Post by veryextremelydan on Feb 3, 2021 0:33:42 GMT -5
Hi Everybody,
First off, my name isn't Dan but I'm happy to be called that here! I went to enter the title of the late, great Eddie Hinton's album "Very Extremely Dangerous" and that's all that fit and I let it ride!
Please forgive me if I've been a sloppy poster, less than courteous responder or appear to not be smiling as I'm posting. I'm still learning how to inter web and the generally understood protocols.....I know I use too many !!!'s ! I'm working on it but it's a hard habit to break.....Took me ten minutes to realize that I should "start a thread" here after I was invited. I am here because I love the music of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys and I want to exchange ideas about it and to learn from people who have different perspectives and know more about it than I do.
I somehow just found this board after being on SmileySmile since June of 2017 and posting 21 times in the last three and a half years....I think I might have posted that many times here today! I don't think that will happen again but what can I say, SMiLE and my perception of it's environmental message has been on my mind....what, with Mother Nature getting so tired of us fucking around that she had to go and unleash another plague to get us to back off...
Anyway, the Beach Boys played a free outdoor concert at a park near my childhood home in Wilmington, DE and I snatched my first kiss there so they've always held a sweet spot for me.....at some point I noticed that whenever someone said, "clear your mind" that Sunkist commercial would always pop into my head: "Good, good, good, Good Vibrations"....I don't think I realized it was the Beach Boys.....a little while later but still before discovering rock music I played my dad's copy of the Surfer Girl Lp and Brian's high lonesome sound connected with me heart and soul....but I was an about to be teenage boy on the brink of discovering that I too could play electric guitar along to Jimi Hendrix, Voivod, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Pavement....and it wasn't until beginning to make 4 track recordings in my late teens did the then recently acquired knowledge that the Beach Boys recorded on 4 track lead me back to their amazing body of work, where I reside in bliss to this day...
What else....I moved to Massachusetts to go to college in 1991 and the first day of record shopping in that vinyl mecca changed my life. I traded in my hard won They Might Be Giants and Jane's Addiction records (it was hard to find anything interesting growing up in DE in the 80's) for my first SMiLE bootleg and my first Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers record (It was also a bootleg...of demo sessions produced by Kim Fowley before they were signed to WB). I had inadvertently purchased two records which, in radically different musics, celebrated innocence and childhood intuition and glee. They both felt deeply profound and continue to inspire me to this day....Might be the single greatest day of record shopping in my life....though I have had some larger, more collectible, better scores I don't think that day has been topped for personal musical joy...
What else.....I'm a male. I'm married to a female. We have procreated. I had a band and have published a handful of songs. I used to have a recording studio named Columnated Ruins. I still help people make records. I used to travel the world performing songs but so long to the city I'm more than content playing my local pub once a month doing all the pre-Beatles r'n'r and r'n'b I know (and the 70's artists who aspire to that kind of thing)....basically NRBQ-lite....I've been quoted in actual books about the Beach Boys/Van Dyke Parks twice though only once in English.
Well, nice to meet you! Any other questions, just ask!
First off, my name isn't Dan but I'm happy to be called that here! I went to enter the title of the late, great Eddie Hinton's album "Very Extremely Dangerous" and that's all that fit and I let it ride!
Please forgive me if I've been a sloppy poster, less than courteous responder or appear to not be smiling as I'm posting. I'm still learning how to inter web and the generally understood protocols.....I know I use too many !!!'s ! I'm working on it but it's a hard habit to break.....Took me ten minutes to realize that I should "start a thread" here after I was invited. I am here because I love the music of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys and I want to exchange ideas about it and to learn from people who have different perspectives and know more about it than I do.
I somehow just found this board after being on SmileySmile since June of 2017 and posting 21 times in the last three and a half years....I think I might have posted that many times here today! I don't think that will happen again but what can I say, SMiLE and my perception of it's environmental message has been on my mind....what, with Mother Nature getting so tired of us fucking around that she had to go and unleash another plague to get us to back off...
Anyway, the Beach Boys played a free outdoor concert at a park near my childhood home in Wilmington, DE and I snatched my first kiss there so they've always held a sweet spot for me.....at some point I noticed that whenever someone said, "clear your mind" that Sunkist commercial would always pop into my head: "Good, good, good, Good Vibrations"....I don't think I realized it was the Beach Boys.....a little while later but still before discovering rock music I played my dad's copy of the Surfer Girl Lp and Brian's high lonesome sound connected with me heart and soul....but I was an about to be teenage boy on the brink of discovering that I too could play electric guitar along to Jimi Hendrix, Voivod, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Pavement....and it wasn't until beginning to make 4 track recordings in my late teens did the then recently acquired knowledge that the Beach Boys recorded on 4 track lead me back to their amazing body of work, where I reside in bliss to this day...
What else....I moved to Massachusetts to go to college in 1991 and the first day of record shopping in that vinyl mecca changed my life. I traded in my hard won They Might Be Giants and Jane's Addiction records (it was hard to find anything interesting growing up in DE in the 80's) for my first SMiLE bootleg and my first Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers record (It was also a bootleg...of demo sessions produced by Kim Fowley before they were signed to WB). I had inadvertently purchased two records which, in radically different musics, celebrated innocence and childhood intuition and glee. They both felt deeply profound and continue to inspire me to this day....Might be the single greatest day of record shopping in my life....though I have had some larger, more collectible, better scores I don't think that day has been topped for personal musical joy...
What else.....I'm a male. I'm married to a female. We have procreated. I had a band and have published a handful of songs. I used to have a recording studio named Columnated Ruins. I still help people make records. I used to travel the world performing songs but so long to the city I'm more than content playing my local pub once a month doing all the pre-Beatles r'n'r and r'n'b I know (and the 70's artists who aspire to that kind of thing)....basically NRBQ-lite....I've been quoted in actual books about the Beach Boys/Van Dyke Parks twice though only once in English.
Well, nice to meet you! Any other questions, just ask!
