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  1. A lot of that stuff was recorded in Brian's house. Also, you are hearing stereo tracks as opposed to mono, individual vocals instead of group vocals, and the work of Stephen Desper (enigineer) among other things.

     

    Also - I think they went from 4 track to 8 track recording by the time.

  2. As many readers surely know, on December 31, 1999, Phish ushered in the new Millennium with a 7 hours and 45 minute set in the Big Cypress. Since then, the Vermont quartet has held the record for longest continuous concert by a jamband. Over Independence Day weekend, however, Virginia's ZEN broke Phish's record, performing for 20 straight hours at Snowshoe Mountain, WV's The "All Together" Jam Marathon. All proceeds from the group's marathon event benefited New Orleans' Musicians who lost their instruments in Hurricane Katrina. ZEN performs next at Albany, NY's JAHFest.

     

     

    :stunned

  3. I have been listening to both bands since I was about 6 years old - so I say these things out of the love I have for them both.

     

    It's just a shame The Beach Boys always get tagged as unimportant due to not having "deep lyrics" or a "heavy image". If you listen to ltheir later stuff or view later images of them, you can see that they actually did change with the times - but they had been marked as unhip by then - so no one paid any attention.

     

    When Pet Sounds came out Capitol put out a greatist hits album - as they were not pleased with Pet Sounds - just as Mike Love was not. Why? Becasue Brian was "changing the formula" - maybe if he didn't have people holding him back and if his head was in a better place The Beach Boys may have ended up with a better image than they have today.

     

    The Beatles certainly had more freedom to do as they pleased - moreso than Brian ever got to have.

  4. So what - only Bob Dylan was doing anything differenet then. The lyrics fit the songs. Or form follows function.

     

    As for studio trickery - Sgt. Pepper is all about that: ADT, sped up tapes, massive overdubbing, etc.

     

    There is no way in hell The Beatles could hold a candle to the vocals of The Beach Boys.

  5. Sloop John B was put on there on there by the record company - Brian did not want it on there. This album is really a journey about one's (Brian's) coming of age and the confusion he was going through as people were calling him a genius, Capitol demanding more "hits", (no putting out a record every couple of years then, folks) and his desire to create something outside the limits of the three minute single.

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