[wildneonsins]

I'm running a forum for my current favourite musician / special interest, Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys
& would like to get some more active/semi active members & site feedback.

There's sections to chat about anything Dennis, The Beach Boys, music in general or off topic chat.
You can promote Dennis/Beach Boys related websites, social media fan pages/groups etc. and any Dennis/Beach Boys items you have for sale on ebay (or similar sites).


http://thoughtsofdennis.co.uk/forum/

I've recently published a fanzine

& I'm currently running a competition.

[sprite1950]

OMG I love the Beach Boys. I have their album on vinyl "Surfs Up". They were a huge part of my youth and had such a unique sound. I think my favourite all time track was God Only Knows and one of my ex boyfriends used to play Lady Linda to me

A great blast from the past.

[wildneonsins]

OMG I love the Beach Boys. I have their album on vinyl "Surfs Up". They were a huge part of my youth and had such a unique sound. I think my favourite all time track was God Only Knows and one of my ex boyfriends used to play Lady Linda to me

A great blast from the past.

Love the title track of Surfs Up & that album, just wish Student Demonstration Time wasn't on it (or at least the lyrics weren't so clunky) , and Dennis hadn't had a spat with Carl over the song order or something and stopped his own songs appearing on the album

Read recently that according to a general Beach Boys forum, Dennis helped out on Lady Linda

[sprite1950]

I think most bands have their differences from time to time but it didn't stop them turning out some amazing tracks. Always in my heart and in my mind. When I first read this thread I played some of their stuff online to relive my youth

[wildneonsins]

I'm now running a new competition to encourage forum posting
& giving away free downloads of my fanzine.
(Look for the announcement post on every sub-forum)

[OldGuy]

I have a large personal collection of music that I play all the time instead of tuning in to some radio broadcast. It includes a Beach Boys collection that is supposed to include nearly every recording they produced (at least before 1990 when I bought it) and it just happened to have been going through playing that part of my collection in the last week. It includes lots of their recordings I have never heard anyplace else, including ad jingles, practice sessions and other off air oddities.

I used to run our city's high school alumni association (multiple public and private schools in our community) and went all out for all school alumni weekend events. I originally tried to book the Beach Boys for one year's event but they wanted $50,000 (USD) for a single 4 hour concert. I ended up with other well known but not quite as popular groups for the weekends that were substantially less expensive.

[wildneonsins]

I have a large personal collection of music that I play all the time instead of tuning in to some radio broadcast. It includes a Beach Boys collection that is supposed to include nearly every recording they produced (at least before 1990 when I bought it) and it just happened to have been going through playing that part of my collection in the last week. It includes lots of their recordings I have never heard anyplace else, including ad jingles, practice sessions and other off air oddities.

I used to run our city's high school alumni association (multiple public and private schools in our community) and went all out for all school alumni weekend events. I originally tried to book the Beach Boys for one year's event but they wanted $50,000 (USD) for a single 4 hour concert. I ended up with other well known but not quite as popular groups for the weekends that were substantially less expensive.

There've been some pretty obsessively detailed / intensively compiled unofficial & fan compiled sets over the decades. The recent offical download only copyright extension sets have still managed to reveal some tracks that dedicated fans had never heard of.

re your second comment, it's a shame that the band (or a version of the band - the Beach Boys currentally touring only have one and a half original members) became at some point more about the money than the music.

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I'm trying to post something (not necessarily Christmassy but sometimes it will be) Dennis / Beach Boys themed every day, for a forum 'advent calendar'.

[wildneonsins]

I've opened a category of sub forums guest / non registered visitors can post in for tributes and guestbook type comments.

[wildneonsins]

The competition I'm running to win a cd & some Beach Boys and fanzine promo merch ends tonight.

I've updated the forum with details of the money raised & donated to charity from sales of the zine.
plus deleted some would be spammers who joined but never posted (checked emails against stopforumspam & similar sites).

-- 05 Jan 2020, 18:11 --

The competition has ended, just waiting to hear back from the second winner.

(the other forum posting contest only got two legit entrants )

The fanzine is free on itch.io until 6:00pm tomorrow (not sure which timezone)
& reduced on gumroad too.

eta: BBC Radio 2 played Lady Linda on Sounds Of The 70s earlier too

[wildneonsins]

Think I'm going to redesign the forum as the current theme looks horrible on my new laptop's screen
edit: Don't know if it's my old monitor or the new one that's showing the wrong colours, plus the layout really doesn't look good on a smartphone .

[wildneonsins]

Forum's pretty dead right now - abandoned it for a while because it's mostly been just me talking to myself and spammers.
(site got flooded after getting linked on a spam site that targeted mybb forums )

Currently trying out phpbb forum software & plugins & some themes/styles, plan is to switch software when I get it fully working & relaunch/repromote the board.

I've been more active on social media + working on issue 2 of the fanzine (got some more people to contribute yay!).