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There will be a Smile / Dumb Angel event at Booksmith, 1644 Haight St., San Francisco, CA on October 10 — 7:00-9:00 p.m. Phone: (415) 863-8688

Domenic Priore will be joined in this symposium by Van Dyke Parks and original 1966 Smile album cover artist Frank Holmes, who will also answer questions and sign copies of Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson’s Lost Masterpiece at the table with Domenic and Brian Chidester, the editors of Dumb Angel #4: All Summer Long.

 

Brian Chidester, Van Dyke Parks, Frank Holmes, and Domenic Priore
From Left to Right: BRIAN CHIDESTER, VAN DYKE PARKS, FRANK HOLMES, and DOMENIC PRIORE at the Booksmith event, October 10. Photo by DENNIS CABUCO, San Francisco Bay Guardian
  Frank Holmes, Domenic Priore, and Brian Chidester
FRANK HOLMES (right) discusses artwork with DOMENIC PRIORE and BRIAN CHIDESTER. Photo by DENNIS CABUCO, San Francisco Bay Guardian
     
Frank Holmes
FRANK HOLMES discusses artwork. Photo by DENNIS CABUCO, San Francisco Bay Guardian
  Van Dyke Parks, Domenic Priore, and Brian Chidester
VAN DYKE PARKS (center) discusses SMiLE with DOMENIC PRIORE and BRIAN CHIDESTER. Photo by DENNIS CABUCO, San Francisco Bay Guardian
     
Van Dyke Parks
VAN DYKE PARKS discusses SMiLE. Photo by DENNIS CABUCO, San Francisco Bay Guardian
  Domenic Priore
DOMENIC PRIORE discusses Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece. Photo by DENNIS CABUCO, San Francisco Bay Guardian
     
Brian Chidester
BRIAN CHIDESTER discusses Dumb Angel No. 4: All Summer Long. Photo by DENNIS CABUCO, San Francisco Bay Guardian
  Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece
Smile: The Story of
Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece
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by DOMENIC PRIORE

     

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Dave Arnson, Domenic Priore, Joe Saraceno, and Brian Chidester
Left to Right: DAVE ARNSON, DOMENIC PRIORE, JOE SARACENO, and BRIAN CHIDESTER hang out prior to the taping of the JOE SARACENO episode of The Art Fein Poker Party.
The Art Fein Poker Party, featuring Joe Saraceno, interviewed by Art Fein and special guest hosts Domenic Priore (author/journalist), Brian Chidester (filmmaker/journalist), Todd Everett, and Dave Arnson (of the Insect Surfers).

NOTE: Joe Saraceno produced the Frogmen ("Underwater"), the Marketts ("Surfer's Stomp," "Balboa Blue," "Out of Limits"), the Routers ("Let's Go"), the T-Bones ("Whatever Shape Your Stomach's In"), Sandy Nelson (many LPs including Cheetah Beat), the Ventures (mid-'60s LPs including Wild Things and "Hawaii 5-0"), the Sunshine Company ("Back on the Street Again," "Happy") and all the late-'60s Martin Denny albums (including Hawaii, Hawaii Goes A Go Go and A Taste of India). Saraceno was also involved with naming the Beach Boys at Candix Records with Russ Regan in 1961, and with Plas Johnson, cut three dance craze albums by "Bobby Jay & the Hawks"The Watusi, The Ska and The Monkey — featuring incredible Ed Thrasher photos taken at P.J.'s, Hollywood, Calif.

Brian Chidester, Domenic Priore, Joe Saraceno, Art Fein, Todd Everett
On the set of Art Fein's Poker Party, left to right: BRIAN CHIDESTER, DOMENIC PRIORE, JOE SARACENO, ART FEIN, TODD EVERETT (former head music critic at The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner)

B E L O W :   P. J.'s   V i b e
The Watusi - Bobby Jay and the Hawks The Ska - Bobby Jay and the Hawks The Monkey - Bobby Jay and the Hawks
D I S T R I B U T I O N   N E W S

Dumb Angel #4: All Summer Long is now officially available in all 82 Tower Records stores in America. We're also now in the Norton catalog and Get Hip Records catalog. International distribution is forthcoming. Stay tuned . . .

 
 

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