Thursday, November 15, 2007

In The Beginning: The Garage Tapes

This bootleg features some early recording sessions for Gary Usher in which The Beach Boys sang background vocals. It's pretty interesting to hear the boys in the studio before they had ever recorded anything of their own.

It also features the tapes a teenage Brian Wilson recorded in his Hawthorne, CA home of him and his young brothers (with friends, family and neighbors) practicing early material before the Beach Boys were ever formed. Also included are some silly skits and recordings of things like Brian and friend Keith Lent practicing Spanish.





Click Here To Download Disc 1 Part 1
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Click Here To Download Disc 1 Part 2
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(extract both parts to the same directory)

Click Here To Download Disc 2
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See ya soon,

Eric

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's this???!!!!!
This deserves another WOW
(& another THANKS!) :)

Anonymous said...

Yup- gotta agree. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Wow, never knew this existed. I can't wait to hear it! I think the Happy b-day Four Freshmen track was on the BB box set. It's got this ethereal sound that fascinates me. It's partly the singing, and also the old, lo-fi recording.

Anonymous said...

Really astounding!!
Thanks!!

Unknown said...

Links for In The Beginning: The Garage Tapes are dead :(
Can you repost please, been looking this record so long, almost gonna cry ;(

Anonymous said...

wow dude, thanks a bunch, I was reading about this one on beachboys.com. The first part of disc 1 has been removed...do you think you can reupload it? Awesome though man, thanks!

The Lexingtons said...

it took just a couple days for this link to disappear.

Mediafire is proving to be more trouble than it is worth.

I'll reupload them as soon as I can. I just moved, so I need some time to settle into my apartment.

- eric

triff said...

thanks for this post, eric !

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for posting this!

Unknown said...

Got it finally, thank you very much! too bad there's problems with mediafire, used to be good before it get popular.

Anonymous said...

The 2nd disc link is wrong....it's the same as the first disc.

The Lexingtons said...

such is the plight of someone who codes their HTML at 5 in the morning.

Fixed.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting this and the other stuff! Been looking for these new SOT's specifically!

Anonymous said...

Hi

Thanks for this one..... Looking forward to listen to it....

And btw, i haven't been on the net for over 3 months... Until today... So soon i'll be making a new blog.....

Jakob

Anonymous said...

I would love to see these links restored as rapidshare .zip files. This CD looks to be a VERY important and very rare specimen !

Anonymous said...

yes, please attempt to restore these links, it would make my day

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much for this one!!


P.S. Some of the "alt" links still work. Or at least they worked for me.

Barefoot said...

The "divshare" links still work as of October 2010