#ant-bee

The CLAP "Catch the Clap [5 tracks]" (7". 1980) [US]

OFFICER! "Life at the Water's Edge / Dogface" (7". 2015 / rec. 1983) [GB]

EUREKA BRASS BAND "Dirges" (LP. 2017 / rec. 1951) [US]

P. BRÖTZMANN / F. VAN HOVE / H. BENNINCK plus A. MANGELSDORFF "Couscouss de la Mauresque" (LP. 2017 / rec. 1971) [NL/DE]

P. BRÖTZMANN / F. VAN HOVE / H. BENNINCK plus A. MANGELSDORFF "Elements" (LP. 2017 / rec. 1971) [NL/DE]

P. BRÖTZMANN / F. VAN HOVE / H. BENNINCK plus A. MANGELSDORFF "The End" (LP. 2017 / rec. 1971) [NL/DE]

J.D. EMMANUEL "Rain Forest Music" (LP. 2017 / rec. 1981) [US]

Didier BOCQUET "Voyage cérébral" (LP. 2017 / rec. 1978-79) [FR]

MODERN ART "Underwater Kites" (LP. 2016 / rec. 1982) [GB]

OFFICER! "Dead Unique" (2xLP. 2014 / rec. 1990-95?) [GB]

Elvin JONES & Richard DAVIS "Heavy Sound" (LP. 1968?) [US]

Clutchy HOPKINS "Walking sdrawkcab" (LP. 2008 / rec. 1990?) [US]

GERMAIN HUBERT ALES "Mini 33 Tours" (7"EP. 1982) [FR]

Colette MAGNY / Les Enfants de l'I.M.P. de Fontenoy-Le-Château "Je veux chaanter" (LP. 1979) [FR]

Francis BEBEY "Guitare d'une autre Rime" (LP. 1975 / rec. 1971) [CM]

ANT-BEE "Pure electric Honey" (LP. 1990) [US]

VOIGT/465 "Slights unspoken" (LP. 2017 / rec. 1978-79) [AU]

Liked Songs: 9/19

Approval Rating: .474

1000-Song Set Influence: .051 (10)

1000-Song Set Charting Songs: 4

Sampler Playlist (EP):

https://open.spotify.com/user/rhwilk/playlist/2YVERHa47JtE4aa17Y9QQ2

Complete List of Liked Songs (by ranking, set ranking in parentheses):

The Live Jam (173)

Eighteen (188)

Do You Like Worms (191)

Child Of The Moon (192)

In A Star

Cirrus Minor

Here We Go Round The Lemon Tree

Lunar Egg-Clips Runs Amok

Back in 1990, after I recorded the first ANT-BEE LP 'Pure Electric Honey' for Voxx Records in CA, I ventured back into the recording studio in Van Nuys to record the next single. At the time I had been heavily listening to unreleased recordings of the Beach Boys legendary 'Smile' sessions from 1966/67 (Brian Wilson's lost masterpiece). I decided to do a cover of one of the more obscured songs from those glorious sessions called "Do You Like Worms?" (At this point, nobody had ever covered this particular track).

Before the recordings were actually complete, someone had gotten a hold of an early mix of my version of "Worms?", and mistaking it as an unreleased 'Smile' outtake from 1966, proceeded to play the recording on a Beach Boys radio special. The show's DJ touted my cover as a rare unreleased gem from the 'Smile' sessions, forever confusing the public at large as to the origin of this recording. From there the track was bootlegged on several European Beach Boys 'Smile' bootlegs.

For many years I have argued (in vain) the position that this version of "Do You Like Worms?" is not an outtake from the Beach Boys 'Smile' sessions of 1966, but in fact is a cover by ANT-BEE (me), recorded in 1990.

Finally, back in 2004, when Brian Wilson recorded his version of the 'Smile' album, he did a live tour to support the release. In the tour program that was available at the shows, there was an actual mention about ANT-BEE being the first band to cover "Do You Like Worms?", vindicating my efforts finally after 14 years!