knew I’ve heard it several times.
Mikie...yes that’s the brewery...Dogfish Head. Cool train car, I have a lot of HO stuff I hope to revisit someday. Our house has no room for a layout. The thing about Dogfish Head is I advise drinking at home or at least not driving ( always a bad deal anyway) and never more than a couple or you’ll wake up with a headache!
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