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Brian Wilson continues his amazing rehabilitation

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CRAFTY:
Thanks for the brief biography, because frankly, I didn't know jack shit about who Brian Wilson really was and what he accomplished.
Sounds like he went through some serious difficulties, so to see him now do a worldtour, getting remarried, producing an entire CD, etc is really something to learn from...never lose hope.

Thanks for posting this.

The Ghost When I Zone Off:
Damn, I actually went into this thread thinking "damn this is gonna be corny as hell" but I was actually surprised in a good way, I never had a clue what this guy went thru and what a crazy bastard he turned out to be. Thanks alot for the bio. Is there a Behind the Music on him or The BEach Boys by any chance? That shit's pretty interesting.

bez:
Sounds good.  Cool he got over all them things in life.

Trauma-san:
There was a movie called "The Beach Boys: An American Story", and there's also a documentary called "I just wasn't made for these times" about Brian.  

More info:

His daughters are Carnie and Wendy Wilson, 2/3rds of "Wilson Phillips" with John & Michelle Phillips' (from the mamas and papas) daughter.  They're also pretty big successes.

The newest info that's leaked out, as of today, is that Brian's still in the studio recording "SMiLE", an all new recording of the original unreleased album, and the amazing thing is, he's recording it in sections, like he pioneered in the 60's.  Before "Good Vibrations" came along, people would record songs, and then do overdubs over them to make elaborate tracks.  Brian came up with the genius idea of making 5 or 6 different versions of the same song, then perform hard splices with scissors on the tape to make the song change keys, tempos, add in a bridge, all of that.  That's why "Good Vibrations" sounds so great, it has a million different things going on and stops and spins on a dime.  The Beatles and others used it for a little while, but it's kind of been abandoned since then... he's using the same method with Pro Tools now in the studio.  It's going to sound fucking AMAZING.  I've heard the "SMiLE" live album, and it's some of the most interesting and incredible music ever.  It really, really puts him on a level with Beethoven and Bach.  I can't wait to hear how the studio version sounds, he's a famous perfectionist.

Brian's two brothers in the Beach Boys, Carl, and Dennis, have both died.  In the 60's, anybody would have told you Brian would die first, because of all the drugs he was doing, and basically his insanity, but Dennis in the early 80's drown.  He got in a fight with his wife on his yacht in a harbor, and threw a bunch of their stuff overboard.  He came back drunk the next day, and was diving into the water, to the bottom of the harbor and retreiving pictures and things he had thrown overboard.  He came up once with their wedding picture, put it on the dock, and dived back in.... and never came back up.  

Carl, who was pretty much Brian's best friend through the years, died in 98 from Cancer.  

Brian quit touring in about '66 to record "Pet Sounds", and they hired a guy named Bruce Johnston to tour and sing Brian's parts.  Bruce, Mike, Al, and Carl toured for years without Brian, and had a huge hit in 1987 with "Kokomo" the Beach Boy's last #1.  

Brian sold all his publishing rights to the Beach Boys songs he wrote and produced back in the 70's, at the behest of his father.  After regaining his sanity in the 90's, he actually sued the owners, and said that he wasn't in his right frame of mind when he sold them............. and WON.  They paid him a SHITLOAD of money, somewhere around the likes of 100 million dollars.

Mike sued Brian in the early 90's saying Brian didn't give him any songwriting credits on 40 different hits they had.  He won, and Brian had to cough up a bunch of money.  Brian and Mike don't even talk today, which is pretty sad.  Brian said in an interview in February that he tried calling Mike "last night" but his phone was disconnected, so maybe they'll straighten things out.  

Mike and Bruce still tour around the world singing Beach Boys songs, after Mike sued Brian, again, for using the name "Beach Boys" in his band's name.  The courts decided since Mike was the only original member still touring with the band, and had never left, that he had the right to use the name in tours.  

It's kind of fucked up.  Bruce and Mike don't talk to Al or Brian.  Dennis and Carl are dead.  Brian doesn't talk to any of them, and Al doesn't talk to any of them.  

Another interesting thing... Charles Manson wrote a song for the Beach Boys.  He was friends with Dennis Wilson, and even stayed in Dennis' house.  they liked one of his songs, and it appeared on one of their albums!  The next year, Charles did the crazy shit he did and it's kind of been a stain on Dennis' memory ever since.  

Shallow:
Wasn't Manson angry that they changed certain lyrics in the song he wrote for them?

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