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"Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record"

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keepinthesummeralive:

Radiant Radish, Brian Wilson’s short-lived health food store.

#RadiantRadish #BrianWilson #TheBeachBoys

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I also enjoyed producing ‘In My Room’. There is a story behind this song. When Dennis, Carl and I lived in Hawthorne as kids, we all slept in the same room. One night I sang the song ‘Ivory Tower’ to them and they liked it. Then a couple of weeks later, I proceeded to teach them both how to sing the harmony parts to it. It took them a little while, but they finally learned it. We then sang this song night after night. It brought peace to us. When we recorded ‘In My Room’, there was just Dennis, Carl and me on the first verse…and we sounded just like we did in our bedroom all those nights. This story has more meaning than ever since Dennis’ death.
---Brian Wilson on “In My Room.” (via justbooneandtheboys)
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bradelterman:

Year ago I was sent to Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s Bel Air mansion to shoot the cover of Phonograph Record Magazine. The color slide had been in boxes for decades and I just recently scanned it to share with the world! I still see Brian from time to time at my neighborhood deli!

Photo by Brad Elterman

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It’s a man at a concert. All around him there’s the audience, playing their roles, dressed up in fancy clothes, looking through opera glasses, but so far away from the drama … Empires, ideas, lives, institutions—everything has to fall, tumbling like dominoes. He begins to awaken to the music; sees the pretentiousness of everything … A choke of grief. At his own sorrow and the emptiness of his life, because he can’t even cry for the suffering in the world, for his own suffering. And then, hope. Surf’s up! … I heard the word—of God; Wonderful thing—the joy of enlightenment, of seeing God. And what is it? A children’s song! And then there’s the song itself; the song of children; the song of the universe rising and falling in wave after wave, the song of God, hiding His love from us, but always letting us find Him again, like a mother singing to her children. Of course that’s a very intellectual explanation. But maybe sometimes you have to do an intellectual thing. If they don’t get the words, they’ll get the music, because that’s where it’s really at, in the music.
---Jules Segel, from “Goodbye Surfing, Hello God” (via thatllamaguy)
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rollingstone:

Brian Wilson is working on his 11th solo record. Al Jardine and David Marks are helping out on the album, along with famed session player and producer Don Was and guitarist Jeff Beck.

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thatgidgetismine:

Brian Wilson and Sally Field, 1960s California beach icons, at the 2008 International Achievement Summit.

Sally Field presents the Golden Plate Award to Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys at the 2008 International Achievement Summit in Hawaii.

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