From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #138 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, May 21 2004 Volume 04 : Number 138 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Smile ["Vallor" ] Re: [loud-fans] Smile ["Bradley Skaught" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 02:01:46 -0700 From: "Vallor" Subject: [loud-fans] Smile Perhaps old news by now, but this just showed up on the VDP list, sadly it's a remake - Dan V From Billboard magazine: Edited By Jonathan Cohen. May 18, 2004, 10:25 AM ET Nonesuch To Release Legendary 'Smile' Album Nearly four decades after it was initially slated for release on Capitol, Brian Wilson's "lost" Beach Boys masterpiece "SMiLE" will finally be heard by the record-buying public. A newly recorded version of the album is to be released Sept. 28 worldwide by Nonesuch Records. The new "SMiLE" was produced by Wilson and features the pop icon's 10-member touring band along with the Stockholm Strings and Horns ensemble. Wilson first revisited the project in November 2003 along with lyricist Van Dyke Parks and keyboardist Darian Sahanaja, reviewing the original 37-year-old tapes with the intent to prepare a version of the album for live performance. The material was debuted Feb. 20 live at London's Royal Festival Hall and played to audiences on a brief European tour. Following the album's release, Wilson plans to take the performance on the road in the United States this fall. The reworked "SMiLE" features recreations of songs and musical motifs first recorded in 1966-1967, as Wilson attempted to produce a highly ambitious follow-up to the Beach Boys' orchestral pop classic "Pet Sounds." The project was famously abandoned in 1967 after it already appeared on a Capitol release schedule. Instead, the group released the patchwork album "Smiley Smile" later that year. Parks, who collaborated with Wilson on the original "SMiLE" sessions, also co-wrote new material with Wilson to complete the album for performance and release. As previously reported, Wilson will release a new solo studio album, "Gettin' in Over My Head," June 22 via Rhino. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 08:35:12 -0700 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Smile An odd twist in the story came to me through a friend who knows longtime Beach Boys tape archivist Mark Linnet. He told me that not only was the re-recorded Smile coming out, but that Capitol was working on their own set of the original Smile material. It's never easy with the Beach Boys, is it? I do have to say, though, that I have a bootleg of Smile live in England and it's mind blowing--if the new version is well recorded and Brian stays out of the way, it will be thoroughly rewarding. (not mike)love, B - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.681 / Virus Database: 443 - Release Date: 5/10/2004 ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #138 *******************************