Brian has passed away!!!!
rab2591:
Quote from: Sound of Free on June 27, 2025, 12:28:02 AM
If I had ever met Brian, I would thank him for all the music, but especially for the two shows my brother and I took our mother to. She was in her 70s and loved both shows.
I think I'm like a lot of folks here: Ask me on 20 days what my favorite Brian/BB song and you might get 20 different answers.
I think we all know that when Brian heard "Rubber Soul" he wanted to make an album of all good songs. Brian "album filler" was better than most people's best. Think of "We'll Run Away." It never is talked about, it doesn't appear on compilations and most probably probably don't know it, but it's absolutely amazing.
Yes!! My first couple introductions to Beach Boys music were Greatest Hits compilations. And I think that's what made my musical journey so special with them: I went into listening to their albums thinking that I'd already heard the best of their music (from the Greatest Hits), and I was quickly jolted from that mindset upon finding songs like 'We'll Run Away', 'The Lonely Sea', 'Spirit of America', 'Cherry Cherry Coupe', the list really goes on and on. To this day we're still finding little unknown gems that make us fall in love with the music all over again.
bossaroo:
Quote from: guitarfool2002 on June 24, 2025, 04:17:31 PM
Having said that...where's the love for "Trombone Dixie"?
funny you should ask.. I’ve been listening to a lot of Brian’s music the past couple weeks and really flipped for Trombone Dixie this past weekend. the 12-string guitar in particular on the intro is so magical.
years ago I uploaded a mash-up of TD and Had To Phone Ya from 15 Big Ones but they’re in such wildly different keys it just didn’t work. thought I’d try again with the Spring version which is much closer in key and I was surprised just how well they fit together
https://youtu.be/oXTh-PJDhLM
Wirestone:
Quote from: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on June 26, 2025, 11:26:19 PM
Quote from: SMiLE-addict on June 26, 2025, 10:58:42 PM
Quote from: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on June 26, 2025, 07:04:49 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/brian-wilson-cause-death-revealed-175854173.html
🥺
Wow, he was in really bad shape! :-(
Yeah that was very hard to read. Seems like a fair bit of it stemmed from his kidneys , and that he’d been sick for longer than we knew.
Just occurred to me we still don’t know what happened to Melinda.
My heart goes out to their kids…I lost both my parents about the same length apart
I think Melinda’s passing has been surprisingly undiscussed. There are a lot of mysteries.
— Why wasn’t she seen in public after 2015?
— What role did or didn’t she have in BW’s career after that point?
— What actually happened with BW’s bad back surgery in 2018/19?
— Did BW face challenges a lot earlier than anyone suspected?
I suspect a lot of things went on over these final years that we may learn in times to come. And some will likely be really challenging to take.
♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇:
Quote from: Wirestone on June 27, 2025, 03:00:48 AM
Quote from: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on June 26, 2025, 11:26:19 PM
Quote from: SMiLE-addict on June 26, 2025, 10:58:42 PM
Quote from: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on June 26, 2025, 07:04:49 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/brian-wilson-cause-death-revealed-175854173.html
🥺
Wow, he was in really bad shape! :-(
Yeah that was very hard to read. Seems like a fair bit of it stemmed from his kidneys , and that he’d been sick for longer than we knew.
Just occurred to me we still don’t know what happened to Melinda.
My heart goes out to their kids…I lost both my parents about the same length apart
I think Melinda’s passing has been surprisingly undiscussed. There are a lot of mysteries.
— Why wasn’t she seen in public after 2015?
— What role did or didn’t she have in BW’s career after that point?
— What actually happened with BW’s bad back surgery in 2018/19?
— Did BW face challenges a lot earlier than anyone suspected?
I suspect a lot of things went on over these final years that we may learn in times to come. And some will likely be really challenging to take.
I noticed that Melinda disappearing from the public eye , so to speak, coincided with Brian’s decline in live performance. After 2015 (which was an AMAZING tour), things seemed different.
The other thing, and I thought about this when it was announced Brian had dementia and I just thought about it again today… I’m wondering if that time when Brian had to stop a tour because he was having mental issues…I’m seriously wondering if that was when he was first diagnosed. I think that might explain why in Long Promised Road he didn’t remember Jack Rieley passing away, or having listened to Pacific Ocean Blue before.
Wirestone:
It’s not uncommon for older folks to receive dementia diagnoses after back surgery.
Anyway, I think a lot of unhappy stuff started to snowball after 2015, and accelerated after the back surgery. And I strongly suspect Melinda was dealing with her own challenges in one way or another.
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