• Brian Wilson's Conservatorship

    From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 17 12:28:08 2024
    So I assume everyone has heard about this. I'm not at all surprised; Wilson's public appearances have always been sad at best or even disturbing to me. The worst of it was when he was in the thrall of that quack therapist, Eugene Landy, who had Wilson
    so doped up that half of his face was paralyzed, as if he'd had a stroke.

    Anyway, Paul McCartney was Wilson's biggest champion. I bought Pet Sounds decades ago due to McCartney's effusive praise for it. (I'll take the Beatles, myself, who were a real band whose members played their own instruments.) Anyone know if Wilson
    and McCartney have maintained any sort of friendship?

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Norbert on Sat May 18 16:20:20 2024
    On 18/05/2024 12:28 am, Norbert wrote:
    So I assume everyone has heard about this.  I'm not at all surprised; Wilson's public appearances have always been sad at best or even
    disturbing to me.  The worst of it was when he was in the thrall of that quack therapist, Eugene Landy, who had Wilson so doped up that half of
    his face was paralyzed, as if he'd had a stroke.
    Anyway, Paul McCartney was Wilson's biggest champion.  I bought Pet
    Sounds decades ago due to McCartney's effusive praise for it.  (I'll
    take the Beatles, myself, who were a real band whose members played
    their own instruments.)  Anyone know if Wilson and McCartney have
    maintained any sort of friendship?

    Dunno.about Macca/BW.

    But Pet Sounds has never done anything for me.

    geoff

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 18 09:52:43 2024
    Same here. I bought Pet Sounds because of McCartney's praise for it -- but could never get into it.

    McCartney also used to praise "Brian Wilson's" bass playing on the album a lot. It turns out that there were a number of bassists recruited from the "Wrecking Crew" for the album.

    Again, I prefer real bands, in which each player has a distinctive style.

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to Geoff on Tue May 21 10:10:11 2024
    On 2024-05-18 04:20:20 +0000, Geoff said:

    On 18/05/2024 12:28 am, Norbert wrote:
    So I assume everyone has heard about this.  I'm not at all surprised;
    Wilson's public appearances have always been sad at best or even
    disturbing to me.  The worst of it was when he was in the thrall of
    that quack therapist, Eugene Landy, who had Wilson so doped up that
    half of his face was paralyzed, as if he'd had a stroke.
    Anyway, Paul McCartney was Wilson's biggest champion.  I bought Pet
    Sounds decades ago due to McCartney's effusive praise for it.  (I'll
    take the Beatles, myself, who were a real band whose members played
    their own instruments.)  Anyone know if Wilson and McCartney have
    maintained any sort of friendship?

    Dunno.about Macca/BW.

    But Pet Sounds has never done anything for me.

    geoff

    I didn't particularly like it (other than the 3 or 4 undisputed
    classics it contains) the first few times I heard it but it's grown on
    me over the years.

    I have almost every one of the BB "two-fers" CDs that were released
    back in the 90s.

    Capitol thought Pet Sounds so sacrosanct that they never put Pet Sounds
    on a two-fer, releasing it only as a single CD (with a few bonus
    tracks).

    Hope Brian is content in his twilight years, the family seems
    determined to make him so after his last wife died. Not any infighting
    going on unlike a lot of these cases with big rock stars.

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 22 13:41:55 2024
    Mike Love says Wilson's conservatorship "isn't as bad as it sounds" and
    that Wilson still has musical ability and long-term memory.

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  • From pamina58@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 23 12:12:45 2024
    Love and Mercy...a nice biopic...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lioWzrpCtGQ

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 23 12:50:09 2024
    Love and Mercy seems to be fairly well-liked.

    I don't see how one can put a positive spin on Brian Wilson's story. I remember reading once that Wilson was so fried on drugs that he couldn't prepare his own meals or walk out and get one. Mike Love, I read, would
    give Brian a McDonald's hamburger for each song he wrote.

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