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they went into oblivion as a recording act, and Mike Love has not

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In Reply to: "they deservedly went into oblivion" posted by dave c on February 22, 2007 at 12:07:53:

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Dui, by your own defintion it wasn't The Beach Boys... - dave c 14:34:40 02/22/07 (4)
... 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.
- stop drinking. Follow Britney's lead. nt - Duilawyer 18:41:04 02/22/07 (3)
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  - message to the board... I'm sorry, a message to the bald... - dave c 22:17:24 02/22/07 (2)
    ... MAKE HIM STOP!
    - I'm sorry, but we're busy dealing with our own issues. - The Bald 10:34:04 02/23/07 (1)
      Like ordering Avacor and stuff.
      - you can't sweep your issues under the rug. nt - dave c 11:59:30 02/23/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: I'm sorry, but we're busy dealing with our own issues. posted by The Bald on February 23, 2007 at 10:34:04:
        
        bleep
Re: - J 13:39:55 02/22/07 (1)
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.
- Ah, yes, a conspiracy! "Down with the Beach Boys," echoed through - tinear 19:11:24 02/22/07 (0)
  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.

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