Russ Mackie ? > Solved: It IS Russ

The caption to this one reads: "Carl with the band The Flame and Jack Rieley (and two unknowns)." Maybe they've been identified since then (uploaded 2009): 



www.last.fm/music/Carl+Wilson/+images/882061f7ee784daf910a30c16571798f

He reminds me of Machiel Botman on the cover of Western Justice...

Okay. I'm hoping other more knowledgeable folks chime in. Might the intrepid petsite , to name just one, have the appropriate information tucked away somewhere?

It's certainly a fascinating time and place, particularly when it's one's country of residence.

According to the Holland booklet as reproduced in Abbott's Back to the Beach, these were "his [Jack's] secretary Carole Hayes and her husband". So unless I'm somehow misreading it, that Russ would be Russ Hayes (the spouse).

I see that same source (on page 80 in my edition) lists a Jon Parker, not Pardner. And the Holland booklet (here) spells it Parder! Still, it also mentions a Bobby Ficher... I think I'll trust AGD on this!

It's in the booklet (see my edited post above), assuming the online version is a faithful reproduction.

I also see in the booklet that Gordon Rudd's firm was called Clover Systems. And it's still going strong:

cloversystems.designscience.info/aboutus/

I also found this, with some new names thrown in [Source]: 

From the Holland booklet:

The scatter-ees were Brian Wilson, his wife, two children, sister-in-law and housekeeper; Dennis Wilson with wife and child; Carl Wilson with wife, two children, mother, brother-in-law, housekeeper and two dogs; Mike Love with wife, two kids and a maid; Al Jardine with the same as Mike; Ricky Fataar with wife and in-laws; Blondie Chaplin and girlfriend. For starters.

Then there was chief engineer Steve Moffitt with secretary and son; additional engineers Gordon Rudd and wife, Jon Parder and girl; and Thom Gellert and admirers; Russ Mackie, the group's traveling attache: Jack Rieley, Brother Records' senior officer and the man at whom the buck stops, his secretary Carole Hayes and her husband, plus Jack's dog. And not least, Bill, who sought shelter for all. In the end they were sprinkled through the Netherlands thus: Jack, Russ and Carole in Amsterdam; Carl and Blondie in Hilversum; Brian in Laren; Ricky in Vreeland; Jon and Thom in Haarlem; Gordon in Heemsted; Steve in Assedelft; Mike and Al in Bloemendaal - all converging on a converted barn in Baambrugge. Before the houses were ready, all were put up in hotels. The musicians' houses were each outfitted with rented stereo and piano. They rented nine Mercedes, one Audi, bought three VWs and van. Aging visibly as he speaks, Jack says, "Some day accounting will face a column just called 'Holland.'" Before they obtained their present Amsterdam office, Jack's duplex apartment a furnished summer rental, became Brother Records' European headquarters. The office was set up in the children's room, all ready resplendent with bears, dolls and tables not exceeding one and a half feet in height. A Telex was installed with an obliging Dutch answering service. It handled on the average, three quarters of an hour's messages per day, the printed sheets unfurling like an endless paper towel. So many transatlantic calls were placed that the international operators in Pittsburgh, through whom all such calls are relayed, got wise to the number and noted it to save time.

… and Blondie was supposed to be in the NL ‘with girlfriend’. But according to an interview with in his temporary home in Hilversum he was living there on his own.

As for Dennis: we know he was in the NL for the first few weeks or so. There’s the photo session with him on one of the Amsterdam canal bridges. Probably from those first weeks.
Later on he flew in when required for sessions, when he lived on the Canary Islands.

Well this would seem to be the background in the top picture of Dennis. That corner building is at the juncture of two Amsterdam canals: Prinsengracht (with the three-arched bridge) and Leidsegracht (with just one arch, to our right). The sky in the first picture is helpful -- we're looking north-west along Prinsengracht, so it makes an angle to the right just beyond the bridge:  





Dennis is closer to us, off to the left of the above pictures. He seems to have moved back along his bridge for the two lowest pictures in the previous post. 

I know -- no life!

You're welcome, Klaas. It's great to be able to do something in return for all the hard work you've done on our behalf.

What I would really like to do now is put a name to the bridge on which Dennis is standing. It's somewhere in this list (www.bruggenvanamsterdam.nl) but my brain is still hurting from finding the location so it will have to wait!

So, it’s on the corner of Keizersgracht and Leidsegracht. Seen from bridge 44, we’re looking at the building on the corner (either right or left of Dennis) with the address Keizersgracht 419.



The location probably wasn’t much of a coincidence. The location is only a 11 minute walk from (or to) the then Beach Boys office in Amsterdam, located at Tweede Helmersstraat 28.

It’s Steve Fataar sitting between Jack Rieley and Blondie. Brother/Edries Fataar is on the right.

As for the other picture; as documented above this is at the Beach Boys Farewell party, August 3rd 1972 at the pier in Scheveningen (The Hague). A few weeks before they returned to California.