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Post by filledeplage on Jan 29, 2024 21:00:47 GMT -5
Thanks to Elora. I had the great privilege to see Billy screen this in Rhode Island at the Pawtucket Film Festival. Probably 2010. Great guy and knew the BB history like no one else. Great interviews with some familiar BB luminaries.
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Post by jk on Feb 4, 2024 17:00:28 GMT -5
Thanks to Elora. I had the great privilege to see Billy screen this in Rhode Island at the Pawtucket Film Festival. Probably 2010. Great guy and knew the BB history like no one else. Great interviews with some familiar BB luminaries. I just watched the whole thing and it's fantastic! Elora is an angel for uploading it. (And thank you, FDP, for linking it here.) The backgammon sequence is gut-bustingly funny. Steve Moffitt (aka Shiva Shanti), the subject of another thread, can be heard at 46:20, seen at 55:10 and heard and seen at 1:34:15. What an astonishing document. Bless you, Billy, for making it. You rest easy now. |
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Post by jk on Feb 5, 2024 3:58:36 GMT -5
Dennis is such an imposing presence in Billy's film. At 2:15 Jim Guercio, talking briefly about Caribou Ranch and the Boys' vocal contribution to Chicago's "Wishing You Were Here", mentions that "Dennis is the distinctive voice in that harmony [...]. The low voice is Dennis."
Don't ask me why but I've signally ignored this gorgeous, heartbreaking track until now:
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Post by filledeplage on Feb 5, 2024 10:10:54 GMT -5
Dennis is such an imposing presence in Billy's film. At 2:15 Jim Guercio, talking briefly about Caribou Ranch and the Boys' vocal contribution to Chicago's "Wishing You Were Here", mentions that "Dennis is the distinctive voice in that harmony [...]. The low voice is Dennis." Don't ask me why but I've signally ignored this gorgeous, heartbreaking track until now: This makes Billy's film even more important now. IIRC it was a project when he was at UCLA in a film major program. |
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Post by Mikie on Feb 5, 2024 13:45:29 GMT -5
No names, but somebody had better come up to speed in their Beach Boys history. Billy sold quite a bit of videos, all of which he released many years ago: beachboysfanclub.org/billyhinsche/videos.html'Wishing You Were Here'. I encourage you to search for the live Chicago/Beach Boys video "Wishing You Were Here", recorded on November 26, 1974, and broadcast on the 'New Years Rockin' Eve' special on TV that year. |
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Post by surfinimp on Feb 5, 2024 14:29:35 GMT -5
'Wishing You Were Here'. I encourage you to search for the live Chicago/Beach Boys video "Wishing You Were Here", recorded on November 26, 1974, and broadcast on the 'New Years Rockin' Eve' special on TV that year. I did, and it's great, but after what Geurico said where's Dennis? |
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Post by lonelysummer on Feb 5, 2024 14:55:39 GMT -5
No names, but somebody had better come up to speed in their Beach Boys history. Billy sold quite a bit of videos, all of which he released many years ago: beachboysfanclub.org/billyhinsche/videos.html'Wishing You Were Here'. I encourage you to search for the live Chicago/Beach Boys video "Wishing You Were Here", recorded on November 26, 1974, and broadcast on the 'New Years Rockin' Eve' special on TV that year. Well, excuse some of us for not being as on top of things as you are. |
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Post by Mikie on Feb 5, 2024 15:58:26 GMT -5
No names, but somebody had better come up to speed in their Beach Boys history. Billy sold quite a bit of videos, all of which he released many years ago: beachboysfanclub.org/billyhinsche/videos.html'Wishing You Were Here'. I encourage you to search for the live Chicago/Beach Boys video "Wishing You Were Here", recorded on November 26, 1974, and broadcast on the 'New Years Rockin' Eve' special on TV that year. Well, excuse some of us for not being as on top of things as you are. That's OK. I'm here to help you. And if I'm not around, there are plenty of members here who are on top of stuff. |
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Post by Mikie on Feb 5, 2024 16:04:25 GMT -5
'Wishing You Were Here'. I encourage you to search for the live Chicago/Beach Boys video "Wishing You Were Here", recorded on November 26, 1974, and broadcast on the 'New Years Rockin' Eve' special on TV that year. I did, and it's great, but after what Geurico said where's Dennis? Jim Guercio. Dennis was pissed because they made him wear a sailor suit like the rest of the band and he didn't want to. The Beach Boys also played Surfer Girl, Good Vibrations, and Darlin'. |
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Post by filledeplage on Feb 6, 2024 5:54:40 GMT -5
I did, and it's great, but after what Geurico said where's Dennis? Jim Guercio. Dennis was pissed because they made him wear a sailor suit like the rest of the band an d he didn't want to. The Beach Boys also played Surfer Girl, Good Vibrations, and Darlin'. Billy could tell the history with some neutrality, and perspective, being in the industry and the extended family, but with accuracy and respectful of the privacy and discretion any high profile group deserves. Billy was probably one of the very few, who has been able to find that balance in his story telling. He let the camera do the talking. When he screened the film in 2010, he brought the heavy cameras he used. You'd almost need to be a weight lifter to lug them around but those were the tools-of-the-trade to do video in 1974. He was a businessman, bringing his CDs and DVDs to sell that evening, autographed, of course. Including all those treasured Dino, Desi and Billy LPs. After the screenings, everyone headed over to the hotel bar side for an improptu BB concert with a local band, The Driftwoods who cover BB music and Billy at the helm and quite at home on a band keyboard. No rehearsal, either. Sail on Sailor - the highlight. ⭐️ |
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