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I stumbled onto this interview a bit ago on http://keepinthesummeralive.tumblr.com/ There are a lot of interesting things in this article and I'm left with many questions, but the one that interests me most is his comments on television. He remarks that he "wants to make commercials for TV - with a twist." Does anyone have any idea what he means by this? Also, what the hell does "drugs are an underground train" mean? |
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2013, 10:27:23 PM » |
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I don't have an answer to your question but man, this guy was so downright funny, ambitious, and also very articulate around that point in his life. Still patiently waiting for him to come up with that symphony for drums! Didn't Steve Reich once attempt a thing like that? That whole interview brings back pleasant memories of what made me fall in love with the Smile myth in the first place.
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2013, 10:44:58 PM » |
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I don't have an answer to your question but man, this guy was so downright funny, ambitious, and also very articulate around that point in his life. Still patiently waiting for him to come up with that symphony for drums! Didn't Steve Reich once attempt a thing like that? That whole interview brings back pleasant memories of what made me fall in love with the Smile myth in the first place.
Yea, I love this interview too, it's great. He's such a fascinating person. |
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« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2013, 09:52:34 AM » |
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Brian on suicide
"Things can always get better, but if you're dead, they may not"
Classic!
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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2013, 10:05:18 AM » |
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This interview is also in the Look Listen Vibrate SMiLE book - I implore anyone here, who doesn't have it, to get this book!
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« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2013, 10:14:56 AM » |
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I need this book!  |
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And production aside, I’d so much rather hear a 14 year old David Marks shred some guitar on Chug-a-lug than hear a 51 year old Mike Love sing about bangin some chick in a swimming pool.-rab2591
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« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2013, 01:32:15 PM » |
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Brian on suicide
"Things can always get better, but if you're dead, they may not"
Classic!
On the other hand, if you're dead they may not get any worse, either. |
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« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2013, 02:53:52 PM » |
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Might buy that, thanks rab!
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And production aside, I’d so much rather hear a 14 year old David Marks shred some guitar on Chug-a-lug than hear a 51 year old Mike Love sing about bangin some chick in a swimming pool.-rab2591
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« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2013, 05:54:39 PM » |
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FFS, you could have said something about Watts other than the fact that your mum didn't go out the house when she heard there was a riot four miles away. That's some nitpicking on one of the best BW interviews, mind. You can feel the subconscious influence of Van Dyke's verbal precision - he says a lot in some of those sentences!
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
Syncopate it? In front of all these people?!
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« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2013, 06:04:49 PM » |
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FFS, you could have said something about Watts other than the fact that your mum didn't go out the house when she heard there was a riot four miles away.
Well, you know, you gotta stay away when there's a riot going on. |
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« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2013, 06:08:53 PM » |
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Cheers for putting that song in my head....
May I also applaud the Nilsson avatar while we are here? Nilsson rules the school imo.
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
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« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2013, 06:19:21 PM » |
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Cheers for putting that song in my head....
May I also applaud the Nilsson avatar while we are here? Nilsson rules the school imo.
Even my name is a reference... |
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« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2013, 06:23:08 PM » |
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Those were happier days....
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
Syncopate it? In front of all these people?!
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« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2013, 06:36:24 PM » |
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Those were happier days....
I love that he snuck in "and he would pound her for a couple of days." Can't believe he got away with that. |
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« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2013, 06:47:33 PM » |
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To me that interview may be one of the saddest parts of the entire "SMiLE" saga because it offers us a glimpse of what could have been. There are so many things that Brian Wilson expresses in that piece that seem to be so much in tune with a healthy style of living spiritually speaking to see it all come crashing down for him within a matter of months is almost too heartbreaking to contemplate. I remember the first time I read that piece and thought how much ink has been spilled over philosophies espoused by songwriters like John Lennon or Bob Dylan, well in 1966 Brian Wilson truly was one cat who "got it" in my opinion. He comes across as one of the most brilliant, intelligent and together people I have ever come across in that article and it's just incredibly sad to me to know the amount of turmoil that was circling or beginning to circle around his head at that point. Again it's an interview that is almost too close for comfort and a glimpse into a time where there seemed to be endless possibilities. I wonder if some of this is what Brian referenced years later when he wrote "I had to chase the sun"?
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« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2013, 07:23:59 PM » |
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Those were happier days....
I love that he snuck in "and he would pound her for a couple of days." Can't believe he got away with that. He was Harry Nillson, he could do whatever he wanted. |
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« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2013, 07:27:48 PM » |
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Real talk - the guy was the funniest musician to ever live because his humour was so throwaway, not laboured and forced like so called 'comedy' songs. His only rival in that regard was Randy Newman.
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
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« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2013, 07:45:02 PM » |
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Real talk - the guy was the funniest musician to ever live because his humour was so throwaway, not laboured and forced like so called 'comedy' songs. His only rival in that regard was Randy Newman.
Yea, he was a very funny musician, and very odd (Son of Schmilsson.) It's funny that you brought up Randy Newman because, I'm sure you know, they were good friends and Harry even made an album of Newman covers, Nilsson Sings Newman, with Randy on piano. |
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« Reply #19 on: July 08, 2013, 07:49:30 PM » |
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You don't need to tell me nothing, I'm a huge Nilsson fan Nilsson Sings Newman is one of my top 5 records. I could listen to it for years. |
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
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You don't need to tell me nothing, I'm a huge Nilsson fan Nilsson Sings Newman is one of my top 5 records. I could listen to it for years. Yea, it's a great record. This is the only place I've been were people a) love Harry as much as I do and b) know who Harry Nilsson is. I love it.  |
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« Reply #21 on: July 08, 2013, 09:26:00 PM » |
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I think Derek Taylor had more to do with that interview than Brian Wilson did.
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« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2013, 03:37:30 PM » |
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I often find myself wishing there'd been a super group formed in 72 called WNNP. Wilson, Nilsson, Newman & Parks.   and from their alternate reality reunion:  |
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took me a while to understand what was going on in this thread. mainly because i thought that veggie was a bokchoy
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« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2013, 03:38:17 PM » |
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That would be categorically my favourite band of all time
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
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