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May I have...
I'm sure most everybody knows,
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but for anybody who might not,
may we introduce you by name?
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- Al Jardine
- Thank you, Al.
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- Dennis Wilson.
- Thank you.
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- Brian Wilson.
- Carl Wilson.
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Mike Love.
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Now, I think, uh... whoop,
what happened? There you are.
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How long has this singing
been going on?
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About three years now.
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You know, it's an amazing thing,
because you have hit after hit.
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Who determines, Brian,
what will be done next?
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Well, I guess I do,
I don't know.
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I write the songs
and produce them,
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so I have a lot to say about it.
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- I think it's beautiful.
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This is a little intro,
you know.
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All right, let's try
to really pull it off good now.
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Here we go.
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Play hard and strong,
all the way.
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- You know the part...
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- Do-do, do-do...
- Yeah, after the horn.
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That's your spot...
do-do, do-do.
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And then what after that, Brian?
Then he goes...
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Boom! Two, three, four...
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- Let me hear the organ.
- Ba-dum!
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- Perfect.
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Okay, we'll go with that.
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Let's go again, please.
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- Here we go.
- Yeah.
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You've been out
on this really long tour.
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- Right.
- You know, recording
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several new albums.
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Uh... you know,
really nonstop since, you know,
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since your late '50s era.
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- Right, right.
- Um...
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How do you explain that kind of
burst of creativity and energy?
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Where does the,
this, this sudden surge
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of creativity and energy
come for you?
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It starts in my brain...
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makes its way
out onto the piano...
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and then on to the...
to the speakers in the studio.
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Yeah.
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Is that something
you can explain?
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Is that something that's
even explainable?
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No, I can't. I can't.
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And now, okay,
I'd like to start it out
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with the, uh, organ
and the Fender bass.
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He was one of the first people
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to actually use the studio
as an instrument itself.
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Play hard and strong
all the way.
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- Really feel it, fellas, play.
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And there's a certain
amount of songwriting you can
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learn how to do and you can
educate yourself, and then...
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- Watch me on that part.
- ...it's just a fact
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that some people are just better
than other people...
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and Brian's
one of the people who's
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just better than other people.
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Are we ready? Let's go.
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Take five, "Good Vibrations."
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"Good Vibrations," goddamn.
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The idea that the chorus
is at one studio
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and the verses
are in the other studio?
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That's why that song is
so freaky and so wonderful.
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"Good Vibrations"
was recorded in four studios:
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Western, Sunset Sound,
Gold Star and RCA Victor.
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Well, each studio was different,
you know?
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Like, you can't...
not any one studio's the same.
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He sets
a very high standard for...
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not just being innovative,
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but... to...
also be emotionally evocative.
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Well, he used
all the orchestra.
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He used orchestral things.
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He used timpani,
he used woodwinds.
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His musical knowledge
wasn't just as a band.
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He had an orchestra in his head.
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I mean, the Beatles had
George Martin to do it for them,
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but Brian, he did it himself.
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Well, the Beatles were probably
my favorite group.
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Very, very inspirational
with "Rubber Soul."
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That made me write
the "Pet Sounds" album.
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The level of musicianship
and musicality...
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I don't think anybody's touched
it yet, for, for my money.
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Back at that time,
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there's a lot of upbeat,
up-tempo songs,
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but Brian brought in
this haunting harmony.
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You know
there's something going on
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with Brian Wilson.
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There's no hiding
that this man is troubled
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and trying to escape something.
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He's just...
one of the greatest artists
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who ever walked
the face of the earth...
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...in our time or in any time.
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- Good vibrations
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While we're
making the tapes, Pop,
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we won't be able to have
that, uh, camera going.
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It's a wonderful treat
for me tonight
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to have heard and seen
the Beach Boys...
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- ...and as you can hear
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in the background, the girls
are still hollering for them.
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I'm quite pleased to present
to you two of them,
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Brian Wilson on my right,
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and Carl Wilson, his brother,
on the left.
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So, this is just two of them.
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In just a minute, you'll meet
the rest of them, but...
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Brian, I understand
that you've written, uh,
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many of the songs that you
all have recorded, and...
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when you write a song, um, for
yourself or for your group...
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what gives you the, um,
incentive to write them?
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Well, usually, uh, just the fact
that we're in the industry
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and there's a lot of groups
competing with us,
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and, uh, I feel that
competition, you know,
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and also I just... I love music,
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and I get very inspired just
generally creative anyway...
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- Right, I understand.
- You know, and I just do it
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all the time,
write all the time.
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Well, now, the, um...
how many of them have you had
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that have been million-sellers?
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Well, actually, million-sellers,
we've had one million-seller,
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that was
"I Get Around," just recently.
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- You wrote this?
- Yes, I did.
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- Get around, round...
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Here's this genius
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who just can't help but come up
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with these complex arrangements
of harmonies,
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and then his little brother
comes in and says,
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"Well, you guys should write
songs about cars and surfing,
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'cause that's
what kids are into."
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Name some of them
that you've written, Brian.
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- Okay...
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Well, starting with, uh,
"Surfin'," our first record,
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"Surfin' Safari," "409," "Surfer
Girl," "Little Deuce Coupe,"
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"Shutdown," "Surfin' U.S.A,"
"Be True to Your School..."
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"The Little Old Lady
from Pasadena"?
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That's Jan and Dean.
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- Is that right?
- And, uh... "Fun, Fun, Fun..."
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- Oh, it goes on and on.
- "I Get Around,"
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"Don't Worry, Baby..."
we had "Little Saint Nick"
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- at Christmastime...
- Uh-huh.
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- And then... pardon me?
- "When I Grow Up..."
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- "When I Grow Up to Be a Man"
and "She Knows Me Too Well"
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are our latest records.
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Well, you certainly are
a talented young man.
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Let's talk to your brother
just a minute.
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Do you share this, uh,
admiration for your brother?
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- Yes. Well...
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He's, he's done very well
with us, you know, I mean...
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we've had great good luck
with the records...
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And this...
you're Carl, right?
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- Right.
- Carl's the lead guitar player.
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Lead guitar.
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How did you, uh,
assemble the group...?
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Well, one day, as we were
walking down the street,
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we all bumped heads.
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- No, I don't know.
- Seriously, Dennis got the idea
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that we should write
something about surfing,
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because he was a big,
avid server... surfer then.
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- You're a surfer.
- Yes, ma'am.
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Well, this is something we don't
have much out in Oklahoma.
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- I, I know.
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Thanks so much for stopping by.
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May I compliment you
on your beautiful dress?
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- Thank you.
- It is beautiful.
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I think it is beautiful...
is it a gown or a dress or...?
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Well, actually it's, uh... sort
of, um, a beach girl type...
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- I like that.
- I wanted to be in style
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when I talk to the Beach Boys.
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At the end of the concert,
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the girls would all
rush the stage to get Dennis.
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You know, we'd say... me and
Mike and the guys would go,
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"What's going on here,"
you know?
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The girls were all crying,
"Dennis, Dennis," you know?
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- Yeah. He was our sex symbol.
- Right, right.
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You and he had
a little competition, uh,
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for some women sometimes,
too, didn't you?
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- Who, me and Dennis?
- Yeah.
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- No...
- No?
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He was a ladies' man.
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I never was a ladies' man,
you know?
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- Right.
- He was always the ladies' man.
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What, what prevented you
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from being a ladies' man,
do you think?
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Ah... just shy of girls,
a little shy.
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Uh-huh, right.
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You can park right there.
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- JASON: In the handicapped?
- Yeah. Yeah.
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- I always park there.
- Really?
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- Yeah.
- Okay.
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These guys'll probably wanna
move it, but I'll park here.
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Okay.
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I'm hungry.
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- All right, let's get in there.
- Okay.
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Must have been to this deli
with you about... 20 times.
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- Yeah, at least 20.
- Right?
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- Good times here.
- Yeah.
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It's, uh...
I'm, I'm hot, you know?
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- Yeah.
- I'm nervous.
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- Yeah.
- I didn't sleep last night,
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and my head feels wacky.
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- Oh, it does?
- Yeah.
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Why don't we just relax?
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Okay. Enjoy our food.
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When you get scared,
what do you do?
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You just take a deep breath?
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If I take... if I get scared,
I take a, a deep breath,
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but I take it...
try and take it from my belly.
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- Oh, take it...
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- ...really deep in here...
- Right.
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...and then...
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How's your mood been?
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- My mood?
- Yeah.
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- It's been about even...
- Good. Good.
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Not depressed, not elated,
just...
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- even.
- Mm-hmm.
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- Yeah.
- You feeling scared now?
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Little bit.
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It's nice to be with you.
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You're a good guy, Jason.
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Thank you, Brian.
You are too.
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You are a cool person.
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You have a very consistent way
of talking, you know?
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You sorta stay
in this one space, you know?
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In talk.
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Does it make you
feel comfortable?
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- Yeah, helps me out.
- Good, I'm glad.
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When I'm scared,
I listen to you talk, you know?
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- Really?
- Yeah.
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And thinking...
it'll calm you down?
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- Yeah!
- All right, man.
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Well, I'm there for you.
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- I'm there for you too.
- Thanks, man.
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I first met Brian
in 1995.
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I went to interview him
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for the paper I was working for
at the time,
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and we had a nice chat.
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And when I first came to work
at Rolling Stone
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in 1997,
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Brian had begun to start
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what was gonna be
sort of a solo career.
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He was putting a band together,
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he was releasing a record
called "Imagination,"
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and I... convinced...
Jann, my boss,
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to let me go to Chicago,
where he was rehearsing.
245
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One of the first times we spoke,
246
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uh, we were sitting
in his living room.
247
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We were talking, and sort of
right in the middle of our chat,
248
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about 10 minutes in,
he just started to fidget,
249
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and he, he said, "I gotta go."
250
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And he got up and he left.
251
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And I was sitting there,
252
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I didn't know
if he was coming back
253
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or, or not coming back,
and I waited a while,
254
00:12:01,024 --> 00:12:02,678
and I just sorta
started looking around,
255
00:12:02,809 --> 00:12:04,898
and I found myself
in the kitchen,
256
00:12:05,028 --> 00:12:07,030
where I found Brian
in the refrigerator.
257
00:12:07,161 --> 00:12:08,989
I said, uh, "What's going on?"
258
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He said,
"I just got a little scared."
259
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And I said, "Well, what did you
get scared of?"
260
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He said, "I don't know.
261
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You know, sometimes I just
get scared, things scare me."
262
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I said, "Like what?"
263
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He said, um,
"Like 'What a Fool Believes.'
264
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"You know that song
by the Doobie Brothers?
265
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Scares the hell out of me."
266
00:12:24,831 --> 00:12:26,397
You know?
And it was just like that.
267
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And we started
having these moments,
268
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and ever since then,
it just kinda became
269
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part of my beat at Rolling Stone
to cover Brian.
270
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- JASON: And we became buddies.
271
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The idea of doing an
interview makes Brian nervous,
272
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so he'll often ask
if we can just take a drive
273
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and listen to some music.
274
00:12:54,991 --> 00:12:57,515
Look at that old car.
275
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What kinda car is that?
276
00:12:58,821 --> 00:12:59,648
- What is that?
- I don't know.
277
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Is that a Rolls-Royce?
278
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Yeah, I think it's...
don't think it's a Rolls.
279
00:13:03,957 --> 00:13:05,436
I think it's American,
isn't it?
280
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Cadillac.
281
00:13:06,829 --> 00:13:08,396
- Cadillac?
- Yeah.
282
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Old Cadillac, right?
283
00:13:09,310 --> 00:13:11,616
- Yeah.
- From what, the '30s?
284
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Or maybe from the '40s?
285
00:13:13,575 --> 00:13:14,794
- Maybe '40s.
- Yeah.
286
00:13:14,881 --> 00:13:17,057
Ask the guy,
yell it out, ask him.
287
00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:19,537
- Well, I can't...
- Hey, buddy?!
288
00:13:19,668 --> 00:13:21,017
What year is that car?
289
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- MAN: '41.
- It's a '41.
290
00:13:22,932 --> 00:13:25,239
- Thank you. '41.
291
00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,549
It was probably
"Surfin' Safari,"
292
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the first Beach Boys record
I ever bought.
293
00:13:33,551 --> 00:13:37,207
The voices, the tone
of the voices, was so beautiful.
294
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Bit like a classical choir,
in a way.
295
00:13:39,427 --> 00:13:43,126
It made California sound
such an incredible place to go.
296
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You know, the rooftop is down.
297
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The story begins.
298
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And then they invite you
into that world,
299
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and that world has its own rules
and its own code
300
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and its own story to tell.
301
00:13:54,572 --> 00:13:58,098
There was no greater world
created in rock-and-roll
302
00:13:58,141 --> 00:14:00,013
than the Beach Boys.
303
00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:01,928
I mean,
they defined Southern California
304
00:14:02,015 --> 00:14:03,668
for everybody around the world.
305
00:14:03,755 --> 00:14:05,932
It just took you
out of where you were
306
00:14:06,019 --> 00:14:07,498
and took you to another place.
307
00:14:09,370 --> 00:14:11,589
Have you ever been
to Paradise Cove?
308
00:14:11,676 --> 00:14:13,722
Years and years ago.
309
00:14:13,809 --> 00:14:17,160
Do you remember when you were
shooting the album cover
310
00:14:17,247 --> 00:14:18,727
for the Beach Boys' first album?
311
00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:19,946
Can't remember.
312
00:14:20,033 --> 00:14:22,252
Right.
It's a long time ago.
313
00:14:22,296 --> 00:14:24,124
Yup.
314
00:14:24,211 --> 00:14:25,560
Was it a little bit funny
singing all,
315
00:14:25,603 --> 00:14:28,041
all the songs about surfing
without actually surfing?
316
00:14:28,128 --> 00:14:29,738
Yeah, Dennis surfed.
I never learned.
317
00:14:29,869 --> 00:14:31,522
- Right.
- ...how to surf.
318
00:14:31,609 --> 00:14:34,177
- There's Paradise Cove.
- Here we are.
319
00:14:34,264 --> 00:14:35,526
Closer than I thought.
320
00:14:40,401 --> 00:14:42,620
- There it is, look!
- There it is!
321
00:14:42,751 --> 00:14:44,274
- "This marks 'The Spot.'"
322
00:14:45,101 --> 00:14:46,668
55 years ago.
323
00:15:00,856 --> 00:15:03,337
How you feeling about Hawthorne?
324
00:15:03,424 --> 00:15:05,426
Uh, you know, I'm a little
nervous to go back there.
325
00:15:05,556 --> 00:15:07,210
- You know what I mean?
- Mm-hmm.
326
00:15:07,341 --> 00:15:09,212
'Cause, like,
I, I grew up there,
327
00:15:09,299 --> 00:15:11,432
and it's like, you know...
I have a very...
328
00:15:11,519 --> 00:15:12,737
lot of sentiments about it,
you know?
329
00:15:12,781 --> 00:15:15,653
Right.
330
00:15:21,964 --> 00:15:25,576
Please play "It's OK"
on the, uh, "15 Big Ones."
331
00:15:25,663 --> 00:15:28,318
Okay... you got it.
332
00:15:46,858 --> 00:15:48,164
- So, has Hawthorne
333
00:15:48,251 --> 00:15:49,644
changed a lot
from when you were young?
334
00:15:49,687 --> 00:15:52,299
Does it look... is it
familiar-looking to you?
335
00:15:52,342 --> 00:15:54,040
- What's that?
- Hawthorne?
336
00:15:54,127 --> 00:15:56,390
It doesn't look the same.
It looks a little different.
337
00:15:56,477 --> 00:15:59,132
Uh-huh.
338
00:15:59,262 --> 00:16:01,612
So this is 119th Street
right here?
339
00:16:01,699 --> 00:16:03,701
Yeah. 119th.
340
00:16:03,788 --> 00:16:04,702
And this is the street
you lived on?
341
00:16:04,789 --> 00:16:06,487
- Yeah.
- So this is where
342
00:16:06,574 --> 00:16:10,360
your house was.
Right here.
343
00:16:10,447 --> 00:16:12,275
I don't wanna get out,
I just wanna look.
344
00:16:12,406 --> 00:16:15,104
Okay.
So, this was all where
345
00:16:15,148 --> 00:16:17,150
- the house was, right here?
- Yeah.
346
00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,065
Uh-huh. Look at the cover
of the album.
347
00:16:19,152 --> 00:16:22,024
- Yeah.
- Paradise Cove.
348
00:16:22,111 --> 00:16:25,288
"Site of the childhood home
of the Beach Boys."
349
00:16:40,695 --> 00:16:44,742
Friday nights, my father
would get his paycheck.
350
00:16:44,829 --> 00:16:46,918
So the three of us would be
in the back seat singing away.
351
00:16:46,962 --> 00:16:50,748
And that's... actually that's
the birth of the three brothers
352
00:16:50,835 --> 00:16:52,402
singing together.
353
00:17:06,199 --> 00:17:07,852
When we'd be singing
harmony together,
354
00:17:07,939 --> 00:17:11,900
my father would just...
fall down crying... with joy.
355
00:17:21,997 --> 00:17:25,914
There's me at my piano
when I wrote "Surfer Girl."
356
00:17:34,531 --> 00:17:35,576
Forget it.
357
00:17:35,663 --> 00:17:37,578
That one killed you
when it came out.
358
00:17:37,665 --> 00:17:41,495
I played that thing...
a thousand times.
359
00:17:58,381 --> 00:18:00,688
How did it feel
to be there?
360
00:18:00,775 --> 00:18:02,733
It was a little... scared me
a little bit, you know?
361
00:18:02,820 --> 00:18:04,257
- Did it?
- 'Cause it, well...
362
00:18:04,344 --> 00:18:05,475
it didn't look the same.
363
00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:08,391
Right.
364
00:18:08,522 --> 00:18:10,089
Yeah.
365
00:18:40,815 --> 00:18:44,558
- Is this Dartmouth?
- To the right, right, right.
366
00:18:47,082 --> 00:18:49,084
This is where you moved
367
00:18:49,171 --> 00:18:50,564
- with Marilyn.
- Right.
368
00:18:50,651 --> 00:18:53,828
Was it right after
you got married?
369
00:18:53,871 --> 00:18:56,787
About... three months
after we got married.
370
00:18:56,874 --> 00:19:00,095
Wow.
What a big time in your life.
371
00:19:00,182 --> 00:19:01,096
Yeah.
372
00:19:01,183 --> 00:19:03,185
I did an acid trip there.
373
00:19:03,272 --> 00:19:05,579
Aha... your first...
the first time?
374
00:19:05,666 --> 00:19:07,972
Yeah.
375
00:19:08,016 --> 00:19:09,322
Oh, it was scary.
376
00:19:09,409 --> 00:19:11,933
What happened?
377
00:19:12,020 --> 00:19:14,240
I don't know, just...
378
00:19:14,327 --> 00:19:18,809
this friend of mine gave me acid
and it freaked me out.
379
00:19:22,770 --> 00:19:25,599
I wrote "California Girls,"
"Help Me, Rhonda,"
380
00:19:25,686 --> 00:19:28,471
and "She's Not the Little Girl
I Once Knew."
381
00:19:28,558 --> 00:19:30,038
I wrote all those songs there.
382
00:19:30,125 --> 00:19:31,909
Were you still high
when you were doing that?
383
00:19:31,996 --> 00:19:34,260
Uh, no, no, I wasn't.
384
00:19:34,347 --> 00:19:38,873
I wrote "California Girls"
about a week or two after acid.
385
00:19:38,916 --> 00:19:41,092
Okay. Did you have a kinda
western thing in mind?
386
00:19:41,136 --> 00:19:43,443
Well, I just had this, this...
387
00:19:43,486 --> 00:19:46,489
I guess that's western, right?
388
00:20:00,808 --> 00:20:02,157
Did you have a feeling
389
00:20:02,288 --> 00:20:03,506
that was gonna be
a popular song?
390
00:20:03,593 --> 00:20:05,291
Oh, yeah, I could tell
when I first wrote it.
391
00:20:05,421 --> 00:20:07,510
After we cut it...
392
00:20:07,597 --> 00:20:09,512
Mike did the lead, boy,
and he sang great lead.
393
00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:11,122
- Mm-hmm.
- He's a great singer.
394
00:20:27,748 --> 00:20:29,532
It was quite a,
quite a different changeup
395
00:20:29,663 --> 00:20:31,491
from where I usually work.
396
00:20:31,578 --> 00:20:34,407
The way you connected the intro
of the song...
397
00:20:34,494 --> 00:20:36,409
- Right.
- ...to the rest of it was...
398
00:20:36,496 --> 00:20:37,758
A different kind of a thing.
399
00:20:37,888 --> 00:20:40,239
Brian just
threw away the rule book...
400
00:20:40,326 --> 00:20:41,762
and it was all in his head,
401
00:20:41,892 --> 00:20:44,199
and it's just,
"Wow, are you kidding me?"
402
00:20:44,286 --> 00:20:45,679
"What were you thinking, man?
403
00:20:45,766 --> 00:20:47,507
"How did you come up
with this combination
404
00:20:47,550 --> 00:20:49,073
of chords and voices?"
405
00:20:49,117 --> 00:20:51,162
He said, "I was at the piano,
406
00:20:51,206 --> 00:20:52,990
"and I was trying not to move
407
00:20:53,077 --> 00:20:55,210
"my highest fingers
and my lowest fingers,
408
00:20:55,297 --> 00:21:00,476
but make cool geometric patterns
with the internal fingers."
409
00:21:00,563 --> 00:21:02,652
I don't know if he was
telling me the truth...
410
00:21:05,525 --> 00:21:07,178
...but he definitely
said that to me.
411
00:21:07,222 --> 00:21:09,877
But if you think about that,
412
00:21:09,964 --> 00:21:14,011
that's kinda like what Mozart
does with a string quartet.
413
00:21:14,142 --> 00:21:16,100
Brian
had this unique ability
414
00:21:16,187 --> 00:21:20,235
to write a great melody and also
arrange some great harmonies
415
00:21:20,366 --> 00:21:21,932
and produce some great records,
416
00:21:22,019 --> 00:21:23,760
so we had all in one
with Brian Wilson.
417
00:21:23,804 --> 00:21:28,765
We had a, a, uh, shall we call
it a... a jackpot.
418
00:21:28,809 --> 00:21:31,246
Equate
that blend, that harmony,
419
00:21:31,377 --> 00:21:34,989
the sound of the vocals... it's
like looking up to the heavens.
420
00:21:35,032 --> 00:21:36,120
It's almost ethereal.
421
00:21:36,207 --> 00:21:39,341
There's a very ethereal, uh,
rising up.
422
00:21:42,126 --> 00:21:43,040
The only way
423
00:21:43,127 --> 00:21:44,607
to really accomplish
a sound that big
424
00:21:44,738 --> 00:21:47,044
is in knowing
what you want to hear, but also
425
00:21:47,175 --> 00:21:48,785
placing some trust in the people
you're working with
426
00:21:48,829 --> 00:21:50,483
and saying,
"We can all do this together
427
00:21:50,570 --> 00:21:52,267
if you just follow my lead."
428
00:21:54,748 --> 00:21:56,489
Brian was a leader,
429
00:21:56,619 --> 00:22:00,014
and he could shape this group
around the brothers, you know,
430
00:22:00,057 --> 00:22:03,322
and his cousin and his neighbor,
and that was his team,
431
00:22:03,409 --> 00:22:05,149
and he led these guys.
432
00:22:05,236 --> 00:22:07,848
And I think that that was...
gave Brian so much confidence.
433
00:22:07,935 --> 00:22:09,632
They would do anything
that he thought
434
00:22:09,719 --> 00:22:11,634
was the right thing to do.
435
00:22:13,723 --> 00:22:15,334
Hey, let's go...
where you wanna go to now?
436
00:22:15,421 --> 00:22:17,814
So, let's go to Laurel Way.
437
00:22:17,858 --> 00:22:20,382
- Okay.
- You know how to get there?
438
00:22:20,469 --> 00:22:21,340
Laurel Way... trying to think.
439
00:22:21,427 --> 00:22:22,558
Uh...
440
00:22:22,645 --> 00:22:23,864
Go up Santa Monica or Sunset?
441
00:22:23,994 --> 00:22:25,648
Laurel Way, I...
can you navigate it?
442
00:22:25,735 --> 00:22:26,432
Yeah.
443
00:22:30,261 --> 00:22:32,002
What did you feel like
when you lived here
444
00:22:32,089 --> 00:22:36,572
and you were young, married,
money, writing hits?
445
00:22:36,659 --> 00:22:38,357
What was that feeling for you?
446
00:22:38,444 --> 00:22:39,923
It was excitement.
447
00:22:40,010 --> 00:22:42,796
Exciting and happy.
448
00:22:42,926 --> 00:22:44,319
Groovy feeling.
449
00:22:44,450 --> 00:22:47,757
Haven't seen it since 1966.
450
00:23:00,727 --> 00:23:01,467
Were
your parents around then?
451
00:23:01,597 --> 00:23:02,990
Did they come visit and...?
452
00:23:03,033 --> 00:23:05,340
No, they never did.
453
00:23:05,427 --> 00:23:07,473
Was this your first
sort of big purchase?
454
00:23:07,603 --> 00:23:09,083
- Yeah.
- So that must have been
455
00:23:09,126 --> 00:23:10,563
a really exciting time.
456
00:23:10,693 --> 00:23:13,435
It was, Jason,
it was a great time.
457
00:23:28,276 --> 00:23:30,496
It's right up here.
458
00:23:30,583 --> 00:23:32,498
I think it's right up there.
459
00:23:32,585 --> 00:23:35,718
- This one?
- No, it has a view, so it's
460
00:23:35,849 --> 00:23:38,373
- gotta be a little higher.
- Okay.
461
00:23:38,504 --> 00:23:42,159
It has a view of the whole...
downtown Los Angeles...
462
00:23:42,246 --> 00:23:44,074
- Oh, wow.
- ...all the way to the beach.
463
00:23:44,161 --> 00:23:46,250
Did you have a room
where you would work?
464
00:23:46,294 --> 00:23:48,339
The piano was in a sandbox.
465
00:23:48,383 --> 00:23:50,167
What was the idea behind that?
466
00:23:50,254 --> 00:23:54,389
I don't know, I just wanted
to have a sandbox.
467
00:23:54,476 --> 00:23:55,738
- While you worked?
- Yeah.
468
00:23:55,825 --> 00:23:57,523
Took our shoes
and socks off...
469
00:23:57,610 --> 00:24:01,831
and wrote, you know, music
on a piano in the sandbox.
470
00:24:01,962 --> 00:24:06,096
I put an Arabian tent up
in my den, and I put, like,
471
00:24:06,183 --> 00:24:10,274
eight Tiffany lamps in my...
in the living room,
472
00:24:10,361 --> 00:24:12,102
hanging from the ceiling.
473
00:24:12,189 --> 00:24:14,931
It was a trip.
474
00:24:14,975 --> 00:24:16,280
It sounds like it.
475
00:24:16,324 --> 00:24:18,544
What did you do inside the tent?
476
00:24:18,674 --> 00:24:20,154
- Smoked grass.
- Uh-huh.
477
00:24:20,197 --> 00:24:22,983
Ate peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches.
478
00:24:23,070 --> 00:24:26,900
You know.
479
00:24:26,987 --> 00:24:30,207
Young and rich.
480
00:24:36,431 --> 00:24:40,435
That's where I wrote, uh,
the "Pet Sounds" album...
481
00:24:40,522 --> 00:24:43,612
- and "Good Vibrations."
- Wow.
482
00:24:43,656 --> 00:24:46,789
That's, that's some pretty big
stuff you wrote up here.
483
00:24:46,876 --> 00:24:48,748
Yeah.
484
00:24:48,791 --> 00:24:50,314
So, you think you'd wanna
tour more?
485
00:24:50,358 --> 00:24:53,230
Yeah, I like to go on the road.
486
00:24:53,317 --> 00:24:55,450
What do you like about it?
487
00:24:55,581 --> 00:24:56,799
- Well, the concerts.
- Yup.
488
00:24:56,886 --> 00:24:58,758
Makes you feel good?
489
00:24:58,801 --> 00:25:00,934
Yeah.
It's fun to play a concert.
490
00:25:01,064 --> 00:25:02,239
Mm-hmm.
491
00:25:04,981 --> 00:25:08,724
You used to get nervous,
but not so much anymore, huh?
492
00:25:08,811 --> 00:25:12,423
No... before a concert,
I got very nervous.
493
00:25:12,467 --> 00:25:15,035
How long does it take you
to calm down onstage?
494
00:25:15,122 --> 00:25:16,776
About two minutes.
495
00:25:23,173 --> 00:25:25,219
To this day, Brian's
still even a little bit,
496
00:25:25,262 --> 00:25:27,351
a little bit nervous about
"Pet Sounds," you know?
497
00:25:27,438 --> 00:25:29,484
"Are they gonna like it?"
You know, "Is it too soft?"
498
00:25:29,571 --> 00:25:31,834
"Is it, is it manly?",
he'll say sometimes.
499
00:25:31,921 --> 00:25:34,228
Hello, Los Angeles!
500
00:25:34,271 --> 00:25:37,536
The Hollywood Bowl.
501
00:26:04,214 --> 00:26:06,477
Well, you
have the great "Caroline, No."
502
00:26:06,521 --> 00:26:09,785
It's one of the greatest songs
in, in pop history,
503
00:26:09,872 --> 00:26:13,223
as far as dealing
with oncoming adulthood,
504
00:26:13,310 --> 00:26:18,054
loss of innocence, reckoning
with the adult world...
505
00:26:18,098 --> 00:26:21,971
and the terrible heartache
that comes along with it.
506
00:26:34,810 --> 00:26:36,551
I can hear him exploring
507
00:26:36,682 --> 00:26:39,075
the possibilities of these songs
508
00:26:39,162 --> 00:26:42,339
that he probably woke up,
dug his feet in the sand,
509
00:26:42,426 --> 00:26:43,906
and wrote these songs.
510
00:26:55,135 --> 00:26:56,876
He rounded out
writing happy songs
511
00:26:56,919 --> 00:26:59,792
and then,
as he grew as a musician,
512
00:26:59,922 --> 00:27:04,318
his tastes refined,
his writing refined,
513
00:27:04,361 --> 00:27:06,712
and he wanted to get away
from the three-chord thing
514
00:27:06,842 --> 00:27:10,019
and experiment,
and when you do that,
515
00:27:10,106 --> 00:27:11,804
you are drawn to the darker
side-- I know I am.
516
00:27:11,891 --> 00:27:14,023
Brian's music, you know,
especially "Pet Sounds,"
517
00:27:14,110 --> 00:27:16,156
you never move on from it.
518
00:27:16,243 --> 00:27:18,462
I'll be listening to that record
till the day I die.
519
00:27:18,549 --> 00:27:20,073
"Pet Sounds,"
520
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,380
the beauty of it...
carries with it a sense of...
521
00:27:23,467 --> 00:27:26,122
joyfulness
even in the pain of living.
522
00:27:26,166 --> 00:27:29,038
The joyfulness
of an emotional life.
523
00:27:29,125 --> 00:27:31,737
You have this music bed
that is so complex,
524
00:27:31,824 --> 00:27:33,477
but the lyrics were very simple.
525
00:27:33,564 --> 00:27:36,306
All these concepts of things
that we all ask ourselves,
526
00:27:36,393 --> 00:27:37,307
and it's there forever.
527
00:27:37,394 --> 00:27:39,266
50 years later,
we're still celebrating
528
00:27:39,353 --> 00:27:41,311
what is probably one of the
greatest records ever made.
529
00:28:00,026 --> 00:28:03,551
Whoa!
530
00:28:03,638 --> 00:28:04,770
I don't even know what that is.
531
00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:07,816
Flutes in reverb?
I don't know.
532
00:28:11,037 --> 00:28:13,430
Whoa...
533
00:28:48,814 --> 00:28:50,250
I don't even know
where to begin.
534
00:28:50,380 --> 00:28:52,469
Probably took a minute
535
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,037
for everyone to wrap their heads
around a 23-year-old kid
536
00:28:55,124 --> 00:28:57,387
coming in and telling 'em
what was up.
537
00:28:59,389 --> 00:29:02,436
That's a banjo.
It is a banjo, huh?
538
00:29:03,872 --> 00:29:06,266
Brian always
had this thing where he used
539
00:29:06,396 --> 00:29:09,356
the fifth, uh, note of a chord
as the bass note.
540
00:29:09,443 --> 00:29:11,488
"God Only Knows"
is a prime example of that.
541
00:29:11,575 --> 00:29:14,013
with the bass note.
542
00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:16,580
And "Someone Saved My Life
Tonight" is exactly the same.
543
00:29:20,193 --> 00:29:22,064
So, you can, you can hear
the other instruments.
544
00:29:22,151 --> 00:29:25,285
They're all in one room
at the same time, playing.
545
00:29:28,505 --> 00:29:32,031
With Brian's music, you hear
his spirit, and it's like...
546
00:29:32,074 --> 00:29:33,859
he may be playing a C chord,
but there's, like,
547
00:29:33,989 --> 00:29:37,079
this other weird harmony
drifting in over it.
548
00:29:37,166 --> 00:29:40,996
He's using the available tools
that all of us have.
549
00:29:41,083 --> 00:29:42,737
You know, it may be a piano
or a harpsichord
550
00:29:42,824 --> 00:29:45,653
or a guitar or whatever,
but it's all in the architecture
551
00:29:45,740 --> 00:29:47,873
or the recording technique.
552
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,526
So, everybody
has a piano or a guitar.
553
00:29:49,613 --> 00:29:51,441
Go grab whatever the fuck you
want, but it's like the way
554
00:29:51,528 --> 00:29:55,881
you put in the strangeness,
that's what he's the master of.
555
00:29:55,968 --> 00:29:57,926
Listen
to that basic track.
556
00:29:57,970 --> 00:30:03,323
Sounds to me like it's maybe
a piano... and... a banjo...
557
00:30:03,410 --> 00:30:07,109
and a harmonica kinda
all becoming one sound.
558
00:30:07,196 --> 00:30:11,331
Brian had to sit home,
dream up these textures
559
00:30:11,418 --> 00:30:16,118
that no one had ever,
ever used... uh...
560
00:30:16,205 --> 00:30:20,862
That's one reason why people say
Brian's a genius.
561
00:30:20,906 --> 00:30:23,473
That's being
a complete visionary,
562
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,303
to dream up these textures
that never existed before.
563
00:30:27,347 --> 00:30:30,089
I'm still awestruck
by the construction.
564
00:30:30,176 --> 00:30:32,656
How he took
very complex arrangements,
565
00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:34,745
and yet, at the end of the day,
566
00:30:34,789 --> 00:30:36,138
they sounded so simple
567
00:30:36,225 --> 00:30:37,531
when they,
when they entered your ear.
568
00:30:39,315 --> 00:30:40,926
I think his imagination
569
00:30:41,013 --> 00:30:42,275
is what made him
a great producer.
570
00:30:42,362 --> 00:30:46,453
We can all sit here and say we
have all the technology
571
00:30:46,540 --> 00:30:48,020
and we know how to use it
and we know how to do it,
572
00:30:48,107 --> 00:30:50,761
but the bottom line is it
doesn't matter what you know,
573
00:30:50,805 --> 00:30:52,459
it's what's you're gonna do.
574
00:30:56,332 --> 00:30:58,726
I've been making records for...
40-some years,
575
00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:02,251
and I don't know
how you do this.
576
00:31:02,338 --> 00:31:04,601
I don't know how you do that.
577
00:31:04,732 --> 00:31:07,387
Nobody knows... ...
how you do that.
578
00:31:07,474 --> 00:31:10,912
What I hear
is his competitive nature,
579
00:31:10,999 --> 00:31:15,047
him wanting to be more
than what everybody else was.
580
00:31:15,134 --> 00:31:17,049
And you can totally hear
how he was trying
581
00:31:17,136 --> 00:31:19,834
to make things sound
better than the Beatles.
582
00:31:19,921 --> 00:31:23,838
But I think, more so, his
biggest competitor was himself.
583
00:31:26,188 --> 00:31:27,407
How was that, was that cool?
584
00:31:27,494 --> 00:31:29,496
- Yeah, it's beautiful.
- All right.
585
00:31:29,583 --> 00:31:31,019
When he started doing
the music around "Pet Sounds,"
586
00:31:31,063 --> 00:31:35,589
which was... more complex, more
orchestral, more personal...
587
00:31:35,632 --> 00:31:38,287
you know, the guys started
saying, "Whoa now," you know?
588
00:31:38,374 --> 00:31:40,289
I mean, uh,
"Where are we going with this?"
589
00:31:40,376 --> 00:31:42,770
You know, this isn't about
cars and girls anymore.
590
00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:45,164
And things started to fragment.
591
00:31:45,207 --> 00:31:47,383
And I don't think
it's any wonder that Brian
592
00:31:47,470 --> 00:31:50,517
started to lose his confidence
around that time.
593
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,320
When you think about recording
or touring, do you feel
594
00:32:11,407 --> 00:32:14,367
like you still have something
to accomplish musically?
595
00:32:14,454 --> 00:32:17,979
Do you still have things you
want to get... you wanna do?
596
00:32:18,066 --> 00:32:19,546
Yeah, I might... wanna make
a rock-and-roll album.
597
00:32:19,589 --> 00:32:20,764
Mm-hmm.
598
00:32:20,808 --> 00:32:22,941
Maybe something good, you know?
599
00:32:23,028 --> 00:32:24,420
Yeah.
600
00:32:24,464 --> 00:32:26,640
What's rock-and-roll to you?
601
00:32:26,683 --> 00:32:27,858
- Rock-and-roll?
- Yeah.
602
00:32:27,902 --> 00:32:30,905
Chuck Berry... you know.
603
00:32:30,992 --> 00:32:33,821
- Little Richard.
- Mm-hmm.
604
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:36,041
Well, I recently watched
605
00:32:36,128 --> 00:32:39,131
- the "Smile" concert.
- Yeah.
606
00:32:39,261 --> 00:32:40,871
Wow, you looked
really happy that night.
607
00:32:40,915 --> 00:32:43,874
- Yeah, that was fun.
- Was it hard to pull off?
608
00:32:43,918 --> 00:32:46,399
We, we premiered "Smile"
and the "Lucky Old Sun" album
609
00:32:46,486 --> 00:32:49,228
2004 and 2005.
610
00:32:49,315 --> 00:32:52,796
When you let it go, when you
stopped working on it in '67,
611
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,929
was that a hard thing for you?
612
00:32:55,016 --> 00:32:56,191
Yeah, it was rough, yeah.
613
00:32:56,278 --> 00:32:59,281
Me and Van Dyke got so into it,
you know.
614
00:32:59,368 --> 00:33:00,848
We really got into it.
615
00:33:00,935 --> 00:33:03,285
When you premiered "Smile,"
how did you feel?
616
00:33:03,372 --> 00:33:05,679
I mean,
it must have been a big relief.
617
00:33:05,722 --> 00:33:08,116
Well, it was, it was
a big challenge to try
618
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,944
- to pull it off, you know?
- Right.
619
00:33:10,031 --> 00:33:11,076
But we did.
620
00:33:11,163 --> 00:33:14,601
It went over very well.
621
00:33:31,096 --> 00:33:33,402
Around 2004, Brian decided
622
00:33:33,533 --> 00:33:36,710
that he was going to come back
and work on "Smile,"
623
00:33:36,797 --> 00:33:39,669
the, you know, most famous
unreleased album of all time,
624
00:33:39,756 --> 00:33:41,976
something that he had abandoned
around 1967,
625
00:33:42,063 --> 00:33:45,893
and, and I think, in retrospect,
probably wisely, because it was
626
00:33:45,980 --> 00:33:48,417
proving to be insurmountable
for all kinds of reasons.
627
00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:56,904
He was terrified,
he didn't wanna do it...
628
00:33:57,035 --> 00:34:00,081
and then slowly,
629
00:34:00,168 --> 00:34:04,651
something about the music
reconnected emotionally...
630
00:34:10,309 --> 00:34:13,529
So, all those bad associations
that he had
631
00:34:13,573 --> 00:34:15,488
were being replaced
with good ones...
632
00:34:19,361 --> 00:34:21,972
...and it became
more about the music again.
633
00:34:31,721 --> 00:34:33,680
Some of the stuff on that record
was pretty wild, on "Smile."
634
00:34:33,767 --> 00:34:35,943
Yeah, some of that stuff
was pretty complicated.
635
00:34:36,030 --> 00:34:38,032
- Yeah.
- Complex.
636
00:34:38,163 --> 00:34:40,034
Mm-hmm.
Well, why'd you let it go?
637
00:34:40,165 --> 00:34:43,081
We thought... it was
a little ahead of its time.
638
00:34:43,168 --> 00:34:44,386
- Right.
- We waited for, like,
639
00:34:44,517 --> 00:34:46,910
30 years... and we...
640
00:34:46,997 --> 00:34:48,912
finally finished it.
641
00:34:53,743 --> 00:34:56,703
It became something
that was living now,
642
00:34:56,790 --> 00:34:59,401
as opposed to something
that was dead in his mind.
643
00:34:59,532 --> 00:35:01,838
We're not picking up
all your notes.
644
00:35:01,925 --> 00:35:03,623
Well, feel... you can feel it,
but you can't really hear it.
645
00:35:03,710 --> 00:35:06,756
In fact, we couldn't
bring up that stuff...
646
00:35:06,843 --> 00:35:08,541
We couldn't even say the words
"Heroes and Villains..."
647
00:35:08,628 --> 00:35:11,544
Yeah, 'cause he would freak out.
648
00:35:11,631 --> 00:35:13,067
What now?
649
00:35:13,154 --> 00:35:14,590
God, there are
so many parts to this damn song.
650
00:35:16,201 --> 00:35:17,811
It's endless, it's endless
and endless and endless.
651
00:35:17,854 --> 00:35:19,160
It never ends!
652
00:35:28,778 --> 00:35:30,476
When you listen to "Smile"
653
00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:33,609
with that ear of hearing
how segmental it was,
654
00:35:33,653 --> 00:35:36,438
and yet how seamlessly
he put it together,
655
00:35:36,525 --> 00:35:38,832
it's quite wonderful.
656
00:35:45,839 --> 00:35:48,755
I remember sitting with him,
and I handed him the, the CD,
657
00:35:48,842 --> 00:35:51,018
and I said, "Brian, that's
'Smile,' you finished it."
658
00:35:51,105 --> 00:35:53,760
You know, I could really see
it meant something to him,
659
00:35:53,847 --> 00:35:56,589
because it was a disappointment
that he'd been carrying around.
660
00:35:56,676 --> 00:35:59,374
Being able to finish it at last,
661
00:35:59,461 --> 00:36:01,550
even though
it was 30 years later,
662
00:36:01,637 --> 00:36:03,813
was a big moment in his life.
663
00:36:12,866 --> 00:36:18,045
Do you still get ideas for
different ways to produce...
664
00:36:18,132 --> 00:36:20,134
- Who, me?
- ...things, sounds... yeah.
665
00:36:20,221 --> 00:36:21,657
Well, usually, you know,
666
00:36:21,701 --> 00:36:23,485
recording's a little slower
these days.
667
00:36:23,572 --> 00:36:26,053
- Mm-hmm.
- You know?
668
00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:28,273
What's your process like?
669
00:36:28,403 --> 00:36:30,057
- The process?
- Yeah.
670
00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:31,580
Start with a background track...
671
00:36:31,667 --> 00:36:33,887
- Mm-hmm.
- ...then you do the...
672
00:36:33,930 --> 00:36:36,498
background vocals,
then you do the leads.
673
00:36:36,585 --> 00:36:39,849
- Okay.
- Like we'll do today.
674
00:36:41,677 --> 00:36:44,202
- Will I be on keys?
- That's correct.
675
00:36:46,726 --> 00:36:48,684
What's been
making you feel like
676
00:36:48,728 --> 00:36:50,686
making a rock-and-roll record?
677
00:36:50,730 --> 00:36:53,907
Uh, I don't know...
well, actually,
678
00:36:53,950 --> 00:36:56,388
"Summer Days and Summer Nights"
was a rock-and-roll album.
679
00:36:56,475 --> 00:36:58,433
- Yup.
- But I'd like to do another one
680
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,522
with, with, uh, covers...
681
00:37:00,609 --> 00:37:01,741
- Mm-hmm...
- Instead of originals.
682
00:37:01,871 --> 00:37:03,308
- Mm-hmm.
- Is your click okay?
683
00:37:13,361 --> 00:37:16,103
How do you feel about spending
a few days with your band?
684
00:37:16,190 --> 00:37:18,453
I think it'll be nice
to be back with 'em, you know?
685
00:37:18,540 --> 00:37:21,500
It about time we all recorded
like this.
686
00:37:25,068 --> 00:37:26,983
And we are here.
687
00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:28,246
- I'm nervous.
- It's like you say
688
00:37:28,333 --> 00:37:29,464
when you go on stage,
689
00:37:29,551 --> 00:37:30,987
nervous for about
two minutes.
690
00:37:31,074 --> 00:37:32,206
Right, and then as soon
691
00:37:32,337 --> 00:37:33,599
as I hear
"California Girls,"
692
00:37:33,686 --> 00:37:35,557
I'm cool.
693
00:37:35,644 --> 00:37:36,950
- DRUMMER, TAPPING: One, two...
- You got this.
694
00:37:36,993 --> 00:37:38,430
...one, two, three.
695
00:37:40,475 --> 00:37:41,955
right there.
696
00:37:41,998 --> 00:37:43,696
One, two, three...
697
00:37:47,134 --> 00:37:50,224
- Then...
- No, on that "duh."
698
00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:52,313
- Are you sure it's that?
- Yeah.
699
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,794
- Yeah, that's it.
700
00:38:00,016 --> 00:38:01,017
I'll play the piano.
701
00:38:01,104 --> 00:38:03,455
Yeah! Now we're talking!
702
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,371
- Hi, Russ.
- How you doing, Brian?
703
00:38:06,501 --> 00:38:08,460
- I'm good, how are you?
- Doing all right.
704
00:38:15,684 --> 00:38:17,469
Okay.
705
00:38:22,604 --> 00:38:24,389
Hi, Tom.
706
00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:26,347
- Hi, Brian.
- How are ya?
707
00:38:26,434 --> 00:38:27,522
- Good, how are you?
- Good.
708
00:38:27,609 --> 00:38:30,830
We need a click, Wes.
709
00:38:30,917 --> 00:38:33,049
It's coming.
710
00:38:33,136 --> 00:38:34,268
What's coming?
711
00:38:34,355 --> 00:38:36,357
- The click.
- Oh.
712
00:38:38,054 --> 00:38:39,317
Okay, it's cool.
713
00:38:39,404 --> 00:38:40,753
The click'll help ya!
714
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,058
Okay.
715
00:38:42,145 --> 00:38:44,060
One, two, three.
716
00:38:46,193 --> 00:38:47,934
- Paul
- Yeah?
717
00:38:48,021 --> 00:38:50,415
It's just...
718
00:38:53,548 --> 00:38:56,116
No...
719
00:38:56,203 --> 00:38:57,291
Okay.
720
00:38:57,378 --> 00:38:59,206
One, two, three.
721
00:39:08,433 --> 00:39:10,043
- Hey, Paul.
- Yeah?
722
00:39:10,086 --> 00:39:11,087
Play staccato.
723
00:39:11,174 --> 00:39:13,525
- Bah, bah, bah.
- Okay.
724
00:39:15,396 --> 00:39:17,006
- Yeah.
- Ooh.
725
00:39:17,137 --> 00:39:19,531
One, two, three, four.
726
00:39:22,882 --> 00:39:25,798
Hold it! The guitar sounds
a little fuzzy.
727
00:39:25,885 --> 00:39:28,453
- See if that's better.
728
00:39:28,540 --> 00:39:31,325
Okay, one, two, three, four.
729
00:39:33,109 --> 00:39:34,372
Yeah, we're cool.
730
00:39:34,459 --> 00:39:36,983
- Let's try it once.
- Okay.
731
00:39:37,070 --> 00:39:40,378
One... two...
one, two, three.
732
00:40:07,709 --> 00:40:10,669
Two, a-one, two, three, four.
733
00:40:26,728 --> 00:40:28,904
Yeah, it can fall apart,
that's cool.
734
00:40:28,991 --> 00:40:30,515
- Sounded pretty good.
- I think that's a print!
735
00:40:30,645 --> 00:40:32,604
Wanna go in,
wanna go in the booth.
736
00:40:32,691 --> 00:40:34,606
Can we come in the booth
and hear it?
737
00:40:34,693 --> 00:40:37,086
- Yes.
- Okay.
738
00:40:54,190 --> 00:40:55,670
Listen, syncopate it a little.
739
00:40:55,757 --> 00:40:56,976
- BRIAN: Oh.
- Yeah, what are the words?
740
00:40:57,063 --> 00:40:59,195
- I don't know.
- Sing it.
741
00:41:00,849 --> 00:41:01,937
All right, let me hear...
sing it, sing it.
742
00:41:01,981 --> 00:41:03,635
- No.
743
00:41:03,722 --> 00:41:05,201
MURRY, STACCATO:
744
00:41:08,204 --> 00:41:10,511
- Sing the words, Murry.
- Okay, I can't.
745
00:41:13,209 --> 00:41:14,863
Loosen up.
746
00:41:14,950 --> 00:41:17,344
Loosen up, sweetie, loosen up.
747
00:41:17,431 --> 00:41:20,565
My dad, uh, owned
the publishing with Brian,
748
00:41:20,695 --> 00:41:22,784
and he managed the group
for 10 percent.
749
00:41:22,915 --> 00:41:24,569
I just remember,
there was a lot of tension,
750
00:41:24,699 --> 00:41:27,659
uh, with my dad and Brian.
751
00:41:27,789 --> 00:41:29,530
You guys think you're good?
752
00:41:29,574 --> 00:41:31,445
Can we hear a chord?
753
00:41:31,532 --> 00:41:34,013
Just a chord, like we used to.
754
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:37,320
When you used to sing
clear records, okay? Let's go.
755
00:41:37,364 --> 00:41:38,757
His presence was very...
756
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,802
where he'd burst into a room,
you know?
757
00:41:40,889 --> 00:41:42,543
- And beat everyone up.
758
00:41:42,587 --> 00:41:44,763
I got beaten around
by my dad.
759
00:41:44,806 --> 00:41:46,634
One kinda spanking is...
760
00:41:46,678 --> 00:41:49,594
But the way I had it, Dad
would double over his belt.
761
00:41:49,681 --> 00:41:51,465
His voice...
762
00:41:51,552 --> 00:41:53,206
...very, very hard.
763
00:41:53,249 --> 00:41:54,468
Pretty tough business.
764
00:41:54,599 --> 00:41:57,166
His dad
was extremely tough on him...
765
00:41:57,253 --> 00:41:59,125
um, abusive at times.
766
00:41:59,212 --> 00:42:00,561
You can hear this in,
in all the old tapes
767
00:42:00,605 --> 00:42:01,910
from those studio sessions,
768
00:42:01,997 --> 00:42:03,477
where his dad takes it
way too far.
769
00:42:03,564 --> 00:42:05,218
We just wanna be sure
this is our thing.
770
00:42:05,261 --> 00:42:07,612
This is an absolute insult.
771
00:42:07,699 --> 00:42:09,222
Well,
you're doing the same to me
772
00:42:09,265 --> 00:42:11,006
in front of 20 people.
773
00:42:11,050 --> 00:42:12,530
I'm sorry,
I'll never help you guys...
774
00:42:12,617 --> 00:42:15,750
- Why?
- Because you don't appreciate
775
00:42:15,837 --> 00:42:18,405
the good help I have given you.
776
00:42:18,492 --> 00:42:20,625
- We don't appreciate the help.
- A beautiful gift, and when
777
00:42:20,712 --> 00:42:22,148
- you guys start coming off...
- Okay.
778
00:42:22,235 --> 00:42:23,715
Now, listen,
let me tell you something.
779
00:42:23,802 --> 00:42:26,326
- Yes.
- When you guys get so big
780
00:42:26,369 --> 00:42:28,589
that you can't sing from your
hearts, you're going downhill.
781
00:42:28,676 --> 00:42:31,070
- Downhill?
- Down... hill!
782
00:42:44,779 --> 00:42:46,085
And as we got older,
we told him
783
00:42:46,215 --> 00:42:47,434
we didn't want him
to manage us anymore.
784
00:42:47,521 --> 00:42:49,044
It's very simple.
785
00:42:49,088 --> 00:42:50,959
BRIAN, EARLIER INTERVIEW:
He got to the point
786
00:42:51,046 --> 00:42:52,221
where he was so overbearing
to work with him
787
00:42:52,308 --> 00:42:53,701
that we had to fire him.
788
00:43:25,951 --> 00:43:29,128
Why did you move
from Laurel Way to Bellagio?
789
00:43:29,258 --> 00:43:32,697
Marilyn wanted to move
to Bel Air.
790
00:43:32,827 --> 00:43:34,655
Was it a bigger house?
791
00:43:34,699 --> 00:43:36,091
- What, Bellagio?
- Yeah.
792
00:43:36,135 --> 00:43:38,616
- Much bigger.
- Much bigger, I see.
793
00:43:41,227 --> 00:43:44,099
- There's Bellagio Road.
- Oh, yeah.
794
00:43:44,143 --> 00:43:46,841
You wrote the directions
to this house
795
00:43:46,928 --> 00:43:48,713
in a song, "Busy Doin' Nothin'."
796
00:43:48,843 --> 00:43:50,236
- Right.
797
00:43:50,323 --> 00:43:52,368
What inspired you to tell people
where you live?
798
00:43:52,455 --> 00:43:55,154
- I don't know, jeez, I don't...
799
00:44:05,164 --> 00:44:07,688
Check it out.
It was right here.
800
00:44:09,734 --> 00:44:12,475
Yeah, you can't see much,
can you?
801
00:44:12,562 --> 00:44:14,739
But that's a beautiful house
back there?
802
00:44:14,826 --> 00:44:16,958
Have a swimming pool
and a backyard?
803
00:44:17,045 --> 00:44:18,873
Oh, yeah,
we had that specially built.
804
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,050
- Wow.
- A very big pool.
805
00:44:22,181 --> 00:44:25,097
I had, like, a den that we built
a recording studio.
806
00:44:25,184 --> 00:44:27,229
- You remember that?
- Yeah.
807
00:44:27,273 --> 00:44:30,668
It was a really state-of-the-art
studio too, I think.
808
00:44:30,755 --> 00:44:32,321
Oh, it was a fantastic studio.
809
00:44:32,408 --> 00:44:33,235
- Mm-hmm.
- Great.
810
00:44:35,411 --> 00:44:38,066
The Mamas and the Papas
came over one time.
811
00:44:38,153 --> 00:44:39,502
- Oh, really?
- Yeah.
812
00:44:39,546 --> 00:44:41,722
Did you record together?
813
00:44:41,809 --> 00:44:45,987
No, they just came over
one night, John and Michelle...
814
00:44:46,074 --> 00:44:47,772
...came over one night...
815
00:44:47,859 --> 00:44:51,079
- in the '70s.
- Uh-huh.
816
00:44:51,166 --> 00:44:52,646
- Little Richard came over.
- Really?
817
00:44:52,733 --> 00:44:53,995
- Yeah.
818
00:44:54,082 --> 00:44:56,084
Sly from the Family Stone
came over.
819
00:44:56,171 --> 00:44:58,217
What? Okay...
you gotta tell me about that.
820
00:44:58,304 --> 00:45:01,089
I don't remember, I just know
he fell asleep on a couch.
821
00:45:02,917 --> 00:45:03,788
I think he was snortin'...
822
00:45:03,918 --> 00:45:04,963
- Oh.
- Cocaine.
823
00:45:05,006 --> 00:45:07,356
- And he fell asleep?
- Yeah.
824
00:45:08,749 --> 00:45:09,576
Did he come over to party
825
00:45:09,663 --> 00:45:11,317
or to record
or just to visit?
826
00:45:11,404 --> 00:45:12,666
- Just to visit.
- What was the vibe?
827
00:45:12,753 --> 00:45:14,015
Terry Melcher
brought him over...
828
00:45:14,102 --> 00:45:15,930
- Okay.
- ...to visit.
829
00:45:16,017 --> 00:45:18,585
- Sly seemed like a cool cat.
- Who, Sly?
830
00:45:18,672 --> 00:45:19,934
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
831
00:45:20,021 --> 00:45:21,806
- He was good.
- Oh, yeah.
832
00:45:21,936 --> 00:45:24,243
- "Hot Fun in the Summertime"?
- Oh, man.
833
00:45:24,330 --> 00:45:25,897
Heavy duty.
834
00:45:26,027 --> 00:45:27,246
Is this the house
where Elton came over?
835
00:45:27,333 --> 00:45:28,813
Yeah.
836
00:45:28,943 --> 00:45:30,249
Going to Brian Wilson's house
837
00:45:30,336 --> 00:45:32,077
with Danny Hutton
of Three Dog Night
838
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:33,818
was just the most amazing,
surreal trip for me.
839
00:45:33,948 --> 00:45:36,603
Here we are,
in Brian Wilson's house,
840
00:45:36,690 --> 00:45:39,040
who we used to lay on the floor
and listen in our headphones
841
00:45:39,171 --> 00:45:40,825
to all his beautiful music.
842
00:45:40,912 --> 00:45:45,481
It was... one of the most
moving nights of my life...
843
00:45:45,568 --> 00:45:47,179
and he tried to sell me
his piano as well.
844
00:45:48,615 --> 00:45:50,573
But, um, to that time,
845
00:45:50,660 --> 00:45:53,620
he went through
such a dark period of his life.
846
00:45:53,707 --> 00:45:56,188
So, Bellagio is kinda where...
847
00:45:56,275 --> 00:45:57,929
things got difficult
for you, huh?
848
00:45:58,016 --> 00:46:00,496
- Yeah.
- What was going on?
849
00:46:00,627 --> 00:46:04,805
Uh... I was just... kinda
lonesome and, you know...
850
00:46:04,849 --> 00:46:08,678
hung out in my bedroom
for a while.
851
00:46:08,722 --> 00:46:10,506
What were you staying
in your bedroom for?
852
00:46:10,637 --> 00:46:12,639
I don't really know.
I was having mental problems.
853
00:46:12,726 --> 00:46:14,597
Yeah. Yeah.
854
00:46:14,684 --> 00:46:16,034
And everyone always says,
855
00:46:16,121 --> 00:46:17,035
"Oh, you stayed in your bedroom
for years."
856
00:46:17,078 --> 00:46:18,297
You didn't really do that.
857
00:46:18,384 --> 00:46:20,647
- No, for a couple of weeks.
- Yeah.
858
00:46:25,173 --> 00:46:27,088
Sometimes you question yourself,
859
00:46:27,219 --> 00:46:29,264
and I think, especially
when you grapple with demons,
860
00:46:29,308 --> 00:46:31,049
and you think,
"Well, do I deserve this?
861
00:46:31,092 --> 00:46:32,746
Am I worthy of this?"
862
00:46:32,833 --> 00:46:36,184
And, you know, I think about
Brian being saddled
863
00:46:36,271 --> 00:46:39,753
with... the term "genius"
864
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,276
from such an early age.
865
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,757
That's gotta
weigh on you so much.
866
00:46:47,326 --> 00:46:48,631
I think about
someone like Brian,
867
00:46:48,718 --> 00:46:51,025
and, and coming into this
when he was becoming a man
868
00:46:51,112 --> 00:46:54,028
and really starting
to make the music
869
00:46:54,115 --> 00:46:56,422
that would change the world
in a lot of ways.
870
00:46:56,509 --> 00:46:57,553
And the pressure
that comes with that.
871
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,033
You know, the, the pressure
872
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,253
to continue to perform
at that level
873
00:47:01,340 --> 00:47:03,081
and continue to be the person
874
00:47:03,168 --> 00:47:06,127
that people think
you are supposed to be.
875
00:47:06,214 --> 00:47:08,564
You know, you deal
with a lot of disappointment.
876
00:47:08,651 --> 00:47:12,873
Expectations are the foundation
for disappointment.
877
00:47:26,365 --> 00:47:27,888
Most people
in the music business
878
00:47:27,975 --> 00:47:30,673
are a little crazy in a variety
of different ways.
879
00:47:30,717 --> 00:47:32,153
I think you wish for the people
880
00:47:32,284 --> 00:47:34,982
who delivered so much to you,
881
00:47:35,026 --> 00:47:39,595
you wish them happiness
and a long life.
882
00:47:39,682 --> 00:47:40,901
You know, if you see someone
883
00:47:40,945 --> 00:47:42,685
who's going through
a lot of pain,
884
00:47:42,772 --> 00:47:45,775
you wish, like, hey,
nothing but good things.
885
00:48:02,357 --> 00:48:03,968
I think it's safe to say
886
00:48:04,055 --> 00:48:07,667
that creative people
are usually sensitive people.
887
00:48:07,710 --> 00:48:12,150
That door to drugs and alcohol
is an easy door to walk through.
888
00:48:12,237 --> 00:48:14,804
Brian Wilson was
crying for help a long time ago.
889
00:48:14,848 --> 00:48:18,634
He put it in there,
under this happiness.
890
00:48:18,721 --> 00:48:21,202
It is like the Mona Lisa.
891
00:48:21,289 --> 00:48:23,988
His tones that he chose,
or those harmonies,
892
00:48:24,118 --> 00:48:26,381
were there on purpose.
893
00:48:26,425 --> 00:48:29,080
Was this him calling out
that "I need help"?
894
00:48:35,303 --> 00:48:37,436
Remember the song
"Long Promised Road"?
895
00:48:37,523 --> 00:48:38,654
Of course.
896
00:48:38,741 --> 00:48:40,352
Carl recorded it there,
at Bellagio House.
897
00:48:40,439 --> 00:48:42,310
- Uh-huh.
- At our house.
898
00:48:42,397 --> 00:48:45,096
And he had me come down
to sing part of the bridge.
899
00:48:45,183 --> 00:48:46,619
- Mm-hmm.
- So, okay...
900
00:48:46,662 --> 00:48:49,143
and I went...
901
00:48:51,189 --> 00:48:52,538
- I wrote that part.
902
00:48:52,625 --> 00:48:53,800
You kinda came down
from your bedroom and did that
903
00:48:53,931 --> 00:48:55,106
and then went back up.
904
00:48:55,193 --> 00:48:56,237
- Yeah.
905
00:49:08,858 --> 00:49:10,121
Carl and Dennis were, were
906
00:49:10,208 --> 00:49:11,426
really different guys,
weren't they?
907
00:49:11,470 --> 00:49:14,386
Yeah, Carl was
a little easier-going.
908
00:49:14,473 --> 00:49:15,909
Dennis was a little more hyper.
909
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,780
- Mm-hmm.
- Carl was like...
910
00:49:17,867 --> 00:49:19,217
easygoing kind of a person,
you know?
911
00:49:19,260 --> 00:49:20,392
Mm-hmm.
912
00:49:20,479 --> 00:49:24,135
I was listening
to Dennis's record recently.
913
00:49:24,265 --> 00:49:25,266
- Oh, "Pacific Ocean Blue"?
- Wow.
914
00:49:25,397 --> 00:49:26,398
I have never heard his album.
915
00:49:26,485 --> 00:49:28,356
- Oh, man...
- I heard...
916
00:49:31,707 --> 00:49:34,188
- Mm-hmm.
- I... I heard that one.
917
00:49:34,275 --> 00:49:36,016
- Yup.
- But I, I think there's, like,
918
00:49:36,103 --> 00:49:37,800
11 or 12
that I haven't heard yet.
919
00:49:37,887 --> 00:49:39,150
Oh, my God, "River Song"?
920
00:49:39,237 --> 00:49:40,847
- Did you ever hear that one?
- No.
921
00:49:40,934 --> 00:49:42,283
Let's listen to it
when we get back to your house.
922
00:49:42,414 --> 00:49:43,502
Is it, like, pretty cool?
923
00:49:43,589 --> 00:49:44,982
It's amazing...
924
00:49:45,069 --> 00:49:46,635
He made good music, didn't he?
925
00:49:46,722 --> 00:49:47,636
He sure did.
926
00:49:47,723 --> 00:49:49,812
The record is...
really spectacular.
927
00:49:49,856 --> 00:49:51,379
You're gonna love it.
928
00:49:51,466 --> 00:49:53,077
I'm surprised
you never heard it.
929
00:49:53,164 --> 00:49:54,513
No, I haven't.
930
00:49:54,643 --> 00:49:57,864
- After you had left Marilyn...
- Right.
931
00:49:57,951 --> 00:49:59,648
...and you were living
in Pacific Palisades,
932
00:49:59,735 --> 00:50:01,955
that's when you were hanging out
with Dennis a lot, right?
933
00:50:02,042 --> 00:50:04,740
No, actually I was hanging out
with Dennis in Venice.
934
00:50:04,871 --> 00:50:06,916
Oh, in Venice, at his place?
935
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:07,961
Yeah, he used to play drums
936
00:50:08,048 --> 00:50:09,441
- and I'd play organ.
- Mm-hmm.
937
00:50:09,528 --> 00:50:10,877
We used to fool around together.
938
00:50:11,008 --> 00:50:12,444
- Mm-hmm.
- You know?
939
00:50:12,531 --> 00:50:15,751
- He was a, a good drummer.
- Yeah, he was.
940
00:50:15,882 --> 00:50:17,536
You were really close friends
with Dennis.
941
00:50:17,666 --> 00:50:21,540
Because we
snorted cocaine together.
942
00:50:21,627 --> 00:50:23,498
He used to buy cocaine for me.
943
00:50:23,542 --> 00:50:25,022
Mm-hmm.
944
00:50:25,109 --> 00:50:27,285
You know what he used to do?
945
00:50:27,328 --> 00:50:30,505
He carried around
a big, huge bottle,
946
00:50:30,549 --> 00:50:34,640
plastic bottle
of grapefruit juice and vodka.
947
00:50:34,683 --> 00:50:36,294
Wow.
948
00:50:36,381 --> 00:50:38,078
And he would stay drunk
the whole day.
949
00:50:38,165 --> 00:50:40,907
He was crazy. Crazy guy.
950
00:50:40,994 --> 00:50:43,344
You think that was 'cause
he was anxious and nervous?
951
00:50:43,431 --> 00:50:45,216
Yeah, he, he's always been,
like, a...
952
00:50:45,346 --> 00:50:46,565
little bit nervous person,
you know?
953
00:50:46,652 --> 00:50:47,696
Mm-hmm.
954
00:50:47,783 --> 00:50:49,959
But he was
such a sweet guy too, right?
955
00:50:50,003 --> 00:50:51,091
Didn't he have a big heart?
956
00:50:51,135 --> 00:50:52,745
Oh, he sure did, yeah.
957
00:50:52,788 --> 00:50:55,269
- I like his song "Forever."
- Oh, yeah, oh, my God.
958
00:50:55,356 --> 00:50:57,663
- That was beautiful.
- So beautiful.
959
00:51:02,276 --> 00:51:04,452
Yeah, I miss him.
960
00:51:16,943 --> 00:51:21,034
Brian's relationship with his
brothers, he loved them so much.
961
00:51:29,564 --> 00:51:32,698
Carl was just
a nice, soft person,
962
00:51:32,785 --> 00:51:34,743
and he was the peacekeeper
in the family,
963
00:51:34,830 --> 00:51:37,050
and Brian was the genius,
the introvert,
964
00:51:37,181 --> 00:51:40,488
and Dennis was probably
everything Brian wanted to be.
965
00:51:40,575 --> 00:51:43,709
And Brian was everything
Dennis wanted to be.
966
00:51:43,796 --> 00:51:47,756
And there in the middle you get
that beautiful tug and pull.
967
00:51:47,843 --> 00:51:50,281
Beautiful
brotherly relationship.
968
00:51:53,588 --> 00:51:56,025
This is just
his little brother talking,
969
00:51:56,069 --> 00:51:57,766
but to see Brian on stage
970
00:51:57,853 --> 00:51:59,551
and see all the people
respond to Brian
971
00:51:59,638 --> 00:52:02,031
is so overwhelming,
it's so wonderful.
972
00:52:02,075 --> 00:52:04,251
To listen to
a Brian Wilson composition,
973
00:52:04,295 --> 00:52:06,558
the only thing stemming from
that, the roots, is the love.
974
00:52:06,645 --> 00:52:08,299
It's, it's love.
975
00:52:15,958 --> 00:52:18,004
What you gonna have at the deli?
976
00:52:18,091 --> 00:52:19,875
Good question.
977
00:52:19,962 --> 00:52:21,790
Possibly a Cobb salad.
978
00:52:21,877 --> 00:52:23,140
What about you?
979
00:52:23,227 --> 00:52:26,186
Cobb salad for me.
980
00:52:26,273 --> 00:52:29,450
Yeah, today was fun, I liked it.
981
00:52:32,584 --> 00:52:35,413
When you were... when you had
the Radiant Radish,
982
00:52:35,500 --> 00:52:37,110
you'd actually work in the shop,
wouldn't you?
983
00:52:37,197 --> 00:52:39,112
I worked there.
984
00:52:39,199 --> 00:52:40,418
Did you know a lot of
information
985
00:52:40,461 --> 00:52:43,334
- about health foods and stuff?
- No.
986
00:52:43,421 --> 00:52:45,249
A friend of mine was,
though, yeah.
987
00:52:45,336 --> 00:52:47,207
- I ran the cash register.
- Mm-hmm.
988
00:52:47,251 --> 00:52:49,253
I learned how to do
a cash register.
989
00:52:49,340 --> 00:52:51,168
- That's fun.
- Guess who I met there.
990
00:52:51,255 --> 00:52:53,170
- Who?
- Jack Riley.
991
00:52:53,257 --> 00:52:54,432
- Really?
- Yeah.
992
00:52:54,475 --> 00:52:56,042
That's where you met him
the first time?
993
00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:58,566
- Yeah.
- Wow. And he ended up
994
00:52:58,653 --> 00:53:00,351
managing the Beach Boys, right?
995
00:53:00,438 --> 00:53:03,223
It was his idea
to go to Holland.
996
00:53:03,267 --> 00:53:04,485
What was that like?
997
00:53:04,572 --> 00:53:06,400
- It was a trip.
- Mm-hmm.
998
00:53:06,487 --> 00:53:09,360
- "Holland" is a great record.
- "Holland"?
999
00:53:09,447 --> 00:53:11,231
- Yeah. -
Yeah.
1000
00:53:11,275 --> 00:53:13,451
It was a kick,
working in Holland.
1001
00:53:13,538 --> 00:53:15,017
Mm-hmm.
You didn't wanna go at first.
1002
00:53:15,061 --> 00:53:16,845
Oh, no, I didn't wanna go.
1003
00:53:16,932 --> 00:53:19,152
Jack said, "Look, Brian, it'd be
a good vacation for us all,
1004
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:20,849
and we can record there."
1005
00:53:20,936 --> 00:53:24,462
I said, "Okay, I'll go,"
so we packed up and went.
1006
00:53:24,505 --> 00:53:26,377
Stayed there for a half a year.
1007
00:53:26,464 --> 00:53:28,379
- Wow.
- That's a long vacation.
1008
00:53:28,466 --> 00:53:30,859
- Very long.
- Six months
1009
00:53:30,946 --> 00:53:33,427
in goddamn Holland.
1010
00:53:33,514 --> 00:53:35,081
- Whoa...
- Six months.
1011
00:53:35,168 --> 00:53:37,692
I was a little depressed,
so I laid down
1012
00:53:37,736 --> 00:53:39,738
in front of the board,
you know, the console?
1013
00:53:39,868 --> 00:53:42,262
- Yeah.
- And just listened to Carl
1014
00:53:42,349 --> 00:53:44,525
produce for a couple of weeks,
1015
00:53:44,656 --> 00:53:47,485
and then, after I
got over my depression,
1016
00:53:47,528 --> 00:53:51,706
I wrote "The Fairytale,"
and, uh, we did it.
1017
00:53:51,750 --> 00:53:54,318
- That's cool.
- And then Carl...
1018
00:53:54,448 --> 00:53:55,884
he produced "The Fairytale."
1019
00:53:55,971 --> 00:53:57,669
That's awesome.
1020
00:53:57,756 --> 00:54:01,629
I wrote it, he produced it,
and Jack Riley narrated it.
1021
00:54:01,716 --> 00:54:02,326
Wow.
1022
00:54:02,456 --> 00:54:05,111
"Funky Pretty."
1023
00:54:05,198 --> 00:54:06,547
"Funky Pretty" is amazing.
1024
00:54:06,634 --> 00:54:08,636
Yeah.
1025
00:54:08,723 --> 00:54:11,422
Carl was producing a lot
at that point, right?
1026
00:54:11,509 --> 00:54:14,251
He produced his ass off,
are you kidding?
1027
00:54:14,338 --> 00:54:16,209
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
1028
00:54:16,296 --> 00:54:19,125
Must have been really cool to
see your little brother step up.
1029
00:54:19,212 --> 00:54:20,561
Well, I was proud of him.
1030
00:54:20,648 --> 00:54:22,563
- He produced "The Fairytale."
- Right.
1031
00:54:22,650 --> 00:54:24,130
He said,
"Brian, I wanna produce this."
1032
00:54:24,217 --> 00:54:26,088
He goes, "I like these songs."
1033
00:54:26,175 --> 00:54:27,002
I said, "Go ahead, produce it."
1034
00:54:27,089 --> 00:54:28,526
That's cool.
1035
00:54:28,569 --> 00:54:29,962
- It, it blew my mind.
- You didn't know
1036
00:54:30,005 --> 00:54:32,312
- he had it in him.
- Oh, no, I did not.
1037
00:54:32,399 --> 00:54:35,707
You also... did you write
"Sail on, Sailor" there?
1038
00:54:35,794 --> 00:54:37,448
Yeah.
1039
00:54:37,578 --> 00:54:39,798
That song, man,
that's one of the greats.
1040
00:54:43,367 --> 00:54:44,672
"Sail on, Sailor" is probably
1041
00:54:44,759 --> 00:54:48,023
one of the best songs
I ever wrote.
1042
00:54:48,110 --> 00:54:50,504
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
1043
00:54:52,114 --> 00:54:54,465
When we get to my house,
1044
00:54:54,552 --> 00:54:55,814
would you please boot up
Dennis's album?
1045
00:54:55,901 --> 00:54:57,381
Absolutely.
We'll listen to
1046
00:54:57,468 --> 00:54:58,773
- a little of the record...
- Okay.
1047
00:54:58,817 --> 00:55:01,036
- Then you can relax.
- All right.
1048
00:55:01,167 --> 00:55:03,387
Will you give him the card?
I'm gonna hit the head.
1049
00:55:03,517 --> 00:55:05,040
- I'll be right back.
- All right.
1050
00:55:05,127 --> 00:55:06,607
- I'll take care of it, guys.
- How's it going?
1051
00:55:06,694 --> 00:55:08,130
It's going great, Brian.
1052
00:55:08,217 --> 00:55:09,393
- You gonna take care of this?
- Absolutely.
1053
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:10,481
All right,
I'm gonna get the check.
1054
00:55:10,568 --> 00:55:11,482
Okay, Brent, okay.
1055
00:55:11,569 --> 00:55:12,700
He's gonna take care of it.
1056
00:55:12,787 --> 00:55:14,049
- All right, we scored!
1057
00:55:14,136 --> 00:55:16,182
- We scored!
- I scored a friend.
1058
00:55:16,313 --> 00:55:17,488
Yeah, for sure.
1059
00:55:17,575 --> 00:55:19,054
I haven't had a friend...
1060
00:55:19,185 --> 00:55:21,056
I haven't had a friend
to talk to in three years.
1061
00:55:21,187 --> 00:55:23,058
- Really?
- Really.
1062
00:55:23,145 --> 00:55:25,800
My life has been so simple,
you know?
1063
00:55:25,844 --> 00:55:26,714
Yeah.
1064
00:55:26,801 --> 00:55:28,281
So simple and, like, modest?
1065
00:55:28,368 --> 00:55:30,544
- Yeah.
- No really sitting around
1066
00:55:30,631 --> 00:55:32,198
and shooting the shit
kinda thing.
1067
00:55:32,285 --> 00:55:33,199
- Right.
- I haven't had
1068
00:55:33,286 --> 00:55:34,418
that kind of thing since you.
1069
00:55:34,505 --> 00:55:35,854
Well, I'm here for ya.
1070
00:55:35,941 --> 00:55:37,377
Vice versa.
1071
00:55:37,421 --> 00:55:39,423
- Okay.
- Let's go.
1072
00:55:48,649 --> 00:55:51,435
Yeah.
The great Vanna White.
1073
00:55:53,437 --> 00:55:54,873
That's amazing.
1074
00:55:57,963 --> 00:55:59,965
Do you remember him talking
to you about the record?
1075
00:56:00,052 --> 00:56:03,098
He came over and he played me
just the "Evening News" song.
1076
00:56:03,185 --> 00:56:05,536
I never listened to his album
till right now.
1077
00:56:07,015 --> 00:56:08,147
All right.
1078
00:56:10,628 --> 00:56:12,847
Can you make it a little louder?
1079
00:56:19,506 --> 00:56:24,076
If you ask
Elvis Costello or Roger Taylor
1080
00:56:24,119 --> 00:56:25,860
or Peter Buck from REM,
1081
00:56:25,947 --> 00:56:27,209
I've heard all of these people
talk about this record,
1082
00:56:27,296 --> 00:56:29,603
of it being this,
like, lost jewel.
1083
00:56:29,690 --> 00:56:31,605
It's a bummer
that it didn't slow him down
1084
00:56:31,692 --> 00:56:33,085
or knock some sense into him,
1085
00:56:33,128 --> 00:56:36,044
saying, "Lookit, dude,
you are a great artist."
1086
00:56:39,831 --> 00:56:41,702
All right!
1087
00:56:41,789 --> 00:56:43,617
This could be cool
for the rock-and-roll record.
1088
00:56:43,704 --> 00:56:45,663
- Yeah.
1089
00:56:45,706 --> 00:56:47,578
- Good.
1090
00:56:49,362 --> 00:56:52,365
Dennis was just an,
an impulsive hell-raising dude,
1091
00:56:52,496 --> 00:56:53,714
but had a big heart, you know?
1092
00:56:53,845 --> 00:56:54,933
And loved his brother.
1093
00:56:58,023 --> 00:56:59,416
All right.
1094
00:56:59,503 --> 00:57:00,591
Do you wanna hear one more?
1095
00:57:00,678 --> 00:57:02,506
Wanna hear it all.
1096
00:57:02,636 --> 00:57:05,465
- Yeah.
1097
00:57:37,454 --> 00:57:38,977
This guy called me up, he goes,
1098
00:57:39,064 --> 00:57:40,718
"Brian, I'm sorry
to tell you this,
1099
00:57:40,805 --> 00:57:43,068
but your brother Dennis
drowned tonight."
1100
00:57:43,155 --> 00:57:46,114
I got this terrible feeling
in my chest, you know?
1101
00:57:46,245 --> 00:57:47,420
Really scared me.
1102
00:57:51,206 --> 00:57:55,515
I have had two losses in my
family in the last ten years,
1103
00:57:55,559 --> 00:57:57,212
and it's been hard for me.
1104
00:57:57,299 --> 00:57:59,127
The first loss was very hard,
it was my father,
1105
00:57:59,214 --> 00:58:01,390
and then of course
my brother Dennis...
1106
00:58:04,219 --> 00:58:07,005
We go back about 21 years,
you know,
1107
00:58:07,092 --> 00:58:10,443
and it's hard to lose a brother,
and somebody who had
1108
00:58:10,530 --> 00:58:14,969
such a vital, energetic thing
about him, and, uh...
1109
00:58:15,056 --> 00:58:16,971
I just don't want to,
to talk anymore about it.
1110
00:58:27,721 --> 00:58:30,419
- All right.
1111
00:58:30,463 --> 00:58:33,771
It's always a great day
when you can ride to Malibu.
1112
00:58:33,858 --> 00:58:37,818
Taking a, a peaceful to drive to
the, to our stomping grounds.
1113
00:58:37,905 --> 00:58:41,822
Yeah, you have a lot of,
lot of history in Malibu.
1114
00:58:41,909 --> 00:58:47,045
- Yeah. Nine years.
- Yeah.
1115
00:58:47,132 --> 00:58:49,482
Yeah, I served time
for nine years.
1116
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:53,355
Is it like a prison sentence?
1117
00:58:53,442 --> 00:58:55,183
Yeah, it was like...
yeah, in a way, yeah.
1118
00:59:05,498 --> 00:59:10,329
- Oh, oh, oh, oh...
1119
00:59:19,773 --> 00:59:21,514
I contribute.
1120
00:59:21,601 --> 00:59:23,385
I'm a contributor.
1121
00:59:23,472 --> 00:59:25,692
- BRIAN: In my personal story,
1122
00:59:25,736 --> 00:59:26,867
it really didn't work out
so well.
1123
00:59:26,998 --> 00:59:30,218
I did my dose of LSD,
it shattered my mind,
1124
00:59:30,305 --> 00:59:32,656
and I, you know,
came back, thank God, in...
1125
00:59:32,743 --> 00:59:34,527
I don't know how many pieces.
1126
00:59:34,614 --> 00:59:37,661
I think what happened was that
it became too painful for him.
1127
00:59:37,748 --> 00:59:39,358
I was terrified for my brother.
1128
00:59:39,445 --> 00:59:41,316
Why in the world would a man
1129
00:59:41,403 --> 00:59:42,579
with that kind
of God-given talent
1130
00:59:42,666 --> 00:59:44,319
need any help from drugs?
1131
00:59:44,406 --> 00:59:46,104
I have been taught the
difference by my psychiatrist,
1132
00:59:46,234 --> 00:59:48,454
thank God, of a natural high
and a drug high.
1133
00:59:48,541 --> 00:59:51,109
I mean, drugs are a definite
balance of heaven and hell.
1134
00:59:51,239 --> 00:59:53,502
You go to heaven,
then you go right to hell.
1135
00:59:53,546 --> 00:59:55,287
What made you come back, Brian?
1136
00:59:55,374 --> 00:59:57,289
I probably came back out of
will, just... my name is Wilson,
1137
00:59:57,332 --> 01:00:00,422
maybe that's where
I got the will.
1138
01:00:10,128 --> 01:00:12,217
They're called
auditory hallucinations.
1139
01:00:12,304 --> 01:00:13,871
You're normal
and then all of a sudden
1140
01:00:13,958 --> 01:00:16,743
you start hearing voices
in your head.
1141
01:00:16,787 --> 01:00:19,790
The voices say, "I'm gonna hurt
you, I'm gonna kill you," yeah.
1142
01:00:19,877 --> 01:00:21,922
I was afraid the devil came
1143
01:00:22,053 --> 01:00:23,532
in the form of other people
1144
01:00:23,576 --> 01:00:26,710
that were competing with me,
that had ideas of,
1145
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,582
of killing me
and getting rid of me.
1146
01:00:29,713 --> 01:00:32,629
Everywhere I looked, I would
see, "Oh, the devil's after me."
1147
01:00:36,284 --> 01:00:41,289
What people have a tendency to
do that suffer with depression
1148
01:00:41,376 --> 01:00:43,944
is they use drugs and alcohol
to medicate themselves.
1149
01:00:44,075 --> 01:00:47,382
It's called
nepenthe...numbing the soul.
1150
01:01:03,834 --> 01:01:09,187
If I had not taken
control, he could be dead.
1151
01:01:09,274 --> 01:01:13,147
He had a year or two to live
and he'd have died.
1152
01:01:13,191 --> 01:01:18,196
"We are worried that Brian
Wilson is gonna follow Elvis."
1153
01:01:18,326 --> 01:01:20,285
Oh, God, no.
1154
01:01:27,292 --> 01:01:30,991
We met back in 1986,
during the Landy years.
1155
01:01:31,122 --> 01:01:34,821
As time went on,
he, he became... captive.
1156
01:01:34,865 --> 01:01:37,432
I wasn't allowed to call my
family or my friends at all
1157
01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:38,956
for, for nine years.
1158
01:01:38,999 --> 01:01:41,741
He doped me up
with, with, uh, medication.
1159
01:01:41,828 --> 01:01:43,308
He kept me, he kept me doped up
1160
01:01:43,395 --> 01:01:45,353
so I couldn't resist
what he told me to do.
1161
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:46,441
Why?
1162
01:01:46,528 --> 01:01:47,965
I... he's a control freak.
1163
01:01:48,008 --> 01:01:50,402
He just... he gets off
on controlling people.
1164
01:02:01,021 --> 01:02:03,676
Was it hard to let go?
1165
01:02:03,763 --> 01:02:05,460
A little bit hard for me to let
go, yeah. It was hard.
1166
01:02:05,547 --> 01:02:07,462
When you've had a control figure
in your life
1167
01:02:07,549 --> 01:02:09,334
for that long a period.
1168
01:02:09,421 --> 01:02:13,251
Nine years,
starting from 1983 to 1992.
1169
01:02:13,338 --> 01:02:15,427
It was nine years of control.
1170
01:02:32,270 --> 01:02:34,751
He's the one
that's done all this.
1171
01:02:34,838 --> 01:02:38,493
He, he's had support,
like I say.
1172
01:02:38,624 --> 01:02:40,931
He's had emotional...
emotional security,
1173
01:02:41,061 --> 01:02:45,457
but he is the one that's pulled
himself out of the darkness,
1174
01:02:45,500 --> 01:02:46,806
back into the sunlight.
1175
01:02:54,466 --> 01:02:57,208
Dr. Landy controlled
a lot of aspects of your life.
1176
01:02:57,338 --> 01:02:58,862
Yup.
1177
01:02:58,949 --> 01:02:59,863
Was he a pretty tough
taskmaster?
1178
01:02:59,950 --> 01:03:01,299
He was rough, yeah.
1179
01:03:01,429 --> 01:03:02,909
He was rough.
1180
01:03:02,953 --> 01:03:06,957
He did things like he made me
eat spaghetti off the floor.
1181
01:03:07,087 --> 01:03:08,349
- Uh-huh.
- Crazy things, you know?
1182
01:03:08,436 --> 01:03:09,960
Why did he do that?
1183
01:03:10,047 --> 01:03:12,266
I don't know,
he just acted crazy.
1184
01:03:12,310 --> 01:03:13,441
Mm-hmm.
1185
01:03:13,528 --> 01:03:15,226
He goes, "All right,
1186
01:03:15,313 --> 01:03:18,098
I want you to eat your spaghetti
off the floor."
1187
01:03:18,229 --> 01:03:21,536
I said, "Oh, man," he goes,
"I said eat your..."
1188
01:03:21,667 --> 01:03:23,103
You know,
he was real mean, you know?
1189
01:03:23,234 --> 01:03:25,584
And then about two weeks,
three weeks later,
1190
01:03:25,671 --> 01:03:27,194
he went, "Hi, Brian."
1191
01:03:27,281 --> 01:03:28,892
In a real friendly tone,
you know?
1192
01:03:29,022 --> 01:03:30,676
That was really
quite an experience.
1193
01:03:30,763 --> 01:03:32,983
- Kind of a mind trip.
- Yeah.
1194
01:03:39,511 --> 01:03:41,905
Yeah, he didn't let me
call my family.
1195
01:03:46,997 --> 01:03:48,128
That must have been hard.
1196
01:03:48,215 --> 01:03:49,260
Your daughters were growing up.
1197
01:03:49,347 --> 01:03:51,784
Oh, it was, Jason, it was.
1198
01:04:30,779 --> 01:04:32,390
So, do you have a hard time
1199
01:04:32,477 --> 01:04:34,348
making sense of the good parts
and the bad parts?
1200
01:04:34,392 --> 01:04:36,742
No, I took the bad with the good
with him, you know?
1201
01:04:36,873 --> 01:04:38,526
Yeah.
1202
01:04:38,613 --> 01:04:40,833
Balancing the two together,
you know?
1203
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:43,009
Mm-hmm.
1204
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,147
You know what I had... you know
what I did for a little while?
1205
01:04:50,190 --> 01:04:52,976
- What?
- When I was, like, really fat?
1206
01:04:53,106 --> 01:04:57,067
I ate two New York steaks
for breakfast
1207
01:04:57,154 --> 01:05:00,200
and a big piece
of, uh, birthday cake.
1208
01:05:00,331 --> 01:05:01,636
- Really?
- Yeah.
1209
01:05:01,767 --> 01:05:03,551
I went up... shot up to 311.
1210
01:05:03,638 --> 01:05:07,077
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, Jason, I was so fat.
1211
01:05:07,207 --> 01:05:09,862
And when Gene Landy
came into my life,
1212
01:05:09,949 --> 01:05:11,646
he had me weigh myself.
1213
01:05:11,777 --> 01:05:14,432
I weighed 311, and he goes, "And
we're going to Kona, Hawaii,
1214
01:05:14,562 --> 01:05:17,348
and you're gonna start
exercising."
1215
01:05:17,435 --> 01:05:21,787
So, in about five or six months,
I goddamn lost...
1216
01:05:21,874 --> 01:05:24,224
went from 311 to 185.
1217
01:05:24,355 --> 01:05:25,530
Can you believe that?
1218
01:05:25,617 --> 01:05:27,532
- Oh, man.
- Isn't that amazing?
1219
01:05:27,619 --> 01:05:30,100
Why do you think
you were eating so bad?
1220
01:05:30,187 --> 01:05:32,145
Uh... I was just being stupid.
1221
01:05:32,276 --> 01:05:34,017
Uh-huh.
1222
01:05:34,104 --> 01:05:37,107
So, what was it like
when Landy took you to Hawaii?
1223
01:05:37,237 --> 01:05:42,851
Well... I had to kick three main
drug habits at the same time.
1224
01:05:42,895 --> 01:05:45,202
So I spent a few nights
tossing and turning
1225
01:05:45,245 --> 01:05:47,682
and rolling in the bed,
moaning and groaning
1226
01:05:47,769 --> 01:05:50,120
and it was like a guy
kicking heroin, you know?
1227
01:05:50,207 --> 01:05:52,600
- Whoa.
- Oh, it was rough.
1228
01:05:52,687 --> 01:05:55,647
I had to kick cigarettes,
alcohol and cocaine.
1229
01:05:55,690 --> 01:05:56,909
All at once?
1230
01:05:56,996 --> 01:05:58,519
- All at once, yeah.
- Whoa.
1231
01:05:58,563 --> 01:06:00,739
That was one of the roughest
trips I ever took, yeah.
1232
01:06:00,826 --> 01:06:02,480
Which was the hardest to stop?
1233
01:06:02,567 --> 01:06:07,789
Um, the roughest... was...
the cigarettes.
1234
01:06:07,833 --> 01:06:09,704
He motivated you.
1235
01:06:09,791 --> 01:06:11,837
He sure did, yeah.
1236
01:06:11,924 --> 01:06:15,058
But on the bad side,
he controlled you.
1237
01:06:15,145 --> 01:06:16,450
Yeah, he did.
1238
01:06:16,494 --> 01:06:18,583
He made money off my name,
you know?
1239
01:06:18,626 --> 01:06:20,498
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
1240
01:06:20,585 --> 01:06:22,630
The thing
about Eugene Landy
1241
01:06:22,717 --> 01:06:27,287
was that he was supposed to be
watching Brian's diet
1242
01:06:27,418 --> 01:06:29,420
and taking care of him
1243
01:06:29,507 --> 01:06:31,857
physically and, uh,
trying to get him
1244
01:06:31,944 --> 01:06:35,165
to lose weight
and stop living a bad lifestyle.
1245
01:06:35,252 --> 01:06:39,952
Um, he kind of overstepped his,
uh, boundaries or something,
1246
01:06:40,039 --> 01:06:41,954
whatever boundaries
there were supposed to be,
1247
01:06:42,041 --> 01:06:43,477
and got involved in songwriting
1248
01:06:43,521 --> 01:06:44,826
and production
and stuff like that.
1249
01:06:44,870 --> 01:06:47,307
That was kind of a real drag.
1250
01:06:47,394 --> 01:06:49,048
When people realized
how bad that was,
1251
01:06:49,135 --> 01:06:50,832
I think that started the wheels
turning pretty quickly
1252
01:06:50,876 --> 01:06:53,183
to, to get rid of Landy.
1253
01:06:53,313 --> 01:06:57,056
The day that that happened,
Brian called me,
1254
01:06:57,100 --> 01:06:58,275
and he said, "I'm free now.
1255
01:06:58,318 --> 01:06:59,754
"I can do whatever I want.
1256
01:06:59,841 --> 01:07:01,539
What are you doing, Andy?"
1257
01:07:01,626 --> 01:07:04,194
And I said, "I'm... doing
nothing, what do you wanna do?"
1258
01:07:04,324 --> 01:07:05,543
And he said,
"I wanna write songs."
1259
01:07:05,673 --> 01:07:09,460
Trying to think of
what I wanna hear.
1260
01:07:09,590 --> 01:07:13,203
Play...
1261
01:07:13,290 --> 01:07:14,900
"Long Promised Road"?
1262
01:07:15,031 --> 01:07:17,250
Great call.
1263
01:07:19,818 --> 01:07:21,863
Here it is.
1264
01:07:48,107 --> 01:07:50,370
It's a really cool track.
1265
01:07:50,457 --> 01:07:52,198
Did he write the words? Carl?
1266
01:07:52,242 --> 01:07:53,765
Yeah...
uh, Jack Riley wrote 'em.
1267
01:07:53,808 --> 01:07:55,984
- Okay.
- Yeah.
1268
01:07:56,028 --> 01:07:57,508
He died not too long ago.
1269
01:07:57,595 --> 01:07:59,118
- Jack died?
- A few years ago, yeah.
1270
01:07:59,162 --> 01:08:00,728
How do you know that?
1271
01:08:00,815 --> 01:08:04,254
Somebody that I knew
knew him, and told me that.
1272
01:08:04,384 --> 01:08:05,690
Where was he living,
in Amsterdam?
1273
01:08:05,777 --> 01:08:07,822
Yeah, in, in Europe.
I don't know if it was in Ams...
1274
01:08:07,909 --> 01:08:09,389
- He died?
- Yeah.
1275
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:12,740
- Oh, man...
- A few years back.
1276
01:08:22,837 --> 01:08:25,753
That's enough.
1277
01:08:34,327 --> 01:08:37,504
Jack seemed
like a really fun guy.
1278
01:08:37,635 --> 01:08:39,941
Yeah. He's the one who thought
of going to Holland.
1279
01:08:39,985 --> 01:08:42,379
- Uh-huh.
- You know?
1280
01:08:45,991 --> 01:08:48,298
What did Jack die of?
1281
01:08:48,385 --> 01:08:51,083
I'm not sure.
1282
01:08:54,434 --> 01:08:56,523
Was he older than you?
1283
01:08:56,610 --> 01:08:58,482
Uh, I think he was
about the same age as me.
1284
01:08:58,569 --> 01:09:01,354
Okay.
1285
01:09:04,401 --> 01:09:09,449
Would you play, um...
1286
01:09:09,536 --> 01:09:12,626
Uh...
1287
01:09:12,670 --> 01:09:14,411
"It's OK" by the Beach Boys?
1288
01:09:14,498 --> 01:09:17,979
- Heck, yeah.
- On, uh, "15 Big Ones."
1289
01:09:43,831 --> 01:09:47,922
- Really cool line.
- Yeah.
1290
01:09:53,667 --> 01:09:56,583
That broke my heart
when I heard Jack Riley died.
1291
01:09:56,670 --> 01:09:58,716
Oh, man, I'm sorry to be
the bearer of bad news.
1292
01:09:58,803 --> 01:10:04,635
Absolutely...
absolutely broke my heart.
1293
01:10:04,722 --> 01:10:08,726
- About three years ago?
- I think so, yeah, maybe more.
1294
01:10:13,296 --> 01:10:14,645
Any other ones you wanna hear?
1295
01:10:14,775 --> 01:10:17,648
Yeah.
1296
01:10:17,778 --> 01:10:21,826
Play...
1297
01:10:21,869 --> 01:10:23,871
Don't play anything.
1298
01:10:23,958 --> 01:10:25,046
- I've heard enough today.
- Okay.
1299
01:11:22,974 --> 01:11:24,454
You've gotta be tough
1300
01:11:24,541 --> 01:11:26,151
to go through
what he's been through,
1301
01:11:26,238 --> 01:11:29,502
personally and musically,
and, uh, with his family,
1302
01:11:29,589 --> 01:11:30,982
and stuff with his dad.
1303
01:11:31,025 --> 01:11:33,027
You've gotta be tough
to survive that.
1304
01:11:50,697 --> 01:11:52,830
The odds were not on Brian,
1305
01:11:52,917 --> 01:11:55,485
but the fact
that he is still here
1306
01:11:55,572 --> 01:11:59,924
and performing
and making music...
1307
01:12:00,011 --> 01:12:01,404
it's a miracle,
kind of, isn't it?
1308
01:12:01,491 --> 01:12:02,405
Really, it is.
1309
01:12:02,535 --> 01:12:04,363
I wonder if he sees it that way.
1310
01:12:21,162 --> 01:12:23,774
Here's your old spot.
1311
01:12:23,861 --> 01:12:26,080
Moonshadows.
1312
01:12:26,211 --> 01:12:29,606
Good... I think they have
a dance, a dance floor there.
1313
01:12:29,693 --> 01:12:31,651
Had a couple,
couple glasses of wine,
1314
01:12:31,782 --> 01:12:33,436
feel good,
then I went and danced...
1315
01:12:33,523 --> 01:12:35,873
- Right.
- ...for a little while.
1316
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:37,614
I never knew
you were a big dancer.
1317
01:12:37,657 --> 01:12:39,964
I can't dance very good, Jason.
1318
01:12:41,661 --> 01:12:45,404
You did...
I saw, uh, that you did,
1319
01:12:45,491 --> 01:12:47,101
you did a lot of dancing
at your wedding.
1320
01:12:47,188 --> 01:12:49,365
Yeah.
1321
01:12:49,452 --> 01:12:51,105
When the spirit moves you?
1322
01:12:51,192 --> 01:12:52,890
Yeah.
1323
01:12:52,977 --> 01:12:54,631
Tell me the story
1324
01:12:54,718 --> 01:12:56,415
of when you and Melinda
decided to get married.
1325
01:12:56,459 --> 01:12:59,462
We were staying
in a house on Ferrari...
1326
01:12:59,592 --> 01:13:01,681
- Uh-huh.
- ...and she goes,
1327
01:13:01,768 --> 01:13:03,466
"Aren't you going to ask me
to get married?"
1328
01:13:03,553 --> 01:13:04,467
I said, "Yeah."
1329
01:13:04,554 --> 01:13:05,903
She goes, "Yeah!"
1330
01:13:07,513 --> 01:13:08,384
I said, "Would you marry me?"
1331
01:13:08,471 --> 01:13:10,037
She goes, "Yeah!"
1332
01:13:11,474 --> 01:13:13,563
You must have been
pretty excited.
1333
01:13:13,693 --> 01:13:15,042
Yeah, we got married
in Palos Verdes.
1334
01:13:15,173 --> 01:13:16,870
Mm-hmm.
1335
01:13:16,914 --> 01:13:18,568
19... 95.
1336
01:13:18,655 --> 01:13:20,439
- MINISTER: To speak...
- BRIAN: To speak...
1337
01:13:20,483 --> 01:13:22,833
- and to listen.
- and to listen.
1338
01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:25,488
- To inspire...
- To inspire...
1339
01:13:25,575 --> 01:13:27,881
- ...and to respond.
- And what?
1340
01:13:27,925 --> 01:13:29,013
- And to respond.
1341
01:13:29,056 --> 01:13:30,623
And to respond.
1342
01:13:42,374 --> 01:13:45,072
- To Brian and Melinda.
1343
01:13:55,735 --> 01:13:58,303
When did you guys
decide to have kids?
1344
01:13:58,390 --> 01:14:00,958
- We adopted.
- Yeah.
1345
01:14:01,045 --> 01:14:03,395
19... 98.
1346
01:14:03,482 --> 01:14:06,180
That must have been a big deal,
adopting new kids.
1347
01:14:06,267 --> 01:14:07,312
Yeah, that was a trip.
1348
01:14:12,752 --> 01:14:16,277
- One, two, three, swing.
1349
01:14:16,364 --> 01:14:21,239
- One, two, three, swing.
1350
01:14:22,936 --> 01:14:24,764
Those kids are, like,
very creative and playful.
1351
01:14:24,895 --> 01:14:28,289
I learned love from them,
the way they express love.
1352
01:14:28,376 --> 01:14:32,206
Yeah, it's inspiring,
it really is, yeah.
1353
01:14:48,309 --> 01:14:49,485
I don't think there
would have been a third act
1354
01:14:49,572 --> 01:14:51,312
if it hadn't have been
for Melinda.
1355
01:14:51,399 --> 01:14:52,792
Brian found his salvation.
1356
01:14:52,879 --> 01:14:54,141
He went through
such a dark period of his life.
1357
01:14:54,228 --> 01:14:56,013
And whenever I see them,
they're just like
1358
01:14:56,143 --> 01:14:58,798
a very happy, ordinary
married couple with children.
1359
01:14:58,929 --> 01:15:01,235
He loves her, she loves him.
1360
01:15:01,366 --> 01:15:03,368
'Cause, again, he's not a person
to live a lavish lifestyle.
1361
01:15:03,499 --> 01:15:05,109
He's just a California boy
1362
01:15:05,196 --> 01:15:07,154
that likes to make music
and be with his family.
1363
01:15:10,201 --> 01:15:12,203
He doesn't deserve just
the accolades about the music.
1364
01:15:12,246 --> 01:15:15,511
He deserves the accolades
about his personal life.
1365
01:15:31,875 --> 01:15:34,355
Do you remember
the day you came to Trankas
1366
01:15:34,399 --> 01:15:37,402
to, to your birthday party?
1367
01:15:37,489 --> 01:15:39,230
Yeah, McCartney was there...
1368
01:15:39,273 --> 01:15:42,363
and his wife, Linda...
1369
01:15:42,450 --> 01:15:44,583
- Uh-huh.
- ... was there.
1370
01:15:44,670 --> 01:15:48,239
And it was a really cool house.
1371
01:15:48,326 --> 01:15:49,414
It's amazing, that day,
you did so much that day.
1372
01:15:49,545 --> 01:15:50,850
It was your birthday party,
1373
01:15:50,937 --> 01:15:54,071
you filmed
that Rolling Stone cover,
1374
01:15:54,201 --> 01:15:56,421
and you did that skit
for Saturday Night Live,
1375
01:15:56,508 --> 01:15:57,727
all on the same day.
1376
01:15:57,814 --> 01:15:58,771
Let's go surfin' now.
1377
01:15:58,858 --> 01:16:00,077
Everybody's learnin' how.
1378
01:16:00,207 --> 01:16:01,644
Come on a safari with us.
1379
01:16:01,774 --> 01:16:03,210
- Come on.
- Let's go.
1380
01:16:03,297 --> 01:16:03,994
Right.
1381
01:16:05,952 --> 01:16:09,086
How does it make you feel
to hear these songs?
1382
01:16:09,173 --> 01:16:11,175
Oh, wonderful.
1383
01:16:11,262 --> 01:16:12,655
What a great feel.
1384
01:16:12,785 --> 01:16:15,353
Oh, I'm so proud of Carl,
again, man.
1385
01:16:15,440 --> 01:16:16,876
When did you first know
1386
01:16:16,963 --> 01:16:20,532
that Carl could sing leads
so well like that?
1387
01:16:20,619 --> 01:16:25,189
Well... 19... 60... 5 or 6.
1388
01:16:25,319 --> 01:16:27,452
When he sang "God Only
Knows," you must have known,
1389
01:16:27,583 --> 01:16:31,543
"My gosh,
he's really stepped up."
1390
01:16:31,674 --> 01:16:32,849
Well, I was gonna do the vocal,
1391
01:16:32,892 --> 01:16:35,416
and I said, "Carl,
do you wanna do the vocal?"
1392
01:16:35,503 --> 01:16:38,550
He goes, "Sure, I'd love to,"
you know? So he did the vocal.
1393
01:16:38,637 --> 01:16:40,160
And he killed it.
1394
01:16:40,247 --> 01:16:41,988
Yeah, he did.
1395
01:17:34,171 --> 01:17:36,826
I saw him
about a week before he died,
1396
01:17:36,913 --> 01:17:38,741
and he goes,
"I'm gonna make it, Brian,
1397
01:17:38,828 --> 01:17:39,959
I'm gonna make it through."
1398
01:17:40,090 --> 01:17:41,961
And he died
a couple of weeks later.
1399
01:17:42,048 --> 01:17:43,310
Oh...
1400
01:17:43,397 --> 01:17:45,138
It's emotionally hard
to sing it.
1401
01:17:45,225 --> 01:17:47,097
I like... it feels good
to sing, though, you know?
1402
01:17:47,184 --> 01:17:48,054
Mm-hmm.
1403
01:17:48,141 --> 01:17:49,839
When I sing it,
I think about him.
1404
01:17:49,926 --> 01:17:52,145
"God Only Knows" gets
a standing ovation every time.
1405
01:18:06,638 --> 01:18:09,772
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen!
1406
01:18:12,383 --> 01:18:13,297
Please be seated.
1407
01:18:13,384 --> 01:18:17,214
Thank you very much.
1408
01:18:28,442 --> 01:18:32,751
Yeah, there it is.
1409
01:18:55,339 --> 01:18:56,775
Right here.
1410
01:18:58,995 --> 01:18:59,909
I'm not gonna get
out of the car.
1411
01:18:59,996 --> 01:19:01,954
- You sure?
- Yeah.
1412
01:19:03,826 --> 01:19:06,611
I'm gonna get out, okay?
Check it out.
1413
01:19:06,698 --> 01:19:08,134
No... I'm just gonna wait.
1414
01:19:08,221 --> 01:19:10,049
Too sentimental for me to go.
1415
01:19:10,180 --> 01:19:11,834
All right, I'll tell 'em.
1416
01:19:13,052 --> 01:19:16,360
- Want the music on?
- Yeah.
1417
01:19:37,294 --> 01:19:39,513
I asked Brian one time,
1418
01:19:39,644 --> 01:19:43,300
"Why do you think we succeeded
in such a big way?"
1419
01:19:43,430 --> 01:19:47,695
He said, "Well, I think the
music celebrated the joy of life
1420
01:19:47,739 --> 01:19:49,393
in a real, simple way."
1421
01:19:51,743 --> 01:19:56,226
Not heavy or...
or, or complex or anything.
1422
01:19:56,313 --> 01:19:59,359
Just a real direct experience
of just joyfulness.
1423
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:06,932
- Bah-bah, bah-bah...
1424
01:20:20,206 --> 01:20:21,991
- Too much on that one, huh?
- Yeah.
1425
01:20:30,347 --> 01:20:32,958
Yeah.
1426
01:20:56,155 --> 01:20:58,288
- Ooh, ooh...
1427
01:21:31,321 --> 01:21:33,062
I wanna take this opportunity
right now
1428
01:21:33,149 --> 01:21:37,196
to thank our beloved Brian for
writing all that beautiful music
1429
01:21:37,327 --> 01:21:38,981
and making
this evening possible.
1430
01:21:39,111 --> 01:21:41,766
Let's hear it for Brian Wilson.
1431
01:21:56,868 --> 01:21:58,565
- It's okay?
- Sure.
1432
01:22:01,177 --> 01:22:02,221
Happy with it?
1433
01:22:02,308 --> 01:22:03,788
- Love it, yeah.
- Okay.
1434
01:22:03,919 --> 01:22:06,095
It starts out one, two, three.
1435
01:22:09,794 --> 01:22:12,144
Okay, okay.
1436
01:22:12,231 --> 01:22:13,667
- It fades
1437
01:22:13,754 --> 01:22:15,017
in about eight, ten bars.
1438
01:22:15,104 --> 01:22:16,670
- Got it.
- In ten.
1439
01:22:16,757 --> 01:22:18,890
I'm just gonna prepare myself
mentally for the vocals.
1440
01:22:19,021 --> 01:22:20,805
- For some vocals?
- Yeah.
1441
01:22:20,892 --> 01:22:22,502
Good! You want me to scratch
your back or rub your back?
1442
01:22:22,589 --> 01:22:24,243
Sure.
1443
01:22:24,330 --> 01:22:27,116
DRUMMER, TAPPING:
One, two, one, two, three, four.
1444
01:22:43,915 --> 01:22:47,919
- CHORUS: Yeah
1445
01:22:59,061 --> 01:23:00,410
It's a gift for all of us
1446
01:23:00,497 --> 01:23:02,238
to have someone like Brian
or those guys
1447
01:23:02,325 --> 01:23:03,065
who still love music
and wanna play music.
1448
01:23:03,195 --> 01:23:04,501
It's a gift to everybody,
1449
01:23:04,631 --> 01:23:06,590
because he certainly
doesn't have to do that.
1450
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:08,026
Brian will always
wanna go out and perform.
1451
01:23:08,070 --> 01:23:09,636
He will always wanna
make records.
1452
01:23:09,723 --> 01:23:11,725
It's 'cause music
runs through his veins.
1453
01:23:16,078 --> 01:23:17,427
I don't see age.
1454
01:23:17,514 --> 01:23:23,476
I see fucking history, and
continuing to make history.
1455
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:25,522
I think he's enjoying himself.
1456
01:23:25,652 --> 01:23:29,091
He wants to go on the road and
he wants to keep going, so...
1457
01:23:29,178 --> 01:23:30,962
I can't argue with that.
1458
01:23:43,757 --> 01:23:45,977
In the last two years,
you've toured, like, 180 dates.
1459
01:23:46,064 --> 01:23:48,023
It's more
than you've ever played
1460
01:23:48,110 --> 01:23:50,547
at any time in your career.
1461
01:23:50,634 --> 01:23:52,549
- Well, we toured the world.
- You gotta be proud of that.
1462
01:23:52,636 --> 01:23:53,941
Lotta concerts.
1463
01:24:09,435 --> 01:24:11,481
I've been in a concert with him,
and he did a song
1464
01:24:11,568 --> 01:24:13,439
that I thought
I would never hear live,
1465
01:24:13,570 --> 01:24:15,311
and he opened his mouth
and just went... "Aah..."
1466
01:24:15,354 --> 01:24:18,270
Brian's provided that for me
many times,
1467
01:24:18,357 --> 01:24:20,533
and not only
has he provided that for me,
1468
01:24:20,577 --> 01:24:22,361
he must get that every day
in concert.
1469
01:24:22,492 --> 01:24:24,363
I didn't know what to expect
from Brian's show.
1470
01:24:24,494 --> 01:24:26,148
Trying to play "Pet Sounds"
live, you know,
1471
01:24:26,278 --> 01:24:27,845
it's like, what could be harder,
1472
01:24:27,932 --> 01:24:29,368
but we could not believe it.
1473
01:24:34,373 --> 01:24:36,245
If somebody
was making a bet with me,
1474
01:24:36,332 --> 01:24:37,898
I would have bet
that they had tapes
1475
01:24:37,985 --> 01:24:40,118
rolling along
with what they were doing,
1476
01:24:40,205 --> 01:24:42,599
but at the end of the day,
they simply learned
1477
01:24:42,686 --> 01:24:45,080
how to sing and
recreate that music live,
1478
01:24:45,167 --> 01:24:47,517
and it made me so happy
1479
01:24:47,604 --> 01:24:50,998
to see what he created
honored in that way.
1480
01:24:51,042 --> 01:24:52,696
This has been taken seriously,
1481
01:24:52,783 --> 01:24:55,960
and everybody on that stage
loves this guy
1482
01:24:56,091 --> 01:24:57,614
and loves this music.
1483
01:25:00,269 --> 01:25:02,880
- Yeah!
1484
01:25:08,494 --> 01:25:10,366
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen!
1485
01:25:10,453 --> 01:25:11,976
I think everyone
has issues, you know,
1486
01:25:12,063 --> 01:25:13,412
whether it's mental health
or anything else,
1487
01:25:13,499 --> 01:25:16,198
and the fact that Brian
is vulnerable enough
1488
01:25:16,328 --> 01:25:17,721
and real enough...
1489
01:25:17,808 --> 01:25:18,504
Thank you very much.
1490
01:25:18,591 --> 01:25:20,854
...to get up there and do this,
1491
01:25:20,985 --> 01:25:24,119
I think gives people
a lot of strength.
1492
01:25:24,206 --> 01:25:26,077
I know it gives me a lot
of strength.
1493
01:25:34,912 --> 01:25:36,348
I love him.
1494
01:25:36,435 --> 01:25:39,438
I think he's
a beautiful, sweet guy.
1495
01:25:39,525 --> 01:25:42,702
There is a real innocence
and optimism
1496
01:25:42,746 --> 01:25:46,097
and positivity and goodness,
that's what's at his core.
1497
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:04,463
The funny
thing about those songs
1498
01:26:04,550 --> 01:26:08,989
is they're both
more joyful and more painful now
1499
01:26:09,076 --> 01:26:13,951
because of the loss of your own
youth, your own adolescence,
1500
01:26:13,994 --> 01:26:17,128
and yet at the same time, it
does speak to your current life,
1501
01:26:17,215 --> 01:26:21,480
which is the hallmark
of great and lasting music.
1502
01:26:25,615 --> 01:26:27,834
You know, it's like
there's some secret code
1503
01:26:27,921 --> 01:26:30,489
that makes
Brian's music resonate
1504
01:26:30,576 --> 01:26:33,231
the same as this feather
or a piece of grass
1505
01:26:33,275 --> 01:26:35,712
or a leaf or air or water.
1506
01:26:35,799 --> 01:26:37,366
You know, there's something
about it that we need.
1507
01:26:37,496 --> 01:26:39,150
You know, it's like you hear his
music and you need it to live.
1508
01:26:39,281 --> 01:26:42,240
You know, it's like an essential
element of your life.
1509
01:26:42,284 --> 01:26:43,850
I don't think
there are words for it.
1510
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:03,130
There's very few people
1511
01:27:03,174 --> 01:27:06,612
that continue to make
the kind of impact he's made,
1512
01:27:06,699 --> 01:27:08,397
and having gone through
all he's gone through
1513
01:27:08,527 --> 01:27:10,964
and coming out the other side,
it's really kind of incredible,
1514
01:27:11,095 --> 01:27:12,314
and, again, so rare.
1515
01:27:12,444 --> 01:27:15,186
I think there's a...
misconception
1516
01:27:15,273 --> 01:27:17,319
of what real artists are,
1517
01:27:17,449 --> 01:27:20,322
and the ones
that are watching the clock.
1518
01:27:20,452 --> 01:27:23,325
Those are the people
that don't belong here.
1519
01:27:23,412 --> 01:27:25,762
It's the ones
that just keep going.
1520
01:27:25,849 --> 01:27:30,070
It's Brian Wilson, that wants to
still beat "God Only Knows."
1521
01:27:30,157 --> 01:27:31,942
I mean, can you imagine that?
1522
01:27:31,985 --> 01:27:36,338
...two, a one, two,
three, four... no!
1523
01:27:36,425 --> 01:27:39,341
Someone's coming in too soon.
1524
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:49,655
I can remember almost word
for word a quote
1525
01:27:49,786 --> 01:27:52,963
that, uh, Brian Wilson,
more than anybody else,
1526
01:27:53,006 --> 01:27:55,574
has had a profound effect
over American rock music
1527
01:27:55,661 --> 01:27:57,228
for the next 30 years.
1528
01:27:57,315 --> 01:27:59,578
You can hear it... your
influence is everywhere, Brian.
1529
01:27:59,709 --> 01:28:04,017
I mean, do you feel that's
a strong responsibility?
1530
01:28:04,104 --> 01:28:06,455
Yes, I do, sure,
because, uh,
1531
01:28:06,542 --> 01:28:09,327
once you've
established yourself as...
1532
01:28:09,414 --> 01:28:14,550
an artist, producer, somebody
who has something to say,
1533
01:28:14,593 --> 01:28:17,553
it's, it's
an artist's obligation.
1534
01:28:17,596 --> 01:28:20,469
It's constructive work,
you know, it's work.
1535
01:28:20,556 --> 01:28:23,385
Any artist that you find
has that feeling.
1536
01:28:23,515 --> 01:28:27,737
He feels the need to please,
you know?
1537
01:28:27,824 --> 01:28:29,913
And it's a very personal thing,
1538
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:32,176
and it's something that comes
with... it's natural, you know?
1539
01:28:32,263 --> 01:28:34,265
It's a natural thing.
1540
01:28:34,396 --> 01:28:37,007
When I hear
his music, it makes me smile.
1541
01:28:37,094 --> 01:28:40,663
It makes me realize that there's
a lot of songs still left in me.
1542
01:28:40,706 --> 01:28:42,229
There's still a lot of songs
left in Brian.
1543
01:28:42,273 --> 01:28:44,449
He's always writing,
he's always making music.
1544
01:28:44,493 --> 01:28:47,757
And, well, I have that love of
him that will never ever die.
1545
01:29:28,885 --> 01:29:31,235
We're gonna go.
Can you hear yourself all right?
1546
01:29:31,322 --> 01:29:33,106
Yeah.
1547
01:29:33,193 --> 01:29:35,848
DRUMMER, TAPPING: One, two..
one, two, three.
1548
01:31:35,098 --> 01:31:37,056
It's like Brian's music
taps into that same source
1549
01:31:37,100 --> 01:31:40,886
that gospel music taps into,
of that deep, fundamental...
1550
01:31:40,973 --> 01:31:43,541
sadness or darkness
that we all carry.
1551
01:31:43,628 --> 01:31:46,631
It's like it finds you there
and it takes you up out of it.
1552
01:31:46,675 --> 01:31:49,199
That was just innately
in the music.
1553
01:31:49,242 --> 01:31:51,549
The harmonies,
the sound of them,
1554
01:31:51,636 --> 01:31:55,031
offered a way out,
and offered a transcendence.
1555
01:31:55,118 --> 01:31:58,251
You can put on all these songs,
and it still stands up.
1556
01:31:58,382 --> 01:32:01,167
We're never gonna have
Brian Wilson ever again.
1557
01:32:01,254 --> 01:32:03,996
He once told me
that, uh, he used to pray
1558
01:32:04,040 --> 01:32:06,259
to make really spiritual music
1559
01:32:06,346 --> 01:32:09,088
and to make a better album
than "Rubber Soul."
1560
01:32:13,789 --> 01:32:15,573
- Good one.
- That's a good prayer.
1561
01:32:15,617 --> 01:32:17,706
It worked.
1562
01:32:17,793 --> 01:32:19,969
That should convert you.
1563
01:32:20,056 --> 01:32:23,059
Brian is a living example,
through his suffering,
1564
01:32:23,189 --> 01:32:26,497
through his pain,
he found a joy.
1565
01:32:26,584 --> 01:32:29,152
His music... is an act of love.
1566
01:32:43,079 --> 01:32:44,950
Good one!
1567
01:32:44,994 --> 01:32:46,256
I like it!
1568
01:32:46,299 --> 01:32:47,649
Beautiful.
1569
01:32:55,178 --> 01:32:57,397
Barbara.
1570
01:33:03,752 --> 01:33:05,144
Barba... fan.
1571
01:33:05,231 --> 01:33:07,799
Ba, ba, ba.
1572
01:33:07,886 --> 01:33:09,584
Yay...!
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