{"id":4986,"date":"2021-09-05T15:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2021-09-05T15:33:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T14:33:48","slug":"wouldnt-it-be-nice-to-live-again-the-dennis-wilson-rumbo-lp-poops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=4986","title":{"rendered":"Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Nice To Live Again \u2013 The Dennis Wilson &#038; Rumbo LP &#8216;Poops&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">To celebrate the release of THE BEACH BOYS\u2019 1969-71 treasure trove FEEL FLOWS, <em>SHINDIG!<\/em> and TSPTR present a reconstruction of DENNIS WILSON &amp; RUMBO\u2019s lost album <em>POOPS<\/em>.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Words and pictures by MARTIN RUDDOCK and RUSS GATER<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poops \/ Hubba Hubba - Dennis Wilson &amp; Daryl Dragon\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2FTSPTRpresents%2Fpoops-hubba-hubba-dennis-wilson-daryl-dragon%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>In December 1970, on the eve of a Beach Boys tour of Europe rogue Beach Boy Dennis Wilson released a stunning surprise solo single, \u2018Sound Of Free\u2019\/\u2018Lady\u2019 with trusted sidekick and musical director Rumbo, aka touring keyboardist Daryl Dragon. The soulful, passionate songs were inspired by Denny\u2019s relationship with second wife Barbara Charren \u2013 an invaluable sounding board and Denny\u2019s muse. The inseparable pair nicknamed each other \u2018Big Poop\u2019 (Dennis) and \u2018Little Poop\u2019 (Barbara).<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The UK-only single wasn\u2019t a success, but emboldened by Barbara\u2019s encouragement, Denny, a prolific contributor to the last three Beach Boys albums began to consider striking out on his own with Dragon. Sessions for a joint album with working titles of <i>Poops <\/i>and <i>Hubba Bubba<\/i> continued through \u201971 amid endless rumours that he was quitting The Beach Boys. Although Dennis hedged his bets as to whether he was in or out, events conspired to scupper his attempt to break free of his dysfunctional musical family. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Having pulled his songs from Beach Boys albums for the duration of the sessions, the project collapsed in early \u201972, by which point the parent band had sequestered two of the dense, orchestrated tracks for use on underrated BBs album <i>Carl And The Passions &#8211; So Tough<\/i>. Dragon then left the touring band shortly afterwards to form The Captain and Tennille with wife Toni Tennille (also in the touring band, the only \u2018Beach Girl\u2019). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Thanks to the release of Denny and Daryl\u2019s work in progress tracks on <i>Feel Flows<\/i>, we now have an idea of what form <i>Poops<\/i> might have taken.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Side One:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lady<br \/>\nMake It Good<br \/>\nBarbara<br \/>\nCuddle Up<br \/>\n(Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Nice) To Live Again<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Side Two:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Medley: All Of My Love \/ Ecology<br \/>\nBefore<br \/>\nBehold The Night<br \/>\nHawaiin Dream<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve Got A Friend<br \/>\nSound Of Free<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS1-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS1-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS1-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Side One:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lady\u00a0<\/strong>(Recorded December 1969)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">One of the earliest romantic odes written to Little Poop. Dennis recorded <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lady&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">on Christmas Eve 1969. Backed by the pulse of an early drum machine and swathed in a lush string arrangement from Daryl Dragon, <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lady&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">was submitted and rejected for an early assembly of<i> Sunflower<\/i>. In Autumn \u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">70 it was ruled out of the tracklist of putative new album <i>Landlocked<\/i> by manager Jack Rieley \u2013 leading Denny to take matters into his own hands and put <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lady<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">on the flip of the only Dennis Wilson and Rumbo single <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Sound Of Free<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">. Whether the other Beach Boys took part at the time and were ultimately mixed out is unknown. It<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s likely that they might have been, as <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Back Home<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">was laid down on the same day, but it<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s almost definitely Carl Wilson playing the twangy lead guitar trills. Unavailable in its original form for decades, a remix of <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lady<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">featuring additional vocals, possibly also from Carl was released on the 2013<\/span> <i><span lang=\"IT\">Made In California<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"IT\"> box.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Make It Good\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded 1971-72)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A refugee from the 19<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">71 <i>Poops <\/i>album sessions, the dark, intense <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Make It Good&#8217;<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">surfaced on the underrated \u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">72 Beach Boys album C<i>arl And The Passions<\/i>\u00a0<i>\u2013 So Tough<\/i>. Sitting uneasily amongst the varied mix of sometimes ragged tunes on <i>So Tough<\/i>, <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Make It Good&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">makes perfect sense in the context of the recently-released tunes intended for <i>Poops<\/i>, and Daryl<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s dense arrangements give Denny<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s emoting an epic scale. Various chord sequences and motifs repeat across these songs, which in some cases seem to have possibly been built up in sections in a manner reminiscent of Brian<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s painstaking work on the <i>SMiLE <\/i>sessions. As <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Make It Good&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">seems to have been one of the later recordings for <i>Poops<\/i> it<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s possible that the vocals were added quite late in the day. Denny<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s anguished croak of <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">All of my life\u201d line crops up again, as we<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ll see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Barbara\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded 1971)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Big Poop sings to Little Poop again. A tender demo featuring Denny and Daryl sat at the same piano. A full recording never materialised, but the song appeared occasionally during Denny\u2019s solo spots in 1972 Beach Boys shows.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Cuddle Up\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded March 1971 and early 1972)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">\u201cI know a man, who\u2019s so in love.\u201d Another hymn to Barbara, originally titled \u2018Old Movie\u2019. This epic weeper\u2019s backing track was probably the first song from the main<i> Poops <\/i>sessions to be put down. The first version had no vocals but was accompanied by a choir of harmonies (probably by Dennis and Carl, whose guitar work is all over <i>Poops<\/i>). Furnished with another sumptuous Daryl Dragon arrangement, the first \u2018Old Movie\u2019, recently released on <i>Feel Flows<\/i>is audibly a different take with more even piano playing from Daryl and its keening melody played by a clarinet. It\u2019s unknown when the final, more dramatic vocal version that closed <i>So Tough<\/i> was cut but it\u2019s likely to have been mid-late 1971. To complicate matters further, as engineer Stephen Desper has confirmed \u2013 Denny also used \u2018Old Movie\u2019 as a working title in April \u201971 for his shattering Vietnam lament &#8216;4th Of July\u2019, co-written with manager Jack Rieley and sung by Carl. The subject matter of the songs couldn\u2019t be more different, but Denny just really liked the title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">(Wouldn\u2019t It Be Nice To) Live Again\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded May 1971)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Locked away in the vaults for over 40 years, this staggering anthemic ballad belatedly made its debut on the <i>Made In California<\/i> box. Running to almost seven minutes, it features arguably Denny\u2019s finest lead vocal, its melody echoing The Beatles\u2019 \u2018Golden Slumbers\u2019 in places. Cut in May 1971, nobody seems quite sure whether it was intended for <i>Surf\u2019s Up<\/i> or<i> Poops<\/i>. As to the involvement of the other Beach Boys, there are brief sections of block harmony and what sounds suspiciously like Mike Love muttering the bass vocal at the end. There\u2019s also a Moog bass typical of the band\u2019s recordings of the time, suggesting the involvement of Carl. We can\u2019t be sure exactly the song fits into the puzzle of Denny\u2019s activity during \u201871, but there is evidence to suggest that much of Poops was intended to feature elaborate segues, and Denny offered some songs to The Beach Boys before subsequently withdrawing them. <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">I have a belief in my music. And it sounds nothing like it should on the album \u2013 it should have a flow on it from one song to another\u2026,\u201d he told Al Aronowitz in a September \u201971 interview. \u201cIt didn<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">t sound like The Beach Boys. They thought it did. I said <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Bullshit<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">and pulled my songs off.\u201d To complicate things further, manager Jack Rieley contended in interviews that it was his decision to leave Denny\u2019s songs off <i>Surf\u2019s Up<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Whatever the intention, the key and tempo of \u2018Wouldn\u2019t It Be Nice To Live Again\u2019 dovetail perfectly with the end of \u2018Cuddle Up, so we thought it was a fitting finale to Side One.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS2.jpg 595w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS2-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS2-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/POOPS2-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Side Two:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Medley: <\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"DE\">All <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Of My Love \/ Ecology\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded 1971)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Aside from his considerable sexual antics, Denny\u2019s other extracurricular activities usually involved being outdoors \u2013 hiking, fishing, surfing, camping, swimming \u2013 his heart was in nature. Both of his favourite obsessions (love and nature) are blended succinctly with the beautiful opening gambit of <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">All of my love \/ Ecology&#8217; \u2013<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">All of my love, bigger than the ocean. All of my heart, I give it to you. All that I am is moving in the river\u201d. His lyrics articulate a quasi-transcendental, romantic faith in nature<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s benevolence, a primitivist sense of its mystic, sacramental properties. There\u2019s also a critical desire, to experience and venerate, fully immersing and identifying himself in the natural world while utilising the ecology to demonstrate the sheer breadth of his love for wife Barbara. For Dennis, nature wasn<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">t just a romantic metaphor but moreover a spiritual analogue. The \u201cAll of my life\u2026.\u201d line turns up in slightly revised form in \u2018Make It Good\u2019 while elements of <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ecology<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">would later be developed into <i>Pacific Ocean Blue<\/i><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s &#8216;River Song&#8217;, the piano melody (first introduced in \u2018Sound Of Free\u2019) intact but the <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"DE\">Run Run River Run<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">motif sadly missing, however Daryl and Denny&#8217;s harmonic resolutions and rising and descending key changes ensured that nature never sounded so sweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Before\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded 1971)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Before\u2019<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-US\">demonstrates the deftness and lightness of touch inherent in Daryl Dragon<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s arrangements. The melancholy opening bars share the same chord progression as the \u201cI know a man, who\u2019s so in love\u201d line in \u2018Cuddle Up\u2019. It quickly shifts into soaring harmonies, and then into a different, more sexually assured sidewinding groove incorporating Dennis&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">vocal that beckons his Lady to <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"IT\">Come on, come in<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u2026..\u201d, a familiar refrain that channels one of his earlier songs, 1969<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s \u2018Celebrate The News\u2019, B-side of The Beach Boys\u2019 final Capitol single \u2018Break Away\u2019. Although recorded in 1971, <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Before<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s inception was possibly earlier, around the same time as \u2018Sound of Free\u2019, the overall vibe of both tracks dovetailing unlike any others on the album.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Behold The Night\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded July 1971)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">An aching, shape-shifting ballad, \u2018Behold The Night\u2019 is one of the more complete songs on <i>Poops<\/i> with a breathtaking filmic arrangement of low fluting synths, organs and Harry Lime zither from Dragon. With a structure that never settles, unlike the other songs it appears to catch Denny and Barbara in a rough patch. \u201cLie on my bed, look at the wall\/Maybe this longing will go away,\u201d he sings in a wracked tenor. Captured just weeks after Denny put his hand through a pane of glass, taking him off live drumming duties until 1974, perhaps this documents their first big row.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hawaiian Dream\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded 1971)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Presented as an instrumental ebb and flow of Denny and Daryl<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s musical musings that would ultimately find their fruition as \u2018Farewell My Friend\u2019 on <i>Pacific Ocean Blue<\/i>, \u2018Hawaiian Dream\u2019 shares Island-style nuances with <i>Pet Sounds <\/i>instrumental track \u2018Let\u2019s Go Away For A While\u2019 but transcends it with a soaring harmonic conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">I\u2019ve Got A Friend\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded 1971)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In Fall 1971, Dennis was only 27 years old, but had already done a lot of living. Here, he delivers a soul searching, piano driven ballad about personal reliance. Exposing his own vulnerability, he sings <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Sometimes I feel lost and can<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">t find the way\u2026.\u201d, sounding like someone physically and emotionally 20 years his senior, an old soul revelling in the ephemeral nature of time and love. Daryl Dragon later recalled his first introduction to Denny<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s solo music while playing keys as part of The Beach Boys touring band, <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Before a typical tour sound check, I saw Dennis sitting at the piano, playing some beautiful chords&#8230; I asked him what composer that was: He answered <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">I wrote that<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">. I was stopped cold! He hummed a melody to these absolutely inspired chords\u2026I realised that Dennis&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">heart was NOT in rock \u2019n&#8217; roll, as much as it was in romantically based musical writing.\u201d As with all of the <i>Poops <\/i>tracks, Dragon<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s work with Dennis hints at new artistic blueprint that would later be fully realised on <i>Pacific Ocean Blue<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Unfortunately the studio cut of \u2018I\u2019ve Got A Friend\u2019 never received a vocal, but a very fuzzy live version with The Beach Boys can be heard here<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dennis Wilson and The Beach Boys- I&#039;ve Got A Friend (2018 remix and remaster)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RySyQx6hrwA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Sound Of Free\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(Recorded November 1970)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Beach Boys band dynamic was always extremely complicated, but none more so than Dennis&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">relationship with his cousin Mike Love. Usually at loggerheads, to the point where apocryphal accounts have Dennis literally beating Love down both on and off stage, they would also find the harmony at times to collaborate on several songs including \u2018Only with You\u2019, \u2018Pacific Ocean Blues\u2019 and 1970<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s \u2018Sound Of Free\u2019. Love doesn\u2019t sing on the track, but Carl Wilson provides his signature needling guitar trills and big brother Brian makes a one word cameo with a single high \u201cFree!\u201d, making this basically a Beach Boys cut by any other name. Recorded post-<i>Sunflower<\/i> during the early <i>Surfs Up<\/i> album sessions, it opens with Dragon<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s unmistakeable harpsichord riff, kicking into a powerful <i>Sunflower<\/i>-esque jam with Dennis&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">seductive vocal driving the song forward. The tempo shifts down a gear into some beautiful sections that evoke much of what<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s to come in Denny<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s music, analogising with the natural world, the familiar <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Come on\u2026\u2019 refrain once again present before building into a crescendo. According to Love the <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Children of light\u2026\u2019 referenced in the lyrics refer to the practitioners of Transcendental Meditation with the <\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Sound of Free<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">being the achievement of inner balance and unity. 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