Beach Boys working in the studio 1980

Beach Boys working in the studio 1980

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• Beach
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• working
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• studio
• 1980
• brian
• wilson
• mike
• love
• alan
• jardine
• Carl

[jimet409]

Carl knew it sucked.

[BotswanaBabyBullet]

"I was just walking back from the beach one day, and I thought 'Goin' to the beach! Goin' to the beach!' "

You're a genius, Mike. By the way, Brian wrote Pet Sounds. Just reminding you.

[JustinSosa]

Mike gets an idea for a song: brings it to Brian who proceeds to find the music. He's at the piano, chords and notes are flying all over his brain, his fingers can't keep up with the notes in his head, all Mike can do is just sit and sing his part over and over again. While coming up with the chord changes, Brian is SIMULTANEOUSLY also coming up with background vocals, and when he finally asks Mike what he thinks Mike couldn't care less: "Yeah, sure!" Yeah, thanks Mike.

[atrios28]

@peterp21 The word "drugs" is used for everything from aspirin to heroin. It's conventional ignorance reinforcing. Re drug scene: on New Years Eve that means the heavy alcohol use & abuse which is easily one of the hardest of hard drugs when road fatalities, homicides, rapes, molestation, spousal & child abuse are added to the 200,000 yearly alcoholism deaths. Where's Brian's LSD quote? He said speed & booze debilitated him (+ anti-psychotic caused-facial tics -- tardive dyskinesia).

[atrios28]

@peterp21 I'm so glad somebody has pointed out the tragic folly of B.W. fans deluded into the notion that the best way to honor him is with Mike Love-hating. As Brian said: "You can't make everybody happy, but you can make some people happy...I'm not happy--I don't feel as happy as I should. Once in a great while I think that life has been a rip off for me...But then I think: look at those Beach Boys, how great they are...Look at Mike Love and what a great singer he is."

[pmoyer50]

@peterp21 : Okay, you've made your point about the hairline thing. But Mikey wasn't integral to the completion of Smile - if anything, he's probably most responsible for it not being released in 1967. Brian Wilson was the Beach Boys when it came to great music coming out. If it wasn't for him, they never would have amounted to anything.

[peterp21]

@pmoyer50 Yep, ML unfortunately got the bald gene early in life. That sucks, but I can't insult him over it like a lot of ML haters love to do. Guy had no control over it, and worked in an industry where his appearance took on a lot more importance.Hell, might as well insult BW for being a fat smelly pig in the 70s if we go that route. Sure ML was not *the* talent in the band, but that's OK. Not all 5 guys have to have the same talents. It's about chemistry. ML was integral to the BBs

[peterp21]

@atrios28 Responding to an old point here, clearly drugs had a negative effect on both Smile and of course Brian's existence thereafter. At some point the Smile sessions and Brian's behavior got more erratic and I believe it coincided with his getting more and more into the drug scene. And if you think BW's early use of LSD did nothing but make him see things more creatively, you're wrong. BW himself said he started hearing the voices 2 weeks after his initial acid trips. Not good.

[biblerockets]

pmoyer50 he wrote the words for good vibrations . that by itself is great .

[pmoyer50]

@peterp21 : If you got their early All Summer Long album his receding hairline was obvious even back then. He's a man of many hats - not talents.

[pmoyer50]

@biblerockets : Sure, if it's about hot dogs, cotton candy and caramel corn he's a great lyricist.

[keaton1895]

@peterp21 If Mike wasn't such an asshole I could.