The Beach Boys reunite ... kinda.
I just read the AP story on the Beach Boys getting back together ... to stand on top of the Capitol Records building as part of a Pet Sounds 40th anniversary celebration.
There's too much irony to comment on, really. How about Capitol celebrating the 40th anniversary of Pet Sounds, when in 1966 Capitol effectively halted sales of the album by failing to fulfill restocking orders and releasing a Beach Boys greatest hits record right on Pet Sounds' tail (pardon the pun)?
Or what about the mention of Mike Love's lawsuit against Brian Wilson, filed in November, in which Love claimed that Brian Wilson was misappropriating Smile, the album Love played a major role in destorying before it was ever completed?
And what was lil' Dave Marks doing there? For someone who was in a band for a few months 44 years ago or so, he still gets a lot of play as an "original" Beach Boys member (which he wasn't). I actually saw "The Beach Boys" play about five or six years ago at the Taste of Cleveland food festival, and Mike Love had Marks in the band, apparently to lend credibility to the act. I think Marks was taking too much of the spotlight -- he was out of the band (again) within a few months.
Anyway, I think it's pretty amazing that Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde were released on the exact same day, 40 years ago (in May '66, to be exact). We're never gonna see a day like that again, I'm afraid.
