Minor Questions That Demand An Answer (Before It's Too Late)

Hey guys! I’ve got a quick question today. In session lingo, when something is labeled as “Insert” doesn’t that usually mean overdubs? I was thinking about the session for March 2nd, 1967. There were only 4 instruments; drums, percussion, and 2 basses. I have no idea what you could make out of that, but the session was labeled as Part II: Insert. Maybe these were overdubs for the March version of Heroes and Villains?

Well, more like parts of 10,000 YEARS briefly became two re-recorded sections titled 2,000 YEARS, after which one of those sections was briefly retitled ALBUM STRING INTRO before both became assimilated into FRIDAY NIGHT, and another re-recorded part of 10,000 YEARS was briefly considered for the tag but dropped. Shades of SMiLE-era Brian!

Does any of Mike's recently recorded 10,000 years owe something to Dennis' adaptation of it?

Also, I think Guercio and S. Love co-managed for at least awhile, and I believe Schilling co-manages with another guy?

Does Fred Vail belong on this list? He was 'managing' them, in some capacity, starting in around 1969.

I believe tom died july 30th 1993.

"The Cocaine Sessions" was a recording session conducted between Brian and Dennis Wilson. Garby Leon had a Hammond organ and baby grand piano, Dennis had the drums. Recordings were made for songs entitled "Oh Yeah"', "Oh Lord", "City Blues", "You've Been", "I Feel So Fine", "Stevie", and "Heroes and Villains". Dennis brought the coke and hamburgers and that was all the inspiration that Brian needed.

One source says November 1982(?) at Garby Leon's home studio in Venice Ca. I'm thinking it was really around late 1980 and possibly into early '81 or New Years. Brian told Les Chan out here in California in late 1981 that he'd written City Blues with Dennis. I also have "Stevie" recorded in January, 1981 at "Sounds Good" studio in L.A., so that definitely rules out a 1982 'hamburger' session for that one. Brian was pretty much under Landy's care in early '82.

C-man/AGD may or may not come by and clean up my mess.....

In the Endless Harmony Doc it says Landy was contacted by Hulett in 1983 in the clip where Landy is sat on the arm of a chair next to Brian. Dunno if that's any help?

Does anyone know how I can contact Steve Desper right now? Which forum is he on at the moment?

I'd say you're probably correct. Listening back to the instrumental mix of "Life is for the Living," maybe the "skeleton form" for the song consists of the drums, bass, and rhythm guitar? Would love to know the exact evolution of this song, always been one of my favorite late '70s Brian songs. As for "Deep Purple" that basic tracks could have been just the bass and drums, maybe a piano too that would later be mixed out. And for "New England Waltz," that basic track would probably be bass guitar, rhythm guitar, piano and drums. The bridge section where all of those drop out make it a bit more difficult to tell, but for all I know, someone could have been counting off the measures so the musicians knew when to come back in (think of Hal counting/playing off the measures on the intro to "Good to My Baby" for reference). The track could have been recorded in sections too, but that's unlikely. Might be quite a bit off the mark with these in comparison to information that someone like Craig could provide, but it's kinda hard to tell when you don't have the complete multi-tracks at your disposal, or at least, solid relationships with the two men that do! Not to mention "New England Waltz" being in such unfortunate audio quality. If someone's got that one in good quality, don't hesitate at all to slip into my dms!

Pretty sure “10,000 Years” and “10,000 Years Ago” were considered two different things. “10,000 Years Ago” is the instrumental track that’s been bootlegged, and was recorded during the 15 Big Ones sessions. Of course, this track was later re-recorded by Mike and released on Unleash the Love.