2011/07/27

Brian Wilson returns to St. Charles to perform, record.

27/7/2011 -> dailyherald.com

When Brian Wilson arrives in St. Charles this weekend for a Saturday show at the Arcada, it will be something of a homecoming for the former Beach Boy, who recorded his 1998 album “Imagination” in a house just a few miles from where he'll be playing.

But what really should have his Illinois fans excited is the fact the legendary songwriter liked recording here so much, he plans to do it again.

2011/07/18

DVD REVIEW - WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY

The story of Dewey Cox, a fictional US rock musician, is a close parallel of 2005's Walk the Line, a biography of Johnny Cash, but it is also a parody of the biopic genre as a whole.

(2008 Dec 5 / Vladimir Kozlov)http://www.mnweekly.ru/dvdrev/20081205/55359832.html

+ Black Sheep Music Video (Van Dyke Parks / Brian Wilson style)

2011/07/13

The legendary photographer Guy Webster

One of the early innovators of rock-and-roll photography, renowned photographer Guy Webster has spanned the worlds of music, films and politics in a stellar 40-year career. While shooting album covers and billboards for groups that included The Rolling Stones, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel and Chicago, he also photographed such film legends as Rita Hayworth, Dean Martin and Natalie Wood.

about Guy Webster

+ interview from pipeline-operaglass.moonfruit.com

+ SweetThingBlog from daughter Jessie Webster

The photographs from the 1967 SMiLE booklet were by Guy Webster. Jessie Webster is now also involved with the release of The SMiLE Sessions 2011. Design, artwork, photo..? It's top secret!

2011/07/12

THE PUZZLE OF BRIAN WILSON’S SMILE

IN A RADIO PROGRAM broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in the early 1990s, Beach Boys band member Bruce Johnston was asked about the status of Brian Wilson’s legendary unfinished album Smile. This is what he said:

"It’s not far from completion. That could be completed if he wanted to put the energy into it. I don’t think I’d attempt to do it. ’Cause it’s not my work, you know. I’d rather he did it. It’s in fragments. It’s just a bunch of fragments. And they’re really good, really superb . . . fragments."

2005 Nov 11 - Rob C. Wegman
http://www.princeton.edu/~rwegman/lectures/smile.htm

Wrecking Crew Movie Still Unreleased

07.06.2011 -> gibson.com
The collective of Los Angeles studio musicians dubbed “The Wrecking Crew” have earned tons of respect in the music community – and yet most of the music-loving public has no idea who most of these people were.
Sure, they know the songs by Frank Sinatra or The Beach Boys, but they’re not nearly as familiar with Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine, bassist Carol Kaye or guitarist Tommy Tedesco. And that’s something Tommy’s son Denny wanted to change

MADNESS AND GENIUS ARE CLOSE RELATIONS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS

It's often said that there is a fine line between lunacy and brilliance, but mental illness can actually be an artist's inspiration.

May 31, 2010 David Porter
http://personalitymooddisorders.suite101.com/article.cfm/madness-and-genius-are-close-relations-in-the-creative-arts

2011/06/25

The astonishing genius of Brian Wilson

24 June 2011 -> guardian.co.uk
I meet Brian Wilson in the tiny, windowless conference room of a Mayfair hotel, where he is promoting his latest series of British concerts

The amazing David McGuire

Just focus on the vocals of this GREAT singer... this is not the beach Boys, this is not Brian Wilson... or?

The Little Girl I Once Knew


I know There's An Answer





+ more on YouKiwi

2011/06/22

It's a family affair for Wilson Phillips, coming to Mount Pleasant's Soaring Eagle

Carnie Wilson is multi-tasking, but that’s hardly anything new.
“I’m in the studio,” she explained as her publicist patched her into our phone interview. Along with sister Wendy Wilson and friend Chynna Phillips — collectively known as Wilson Phillips — she’s recording an album of Beach Boys and Mamas and Papas covers.
June 20, 2011 -> mlive.com

2011/06/19

Concert review: Brian Wilson at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts; June 17, 2011

There’s a built-in awkwardness to a group of people, mostly way past their 50s, singing anthems of youthful innocence and fun, led in song by the haunted genius who wrote them, but now seems neither in that world nor in this one.
June 18, 2011 -> montrealgazette.com


2011/06/15

SMiLE! It's MOJO '60s

It's a new kind of MOJO Special Edition, a deluxe package devoted to the decade that a sage once described as the greatest in the history of mankind.
2011/06/11 ->mojo4music.com

+ single details

2011/06/14

ELS BEACH BOYS ORIGINALS

També han estat Beach Boys:
Han treballat o treballen pels Beach Boys com a músics de suport:
Actualment els Beach Boys són:
Acompanyats pels músics de suport:
Brian Wilson i la seva banda (Brian's Band) actualment:
Han treballat o fan de substituts per la Brian's Band:
Al Jardine's Endless Summer Band (actualment):
També han treballat per Al Jardine (Al Jardine, Family & Friends / Al Jardine's Endless Summer Band):
-> personales.ya.com (The Beach Boys .es)

2011/06/11

'CRASHING THE SCENE' THE WRECKING CREW'S INFLUENCE ON ROCK 'N' ROLL

 Randi, 74, has since gone on to a career as a jazz musician, of late fronting Don Randi & Quest. He's also owned The Baked Potato jazz club in Studio City for 41 years, and has worked with Nancy Sinatra off and on for around 45 years.
He fondly recalls his days in The Wrecking Crew.
2011/06/10 -> vcstar.com
Don Randi, Glen Campbell and Hal Blaine


2011/06/09

NXNE TO HONOUR BEACH BOY LEGEND

TORONTO (CP) — Beach Boy legend Brian Wilson will be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the North by Northeast music festival later this month
2011-june-7 -> thestar.com

+ nowtoronto.com/guides/nxne/2011/story.cfm?content=181296

Annette Funicello - California Sun

1963

1961 Written by: Henry Glover and Morris Levy




Californië songs (artist links nl.wikipedia.org )Al Jolson, California, Here I Come
Band de Soleil, California
Cheap Trick, California Man
Chilliwack, California Girl
Dead Kennedys, California Über Alles
Dj Sammy, California Dreaming
Dr. Dre en 2Pac, California Love
Dressy Bessy, California
Enrique Iglesias, California Calling
Flash And The Pan, California
Fu Manchu, California Crossing
Havalina, California
Hawk Nelson, California
Jackie Lomax, California
Jo Dee Messina, Heads Carolina, Tails California
Joni Mitchell, California
Kenny Chesney, California
Kings of Leon, California Waiting
Klaatu, California Jam
Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers, All the Gold in California
Laura Nyro, California Shoeshine Boys
Led Zeppelin, Going to California
Lenny Kravitz, California
Lesley Gore, California Nights
LL Cool J, Goin' Back to Cali
Mack 10, Only in California
Matmos, California Rhinoplasty
Motorpsycho, Go to California
Mr.Criminal, California Blows My Mind
Phantom Planet, California
Pink, Gone to California
Propellerheads, Take California
Quasi, California
Ratsy, California
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dani California
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication
R.E.M., I Remember California
Roy Orbison, California Blue
Rufus Wainwright, California
Sloan, Losing California
Stan Rogers, California
Stereophonics, Plastic California
The 5th Dimension, California Soul
The Beach Boys, California Girls
Gecoverd door David Lee Roth
The Candy Butchers, California Girl
The Decemberists, California' One/Youth and Beauty Brigade
The Dictators, California Sun
Ook door: Annette Funicello, The Ramones en The Rivieras
The Eagles, Hotel California
The Kooks, California
The Mamas & The Papas, California Dreamin'
The Move, California Man
The Runaways, California Paradise
Transplants, California Babylon
Walter Murphy, California Strut
Wax, California
Weezer, California
Wilco, California Stars
Wilson Phillips, California

2010/10/12

R.I.P. SOLOMON BURKE, 1940-2010


'The King of Rock And Soul'
Solomon Burke was a minor star if measured solely by chart success, he had five top forty hits in the early 1960s for Atlantic and largely fell into obscurity thereafter, bouncing from label to label throughout the '70s, '80s and '90s.

He also had one of the stranger resumes among those inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was a preacher, an undertaker, a businessman and host of a gospel radio show on top of being the undisputed King of Rock and Soul for nearly five decades. He held the record for most rejections before induction, too.
-> 2010-10-11

+ American Soul Legend Solomon Burke Dies in the Netherlands at 70

2010/10/09

BEACH BOYS MOVIE SHOOT IN TORONTO?

Dennis, David, Carl, Mike and Brian

Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the team behind the Toronto-shot movie version of Hairspray, have joined actor John Stamos in getting the ball rolling on an as yet-untitled project that will use the music of the Beach Boys.

The film isn’t expected to follow in the footsteps of biopics focusing on musicians, like Ray or Walk the Line, instead it will be more in the vein of the stage-musical-turned-movie Mamma Mia! which utilized the music of ABBA to tell a fictional story.

2010-10-07 examiner.com/movies-in-toronto/
beach-boys-movie-to-shoot-toronto

2010/10/07

THE BEACH BOYS' AL JARDINE HOLDS A COMING-OUT PARTY FOR HIS NEW SOLO ALBUM 'A POSTCARD FROM CALIFORNIA' AT HENRY MILLER LIBRARY


Al Jardine of the Beach Boys will be doing something Friday night for the first time since moving to Big Sur more than 30 years ago.

He'll play his first concert with his own band in what is practically his own backyard, the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur.

2010-10-07 Al Jardine's new cd live party!

2010/10/06

STILL BEAUTIFUL AND HARMONIOUS

[The Beach Boys w/ On the Hunt, The Blue Dogs @ Mount Pleasant Hospital. Sun., Oct. 10]

Charleston musician David Stewart developed a deep love for the Beach Boys in elementary school.

2010-10-05
Blue Dogs make the case for California pop legends the Beach Boys

+ The Blue Dogs Biography

2010/10/05

'ADZ'MAY BE STEVENS BEST YET

Sufjan Stevens has a new cd!


Frenetic waves of cascading glitch electronics abruptly end as soon as they seem to start. Swirling psychedelic soundscapes envelope the listener with warmth and somewhere, just outside of the mix, one can hear the familiar comfort and vulnerability of every Sufjan Stevens’ song of the past decade.


2010-10-04 ADZ review
Official site

Listen:
> Sufjan Stevens - I Want To Be Well
> Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices