"We've got another famous California group here," Jerry Garcia casually announced during the middle night of the Grateful Dead's five-night run to close the Fillmore East in April 1971. "It's the Beach Boys."The group joined the Dead for five songs and played two by themselves in the middle. Like many jams before and since it didn’t really jell, though hearing Jerry Garcia’s guitar tentatively
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The new Beach Boys compilation (Summer Love Songs) from Capitol includes a long out of print song written and sung by Dennis Wilson called Fallin' in Love. The song is interesting in that it foreshadows his proper solo album (Pacific Ocean Blue), which was re-released with bonus tracks to great fanfare in 2008. The word is that the song is an outtake from the Wildflower sessions. The string...
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The Beach Boys claims that Roy Sciacca and Allen Gaba had stolen memorabilia from their North Hollywood warehouse in 1994 have been thrown out. Gaba, owner of the warehouse and memorabilia collector Sciacca, were both cleared of a ??$60 million?? dollar lawsuit. The lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge citing 'lack of evidence'.Sciacca contacted a London auction house in 2005 to sell a lot ...
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In this post you missed, because you thought it was about Phish, which it wasn't (they were more of a tertiary character within the grand scheme of the post), I opened it up a bit about the importance of the jam in my life.How appropriate that I would come across this article by Joshua Allen at The Morning News, in which he tells us just why 2:42 is the perfect song length. Here's a snippet:"W...
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THE BEACH BOYS PROVIDE THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK TO SUN-KISSED ROMANCE WITH SUMMER LOVE SONGS, TO BE RELEASED MAY 19 BY CAPITOL/EMINew Collection Features 20 Timeless Classics, Including Six New Stereo Mixes and a Previously Unreleased SongCatch The Beach Boys On Tour This SummerTHE BEACH BOYS: Summer Love Songs (CD, digital)1. Don't Worry, Baby [new stereo mix from newly recovered analog multi-tr...
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In the world of repackaging music, nobody has done more than Capitol with the Beach Boys' catalog. Every year or two, a new compilation is released and 2009 is no exception. This year, it's the 20-track Summer Love Songs which will be in stores and on the digital services on May 19 (May 18 internationally).Not wanting to make this a total rehash, Capitol is including three tracks in stereo mix...
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--- - |- Radiohead, Lennon and R.E.M. too, but "Pet Sounds"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~~- Beach Boys
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The Vegetable Orchestra performs with instruments made out of vegetables. Perhaps Paul McCartney could guest on some celery for some live performances.
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