2017-531 ‘Welcerne to Bananastan! UACMMEENMY csssae @ Home ominates_.nim ‘News 0 Releases = FAQ and Facts Van Dyke Parks © Scrapbook % Links BANANASTAN "1was Brilig Van Dyke Parks answers the general inquisition (viz "author" Mike Eder et al) on the Beach Boys' reunion and Smile. ipdhveb archive orqweb/20120406072722hupbananastan.ceminoes_{.riml20175381 ‘Welcerne to Bananastan! UACMMEENMY csssae "Certainly, I did walk away from Smile, Yet, 1 am astonished that Brian has been led into a "The 50th Reunion Album/Tour'. It's a transparent worship of the God of Mammon. ‘Tcomment only to combat any doubt that Mike Love delayed the release of Smile by 40 years purely out of a mislaid jealousy. Smile was a obviously good work. Mike's instrument? An insinuation that I promoted drugs that infected the lyrical outcome. That isn't so. He continues this charge to-date, in a pretext of righteous indignation cloaked in a thin veneer of religiosity ("Transcendental Meditation”). Love should study writers he professes to admire: Dickens; Poc; Conan-Doyle; then cite Baudelaire; Satchmo; Freud, and a legion of similar creative authors whose civility brought beauty to their times, through deftly talented, although drugged doses. ‘The outcome of illumination impelled them all Petty jealousies asid ‘This new reunion is beyond mawkishly mercenary! It's an anecdotal height of personal neutrality in an ethical dilemma. Beach Boys may profit from it, minus a few founders. ‘Yet, revising facts isn't necessary for the progress of profit. I sure wish Brian were here to weigh in. Yet, I'm ready to move on. The windshield is larger than the rear-view mirror. I can't wait to see where their new collaboration wi take us all. I wish them the best." VDP, 3rd day of Christmas, 2011 FR Content © 2012 Bananastan Records / Email us ipdhveb archive orqweb/20120406072722hupbananastan.ceminoes_{.riml