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Surf's Up (Beach Boys)

from Everybody's Got Damage by Rob Crow

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Being a musical extremist from a very young age, I was one
of those snobs who thought that The Beach Boys were just a bunch of fake surfers
who sang dumb songs about girls and cars.
Turns out, it was only MOSTLY that!
Among many other things, my late friend Paul Williams created Crawdaddy!, which predated Rolling Stone as the first nation-wide magazine of rock criticism, and was executor of Philip K Dick's estate.
We never discussed ANY of this.
We just kinda bumped into him one day and realized he was the guy that wrote Denver's favorite book, Das Energi.
Anyhow, one day I was complaining about the Beach Boys or whatever
and he set about schooling me on the Smile sessions.
Back then they were still the subject of myth, with only a handful of people having even heard ANY of it before Brian Wilson supposedly setting it all on fire after being harassed by his father, who had earlier burned his fucking ear off, and Mike Love, current MAGA pin-up douche who believes he can fly by flopping his legs around.
Paul, it turns out, was one of that handful, as Brian had sat him down and had him listen to the whole thing right there with him!
So, Paul comes over and drops in my lap a handful of acetate bootleg cassettes and a whole fucking book he wrote about it and blew my stupid mind.
What a great fucking guy!
Obviously, I did not nail the "Columnated Ruins Domino",
but I didn't wanna cheat and did my best.
Probably wouldn't notice that much if I didn't double everything, but I guess that's my "style", so I'm kinda anchored to it.
Brian Wilson would probably hate that, as he has only the one working ear now, and has been quoted as saying "Mono is where it's at!", which I love.

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from Everybody's Got Damage, released June 5, 2020

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Rob Crow San Diego, California

San Diego residing Rob Crow is the frontman for Pinback. When he's not touring with, or making albums for one of his many collaborations including Goblin Cock, Optiganally Yours, Anal Trump, Pinback, The Ladies, Other Men, Alpha Males, etc., he makes solo records. ... more

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