A Beach Boys Jukebox

CherokeeRose wrote:Track: 'Feel Flows'---The Beach Boys

DarkGothicQueen wrote:For Russ Regan~~

Track: 'Surfin`'---The Beach Boys

No photos with the Boys but this one with Elton and Neil Diamond is pretty cool. Rest in peace, sir.  



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Cool Cool Water wrote:I'm back! Also, let's play this classic (which came on YT shuffle). I have always loved that guitar break at 1:40 onwards!  

Hi Rich. Welcome back.  And a great choice! 

It has one of only two extended solos I know of on BB studio albums (the other being Ricky's Moog in "Leaving This Town"). I like the way Charles Lloyd's sax line occasionally breaks surface only to disappear again. Wonderful stuff all round. 

Mr. K wrote:I'd say "Feel Flows" is Carl's finest hour. It has one of only two extended solos I know of on BB studio albums (the other being Ricky's Moog in "Leaving This Town").

Cool Cool Water wrote:

Mr. K wrote:I'd say "Feel Flows" is Carl's finest hour. It has one of only two extended solos I know of on BB studio albums (the other being Ricky's Moog in "Leaving This Town").

Do you know who plays the guitar solo on the track ... Carl?

Mr. K wrote:

Cool Cool Water wrote:
Do you know who plays the guitar solo on the track ... Carl?

Yes, it's Carl. There's a wonderful description of the making of "Feel Flows" somewhere in Abbott's Back to the Beach. I'll look for it later. 

Mr. K wrote:

Mr. K wrote:

Cool Cool Water wrote:
Do you know who plays the guitar solo on the track ... Carl?

Yes, it's Carl. There's a wonderful description of the making of "Feel Flows" somewhere in Abbott's Back to the Beach. I'll look for it later. 

Here you go. This is on pp. 85-86 of Kingsley Abbott's book: 

Here’s Carl describing how he produced “Feel Flows”: I played piano first and then I played organ. I played piano twice, overdubbed it, and used a variable speed oscillator to make the track different speeds so that the piano would be a little bit out of tune, sort of a spread sound, do you understand what I mean? You play the tape at 30 inches per second, and then you may slow it down to about 29 and 3/4 inches per second. It wouldn’t be that great actually, I got my cycles mixed up with inches per second. But say at 60 cycles and then 59. So that makes the piano sound like the effect of a 12-string guitar, you know? When the two strings are at the same octave but just a tiny bit out of tune? you know that real ringing sound?
“And then I put the organ on and put it through the Moog at the same time, so that one side of the stereo had the direct organ sound and the other side had the return through the Moog synthesizer. It’s sort of like a vibrato, but the frequency changes, there’s a tone change, like a graphic tone. Do you know what a graphic equalizer is? Well, it just springs out, you can amplify any particular part of a sound spectrum, like from 50 cycles to 10,000 cycles. The Moog did that automatically; there’s a component called a sequencer and you can time it to react and go through a series of circuits all connected to a different frequency, and it does that back and forth. And therefore it sounded sort of like a vibrato or a wah-wah, sort of both at the same time.
“Then I put on the bass, played the bass guitar. Then I put on the Moog for that part where the piano comes in by itself after the instrumental part, you know? Then we put on the bells, and a guy named Woody Thews played percussion on it, and I sang it. I put the guitar on about the same time.
“Then I think it was the next day Charles Lloyd came by and we did the flute and saxophone. And I might add, he heard it one time and then started playing, he started recording right away. It was really a thrill for me to have him play on it ’cause he’s a gifted musician. It was really great. And then the next session we did the vocals, the background part, and that was it.”
 
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