Was he the one rumored to have spent years in his room dropping acid everyday?
I don’t recall hearing Brian Wilson using LSD. I think he, like Pink Floyd’s legendary recluse Syd Barrett, were suffering from various forms of mental illness prior to drugs or alcohol. I know I saw him at the Live 8 concert, and it just looked sad, like a muppet they threw on stage that was barely functional as his touring band essentially carried the show…
Wilson is considered to be a savant genius (an over used word, but one of the few that fits) when it came to composing and The Beach Boys Smile LP is considered to be one of the most groundbreaking albums regarding sounds, production and recording values. It’s unfortunate he couldn’t hold it together and The Beach Boys sort of just became a novelty, nostalgia act and there was a lot of acrimony between them…
This intertains me:
Max Raabe rules
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEqswSM-q70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAAFMKWHfAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH49M86Nb98
I thought it would be Gypsy Rose Lee…
Well, I guess if you’re going to do a cover of a classic, theen it ought to become a classic cover.
Apache is a classic, which I enjoy greatly.
Here is a bit of Aussie music from the same era which is also a surf / instrumental classic. In my mind, anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5D-G0IW08U
And this great Aussie classic from the same era is unbeatable for the musical breadth and lyrical depth. :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blghTWXqwys
Although I, along with just about every other teenage boy, did have a huge crush on Pattie at the time. Until her cousin Chrissie turned up the heat a couple of decades later and generated respect for her talent rather than juvenile lust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53mr1IDPHA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aYzQb6cc5E&feature=related
Little Pattie, aged 17 and being considerably braver than me at the same time as I was still only 16 and too young to join the army and our soldiers couldn’t be sent overseas anyway until they were (I think) 19 then, was performing in Vietnam at the time of and not too distant from the Long Tan battle. http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/combat/battle-of-long-tan.php
Amphlett left school three months before her 15th birthday to focus on her singing career. She released further singles over the following two years, scoring a number of hits, making regular appearances on shows like Bandstand and Sing, sing, sing, and winning the Best Australian Female Vocalist award in 1965. By 1966 she was among Australia’s most popular performers. Having made one of several attempts to drop the ‘Little’ from her name, Pattie became, at 17, the youngest Australian entertainer to perform in Vietnam. She was performing at the Australian base at Nui Dat on the night of the Long Tan battle. Some soldiers recall having heard snatches of music as they headed out on patrol in the hours before the fight.
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/1078570.asp
Bloody hell - Kathy Kirby! :lol: :lol: :lol:
LOL The Divinyls had a huge hit here in the early 1990s. You couldn’t go more than 10 minutes without hearing the sultry, raspy voice of Chrissie Amphlett. But I really didn’t mind. 
I’ve always enjoyed this one, very tribal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9okWm8A6o
Then this was also a favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg
Til the grown-ups got hold of it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBXKCFiZnI
I’m sure the Shadows did a version of that.
However, here they are with FBI
The Buddy Holly look was popular…
Inspiring.
Meanwhile…
The record for surfing the Bore is seven and a half minutes.
“When the boar comes, the stream does not swell by degrees, as at other times, but rolls in with a head…foaming and roaring as though it were enraged by the opposition which it encounter” - Thomas Harrel 1824
The Severn Bore is one of Britain’s few truly spectacular natural phenomena. It is a large surge wave that can be seen in the estuary of the River Severn, where the tidal range is the 2nd highest in the world, being as much as 50 feet (approx. 15.4m).
As many as 60 bores occur throughout the world where the river estuary is the right shape and the tidal conditions are such that the wave is able to form. The Severn Bore (one of 8 in the UK) is one of the biggest in the world but bores also occur on the Seine and Gironde in France, on the Indus, Hooghly and Brahmaputra in India, on the Amazon in Brazil, on the Petitcodiac, New Brunswick, and also the Knik Arm bore at the head of Cook Inlet, Alaska. By far the biggest bore in the World is the Ch’ient’ang’kian (Hang-chou-fe) in China. At spring tides the wave attains a height of up to 25 ft (7.5 m) and a speed of 13-15 knots (24-27 km/h). It is heard advancing at a range of 14 miles (22 km).
The shape of the Severn estuary is such that the water is funnelled into an increasingly narrow channel as the tide rises, thus forming the large wave. The river’s course takes it past Avonmouth where it is approximately 5 miles wide, then past Chepstow and Aust, then Lydney and Sharpness where it is approximately 1 mile wide, and soon the river is down to a width of a few hundred yards. By the time the river reaches Minsterworth it is less than a hundred yards across, maintaining this width all the way to Gloucester.
As well as the width of the river decreasing rapidly, then so does the depth of the river also change rapidly, thereby forming a funnel shape. Therefore as the incoming tide travels up the estuary, it is routed into an ever decreasing channel. Consequently the surge wave or bore is formed.
Let There Be Drums is one of my favourite instrumentals.
However for something more primitive than tribal I like this.
It inspired Freddie of Freddie and the Dreamers, who inspired hip hop before anyone had hopped.
I remember that one, Did the dance the “Freddie” issue from this bunch?
Apparently, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freddie, but I don’t remember that dance.
I was too busy trying (and failing) to master the Twist, Limbo, and Surfer Stomp. Although I did win a Limbo (or maybe it was Twist - who can remember?) competition at a birthday party when I was about 13 or 14 and I got to kiss Glenda Dowling, who I was really keen on (as in drooling over for months beforehand) as a reward, which I still remember. And that’s the sum total of my successful dance history.
Apart from meeting my wife at a country dance, but she forced me to dance and realised quickly and wisely that we had no future on the dance floor, not least because I was drunk and, although fun to be with, not fun to dance with.
But I did have a sheila walk off the dance floor on me at another country dance after she forced me to dance and then got sick of being stepped on and holding me up, which was her fault as I told her I couldn’t dance and was drunk as well (which was glaringly apparent to everyone else without me telling her) but she insisted on making a fool of herself with a clumsy drunk and then blamed me for it. And since then I haven’t liked the Pride of Erin or Progressive Waltz or Canadian Three Step ( or Four Step or Goosestep or whatever it is that the Canucks do when they’re cold and lonely) or whatever other complicated way of walking to music it was that I stuffed up.
And now, some classic early Oz rock (late 50s -early 60s).
Johnny O’Keefe couldn’t sing like Elvis, or really even sing at all, nor did he have Elvis’s sinuous and sensuous hip and other body movements but, by God, The Wild One had energy Elvis never had and a great stage act with his support band and group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kP3BS23PNE