For some reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys lately. When we were kids, the Beach Boys were on the record player all the time. Cars, girls and surfing glorified in two and a half minutes of swirling harmonies. They were songs about people in good health having fun in the sun. Like the Robin Williams suicide, it seems way out of character that the guy writing these songs could have such a dark side.
‘Lying in bed, just like Brian Wilson did’, as the Barenaked Ladies put it.
Their music in the mid ’60s was getting more complex and adult. The Pet Sounds album is still considered a masterpiece of arrangements. Paul McCartney called it his favourite album and strived to match it with the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Good Vibrations” and “God Only Knows” were cutting edge songs in their time. Maybe the strain of hundreds of hours of recording and mixing got to him. Certainly it brought what problems he had to the surface. He started taking drugs and all but quit on the world to stay at home and play in the sandbox he had built in his living room. He balooned up to 300 lbs, and says he got so lazy he was pissing in the fireplace. Occaisonally he would turn up on stage to do a song or two with the Beach Boys or with one of his other “vampire” friends (Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, John Lennon, Mickey Dolenz), usually wearing a robe and slippers.
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For me, the glaring irony in his story, as in Robin Williams’, is how someone responsible for so much positivity and art could conceal their mental issues from the world. And, for the most part, they led pretty public lives. At least Brian Wilson got out of it alive. The real cost, from a fan’s selfish point of view, is all that music that he would have written and performed during those years. His prime years. Like all the great fights Muhammad Ali could have had if he wasn’t stripped of his titles for draft evasion, losing his peak years between ages 25 – 29.
Looking back, the Beach Boys almost seem like a novelty act, but they were huge in their day. They sold over 100 million albums in a time when the focus was mostly on singles. Rolling Stone ranked them #12 on a list of the greatest rock artists, and they had 36 top 40 singles in the US, still the most by any American band.
I saw the Beach Boys in 1980, and I see that Brian Wilson is coming to Seattle and Portland in October with another Beach Boy, Al Jardine. Both shows take place in small-ish theatres which makes it even more appealing.
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