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Location: Michigan | I have to admit that I am a hard core rock-n- roller but I still love to hear the Beach Boys music.
I dont think that they were great players but they sure had the vocals going on and Brian Wilson had the songwrighting talent.
The vocals back then( 60's )seemed to be in the spotlight of that era.The Beach Boys remind me of an early CSN&Y .How about all of those vocal groups back then,heres a few . GWB
The Association
The Mamas & the Papas
Sonny & Cher
P.S. !! WARNING !! The dancing by the one Beach Boy in this video is very painfull to watch so you have been warned::::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We41bCkszOs |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Of the four you listed, the BBs would be on the bottom; although my bride luvs 'em. |
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Location: enid, ok | A bygone era, and I couldn't be happier. |
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| No I wasn't, but strangely my 15 year old daughter is and is converting a lot of her friends as well. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Yeah... I've always like them.
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" was "our" song. |
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Location: Jet City | I think they inspired a wonderful David Lee Roth video. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | They were always associated with having a good time... either playing at a party or seeing them at Jones Beach. |
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| I never listened to them. Too middle of the road and before my time I guess. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | John Milner voiced my opinion of it in "American Graffiti". |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Not a big fan, though I have respect for the vocal arrangement skills of Brian Wilson. Too many surfing and car songs.
Mamas and Papas had a great sound. The Association was a bit too "vanilla" sounding to me. Sonny and Cher I have no real opinion of. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | NO |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Classic summer time stuff |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I didn't like them when I was young, but now I dig it when their music is played... in a nostalgic way.
The old "good memories" thing.
I own one of their CD's that I found at work, but I rarely play it...
they are not on my Windows Media Player.
Upon re-reading my post, I guess I can take them or leave them... In small doses. |
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Location: Tennessee | Oh, yeah ... definitely. I know every word to every song. They were the local boys done good ... I grew up literally a couple of miles from where they lived ... played football against their high school (Be True To Your School and all that) and would occasionally see one of them moving about the area. My older sister knew Dennis fairly well. Being 10+ years younger than all of them, I also listened to a lot of their later music as it came out and have a great liking for a lot of their later stuff, such as Smiley Smile, Friends. 20/20, Sunflower, Surf's Up and so on. It's sort of like the Beatles ... totally "pop" and sugary stuff early on, to be replaced by deeper, sophisticated ground-breaking music.
What passes for the "Beach Boys" today is a joke and ruins it for me. They should have put a wrapper on it after Dennis went swimming for the last time. Dennis and Carl had already quit the band because they didn't want to be some nostalgia band and Brian was off in a different dimension. |
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Location: Michigan | :eek: WOW Im kinda suprised at the first few posts .
I wonder if the first 12 posts were by people in the under 50 year old range?
Anyone dated back then must of tapped their feet to the music or you must of been a ROCKER.
The Beach Boys carved out an incredible new sound known as SURF MUSIC.
Its was an era just as important as Blues,Jazz,Rock,Classical,ect.ect.ect.
It was great!!! GWB |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Yes.
Saw them twice. Second time Brian was totally out of it. The rest of them were making comments about Brian, like, didn't he play great, let's hear it for Brian, etc. Didn't know about his problems until years later. Nonetheless, at least when I saw them, they were tight. Dennis was still alive and drumming.
Let me add ... a great date band ... the chicks always love the Beach Boys. |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
The Beach Boys carved out an incredible new sound known as SURF MUSIC.
I'd disagree with you on that one, GWB. Surf music to me was different and started way before the Beach Boys charted their first song - it was primarily instrumentals and the genre was defined by Dick Dale, the Chantays, the Challengers, the Surfaris, the Ventures and the like. The Beach Boys were straight Pop that sang a lot of songs about the beach. They would occasionally play a surf song like Moon Dawg, but stuff like Surfin' USA was Chuck Berry music and the early ballads weren't much more than the other four-part harmonies of the boy bands of the time. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm over 50 and never really liked them. As a love sick teenager, I listened to the Association when no one else was around, though. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I'm over 50 and never really liked them. As a love sick teenager, I listened to the Association when no one else was around, though. Did you cry with Simon & Garfunkel too? :p (Sorry, that was more Bipolar College Nerd music)
And Stonebobbo, I DO have The Ventures on my Media Player. :cool: |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Hangin` on sloop John B ...Barbara Ann...they`re True Classics..!!..I like The Ventures...who are a Decent copy of , The Shadows....and S & G only had that one Great thing about " Silence " ..a Deafening silence..!!..
Vic
..to admit to be over 50 is Courage..
..and Punctuating the Heck out of Mr. Lanaki is Sadistic Fun.. :) |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | ...and I wish Gitwannabee would use a Decent soundsystem...with out forcing the congregation to resort to using Stethoscopes.. :D
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
or you must of been a ROCKER. :rolleyes:
I may have been one of those, and I'm under 50 by a few years, but that doesn't really mean anything. It could have a bunch to do with my growing up though. I was definitely influenced by what Dad listened to. CCR, CSN (&Y), Neil Young, Melanie, more folksy stuff for sure. He HATED the Beach Boys.
Now the REAL surf stuff bobbo mentioned, heck I get a kick outta that. That surf style, rockabilly, country and bluegrass picking are the styles that are really interesting me currently. |
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
How about all of those vocal groups back then,heres a few . GWB
The Association
The Mamas & the Papas
Sonny & Cher
The Association - Top notch
The Mamas & the Papas - Very Good
Sonny & Cher - HUH?! Vocal Group? |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | It was the response of girls I knew to the Beach Boys that inspired me to take up guitar. I AM that old. But it was British bands like the Yardbirds and the Stones that were my musical deliverance. |
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WERE YOU A BIG FAN OF THE BEACH BOYS MUSIC???
