How about the Beach Boys? C/D?

search: everything up to "surf's up."

destroy: jon stamos. (oh, and "kokomo.")

What's John Stamos-Romijn have to do with this discussion?

come on raposa, lest we forget the innumerable times he trotted their dessicated corpses out for yet another full house episode. like weekend at bernies for babybooming ex-surfers.

now, let me fetch my pipe and slippers and i shall regale all you young'uns with the story of the time me and mr. mooney were locked in the bank vault together...

1. Sunflower
2. Summer Days and Summer Nights
3. Live in London
4. Pet Sounds
5. Love You

I was always disappointed by Smiley Smile...the production is bad, and it sounds rushed. I would've loved it if they had released proper Smile!

What is beginning to bother me is that SO MANY people namecheck them, claim to be influenced by them, or just ape them these days. Often all it means is that they've incorporated some plinky-plink diminished chord piano and a few harmonies.

The later stuff suffers because Brian was largely burnt out although Carl and especially Dennis wrote some wonderful songs in the late 60s and early 70s.

I quite like Carl and the Passions too and you can get it as a twofer with Love You. Indeed if anyone lives near a FOPP in the UK, they are selling all the 60s and 70s twofers for £5 each. Bargain.

Got my ticket for Brian Wilson next year although at £42, I'm expecting dinner and drinks a la a Las Vegas show too.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ifd62d5f2cdeae60e785a144af6ec9ecb

Fox 2000 has picked up a an untitled Beach Boys project which revolves around the band's music but is not a biopic.

The project is being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the team responsible for "Hairspray" and who are trying get a new "Footloose" off the ground.

Also producing is John Stamos, who has toured with The Beach Boys as their drummer and whose association with the Boys goes back to when he appeared in the music video of "Kokomo."

Susannah Grant, who worked on the new "Footloose" project as well as the upcoming musical-themed "Burlesque" movie starring Christina Aguilera, is on board to write the project, which is not a biopic but takes a similar tack to "Mamma Mia!" which built a story around the music of ABBA.

Plotlines were not revealed.

The acquisition was made in a heated bidding environment, with Fox beating out Universal as the price tag surfed up to the seven figures.

the steady hand of Stamos, writer from "Burlesque," the tone of Mamma Mia!" Can't wait.

i want to kiss them for their wonderful music.
― ethan

: D

hee hee

Last week, Mike Love told Billboard.com that a collaboration was imminent.

"Where we're at right now is Brian Wilson’s written some songs, I've written some songs, [and] we're talking very seriously about getting together and co-writing and doing some new music together. He's been doing his own touring, we've been doing ours, and so we haven't really been able to lock into that. But it looks like this fall we will,” Love told the music industry website.

A couple of hours later, Wilson was asked what he thought about Love’s assertion.

“I don’t know anything about that,” Wilson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

When asked whether he wanted to participate in an anniversary tour, Wilson was equally declarative.

“Not particularly," he said.

ha

classic