Good news for us Denny fans! Just announced Tuesday and confirmed by
both Jon Stebbins, Ed Roach, and *Billboard,* a new reissue of POB and a
first release for DW's *Bambu.* Details below.
Emdeeh
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http://www.harpmagazine.com/news/detail.cfm?article=12186
DENNIS WILSON'S PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE REISSUED W/UNRELEASED BAMBU
By Fred Mills
January 24, 2008
The Beach Boy's Dennis Wilson's 1977 solo album Pacific Ocean Blue, long
out of print and oft-bootlegged, finally resurfaces officially courtesy
Legacy as an expanded 30th anniversary set. The double-CD PACIFIC OCEAN
BLUE: LEGACY EDITION arrives in stores May 13th on Caribou/Epic/Legacy,
while a vinyl edition of the LP will also be released at the same time,
on the Sundazed label.
Disc One will include the original 12-song LP sequence: 1. River Song *
2. What's Wrong * 3. Moon****ne * 4. Friday Night * 5. Dreamer * 6.
Thoughts of You * 7. Time * 8. You and I * 9. Pacific Ocean Blue * 10.
Farewell My Friend * 11. Rainbows * 12. End of the Show. Several
previously unreleased bonus tracks (details tba) that have never
appeared on any bootleg will round the disc out.
Disc Two, according to Legacy, will be a "godsend to Dennis Wilson and
Beach Boys devotees around the world -- especially those who have been
aware of the Bambu album he had hoped to release as a follow-up, but
never completed. The tape archive is the source for over a dozen bonus
tracks, all previously unreleased, from the original Pacific Ocean Blue
and Bambu sessions. Bambu has been referenced as "Bamboo" in numerous
articles on Dennis and the Beach Boys, but paperwork that accompanied
the sessions now reveals the artist always intended for the album to be
titled Bambu."
In the late '90s, bootleg label Vigotone issued a "version" of Bamboo
using tracks that were presumed to have been earmarked for the project.
According to one reviewer, "while the majority of the songs here were
never finished, Wilson's ambition to make this record more stylistically
diverse than its predecessor is still evident. Check out the southern
horns and lap steel on the instrumental "New Orleans", or the funky
percussion on "Companion". Yet, much like Pacific Ocean Blue this is an
aural record of a man losing his grip and falling apart -- which is,
oddly, what makes it so appealing. Since the album was never completed,
the tracklisting has remained unknown, however the version here has
become fairly common, and of course, the sound quality is much better on
some songs than others. Included here are a few outtakes and alternate
versions from the Pacific Ocean Blue sessions."
Clearly collectors have reason to cheer at the news of this Legacy
release. While the material on both albums can easily be found on the
web as illicit downloads, to have all of the songs collected together
under one roof -- remastered, at that -- is like getting Beach Boys
manna from heaven.
Per Legacy's usual standards, voluminous liner notes will be included,
notably Beach Boys scholar David Leaf, author of the Brian Wilson
biography Beach Boys and the California Myth (1978), and the follow-up,
Beach Boys: Spirit of America (1985), and also a key participant in
numerous reissues including the Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of the
Beach Boys (1993) and The Pet Sounds Sessions (1997) box sets.
Additional essays will feature by Jon Stebbins (author of Dennis Wilson:
The Real Beach Boy), journalist Ben Edmonds and David Beard (editor of
the Beach Boys fanzine, Endless Summer Quarterly).
The set's full-color booklet will include extensive discographic
information and memorabilia. Among these are the images taken for the
original LP package by photographer and lifelong friend Dean Torrence
(of Jan & Dean), thought for decades to be lost but later uncovered in
the Sony Music archives. The album itself went out of print in the early
'80s after the band's Caribou Records deal with the Epic label ran out.
Years later, with the rise of eBay and the ubiquity of CD bootlegs, the
album attained a second lifetime among fans, many of them young indie
rockers who subsequently namechecked the album in interviews as an
influence.
Wilson died in 1983 at the age of 39. The cause of death was drowning.
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