[Heel n Toe]

Lubey, Sloop John B is probably my favorite to hear by them, too. They made it their own.

Jake, Vibrations was, I'm sure, one of their most difficult songs to pull off live. Combine that with perhaps bad acoustics in that TV studio, and it would be almost impossible.

Those guys were craftsmen... those incredible layered harmonies are completely unique in all of popular music. Brian put all that stuff together and it's sheer genius... and nobody can take it from him. Nor should his decline tarnish what he accomplished.

Those of you here who were a kid growing up in the sixties knows what I mean when I say they captured the romance of the automobile and the feel of the West Coast lifestyle with all their tributes to surfing, etc. and shared it with everybody who couldn't be there.

Like a lot of people, my musical tastes changed and matured as the end of sixties approached and we all moved on to Hendrix, Zeppelin, Santana, Canned Heat, James Gang, and a thousand other bands, but every once in awhile, it's good to put on some Beach Boys and turn it up to eleven. It's incredible stuff.