TDC: Brian Wilson

[tommy p]

That's a big one, especially after Sly Stone just recently.  I hope the "Curse of Three" doesn't happen.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/brian-wilson-dead/

[alantig]

RIP, sir.

[Willie G. Moseley]

^^^This, vs. Stone and vs.a third ...but these types of posts or threads are going to increase in frequency. 

In the lexicon of hype for show busness personalities, Brian Wilson fits the definition of "mad genius" perfectly.

"God must want him to stick around," a guitarist who had been in a touring band of Wilson's  said of Wilson's longevity and creativity. And that interview was about 20 years ago.

[Steve Haynie]

There were two versions of The Beach Boys touring. The most commonly seen group has Mike Love and Bruce Johnston. The other was Brian Wilson under his own name with Al Jardine. Some of the band members were the same. A friend tried to see Brian Wilson every time he was within a four hour drive. It had to do with recognizing where the true talent and creativity was behind The Beach Boys.

I only saw the Mike Love version. I wish I had seen Brian Wilson.

[Willie G. Moseley]

Always thought this was one of the most briliant tribute/"in-the-style-of" songs I've ever heard...and it's 22 years since it ws released

 

[specialk]

Man, this one really makes me feel my age. What an arranger. Willie G hit the nail square, "mad genius". RIP, and thanks for so many of the songs of my yute.

https://www.brianwilson.com

 

Edited June 11, 2025 by specialk

[Biz Prof]

8 hours ago, Steve Haynie said:

There were two versions of The Beach Boys touring. The most commonly seen group has Mike Love and Bruce Johnston. The other was Brian Wilson under his own name with Al Jardine. Some of the band members were the same. A friend tried to see Brian Wilson every time he was within a four hour drive. It had to do with recognizing where the true talent and creativity was behind The Beach Boys.

I only saw the Mike Love version. I wish I had seen Brian Wilson.

Mike Love's version of the band is like ordering Beach Boys tickets from Wish. It has some resemblance to the real thing...but the real thing it ain't.

[Willie G. Moseley]

Recommended reading THE NEAREST FARAWAY PLACE: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience by Timothy.White. Published in 1994. Found a remanded OOP copy in a Dollar General for two bucks many years ago, and it's still in my office library.

 

 

 

[Jimbilly]

10 hours ago, Willie G. Moseley said:

Always thought this was one of the most briliant tribute/"in-the-style-of" songs I've ever heard...and it's 22 years since it ws released

 

and don't overlook the rest of that album, that's a good one

[Disturber]

[hamerhead]

12 hours ago, Biz Prof said:

Mike Love's version of the band is like.....

....a greedy, talentless assmonkey miming along for all the cash he can grab.

[kizanski]

7 hours ago, Disturber said:

Not nearly as offended as music fans for having had to hear that shit song.

[The Shark]

6 minutes ago, kizanski said:

Not nearly as offended as music fans for having had to hear that shit song.

That song always made me want to drink heavily...to excess...until death...

[django49]

My jazz guitar buddy (and sometimes guitar teacher) always has a story. I cannot vouch for it, but he DOES tell a Brian story......

RIP Brian Wilson MY “meeting” Brian Wilson - 1981 (or 82?) I was preparing to go to Canada on a Summer Tour with an 8 piece funk rb band financed by Tito Jackson of Jackson 5 fame. As it happened, the original drummer with this iteration of the group was none other than John Cowsill of the family band The Cowsills. His parents had a condo in OXNARD BEACH and the bass player and I stayed there with John to cut down on commuting back and forth to the LA area during rehearsals.

One morning, John says he has to go back to his house (more like a compound in Pacific Palisades) for some reason or other and do I want to take a ride with him. So we head down the coast towards Malibu and we get to his house right on the Pacific Coast Highway and while we’re there, he casually asks me hey, do you want to meet Brian Wilson, he lives next door. DUH! So I follow John out a side door and we go into the house directly next door, quite literally a few feet from the house we’re in. John says let me see if he’s awake - and so I’m standing in the kitchen just gawking about, when who walks in, disheveled hair, haggard beard, bleary eyed, barefoot, and wearing an untied blue robe (a little too open, if you catch my meaning) but BRIAN WILSON. I’m standing there, 1/2 frozen as he opens the fridge, takes out a carton of orange juice, gulps it down, puts it back, closes the door, looks dead on at me for about 5 seconds with absolutely no expression, and leaves the kitchen without saying a word.

John comes back into the kitchen and says he can’t find him. I said, no biggie. We’ve already ‘met.’ RIP Brian W. - Hope there’s OJ in heaven. And a tie off for your robe.

[django49]

That whole drug use thing.....

Were these the original lyrics to "409?"

I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes

Chug a lug, chug a lug 409

For I knew there would come a time

Chug a lug, chug a lug 409

When I would chug a quart of 409

 

Just asking.....I guess that WOULD mess you up....

 

[Dave Scepter]

Brings me way back to my youth visiting my cousins who were avid surfers... spent the whole summer falling in love while listening to Peter Frampton Comes Alive and Beach Boys Endless Summer ☀️ 

Good times!

[kizanski]

40 minutes ago, django49 said:

Hope there’s OJ in heaven.

Google what happened on this day in 1994 and you tell me if there's OJ in Heaven.

[velorush]

2 hours ago, The Shark said:

That song always made me want to drink heavily...to excess...until death...

Wait... so that was why I drank heavily... to excess... to (near) death? 

No, no, no. 

I started that way before 1988. But it was cool to consider a plausible (extra-reality) excuse for a couple of seconds... 😂

[Dave Scepter]

4 hours ago, kizanski said:

Not nearly as offended as music fans for having had to hear that shit song.

Love that song...

Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take you to
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don't we go? (Ooh, I wanna take you down to Kokomo)
We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow
That's where we wanna go
Way down in Kokomo

[Biz Prof]

7 hours ago, django49 said:

Hope there’s OJ in heaven. And a tie off for your robe.

Pretty sure OJ is in hell, but...uhhh....Oh, I get it. You meant OJ as in orange juice. 

But seriously, that is a great and believable story.

 

Edited June 12, 2025 by Biz Prof

[django49]

BTW, since the OTHER OJ was mentioned......I DO have a bit of a story re him. Many years ago I got a jury summons to the Santa Monica Courthouse. When I arrived (along with about 200 other prospective jurors) it was clear something was up....Had to walk through a gauntlet of news vehicles and reporters from every network you could think of. First question was, "Would any of you have a problem if you had to serve on a jury for 4-6 MONTHS?"

 

Well, clearly it was the OJ civil trial. I was NOT on the jury. My experience with some of the other folks summoned in the big room did not give me great comfort as to the types of folks that might be making decisions. So glad to be outta SoCal.....But that is a whole other story....

At least they did reach a good decision, however unenforceable it was to be.

[The Shark]

9 hours ago, velorush said:

Wait... so that was why I drank heavily... to excess... to (near) death? 

No, no, no. 

I started that way before 1988. But it was cool to consider a plausible (extra-reality) excuse for a couple of seconds... 😂

Jimmy Buffet's stuff made me want to die too, if that gives everyone perspective.  But I loved Jim Croce.

[Biz Prof]

51 minutes ago, The Shark said:

Jimmy Buffet's stuff made me want to die too, if that gives everyone perspective.  But I loved Jim Croce.

Jim Croce was truly great. Steve Goodman, too. That era produced some incredibly gifted writers, story tellers, and players.

[velorush]

12 hours ago, The Shark said:

Jimmy Buffet's stuff made me want to die too, if that gives everyone perspective.  But I loved Jim Croce.

This may get me banned, but...

I arrived at college in the Fall of 1982. I was immediately informed (independently) I had to like Jimmy Buffet and Bruce Springsteen. "Well, up all of ya'll's," I said. I liked exactly one song from each of them, "Why Don't We Get Drunk (and Screw)," and "Pink Cadillac," respectively. Couldn't stand their other output - on purpose. I had "Parrot Head" fraternity brothers that were an absolute nuisance, but only when the JB music was blasting. Go figure... My roommate for one year was a "Boss" fan. We got along splendidly, except when I just had to listen to this song or that. Go figure... 

I can appreciate the undeniable talent of Croce, Lightfoot, Simon & Garfunkel, all that soft acoustic fingerpicked business, but I can't take the utter slash-my-wrists delivery. I am sure it speaks only to my shallowness or maybe because that stuff was on AM radio as I experienced some of the most traumatic and dreadful days of my entire life (i.e., elementary school).  😆

[Biz Prof]

2 hours ago, velorush said:

This may get me banned, but...

I arrived at college in the Fall of 1982. I was immediately informed (independently) I had to like Jimmy Buffet and Bruce Springsteen. "Well, up all of ya'll's," I said. I liked exactly one song from each of them, "Why Don't We Get Drunk (and Screw)," and "Pink Cadillac," respectively. Couldn't stand their other output - on purpose. I had "Parrot Head" fraternity brothers that were an absolute nuisance, but only when the JB music was blasting. Go figure... My roommate for one year was a "Boss" fan. We got along splendidly, except when I just had to listen to this song or that. Go figure... 

I can appreciate the undeniable talent of Croce, Lightfoot, Simon & Garfunkel, all that soft acoustic fingerpicked business, but I can't take the utter slash-my-wrists delivery. I am sure it speaks only to my shallowness or maybe because that stuff was on AM radio as I experienced some of the most traumatic and dreadful days of my entire life (i.e., elementary school).  😆

At high noon on Saturday, you shall be subjected to 40 lashes with a wet noodle and a 48-hour period in an isolation booth with an endless loop of Rosalita playing.