Love and Mercy Page #4

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- It's a suicide note.

Didn't you just say it could be

something with the right arrangement?!

Well, I gave it

another thought, okay?

And if you can't keep

your voice down in my house,

get out!

Hey, Carol.

- How's it going?

- Good. Good to see you.

Groovy shades.

Lyle, how's it going?

- Hal, hey. Good to see you.

- Hey. You, too.

I want you to meet Tony Asher.

Tony Asher, this is Hal Blaine.

The greatest drummer

working today.

And you never heard

of him, have you?

- I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

That's the secret. All these

guys, Hal, Tommy, Carol, Earl,

the whole band.

I mean, they're probably

the best in the business,

but they're studio musicians,

so nobody's ever heard of them.

It's crazy!

- Huh?

- Yeah, oh, yeah.

Yeah. Here you go.

Kettle drums? Thought we

were doing rock 'n' roll.

Ah, a whole new bag.

So what do we got

going here, Brian?

Uh, I don't know, Hal.

Just some ideas.

Try something.

Oh, excuse me.

- Bum, bum, bum.

- Yup.

Yeah, let's try it.

Mmm.

That's exactly how I want it.

You know what I'm gonna do?

Let's add a little

tie right here.

I think this'll sound better,

- a little smoother right there.

- You wanna tie the first one?

Okay, this is "I'm Waiting

For the Day," take six.

Here we go.

One, two, one, two, three.

Oh, hey! That was outta sight.

I mean, it really was, Al.

How did you play that?

- I don't know.

- What?!

How did you play that?

- It was a mistake.

- Well, if you repeat a mistake

every four bars,

it's not a mistake anymore.

- See what I mean?

- I love it.

- That was great.

- Okay, let's do it again.

Remember, it's the uh... uh... higher

octave on the upbeats and the bridge.

Hey, Brian?

- Yeah, I love that.

- Brian?

- Yeah?

- I think you might've screwed up here.

Really? Let me see.

Well, you've got

Lyle playing in D

- and the rest of us are in A major.

- Yeah, that's right.

How does that work? Two baselines

in two different keys?

Well, it works in my head.

It's all playing in my head.

The orchestration

and the five vocal parts.

I think it's gonna work.

Let's try it.

Oh, Hal? Hal?

Here's how I want you

to do it. It goes, uh...

the first beat on the

last bar of the intro.

Boom! Two, three, four.

Bah doom!

There's the North Star

right there.

- That's the North Star?

- Yeah, yeah. You knew that.

- I really didn't.

- Come on.

- I mean, it's a bright star.

- Have you ever...

have you ever seen this before?

- Never like this.

- Yeah.

I used to love

coming here as a kid, you know?

I love the feel of this place.

I really wanted

to take you here.

- You did?

- Yeah.

Demonstration booths.

Do you remember those?

- In the department store?

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