Brian Wilson in Glasgow - Page 3

gabrillowise · 11th January 2004, 10:53 PM

No, alas, my computer can't handle it. I have a hotmail account if that helps...

daniel_goldbloom · 11th January 2004, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by gabrillowise

No, alas, my computer can't handle it. I have a hotmail account if that helps...

Is your computer made of paper and biscuits?

gabrillowise · 11th January 2004, 11:11 PM

I think...

...sorry, I was just wiping some stray garibaldi from the keyboard. What were you saying?

My brother had it for a while but it crashed. I think I'm getting a new one soon.

daniel_goldbloom · 12th January 2004, 01:45 AM

Thought i'd post this, it's Van Dyke Parks discussing the Smile tour and his help with it.

"Smile" sat there, like the bride's cake on Miss Havisham's table--- a memento from another age, an age of "Great Expectations"! I thought that cake had collapsed. It had been such a beautiful thing, some 40 years ago, when it was hot out of the oven. It had laid there, in the shadows all this time. I avoided the mention of it. What kind of fare for the light of day, I wondered. I waited for Brian to see if and how he related it to his formidable body of work. Too true, I've autographed uncountable copies of "Smile", all boot-leg, from "appreciative fans" of Brian. Each time I did, an impish banker on my left shoulder, dressed in red, said: "Another Pirate!" But I always have signed this work, without mention of my own debts. Now I must take the opportunity to thank Brian in-public for tearing open those old curtains and letting the sun shine once again on this inspired, serio-comic work. In summer '03, I read in the press that "Smile" would be Brian's next tour. I wondered for two months longer what form that music would take. Did Brian imagine I wasn't interested? Finally, he asked me up to listen. Invited up to the Wilson house in the Hollywood Hills. Like a deer in the head-lights, I lugged my 60 year-old frame to his music-room and heard the collection for the first time in 37 years. I had dreaded that moment so, not knowing what the results could be after such a time of dashed expectations. Would it simply be a veteran's repetition of some youthful glory or folly? In sitting with Brian and his musical director Darian, I immediately felt a wash of great relief come over me at first listening. "Smile" strikes me as a wondrous achievement from a 24 year old musician and a 22 year old lyricist. It's robust and athletic, with all the promise talented youth suggests. It's kind on the ears. Perhaps now, people may remember that "Surf's Up"" was cited by composer Leonard Bernstein as "a significant contribution to American Popular Music of the 20th Century..." I agree with Lenny. Brian has made a lasting contribution in this work. In performing "Smile", he opens his heart to a possibly vulgar public gaze. What has he got that I ain't got? Courage! Only at one point during the playback of Smile in that recent time in his music room did I lose an immediate recall. I just couldn't place the music. It slowly dawned on me; the section I was hearing came from the inferno of "The Elements" ("Fire"). I'd sat out that so-called "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" session in 1966; I felt an emerging irrelevance. With no lyrics, yet. The writing was on the wall. So when "The Elements" (the only piece of "The Elements" I worked on was "Vege-Tables") were all brought together by Brian for this performance, I heard in this troubling section (as will you) a suspended E chord that hangs on forever in a miasma of some new breed of transcendental mock-Asiatic chant. Half- Hopi....half- Himalayan. Definitely new-age stuff. On the old tapes, the meditative chant of Mike Love came through as the dominant consolation. This chant, I'm told, was recorded in the spring of 1967, long after I'd departed the scene for "Palm Desert" and my just desserts. Still Mike's voice somehow consoled me now in the present tense. And the "Fire" section typified the events that surrounded Brian in that turbulent time. Retrospection brings greater clarity to those events, with a wide pallet of emotional force. I'm thrilled Brian asked me to include some thoughts on this. Brian's staging "Smile" feels like a validation. And, I feel my own work has been validated by his so doing. Hell, I almost feel relevant...although I still can't tell you what I meant by the words: "Over and over the crow cries uncover the cornfield". It does test "poetic license." "Smile" has snap, crackle, and pop. Its audio imagery (Brian), its insouciant visuals (Frank Holmes), and its skewed lyrics all give anecdote to the great American dream. Don't waken me. With a salute to Brian, Van Dyke Parks Los Angeles Dec. 24, 2003"

gabrillowise · 12th January 2004, 05:44 PM

I can hardly contain my excitement!!

Well, it seems that my computer isn't as terrible as I thought it was. I just downloaded msn! Hoorrah!

ana_saba · 4th February 2004, 11:57 PM

hello

earmuffin · 3rd March 2004, 08:23 PM

yeah..........hello
i'm superchuffed for all you kids going to see thon auld beachboy guy, brian may or whatever he's called..........

hold up a lighter for me

gabrillowise · 7th March 2004, 11:14 AM

hello grace

you just got me in the mood to listen to some Queen, thanks for that

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11th January 2004, 10:53 PM	#31 (permalink)
gabrillowise Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: the forest haven Posts: 2,043	No, alas, my computer can't handle it. I have a hotmail account if that helps...

11th January 2004, 11:11 PM	#33 (permalink)
gabrillowise Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: the forest haven Posts: 2,043	I think... ...sorry, I was just wiping some stray garibaldi from the keyboard. What were you saying? My brother had it for a while but it crashed. I think I'm getting a new one soon.

12th January 2004, 01:45 AM	#34 (permalink)
daniel_goldbloom Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Foodieash Posts: 2,308	Thought i'd post this, it's Van Dyke Parks discussing the Smile tour and his help with it. "Smile" sat there, like the bride's cake on Miss Havisham's table--- a memento from another age, an age of "Great Expectations"! I thought that cake had collapsed. It had been such a beautiful thing, some 40 years ago, when it was hot out of the oven. It had laid there, in the shadows all this time. I avoided the mention of it. What kind of fare for the light of day, I wondered. I waited for Brian to see if and how he related it to his formidable body of work. Too true, I've autographed uncountable copies of "Smile", all boot-leg, from "appreciative fans" of Brian. Each time I did, an impish banker on my left shoulder, dressed in red, said: "Another Pirate!" But I always have signed this work, without mention of my own debts. Now I must take the opportunity to thank Brian in-public for tearing open those old curtains and letting the sun shine once again on this inspired, serio-comic work. In summer '03, I read in the press that "Smile" would be Brian's next tour. I wondered for two months longer what form that music would take. Did Brian imagine I wasn't interested? Finally, he asked me up to listen. Invited up to the Wilson house in the Hollywood Hills. Like a deer in the head-lights, I lugged my 60 year-old frame to his music-room and heard the collection for the first time in 37 years. I had dreaded that moment so, not knowing what the results could be after such a time of dashed expectations. Would it simply be a veteran's repetition of some youthful glory or folly? In sitting with Brian and his musical director Darian, I immediately felt a wash of great relief come over me at first listening. "Smile" strikes me as a wondrous achievement from a 24 year old musician and a 22 year old lyricist. It's robust and athletic, with all the promise talented youth suggests. It's kind on the ears. Perhaps now, people may remember that "Surf's Up"" was cited by composer Leonard Bernstein as "a significant contribution to American Popular Music of the 20th Century..." I agree with Lenny. Brian has made a lasting contribution in this work. In performing "Smile", he opens his heart to a possibly vulgar public gaze. What has he got that I ain't got? Courage! Only at one point during the playback of Smile in that recent time in his music room did I lose an immediate recall. I just couldn't place the music. It slowly dawned on me; the section I was hearing came from the inferno of "The Elements" ("Fire"). I'd sat out that so-called "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" session in 1966; I felt an emerging irrelevance. With no lyrics, yet. The writing was on the wall. So when "The Elements" (the only piece of "The Elements" I worked on was "Vege-Tables") were all brought together by Brian for this performance, I heard in this troubling section (as will you) a suspended E chord that hangs on forever in a miasma of some new breed of transcendental mock-Asiatic chant. Half- Hopi....half- Himalayan. Definitely new-age stuff. On the old tapes, the meditative chant of Mike Love came through as the dominant consolation. This chant, I'm told, was recorded in the spring of 1967, long after I'd departed the scene for "Palm Desert" and my just desserts. Still Mike's voice somehow consoled me now in the present tense. And the "Fire" section typified the events that surrounded Brian in that turbulent time. Retrospection brings greater clarity to those events, with a wide pallet of emotional force. I'm thrilled Brian asked me to include some thoughts on this. Brian's staging "Smile" feels like a validation. And, I feel my own work has been validated by his so doing. Hell, I almost feel relevant...although I still can't tell you what I meant by the words: "Over and over the crow cries uncover the cornfield". It does test "poetic license." "Smile" has snap, crackle, and pop. Its audio imagery (Brian), its insouciant visuals (Frank Holmes), and its skewed lyrics all give anecdote to the great American dream. Don't waken me. With a salute to Brian, Van Dyke Parks Los Angeles Dec. 24, 2003"

12th January 2004, 05:44 PM	#35 (permalink)
gabrillowise Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: the forest haven Posts: 2,043	I can hardly contain my excitement!! Well, it seems that my computer isn't as terrible as I thought it was. I just downloaded msn! Hoorrah!

4th February 2004, 11:57 PM	#36 (permalink)
ana_saba Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: motherhell, near glasgow Posts: 1,209	hello

3rd March 2004, 08:23 PM	#37 (permalink)
earmuffin Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: I'm there. Posts: 1,649	yeah..........hello i'm superchuffed for all you kids going to see thon auld beachboy guy, brian may or whatever he's called.......... hold up a lighter for me

7th March 2004, 11:14 AM	#38 (permalink)
gabrillowise Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: the forest haven Posts: 2,043	hello grace you just got me in the mood to listen to some Queen, thanks for that