California Music features Beach Boys Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks reuniting to rerecord the classic "Add Some Music to Your Day" as a single benefitting Feeding America, with a full-length album of various tracks to follow. On this episode we welcome David Beard, editor of Endless Summer Quarterly, who conceived the project, along with Brian Wilson band member Rob Bonfiglio, who produced the track, and Beach Boy David Marks, who also addresses the group's forthcoming 60th anniversary.

California Music with David Beard, Rob Bonfiglio and Beach Boy David Marks!

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In 1970, The Beach Boys' Sunflower LP got great reviews but stalled at #151 on the US charts. The next year, the group's Surf's Up album got great reviews and made it to a better #29. Fifty years later the box set Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions - 1969-1971 debuted all the way at #9. The Beach Boys, it seems, were made for these times. Howie Edelson, Brother Records consultant and author of the liner notes, joins us to recall the time when these six guys "all suited up and brought their A game."

Unboxing Feel Flows with Howie Edelson

The documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road gives us a behind-the-scenes look at Brian as he is now, along with incisive commentary from fellow musicians from Bruce Springsteen to Elton John. Director Brent Wilson joins us to discuss his long road in getting this made: early on, Brian threw him off the bus! Enter Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine, who gets Brian to open up on camera as they cruise around the old haunts, and who talks to us about his magazine's critical reappraisal of The Beach Boys over the decades.

Director Brent Wilson and Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine on the Long Promised Road to new Brian documentary

Director Brent Wilson & Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine on Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road

Hideaway

Heart-swelling Subterranean

Matthew’s Song

A cover of Vashti Bunyan's "I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind", the cover image is a photo of the man who introduced Just Another Diamond Day to me in the place I first heard it.

I’d Like To Walk Around In Your Mind

In celebration of our mutual birthday, here is my cover of Frank Zappa's Treacherous Cretins, from his album, "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar." As with all of my SoundCloud covers, I'm playing all the instruments here. I really had a lot of fun playing this one and I hope you enjoy it. Happy Birthday to us, Frank!

Both the rhythm and lead guitar were played on my small Ibanez (aka
"Steve") mic'd with the Vox VT 20X, plus a stereo effect from cakewalk
 "Sonitus' Classic Sweeping Flanger." The drums are "Session Drummer 3
 Sizzle Kit" played on the Nord 88 keyboard. The Rhodes piano,
 orchestral percussion (gongs, cymbals and glockenspiel) from the
 Sonatina Orchestra Percussion, and Chamberlin female voice (also
 using a cakewalk stereo effect "Sonitus' Black Metal Vocal") were all
 from the Nord piano HA 88. The acoustic guitar and sitar were played
 on the Yamaha M06. And the bass was the fretted jazz bass using the
 bass pod with an amp model preset called "360." The wild sounds at the
 very end when the song stops were three different voice recordings
 from my iPhone. On the original, Frank uses some wild tape dialogue
 stuff in between songs to go to the next one.

Hope you all enjoy this! ~ Rachel Flowers

Treacherous Cretins - Frank Zappa (cover)

David Van Cortlandt Crosby
08/14/1941 - 01/19/2023
A memorial tribute for one of my all-time favorite singer/songwriters, David Crosby. Growing up listening to his songs with my father, analyzing his words and music by my lonesome in the late hours of the night, following the dramas of his conflicts and online feuds, seeing him live in concert on his Sky Trails tour in 2019, finally hearing gorgeous outtakes from the 50th anniversary edition of his debut album... These are all special memories of a special man, who I never met, but who has been just as much of an influence on me all the same. So here's an acoustic demo, recorded in the late hours of the night, of Crosby's song "Almost Cut My Hair" from the CSNY album 'Déjà Vu'. Rest in peace, Croz. Thanks for the music...

"Almost Cut My Hair" written by David Crosby (p) Guerrilla Music

R.I.P. Croz

Almost Cut My Hair (Acoustic Demo)

Circa 1961 (62) - The Attic - Boulder, CO
Earliest known live recording of David

Photo is 1961. Courtesy of Joe Loop
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=667350216726900&set=o.152671410747&type=3&theater

Crosby says of the photo:
"That's me ...and I was looking at that girl...an the Attic was in the 
basement in that triangular block across from the campus in Boulder"

Tape found by Judy Roderick's sister Emily Roderick Oprea

David Crosby ~ It's Been Raining

Southern Wisconsin singer/songwriter.... pastoral hippie folkie/lo-fi indie troubadour.... I am what I is....

Almost Cut My Hair (Acoustic Demo)

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