On Jan 25, 12:38=A0am, MDH <dowdl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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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> 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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Hooray!
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