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Ever wanted to hear the Beach Boys' 1965 album track "Salt Lake City" in stereo instead of mono, or maybe an a cappella version of "Can't Wait Too Long," which the band recorded in 1967 but never released until it was tacked onto a 1990 reissue? If so, then you're undoubtedly one of the more obsessive Beach Boys fans out there, and Hawthorne, CA was produced with you -- and only a scant few others -- in mind. More akin to an audio scrapbook or musical documentary than a true rarities compilation, this two-disc set is packed with over two exhausting hours of session excerpts, alternate versions, backing tracks (à la Stack-O-Tracks), and a handful of stereo remixes. It's also interspersed with dialogue from bandmembers, a process that only enhances the already fragmentary nature of a collection like this. The only genuinely new songs are "Lonely Days," an artifact from the Wild Honey era, and Dennis Wilson's "A Time to Live in Dreams" from 1968. Still, almost every track has never been released previously, and fans of the band's lost masterpiece Smile will find several tracks of intriguing material, including revealing stereo versions of "Heroes and Villains" and "Vegetables." Also included is a considerable excerpt from the original tapes of the Beach Boys' first garage session (for the "Surfin'" single), complete with Dennis' wacky mic testing and threats from various bandmates that they'll get popped in the nose if they laugh during another take. Hawthorne, CA proves two things over and over again -- with every a cappella mix, it proves the Beach Boys were one of the most amazing harmonists of the rock era, and with several of the newly stereo versions, listeners can hear what a good stereo remix can do to even the most lackluster songs, like 1970s "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)" -- itself a misguided attempt to duplicate the success of 1966's "Sloop John B." A bounty of intriguing songs for the collector and true-believer fan, but far from necessary for disinterested listeners.
© John Bush /TiVo
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MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Mike Love, MainArtist - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Unknown, ComposerLyricist - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Beach Boys, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Mike Love, MainArtist - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Love, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Al Jardine, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Troup, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Piano, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nick Venet, Producer - Brian Wilson, Producer - Chuck Berry, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Carl Wilson, MainArtist - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Roger Christian, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Roger Christian, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Murry Wilson, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, MainArtist - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Glen Campbell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Edward Love, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Chuck Britz, Engineer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Douglas, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Russell, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Billy Strange, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Plas Johnson, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Migliori, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Hal Blaine, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Frank Capp, Vibraphone, AssociatedPerformer - Lyle Ritz, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Carol Kaye, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Al De Lory, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Caton, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Howard Roberts, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Kolbrak, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Douglas, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Leon Russell, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Billy Strange, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Plas Johnson, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Migliori, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Hal Blaine, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Frank Capp, Vibraphone, AssociatedPerformer - Lyle Ritz, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Carol Kaye, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Al De Lory, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Caton, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Howard Roberts, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Kolbrak, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Al Jardine, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Al Jardine, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Al Jardine, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Britz, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Dennis Wilson, MainArtist - Al Jardine, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Love, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Al Jardine, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Fassert, ComposerLyricist - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dean Torrence, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Love, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Al Jardine, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Fassert, ComposerLyricist - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dean Torrence, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Mike Love, MainArtist - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Boudleaux Bryant, ComposerLyricist - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocals, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Love, Vocals, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Dennis Wilson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
DISC 2
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Dennis Wilson, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Van Dyke Parks, ComposerLyricist - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim Lockert, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Van Dyke Parks, ComposerLyricist - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Narrator, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Hal Blaine, Narrator
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Van Dyke Parks, ComposerLyricist - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Al Jardine, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim Lockert, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Britz, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim Lockert, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Bruce Johnston, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Unknown, ComposerLyricist - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Beach Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Al Jardine, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Bruce Johnson, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, Producer, MainArtist - BILL HALVERSON, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim Lockert, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Larry Levine, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Desper, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, MainArtist - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Al Jardine, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Dennis Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Stephen John Kalinich, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Van McCoy, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Dennis Wilson, Composer, Producer - Larry Levine, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Desper, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Dennis Wilson, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Al Jardine, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - RED RHODES, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer - Huddie 'Ledbelly' Ledbetter, ComposerLyricist - Alan Jardine, Producer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2001 Brother Records Inc
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer - Carl Wilson, MainArtist - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Al Jardine, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Al Jardine, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Reggie Dunbar, ComposerLyricist - Murry Wilson, Producer
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Bruce Johnston, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - MARK LINETT, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Wilson, Producer, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Love, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Beach Boys, MainArtist - Carl Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Al Jardine, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen W. Desper, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joe Knott, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
Ever wanted to hear the Beach Boys' 1965 album track "Salt Lake City" in stereo instead of mono, or maybe an a cappella version of "Can't Wait Too Long," which the band recorded in 1967 but never released until it was tacked onto a 1990 reissue? If so, then you're undoubtedly one of the more obsessive Beach Boys fans out there, and Hawthorne, CA was produced with you -- and only a scant few others -- in mind. More akin to an audio scrapbook or musical documentary than a true rarities compilation, this two-disc set is packed with over two exhausting hours of session excerpts, alternate versions, backing tracks (à la Stack-O-Tracks), and a handful of stereo remixes. It's also interspersed with dialogue from bandmembers, a process that only enhances the already fragmentary nature of a collection like this. The only genuinely new songs are "Lonely Days," an artifact from the Wild Honey era, and Dennis Wilson's "A Time to Live in Dreams" from 1968. Still, almost every track has never been released previously, and fans of the band's lost masterpiece Smile will find several tracks of intriguing material, including revealing stereo versions of "Heroes and Villains" and "Vegetables." Also included is a considerable excerpt from the original tapes of the Beach Boys' first garage session (for the "Surfin'" single), complete with Dennis' wacky mic testing and threats from various bandmates that they'll get popped in the nose if they laugh during another take. Hawthorne, CA proves two things over and over again -- with every a cappella mix, it proves the Beach Boys were one of the most amazing harmonists of the rock era, and with several of the newly stereo versions, listeners can hear what a good stereo remix can do to even the most lackluster songs, like 1970s "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)" -- itself a misguided attempt to duplicate the success of 1966's "Sloop John B." A bounty of intriguing songs for the collector and true-believer fan, but far from necessary for disinterested listeners.
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 57 track(s)
- Total length: 01:45:16
- Main artists: The Beach Boys
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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