The Beach Boys original SMiLE to be released on CD and vinyl LP... Part deux

So, as I was saying... err... yes, it'll be nice to finally have it..

 

Re the "Our Prayer" at beginning or end, on BWPS didn't it open the proceedings and then reprise (in part) at the end before "Good Vibrations", so the quote from Vosse stating that it would have been used to close the album doesn't preclude it still being the opener....all the evidence points to this.

 

Sort of officially, yes. Very nice. Hey dog, get out of that sandbox!

 

And I'm standing by that edited version of Prayer which could have been used in such a capacity. use it as an intro then a short riff at the end to say goodbye.

 

Part 2 already? Do we need to go over why Smile as cancelled in 1967, again?

 

So maybe just the excised moment at the end -- the final "ahhhhhhh" before the "hmmmmm?"

 

I'd include a second "hmmmmmm" if it were up to me!

 

I'm half sobbing and half guffawing, but you are nonetheless a poet. HEY, are you "Bellagio Insider," brilliant prankster??? And I'm terribly curious as to who Zodiac is but I'm sure I knew youse back in the day.

It was the Smile Shop that landed me over here at the Hoffman site in the first place.

 

Likewise....

 

I spent many months obsessively checking the Smile Shop boards when I was at the heights of my Smile-mania....

 

I want to see interviews with Marilyn, Diane, Drurie, Carol K., and all the other SMiLE women behind the scenes in the deluxe edition book. It's been an all-boys club for too long...

I would also love it if they included a poster-size copy of the infamous Airport Photo with Brian and friends/associates. And that David Anderle portrait of Brian too.

 

...likewise, obviously!!

 

Any word on whether Durie Parks' acetates are in the brew?

 

Nope not 'Bellagio Insider' (who, like all imposters, took it too far and made a slip), I'm AGD.

 

Currently, I don't think so.

 

Does anybody remember what "Bellagio Insider" was claiming, originally? They sure had a good line, fooled quite a few of us for at least a short amount of time!

 

Nope. But both Al and Bruce have mentioned acetates, though, recently, out of the blue, so you gotta figure those have been gone through at least.

 

Maybe Carl Wilson's sons/ex have/had some as well? Never hear much at all about his Estate and what it contained.

 

Not the biggest BB fan but this is a must buy.

 

Slightly OT, but firmly within the remit of general Smile silliness... someone on A.N. Other MB was going on about the significance of the project being announced by Brian on the 11th (in Billboard and Rolling Stone) - 11 being a significant number, seemingly - until it was pointed out that:

1 - they were 'official' leaks...

2 - ... that weren't by Brian...

3 - ... and the official Capitol press release was yesterday (14th) anyway.

 

(The Zodiac said: But what about that edit of Prayer that has 10 seconds removed? Couldn't it make a "reappearance" at the end of the album and tie it all together? Just spit-balling....)

I was WONDERING when someone would bring this up!

 

Many, many years ago, a leading astronomer of the day received the following telegram from a WR Hearst newspaper:

Require 1000 words subject "life on Mars" soonest

... and in those days, you didn't argue with Hearst, so within the hour, the editor got his article. It comprised the following words, repeated five hundred times:

Nobody knows.

 

" When the project sputtered to a halt due to group politics, business politics, drug use, eroding confidence and what-have-you the group continued to develop new material... " (from post # 472, part 1)

speaking of eroding confidence ... Messrs. Lennon & McCartney sure put a couple of magnum slugs into the wounded smiley beast, didn't they, with Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields?

 

Pardon my ignorance, but what in the world are you and Steve E talking about?

If it's something obvious I should have already known, please slap me down gently.

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