This is the thread where we talk about great Beach Boys+BW unreleased/demo/semi-released songs

Wasn't Redwood the pre 3-Dog Night band that Brian was writing and producing for?

Yes

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33. Surf’s Up (1967 Version) (5:25)
(Recorded during the Wild Honey sessions in November 1967)

!!!

This comes out tomorrow, BTW.

Can't wait -- probably will snag it on Saturday, and I do want the liners.

I've been listening to this era a bunch as I have been playing a Smile boot and the 2nd and 3rd disc of the GV set in my car for my daughters as I drive them around to various softball events this summer. They adore "Good Vibrations" and most of the sessions (they prefer the Hum-de-daa section) -- and the older one actually complained when I turned off the cantina version of "Heroes and Villains"! Also, with a bit of perspective in a post-Smile Sessions era, it is straight up hilarious in retrospect how much Smile material made it out in drips and drabs over the years ... the woodshop stuff at the end of "Do It Again" being among the most WTF.

I am honestly probably too excited about what the Wild Honey-era "Surf's Up" will turn out to be. Is it another Brian solo rendition? A "back to basics" take similar to what they were doing in late-'67? Something else?

so is that another take of this smile sessions version, or just a longer edit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3TRns_zssM

It sounds like the same thing except with some aborted takes/practice lines at the start.

I am so bummed this site: http://www.btinternet.com/~bellagio/unreleased.html is dead. now how am I going to tag all of the rarities from iatee's mix with the right year argggh

archive.org to the rescue

https://web.archive.org/web/20121020054242/http://www.btinternet.com/~bellagio/unreleased.html

the wayback machine is your friend.

lol xp

heyo!

many thx

Listened to some of Sunshine Tomorrow on Spotify the last few days ... I have sort of a weird reaction at this point to the dog's breakfast comps the Beach Boys release (Hawthorne, Endless Harmony), which often feature a handful of tracks I adore but a bunch of live takes I'm less interested in.

That said, I do like that they are digging into presenting this post-Smile, quiet piano and organ era of the band, which is an underrated period in the band's history (but appreciated by Xgau, who gave Wild Honey an A+ IIRC) and texturally off the charts. As a result, I love the shit out of things like alternate takes of "Can't Wait Too Long" which I could probably put on loop for an hour and not get bored of. Most of the alternate takes are actually pretty great, just a bit leaner than the (already lean) versions that were previously released.

Another highlight: the rehearsal take of "Heroes and Villains" live in Honolulu (not on Lei'd in Hawaii IIRC, or in the bgd while Mike trashes the shit out of it in a "humorous" monologue). As a rule, I love the hell out of that organ and bass sound on LiH -- and the arrangement of H&V is fabulous.

One other thing that occurred to me this past weekend: has there been any interest in someone taking a whack at remixing some of the material from this era? By which I don't mean remixing in the sense of adding beats but along the lines of what Stephen Desper did with "Til I Die" on the version released on Endless Harmony -- cutting and pasting parts to repeat sections and emphasize vocal backgrounds and the like. Feel like this would be an awesome undertaking.