Brian Wilson - Jim Pewter Interview 1974 (audio)
Mikie:
Either Steve Mayo or Bigass will probably have a scan of the article about the Pewter/Brian interview. Mine's stashed away someplace.
Jim V.:
Hey seltaeb, where/when is that photo from the YouTube video from? Is that '74? He looks pretty big here.
Nicko1234:
Quote from: Mikie on October 09, 2012, 07:55:49 PM
Here's the text to the interview:
JP: You wrote the lyrics to "Surfin' USA" didn't you?
BW: Chuck Berry wrote that song. It was called "Sweet Little Sixteen". When we first got going Mike was sort of a Chuck Berry fan, so we took Chuck's song and turned the lyrics into a surfing song.
What Brian actually said was, ` When we first got going Mike was sort of a Chuck Berry fan, so we took Chuck's song and he and I turned the lyrics into a surfing song.
Probably a good job for Brian`s team that Mike`s lawyers didn`t use this interview (to my knowledge) during the songwriting case.
Mikie:
I always thought that the lyrics to Surfin' USA, at least the list of surfing spots in Socal, were provided to Brian by Jimmy Bowles, the brother of Brian's girlfriend Judy.
MBE:
Quote from: Mikie on October 09, 2012, 07:31:47 PM
Quote from: Mike Eder on October 09, 2012, 06:18:33 PM
Yeah 1973-74 was the last time he could have been helped emerging unscathed as it were.
Nah, he was scathed and needed help well before that. In 1974 he still had his clear voice. If he laid off the coke, hash, and cigs immediately, he could have saved his voice, but mentally, he was still pretty messed up. Then in 1975 his voice went South forever.....
This Pewter interview was circulating amongst collectors on cassette back in the mid 70's. Same with the Fornatale interviews. There's a newspaper article somewhere with a picure of Brian with Pewter at KRTH radio in L.A. Brian showed quite a bit of weight gain even then (August '74).
There's a few more Beach Boys interviews out there from the 70's. Three that I know of just with Dennis. KOME radio in San Jose and two at radio stations in Oregon promoting POB. One in Seattle with two Beach Boys - The Beach Boys interview in Phonograph magazine was hilarious!
Well he was never completely normal. His issues existed as far back as 1963 as far as putting on weight and not wanting to be on the road. Marilyn confirmed this to me saying that while he mostly had good days then, there were bad ones too.
I meant unscathed as a singer, or neurologically (no Landy meds), or that he could have regained a lot of his old personality.
Which interview in Phonograph are you referring to? What made it stand out to you?
Brian by 1974 was very overweight and had become addicted to drugs, but I still think it was Landy that really changed him. What we have today is remarkable considering what that man did to him.
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