The Beach Boys’ Crazy Summer“We’re 70 fucking years old,” he says. “You’ll be 70 in September. I’ll be 70 in June. I’m worried about being 70.”
“It’s still a few months off,” Jardine says.
“That’s true,” Wilson mutters. He pauses for a few seconds, looking away from his bandmate. “I want to know how did we get here?” he finally says. “How did we ever fucking get here? That’s what I want to know.”
After five or six full-band passes at “That’s Why God Made the Radio,” Wilson changes the line “feel the music in the air” to “feel the Mu-ZAK in the air.”
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Pictures from the Beach Boys concert - 5/15/12. (:
“Brian Wilson meant something to me that was terrific… Brian Wilson gave me 50% of the copyrights to these songs (Smile) when he was at the top of the record industry, at the peak of his powers. So you just wonder what kind of generation of character, what makes up a person who is constituted to do such selfless things, you just want to know what drives a person to do something so decent, and you can’t forget it!” — Van Dyke Parks (via brandy-man)
The Beach Boys at the Chicago Theatre. May 22, 2012.
Photo by me.
The Beach Boys at the Chicago Theatre. May 22, 2012.
Photos by me.
