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Results for The Beach BoysSurfboards, hot rods and polka-dot bikinis are props for the iconic California band of the 1960s: the Beach Boys. Forming a group that was soon recognized as "the only band able to challenge the Beatles," brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine fused vocal harmonies to catchy surf tunes and created a good-times soundtrack for carefree kids of the '60s with monster hits like "Surfer Girl" and "Barbara Ann." By the end of '64, Brian, highly creative but bedeviled by various excesses, focused more on composing and producing the band's recordings, and the band released Pet Sounds in 1966, an offering often dubbed the greatest rock 'n' roll album ever. Both enjoying and limited by the popular perception as teen-crowd musicians, the Beach Boys continued to ride a wave of success in the '70s and '80s, but the innovative Pet Sounds and earlier surf rock hits were the high notes in their history. Although Brian's mental health was the Achilles heel of the band, it was his brothers who made the surprise exits: Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl succumbed to cancer in '98....more
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by Brian Brown•June 25, 2008•
Bumming cigarettes from his daughter’s school bus driver, blowing his angelic girl/boy voice, freebasing cocaine, and smoking pack upon pack of Marlboros.
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by C! Team•June 25, 2008•
There's something about summer reading lists. They almost always contain must-reads, but they are also supposed to contain page-turners... books that, while not being the most challenging literary content you've feasted your eyes on, are highly entertaining without being too heavy on the thinking. It's summer for crissakes, and that means taking a standard break from life.
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by Paul Williams•June 18, 2008•
In the future, perhaps, everything will be digital, and we’ll be able to order videos of individual songs, which will be instantly transferred over phone lines to our combination personal computer/music disc/video disc player (and billed to our credit accounts at the same time). There will be a broadcast service, so we can be exposed to new product in the first place, but they’ll figure out some way that you can’t copy
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by Mark Asch•June 18, 2008•
News and Tributes is the one people would have been waiting for, all stop-start tempo accommodating stabs of jagged guitar and anthemic choruses
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by Brian Brown•June 11, 2008•
Dennis Wilson called Manson his Wizard and the two became very close, swapping girls, songs, and religious ideas. Wilson meanwhile championed Manson to the elite music establishment by opening all sorts of doors for him, dropping him off, guitar in hand, at the hippest gatherings and playing his demos to whomever would listen. He even used Manson’s ideology in interviews. Suddenly the surfing, All-American, beefcake Beach Boy was talking about fear
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2/17/2008
Yes, his phrasing was unique to say the least. He played against the rhythm and messed around with his own counter...
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10/19/2007
Hi,
Thanks for posting the Beach Boys concert this past week. I collected their bootlegs often in the 1980s and...
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8/29/2007
It is Joni Mitchell. She was one of the other acts, along with Jessee Colin Young the Beach Boys. This show was at...
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6/4/2007
You guys are unbelievable. I never thought this site would get even better, but it did !! Awesome ! Thanks for all your...
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3/16/2007
Great new concerts! Love the Stones. If there are more, please let us hear 'em.
Again, what about some Tony Joe...
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