Psychedelic Sounds
From The Smile Shop
Contents |
Tracklist
Disc 1
- How's Your Foot
- Brian Falls Into The Piano
- Michael Falls In
- Look, It's Mary Poppins
- Brian Falls Into The Mic
- You Just Wiped Out My Eardrum
- Ice Cream Man's Good Vibrations
- Lifter, Leg and Poker
- It Was Brian In The Mic
- Gotta Have A Cabbage
- Prune Time
- Beets And Carrots
- That's Right, Vegetables
- Big Bag of Vegetables
- Toot Toot Dot Dot
- Let's Talk About Swimming
- Side Stroke
- Swim-Swim
- Down On The Ocean Floor
- Breathing
- Torture
- Psychedelic Talk
Disc 2
- Taxi Cabber
- Bob Gordon's Real Trip
- Basketball Sounds
- Dick
- Smog
- Vega-Tables Arguments
Liner Notes
“This double CD gathers all the spoken word recordings made by Brian Wilson during the SMiLE sessions of fall 1966. His main partners in crime are the gang of hangers on affectionately known as the ‘Vosse Posse’, the underlying insurgent intelligentsia that spurred Brian on to greatness and cleared the way for unchecked imagination. Of course, they were also just plain high. The main characters are David Anderle, LA scenester extraordinaire and head of the nascent Brother records label, Brian’s lyricist Van Dyke Parks, Anderle’s friend Michael Vosse, and journalists Jules Seigel and Paul Williams. Disc One (tracks 1-21) features a series of chants and vocal exercises that were found by Alan Boyd on a reel labeled ‘Psychedelic Sounds’, recorded Nov. 4, 1966. Some extremely short clips were included on the Hawthorne, CA release on Capitol Records, but now you can hear the entire reel for the first time. The recording dates for the remainder of the tracks here remain unknown, as does their purpose. ‘Taxi Cabber” (a title coined by the compiler of this CD) is a field recording that has long been rumored to exist and is available here for the first time. Other obscure pieces, such as the ones referred to as ‘Bob Gordon’s Real Trip’ and ‘Basketball Sounds’ also make debuts here.”
Reviews
Recorded Friday November 4, 1966. Keith Badman’s “Beach Boys Diary” provides tons of details about this productive day. (see pp. 156-158) From 2:00 – 6:00 PM Brian supervised the first tracking session for Surf’s Up. Sometime after 6:00 Brian gathers Van Dyke Parks, Danny Hutton, Michael Vosse, and “Bob” to record some hip hippie hilarity. Sound quality is very good. (Apparently other versions of this collection w/ a few musical tracks are circulating.) (Note from Chuck: the downloaded version I have has sessions for "All Day" and "I'm In Great Shape".)
On Nov. 4, 1966, Brian was at the zenith of his creative utopia. Unfettered from all constraints, he pours open his ego completely; passionate music like Surf’s Up spews forth. He’s also at a commercial peak- the single Good Vibrations is a world-wide smash. This high continued for the next few weeks. However, his boys blew back in town on Monday, Nov. 28. The result of the boys’ return? Brian cuts the track Fire. Burn baby, burn.
