2010/01/26

INSIDE BRIAN WILSON'S INTIMATE SF SHOW

It's not every day that you get to see a rock legend play to a crowd of fifty in an art gallery, but that's exactly what happened Saturday night, when we were given access to an exclusive performance by the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson at the San Francisco Art Exchange.

01/24/2010 Allie Pape
http://7x7.com/blogs/clamour/inside-brian-wilsons-intimate-sf-show

+ Show Review: Brian Wilson at San Francisco Art Exchange -- January 23, 2010
http://myvinylreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/review-brian-wilson-at-san-francisco.html

+ Over the Weekend: Brian Wilson's 'Private' Gallery Performance
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/01/brian_wilson.php

+ The Singer, Songwriter Performs In S.F.
http://www.ktvu.com/video/22330518/index.html

+ Brian Wilson: Does It Again by Bringing Smiles
http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2010/01/25/brian-wilson-does-it-again-by-bringing-smiles/#more-12461

2010/01/23

Neil Young CSN - Country Girl (Déjà Vu)

solo live version
1970

Written by: Neil Young



youtube.com/watch?v=ethjXOin-KM&fmt=18

+ wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_Vu_(album)



COUNTRY GIRL

Winding paths through tables and glass
First fall was new
Now watch the summer pass
So close to you.

Too late to keep the change,
Too late to pay,
No time to stay the same
Too young to leave.

No pass out sign on the door set me thinking
Are waitresses paying the price of their winking?
While stars sit in bars and decide what their drinking,
They drop by to die 'cause it's faster than sinking.

Too late to keep the change,
Too late to pay,
No time to stay the same
Too late to keep the change,
Too late to pay,
No time to stay the same
Too young to leave.

Find out that now was the answer
To answers that you gave later
She did the things that we both did before, now,
But who forgave her.

If I could stand to see her crying
I would tell her not to care.
When she learns of all your lyin'
Will she join you there?

Country girl I think you're pretty,
Got to make you understand,
Have no lovers in the city,
Let me be your country man.
Got to make you understand.

2010/01/22

BRIAN WILSON @ ASSER LEVY PARK

Know that high, clear, triumphant introductory passage on "God Only Knows"?

It's very arguably the single best moment on Pet Sounds and one of the greatest in all of music.

July 2008 Claire Shefchik
http://www.beyondrace.com/reviews/concerts/590-brian-wilson-asser-levy-park

2010/01/17

COLLIN RAYE TEAMS WITH RESTLESS HEART

(Repost) Now listen to 'Winter Wonderland'!

Quote:

"The Beach Boys joined me on that original Christmas album and it was so much fun. Just having Brian Wilson - the American Beatle - in the same room singing with me was too cool," Raye said. "In fact, I think it ("Winter Wonderland" 1996) was their last recording together."

(2008 Dec 3 / Michel Nolan)
http://www.sbsun.com/living/ci_11131120

CD review: http://countrymusic.about.com/od/cdreviewsmz/gr/cr_thegift.htm

+ Winter Wonderland (Collin Raye with the Beach Boys)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjOamhXJUNI&fmt=18

In My Room - Marilyn Scott

1997

1963 Written by: Brian Wilson, Gary Usher



youtube.com/watch?v=_gd6FhoqAHQ&fmt=18

2010/01/16

Ricky Nelson - Down Home

Two original Carole King songs which were also covered by American Spring

1963 Ricky Nelson

Written by: Gerry Goffin, Carole King



Down Home

> Now That Everything's Been Said - The City 1968

2010/01/11

MORE KITTYHAWK GRAPHICS

These are Beach Boys lp covers in the 1970s, by Dean O. Torrence.



Also, check out the similarities of the flip sides of 'Love you' and 'MIU Album'!

1976, 1977, 1978

Randy Newman - I Love L.A.

1983

Written by: Randy Newman



youtube.com/watch?v=BBOQiMxwk1o&fmt=18

+ The Beach Boys - It's A Beautiful Day (In L.A.) 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWxg_WPnT8M&fmt=18

Wiki info:
"It's a Beautiful Day" is a song written by Mike Love and Al Jardine for the American pop band The Beach Boys. The song was never released on an original Beach Boys album; however, it was released on the soundtrack to the film Americathon and as a single in September 1979 with B-side, "Sumahama". The single charted at #45 in the United States but never charted in the United Kingdom. The song has also been released on the Ten Years of Harmony Beach Boys compilation album.

Los Angeles songs
2Pac, To Live and Die in L.A.
Arlo Guthrie, Coming Into Los Angeles
Art Garfunkel, 99 Miles from L.A.
Bad Religion, Los Angeles is Burning
Beth Hart, L.A. Song
Blue Cheer, Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham
Bran Van 3000, Drinking in L.A.
Counting Crows, Goodnight L.A.
Dr. Dre, Some L.A. Niggaz
Elf, L.A. 59
Elliott Smith, Angeles
Fischenspooner, L.A. Song
Frank Black, Los Angeles
Frank Sinatra, L.A. Is My Lady
James Taylor, Honey, Don't Leave L.A.
Jim's Big Ego, Los Angeles
Lightning Hopkins, Los Angeles Blues
Liz Phair, Dogs of L.A.
Missing Persons, Walking in L.A.
Nazareth, L.A. Girls
Patsy Gallant, From New York to L.A.
Pigmy Love Circus, King of L.A.
Rainbow, L.A. Connections
Randy Newman, I Love L.A.
Slade, L.A. Jinx
Supergrass, L.A. Song
The Adolescents, L.A. Girl
The Bobs, Christmas in L.A.
The Decemberists, Los Angeles I'm Yours
The Doors, L.A. Woman
The Stooges, L.A. Blues
Wang Chung, To Live and Die in Los Angeles
Warren Zevon, Join Me In L.A.
X, Los Angeles

Also at Los Angeles:
Cheech & Chong, Born in East L.A.
Jimmy Webb, MacArthur Park
MC Honky, The Devil Went Down to Silver Lake
R.E.M., South Central Rain

+ see more
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_liedjes_met_een_Californische_plaatsnaam_in_de_titel

2010/01/10

THE BEACH BOYS' MIKE LOVE: STEPPING OUT OF THE SURF

"Last week in Vancouver we sold out the Canadian National Exhibition Hall twice.
We had 17,500 for each show and over 5,000 additional fans had to be turned away.
We broke the Beatles' record set in 1964," Mike Love said in his Santa Barbara home.

12/21/1974 Harvey Kubernik
http://www.sonicboomers.com/pastprint/beach-boys-mike-love-stepping-out-surf

2010/01/09

DEAN O. TORRENCE (KITTYHAWK GRAPHICS)



Dean O. Torrence is best know as half of the early 60s surf kings, Jan & Dean.
But, album cover enthusiasts also know him as the artist, designer and founder of Kittyhawk Graphics, the company responsible for a wide array of earthy and inventive album covers, including a half dozen creations for Harry Nilsson.

dec 2009
http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2009/12/dean-o-torrence-kittyhawk-graphics.html

2010/01/08

TORRENCE WILL RIDE A WAVE OF JAN & DEAN NOSTALGIA INTO THOUSAND OAKS ON SATURDAY

The Dean of surf music

Back in the early ’60s, Southern California was the place to be. We enjoyed free parking at our own beaches, better surf, great music all over AM radio from all those surf bands, especially — cowabunga! — Dick Dale and the Beach Boys.

January 8, 2010 Bill Locey
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jan/08/the-dean-of-surf-music-torrence-will-ride-a-wave/

THIS MUCH I KNOW

Quote:

It will only take a slight little idea, a starting melody, to make my whole day.

24 August 2008 John Hind
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/24/popandrock

COMPOSER REINVENTS THE PIANO

'Fluid' instrument allows pianists to alter sound before or while they play

Smith, a Brighton-based composer and performer, said:
"The fluid piano is a western piano as we know it, similar to an early fortepiano, but because of the tuning mechanisms, suddenly, musicians can explore scales from the Middle East, from Iran."

23 November 2009 Mark Brown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/23/composer-fluid-piano-geoff-smith

2010/01/03

Fleetwood Mac - As Long as You Follow

1988

Written by: Christine McVie (who also performs the lead vocals on the song) and her then-husband Eddy Quintela

youtube.com/watch?v=ROGEHq1WZqU&fmt=18