Non devisive music thread.

Hüsker Dü said:
The Beach Boys must be big on the east coast? A romantic ideal for the rest of the country to buy into? I never much liked their sappy crap, Pet Sounds has some moments, the rest is commercial pop . . . did them well.

. . . gimme Blue Cheer or Dick Dale playing the hell outta those Middle Eastern scales with mondo vibrato!
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Reverb, and dont forget, the best country artists come from Cali too.
 

This guy used to play at the Santa Monica pier when my grandfather was running the gambling rooms at the Venice pier.
My grandfather worked for John Harrah, and was a professional gambler.
Its a tragic story, and one of the reasons Spade was kinda lost to history.
 
Ricky Fandango said:

This guy used to play at the Santa Monica pier when my grandfather was running the gambling rooms at the Venice pier.
My grandfather worked for John Harrah, and was a professional gambler.
Its a tragic story, and one of the reasons Spade was kinda lost to history.
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...Bill Harrah, not John.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
The Beach Boys must be big on the east coast? A romantic ideal for the rest of the country to buy into? I never much liked their sappy crap, Pet Sounds has some moments, the rest is commercial pop . . . did them well.

. . . gimme Blue Cheer or Dick Dale playing the hell outta those Middle Eastern scales with mondo vibrato!
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"God Only Knows"
The Beatles' "Here, There And Everywhere" was inspired by this song. John Lennon and Paul McCartney heard Pet Sounds at a party and went back to Lennon's house to write it. Paul McCartney once called "God Only Knows" "The greatest song ever written."
 
Beach Boys in the interval after Brian had stopped touring and performing, with Bruce Johnston (he who wrote the song that makes the young girls cry) taking his spot on tour and eventually as a full-time member, and while Dennis and Carl were still alive. Mike Love plays his role, clowning with the audience until it his time to pitch with the baritone parts in the bridge.


Mike Love had been screwed out of his co-composer credits while Murry was still managing the group and their publishing assets. In the 90's he sued the group (while he was still a member) and won a judgement for back royalties that the group couldn't afford to pay him, so he got the right to decide who could tour and perform under the name Beach Boys.
 
In 2011, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their first record, the group's survivors got together for some appearances. The guy on the right is Dave Marks, who was a member in the 60's while Al Jardin was taking a swipe at dental school, and then quit because he couldn't stand Murry's management style.

 
espola said:
In 2011, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their first record, the group's survivors got together for some appearances. The guy on the right is Dave Marks, who was a member in the 60's while Al Jardin was taking a swipe at dental school, and then quit because he couldn't stand Murry's management style.

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Beautiful song, and captures an iconic image of California in the 60's.
 
Ricky Fandango said:

This guy used to play at the Santa Monica pier when my grandfather was running the gambling rooms at the Venice pier.
My grandfather worked for John Harrah, and was a professional gambler.
Its a tragic story, and one of the reasons Spade was kinda lost to history.
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So what did Spade have on Ronnie that was worth a pardon for a wife-killer?
 
Music industry in th 60's --

Brian: I need $50,000 studio budget so I can be as good as Phil Spector.
MI: We'll give you $500 and we need something as good as Barbara Ann.
 
If you went to a Beatles live concert in the 60's, you couldn't really hear the band because everyone was screaming.
If you went to a Beach Boys live concert in the 60's, you couldn't really hear the band because everyone was singing along.
 
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