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After going through the vale of uncoolness in the late ’60s, the Beach Boys picked things up again with the fairly successful ‘Surf’s Up’ (1971). But the band was hopelessly divided, Dennis Wilson dropped out several times, and brother Brian was just dozing. Not-so-secret bandleader Carl Wilson must have been hoping for something like the Billy Preston effect (cf. Peter Jackson’s “Get Back”) when he met singer/guitarist Blondie Chaplin and drummer Ricky Fataar of South African band The Flames brought fresh people into the band.
Between banality and genius
In fact, the two contributed a large part to the unusual nonchalance, soulfulness and funkiness of “Carl And The Passions – ‘So Tough'”. Commercially, however, the album fell short of expectations, and the record company Reprise demanded a hit single, which Van Dyke Parks, who had been chased out of court in the “Smile” days, teased out of Brian Wilson. The boogie-piano-driven result, “Sail On, Sailor,” became a moderately successful single and an impactful opening song for the next album.
On their European tour, the band had developed a love for the Netherlands. She stayed there for half a year to record the pretty “Holland” in a barn in the village of Baambrugge, the heart of which, contrary to the title, is a warm reminiscence of her homeland: the three-part “California Saga”. Even the flight-shy Brian Wilson made it across the Atlantic and oversaw the recording of his 12-minute musical fairy tale Mount Vernon And Fairway, which accompanies Holland as an EP and happily oscillates between banality and genius. The super deluxe edition of the Sail On, Sailor box set now features the remasters of the last two major Beach Boys albums including bonus tracks, a Carnegie Hall concert from November 1972 that is definitely worth buying, and many outtakes ( missing on the LP version).
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