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   From: derekbill@allsummerlong.com   
      
   In article , Tim Farrow   
    wrote:   
      
   > Mike Love is a tool   
   >   
   > "Derek A. Bill"  wrote in message   
   > news:051020041150061210%derekbill@allsummerlong.com...   
   > > The contents of this interview (and possibly some of what we'll see   
   > > tonight on Showtime on the David Leaf film) is going to shock some. I   
   > > know I've already heard some things that are news to me. For example:   
   > >   
   > > According to David Leaf (quoting David Anderle and, I believe,  Danny   
   > > Hutton) and Van Dyke Parks, SmiLE wasn't planned as a Beach Boys album.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > .......(!)   
   > >   
   > > So the question may not be whether Mike didn't consider it appropriate   
   > > for the Beach Boys as much as it was whether he wanted Brian working   
   > > with someone other than the group, or wanted brian's energies directed   
   > > toward anything other than the group's continued commercial success.   
   > >   
   > > This goes along with the previous report (in Danny Hutton's book) that   
   > > Mike and Carl worked hard to prevent Brian from writing/recording   
   > > for/with Redwood.   
      
      
   Another great moment:  According to Van, when Dennis came back from   
   touring and heard SmiLE tracks for the first time, he wept.   
      
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