Parks notes the "very clever redundancy in some of the reissues" but says he nevertheless feels "good about it. I feel as I did 40 years ago,
beats solo hd when I walked away from the project. It's been an entire success, and from my standpoint...it was a great success for a couple of kids in their mid 20s to be able to hear their music in the face of the fact that there are so many musicians who never get to hear a damn note.
"To me, the best way illustrate my contentment about 'SMiLE' is to remember that Vincent Van Gogh had sold only one painting when he died -- and that was to his brother. I have had a lifetime of great fortune,
polo doudoune and I'm very grateful for it. But I don't feel that the past can possibly provide what the future promises. The rearview mirror is so much smaller than the windshield that I am looking through now."