Beach Boys 2024 Documentary

Agreed.

He and Grace Slick didn’t get along

Marty Balin lived here in Tampa in his later years. Passed on here in Tampa. Complete obscurity in Carrollwood. Talk about shifting gears.

 

In all serious, the success of the Beach Boys demonstrates the success of America. You need the crazy reclusive guy working together with the drug guy working together with the straight-laced business guy for them to be at their best. Without all the different personalities, they were never as good.

 

E Pluribus Unum, baby

 

Therefor Eugene Landy is the real villain behind Kokomo

 

every year I celebrate rock/rap 1/2 month...a sub genre not worthy of a whole month. In fact, this is the last day of rock/rap 1/2 month. This usually entails a full listen of Judgement Night on 8/1 & not a whole lot else. Last year I listened to a long podcast about the Judgement Night soundtrack. This year I threw in Anthrax/Public Enemy + Dino live with Mike D. & Del the Funkee Homosapien. The beach boys are a footnote to rock/rap 1/2 month.



Refs.



for deep divers.
‘Judgment Night’ Soundtrack With Sean Fennessey and Rob Harvilla

 

It’s so crazy the judgement night soundtrack exists and it doesn’t suck

 

I remember thinking that was cool when I was 13 or 14 or whatever at the time.

 

The De La Soul / Teenage Fan Club / Tom Petty one was my jam

 

Heres one I'd forgotten--one of the few 'new' songs to get radio play in the 80's (so I have memories attached):

getcha back - Google Search

 

Kokomo brought the BB's to my generation though. They were always my dads music. (He graduated HS in 1969). But it exposed people to their harmony and the song itself just made people feel good.

Later as a music lover I realized that there was real artistic substance to the BB's that I never knew. Kokomo is a huge part of their story

 

Saw a recent one too. Cetera though spent the last decade touring with full orchestra. (He has retired at the moment).

I think Cetera really just always wanted to be a solo artist. Especially after Chicago 16 and 17 were such huge hits and it was him that voiced all those big hits. He went on to have huge solo hits too. It's why they replaced him with Jason Scheff who was the perfect vocal replacement. They needed a voice to create new hits. Chicago 18, 19 and 21 (there was no official 20) got huge radio play. With Scheff's vocals.

Cetera wanted out earlier by many accounts, but those huge radio/MTV hits of the 80's made him a household name aside from the band and made the transition easy for him.

Scheff and Cetera reportedly get along well. Its a bit of a mystery why he refused to show for the RnR HOF induction. Robert Lamm said he was invited and they had hoped he would be there.

 

Side note. If you love music, you need to be subscribed to Rick Beato's channel on YouTube as well as The Professor Of Rock (Adam Reader) channel. Both are great!

So much research and info goes into 20 minute vids and some great interviews

Beato's "What Makes This Song Great" series is amazing. Note by note breakdowns and separates and layers the instruments while telling stories about the songs creation.

 

I got lucky the second song that imprinted my brain was Good Vibrations. I was two yrs old, summer of 1969. It’s still one of my favorite songs.

I remember hearing Kokomo the first time. MTV video. All I thought was, “Dear God, what have they done?”