Brian has passed away!!!!

[ForHerCryingSoul]

I have posted on this thread before but took a break due to life circumstances.

I love Brian and all of his music.

He inspired me to create art and keep going when times were tough and sad.

I got to see him on his last Pet Sounds tour and I will forever be grateful with being in his prescence while he was alive.

He still continues to inspire me every day, and I am really going to miss his voice and spirit in this world.

R.I.P. Brian Wilson, my Greatest Of All Time artist, inspiration, and musical hero.

[Dan Lega]

Mr. Desper, thanks so much for dropping by and saying a few words about Brian.  Out of all of us here, Brian's passing has to hit you the most as you were with Brian for so many years as a friend and collaborator.  Please allow us to express our sympathies to you as we are sorry for your loss. 


Love and merci,
Dan Lega

[Angela Jones]

This was posted on Brian's MB.
''Rolling Stone
Brian Hiatt
June 12, 2025

Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine had a final meeting last month with Brian Wilson, his friend and bandmate of six decades, he tells Rolling Stone. Wilson, who died at age 82, was sitting in the back of his house when Jardine arrived for a visit in May. "He looks at me and he says, ‘You started the group,'" Jardine says with a laugh. "It was his first statement to me. I didn't even have a chance to say hi." (Jardine's full interview, including a look back at the Beach Boys' earliest years, will air on an upcoming episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast.)

"I'm going, ‘Yeah, you helped. You were part of it too!'" Jardine continues. "But he is not wrong, because we bumped into each other on campus and I said, ‘We've gotta start a band. We gotta start a group, Brian.' And he remembered that." For Jardine, Wilson's acknowledgment of his role in the Beach Boys' genesis provided some closure: " I go, wow. ‘Okay. Yeah, I did have something to do with it. So that's quite an honor."

Neither of the two men thought they were meeting for the last time, though Wilson was ailing. "I thought he was gonna get better, " Jardine says. "He had blood-oxygen-level problems, but his oxygen was coming back."

But ultimately, Jardine adds, Wilson "just wore out… He went peacefully, in sleep, and I'm grateful for that."

Jardine joined Wilson's solo band for a Pet Sounds tour in 2006, and started touring regularly with him in 2012. "My first show was at UCLA, and I got a standing ovation just walking out on stage," Jardine says. "And I'm going, ‘Holy cow. This feels like the old days, you know, the old Beach Boy days. And so we immediately kicked in where we left off."
Before Wilson's final show in 2022, Jardine recalls Wilson slowing down. "The last tour, he was quite reticent," Jardine says. "He didn't have the get up and go. He was just kind of slumped over the piano a little bit and not really engaging. So we noticed that, and finally we realized something's amiss here." Jardine believes Wilson changed after contracting Covid: "That was the end of it. He never came back after that."

Jardine is currently prepping for his own tour with members of Wilson's solo band - he had hoped to have Wilson himself join the band for at least one show. The tour will include both Beach Boys hits and deeper cuts from later albums, including 1977's quirky The Beach Boys Love You. "I was hoping he'd be there to approve," Jardine says.

Jardine says that his old friend was "beyond" a genius. "He invented the Beach Boys and he invented a style of music," he says. "A style of putting eight notes together in a different way. He could do anything, and each time it was a joy to hear his arrangement of something as simple as ‘Surfer Girl.' Writer, arranger, producer, singer - all five of those things. And he left us with the best repertoire for the rest of our lives to re-record, re-sing, replay."'

So relieved to learn that Brian passed peacefully in his sleep. Goodnight sweet prince. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

[MyDrKnowsItKeepsMeCalm]

Beautiful comments and memories here.

My wife said she expected me to be more "broken up" about it. The truth is, for all the pain this causes me, I can't help but think about how much love so many of us have for this guy. He's somehow brought so much love to the world, that even the end of his life can bring people together.

For that reason, I dont find myself breaking down emotionally... rather I am reminded of why this guy is my hero in the first place. Always led with love, gave the world more than he ever expected to gain, and was there for us when we needed him. Gave us a feeling of understanding that, perhaps, he wished he could have himself. A truly amazing man.

+1, beautifully said.

[Joel Goldenberg]

I love the guy to pieces without knowing him personally, save for a phone interview 20 years ago and a couple of brief encounters in 2001 and 2005. I also find it cosmically eerie that an interview I did with Mike Love about a June 21 concert the Beach Boys are doing in Montreal was published the day Brian died.
https://www.thesuburban.com/news/the-beach-boys-come-to-the-west-island/article_1e5a4189-9347-4d16-b16a-5cf8ee4e249d.html

[Rocker]

Beach Boys' Al Jardine Opens Up About Brian Wilson's Final Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S5IeiCESZA



Former Beach Boys manager remembers Brian Wilson, talks about unreleased 1970 album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVCtJEYQkaQ

[Rocker]

[MyDrKnowsItKeepsMeCalm]

I saw the Beach Boys show at NYC's Town Hall last night. It was terrific!

I was really impressed when the second set started with a new and substantial video about Brian, using "Brian's Back" (Mike's late '70s song) as the soundtrack, and highlighting moments Brian, Mike and the band spent together over the decades. It segued into real-life Mike talking about Brian and dedicating The Warmth of the Sun to him. It was my first BBs show since 2017, if memory serves, and they've made a lot of changes which I think mostly work for the better. Aiming to write a full review when time allows.

[Rocker]

"Devastated to hear of Brian Wilson‘s passing. He had such a profound effect on me. The Kinks played the Hollywood Bowl with The Beach Boys on our first us tour. Sad day .. years later Brian and I used to run into each other at the movies with our daughters and we’d catch up..I’m devastated. I loved his Singing.He was an innovator and his writing prowess was remarkable. I loved him." - Dave Davies