db44
Sep 18th, 2004, 05:35 AM
I was watching Showtime this morning and they had a five-minute trailer for a special they are running on 5 October. The show is on Brian and Smile. I'm just watching the station, waiting to see what was coming up and then boom! I hear the opening "ahh" from "Good Vibrations." I went from a semi-comatose, just waking up state to sit up straight and drool. At one point I started bouncing around like crazy... It was almost euphoric. Sad, isn't it?
It looks good. I think my favorite part (besides the music) was they had Sir George Martin with a couple of quotes. It sounds like he's heard the whole thing and absolutely loves the album. I kinda laughed as in his first soundbite they didn't credit him, and then I was laughing in the second one when they did: I think anyone who knows the Beach Boys knows Sir George... And certainly his part in music history (as they said under his name what his connection is to the whole sha-bang).
Even with this documentary, I had my disagreements. They had David Lief, who I'm fairly familiar with as he is a Beach Boys historian, to put it best. He said something about how as Brian got more depressed, the music became happier. He cited "Good Vibrations" as proof... But I disagree. "'Til I Die" was written around this era as well, and if you saw the Brian All-Star tribute a few years ago, it momentarily focuses on the depressing songs that came from this depressing era.
This is going to be such a good fall, Brian-wise! :D
It looks good. I think my favorite part (besides the music) was they had Sir George Martin with a couple of quotes. It sounds like he's heard the whole thing and absolutely loves the album. I kinda laughed as in his first soundbite they didn't credit him, and then I was laughing in the second one when they did: I think anyone who knows the Beach Boys knows Sir George... And certainly his part in music history (as they said under his name what his connection is to the whole sha-bang).
Even with this documentary, I had my disagreements. They had David Lief, who I'm fairly familiar with as he is a Beach Boys historian, to put it best. He said something about how as Brian got more depressed, the music became happier. He cited "Good Vibrations" as proof... But I disagree. "'Til I Die" was written around this era as well, and if you saw the Brian All-Star tribute a few years ago, it momentarily focuses on the depressing songs that came from this depressing era.
This is going to be such a good fall, Brian-wise! :D