Uncanny

GUARDIAN "Brian Wilson is reportedly so upset about fans criticising a recent gig, he has offered to reimburse them their expensive ticket fees out of his own pocket. Great news for disgruntled concertgoers, but could the ex-Beach Boy be setting a dangerous precedent?"

KSBY

METRO TIMES "From "Surf City" and "Drag City" to "Dead Man's Curve" and "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)," each one of these Hemi hits is guaranteed to light up your Christmas tree every time. Red light! Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys helped Jan and Dean write some of their hits and he sung on them as well. Yellow light! Jan and Dean's original recording of "Bucket ‘T' " smokes the Who's later Moon-equipped cover version. Green light! Jan and Dean wrote some of the hippest lyrics ever, as evidenced by this suave little gem from 1964: "They wear organdy dresses and high-button shoes, they read Playboy magazine and Hot Rod News."

RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH

GUARDIAN "Brian Wilson- Perhaps the epitome of perfectionism, Wilson's studio behaviour is now legendary. Work on 1966 single Good Vibrations spanned a reported 17 recording sessions in four different studios, used over 90 hours of magnetic recording tape and cost a reputed $50,000 to make. Two years later Wilson spiralled into depression after aborting his Smile album."

HUNTERSVILLE HERALD "That's the story, and it's one that Cornelius' David Beard -- Beach Boys scholar, historian and all-around guru of good vibrations, has kept alive. Through the publication Endless Summer Quarterly (ESQ,) a Brian Wilson/Beach Boys/Jan & Dean fan magazine, Beard feeds his readership of music aficionados tales of summertime bliss all year 'round. In his 15 years working for the four-times-a-year magazine,Beard has established himself, albeit accidentally, as a leading authority on the Beach Boys and several related artists."

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL "And all through it, Wilson sat as though he were the least impressed person of the announced attendance of 1,200 in the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Still, the very life of his music, and the fact that he thought enough to bring it back, were perhaps testimony enough to what he was really feeling."

PASTE "I'm in Rhode Island for the first time in my life. We drove past the harbor where a magenta sun was dropping below the harbor and men in white pants were politely sipping strong drinks. The opening night of Newport was held in the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where a pristine grass court made me want to play tennis, even though Beach Boy Brian Wilson was about to take the stage.
Some of my first musical memories include singing along with my older brother's Beach Boys records as a very young kid. "Surfin' Safari," "Catch a Wave," "Little Deuce Coup"—these were some of the earliest songs I ever loved. And for an hour and a half, Brian Wilson ran through a slew of them—or rather his crack did while he struggled to keep up. There were at least a half dozen voices on every song, 10 other musicians carrying the load for a legend whose seen better days. His voice, when it was alone wandered off key. He introduced the songs with an almost autistic literalness: "Now we're going to play a slow song." "Now we're going to play a surf song." "Now we're going to speed things up."

But this is Brian Wilson we're talking about, and the very aged, formal and appreciative audience was more than willing to forgive. When he played "Do You Want To Dance," I was just as ready to forgive. So many great songs.

And in keeping with the New England spirit, I ate my first quahog—oyster mixed with saugage, bread crumbs, peppers and God knows what else. Yummy stuff. Tomorrow I get to see some combination of The Black Crowes, Cat Power, the brothers Marley, Richie Havens, Cowboy Junkies, Jim James, She & Him, Steve Earle & Allison Moorer, the Young @ Heart Chorus, Jakob Dylan and Willy Mason, all with the beautiful harbor in the background. I think I'm going to like Rhode Island."

UNDERCOVER "`A World of Peace Must Come`, an album recorded by Brian Wilson in 1969 based on the poetry of Stephen John Kalinich, will finally have an official release in October.

The album was intended to bring together Stevie’s words and Brian’s music. Stevie had signed to the Beach Boys Brother Records label just a year earlier.

“It was done like a home recording,” Stevie tells Undercover News. “Brian co-produced it with me. We started it around ‘69 after talking about it in ’68”.

The album was Stevie’s idea. “I had it as a concept and recorded some of it myself and then I brought it to Brian. He did ‘America I Love You’ with me first”.

Stevie has fond memories of the recording sessions. “I loved making it,” he tells Undercover. “”We had a blast and fun. We recorded most of it at Brian’s house but we went to other studios like Wally Heider and Sunset Sound to work on parts of it. I have fond memories and it was as important today as the day we recorded it”.

So why has it remained unreleased for all these years' “Partially getting someone really interested and deciding in myself to get it out there,” he says.

A World Of Peace Must Come will feature:

Candy face Lane
Birth of God
Deer, Elk, Raven
The Magic Hand (Fury Palm)
Lonely Man
Be Still
Walk Alone With Love
A World Of Peace Must Come
If You Knew
America I Know You"

Hi, sorry for the recent lack of posts. We've decided to take a short summer vacation. So, you'll probably not find too many new posts over the next 1-2 weeks. We will be watching out for new Brian Wilson and/or beach Boys related items. In particular, we should be receiving an advance copy of "That Luck Old Sun" any time now. Once that arrives, we'll be sure to let you know. Thanks, and enjoy your summer!

OTTAWA CITIZEN

REPUBLICAN AMERICAN

JAM.CANOE "For more than an hour, [Brian] Wilson seemed pretty out of it, at least as far as fronting a band at Bluesfest goes. He spent virtually the whole 75-minutes perched on a stool, staring blankly out at the audience and singing occasionally while his enthusiastic band pumped out lively party versions of old favourites, mostly from the Beach Boy songbook of the early '60s -- Dance Dance Dance, Surfer Girl, In My Room, And Then She Kissed Me, When I Grow Up to Be a Man, Do Ya Wanna Dance?, California Girls, I Want to Go Home, God Only Knows, Wouldn't It Be Nice, Help Me Rhonda and Surfin' U.S.A. and a tune from his new album That Lucky Old Sun."

HARTFORD COURANT

WA TODAY