I journey onwards
Encouraged by vapour trails
Scratching stripes through blue.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
Comments (14)
Beautiful Haiku - Nicely Done!!
Ever on....lovely.
Why does this make me feel tired?
Rachel, this is so beautiful and paints such a wonderful picture!!
amazing
Ah vapor trails - you literally make me want to hop on a plane and jet off somewhere lovely. BRILL entry.
Lovely! First sky-ku entry I’ve read and already a high bar has been set
Oh, this is lovely. Well done.
Gorgeous! Paints such a picture!
I love this! Sort of like pursuing an ethereal bread crumb trail through the skies. I should have wrote my thoughts before reading Dharrsheena’s reflections, however.
Another beauty, chum, well done!
Very interesting!
Help, I truly need help. Tell me why did I think that the vapour trails were fart and they were scratching their butt through their striped blue underwear?! There's something very wrong with me, isn't there? But I loved your Haiku!
Hello 👋, this is nice. .