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Robert Orban <donotreply@spamblock.com> wrote in message news:<7cadnes4qqqS1ozcRVn-qQ@giganews.com>...
> In article <cdf5c97b.0407302320.69a9904a@posting.google.com>,
> jflx@earthlink.net says...
> >
> >
> >garthrr@aol.com (Garth) wrote in message
> >news:<20040730042715.22164.00000083@mb-m05.aol.com>...
> >> In article <41093D1E.879E2E65@comcast.net>, Don Cooper
> >> <dcooper28800@comcast.net> writes:
> >>
> >> >Animix wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Oops........maybe Synclavier? Did they even have Synclavier's back in
> 66?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I doubt it. One of the coolest things about the album "Pet Sounds" is how
> Brian
> >> Wilson got those unique sounds by combining (what I would consider to be)
> >> improbable instruments such as accordions and tympani etc. He was getting
> >> sounds that would, in later decades, be accessable mainly via synthesizers.
> >>
> >> Garth~
> >
> >
> >Thank goodness that Moog synthesizers were so rare in that day. Brian
> >Wilson was doing the accoustical version of that long before "Pet
> >Sounds".
> >
> >He would so often 'ride' something on top of Carol Kaye's Fender bass
> >track, e.g. The opening to the song "Dance, Dance, Dance" was actually
> >an exception, where the plucked upright bass was incorporated, as
> >distinct from the electric bass there.
> >
> >But otherwise, he would so often use horns, or bass saxes, or piano,
> >or harpsichord, note-for-note, to augment the bass line.
> >
> >I used to think that the Beach Boys music had a bigger bass sound just
> >because it was louder. I learned later that the double low saxes in
> >"She's Not The Little Girl I Once Knew" or the horns also following
> >the bass line in "Here Today" on 'Pet Sounds' was such a big part of
> >that huge sound. (not to forget the harpsichord, changing the flavor
> >of the bass, yet again, near the end of that song)
> >
> >I'm not even going to go into how some 20-23 year old who wrote only
> >simple popular tunes, with no musical theory training whatsoever,
> >could come up with 13'th chord harmony vocals and melodic, non-tonic
> >related bass lines.
> >
> >It wobbles the mind.
>
> He had a certain amount of theory training at his high school, IIRC. He was
> also very into The Four Freshmen, and reportedly dissected their
> vocal arrangements as part of his self-imposed musical education. Beach Boys'
> harmonies were very influenced by Four Freshmen harmonies. Bringing chromatic,
> jazz-influenced harmonies into the diatonic world of '60s rock 'n' roll was a
> very radical thing at the time.
his dad was also a songwriter (though not NEARLY as good a one as his
son, which led to some ugly jealousy and bad treatment/manipulation
that fed into/created many of Brian's psychological problems) so he
did grow up around music...
/www.mellotron.com/history.htm
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