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In Reply to: They were phonies. Your memory is shot, J. Read the posted by tinear on February 22, 2007 at 08:38:50:
The ONLY significant developments relative to politics or activism was Carl's draft status until WELL past the point where Brian had detached from the band following the abandonment of SMiLE.I don't really care if you don't like the Beach Boys. However, flaunting ignorance is undignified. And you do not know what you're talking about. Framing an opinion on the music of the Beach Boys based on Mike Love being a Republican is like framing an opinion on the music of Wings based on Linda Eastman being a vegetarian. In other words, completely & utterly irrelevant to the music.
The opportunistic phony was Mike Love, who also managed to come up with 'Student Demonstration Time.'
Nobody with the remotest clue about complex vocal harmonies would say anything so foolish as what you're saying here. Do yrself a favor & drop it. Seriously.
Follow Ups:
avoid saying anything that could be used against them. NO CONTROVERSY!!! Not to mention ripping off Cell Block....
The Beach Boys blew their opportunity to be THE AMERICAN band when they dodged the issues of drugs and Viet Nam, and they deservedly went into oblivion. Their ONLY work of real note, as to being fun to listen to, is Smile.
In the late 60s?
I don't think so.
Between the live album in the early 70s and Holland, if nothing else, they were still pretty popular.
In fact I believe they probably played to more people after 1970 than before as their popularity was rekindled under the more conservative climate as the baby boomers reached...mmm... comfortable maturity, and as with American Graffiti, could openly enjoy their heritage.
On the other hand, Brian Wilson's credibility has maintained through the years and when he finally toured the re-considered Smile album it was a huge success both on disc and as a ticket seller.
Love was of course the complete toss-pot of the band, not just conservative in politics but a man fantastically obsessed with turning himself into a mindless conveyor belt of teen pap. One wonders about his tastes in women...
taste in\for women.
... as Skip Spen..., sorry, Brian Wilson wasn't playing with them.
As he was clearly lead guit... sorry, the main songwriter and an essential singer, it wasn't The BBs.
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... MAKE HIM STOP!
Like ordering Avacor and stuff.
bleep
No, I agree with Dave. When you're putting out records like Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20 (in spite of the blatant #9 rip), Sunflower, et al, yeah, Surf's Up too, in 3-4 years, that's hardly oblivion. And some of those records sold respectably considering how out of vogue they became practically overnight. BW has always claimed that he likes Friends as much as any BBs album.As a live act, that's a different story. I seem to remember reading that a 1968 show was played in front of 150 people. In Alabama or someplace like that? However, they kept at it, and since Wild Honey on the records weren't being made by outside musicians, their stage chops only got better. Within a couple of years they were once again a fairly prominent live act, playing presigious venues, if not arenas or stadiums. After American Graffiti's impact, their continuing success as a live act was virtually assured.
Wenner went out of his way to file them away into oblivion, but it didn't work since they were more than he judged them to be. Same with Hendrix, who was specifically anti-Beach Boys, and the hippie movement was conditioned to reject the BBs by some of the then-newly popular California guitar-based bands.
Crosby, Stills & Nash never backed off their love of the BBs. The Beatles led off the White Album with a BBs rip/tribute. Linda Ronstadt claims that BW has no equal in pop music in the 2nd half of the 20th Century. And on and on. BW did seem to pull some bizarre shit & was probably quite difficult at times given the mental problems & the drug abuse, but I think oblivion is incorrectly used here. Those recs are quite solid, and later absorbing Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar was a good move too.
Although I don't think they ever really came back on the recording side, they still did manage hits (Sail On Sailor, Chuck Berry's Rock And Roll Music, etc.) nearly up to the point where they cashed in on Sunkist using Good Vibrations circa 1978.
the smoke filled rooms of Grace Slick, Jimi, Janis, Country Joe, Morrison, Cippolini, et al.
You make another good point: they were the first corporate suck-ups.
It's about religion.
So's this. Silly, but harmless.
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