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The Beach Boys - Studio arguement with Murry Wilson while recording 'Help Me Rhonda' (8th January 1965)

Murry Wilson

"Syncopate a little..."
"Loosen up sweetie..."
"Sing from your heart..."
"Happy! That's all we need..."
"Quit screaming and start singing from the heart..."
"You're flat!"
"So you're big stars..."
"When you guys get too much money you start thinking you are going to make everything a hit..."
"Brian! I'm a genius too!"

The Beach Boys

A drunken Murry Wilson (Father of Brian, Dennis and Carl) turns up at the recording studio while The Beach Boys are recording 'Help Me Rhonda' at the invitation of Brian.

We hear him scat singing and castigating the boys for singing flat and generally just meddling.

You can see why the boys installed a fake recording console so that he could twiddle knobs to his hearts content!

Bear in mind that it was due to a blow from his father that resulted in Brian being deaf in one ear and considering that he was 22 at the time this tape was made, when you listen to it you will be amazed how much self control Brian shows.

In the end they went back into the studio to record 'Help Me Rhonda' without Murry's interferance, and this version was eventually released as 'Help Me Ronda' on 'The Beach Boys Today'.

Brian & Murry Wilson Studio Argument
(24 minutes VBR)
These four tracks are taken from an album called 'Journals - Vol. 2'

PS: I downloaded this quite a while back from somewhere that I have forgotten and I couldn't find again while preparing this post.
My apologies and thanks to the original uploader. 

NB

I originally posted this at 'Pathway' last June.

The penishead post

Art by Trevor Brown c 1988 (?)

Full penishead post at his blog

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Because...

'Taqwacore' trailer

 When he was 17, Michael Knight left his mother's home in Rochester to study Islam at a Pakistani madrassa. It was his first act of rebellion - against his abusive, schizophrenic, white-supremacist father. Years later, burned out on the demands of religious dogma, Mike rebelled once more - by penning a Muslim Punk manifesto called The Taqwacores. His work of fiction struck a chord with young Muslims around the world and before long, real-life Taqwacore bands were creating a scene. This film follows Michael and his band of Muslim punks as they journey across the U.S. and Pakistan, transforming their worlds, their religion and themselves through the spirit of Taqwacore.

HERE

A Thousand Words

A picture says a...

Prepared text for interviewees to condemn 'riots'.

Cute, but don't let that fool you. He is pure evil

Lights & Water

"I will always love yooooooo!"

(Thanx SirMick!)

Sigur Ros - Við spilum endalaust - A Take Away Show

Afghan MPs reject most Karzai cabinet nominees

The Afghan parliament has turned down 17 out of President Hamid Karzai's 24 nominees for his new Cabinet.

Energy minister nominee Ismail Khan, a former warlord, was among the rejected.
Nominees for justice, health, commerce, economy and women's affairs were among others rejected, but Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak was re-appointed.
The BBC's Kabul correspondent says the results complicate Mr Karzai's efforts to repay political favours with Cabinet posts without offending parliament.
He also needs to satisfy international donors who have threatened to withhold funding for any ministry run by a corrupt politician, the BBC's Peter Greste adds.
Western officials have repeatedly emphasised that tackling corruption is key to stabilising the country, following the president's controversial re-election last year.

I think, unfortunately, that the criteria [for Cabinet posts] were either ethnicity or bribery or money Fawzia Kufi Afghan MP

The vote is one of the few occasions when parliamentarians have genuine power to hold the executive to account, analysts say.
Many nominees were criticised as having been picked for reasons other than their competency.
"I think, unfortunately, that the criteria were either ethnicity or bribery or money," MP Fawzia Kufi said, in remarks quoted by AP news agency.
'Slap'
Women's Affairs Minister Husn Bano Ghazanfar - the only female in the Cabinet - was among those who failed to win approval in Saturday's secret ballot of more than 200 MPs.

OUT OF OFFICE Ismail Khan, Energy and Water Minister Husn Bano Ghazanfar, Women's Minister General Khodaidad, Anti-narcotics Minister Sayed Mohammad Amin Fatimi, Health Minister Mohammad Sarwar Danish, Justice Minister Wahidullah Shahrani, Commerce Minister Amir Zai Sangeen, Telecommunications Minister

Mr Khan, a Soviet-era guerrilla leader and anti-Taliban commander who was also energy minister in the last Cabinet, was one of the most prominent nominees to be rejected.
Accused of human rights abuses and corruption, he is also unpopular with some because of his role as a warlord in western Herat province during Afghanistan's civil war.
No-one has been nominated foreign minister, and the post is not expected to be filled until an international conference on Afghanistan in London later this month.
Analysts say Mr Karzai presented his Cabinet to parliament two weeks ago, hoping to finalise his team before the conference.
But only seven posts were confirmed. They include - along with defence - that of Interior Minister Hanif Atmar.
Our correspondent says few had anticipated a slap of this scale for the president.
US President Barack Obama announced last month he would send 30,000 new US troops to Afghanistan, with a view to beating the Taliban.
Nato countries have followed up by pledging another 7,000 troops so far.
Mr Obama said he wants to begin handing over to Afghan security forces by mid-2011.
President Karzai was returned for a second five-year term after last August's election, despite investigators discovering more than a quarter of votes were fraudulent.

@'BBC'

Terrence Parker

Terrence Parker has established himself as a producer, remixer and DJ of the classic sound of House Music, and is known as a pioneer of the Inspirational / Gospel House movement! Terrence Parker has performed as a DJ in more than 150 cities throughout the world. Since 1988, he has released more than 100 recordings, and had top 20 hits with his songs "Love's Got Me High", "The Question" and albums like "Detroit After Dark" in the U.K

Podcast Mix #97

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(Thanx Don!)