Yes it is

Ntm he liked everything mono cuz of the ear thing

I am obsessed with it

He played on many of the Beach Boys tunes. He was part of the wrecking crew. He also covered Brian in the band before Bruce joined. Listen to Guess I'm Dumb.

I think he said “You’re not laughing”, as in Brian said it was a funny album while keeping a straight face, making it seem like the album really wasn’t that funny if he didn’t chuckle just thinking about it.

@@jcfiggyeitherway funny remark

skrrrrttt

Glenn Campbell as well! Wichita Lineman’s one of my favourite songs ever recorded, I am so pleased to discover he worked with Brian Wilson and the boys

awww

Still has...

has

Yeah you compare Al here w/Mike Love, and Al has way more energy and feeling to his voice despite not being happy w/the song.

It sounds beautiful because you have plenty of 'bleed' through the mics and the overdubs were very carefully dropped in to enhance and add so much colour. In fact the whole album is so full of colour. It's just perfection.

He was blessed

The bass harmonica existed long before the electric bass guitar did.

Brian first used the theremin on "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" (Recorded 2/14/66).

Damn. Forgot that one.

'We need more Bass Harmonica"

ABSOLUTELY!!

Yes, everyone has heard of a 10-hole diatonic blues harmonica solo or a bass guitar solo, but yes indeed, when Tommy Morgan solo'ed away on his bass harmonica, it certainly turned heads!

tatohead It sounds like one of Brian's posse was also recording with a portable tape recorder, which might have violated union regulations.

PERFECT!!!

When Local 47(LA Musician’s Union) was STRONG!🏋️‍♀️. Oh the pensions that Wrecking Crew must have racked up. “Those Were The Days!”🎼🎧💵

And amazingly, he still has that awesome voice at age 77.

that's a great insight

@@tonymiddlehurst8438 I seen Al and Brian in Liverpool a Pet Sounds thing, I think they have similar voice ranges, del and al, so its not sacrosanct , i couldn't choose either or one, both famous

It's all before I was on Earth yet it somehow makes me feel nostalgic for something I never experienced. What an amazing time it must of been with going to the Moon and then on to Mars! The Beatles creating and a new mainstream of music, the possibilities were endless. Pet Sounds is so beautiful sonically. It's like nothing before.

@@MICKEYISLOWD I love 60s music but we didn't walk around thinking about how great things were any more than kids do today. I was a Beach Boys fan but the Beatles still dominated in every regard (in this case, they were on another level than anyone else). Frankly, Pet Sounds came and went without anyone hardly noticing, particularly since it didn't get a lot of radio play. I don't think people can comprehend today how important radio was in connecting the overwhelming majority of people with pop music. Anyway, the song that really seemed to shake people up was Good Vibrations. It was "introduced" by Dick Clark on American Band Stand while interviewing Brian Wilson. People didn't know what to make of it (they all stood around on TV looking at each other) and neither did Dick Clark. You certainly couldn't dance to it. Look at all of the music that came out late 1966/early 1967 and you'll understand that there was an absolute tidal wave of great music and Brian Wilson going off in a new, somewhat bizarre direction was totally overshadowed by this. In my opinion, Mike Love was correct in that Brian was ditching the formula and the result was the majority of former Beach Boy fans were left scratching their heads. While Good Vibrations was a hit, it seemed the Beach Boys all but dropped out of sight and produce only 1-2 very minor hits until 1976 (most of their music in this period didn't even break the top 100). Except of their tours singing formula songs, it was a huge dry spell for 22 years until they hit with Kokomo in 1988 (a song I detest). For most listeners, Pet Sounds being a great album and Brian Wilson being such a genius wasn't much talked about until well into the 80s. Like I said, Pet Sounds hits too close to home emotionally and I don't listen to it anymore. The album I think is Pet Sounds' equal is The Beach Boys Today! Their best harmonies by far, the Wrecking Crew knocking it out of the park, Phil Spector's strong influence. The planets were aligned on that album

I was at the Radio City Music Hall Tribute to Btian and I was surrounded by people who were in awe of Brian and his music. When this song was performed and the bass harmonica was being played, someone seated in front of me asked "what is that, a kazoo"? I got a good laugh from that. That person wasn't you, was it?

Brian's random comments; I love them. In between all the music his brain is still talking about other stuff. 'How to speak hip'. Laughed my arse off the first time I heard that funny guy

Ramones sessions were probably closer to the Surfin' Safari sessions

R.I.P. Tommy Morgan (1932-2022)

+szqsk8 It was a bit of a put on, he was talking the way they do on "How To Speak Hip" the spoken word LP he mentions. You can listen to that here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8xdbNVlvKy0das.html

Indeed, they're the 2 I often have the hardest time distinguishing -- when Brian wasn't singing in his falsetto voice, anyway.

There's literally graffiti saying 'END POLICE BRUTALITY' in this video. Also, you have apparently forgotten Kennedy's assassination, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the beginning of the Cold War. Sounds like there was enough misery to go around back then, too.

Wow, so you're telling me that bad things have been happening *before* today? It's almost as if you could point to literally any time period in history and point out a litany of bad things that were happening. It's actually possible to compare the 1960's with today and find them to be preferable to today's world, even taking the bad things that you mention into consideration.

@@danackroydsbutt In America yes there were some bad things happening but I am from UK and here and in Europe there were much better times when you contrast this to WWII. America was spared invasion and didn't take enormous losses. There most definitely was a huge relief and more than a glimmer of hope happening here as most people knew someone who was killed.

@@BehindTheSounds "It's actually possible to compare the 1960's with today and find them to be preferable to today's world" that's true but the world of the 1960s eventually turned into the world of today... maybe today's world will turn into a better world than the 1960s

Or...maybe the world is now in an inevitable state of decline.

My absolute favorite on the album.

... the first time Bass Harmonica was used on a Rock&Roll record

Copyright issues. One of these videos got blocked (Sloop John B). When I started this series, it wasn't an issue.

​@BehindTheSounds Your written commentary puts these videos neatly under the Fair Use exception. I know you know this, but gosh, what a shame Sloop John B was blocked.

@@BehindTheSounds thanks for making these videos, hope to see the series finished someday!

​@@BehindTheSounds Have you ever thought about making a collection of all these and giving us a link to download them I'd love to see the rest of them

@@RealUsername64 They don't exist. The series was never finished because I knew there was a good chance the rest of the videos would be blocked. I do regret not finishing them in 2011 when KZfaq was less restrictive about this sort of thing.

Hal Blaine made that point very clear to Brian. Hal said something to the effect that 'No one is taking the time and produce so deeply as you Brian. You've got them all beat.' Even though I've taking some liberty with that interaction, I believe that with Hal being such a huge part of "The Wrecking Crew" and since he'd pretty much seen it all in the LA recording scene, he was telling Brian, essentially, that there was no one doing it better in the music scene at that time. And personally, I believe that Brian Wilson was without peer writing, producing, arranging, playing and finally, singing the popular music of that time. The Beach Boys had a sound unlike any other!

clockWorks10 Most of what could be considered brain damage from drugs was caused in the mid-80's when Dr. Landy started prescribing psychotropic drugs. IMO the idea of Brian Wilson being an acid casualty is a myth or exaggeration. He was the same guy mentally until around 1984.

***** also my favorite song! hang to your ego, not I know there's an answer

Dimitri Bitu Exactly. However, I did not know that until the re-mastered mono/stereo CD came out in the early 90's. Then the Green box came out which has some of these clips, but to see this video is great. Also, I knew that Glenn Campbell played with them for a stint, but it was interesting to know that he did the banjo on this piece.

***** Brian knew Glen Campbell from using him as a session guitarist. He played 12-string and acoustic guitar on a lot of the Today! tracks leading up to the tour where he replaced Brian.

clockWorks10 And that fact has nothing to do with the fact that he sustained extensive mental/nerve damage from psychotropic drugs prescribed to him by a quack psychologist in the 80's. This interview (about drugs) was conducted in 1976, does he seem brain damaged to you? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aM2Bd5WYm6ybqWw.html