Archives for: 2006, week 19

"Little Deuce Coupe" Explained

SMOOTH OPERATOR "A Little Deuce Coupe is the venerable 1932 Ford V-8 Roadster, originally designed as a small, high performance excursion vehicle, the 'Deuce' refers to the '2' in 1932, and is also suggestive of the fact the Deuce is a two seater. Back… more »

Unsurpassed Master(s)

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Brian Wilson Boot DVDR - "Live Around The World"

Brian Wilson - "Live Around The World 2005", 1DVDR Glastonbury Festival UK Sunday 26 June 2005 1. Wouldn't It Be Nice 2. God Only Knows 3. Good Vibrations 4. California Girls 5. Heroes And Villains 6. I Get Around Live 8 In Berlin Germany… more »

Suit & Counter Suit: Gettin' Ugly

AP VIA FORBES "'I love The Beach Boys. It disgusts me how far this has gone and the lies and so forth,' Roy A. Sciacca said Thursday." "Ed McPherson, the band's attorney, said the band would continue to try to retrieve the items and called Sciacca's… more »

Famous Sounds

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Ladies & Gentlemen, Brian Wilson Has Left The Building

Lalo Does The Impossible

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Florida Man Sues Beach Boys For Right To Sell Rare Sheet Music

MIAMI HERALD "Roy A. Sciacca is suing the Beach Boys for the right to sell Brian Wilson's original sheet music for hits such as 'Good Vibrations' and 'Wouldn't it be Nice', said to be worth some $20 million. Sciacca says he's the legal owner of Wilson's… more »

Is This an "Original" SMiLE Booklet?

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"Pet Sounds" Promos

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Rumor Patrol: Brian Buying House In Nashville?

TENNESSEAN "On a happier note, Beach Boy Brian Wilson may be coming back to live in Brentwood. Brian and his lady were in Valentino's on West End last weekend, and he stopped and chatted with everyone who recognized him. Brian also talked at length with… more »

In-Demand producer, Musician Jon Brion Takes Modular Approach To Music

LA Weekly “Perhaps similar to the way Brian Wilson began to compose circa Pet Sounds, Brion has described his songwriting and film-scoring approach as modular, building pieces with a scrap here and a sod there.“ more »

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"Hello Young Lovers" - Sparks & Sonic Youth On A Blind Date

Long-running group SPARKS released their 20th album this year, HELLO YOUNG LOVERS. It's easily one of the best discs released so far this year. Here's some more views on the album: STYLUS MAGAZINE POP MATTERS BILLBOARD METACTITIC If listening to H… more »

Where Did I leave My Rubber Ball?

French "Sloop John B" 45 Picture Sleeve

This Week in 1966 The Beach Boys Released "Pet Sounds"

KANSAS CITY STAR AGD’S BB TIMELINE more »

The Wire Interviews Scott Walker

THE WIRE "[A]ll the stuff that I have, the basic tracks are rock structured, it rocks, but it's only because I came from that. I started as a rock musician so that's always there, and it will always be there as, I don't particularly want to go into a st… more »

Game Respect Game

Burnin' Like A Heat Wave

Brief Review Of Beach Boys Performance In Galveston

BILL CRIDER “Mike Love's voice isn't what it used to be.” more »

Missing Person Case Has beach Boys Connection

NEWS TRIBUNE "More than 31 years after Laurie Partridge complained of stomach cramps, left a Spokane school and disappeared without a trace, her family has arranged a $5,000 reward offer to try to learn what happened." "Detectives staked out a Beach… more »

"Love & Mercy" Video

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The Beach Boys – “Second Wing”

Athletic & Convocation Center, University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana, April 20, 1974 DISC 1 Wouldn’t It Be Nice Darlin’ Little Deuce Coup The Trader Long Promised Road Surfer Girl Funky Pretty California Saga Marcella God Only Kn… more »

Wouldn't It Be Nice?

Mark and his baby

Mark Linett and his Genex GX9048 multiformat 48-track recorder, used to record the SMiLE concerts. more »

Memories: Brian @ Glasto '05

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Brian will have fun, fun, fun until melinda takes his t-bird away

"The Drift" gets pitchfork's best new music treatment

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let's smile together!

drifting with scott walker

N.B.-- According to a publicist at Scott Walker's current label, 4AD, "Due to the complicated printing process involved with the detailed nature of the packaging, the release date has been slightly delayed. Previously May 9th - it will now be released o… more »

R&B star Ne-Yo can't figure out brian wilson

SOUND GENERATOR What about someone like Brian Wilson, does that inspire you, with the harmony thing? Oh yeah, I can't remember the name of the song, but they're doing this harmony, and to this day I can't figure out every note that's in it! more »

Dance music gets more ctitical atention

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS “The inveterate rock bias in the music papers, magazines and academia has left much dancefloor history still undocumented. The trad agenda set by commentators in the Sixties, heavy with value judgments - glorifying the work of the… more »

Strip Hop

YAHOO NEWS "'Strip clubs have become the main breaking place for records, especially in the South,' says Jermaine Dupri, president of urban music for Virgin Records." more »

Brian, daVinci & St. John

STONING THE DEVIL more »

super best score!

Brian’s landing at The Cannery Casino & Hotel, Las Vegas on Saturday, July 1 for a live performance

CANNERY CASINO TICKETS more »

brian & robe by the pool

Magic Band Member speaks of beefheart

ART TRIPP IS ED MARIMBA IS TED CACTUS more »

lou don't like shirts

Laurel Canyon craziness

LA TIMES “Brian Wilson showing up and doing one kooky thing or another” more »