I'm more of a beatles guy really, but as far as psychedelic tracks go, this one takes the cake.

It sounds so.... mysterious and whimsical. Like what paul was trying to do with sgt pepper but melodically very different from Sgt pepper, cream, Hendrix etc etc

The vocal harmonies, the lyrics, that weird instrumental that we hear the first two times after "...of the heroes and villains". It sticks out so much from everything else.

With all love, what do you think the worst line The Beach Boys ever sang is?

1. Surfs up
2. I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
3. Don’t Worry Baby
4. I Get Around
5. Please Let Me Wonder

I made a post asking the same question some time ago, but no answers sadly. Does anyone have the full recording of the band's set at the Big Sur Folk Festival from October 1970? It used to be on YouTube but it got taken down sadly.

I believe the word they sing on is "Dove" and I think it's a Fm7 chord but I'm not one hundred percent sure if that's it or what the voicings are. Does anyone know?

For someone like me who got obsessed with Brian and Smile in the early 2000s, forums like SmileySmile.net, the old Smile Shop, endlessharmony boards, random angelfire sites, blogs, etc, etc, were indispensable resources for information, speculation and camaraderie for fans.

They contained (still do) tons of historical information, first hand accounts from insiders, fascinating breakdowns and interpretations of sessions, potential tracklistings, you get what I'm saying. A vast resource of information.

I always try to archive and bookmark the most interesting posts, and a lot of the forums pages are on Internet Archive. Very piecemeal. But I worry that we will lose this info forever. Smilesmile.net seems barely online (expired certificates, etc).

What I'm getting at is this: is there any effort out there to preserve these forums in a real way? A searchable database or something? I hope more web savvy people than I could put something together. Thoughts?

As an example, this ancient site https://smiledeli.tripod.com/archive.htm saved some important/interesting posts.

Can anyone give me the chords for postcard from California? I can’t find them online and I can’t figure them out.

Tracklist:

1. Hey guys lets go surfin, check out the girls, we love summer, oh and here’s some WORKSHOP
2. Carl says that when we’re together I can hear beautiful music
3. Mike and the guys say that they miss their gurls, please come back
4. Dennis says that if you get with him then you will be free, you totally won’t be part of a cult
5. My name is Mike, I just wanna fkkkk, oh and listen to Dennis recording a possibly underage groupie having sex with him possibly from the Manson Family
6. Schmaltzy Brian Johnston instrumental
7. Here’s a cover song about black people longing to pick Cotton because Al is trying to recreate Sloop John B
8. Brian got out of bed long enough to walk to the park and he was so exhausted he had a nap and then he woke up and wrote a song about it
9. Carl is the only normal one here and he says baby I love you lets get out of the city to the country and be alone
10. Lets just go the whole hog and have an actual Charles Manson song on the record, with a creepy line about submitting, and lets have an ominous creepy intro to make it even more monumental even though we’re still 6 months or so out from Tate-LaBianca.
11. Here’s a random Smile vocal harmony
12. Here’s Van Dyke Parks talking about Crows Uncovering the Cornfield 3 years after we actually recorded this, Do we have to Do this Again can’t we Do it Again and talk about the beach?

I mean he took LSD and wrote California Girls. In a complementary way, it sounds ‘syrupy’

Songs that frequently bring a tear to my eye: Our prayer I just wasn’t made for these times God only knows Surfs up Wouldn’t it be nice Caroline, no You still believe in me

I have seen a number of photos with Brian Wilson wearing an amulet, from my guess, around 1967. Does anyone know what this could be, or why he is wearing it? I suppose the ying and yang image in the top right of his wall suggests his developing spiritual beliefs.

Bought a new vinyl of Pet Sounds. I think the digital version sounds better. I have two nice turntable setups, one vintage the other new. It’s disappointing on both. I am missing something?