r/thebeachboys

AKA The best Beach Boys album

Something happened to Carl's voice around 15 Big Ones through Adult Child / MIU. He still has the voice of an angel, but it's taken on a slurred, warm quality. I would signpost The night was so young, life is for the living, everybody wants to live. I love it, it's my favorite era for Carl's voice.

Does anyone know what was going on here? My best guess is booze / quaaludes but Carl was such a pro, it also feels like a choice. I remember an anecdotes from Brian about the recording of Palisades park, he said Carl was drunk but he nailed the vocal on the first take.

The sleeve is in great shape and for only 10 bucks. Also happy 50th birthday 15 Big Ones.

This playlist has everything I could find available on Spotify sorted in recording/release order. So all of the albums and singles are sorted by when they were released, and then anything like demos, live recordings, unreleased tracks and alternate takes are included when they were recorded. Check out my account on Spotify too if you’re interested in the Beatles because I have a much more dense playlist with all of their music that is like double the size lol

Ex left me to go be with two other guys, leaving me to pay for $2500 a month apartment by myself while taking care of her two cats. Was dead broke by the time I moved out. Had nowhere to go, so I asked my boss if I could live at our warehouse until I had my stuff together. It was that or living on the streets. He said it was cool as long as our corporate managers never saw the room. Got to stay long enough to save money, do some cool things, and finally move back in with family to do some much needed healing.

1st pic was how it looked when I fully settled in. 2nd pic was how it started. 3rd pic was 5 hours later. Was pretty nice, until summer kicked in and with no ac it would get up to 95 degrees in the room lol

Sometimes I miss the privacy and the freedom to be as loud and crazy as I wanted to be. I think everyone needs a space to be a little unhinged.

Biggest advice to anyone who’s struggling.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help. You might be a bit surprised what people are willing to do for you to make sure you can make it to the other side okay as well.

EDIT:

This is really resonating with a lot of people and I’m really grateful for all the kindness here. I’ll do my best to respond to any more questions once I wake up later! I hope that my story gives you all a reminder that even the smallest things can be like a luxury when it’s taken away. My space was as close to an ideal space as I could make it given some compromises being had.

I’m getting asked a lot on what happened to my ex’s cats that I took care of when she moved out. I’ll just paste what I said in another comment below.

I never was a cat person until I took care of her cats. Fell in love with her cats the same time I fell in love with my ex. Losing the cats was just as awful as the breakup. I asked my ex to tell me when she was moving back to her home state as she couldn’t have cats where she was staying when she moved out. Reason why I asked was so I could spend my last days with her cats with a proper goodbye. I treated those cats like they were my own.

It wasn’t until one day I was about to leave for work and heard my ex trying to break into my apartment to take the cats back without telling me. This was around the time she was sneaking into my apartment to steal some of my things too.

I begged her to let me have just one more day to spend with them to have a real goodbye. She threatened to call the police, so I had to let them go right then and there. I still think about those cats to this day.

Last I heard they’re still doing okay.

You can find a pic of them that I posted in another comment. Hope you both are still doing great, Sylvester and Oscar.

I don’t really know what I’m doing (as you can tell) but tried to cover All I Wanna Do from sunflower in GarageBand for fun, these were a couple parts of it I thought turned out okay lol

These runs get shorter and shorter. Im flabbergasted. There is so much content but either someone isn't paying enough or someone really doesn't like the BB's at Sirius.

https://www.siriusxm.com/blog/beach-boys-channel-good-vibrations

Enjoy it till the 6th on Channel 105

These are the two attempts of Al doing his new verse for Ding Dang. This might be the first time they did the "do over" when Al flubs the lyrics. Al referring to the "day the guys didn't show up" is his backstory to how the song Good Time came to be.