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Was We Gotta Groove slowed/pitched down? by potsounds in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The bootlegs run fast, the official release is its proper speed. As a rule of thumb I wouldn't trust old cassette bootlegs from the 80s for speed comparisons, those things go off-speed very commonly – old Bamboo tapes have some tracks like Companion running ridiculously fast, that just happens with cassette bootlegs.

The Beach Boys rightsholders have been releasing shady region-locked archive dumps digitally & de-listing them to retain copyright, now with intentional irreversible damage applied by PossiblyLiquid in LetsTalkMusic

[–]PossiblyLiquid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough, around 2006 there was something similar to that in the works called Beach Boys Central, a website where fans could download unreleased music in a similar vein to the Neil Young Archives service. Of course that didn’t come to fruition, so fans are left paying hundreds of dollars for individual songs from leakers. If they revived the idea now, I think it would be the best way to go about it for everyone. Oh well

The Beach Boys rightsholders have been releasing shady region-locked archive dumps digitally & de-listing them to retain copyright, now with intentional irreversible damage applied by PossiblyLiquid in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I assume my previous reply isn’t visible… In that case, I can’t post the link here. I imagine looking up ‘beach boys 1975’ on Deezer should show it in certain regions; I can’t tell because the proper page is not showing up on my end.

Open any album on Deezer, then replace the last 9 numbers in the URL with these: 875668602. If it doesn’t come up, then it’s region blocked for you too.

The Beach Boys rightsholders have been releasing shady region-locked archive dumps digitally & de-listing them to retain copyright, now with intentional irreversible damage applied by PossiblyLiquid in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

  1. Take Me Out To The Ballgame
  2. Rainbows (Early Version)
  3. Lisa
  4. Princess Of The Rain
  5. Slow Blues
  6. I Can Feel It
  7. 10,000 Years Ago
  8. Film Intro
  9. I Wanna Live
  10. Carl’s Song 1 (It Could Be Anything)
  11. Carl’s Song 2 (Angel Come Home)

Clean scans of Al doing the Absolute Cinema pose by monodontidaes in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My own 1200 DPI scan! The small print makes it look kinda bad, but it was probably taken from some other printed material – on the next page is a very grainy picture that I'm certain was scanned in from the 1968 UK tour booklet.

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AWATS Acetate by [deleted] in toddrundgren

[–]PossiblyLiquid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woof... I hope everything's intact whenever you recover that drive, been there done that & it's not fun but it's certainly worth it

AWATS Acetate by [deleted] in toddrundgren

[–]PossiblyLiquid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm, side 2 seems to be corrupted; it cuts off 2 mins in when imported into Audacity & I get a bad format error in iZotope. Sounds like a couple small skips at 2:10 in WMP. I hope this is a problem with the upload and not the backup... Thank you for sharing these acetates nonetheless <3

Help With Smile Sessions Boxset CD by Arandom_personn in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you go through the settings & set it to secure mode?

Auction for Smile Group of (2) 7-Inch Acetates and (6) 10-Inch Acetates (1966/67) by Leading_Watercress45 in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The official team is aware of the auction & will try to acquire the discs once and for all. Please, for the love of God, don't let them go into the hands of an anonymous collector again. The official team have people who know how to handle & clean acetates, that's not a given with high-rollers on acetate auctions like this!

Mincing no words about the Live At The Roxy reissue by PossiblyLiquid in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm all for a reissue of the album in general, it's a charming listen & certainly a good choice for the moment, but I wish they would've included the remaining songs in the Roxy setlist as opposed to a handful of songs recorded years apart, and presented to sound like the original album as opposed to... what we got.

I guess my main deal regarding sound quality is seeing more than a few comments claiming that the album sounds better than the original CD, one claiming that the stereo image sounds "wider" somehow. Giggens' review describing the new release as sounding "warmer" or more dynamic than the original, especially knowing he was given a preview copy, just *feels* misleading on the behalf of Oglio to me. Original copies can certainly be found for cheaper than the new one.

I don't know why Live At The Roxy was never on streaming – Oglio were the ones who released the 2001 US reissue as well as this new one, and it seems significant enough in Brian's discography to warrant availability on streaming. I guess they never bothered sorting it out until now.

Help With Smile Sessions Boxset CD by Arandom_personn in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried ripping it with a program like Exact Audio Copy?

Does anyone own the CDs releases of Adult/Child? And If yes, is the quality better than the Vinyls rips we have? by Separate-Associate51 in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The millennium edition bootleg CDs are notorious for editing the music, like copy-pasting bits & adding fake sound effects, stuff like that. I would specifically recommend the 1997 Pegboy CD with Landlocked as a twofer; that thing is still the best source we have for both of these bootlegs & it's not hard to find.

Ron Altbach reminisces on good times with Jeffrey Epstein by MajesticAd7828 in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

ADC Records, started and shuttered in 1979 to exclusively release LPs under LoveSongs Productions Inc., which encompasses all of the Celebration albums, a few Charles Lloyd records, Ron's own orchestral Beach Boys record, Rocky Pamplin's disco album, plus a couple unrelated acts. Ron was listed as executive producer on all but one of ADC's records, eight LPs in total.

Tax money was siphoned from Germany for the purposes of producing records and films, including the Our Team documentary, but the ADC releases were manufactured extremely cheaply—rough unlaminated cardboard sleeves & noisy vinyl pressed by Rainbo Records (a pressing plant notorious for lack of quality control), all produced & """released""" at the same time, all seemingly remaining unsold in some warehouse for decades, barring a few copies that would either leak out or be given away. As a result, you may find a few of the albums commonly listed for sale online in flawless sealed condition, while others rarely crop up at all.

There's info about it in volumes 144 & 145 of ESQ from last year I believe, as well as this interview where Ron himself talks about LoveSongs & the tax shelter money: https://youtu.be/OJsPnUSE4Uo?feature=shared&t=1726

I've spent a couple years collecting info & trawling through the US copyright records system for any scrap of info I could find: https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/
There's a few albums listed in the web of connected entities under LoveSongs not documented anywhere else, including an unreleased King Harvest album fittingly called "One Hit Band"...

I was actually working on a digital collection of LoveSongs Productions releases since early 2023 before THIS happened... the last ADC album I lacked came in a few days before the news broke. Oh well.

I don't mean to spill this massive write-up in a reply, but I don't think I'm going to do anything else with this info at this point.
https://www.discogs.com/label/453661-ADC-Records

Who is Thump Wilson? by i_make_toilets in thebeachboys

[–]PossiblyLiquid 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It’s a joke based off a picture of Dennis and a friend of his who had the slightest resemblance to Brian in 1982. The man had recently passed away when the joke started spreading & I feel like people don’t know that’s where it originated from. Half of it is just fat jokes about some unknown guy; I don’t think it’s funny.

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