50 Tracks sampler cd or concert idea

 01 I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
 02 Southern California
 03 Saturday Morning In The City
 04 South American
 05 Kokomo
 06 Love And Mercy (complete with bridge)
 07 Getcha Back
 08 Heaven TRIBUTE TO CARL
 09 Goin´ On
 10 Shortenin´ Bread
 11 Almost Summer CELEBRATION
 12 My Diane
 13 Rainbows TRIBUTE TO DENNIS
 14 The Night Was So Young
 15 Had To Phone Ya
 16 Sail On Sailor
 17 Marcella
 18´Til I Die
 19 This Whole World
 20 Break Away

B R E A K / P A R T   2

 21 Do It Again
 22 Little Bird
 23 Busy Doin´ Nothing
 24 Aren´t You Glad
 25 Darlin´
 26 Wonderful (SMiLE part 2)
 27 Song For Children (SMiLE part 2)
 28 Child Is The Father Of The Man (SMiLE part 2)
 29 Surf's Up (SMiLE part 2)
 30 Heroes & Villains
 31 Good Vibrations
 32 God Only Knows
 33 Sloop John B
 34 The Little Girl I Once Knew
 35 California Girls
 36 Help Me Rhonda
 37 Dance Dance Dance
 38 Please Let Me Wonder
 39 The Little Old Lady From Pasedena
 40 All Summer Long
 41 Wendy
 42 The Warmth Of The Sun
 43 Fun Fun Fun

E N C O R E


 44 409 (starting with motor sounds)
 45 Little Deuce Coupe
 46 In My Room 
 47 Catch A Wave
 48 Shut Down
 49 Surfin´ USA
 
F I N A L   E N C O R E

50 Surfer Girl

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50 PLAYLIST: (I've found them all except for South American)

Exclusive: Mike Love 'Looking Forward' to Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Tour

December 19, 2011 -> rollingstone.com

'We're using most of Brian Wilson's band,' says Love

A Very She & Him Christmas

1. "The Christmas Waltz" Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 2:37
2. "Christmas Day" Brian Wilson 3:24
3. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin 3:42
4. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" Walter Kent, Kim Gannon, Buck Ram 2:26
5. "Christmas Wish" Joey Spampinato 2:58
6. "Sleigh Ride" Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish 2:44
7. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" Johnny Marks 2:00
8. "Silver Bells" Jay Livingston, Ray Evans 1:57
9. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Frank Loesser 2:17
10. "Blue Christmas" Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson 3:24
11. "Little Saint Nick" Wilson, Mike Love 2:10
12. "The Christmas Song" Bob Wells, Mel Tormé 2:26



-> external playlist



The Beach Boys: The SMiLE Sessions (by Thomas Britt)

16 dec 2011 -> popmatters.com

According to Brian Wilson, that modular approach to songwriting is both the album’s mission and its undoing.

Brian Wilson's California (Playlist)

The Beach Boys - All I Wanna Do

1970

Gevorderden improviseren het best zonder leider (Advanced people improvise best without leader)

12 dec 2011 -> nu.nl

Gevorderde acteurs improviseren het beste wanneer niemand daarbij de leiding heeft. Ze raken dan in een 'staat van gezamenlijke improvisatie', die ze mét leider niet bereiken.

Dat schrijven Amerikaanse en Israëlische biologen maandag in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift PNAS.

Improvisatie is het uitvoeren van een creatieve taak, waarbij vooraf zo min mogelijk aanwijzingen zijn gegeven.

Voorbeelden zijn freestyle rappen en improvisatietoneel, maar ook spontane gesprekken kun je improvisatie noemen.


Spiegelspel

Bij gezamenlijke improvisatie komt de actie van de een voort uit die van de ander. Hoe die improvisatie het beste resultaat oplevert, onderzochten de biologen aan de hand van 'het spiegelspel'.

In dit spel voor twee is het de bedoeling dat een van de tegenspelers spontane bewegingen begint te maken en de ander die zo snel en goed mogelijk imiteert. Daardoor lijkt het alsof de bewegingen ingestudeerd zijn.

De onderzoekers lieten ervaren en onervaren improvisatoren het spel spelen. Afwisselend wezen de onderzoekers daarbij wel en geen leider aan.


Secuur

In de sessies met leider imiteerden de ervaren acteurs minder secuur. Bovendien hadden de imitatoren moeite om dezelfde snelheid als het voorbeeld aan te houden. Hun bewegingen gingen steeds iets te langzaam of te snel.

Onervaren acteurs presteerden een stuk slechter dan ervaren acteurs, helemaal wanneer niemand werd aangewezen om de leiding te nemen.

Volgens de onderzoekers komen gelijkwaardige, ervaren improvisatoren wanneer geen van beide officieel de leiding heeft tot onbewust overeengekomen bewegingen. Ze hebben dan in feite steeds allebei de leiding. Is een van de twee aangewezen als leider, dan ontstaat die 'staat van gezamenlijke improvisatie' niet.


Onervaren

Onervaren acteurs bereikten met leider wel iets beter dan zonder, maar bereikten in geen van de gevallen de 'gezamenlijke improvisatiestaat'.

In feite zou je de bijeenkomsten van Occupy-demonstranten ook improvisatie kunnen noemen. Zij kiezen uit principe geen leiders. Dat blijkt dus niet alleen een effectief middel tegen machtsmisbruik, maar in het geval van ervaren demonstranten ook goed voor het improvisatievermogen.

Sounds Heard: The Beach Boys—The Smile Sessions

 December 8, 2011 -> newmusicbox.org

Randall Roberts, in one of several pieces on The Smile Sessions that ran recently in The Los Angeles Times, has stated that “every library of American recording history needs this; university composition departments, music professors, budding recording engineers and composers should study it.”

SMiLE is so good, it makes Pet Sounds stink!

That was an emotional statement once made by Dennis Wilson.
Now, let's try a rational scientific calculation, based upon my own preferences (which of course are very subjective).
The question is, which album is better?

I made a TOP 30 of SMiLE and Pet Sounds songs all together:

TOP 30 by Aumbop

It was 45 years ago

It was 8:22 (morning or evening?)

more photos -> amoeba.com

Brian Wilson Signing December 6th, 2011 - Amoeba Record Store, San Francisco (fragment of a photo by Kaitlin Layher)

GuitarConnect ProAnalog to digital interface for iPad and iPhone 4

Plug your instrument into the 1/4" jack and you have a noise-free, 100% digital connection from your instrument to GarageBand. And GuitarConnect Pro's gain control lets you control the strength of your input signal.

-> store.griffintechnology.com

See also iTar

Famous keyboard/piano player Larry Knechtel about Pet Sounds

-> larryknechtel.com

This conversation, with David Leaf, originally appeared in "The Making of Pet Sounds" book, part of Capitol's Grammy-nominated 4-CD The Pet Sounds Sessions box set, which was released in 1997.

LARRY KNECHTEL: "I started working with Brian because I had been working with Spector...



+ live version of Bridge Over Troubled Water, sung beautifully by James Griffin with Larry Knechtel on piano, from the Bread reunion tour in 1997.

Beach Boys Britain 50 Years Under The Sun weekend parts 1&2



Dec 3, 2011 -> lucyswebdesigns.co.uk

Well we have been looking forward to this event for what seems like a year now, and finally the weekend rolled around. We headed down from Enfield dropped Poppy off en route with my folks in Crick.

The event took place in the Wycliffe Rooms in Lutterworth, a venue that has some very fond recollections for us in Beach Boy world...

Part 1

Part 2

+ Videos

IconFetch: SMiLE Followup parts 1&2 - Mark Linett & Alan Boyd

Part 1 -> 440-mark-linett-a-alan-boyd-smile-followup.html

Part 2 -> 450-smile-followup-part-two-mark-linett-a-alan-boyd.html

(Special message by Aumbop)

MARK LINETT
&
ALAN BOYD

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

A Child’s Guide to SMiLE

 How would SMiLE—the infamous unfinished album—hold up as a children’s recording?

Friday, December 2, 2011 -> mdarlings.com 

The Wrecking Crew left its musical mark on pop culture

06 November 2011 -> goldminemag.com

If you were asked to name the best bassists in rock music, Paul McCartney and John Entwistle would quickly come to mind. Ask for legendary rock guitarists and Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen would be uttered frequently. Seek the names of some great rock drummers and chances are you’d hear Keith Moon, John Bonham and Ringo Starr.

But if you browsed my list, you’ll find bassists Carol Kaye and Chuck Berghofer, guitarists Tommy Tedesco, Al Casey and Bill Pitman, and drummers Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer and Jim Gordon at the top. After scratching your head in puzzlement, I’d probably hear, “Who the hell are they?” as a common response.

Their names may be unfamiliar, but you’ve played air guitar, pencil-on-desk drums and hummed along to hundreds of classic hit records, commercial jingles and TV and movie themes from the late ’50s throughout the mid-’70s on which these and several other key session musicians performed. They are:

+ Interview with drummer Hall Blaine

Behind The Sounds update!

It's been awhile since I've listened to the amazingly great BehindTheSounds channel. Now I see (the long awaited) part 2 of God Only Knows is out (since July), and the newest is I Know There's An Answer! (since August)

Maybe with all 13 tracks done, it would be a nice document on a dvd?

Behind The Sounds: I Know There's An Answer






Behind The Sounds: God Only Knows Part 2






Behind The Sounds: God Only Knows Part 1 (most viewed, over 133,333 views!)

How to Steal a SMiLE : An Alternate History of The Beach Boys’ Lost Classic




2011/11/30 -> relix.com

There are those who maintain that the “Mona Lisa” on display in the Louvre in Paris is a fake, replaced by a forgery after its daring 1911 theft. The appearance of The Beach Boys’ SMiLE during this shopping season might raise similar eyebrows, but it will undoubtedly induce equally deep ear-to-ear expressions of happiness a few inches below.