https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:03:57 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306834 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:15:46 +0000
At the moment, I'm kind of in the same position as Brian's father as I set up the whole infrastructure for my own teen boys' first CD. Somethimes I'm their friend, sometimes their teacher...but I gotta keep in mind I'm also a role model. I can tell everyone in GN land that THESE get-together sessions are the most "polite & sober" I've attempted in my life! :|

Cat]]> Opinions and Polls Cat https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306834 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306802 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:34:39 +0000
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/26/music.brian.wilson.ap/index.html
When asked during a Q&A session his biggest regret, he doesn't mince words.

"The drugs I took which kind of messed up my mind. The LSD, the marijuana, the cocaine," he says, to audience laughter.]]> Opinions and Polls Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306802 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306800 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:19:27 +0000
Seriously (sort of)...maybe there's not much brain volume left to accomodate "other stuff" seeing as it's all used up with his creativity. :?

When the Beach Boys were current...I really wasn't into them all that much. I was from a working class family and even my musical tastes lived in punch clock factoryland. It wasn't until I broadened my experience (IE: grew up a bit!) that I began to appreciate the work and songcraft that went into their constructs.

Bear in mind, everybody, that the overall quality of their music is clean and crisp as if they were recorded in today's high tech studios...but they weren't. Not even close. To come up with what they did is still a marvel...like Eagle getting onto the moon with a computer that my pocket calculator outclasses by umpteen times in today's world.

I learned more from picking apart Brian's craft...with critical analysis...than I have from ANYONE else! Actually, it's proven to be a quite enjoyable pastime...

Cat]]> Opinions and Polls Cat https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306800 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306795 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:01:18 +0000 Opinions and Polls Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306795 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306793 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:48:10 +0000 extreme perfectionist and developed some real mental problems. I read once that he spent over 6 months working on one song with the band and then just threw the tapes away to the great shock of the band.

Brian's problems became so bad that he couldn't play with the band for many years.

I haven't heard his new stuff, but I'm sure it's brilliant. He has an ear for melody and harmony that compares with the great classical composers.]]> Opinions and Polls Wes Inman https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306793 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306766 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:38:17 +0000 Want to see a perfectionist in action? check out this documentary on Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson was a genius indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofByti7A4uM]]> Opinions and Polls Rgalvez https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306766 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306704 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:16:51 +0000
As for Good Vibrations, I think that was pieced together from about 37 different tapes - and in those days, it really was a case of "cut and paste!"

Yeah, he's a musical genius - I still love listening to those old Beach Boys songs. For those of us who are around a certain age, they were - and still are! - the epitome of summer. Songs about hot rods, girls, the beach, girls, surfing, girls....and oh those harmonies! Nothing better than lounging around the garden on a hot summer's day with a cold drink and some old Beach Boys music.

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Opinions and Polls Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306704 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306647 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:11:02 +0000
But in this post I was actually referring to his recent "Gettin' In Over My Head" album. There's an unbelievable crew that jumped on the opportunity to work with this nut! (I use the term fondly, folks.)

The "Gettin' In Over My Head" album was the album I had to critique for some Community College classes (digital recording software) I took a couple of years ago. We were told to bring in something that we each could pick apart as far as what studio techniques we could suss out...and how studio recording dynamics helped (or hindered) bringing out the middles. For me...as a pro writer...I confessed that I had learned "everything I know" from Brian. Actually, I hated it as it hit my ears for the first time...until his title song (Wow!) Then I went over his studio techniques. Picking apart this collection took me a month to do...all with utter fascination.

He's slowed down...he's NOT commercially constrained...and yet the best singers/musicians in the world would kill to play with him. "Rainbow Eyes" is poignant. (Hey...from memory I got the colors wrong...) but the lyrics were about growing old(er) with his wife. Yep. Them thar LSD chemicals are still in there, somewhere!

Still...going over all his stuff..."Good Vibrations" still causes me to shake my head in some non compos-mentis lack of understanding as to "how" that ended up on tape.

Cat]]> Opinions and Polls Cat https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306647 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306559 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:15:47 +0000 " His two latest" ??]]> Opinions and Polls lars https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306559 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306551 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:42:52 +0000
"Eyes...red, white and blue."

Cat links?]]> Opinions and Polls TwistedLefty https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/im-still-tryin-to-figure-brian-wilson-out/#post-306551