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Brian Wilson is Dead at 82

Beach Boys are well before my time. I know people hold Brian Wilson in high regard, I just am woefully ignorant of him as a musician. The Beach Boys and The Beatles were at that transition point between simplistic rock and roll and rock music that mattered and likely contributed in ways I can't appreciate, so I'll take everyone's word for it.

Sadly, it sounds like success and the pressures it caused nearly killed him as an artist and a person.
 
Yeah, I'm listening to Pet Sounds right now and sniffling. It's not really like me to get attached to a celebrity, but Wilson sure seemed like a rare find. That's one of my favorite albums of all time, and Good Vibrations is one of my favorite singles.

It just so happens I have tickets to go see a Beach Boys tribute concert in Sonora a couple weeks from now. Guess it just turned into an impromptu memorial service? If they don't cancel.
 
Politesse said:
Good Vibrations is one of my favorite singles
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Yeah, it's one of the few songs, along with My Generation and Hard Days Night that I remember what I was doing and where I was when I first heard it.

I recommend the movie "Love and Mercy." We heard Wilson on tour shortly after it came out. I was impressed that the audience wasn't all gray hairs.
 
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The Beach Boys Pet Sounds album goes in and out of the number one on the GOAT list of the number one greatest album of all time of Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Of All Times albums (updated yearly). But it is always in the top five.

Just not my cup of tea.

Brian Wilson is responsible for most all of that album. Kudos to him for his remarkable mark on the history of American music.
 
ZiprHead said:
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds album goes in and out of the number one on the GOAT list of the number one greatest album of all time of Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Of All Times albums (updated yearly). But it is always in the top five.

Just not my cup of tea.

Brian Wilson is responsible for most all of that album.
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Tony Asher was the lyricist. Brian Wilson was the inspiration and the orchestrator. The other Boys were mostly on vacation...
 
Tharmas said:
I recommend the movie "Love and Mercy." We heard Wilson on tour shortly after it came out. I was impressed that the audience wasn't all gray hairs.
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I will have to give it a try. I was interested when I heard Paul Dano was involved as I like his acting, but I didn't catch it in the theater. Musician biopics have a bit of a dubious history at the cinema...
 
Tharmas said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Sadly, it sounds like success and the pressures it caused nearly killed him as an artist and a person.
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That and schizophrenia.
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Yeah, I recorded an interview with him probably 10 years ago (the host was in my studio, Brian was on the phone) and he was definitely not "all there." Short answers, very curt, and didn't do much talking. The host had to heavily edit it for air, and when his listeners complained that it didn't sound like Brian was into it, he posted the unedited audio online. When he came by the station to promote their tour, he spent most of his time in a chair while the other guys were engaged and talkative. Musical genius? Absolutely. Watch the movie "The Wrecking Crew" for some behind the scenes footage of him working on Pet Sounds with those famous musicians. It was kinda sad.
 
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