Remembering Brian. Thoughts go to his family and friends.
“I love him dearly.” - Carl Wilson on his brother Brian, Los Angeles Times (1983)
“What Brian’s given to me, given to us all, really… I could never repay. I love the guy, that’s really all I can say.” - Carl Wilson, Star Phoenix (April 23, 1980)
“I’d like to see the group take another shot at making one more good record. That's the thing we keep trying to do but can never quite pull together all the elements. But I don't think we'll make another Beach Boys album until Brian's healthy enough to produce again. I know we could make a real strong commercial record with an outside producer. So that's possible, but, if you're talking about making a great record, 'Good Vibrations' class, you're talking about Brian with us. Anything else is bullshit. And yet, I don't mind if he doesn't make any more music. That's fine with me. I don't care if he makes hits or not. My interest in Brian is that I love him as a human being and as a brother, as I love all my family. I want him to have some joy and satisfaction in life, and he's not getting that. I'm not discouraging him by any means, but the main thing is that he have a nurturing, loving life. That's all that matters anyway.” - Carl Wilson, Musician Magazine (September 1983)
“The sacrifice that Carl made to make sure that Brian had a chance to live a decent life. And Brian at that time when Carl had to be — he had to be almost the bad guy out of pure love, to save Brian… Carl’s efforts, certainly, with a lot of other people, but Carl had to be the strong guy. It’s why we can see Brian doing so great today.” - Jerry Schilling, Carl Wilson — Here And Now
“[Carl's] voice healed me. When I was going through a lot of bad, bad things, his voice helped me out a lot.” - Brian Wilson, ibid
In 1969, the New Musical Express accompanied The Beach Boys on their UK tour for 72 hours; these images are from that undertaking. Photos by Stuart Richman.
“At the hotel later, Dennis, Carl and I had breakfast of huge and expensive omelettes and Carl told me: ‘My two month old son, Jonah, already weighs fifteen pounds,’ to which Dennis quipped: ‘He’s gonna be like his dad.’
Carl said that his father, Murray [sic], helped produce ‘Break Away’ and buried half the studio in matches in the process. It seems he is the world champion non pipe smoker, never managing to keep it alight.
[…] Dennis was off taking a river trip, having taken Carl and I into Hyde Park to sunbathe.” - from an article by Richard Green, New Musical Express (June 7, 1969)
Carl Wilson onstage at Greer Stadium in Nashville on June 2, 1986. Photos by Bill Wilson for The Tennesseean.
“One of the loveliest moments came with Carl Wilson’s delicate rendition of ‘God Only Knows,’ complete with harmonies that rolled gracefully under the main melody. He also sang a ballad, dedicated to Dennis Wilson, titled ‘Heaven.’ With his kind, comforting and unaffected voice, it was sentimental, but not too sweet.” - from a review by Frank Rizzo, Hartford Courant (February 1, 1986)
Woah 😨 i didnt know i was that close to you twin 🥹 thnx @eggieeggsta for the epic tag lol
1. Memento Mori- Will Wood
2. Brave as a noun -AJJ
3. Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney
4. Say say say- MJ and Paul McCartney
5. Michelle- The Beatles (i had to 🤷)
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these kinds of tagging threads make me feel a bit like an old woman because i have no idea how they work. i’ll try my hand at it… thank you for the tag anyway @dustymasonjar <3
@xenichz I have done the deed. Sources and ramblings undercut
I volunteered my services to illustrate Bruce pretending to be gay to avoid the draft, so we have a version for each of the differing descriptions given by Bruce and Mike (quoted below) as well as a little comic panel squeezed onto the page and an impeccable photoshop job demonstrating Bruce as a tv show dancer, because the Shindig! bit is the funniest part.
Here is Bruce's description of events, sourced from here:
I went down to the draft board two weeks and two hours late. You were supposed to be there at seven. I got there at nine. Also, that weekend I went to a department store and bought some corduroy pants, blue Top-Sider deck shoes, and a nice button-down short sleeve shirt that I promptly shrunk in hot water. I put powder on my face and some perfume, and drove down for my interview.
Since I was late, I was the only guy there, and they were starting to give me crap. They asked me all kinds of questions and eventually sent me up to the psychologist. He started interviewing me and was actually very cool. During the interview, he said “And ah, Bruce, what business would you like to be in?” and I replied “Well, I’d like to be a dancer on the Shindig! show.” The psychologist said “Okay. I don’t think we need you, but thank you for coming by. Follow the red line out.” [...]
And here's what Mike wrote in his autobiography:
[Bruce] too strongly opposed the war, though he took a more creative path to avoid service. He had a slender surfer's body, and he bought a pair of jeans, washed and dried them several times so they were extremely tight, and wore them when he went to his draft board for induction. He also borrowed a girlfriend's blouse, applied a touch of makeup, and found opportune times to bat his eyes and shake his hips.
Even if Bruce really did borrow a girlfriend's blouse I know we don't live in the blessed timeline where he went with pink + a bow, but how could I resist 🎀
And also for completion's sake, here is the full impeccably photoshopped image (link to og photo) with the circa-1970 pic I got his face from (because look at what he's wearing, I mean yeah obvsly):
And I may as well drop some (pre-Bruce) BB performances on Shindig! to wrap this up, featuring the dancers on some of the songs and more tight pants on all of the Boys:
With thanks to the Dennis Carl Wilson the Real Beach Boy Facebook group for this footage, here's the promotional video for “Little Honda,” directed by Dennis and featuring Carl.
“I remember [sits back and laughs] — this is so funny — when we did ‘Little Honda,’ Brian wanted me to get this real distorted guitar sound, real fuzzy. ‘This guitar sounds like shit,’ I said. ‘Brian, I hate this.’ And he goes, ‘Would you fucking do it? Just do it.’ When I heard it, I felt like an asshole. It sounded really hot. That was before fuzz became a big deal.” - Carl Wilson, Rolling Stone (November 4, 1976)
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